ALL I SEE (or, my flickr with gross commentary)

these last few weeks have been pretty awesome. maybe all my memories eventually become revisionist, but here are some of the highlights:

weekend 1, san francisco / oakland:

we started things off right at kim's backyard, a crazy korean-owned dive bar next to the stork club in the oakland cuts. crazy expensive bottled beers - i think it was $5.00 for sierra nevadas! needless to say, after about one i was done.



more (and final) vocals being recorded for our full-length, with davy our old singer making a rare gust appearance



serious burrito time at dolores park on a rare sunny saturday in february



justin's moving to new york party outside of the latin club - ironically i got a picture of some new friends, but none of he and i. this 17 year old girl that was present (not pictured) ended up giving me her phone number through justin and then adding me on myspace, but believe me officer i wasn't having it!



the next day found us in serious food coma after brunch at my old apartment in russian hill, i think we literally stayed in this position for an hour and a half, with me lying on the hardwood floor.




weekend 2: las vegas / dallas, tx

not many pictures here. here is the widely known about but rarely seen photograph of derrick in his unnatural habitat, douching it up with old college roommates club-style outside of Pure in Caesar's Palace. they somehow let us in.



which is cool, since wilmer valderrama was chilling in the vip section



this was taken the next night at some equally douchey club, and is quite literally the last thing i remember before blacking out utterly and completely for the rest of the night after one too many white russians and redbull vodkas at the blackjack table. attractive, i know.



i took a 10:00pm flight from Vegas to Dallas Fort Worth on Sunday, arriving at my hotel delirious at 3:30am and needing to be at work in less than five hours. but, that didn't stop me from seeing my favorite dads in the world monday night at this place the cavern near downtown dallas for some $2.00 bottles of lonestar, the texan's beer of choice. i also forgot that they still let you smoke cigarettes inside here, holy freaking god.




weekend 3: san diego (yes, something good actually happened here this weekend!)

i spent most of the day saturday enjoying the ocean breeze while watching brandon and ashley play at their tennis tournament. brandon lost in doubles in the semi-finals of the boys' 14s, and ashley lost in the finals of the girls' 10s. here she is seen kicking this other girls' ass in the semis, while my parents and i are thoroughly enjoying the show and couldn't give a shit whether she won or lost, since it's near-comical watching 10 year-olds chase down tennis balls. too bad her opponent's crazy satan of a mother didn't feel the same, and yelled at her daughter until she cried after the match was over.



shaun and jenn drove down from floss angeles and the oc, respectively, for heidi's birthday. we began at this Chinese restaurant called Mandarin House that served amazing tiki drinks. shaun and i ordered "the volcano," which professed itself to be only for daring couples, but we'd like to consider ourselves adventurous despite what others might think.



jenn got this awesome fortune - it was either the horrifyingly racist one written in pidgin english, or this other equally awkward one that i can't recall.



we ended up at the pink elephant where heidi's boyfriend's soul band, "the viewmasters," was opening for the night. afterwards, we went to this awesome late night japanese ramen place, and i don't think i've ever stayed out that late in san diego ever. maybe this city has some promise after all.



this morning we met up for brunch at cafe 222.





i spent the rest of the day riding my bike, playing tennis, and then playing call of duty 4 with brandon, which we'd just picked up earlier that day from sears. it was another perfect weekend.

sorry for space-hogging on this one. i'll be back in the bay the last weekend of march. i miss you guys.