Bend, Oregon

Some pics from this past weekend in Bend with the Stone family:

Stand By Me

I filmed this in Bend, Oregon, this past weekend.

USA Today: NSA building massive database of phone records

USA Today: NSA building massive database of phone records

welcome to oceania, winston smith.

BBR "Newspeak"

HELLS YEAH!!!

first off - sorry for my most horribly boring bike videos below, i was still playing with my video phone and working out posting them on utube...got it under control now, cool videos to follow this weekend from Bend, I promise!

Now, a big word up to Stinke for putting up this video from the way back on 4th and tasker days!

So my man Tim and I had this rap group BBR, which stood for Big Brother Resistance back in the 90's. We started it back in high school in like 1992, while rhyming in homeroom. at first it was rap/rock like Rage against the machine style, but before Rage Against the Machine... then, in college, it was straight rhymes and beats... stinke on the beats, tim and I on the rhymes, different dj's - dj lunch, charlie brownski, low budget, question, etc.. my man bj and this girl april had a film class for temple university, circa 1998-1999. they made this video for us.

here ya go:

Bike Ride to work pt. 1

Rogue Brewery

best brewery in america: Rogue beer. what state? Oregon, you guessed it. we hit the tavern last night in the pearl district...amazing beer, wack food.

check out all the beers they make and do yourself a favor and head to your local 6 pack store and pick some on up: ROGUE brewery

ps: i love head:

villians and rain?

so stinke forwards me over this article about how chinese scientists now control rain.

this got me thinking that superheroes and supervillians are NOT far off at all. not the mutant ones that are born with special powers, but the ones that have created their own powers with technology - like dr. octagon, green goblin, cyclops, etc. if we can make it rain, shoot missles, have little lasers the sizes of pens, etc., why cant a crazy mean person - aka a villian, hook themselves up with missles, lasers, etc., and run rampant, becoming the first real supervillian? i don't see this as far off...

stink made the good point that watch, the first real mutants will be the people that drink this artificial rainwater in china...

on a not so side note, the special fx in the new superman movie look sick.

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video work?

did the video work for y'all? lemme know, post a comment. maybe it's a flash plugin that's needed in your browser?

oh and marc goldie, email me your new address, bro, please, i got something for ya...

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video test

Misc. Phone Pics

still don't know how to post video on here yet...

hood river & new phone

went to hood river sometime last weekend, pics follow. also got a dope new phone today through work, a t-mobile SDA phone, camera/video/im/mp3s, etc. switched my plan from sprint... expect to see some video from now on up on this blog once i figure out how to post it...

hood river is the windsurfing capital of the world, has tons and tons of farms and orchards and is also home to one of my favorite new beers, full sail... some random pics...peep the chickens in front of the fire hydrant on a farm road:

lots of things...

lots of thoughts on my mind:

1) Three people I know are in physical trouble and I wish them all the best in pulling through these stresssful times. My thoughts are with you all and well wishes.

2) I ate at an incredible restaurant last night named "Farm" and had
the best local food, including smoked salmon ravioli and drank awesome wine from local vineyards. check my review here.

3) we got flexcar today and are leaving for hood river as soon as mel is dressed and ready. hood river is the sailboarding capital of the world, on the columbia river gorge.

4) my cousin sammy requested a shout out, so what's the drilly? she's bout to move to london end of the summer for grad school. say whatup to damon albarn and graham coxon and the kooks for me when you're kickin it in camdentown later this year. save me a curry and a bitter and i'll be out soon to chill with you blokes.

please send us cheesesteaks and softpretzels,

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beer festival & V for Vendetta

Saw V for Vendetta yesterday w/ Natalie Portman. AWESOME flick, highly recommended. futuristic UK on lockdown/pretty much a totalitarianistic state, a crazy terrorist wants to take it back for the people by using force/bombs, etc. Natalie Portman gets involved and to not ruin, go see it, but very dope flick and again, highly recommended.

went to a beer and wine festival during the day on saturday and got a nice daytime buzz on while tasting TONS of local breweries and also beer from afar, most that i've never heard of and a bunch i have but never tried... pelican, roots, salmon creek, big horn, jack russel, and more listed here

books & music

the last couple of books i've read:

author: Tom Robbins

• Still Life with Woodpecker - was just ok througout but cool ending, i thought... this book has personal interest because some putz gave it to melenie when we first started dating with quotes on love highlighted in the book. tom robbins just has total bananas adjectives that make you crack up in run on sentences. love that aspect. this book is about pyramids, love, and seeing the animate in inanimate objects.
• Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas - was pretty good, better than still life, i thought. about the stock market and aliens giving stellar information to the Dogon in africa, and timbuktu... very eccentric character in the book, similar to the woodpecker in still life... maybe i just related better because i sell to people in the financial industry right now... a faster story too...

author: Haruki Murakami

• A Wild Sheep Chase - good read by haruki. kafka on the shore was the best one thus far. weird, twisted shit about war, japanese food, transcending reality into your subconscious and wells (as in, with water). oh and turning into ghosts to help your friends out

band: The Kooks

• their new album "inside in inside out" is dope. coldplayish britrock of the moment.
  

pic of the day - llama

thoughts of the week

• been watching the travel channel a lot lately. anthony bourdain is the man. if you haven't seen his show, NO RESERVATIONS, you are missing out bigtime.. his show on peru tonight was all that... i'm so down to eat ceviche, gunea pig and yucca beer... machu picchu looks amazing...
• speaking of machu picchu, the movie for celestine prophecy was horrible. mel is gonna make a post on here about how bad it is...she's gonna be my new official movie reviewer.
• jeanie took me to a dope nursery where i bought a blueberry bush, some lemon thyme and other goodies for mygarden...
• i want a burnese mountain dog.
• wed. night is passover....i'll be posting my moms blazing recipe for brisket sometime this week in memory of that, and maybe my grandpop's recipe for the best matzah ball soup ever..
• you know how some people rock the jesus fish on the back of their car? well i saw one the other day that had the fish sign, but it said "gefilte" in the middle of it...it was all that!

pics from the week

here's some pics from the past week of hiking, eating out, cooking, touristing, etc., with mel's friend kristy visiting. the homecooked meal is a thai concotion mel and i made w/ thai fried rice, som tum (spicy papaya salad), thai bbq chicken legs, chicken and broccoli w/ pineapple, and spring rolls. the food mel and kristi is eating is ethiopian at Quen of Sheeba here in portland. awesome food you eat w/ your hands using a thin, pancake like bread called injeera to scoop up the spicy stews, curries, veggies, etc. really good beer too, with a slightly nutty flavor. the falls are wakeena falls, right near multnomah..we went on a 3 hour hike. more pics to come.

this past week

• thus far, i'm the top salesman this month. there's still a week left, though.
• i'm extremely tired because besides my regular 7-3 ish dayjob, i've been spending 1-2 hours a day doing some freelance PR, right now for the christian versian of i-tunes. not to mention riding my bike to work now as well as cooking dinner most days, since mel works 8-6 and i'm home first
  
• mel's friend kristy is coming to visit for a week, from tonight (Sat) to next Sat.
• next sat is april fool's day, and also, euromotion is performing.
• the new ghostface album, "fishscales" is fucking dope.
• Portland is America's best bicycling city, Bicycling magazine has determined, for like 10 year in a row. it's dope to bike to work in like 15 mins, and ride over an ill bridge and alongside the river for like 10 mins out of the ride. exercise + faster commute + free is pretty ill...
• cooked up some ill tostadas the other day. black bean and chicken with some homemade guac and sour creme is the jam, most def...simple , too.. for the guac, just toss the following in a food processor or blender for like a minute: an avocado, a large tomato, a chili pepper or jalapeno, 1/2 an onion, some cilantro, some olive oil, a couple cloves of garlic and the juice from 1/2 a lime. done. toss a can of black beans, some garlic, onion and a pepper of your choice, i rocked a chipolte i think, in a pot on the stove. throw some chicken breasts (rub em a little w/ some cumin or something) on top of the beans, add a little beer or wine or something, cover it up and let it simmer on low for like an hour...check on it every once in awhile. get some tostadas, put em on the table, spread the black beans on em, top w/ some chicken, then the guac, then a little sour creme and blammo you got a dope meal..
• saw the movie the squid and the whale last night..pretty dope flick. also been rocking a different sushi spot once a week around here. been feeling the bbq eel, the pieces of salmon, and as always, the spicy runa roll. gimme those w/ some miso soup and a little ginger dressing salad, a small sake, and some japanese green tea and i'm money. once again, cant wait for tokyo this summer...
• we're probably going to check out vancouver, BC, real soon. about a 5-6 hour drive north of here. any stories on vancouver?
  

Medoyeff Vodka

peep the bomb locally made vodka

babies, beer, food and more

I'd like to take this time to give a shout out to baby Daniel Alexander Goldberg. Welcome to the tribe, brother.

another quick shout out to Briz, who I haven't spoken to in about a year... whatup briz, good luck down in Columbus, Georgia with your crew, the hood presidents...

rented a car for Saturday to run errands and eat the bomb dim sum at Wong's King Seafood on 87th and Division... the 30-40 minute wait was well worth it for that amazing har gow (shrimp dumplings) , shu mai (pork dumplings), chu sao bao (steamed bbq pork buns), super tasty steamed chinese brocolli w/ oyster sauce, bbq honey roasted pork (can you tell i love pork? such a bad jew....)

had possibly the best beer i've had yet last night at the alamaeda brew house... their black bear stout... so creamy, chocolately, coffee-like delicious... - www.alamedabrewhouse.com

bought a couple of little strawberry plants and planted them in a hanging basket...

happy bday to my unc jay, your present's in the mail.

and i'm going to end this by saying i can't fucking wait to go to japan this summer and check all these spots out

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another slow cooker recipe

wow...made another amazing meal today...

so last night i rinsed a bagful of black beans and rubbed some country pork chops w/ a cumin, paprika, chili, garlic salt and brown sugar rub....stuck them in the fridge, left the beans out to dry...

this morning at about 6:30 am, i sliced up a red onion and through that and about 6 cloves of garlic in the bottom of the slow cooker...added the beans, the country pork chops (fat side up), a small can of tomato sauce and 5 cups of water...added a thai chili sliced in 1/2, and some seasoning salt. put the thing on low, covered and jetted to work.

came home about 10 hours later, smelled like heaven in the crib, stirred it up for about 30 secs and the pork came all apart, blended in w. the beans, took out 2 bones, added some hot sauce, some red wine, a teaspoon of salt and some fresh cilantro...

spooned over saffron rice w/ lots of cilantro and garnished w/ sour creme like what?!!? got a pic too i'll post later.

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gardening, etc

1) we got new hiking shoes. you had to wear PJ's at the sale to get 30% off:


2) my garlic is growing pretty good:



















3) ok so i've been throwing all compost/organic matter in my little garden out back all winter long and have been turning it to make the soil really healthy...well this weekend, i began sowing some seeds...threw some carrot, radish and pole pea seeds in the ground and watered...these, i've learned, are the first to plant for the spring - a couple of weeks before the last frost....

4) through together a ground turkey meatloaf real quick tonight w/ chopped onion, garlic, a lil mustard, an egg, some worchestchire, some A1, salt, pepper, cumin and chili powder. mixed, tossed 1/2 in a pan like mom used to do, then some spinach, then some cheese, and then the rest of the meat mix. spread ketchup & bbq on top. pop in the oven on 350 for about an hour or so... served w/ some brocolli steamed w/ lemon and garlic, some rolls and a salad. red leaf lettuce, dog. gotta switch up the lettuce! and cukes. and french dreezy...and some quail oak cheapy cabernet tonight...

Sasquatch Fesitval

sickest festival coming up @ the columbia river gorge

the shins, beck, death cab for cutie and MANY more:

http://www.sasquatchfestival.com

hump day

ground turkey and spinach enchiladas tonight and another sale today at work.

evan called this weekend, was nice to hear from a cuz. talked to alex and goldbean about Yo CUZ! publicity helping out Goldbean's boxing publicity empire. keep playing phone tag w/ bj. tim sent me a text msg. chatted w/ both my grandparents last weekend. both jays are chillin - my uncle and mel's cousin... abbies moving...

any new babies? marc? new weddings? new moves? new jobs? keep me up to date, people. what's new with y'all? post some comments about what heads are up to...let me know who actually reads my ramblings...and happy mardi gras. and happy wednesday (ash) and hash. browns, that is...

UAE terminal takeover extends to 21 ports

wtf is up with this?!?!?
UAE terminal takeover extends to 21 ports

slow cooker

tested our slow cooker out yesterday with a nice pulled pork. the night before i was to make it, i rubbed the pork with a spice mixture of equal parts brown sugar and a spicy red powder that forget to label - it's not a chile powder, but it's spicier than a paprika...i think it's hungarian paprika...so i did about a 1/3 cup of each of those. then about a 1/4 cup of the following: salt, garlic powder, black pepper...thats pretty much it for the rub....rubbed it all in, massaged the pork shoulder...covered it and put it in the fridge over night...

next morning at about 6:45 am, sliced up a couple fat slices of red onion. put then in the bottom of the slow cooker. then, put the pork shoulder on top of the onions, fatty side up. drizzled some worchetshire over it, some hot sauce, a little apple cider vinegar and some bbq sauce. added a tiny bit of water in the bottom. turned it on low, covered it up and jetted to work.

on my way home from work, i stopped at safeway and copped some french bread rolls, some cole slaw and some pickles.

when i opened the door to my house, the smell hit me like a ton of bricks and MAN DID IT SMELL BLAZING! wow...so good...that bbq smell...ummm...i opened the top of the slow cooker and pulled apart that pork in like 20 seconds with two forks...it was sooo tender it fell right apart..there was a little bone in the middle and it came right off... now since it sat for like 10 hours in a steamer, it was a little dry...i cracked open a Bridegport Black Strap Stout and poured 1/3 of the dark beer in and finished the rest...added some more hot sauce, some more bbq sauce, mixed everything up and covered it back up for about an hour till Mel got home. best bbq pork ever she said and the rest was history.

oh yeah, cut open your roll...throw some slaw on that baby, cut a pickle in 1/2 and put both halves on the roll and cover w/ a couple large gobs of pulled pork.

just another fresh recipe from Chef Boy-R-P.

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mecs visit

our girl meca aka jenny from the block came to visit us for the weekend...mecs is a travellin girl, from the philippines to virginia beach to philly to san fran....she's a big time trooper, as she woke up at 4:45 am this morning and flew back down to SF and went to work today...after going to bed at around 1 the night before...so sorry voodoo doughnuts was closed, that was a bummer...good times though this weekend, besides the hour and a half spent at buffalo exchange or whatver...i had to lie down on the ground stinke-style as a que that it was time to jet to these girls...peace though, mel and i had a blast and are really happy you came. more pics to come soon of widmer brewery, shang hai (aka pland silk city), dope train pics, and oh yeah, i love my penis. you'll see what i mean. i really do, though...

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freezing

man portland is cold today..these arctic windchills coming down from alaska sting...hopefully it'll go back to how it's been though, gorgeous...

melenie landed the full-time teaching gig she's been working hard on at joyful noise downtown, a nice preschool/kindergarten...

ive been cooking great meals as usual...some awesome pico de gallo the other night w/ strawberries, cucumbers, thai chillies, red onion, cilantro, lime, olive oil and tomates...rocked that w/ some corn tostadas, grilled ckn and rice and beans.... last night, broiled some pork chops after rubbing them the night before w/ cajun seasoning... some roasted garlic (1 hr in the oven w/ olive oil), and fresh dill blended into the mashed..amazing...and some steamed broc and baby corns w/ lots of lemon...

peace to meca isa coming to visit this weekend.... stinks, watch out, son...it's on!

Dr. Dog

wanted to let y'all know about my old roomate, tadd's little brother's band, Dr. Dog. They're really good, sound Beatles white albumish and are doing great...on a huge european tour right now with Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.

check Dr. Dog out.

gorgeous day in portland at mt. tabor park

so mt. tabor is an extinct volcano that is now a picturesque park in portland. it was like 65 or something and totally sunny today..we packed some food and reading materials and went for a hike/chill day in the park....back home in philly there was about a foot of snow...

grammys

the grammys were all that last night!

jay-z and linkin park rockin "yesterday" w/ paul mcartney... madonna & the gorillaz w/ de la... john legend, kanye and jamie... oh and the best one was mary j blige w/ u2 doing "one"... she killed it...she was amazing! props to all the performers, it was the best grammy's i've personally ever seen....

lisa loeb

i know my fam checks this but so do my friends. and i gotta represent now and again with something more interesting than family pics. so here ya go, do y'all remember lisa loeb? well peep her now:
http://www.thesuperficial.com/archives/2006/01/31/lisa_loeb_in_a_thong.html

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falls/timberline/voodoo doughnuts

here are some pics from multnomah falls, timberline lodge on mt. hood and voodoo doughnuts:

(stories to come later...)

GO SEAHAWKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

reiter fam visit

fam visitation time, visiting the kennedy school, as discussed in a past post. an elementary school turned into a bar/hotel/movie theatre/pool. very good time...

crib pics...

pics from my new crib, a long time coming...