All Things Chill

The Seattle International Film Festival, lovingly shortened to The SIFF, kicks off on May 22nd and runs through June 15. I read a great overview of the festival on Seattle.Metblogs, which is really giving me some sort of a pulse on this city.
One of the movies that I *did* want to check out is [...]

Per Liana’s instructions, I made some Sangria for a get together at Deb’s house yesterday. Good times, good times! Quick recipe below:
Two bottles dry red wine (nothing too tannic, merlot works well - I used a cabernet sauvignon, will write winery later)
2 D’anjou pears
2 Fuji apples
1 16oz. can of lychees (with 3/4 of [...]

me: Hey, i’m gonna make soup tonite!
with crusty bread
Liana: i see..
mmmm….mmm
what kind of soup?
me: can you get bread on the way home?
Liana: haha yes
me: linguica & kale soup
it’ll be good
promise
Liana: no it doesn’t sound good
LOL. Back to the drawing board!
~Spec

I’ve been a big Death Cab for Cutie fan since Ben Giddard’s foray into electronica with The Postal Service. Their last album, Plans, was actually playing on my iPod nano this morning on the way to work (while I hacked and slashed baddies on my Ninja Gaiden DS demo - more on that later). [...]

Just upgraded to the latest Wordpress stable build (upgraded the Democracy poll plugin too). It wasn’t as bad as I thought! Hee hee. Also, to kick of Spring (late, but it’s still kinda cold in Seattle)…

SPRING CLEANING! If you *HAD* to, which household chore would you choose to do?

Do the Dishes

Do [...]

Lookin’ good, smiling

Then I opened my big mouth,

Ends in Hadouken.
LOL. Video (hopefully) coming soon. Thanks to Mark for the pictures!
~Spec

Larger view here. Man, what a weekend. Haha. After dropping off the car @ the local car dealership for some repairs, I figured we could eat something tasty in celebration for… the initial victory of Mexican forces led by General Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín over French forces in the Battle of Puebla on [...]

Brian (aka Odogg), the brains of the Dogglounge - maker of fine deep house Internet radio - decided the site will have the main header image showcase the djs that spin there. I visited the site yesterday and I found a picture from A Leisurely Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive that I took back in [...]

Mario Kart Wii. If you haven’t bought it already, you’re probably playing Grand Theft Auto. Hee hee. The picture above was the result of my foray into racing with the nunchuck / wiimote combo. I really wanted to like the wheel. I REALLY DID. As you can see from [...]