decibels & debacles

WHO WORE IT BETTER? Some celeb on Jezebel HAS MY DRESS (in...

Oct 1st

Billie Joe Armstrong’s guitar. About as authentic as...

Oct 1st

email budgeting

I put myself on a fairly strict budget last month that, as the nature of budgets go, revolves around...

Oct 1st

judge dracula

me: on the phone w my parents. my dad just asked me about your classes
Nicky: oh welllll
I had a guest lecture today from judge kozinski
he's romanian
very high up
me: my dad says there are vampires in romania
Nicky: lol
tru

Oct 1st

legit just LOLed. heller: L O L richjm: dubliner: ...

Sep 30th

shut UP. (via amandalynferri)

Sep 30th

Top 3 Things My Dad Said In Complete...

My parents visited this past weekend. We had a blast together. We saw 2 Broadway shows (In the...

Sep 29th

Favorite current event meme of the day.

Sep 29th

This statement epitomizes how and why I...

Nicole: fall is here, i'm wearing dan's fubu sweats again.

Sep 29th

reasong #infinity why i love Amanda

Setting: Amanda and I talking about exchanging pictures of when we were fat. me: i cant imagine...

Sep 29th

College Daze

I think I’ve told everyone the story about how I gained 18-20 pounds my freshman year of...

Sep 29th

Drinking out of Coconuts is IN.

Sep 29th

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Disconnected - Face to Face Dammit. I just found out that Face to Face played TWO shows in nyc in...

Sep 29th

i almost got lucky w John except for the...

jdc: ok also
jdc: my friends throw this party that's always sponsored by Maker's Mark
jdc: they've gotten creative, and now at every party, they make milkshakes w vanilla ice cream and maker's -- it is WILDLY good
me: ohh
me: they are free right
me: haha yeah
me: at bushwick country club
jdc: yeah, but yesterday was bell house
jdc: how do u know them?
me: ive just read about them
me: the parties
me: i mean alcohol and milkshakes are like my faves
me: how do iNOT know them
me: iNot is apple's new product on tying good knots
jdc: duh
jdc: well so u should come w me to the next one
me: OKAY
jdc: *not a date
me: lol
me: dammit

Sep 28th

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Miss Piggy’s rendition of Peaches’ “Fuck the Pain Away.” shuuut UP. via...

Sep 28th

yes.

Sep 23rd

People Mag interviews Kermit the Frog re:...

Sep 23rd

Green Day Musical: Reviewed in Chat w...

Kat: my coworkers want to know:
Kat: HOW WAS THE GREEN DAY MUSICAL
me: OMG
me: GREAT
me: took my parents
me: they loved it
me: esp my mom
me: my mom says, "it's going to be on broadway, i know it!"
Kat: TELL ME MORE
Kat: did u drink pabst
me: they had a bunch of tony award winning actors and set designers and choreographers on staff
Kat: very nice
Kat: was it at all cheesy
me: or did it FLOW
me: the set design was really awesome
me: it flowed
me: some of the songs were interpreted for the stage
me: like it could have been terrible
me: but it wasnt
me: it was weird/interesting to hear like BROADWAY SINGERS sing green day songs tho
me: also
me: the actors were all these skinny floppy haired gay seeming boys that knew all the words to like 25 green day songs
me: soooo
me: it was a major turn on (for me)
me: haha
me: i was like "marry me' to everyone
Kat: HA
Kat: accidentally read that part aloud to my coworkers
Kat: they were amused
me: lol
me: great
me: oh, we didnt drink pabst
me: but you could totes drink in the theatre
me: CUZ YOU KNOw, THAT'S PUNK

Sep 23rd

oops

While I was living in Berkeley, I once left my keys in the keyhole of the trunk of my car. Someone...

Sep 23rd

Someone gifted me chocolate flavored straws overnight/before...

Sep 23rd

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Remember how this blog is about Girls? I have a total heart-on for bands on rooftops. How did they...

Sep 22nd

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i love this band. i love this album. this song is a sing-along song. davidtrawin: ...

Sep 22nd

new slang alert

kat: so tell me if this is EAST COAST slang
me: OKAY
kat: i'm meeting some peeps at a bar tonight
kat: this dude who is super east coast wrote us all a note
kat: it says "We all still down for the troubles?"
me: lolz
kat: meaning, are we all still down for bar night
me: have never heard that
kat: the fuck does that mean
me: dunno!
me: unless the bar is called, troubles
kat: i'm kind of into it
kat: lolz, not troubles, benders
me: you know what, i feel a little slimey about it, but i am into it too
kat: oh!
kat: this guy is sort of a bro too
me: LOVE BROS
me: they say the best shit
me: all the time
kat: yeah man
kat: so anyway, i guess we should start saying "the troubles"
me: "did you get into any of the troubles this weekend?"
me: leave it to me to make it fobby
kat: hahahah
kat: sers
kat: yo lets get down with some troubles this weekend
kat: (no idea)

Sep 22nd

not cut out for burning man

me: how were your adventures?
josh heller: great
josh heller: burning man was incredible
josh heller: would you ever be down ???
me: mmm
me: im not so much into burning man haha
josh heller: haha what about with an RV!
me: mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
josh heller: hahah
me: i barely survived coachella 2k4

Sep 21st

The Big Pink

I’ve been digging the song, “Dominos” by The Big Pink for a couple of weeks now....

Sep 21st

Nic(k)ole and Nick hung out this weekend...

Nicole: this drunk dude at the party we were at, who nick was concerned would break the tv,fell on nick at some point and he started yelling "TORTS!"

Sep 21st

an oldie but a goodie! (via mociology)

Sep 18th

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subtletyinexcess: PS22 Chorus “LANDSLIDE” by FLEETWOOD MAC (acoustic version) (via...

Sep 18th

of course. dunno why i would think...

Justin: i just arrived at a country cottage in norfolk

Sep 18th

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all the GIRLS videos so far have only made me homesick. subtletyinexcess: GIRLS, GOD DAMNED,...

Sep 18th

Will Rhett Miller ever age?

sers, he’s like the most ancient babe alive.

Sep 18th

bff

Definition: someone who has your fave drink paid for and waiting for you when you meet up with them...

Sep 18th

Running Joke

hahahahaha giancarlofiorentini: I’m such a bad runner, I don’t even know where to begin. So I...

Sep 17th

Sep 17th

Our communication via acronyms has...

David: oh mll
me: hahhaha
David: do you know what mll is?
me: my little lunch?
David: hahahahahah
marry me.
me: lolz
David: you SO get me

Sep 17th

What’s that meme that people do where you upload a pic...

Sep 16th

my dad is on fire today with these great...

Missed gchat from my dad, responding to my status of, “i saw jamie lee curtis on the train...

Sep 15th

Nerdiest website I think I've ever just used....

Sep 15th

My dad just called some shit out.

Email Transcript (translated from Czech, doi): 2009/9/15 11:59AM Hi Mom and Dad, I know...

Sep 15th

Punk Rock Real Estate via Eric

eric: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/ontheblock/detail?entry_id=47604
This is super important!!!!!1111
me: THEY CANNOT MOVE AWAY FROM OAKLAND!!!! how will we know where they live?!
eric: you need to date tre cool
it is the only way
just until the move
me: lolz
mike dirnt just married his gf that is my age
eric: i can't really see you and tre cool
together forever
but go for it
me: hahahhaha
emailing my parents
re: buying this house in oakland

Sep 15th

Confession.

me: at one point in my life
my fave book
was
the chain letter by christopher pike
David: hahahahah
me: i know what you did last summer was loosely based on it
David: i just googled it
dont worry
i'm up to speed

Sep 15th

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Girls album is out next week. True Panther Sounds is streaming it this week. Love. Love. Love. p.s....

Sep 14th

Does listening to NOFX make you cool? A...

nick: well
nick: listening to nofx is 90% chance of cool
nick: (10% chance of that's the only band you know about)
nick: (like, you have 5 cds and they are operation ivy, nofx, and the used)
me: lolz
me: what would the other 2 be
me: pennywise and offspring?
me: umm rancid and something gay
me: lolz
nick: like the softcell greatest hits
me: hahahaha
nick: or the killers
nick: there was this ep of newsradio where andy dick gets into punk
nick: but then someone starts actually going through his cds
nick: and it's all like winger and queensryche
nick: pretty good ep
me: i don't even know what those are
me: unless you mean weezer and queen
nick: noooooooooooooooooooooo
nick: like journey
me: LOVE JOURNEY (unironic ringtone)
nick: it's ironic
nick: u just don't know it
me: no
me: i honestly believe
me: that people shouldn't stop believing

Sep 14th

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This is almost as obnoxious as pulling a smushed banana out of your tote bag first thing in the...

Sep 14th

Told you so. slaughterhouse90210: “We do not fear being...

Sep 14th

Best New Blog Alert - Slaughterhouse 90210

Sep 14th

Gchatting w my dad.

dad: howdy.....what's up in NYC?
nevis co ted dela Nicky?
**************
translation: Howdy....what's up in NYC? Do you know what NIcky is doing right now?
My dad got really into my status updates about Nick being in law school.

Sep 14th

just got a new blackberry. and this is exactly what...

Sep 14th

All I said was that the recent re-surgence of our toddler...

Sep 14th

Please Swipe Again

Sep 14th

Jim Carroll Died!!

Sep 14th

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So glad Kanye didn’t try to ruin THIS moment. Crowd surfing at Radio City? p.u.n.k.

Sep 14th

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Billie Joe makes a PUN re: Lady Gaga loving Dookie. (eLOLquent?)

Sep 14th

(via hipsterrunoff)

Sep 14th

Oh hellz yah. Found my all-time fave California beer at...

Sep 14th

summer is over but do not deny the...

Nicole: HAHA
YOU JUST GOT WHAT UPPED
AND DENIED A BRO DOWN
me: O M G
i didn't realize how insulting that was
Nicole: hahahahaha
me: until you put it into terms i understand
Nicole: HA
wanna meet up for coffee/cookie later?
me: you're a dream
and yes

Sep 13th

Christine is writing an article about...

christine: can u tell me
does this make sense:
"Beyond the coy status updates, drunk emails and occasional ex-sext, technology has dramatically altered the way we seek, nurture, and experience intimacy."
me: thats great
whats ex sext
christine: oOOoo
a sext msg sent to an ex
u DO know about sexting right?!?!?
me: hahahah
is that like a "yo are you out"
christine: ahahaha huuuuhh
me: i dont know
i have kat to edit my most courteous emails
im the last person to sextex ex
or waeva
christine: hahhaahha
yeah i think teens are really into it
sending pics of their butts and stuff
me: omg love teens
christine: saying "HOTTxx"
me: hahaha of their butts?
christine: yes i think hhahha
me: teens are so kewl

Sep 11th

“girl using rapid prototyping technology to print pita...

Sep 10th

I took my parents to opening night of Green Day’s...

Sep 7th

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Unsatisfied - The Replacements This is one of those songs that you forget is a great anthem until...

Sep 2nd

Gmail, I'M SORRY. PLEASE COME BACK TO...

Sep 1st

Back to the whole “crabcore” thing… The...

Sep 1st

This is RAD. mattlehrer: thegooglymoogly: Ben &...

Sep 1st

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Crabcore via the band, Attack Attack! Crabcore is a contemporary offshoot from the emocore/screamo...

Sep 1st

The caption for this article about cougars in SF Weekly...

Sep 1st

Do you guys remember how Green Day is my...

Sep 1st

I think I’m the only person left who hasn’t...

Sep 1st

This is basically porn for the bay area coffee lover. via...

Sep 1st