i think i'm allergic to my living room
it makes me blink
and fill cups with water
and pour them on my stupid face

i can say hi

i always feel like spending a lot of time in a car by myself will help me get my act together, but mostly it just gets me thinking about robots and losing my voice.

i fell out of bed and somebody called my name

goodbye hawaii. i love you. i am unreasonably sad about returning to the mainland.



my friend ray played this for me a while ago and i liked it a lot. for some reason, i kind of figured that they were pretty popular, but the video only has like 5,000 views. what?! it's a super awesome video, too. i mean, i like andré and mr. a already, but i thought it was really well done. maybe the views got trapped in a time vortex or something. those damn time vortexes.

made my heart come all undone

i think that 511s are the only pants in the world that look good on me. frankly, even 511s might be up for debate. maybe i'll start wearing them like stringbean.

today i went surfing for the first time. i wasn't too good at it, but i got pretty stoked on it anyways. now i can feel justified about watching endless summer twice a week.

this funky gym do make you tough

yesterday we went to a used bookstore that had about equal amounts of hawaiian, japanese and american music. the heady combination of cheap prices, unfamiliar material and hilarious engrish played straight to my weaknesses and made for a perfect storm situation where i bought like five CDs just because i thought their covers were funny. i can't say that i found any hidden gems that changed my musical landscape, but c'mon. how could i resist an album by a band called "super gooooood!"? maybe there's somebody out there who's immune to band names with six o's in a row and superfluous punctuation, but it's sure not me.

you win again.

i was so proud of myself for staving off desire for the DSi and XL. i thought i had freed myself from the grip of E3 hype. but tempt me with a new paper mario, a new mario kart, star fox 64 and i melt and go along. alright. fine. maybe i do want a 3DS.

and i can't wait for the scott pilgrim game. but that's only natural.

you say it's a good thing that you float in the air
that way there's no way i will crush your pretty toenails into a thousand pieces

things i wish i was good at

Ninjas from Erik Otto on Vimeo.

i feel like flatland is one of those things that's amazing no matter how much you understand it. that might be a pretty big assumption, though, 'cause i probably don't understand it. it sure is pretty, though.

sometimes i wish that i had studied computer programming, at least a little bit. when i was a kid, i really wanted to grow up to be a video game designer, and i don't think i ever really grew out of that. having said that, though, i also wish that i took classes in engineering, english, music, and a bunch of other stuff, and i'm really glad for (almost) all of the design classes i took, so i think that maybe i want to know how to do everything in the world. ohhhh, and that's alright with me. whoa-oh-oh-oh thunder road.

learning to play the piano is pretty tough but pretty cool. maybe someday i'll be able to do it with both hands at once.

i am ready for a groovy sea space journey

sometimes i feel like i'm getting taller, but i'm pretty sure that i'm not. maybe i just need to stand up more.

slow down, quentin

slow down

if there's a better thing in the world i haven't seen it

we'll call our friends back east collect and read the weather pages 'til they all hate us

"california" by frankie big face

took a long time to come

i heard the reason their album is called "odessey and oracle" is because the designers who did the cover couldn't spell "odyssey". that is scary and cringe-inducing, but it's also kind of funny. poor the zombies.