Shit I’d Marry: Monster Rally’s Video For “Surf Erie”

30 08 2011

Shit I love so much that yeah, I would marry it.

To know me is to love me,
and to know I fucking love Monster Rally.

“Surf Erie” is one of my favorite songs off MR’s latest EP, Deep Sea.
Beautifully shot with just the right amount of summer magic,
this video is not only fitting, but it’s nearly perfect.

Monster Rally – Surf Erie from Tyler Coray on Vimeo.

Makes me miss Woodsist & Big Sur a lot. :( / :)
Nothing like being surrounded by beautiful trees listening to quality jams,
sneakily drinking wine out of your Tumblr tote bag, obviously.

At Henry Miller, Big Sur by Max Chap Sweeeeenhaus

Buy it on vinyl from my homies over at Gold Robot. Not only is it beautiful to listen to, but it’s also beautiful to watch spin because it’s opaque pink!

Related:
Monster Rally’s Crystal Ball
Monster Rally’s “Island On Fire”
A Tangent About How Much I Love Gold Robot Records





A Tangent About My Poor Organizational Skills.

11 05 2011

Yesterday afternoon, I took what I assumed was a daytime Sudafed
and woke up at 1am this morning on my couch, sorely mistaken.

I can attribute this guffaw & all its subsequent ramifications (AKA ALL THE SHIT I DIDN’T GET DONE) directly to my poor organizational skills, which I had mistaken at one point for clever organizational skills.

A month or so ago, after making a huge stock-up trip to Target, I consolidated all the pills that only had a couple left in their boxes into one NyQuil box, throwing out all the other boxes. I thought this was pretty smart, you know, just having one box that is chalk full of cold calmers, anti-bloating life savers and black market antibiotics that expired last Spring.

I thought I was a fucking regular Gail O’Neill,
getting all HGTV up in my medicine cabinet!

Truth be told, this is NOT something someone on HGTV would do.
This is something only a fucking idiot would do.

Like, for real, if you think for a second you’re going to remember what all the stupid abbreviations they use with cold meds mean, you’ve probably already done this. You probably already have all your shit in the same box thinking you’re smart but guess what? You’re not! We’re not! You’re not going to remember what the abbreviations on the page of the plastic mean after you buy them and a year later you fucking need them again!

In fact, you’re probably
going to pass out on the couch tonight
& your Dudefriend is going to sneakily
watch Mercury Rising while you sleep!

And you’re going to wake up
half way through
& the first thing
you’re going to see is
BRUCE WILLIS
WITH A BUCKWILD AUTISTIC KID!

YEAH, THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS
WHEN YOU DON’T PAY ATTENTION FOLKS.
YOU GET ACTION FLICKED! IN UR SLEEP!

Sudafed “PE“?
I still don’t know what “PE” actually stands for. As far as I can tell, the “PE” stands for “permanently exhausted” cause I still can’t shake the feeling that I should be in bed, having pseudoephedrine-fueled nightmares about bald headed bros & socially inept children.





SORRY IT’S STILL SNOWING & SHIT.

25 02 2011

greetings from
the golden state…
TANGNETS & THE TIMES
DOES THE BEACH IN FEBRUARY.

☼ Click this shit. Download now. Warm up, baby. ☼

MOVE 2 CALIFORNIA, I HEAR YOU’LL HAVE A BETTER TIME.

I’ve never lived anywhere else, so I can’t be for certain, but finding myself on a beach in February seems a hell of a lot more enjoyable than dealing with most of the shit I’ve been reading on Twitter about the stunts ya’alls weather pulls.

This mix is to rub it in.
LOL JK.
Kinda.

☼ ∞ AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE ABOUT TEENAGE REBELLION ∞ THE MEANEST BOYS ∞ RYAN TROTT ∞ ARIEL PINK ∞ YOUNG PRISMS ∞ MELTED TOYS ∞ PURO INSTINCT ∞ LORD HURON ∞ SHIMMERING STARS ∞ DUCKTAILS ∞ RED CRAYOLA ∞ FELT ∞ THERAPIES SON ∞ SMITH WESTERNS ∞ NAVAJO BIXBY ∞ SCHOOL KNIGHTS ∞ IGGY POP ∞ TIMES NEW VIKING ∞ LA SERA ∞ ALPS ∞ TENNIS ∞ JEANS WILDER ∞ ☼

This mix is dedicated to warm sand, sparkling sangria & new California resident, my girl, Miss Amy Hunt ♥. Show her love in da club.

Hope this mix brings you sunshine. xoox

http://www.mediafire.com/?ffes7vp9ccpdw1t





A Tangent About The Stupid Shit I Do When I’m Alone With Whiskey.

3 02 2011

Last night, I was supposed to go scout locations for a bar scene we’re doing in this project that has been keeping me from blogging so much and go see White Fence at the Echo.

So, I did the only logical thing to do
before doing anything
& I started drinking.

The problem was I didn’t go buy more wine yesterday (knowing I would have to go to our local Vons today to cash a paycheck at the only Wells Fargo ATM on the east side apparently) and proceeded to drink whiskey & Naked Juice, literally the only two liquids consumable aside from tap water & vinegar in my home.

This was a terrible idea because BOTH my plans got canceled,
And I had pre-partied for BOTH sets of plans.
And then I was just drunk & alone & not able to do anything productive.
I ended up spending an hour trying to take my seemingly brilliant:
“GPOYW: THE MOST META PICTURE OF ALL TIME edition”.

I bet you’re wondering what that would entail right?

After about ten of those, I figured out an even better plan that involved something (if you can even imagine) even more embarrassing than trying to take a picture of myself on my own fucking 50″ television
but then Dudefriend came home (thank god).
And he made a pizza!!!

Of course, that took precedence over anything else going on in my life. Pizza, sober or drunk, is one of the top ten best things about this universe. Sure, cassette tapes & shit are cool, like, I also dig the ocean & think it’s miraculous, it’s totally on the list. But pizza, I mean, I’d go as far as to say, for me at least,
may be in the top five best things about this universe.

I spent the day at work just hating myself, hoping fate would bring me and the generous rugby player who randomly, without solicitation, gives me Vicodin together once more. But no. It didn’t. Fate only gives you Vicodin for free when you’re not spending your previous evenings being an asshole, apparently.

Learn from me kids.
Take my wisdom & run with it.
SLIDE INTO THE HOME PLATE OF SUCCESS WITH IT!
SLICE INTO THE APPLE PIE OF YOUR DREAMS WITH IT!
SLAY INTO THE HOT PIECE OF ASS YOU ENVISION AS YOUR CAREER WHEN YOU MASTURBATE WITH IT!

Do you not do that?
You don’t imagine your career is the hottest man that George Clooney, John Hamm and Jim Morrison could have ever gave birth to if said men could have sex & all have a baby to grow up into that, and then jerk off?

I don’t really either. I mean, I sort of do…
but mostly I just imagine myself with Miranda Kerr’s body.

[Currently Listening 2 this new BATHS' jammer]





Wake Up & Smell The Fourth Meal.

21 04 2010

I like waking up to a good mystery.
Which I more than usually have in my kitchen Wednesday mornings.

I woke up this morning to find my cutting board out, littered with veggie corn dog sticks, napkins stuck together with globs of ketchup and what appeared to be traces of parmesan cheese.
Alright.
I obviously ate… a couple corn dogs last night.
Whatever.
Nothing to fast &/or chew a bunch of laxatives over.
So, I go about my business, shower & shit (not literally ‘shit’ cause I would never say that- I mean ‘shit’ like putting on my deodorant ‘& shit’ cause if I was talking about actual shit or the act of shitting, it would be ‘bears’ [via @RichiePanic] or ‘bearing’ or ‘letting the cubs out of the cave’ but I never say that shit in public places anyway unless we’re like MEGA CLOSE [on the real] so for future reference, if I ever say ‘shit’ & it could be taken as a verb in reference to myself, it’s not, okay? #GROUNDRULES). I drink a bunch of Fanta because it’s all I have in my fridge aside from booze and pretend it’s OJ. I then go to put my glass in the sink…

BUT WAIT!
There is also a pan soaking!
With a plate covered in some sort of Veganaise/Tapatio concoction!
This leads me to only one conclusion: I must have ate some Morning Star.
But there are still two boxes in the freezer?
I can only deduct from this observation that I maybe only had a serving.

But why the baking pan? Why didn’t I just microwave them per usual when Dudefriend isn’t around to tell me to quit being lazy and put them in the oven? I mean, I’m pretty positive I did not bake the corndogs. If I had baked them, I wouldn’t have all the massacred napkins covered in sloppy ketchup dispersing. I would have just put the ketchup on the pan… or on the plate with the Veganaise/Tapatio.

IT JUST DIDN’T ADD UP!
WHAT THE FUCK DID I BAKE?!

I then am like, you know what, just chill. Not a biggie, it’s cool. I’m still not fat or or have a problem being alone & have to eat myself to sleep. Def not. Just fugeeeetttttttaboutittttt!

That was until I went to throw out the corn dog sticks
and I saw the unspeakable culprit of the baking pan:

Yes.
What was once a full bag of guilty pleasures
was now staring at me with all its gluttonous glory,
as empty as my well of self esteem.

But the mystery has been solved & I now can go about my day, secretly scorning my “comfy” jeans & phoning-in “mainstream articles” I’m probably plagiarizing from a memory of YM magazine.





In A Perfect World, No Babies = Cake.

30 03 2010

I feel like not having a baby
should be a time to rejoice,
like HORAY! I CAN CONTINUE TO LIVE RECKLESSLY WITHOUT BEING RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYONE ASIDE FROM MY DOG & I CAN KEEP DRINKING AS MUCH AS I WANT BECAUSE I WON’T HAVE THE GUILT OF MAKING SOMEONE LIVE AS A RETARD FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIFE BECAUSE OF IT! YAY! CONFETTI!

But for some reason, unbeknownst to me, I am punished.
Like RAWR! YOU AIN’T HAVIN’ BABIES?! I AM GOING TO MAKE YOU WANT TO COMMIT SUICIDE YOU INFERTILE WHORE!

Body & Mind working against me at all costs, trying to bring me down and I just don’t get it. Why don’t you want me to function, Body & Mind? Why are you making me not want to laugh & have fun? Why does it feel like you are shanking my insides? Like seriously why am I about to cry because Dudefriend got a grill and it’s making my grill obsolete? Why do I care about grills? Who fucking cares if he’s grilling at his house instead of my house? I don’t grill anything, of course he should have a fucking grill. THERE’S NO CRYING IN BLOGGING!!!

And most importantly,
WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU FUCKING UP MY FACE?!
On the real!
Pimples?! REALLY?!
I didn’t even have pimples through puberty it’s like why now? Why when I am finally like, not on top but kinda half way to the middle to the top would you start giving me pimples now? When I need my face the most and its features are actually proportional to my body? Like I finally look ALRIGHT and you’re blowing it for me.
THANKS.
THANKS ALOT.
I’M SORRY I’M NOT INTO CONTRIBUTING TO THE POPULATION PROBLEM, BODY.

Jesus.
Here I am just looking out for the world and shit,
and all I have to show for it is a box of Midol & a heating pad.





THE RUMORS ARE TRUE.

29 03 2010

Family Portrait stayed at my pad on Thursday.
I’m not going to say much
except
I’m the bro in the middle:





GPOYW: Moms & Cats Edition.

24 02 2010

Today I went & visited my mom, good ‘ole Gail.
She is a recovering cat lady.
When I moved out to smoke weed & waste money (“go to college”) she had this gnar month of empty nest syndrome where she went to get A CAT for my sister’s birthday & came back with THREE CATS, putting the Ross residence at a total of five cats.

That was like five years ago & I’m happy to report that my mother now only has three cats & no longer spends days on end locked in her room with them. She now has a very active lifestyle that includes babysitting the most adorable child I’ve seen in forevvverrr (granted I am NEVER around children to begin with cause I was under the impression I hated them but OMG this one made me want to pop one out), volunteering for a charity for Autistic & Down Syndrome children three days a week, dancing on Tuesdays and being escorted about town by millionaires that want to spoil her rotten & she won’t let. She’s the cutest and I love her so much.

Marissa Ann & Gail Ann.

And her cats are pretty rad too.

Burlioz!

Ellie!

And then this cat, belongs to my sister.
She’s had it for like nine years
and she’s a bitch.

Fuckin' Dinah.

The cat,
not my sister.

I know that in this picture Dinah just looks like she has dead eyes but I assure you getting this picture taken was not an easy feat. She just like, wouldn’t listen to reason. I was like, DINAH WHAT IS YOUR DEAL?! BURLIOZ & ELLIE WERE COOL, STOP ACTING LIKE KIRSTIE ALLEY!
But she wouldn’t and scratched the shit out of me. :(

Aside from that it was a totally cool day.
I bought my mom sushi & she was like,
“Aw, you’re an adult.”
& I was like,
“Aw, you have no idea I’m an alcoholic.”





Just Got This Captcha On Facebook:

8 02 2010

If I was, like, thirteenish,
I would have laaaaaauuughed my ass off typing in “Large Seamen”,
giggling to myself in relief from behind my parents’ PC after five grueling hours of unplugging & plugging in the internet because it kept cutting out during my high octane flirtatious convos via America Online.
Yeah, holla at SurfNSandGurlie.
She’s got the mint teal with yellow text on her profile.
Her “personal quote” box is filled with Fenix TX lyrics
& the “martial status” box
probably says something sassy like
“I don’t know karate!”





Dudefriend’s Plans To Hack My Blog:

5 02 2010

“I’m going to transcribe one of your masturbation sessions…
OOOOHHARRGGHHH George Clooney!
AHHHOOFFHRUUGHH Marky Mark!
OOOOAAARRRFFFFFF Tim the Tool Man Taylor with his shirt off!”

I love this man & made it my personal goal not to be a bitch tonight & make sure he has the best birthday ever! It’s so important to me, I’m going to even include a GIF:





GAHHH.

5 02 2010

This week has just been… like, TOO REAL.
I started my new job (which is awesome btw), negotiated new lease terms & settled this “repossessed” procedure shit, finally committed to paying for internet, infiltrated a coffee house scene, spent most days at Dudefriend’s for his internets and speaking of Dudefriend, it is his birthday AND I’m meeting his mom & sister for the first time TOMORROW.
There’s been just so much REAL LIFE,
I haven’t even had time to make fun of it on my blog.





Lessons In “Making It Work” #2.

4 02 2010

In case you missed the first lesson, from now until Valentine’s Day I will be providing my readers with helpful tips & glimpses into my uber successful relationship with Dudefriend.
You’re welcome.

When you’re in a relationship, sometimes you have to do some things you’re not going to like doing- compromising, listening, giving blow jobs when your nose is stuffy. Sometimes these things are emotionally hard to do.
Like, our second lesson.

Lesson #2: Don’t Be Afraid To Ask The Tough Questions
Sometimes, there are things you just have to ask. There’s no getting around it. Whether it be for the maturation of your relationship, your health or maybe you just can’t find the answer on Google.

But there will come a day when you have to ask your significant other something you don’t want to and you’re going to have to just pick up your balls and do it.

For example,
at a quaint, quiet table in the corner of our local spot, Masa:
Dudefriend: “Now, I’m going to ask you a question… and… and I want you to be completely honest…”
Me: [nods with furrowed brow]
Dudefriend: “Are you retarded?”

I’ll let you sit with that.
Choose your own adventure & shit.





HEY. You’re Welcome For The First 52 Seconds.

3 02 2010

The rest is just a bonus.





I’m Just Not Feeling Linking Back To The Toilet Incident So Figure It Out N00bZ.

2 02 2010

Omg, you guys.
So, I just totally fourth grade style
almost fell in the toilet.

And it made me realize,
after four glasses of wine & a shot of Maker’s,
it is neither Dudefriend’s lack of toilet lid consideration
nor my drunkeness
but it is the the fact that he is a boy!
And I am a drunk!
And a girl!
That I put my foot in the toilet.

You see, it’s like, he is just used to leaving that shit up because I mean, duh, he lives with his messy-ass-ladies’-man guitarist roommate and they can just piss all over the place and it doesn’t matter because one of them has a girlfriend and the other is an awesome single guitarist.

And I’m a girl. A very tidy girl who kinda has OCD and ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS makes her bed before she leaves her room and moisturizes everyday and ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS closes the toilet seat. Even in public places.

So, it’s really neither one of our faults & the poll is null & void.

Although,
I HATE BOYS AND THEIR GROSS TOILETS I GET DRUNK AND FALL IN. :(

Okay.
Fine.
I’m linking back to the toilet incident.
But only because I<3TRAFFIC.





Lessons In “Making It Work”.

2 02 2010

With Valentine’s Day fast upon us, a holiday that I usually reserve for taking too much Vicodin and puking all over myself after too many free shots at some loser “I’m Single At A Bar On Valentine’s!” soiree or having dinner with my father, his wretched girlfriend and my grandmother (yes, for the past five years I’ve been this pathetic), I have decided to give you guys some glimpses into my love life & how Dudefriend & I “make it work”.

Lesson #1: Words of Love
Make sure the way you & your significant other talk to one another reflects the deep understanding you have of one another & the incredible connection that flows between the two of you, that inexplicable “knowing” of what your mate has inside of them.

For example:
Dudefriend: “I totally wanted to wake up early and bone you.”
Me: “Yeah, I know. Also knew that was not going to happen.”
Dudefriend: “What?! You didn’t have confidence in me?”
Me: “No, you had NyQuil in you. And you have never taken NyQuil whereas I’ve had plenty of long nights with NyQuil so I know these things.”
Dudefriend: “Yeah, okay, Miss Hunter S. TBag.”

Crazy in love, guys, SO CRAZY!








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