CEll phone disinterest.

I quit my cell phone indefinitely!
Just in case you didn't know!
(by the photos)
For several months now in fact.
Try going 3 or 4 hours without yours?
remember the time when there was only answering machines?
I've been there. We get used to a certain lifestyle that involves digital manipulation don't we?
Now get rid of it completely.
That is where I am at.
My home phone service is outstanding!!!
It's attached to my wall.
let's make plans...

My veerizun representative WARNED me explicitly!!, " you are going completely against the trend here!!!!.... aare you SURE you want to cancel (your amazingly limited and unneccesarily expensive service?)

Yes.
Thank you 19.99 a month with no restrictions on calling anywhere in north America at any time.

Snoose Junction Pizzaria-Ballard

As a native New Yorker who eats pizza as often as most people park there car, i was dieing for an even bearably good slice close to work.
CAboose Junction is a amazing. Quality cheese... which Attn: every other pizza place on the west coast... everyone can tell right away that you skimp on the good cheese for the cheap stuff.
This place uses the good stuff; and it is also very refreshing and a necessity for any self respecting NYer, that a true judge of any pizza place is the Plain-Cheese-Slice. Way too many west coast joints give out ranch dressing, ugg! or load the pie with ham and pineapple to make it taste good, which doesn't work by the way, if your base is still made of crap.
Snoose junction's plain-slice is not only available, but is just plain good pizza.
The Barbecue chicken slice is so delicious and just put together the right way;
The chicken is sliced nice and thin, not fatty, grilled perfectly, the bacon bits are well cooked but not burnt, and the BBQ sauce is not just there to smother the flavour, but is just noticeable amongst the party of goodness in the mouth, on a perfect crispy but chewy crust.
It is quaint and simple, but cool decor with a quick and easy feel for casual dining with nice wood tables in booths. It is really nice to be able to get delicious, reasonably priced pizza without it being overly "gourmet" or only by the pie with "table service only" or outrageously expensive.
Highly recommend this joint. Mandatory stop on the train. I noticed another location north of Ballard too. Have to check it out one day.

Trent Rez. interview w/ Tony Hawk

http://www.shredordie.com/video/dissent-tv-tony-hawk-with-4
http://www.shredordie.com/video/dissent-tv-tony-hawk-with-4

Just watched the two parts of Tony Hawks interview of Trent. It is good to see that he is a nice normal dude; after so many years of consuming a significant amount of yelling and thrashing about in my headphones.
His studio is exactly as i would have imagined it; complete with wire-fused walls and quaint human skull lamp, with a homey feel.
One point on what he says in the interview about the fast rate at which listeners consume music these days. While i think it's true over all that music gets consumed too fast (it's seems more and more is the answer; like okay that was good...whats next grrr. is the current notion), I being a severe audiophile find it hard to keep pace with the production rates of admittedly talented new artists' music. Still I find that i keep coming back to an album like "year zero" because there is something that resonates and reflects the world that is rapidly developing around us.
Additionally on the point of faster, better, more in album dropping; I continually find myself delving into Ghosts I-IV... there is so much nuance and good things happening there, and I really want to take the time to enjoy it and absorb it properly. I purposefully don't rush this album...Each time I hear it, my understanding begins to build and mount a clearer vision of it's landscape. Where as "year zero" i just really connect with it's vivid clarity and it fucking rocks on repeat.
psyched about the "HTDA" and the albums that come from "social network" soundtrack.
I take a 4.5 hour bus ride from Seattle to Vancouver once or twice a month and the 3 hour period while the sun takes to set over beautiful landscapes and mountains (longer than most lattitudes due to being farther north than most of america) is the perfect setting to listen to Ghosts I-IV all the way through. It really is a journey from light to dark and back.
Don't know if anyone will ever even read this.
Breif as the interview be, he really shows his wisdom, perspective and temperance from all the things he has gone through. Fans undoubtably benefit from this maturity, for example; it is especially wonderful for fans who can enjoy a huge project like Ghosts, from an artist who truly enjoys creating, exactly because of the fact that he has surpassed all the bullshit of recording industry woes, and has more freedom.