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Quintron & Miss Pussycat

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Ellison) — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:44:00 +0000

Tonight we saw Quintron & Miss Pussycat at The Independent. Good venue & great show! They really are awesome performers and are genuinely very creative. Quintron is very intense to watch!

When they were setting up, Quintron was sort of in drag and dressed like Miss Pussycat and I thought, well I hope they aren't doing some weird Pandrogeny thing, because we all know how that turned out.

I have to say I left a little disappointed that Miss Pussycat only did one short puppet show, but at least it was a good one. Trixie & Marsha went to a haunted art gallery owned by the mean witch, Christie Cornpop. One of the paintings has a spell cast on it and Marsha gets turned into a marble statue :( I don't want to give away the ending completely, I'll just say that Santa shows up and takes care of some things.

I got to talk very briefly with Shopping Bear, and I got to buy the Trixie & The Treetrunks DVD! The website says its not coming out until December, so I was pretty excited to see it there and get it early! Woohah!

Wubble-U / Petal

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Ellison) — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:07:00 +0000

It's 14 years old, and this song is still completely amazing.

80_pan!

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Ellison) — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:47:00 +0000

I'm so into this right now.

Here's the story, as far as I can tell.

This band started off as some sort of generic girly polished Morning Musume-ish pop band with like 5,000 girls in it, as "Harenchi Punch". Then some girls left and they changed their name to "80*Pan" but were still making bland uninteresting rock/pop (my opinion!). Now, they are down to a duo and are called "80_pan", and I can't believe it but its brilliant indie/trash/electro/disco-punk (the sort of thing journalists would call "new rave" *shudder*).

Please watch this brilliance.

From what I'm reading on the internet, fans of the original group are REALLY upset, but I have to say that this is the most stupid-fresh, wonderfully half-assed pop song to come out of Japan since Halcali's debut. This song is very refreshing considering the current wave of Capsule-produced songs featuring nothing but maximum autotuned vocals.

This is the kind of song that you hear at first and go "hmmm" but then 15 minutes later yourself going back to it.

I will be purchasing this album immediately. More of this please!

Also

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Ellison) — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:44:00 +0000

While I'm sending you on random links places, you should probably check out my big sister's blog because it's filled with excellent pictures from her garden and is basically too darn adorable for words.

I've Got Bulldog Skin!

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Ellison) — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:35:00 +0000

My long time friend Becca in Seattle has been working like crazy on this web show called Bulldog Skin. This is a show about high school, and from the test clips I've seen it reminds me a lot of the show "Popular". The site has a lot of info about the characters and some preview/test clips... think of them as mini-episode teasers. She has been working hard on this for a long time and I can't wait to see what she & the crew will do in a full episode! So please go check it out and sign up for her fanlist while you're there!!!

Zombie Summer Vacation!

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Ellison) — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:26:00 +0000

I just finished up the flyer for this upcoming gig at Dante's in Portland, OR!

Zombie Summer Vacation! w/ Living Dead Girlz, Day Of The Zombie, Maggothead, Carny Jerkwater

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Ellison) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:18:00 +0000

Awwwwww yeah, I scored a chase Stereotype toy from Superdeux.

I don't know what it is about these, but they're my favorite toy series to collect - I don't know why I hardly ever see them in stores.

New Apartment!

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Ellison) — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:44:00 +0000

So Alex and I secured a new apartment, which is a block or two farther up hill, and hence slightly less of an appeal to crackheads. Also, apartment is way larger. I know I promised everyone pictures of our current apartment, but we never really got to that "super cute, hella organized" state we wanted to, so you're going to have to wait until we get settled in the new place. We're painting this week and moving in on Saturday. I think our goal... okay, my goal, is to get featured on one of those awesome-designer-apartment blogs. We watch too much HGTV.

In fact, Friday we're getting the cable set up at the new house and we've decided to spend the extra $7 for HD, since we got our new TV and all - we went back and forth on it since the only 2 things we watch are HGTV and Seinfeld reruns. So, now we'll have HD-HGTV.

Also, in completely unrelated Wii news, I totally beat Super Mario Bros. 3 last night. Thanks, Gamefaqs!

Nicole & Jenn visit!

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Ellison) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:41:00 +0000

My friends Nicole & Jenn came down to visit from Portland last week, and we caused quite a bit of trouble. We invaded Japantown, which will suck you in with its unbelievable cuteness. Here, Nicole and I are getting into a brawl in Neo Tokyo or whatever. My hundred-hand-slap is useless against Nicole's fire breath! :( x 100

We did other things, mostly drinking and shopping. We decided to check out all the tiny bars that are directly in my neighborhood, so here are some quick mini-reviews of each

Zeki's - Directly downstairs from new apartment, has Connect 4 and PEAR CIDER ON TAP!

Encore - Super secret upstairs karaoke - short lines, low ceilings, low singing quality, no taps? What???

Bacchus Kirk - Rowdy, rowdy bar with super nice bartender who gave us free shots of something that tasted like melted mint ice cream, and made Nic & Jenn pint-glass sized mojitos.

Bigfoot Lounge - I got 3/4 of a free Guinness when the keg blew. Giant bigfoot statue takes up valuable seating space, and a little too much taxidermy for my taste

Vertigo - Hidden-in-plain-sight tiny danceclub right around the corner. About 8 people can dance comfortably, so the 12 people rocking out to funky progressive house had the place packed. Hope to DJ here some time

Mint - Over by Aaron & Jason's hood, not mine. Seriously fun karaoke bar, definitely where I will be making Rachel & Corey go when they come visit. They have a camera pointed at you so the people in the back of the bar can watch you on TV.

The bed, it is like quicksand

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Ellison) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:41:00 +0000

Fun with neighbors!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Ellison) — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 16:06:00 +0000

Friday!

A woman barged into my apartment without knocking. I asked if I could help her. She was obviously very very drunk and said "Do you know Wendy? Are you good with keys? And getting the right key into the door and opening the door?". I actually don't know the neighbor who's apartment she was going into at all, and have never seen her before, so I asked if she was staying here, she said something like "Kind of, but I just have to pee really badly. HELP ME OPEN THE DOOR". She's basically screaming at me frantically now, while bracing herself against the wall so as not to fall down and also doing "the pee pee dance". I told her I didn't know the neighbors at all so I don't feel like I should help a drunk woman into their apartment - keys or not. She said "Oh, some great neighbor you are!". Well, now she's just being mean, so I told her I wasn't helping her, walked back in my apartment and locked the door.

Of course I did watch out the peephole for a while and saw her sit down on the ground and burst into tears. I'm going to give her a tiny bit of credit in that the keys in all the doors in the apartment actually turn in the opposite direction of normal doors and I imagine that would confuse a drunk person, however that's no excuse for being rude!

Minutes later she is gone and the woman who is actually my neighbor knocks on my door to ask "Have you seen my cousin? She has my keys". I told her what happened and she started apologizing, and then the first woman came out of the elevator and started crying and pointing fingers and going "He was so mean to me!!!! THAT MAN MADE ME CRY!!".

Great, so now I'm the asshole neighbor who makes people cry.

Saturday!

Alex took a shower and noticed our shower wasn't draining, so he called the apartment manager. Well, manager came down and attempted to snake our tub, not knowing that the other end of the snake came out of our elderly neighbor's bathtub, whipping around and destroying her bathroom while spraying black water everywhere. Whoops.

I feel very bad. She is a sweet old lady (see, I am a good neighbor) and I think she my have had a stroke or something because she talks very slowly. She always says hi and visits with us - I can't imagine at 80+ or whatever, suddenly some alien technology-looking tentacle creeping up out of my shower and spewing up goo all over my bathroom. I'd be a little freaked out.

Roto-rooter eventually came and fixed everything, but it sounds like there was a lot of damage done next door that the building is going to need to cover.

Now it's sunday and I have a cold. I'm hoping for no excitement today.

Sakura Fest Thing!

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Ellison) — Sat, 03 May 2008 15:34:00 +0000

A couple of weekends ago we went to Japantown and stumbled through the Sakura Festival! This is where you can drink beer, watch traditional dance, and most importantly, eat your own weight in various things ending in "-yaki"! First we picked the longest line we could find. Alex asked the girl in front of us "Is this the line for takoyaki?" and she said "I'm not sure!". THAT'S HOW FUN IT IS! People will stand in line forever for random fried things if they have a beer in their hand. We had to wait about 45 minutes for these tasty doughy octopus bites, but it was totally worth it and made WAY more entertaining by the awesome multi-ethnic cover band on stage (performing such hits as Christina Aguilera's "Ain't No Other Man" and Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" - how cultural!)

Alex had never experienced the awesomeness of Hawaiian shave ice with red bean paste in the center, and I'd never had it with ice cream, so we went all out and got one with both. Here it is, roughly the size of Alex's head.

Dante Is Getting Better

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Ellison) — Sat, 03 May 2008 15:21:00 +0000

Some of you have heard, our awesome cat Dante has had some health problems since I've moved to San Francisco. I guess my moving into the apartment caused him to get stressed out and stop eating for a few days (!) which caused him to get Fatty Liver Disease (I'm not linking to any pages about that and I advise you don't look it up, because it's not fun!). So, 3 vet visits and a trip to Kitty E.R. later, he now has a feeding tube through his nose and he has to wear the dreaded cone. Alex and I have an elaborate and time-consuming feeding tube ritual we have to perform for him 5 times a day. The good news is, its been 1 week since the ER visit (late blog post, sorry) and we seem to be doing a lot better. Today we start him on some appetite stimulant and start encouraging him to eat actual food again. I have high hopes! The vet seems to think he will recover just fine.

It really is the saddest thing ever. I think the cone really sucks. He runs into things all the time, and he can't clean his face. We thought about trying to get some awesome designer cone to make it more fun (maybe one that looks like a daisy or something, with Dante's face in the center), but can you believe such a thing doesn't exist yet?

Sculpture Garden!

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Ellison) — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:54:00 +0000

Last weekend Alex and I visited the sprawling Golden Gate Park, and found the De Young Museum sculpture garden. I like sculpture gardens because they are usually just whatever large pieces were donated by artists that they probably couldn't sell or don't have room for. Maybe I'm just assuming that. The fun part is that the pieces rarely have anything to do with each other! Here I am standing next to a gigantic safety pin.

"I cannot BELIEVE we all showed up to this party in the same dress." That's what I imagine these sculptures would be saying to each other. This is probably not the artist's original intent but I am free to make up my own interpretation and THAT MY FRIENDS IS THE BEAUTY OF ART.

Mario Kart Wii Tonight!

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Ellison) — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:33:00 +0000

I can't possibly be more excited for midnight tonight, when I get to pick up my pre-ordered copy of Mario Kart Wii! I'm such a nerd! Usually I don't get into the whole pre-order/midnight madness thing, but friends and I have had some amazingly fun Mario Kart times, and having just moved away from everyone I'm very excited about online 12 player racing! When I lived with AimeeG, we had an awesome LCD projector set up and everyone would pile on the huge couch in the living room and just play the "Baby Park" track for hours and hours, stopping only for Slurpee breaks. Mikey usually destroyed everyone, leading to swearing/insults/throwing objects and it usually got pretty rough. I remember one time Ryan Organ and his girlfriend were at our house for America's Next Top Model followed by some after-show Kart, and I think we may have frightened them with our aggressive nature. Good times!

Watch for updates/photos from the Gamestop release/my friend code later.

Couch Adventure 2008, or how Alex & I may or may not have been in danger of getting arrested for illegal dumping

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Ellison) — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:13:00 +0000

I hate couches!

Some of you know that when I lived with AimeeG, we had the worst couch in the known universe (acquired from Corey, thank you Virginia). When it came time to get a new couch, we knew there was no way we could get rid of this monstrosity, so Aimee, Sarah & I tore the couch apart with our bare hands (and some powertools) and basically threw it in the dumpster of our apartment complex.

Fast forward to 2008, Alex and I are getting ready for my move and decided that rather than haul our cat-scratched, stained, 400 pound sleeper sofa to San Francisco, we should just try and dispose of it. We tried putting it on the curb, Craigslist, taking it to Goodwill, and Finders Keepers in Gresham, all to no avail. The free couch bar is apparently too high.

Our dear friend Heather suggested we just find a neighboring apartment complex and drop it off near the dumpster. Sounds like a fine idea, but on the way there we saw the Salvation Army on Powell and thought it looked like a good spot (it's on a side street, near a construction area... don't judge me). It took us maybe all of 30 seconds to dump it off, but something caught my eye and I noticed a girl at the bus stop across the street shake her head at me in disapproval and make a call on her cel phone. We bailed quick but then realized she was probably calling the cops, so we headed back, ninja-hoodie clad, and loaded the cursed sofa back into our U-haul

There's a point where I contemplated that a $2,000 illegal dumping fine might not actually be that bad if I would never have to see this couch ever again. Luckily my Alex is resourceful and we found a dump (pictured) where it would only cost us $17 to get rid of it.

We're now in our new place, and couchless. I'm thinking a LoveSac sounds pretty good.

Fubonn!

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Ellison) — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:05:00 +0000

Before I moved to San Francisco, a bunch of us went to awesome Vietnamese megacomplex Fubonn, where Corey found some sort of soda called Sars(i)! If you've never been to Fubonn (82nd Ave & Powell), it's the only place I know of where you can buy delicious bubble tea, a rice dispensing machine the size of your house, giant marble statues (don't climb!) and Swap Meet Louie all under one roof. The grocery store also features the largest freezer case of fake meat items I've ever seen.

Also, you can ride on a giant donkey if your boyfriend makes you.

New Blog!

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Ellison) — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 04:51:00 +0000

Well, my move to a city where I know only 3 people has prompted me to start a blog in order to update all my friends back home on all of my adventures. I've got a week and a half worth of interesting things I've made Alex take pictures of with his iPhone, so bare with me as we get caught up. Here we go!