holiday 08

snow, christmas, fun times

so my brother and I met up our friends Uni, Mel, and Julie (CC minus bonnie) to go eat at sushi station...which was closed due to them setting up for lunch, so instead we ate at matsuwa, pretty badass japanese market place with a bunch of cool items from food to bape magazines. there was a nice looking bakery their and there was this awesome looking gingersnowman and a gingercakedstarofdavid. pretty wild having them next to each other. we sat at the food court of an hour or 2 just conversing and catching up and telling stories, it was nice to just sit a chat or listen

on christmas eve/christmas morning i went to church. usually my whole family goes to church to celebrate christmas but this year was different. everyone knocked out before eleven o clock and i was left awake at night with nothing to do. so i decided to keep the tradition going and go to church. its like every year where they sing pray and go over the same old stories and gospels. i was all the way in the back standing because there were no seats! but there were ushers there finding people seats, but the thing was that they never came up to me asking me if i wanted to sit! it was like man come on just because im a young dude at church alone doesnt mean im causing any mayhem. i guess they thought that im young and that my legs are ready for more than 1 hour of standing? i felt a little discriminated at church!
i got home and my brother justin got me presents!!! i thought i wasnt getting anything this year but he surprised me! he got me stuff for my bike and some blu ray DVDs.  john mayer live blu ray and the patriot (one of my fav movies for some reason) on blu ray.
and this picture was taken days later when the weather was getting better and the snow was melting and fogging up my whole neighborhood.
i would like to end this blog with a quote
"The night is darkest just before the dawn"

one of my fav songs...

...reality

ecko x star wars..seriously?!

marc hardy x ecko..or is it ed ecko? or is it von hardy ecko?

so my brother, rich, and i went to go shopping for the holiday season and we stumble on some sweet gear!...(SIKE!) but seriously this shit was whack as fuck. what is the world coming to when ecko teams up with star wars to create a cut and sew t shirt? there were multiple designs too! and sweaters. i can only imagine what wangsta nerds are thinking about this...

my brother deciding on what shirt to cop for the new years festivities...haha
the next day we decided to get some mollys cupcakes! my eyes were hungry so i got a cupcake and a fudge brownie. the extra brownie was not a good idea, but the milk was a great idea!

one of the best..

...speeches I have heard.

@ Yahoo! Video

around town...

early day..

sorry about this upside picture but the food was delicious! buff joes in evanston. you can never go wrong with hot wings and buffalo chips.

went thrift store shopping and ended up in boys town.
there was some gay march going on but i did not know what it was for. it was cool cause i seen parents there with gay flags with their son and/or daughter supporting them, which was really awesome to see that. everyone needs support
the brown line decorated some of their trains for the holiday season. too bad this train doesn't lead to the north pole :(

you know its winter when...

no parking...

oh the season is here where greedy ass neighbors use chairs, boxes, crates, wood and everything in between to try and save their house front parking. i know the economy is bad but come on parking is not that serious, everyone needs a little exercise anyways

so much sewshee!

this was mid meal. who orders 8 rolls of sushi for only 2 people? amazing i know. pretty much ate it all too! mMmm thank you ra sushi

pandora

i always thought that this website was a waste. but now that i actually use it, it is actually very useful, esp when you dont have your ipod and you are at school just browsing around the web and you dont have anything to listen to.

http://pandora.com/

kicker, box, skate, built to shredddd

creative

its getting really cold out now and snow is falling. went to the garage to start up the bikes and warm up the baby girls. when they got warm i revved my bike to redline and kept doing it, as a result of quick revving flames started to come out! i got super excited so i kept doing it and i told my brother to try as well...anyways!

today we went to the HIP to cop some fall out boy tickets (i wasnt gonna go due to school) but juds, pat and jason wanted to. when we got there they wanted to see what free shirt came with it but they were all super small so we went to zumies to see wassup. they had this sick thick rail that we wanted but it cost a good amount and was too big to fit in the car. so they decided to not go to the concert and create a box for skating. i had to go to class unfortunately then study and do homework.

justin, jason, nerd, pat and judson all worked on this spectacular box. on one side it had coping and the other had a regular straight edge. i come home to see this!

we had another piece of wood so pat layed it down and put it as if it were a kicker. nerd found extra 2x4 pieces to use as legs under the board so it wont give out or break. and an end result came to this beautiful apparatus. skate ramp, kicker, box

the builders (left to right) nerd, juds, pat, justin

jason was sleeping already because i dunno why.

thanksgiving..dec 1st.

thanksgiving. last month already?

my thanksgiving was a blast. my dad came from las vegas, got to meet some family and had amazing food and amazing company

michael jordan dunking on kobe (8) not (24)

lana and max sun bathing.

i love my dad, and boy does he know how to feed 3 grown children

so i was in wicker park with my brother and we come across this. it looks like a burger king store! not even a restaurant! we look inside and they have crazy contraptions and a freakin mini ramp 1/2 pipe looking deal!

what dog do you know knows how to play with a sidekick and text their dog friends?

today is december 1st and what isnt a complete new month of december without snow...

...already?

the holiday season...

I was at the airport and it hit me when I saw this...christmas is here..I got tingles all over my body with memories flowing through my mind of younger christmas experiences.

house of hoops...

house of hoops.

so mark and edwin wanted to go to the house of hoops store in chicago (yes finally a house of hoops!) so mark calls me and i decide to go with them cause i didnt have shit to do. mark comes to pick me up and who do i see in the back seat! this cutey pie jonah! he will be a heartbreak! so all you newborn girls watch out!

the house of hoops is located at north riverside mall. its kind of far but it was worth it. this place had everything basketball/AF1/dunk(minus SBs)/blazers and many more! so much stuff in one room it was like an overload. the only thing i didnt like was the fact that every freakin salesman was trying to hassle me to try and get a sale. all in all the store was dope as hell. they had player edition shoes on the wall (kobe, lebron, amare, wade, melo) they had basketball rim with the glass backboard. i wonder how one would get a job here?

wealth...

money is the root of all evil?

how do we measure wealth? do we measure wealth by the things that we own such as assets and cash or by the amount of great friends and great family members we have? in a time where the economy is horrible how can one still be happy without money? i personally dont have much cash money (somehow i still have a few bucks which is pretty amazing) but I am still happy. with the friends that i have and great brothers, who needs money when you have a wealthy friendship with friends and family.

Pharrell once told me "Wealth is of the heart and mind, not the pocket"

i would like to leave you all with a great song

say...

john mayer - say

havent really updated but i really like this song

jenny holzer

free tuesdays with jenny holzer

thank you target for free tuesdays..i appreciate that.

at the museum we were told not to take pictures so im sorry if these pictures arent good enough for you. the quotes on these scrolling LED banners were amazing. some of them read.

"the beginnging of war will be secret"

"protect me from what i want"

"sloppy thinking gets worse overtime"

and many many more quotes. there were just too many to remember

my brother wanted to experience the exhibit in a whole new whole way. living the exhibit

this one part of her exhibit was real cool because some of the words scrolling upside and inverted, but there was a ceiling with mirrors where you can read the sentences upside down, which was pretty amazing