Back to the '90s pt. 2

Like I needed any more proof that the '90s are back?

Well, apparently we're going to witness the return of Vh1's Behind the Music soon...

Is Silversun Pickups heralding some kind of revenge of popular 90's style anthemic indie rock?

I went to see Ponyo the other day, and noticed a trailer for a movie directed by Spike Jonze (Where the Wild Things Are), followed by Disney's return to traditional animation (The Princess and the Frog), and then of course it was announced that Toy Story 1 and 2 were going to be back in theaters... in 3-D.

So I guess the 90's are back but with a twist. And a burning vengeance. Underworld even said that it was like the early '90s again. I think MIchel Gondry should hurry up and direct some epic film so he gets the recognition he deserves (as if his videos weren't enough?).

3 drinks i am not down for

1. gin

2. whisky

3. wine

got it?

i had bad hangovers and/or experiences with all of these and i will drink them in mixed drinks (long island iced teas, sangria, etc.) but i refuse to drink any of these straight or with just tonic.

things i will not do for $10 an hour

i had a SECOND job interview for a job that pays $10 an hour today.

i was required to do research because the owner would meet me and ask me questions.

when i got there, i had to wait for over 15 minutes.

i finally meet the owner, and he doesn't ask a single question about what i had to research. instead, he asks me how i would market his company to various demographics and how their website could be improved to improve marketing.

this was NOT any kind of marketing job. it required no degree or knowledge in marketing. it is supposed to be a customer service job.

also, if you own a company, it would help if you actually knew about your market rather than act like you know everything about it and ask potential employees for free advice.

are you fucking kidding me? if i got hired, what else would i have to do for $10? turn the company around?

it's nap time!

speaking of the '90s, i can't believe how long green day have been around. my dad listens to them now.

i can smell my laptop burning. no, seriously, it's really scary. i think my face will melt with it too.

this new hand soap i bought from Walgreens, it's lime and coconut scented. which sounds delicious. and so is thai food. but when your soap smells like cheap thai curry, it's kind of creepy.

what if i went around telling people my name was andromedè?

remember when going to england seemed like a good idea?

i have a job interview in less than 5 hours and i'm not done researching vintage clothing.

it's also past 5 am.

and i can't get my blog on DGAF about ODB to look good.

could someone get "Flat Beat" out of my head already?

Hey mom, can I have some money? The ice cream man is coming!

"Watch these rap n*ggaz get all up in your guts
French-vanilla, butter-pecan, chocolate-deluxe
Even caramel sundaes is gettin touched
And scooped in my ice cream truck, Wu tears it up"

I can't stress how much it is the '90s again. I can't get Mr. Oizo's "Flat Beat" out of my head, which came out in 1999, and I've noticed that music videos haven't really moved on much from the '90s. A lot of them still take place in the desert, and the cinematography hasn't changed all that much. If you haven't noticed, not a lot of ground is being broken. But then, it's all been done before... And so I'm still cracking up at South Park, but instead of the movie it's Gay Fish, and well I found out about Louise Brooks 10 years ago only to find myself really discovering her now.

Anyway, the point of this blog is that I saw this stupid new baskin robbins commercial on tv and thought it fucking sounded like a stupid fucking miami bass song from the early '90s and i wanted to put it on my stupid fucking blog:

and i stumble upon THIS:

http://www.brvideocontest.com/

another freaking video contest. when i said this has been the summer of stupid contests, i meant it. but i didn't expect them to keep coming like this.

here's the roll call so far:

1. Wendy's Coffee Toffee Twisted Frosty Remix Contest (Pending)

2. Loud.com LMFAO LA LA LA remix contest (Lost)

3. HARD Summer I Can't Fucking Wait Video Contest (Won!!! WTF???)

4. Visitor Remix Contest

5. LMFAO "I'm in Your City, Trick" Video Contest (ARGH ANOTHER LMAFO CONTEST???)
6. Stupid Baskin Robbins Cake Dance Video Contest

I haven't entered contests #4, #5 or #6 yet. So is this what the professional eccentric does? Enter contests all the damn time? Is that what an eccentric does for a living? Because I'm totally down. If I win the Wendy's one, it's $3,000. Baskin Robbins will shell out $10,000. I can't believe this is my life. Now all I need to do is win that trip to Paris. Or do i?

this is why i don't do DDR and drugs at the same time

this video should win every contest

3 days and 2,000 hits later...

they can't be serious.

BUSY P!!! WHAT THE FUUUCK???

about only four hours after this video is posted on youtube and submitted, it ends up on busy p's blog. yes, as in pedro winter, as in head of ed banger records, as in holy shit, i guess it pays to be on facebook chat and send him youtube links as a joke...

i can't fucking wait? more like, i can't fucking believe this...

death by electro-cution

so this is what the professional eccentric does for a living:

who is...

Robert Fitzgerald Diggs

Gary Grice

Clifford Smith

Corey Woods

Dennis Coles

Jason Hunter

Lamont Jody Hawkins

Elgin Turner

Russell Tyrone Jones

?

...they're the wu-tang clan. who the hell did you think they were? a basketball team? members of congress? jazz musicians? newscasters? 

my dad once asked why rappers had "names". i mean, really? isn't it kinda obvious? could you imagine what it would be like if rappers went by their real names? we can't all have names like kanye west.

c.r.e.a.m.

if i can't find a job, maybe i should create my own. i should go down to the redondo beach pier and do a performance that is so bad and annoying that someone every day will pay me to stop. it's in a rich neighborhood, and there are a lot of tourists with money, so i don't see how it couldn't work. i'd work maybe a maximum of 15 minutes a day and if i'm awful enough, at least one person would pay me a good amount every day, like $100. i'd make a killing.

dranks

i don't get cheap watered down beer. if you're going to spend money and drink something that fills you up without getting drunk, wouldn't you rather have a milkshake? i mean at least that shit tastes better. 

hpnotiq and hennessey is all you need in life.

back to the 90's

has anyone noticed that the 90's are back?

1. dance hip hop is back, in the form of electro rap, complete with lyrics about partying, dancing, getting wasted, and fucking. even the tacky but fun neon aesthetic is back. move over, early 90's miami bass. but still, where the ladies at who wanna party too and throw the misogynist lyrics back in everyone's faces???

2. well, the democrats are in power again. george bush was president during desert storm, and another george bush was president during this current war in iraq... wtf???

3. it's cool again care about the environment. i remember back in the early 90's supermarkets first introduced buying reusable bags. well that died out soon enough, but now it seems like every retail joint is selling them now, from staples to target to rite aid.

4. the DIY ethic is back too. but this time, it's all based on the internet. fanzines have been replaced by blogs, websites, facebook, myspace, twitter, youtube, and the list goes on. Music? Make it on your laptop. Make your own videos while you're at it too.

5. tie dye is back! american apparel is helping to make it hip again. it's more subtle this time, but i also see it in kids t-shirts in the classic circular style in brighter colors. i don't see flares beating out skinny jeans right now, though. which is just fine with me, especially as i do not want to see certain men right now to stop wearing skinny jeans.

6. frozen yogurt is cool again. pinkberry is this decade's penguins. let's hope they don't share the same fate!

7. leggings were my definite favorite comeback from the early '90s, i wear them way more now than i did then.

8. i haven't seen this much plaid since the seattle scene exploded and grunge went mainstream. but who would have thought you'd see nirvana t-shirts at sears and forever 21, and that alice in chains would have a new singer, pearl jam would still be around with matt cameron from soundgarden drumming, and chris cornell would have made an album with timbaland???

9. are doc martens making a comeback too? i'm noticing boots in a similar style coming into trendy clothes stores lately... converse never went away, but they seem more mainstream than ever. i've lost track of a long time ago of how many colors and designs they come in now, and i'm surprised that target carries converse shoes AND the converse clothing line. but then i guess that's what happens when nike buys you out.

10. daft punk are playing without their masks again. well, ok, i'm assuming not all the time. is so-me the new michel gondry? kind of? sort of? french electro is hip about a decade after it first exploded, and it's as legit as it ever was, so where's the return of good rock music and women in bands??? music videos are still filmed in the desert.

11. see my previous post on ODB vs. kanye.

12. michael jackson's death shook the world like princess diana's in the late 90's.

13. i am about to see underworld this summer in 2009. i saw underworld in the summer of 1999. which reminds me. i am in the same place i was 10 years ago.

it's time to break the circle. the 2010's are coming up, but do i party like it's 1999 first?

p.s. does anyone else think the chord progression in the new incubus single is kind of reminiscent of soundgarden's "fell on black days"? and don't they both have "black" in the title? and i'm sorry, luke "skyywalker" campbell's "it's your birthday" PISSES all over that dumb "birthday sex" song out right now.

androgynous superstar

androgyny is a bitch, let me tell you. maybe that's what the professional eccentric does for a living. but we already know about the electro impersonator job. more about this later. a video is about to be unleashed on the world which will ruin reputations, lives, and possibly HARD Summer 2009 itself. 

wu-tang are doing it for the children

estelle was talking about someone else in "american boy"...

if kanye west is 5'7", and so-me is shorter than kanye west, that means i'm taller than so-me. so-me was also on vh1's "black to the future" which means that i can one day maybe i can be on a vh1 special. wait, that's a really bad idea.

but anyway, don't get me wrong, kanye's outburst at the 2006 mtv europe awards was probably the funniest moment of the year but at least when ODB crashed the stage at the grammy's in the late '90s, it was equally funny but he had more... class. holy shit. in retrospect, ODB had class??? compared to kanye west???

ODB never raised his voice, never cussed, admitted he bought an expensive outfit, AND HE EVEN TRIES TO END IT ON A POSITIVE NOTE!!! 

the professional... what?

"are you a professional photographer?"

"no, i'm a professional...eccentric."

it was april 2009, 2 days after my birthday, and  i was just about to graduate from college 10 years after i'd graduated high school with an uncertain career in graphic design. i experienced what may have been the most surreal night of my life, but that's a whole other story. i was talking to this man outside of a club in LA called cinespace, it was well past midnight, and i had an environmental graphics final due that day at 1230 pm that i hadn't finished. when he asked me that question, i realized i had a lot of job experience, but not really any job skills, and i definitely wasn't a professional at anything maybe besides constantly thinking of crazy ideas and random shit... i put that title on my business card, just time for senior show the next month.

fast forward to july 2009, and that response i pulled out of my ass is now a blog. i'm also unemployed. i'm broke but i'm keeping myself busy by finally starting music projects, designing a logo for my friend's band, and winning free spiritual life consultations (no, really). i started a comedy troupe last year with a friend, but due to school we haven't been very active. we haven't written or performed any sketches lately, but instead we're expressing it through other, more musical, yet comical situations. we've entered the coffee toffee twisted frosty remix contest for Wendy's, entered the LMFAO "La La La" remix contest on loud.com, then somehow managed to see the live amusing debacle that is LMFAO for free at the House of Blues, and now we're entering a video contest for HARD Summer where we'll reprise our roles as xavier and gaspard from justice... oh, and did i mention our fake dj set at at our friend's backyard show?

in between periods of hibernation, i realized i was having the most stupid, ridiculous, but fun summer of my life!

not so eccentric

it's funny, i chose the template for this blog because it reminded me a lot of my senior project:

and also my business cards, which were based on my senior project:  

coincidence? of course. because let's face it, polka dots and a red/green/blue color scheme are pretty generic.

Happy Belated Bastille Day!

the professional eccentric needs to stop being a professional procrastinator.