This

is what we use to know each other. delicious avitars flickr skype .jpg ctrl+u .mp3 avitars all avitars, do you know who i am? (i threw down almost 200 bucks a few weeks ago when this broke BECAUSE i don't want to lose you. can this stop now?)

Did some things

Went out with Vicki, Becca and Mauricio last night. Went to my favorite LES bar and was smack-dab in the middle of the most awesome bar fight. Some guy broke a glass over some dude's head and said "Mavez Tov!", then, to retaliate, the other guy kicked him straight in the spine. Then the bartender threw them both out, but not before knocking over all the bar stools and sending me reeling towards the front, and had to be pulled behind the bar to get out of the fray. I bruised my leg but it was a very nice fight, so maybe that's the price you have to pay for a good show. Then we went to the best club. The best club in the world is this place on Avenue C between 8th and 9th street called Babel. This is where all the foreign kids from NYU go to dance. The dj, who was amazing, spun the forgotten hip hop and dancehall music I grew up with (PATRA?! HOORAY!) and then by the end of the night, landed in Raeggeton/Rai land (I never knew the two genres shared som much in common), with all the kids literally ululating. The crowd was incredibly friendly, oh and it's a hookah bar, habibi! and somehow, it manages to be pleasant instead of being a fire hazard!

Vanity?

Confession: I am addicted to Last.fm.

Not because I think it's so interesting as a networking portal (or as a "social music revolution" or whateverthefuck they're claiming to be.) I just hope that someone's looking at my page, seeing what I'm listening to, and thinking I'm dope.

Whenever I look at my profile, it reassures me that I'm dope. This is sheer vanity, and maybe I need help.

WOW I did this

I suppose this is my first real blog posting on my on site. Getting this far has been pretty difficult, but I did it, with some skript kidding and some beer.

First and foremost, I learned the hard way NOT to trust so-called "established" blogging software. My site is (currently) hosted by Yahoo!, and it took me a million days just to figure out that their MySQL shit is configured in a totally different way than other less-proprietary hosts. Not only that, but their version of MySQL is like 3.something something, so that totally barred me from taking the easier path (Wordpress...)

Then there was the whole problem with actually inserting the thing into the main page without 1) using FRAMES (ick) or 2) redirecting the user to another page (tacky). But I found a very simple workaround.

I don't lead a very glamourous life. This is how I spend my nights. I have a big bed, and I sleep next to the computer like a lover.

Don't judge.