Wanna disco, wanna see me disco?!

Recording = done!

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 04:07:39 GMT

Update on my blog: http://egalash.blogspot.com

GO there! It's better than myspacefacetubejournal combined if you are even slightly interested in what I do with my life.

everything ok

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:05:37 GMT

MSM is in the studio this weekend! YYYYYYYYEAHH!

My birthday week was good. Minus the minus' (pronounced "minuses" for those of you who weren't taught grammar in school).

Lately I've been having weird dreams that keep blending with my memory, so that it becomes hard to identify what is real and what has been a dream. It's a strange sensation!

moon

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:31:44 GMT

I am the moon.

Ben Fee is at it again;

Nevele Nevele - Howl At The Moon from benjamin fee on Vimeo.

This bowl of ice cream i just got is too much. Do you think I can just... you know... scoop it back into the carton, or is that just weird? Might as well eat it....

oh, and if you haven't yet... go here! http://egalash.blogspot.com

more than you ever wanted to know...

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:57:59 GMT

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Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:57:48 GMT

so, currently this boy is my muse.

RID OF ME (trailer 2!)

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:07:20 GMT

hey check out the new trailer for RID OF ME, a feature film i had a small part in.

come with me, you athiest-curious friends of mine

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:36:35 GMT

I'm going on Saturday night to see Richard Dawkins speak at PSU. I've read one of his books twice, and he is one of the few people out there that seems to be saying something important and revolutionary regarding science, religion, and sociology.

Seriously, it's FREE but it's going to sell out. I'm going to be at PSU at 5pm on Saturday. It's in the Stott Center Gym. text me if you want to meet up. After this lecture you'll feel totally mentally stimulated and will probably leave with a completely different view of religion and athiesim. Or you'll just have a lot to talk about for the next couple days/rest of your life.

Oh, and, if you dont' have my number, I'm probably not inviting you to come along.

In other news, I made fig and plum oatmeal cookies from figs and plumbs I picked around the neighborhood. Yum!

She was right...

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:06:54 GMT

...when she said we felt like children or animals or natives.

Yesterday was a long waited superfun adventure. A perfect day, a great way to end the summer. A woodland excursion hike that ended in Thai food, with bears, shuttles, and trains.

In other news, I got some more photos developed. Remind me and I'll post them.

MSM show at Last Thursday

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:22:16 GMT

Hey, we haven't played a Portland show in AGES, but we're playing one this month. We aren't playing very often in town anymore because 1) We are very busy people; and 2) We want to make every show we DO play really really good.

So come on out to the last Last Thursday of the summer.

K-200N HOLGA w/Fisheye Lense

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:45:17 GMT

From tour photos from bellingham, olympia, manzanita.

Rid of Me

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:41:09 GMT

Check it out, the trailer for RID OF ME is up! It's a film shot in Oregon, I play a goth/punk/bad influence friend, you can see me in a couple shots in the trailer.

home again

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:05:49 GMT

Back from touring. Total success. No breakdowns or canceled shows, nothing was lost or stolen or forgotten. Nothing too dramatic happened. Had time to read and time to party. Time to be awesome and time to be humbled. Blew some people away with manners and musical ability. Met awesome people. Made friends and memories. Took video (coming soon) and photographs-the film kind (also coming soon).

Wrote words, laughed, geeked out on Canadian things. Made people happy. Wouldn't trade the experience for anything in the world.

Hello again Portland. If I ever move out of this city it will be to Vancouver, BC.

Oh yeah, watch this. It's the awesome local designer jacket line I've done some modeling for. My friend Ben shot and edited the video, he does amazing work.

La Merde Fall '09 Preview from La Merde on Vimeo.

Up Yours! Northern Tour with MSM

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 06:05:50 GMT

Hey, I guess I should mention that my band (Monster-Sized Monsters) is going on tour beginning this Monday! We're going NORTH, if you couldn't guess from this entry title, which is also the name of our tour.

Pretty please, if you happen to be in a city listed on the date of our show, COME!!!!

That's all for the moment. Cheers.

life and things

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:35:02 GMT

I just finished the 60's schwinn 3 speed for Hannah. It's awesome. (Yesterday I finished a bike for my brother, an aluminum frame mtn-converted-roadbike. It's such a great feeling to finish something you worked hard to do, learned a lot from, and are proud of, and then give it to someone important to you because they'll get good use out of it. That's what I've done with these two bikes. Next bike project is what? I dunnooooooo.........

Going on tour with Monster-Sized Monsters in 2 weeks! WOAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

There are two shows, volleyball, and a movie event all happening TONIGHT I have to choose from. Actually, I made plans for the movie before I found out about any of these other things so my decision is made for me.

did i tell you about my 50 mile bike ride a 1.5 weeks ago and my 60 mile ride 6 days after that? IT WAS AWESOME! Biked to water places both days to swim. It was a million degrees out so it was so niiiiice

Now the weather is milder and I've been drinking tea. Clouds make me drink tea.

The tomatoes in my garden are doing AWESOME! (Unlike last year when they did horribly!) We've had many Early Girls, some Bloody Butchers, a Brandywine, and today our first Roma.

I'm going to go for a quick 2 mile run, then if I have time I'm going to pick some figs from a huge fig tree (the owners wont mind there's thousands of figs on that tree), then head over to Ben's house for movie/ice cream party.

OH YEAH! I almost forgot! I've got some extra money from doing the Levi's commercial, and I wanted to buy another guitar... Almost bought an Epiphone Wilshire. BUT THEN I decided to look into building my own guitar, and I bought a kit to build a telecaster! I'M SO EXCITED!! It'll be awesome. I've been building things all summer. (Well.. bikes anyway...)

BYEEEEEEEE internet, see you later.

Save the world

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:50:40 GMT

I totally support this crazy simple (in concept and technology) but genius plan to counteract climate change. Not only will it help with heat, but it would make the road at night more visible, detour crime, provide jobs, and be really awesome. It might take a while, but I'm sure eventually some proposals will spring up about starting this process, and they should be supported! Of course it's going to cost money, but money is less important than the earth. Duh. http://www.content.good.is/post/fighting-global-warming-with-pavement.html

smartphone?

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 08:08:32 GMT

actions speak a thousand times louder than words.

its so true its worth saying again:

ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS.

in other news, i bought a fancy smartphone and its boggeling my mind. im using it right now to post this. ive passed through the technological threshhold.

Did I tell you?

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:18:17 GMT

Here's the Levi's ad I'm in.. one great second @ about 0:15. Longer cut to be shown in theaters supposedly.

Also, shot for La Merde yesterday. Fun fun, good people, awesome jackets. Mosquitoes = NOT AWESOME.

Tour booking takes forever. Ughhhhhhhhhhh........

Cheers

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:43:33 GMT

Cheers to good, friendly people, who don't act like they want anything from me, who are interesting and live life to the fullest, who keep their word, and don't entangle themselves in unnecessary drama.

And any imperfect combination of the traits above.

Thank you for being in my life.

-Emily

Not so bad

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:42:57 GMT

Yesterday... America day....

Went to the Sandy River with 35+ other people, most of whom I did not know, but who were all easy to get along with/not dumb/not assholes/not drunk/not boring. We had tons of rafts, and floated down the river whilst shooting eachother with water guns. We swam, it was so warm out the water was great. We just had a lot of simple fun, the best kind. We decided our floating group's name was Manifest Destiny's Child....

Then went to work while everyone else BBQ'd. Was kept longer than I wanted because they let nearly everyone go home. After work, I ended up back with the large group of people, who went to this weird rooftop private party, perfect for watching fireworks, complete with DJ.

Hannah, I'm sorry I couldn't make it to your work, but I didn't have my bike, and even if I did, by the time I could have gotten there, the fireworks would have been over, and you would have been so busy anyway, it would have been a mess.

Besides the unavoidable but still awful feeling of disappointing my best friend, that was a goddamn great Independence day.

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:11:48 GMT

Got my violin back from the repair guy's house, it needed a NEW soundpost. It sounds so good! I wish I knew how to play it. That's what the Internet's for I guess... to learn more things...

Made jam (and canned it) with (some of the) strawberries from my backyard and some miniature oranges from my parent's house.

Went to the bank.

Bad news from my mom's doctor.

Been workin' on bikes for a few hours now tonight... need to get a tiny little part tomorrow. It's a learning process (a theme perhaps?) so things go slow. I've made 247098754 mistakes then had to fix them, but I learn just as much from the mistakes.

Found something I thought was long lost!

Ah... sucked into violin stuff.........

Mad as a hatter

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:54:40 GMT

I learned where the saying "Mad as a hatter" came from. Back in the "olden days" when beavers were hunted for their pelts to be made into hats, the hatmakers would only use the soft fir under the brown long coat on the beaver. They would pull out all the long hairs by hand, but when it got to the point where there was not a lot of long hairs left, they could no longer see them well enough to find them. So they'd take mercury, and with their bare hands rub it over the fir. This caused the long hairs to turn orange, and made the rest of the job easy. And since we NOW know that sticking your hand in mercury will give you crazy brain damage, these poor guys went mad.

Thus, "mad as a hatter."

(Also, I just [coincidentally] finished reading Diary by Chuck P., so the theme is on the surface of my mind.)

Anyway....

Yesterday was good. It was:

+Bike jousting
+Bike riding
+Good stories with good company
-Work... (But thanks for tipping well, world. Maybe we truly are coming out of the recession)
+Co-worker's show. They were good (although not really my style) and the last band was amazing. (keyboard, trumpet, saw, guitar, banjo, drums, upright bass, great vocals, 3 gals, 2 guys.) If I could remember what they're called, I'd drop their name... I'll remember at some point.

Today is good. A nice father's day. I made a really great (I think) gift for my dad, and we went to the Sunday bike in the parkway thing. It was pleasant. Then had homemade strawberry/rhubarb pie.

Off to work!

Oh, and, is anyone going to see Cursive @ the Wonder this Wednesday?

WNBR

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:27:21 GMT

the world naked bike ride last night (this morning) was amazing.

i can't even explain. it was just awesome, and next year everyone should do it. you don't have to be naked. but the less clothes, the more fun!

i haven't had that much fun in a long time.

in other news:
-my little brother (jacob) graduated highschool this weekend.
-my best friend is in another state for a week
-THE TERM IS OUT AND I'M NOT TAKING SUMMER CLASSES!!!!!!!!
-having leisure time is FUCKING AWESOME!

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:10:20 GMT

hey guess what, my house is lookin' for a new roomate now. it's $340 rent plus utilities, at about 33rd and killingsworth in NE portland.

anybody interested?

we got chickens, a cat, a garden, bike friendly, yada yadaaaaa

let me know.

Thu, 21 May 2009 04:17:35 GMT

Hey my band is playing a show a week from today! Here's the flier:

Ahhhh.... I was so hungry. So I walked to a burrito place on Alberta and got a cactus burrito. Now i feel perfectly full. I've got a lot of homework to do.

I'm reading 1984 right now, it's good, but I want to finish it so I can read more books. I really love reading.

I've got a meeting with an agent (for acting) tomorrow after class... this could be good.

Did I mention I bought a synthesizer? It's awesome. I got a bunch of books from the Library on music theory so I can learn. Also, got my check from the Levi's job. Dang this stuff pays! Time to buy more music equipment!

Sun, 10 May 2009 21:30:35 GMT

If you came to see my band play last night, thank you. It was really great to be surrounded by amazing people like you to help keep me sane.

Today is a clear, sunny, new day. No point in holding grudges. A good time to start over, a good time to grow. A good time to reflect and be thankful for the people who stick by you.

Some things I want to do are:
-Go to the Saturday market next weekend
-See more live shows on weekdays
-Go to the new X Men movie with my brother (yeah I heard it sucks but it's tradition...)
-Go see the art installation I modeled for that is currently on display
-Go see the Jenifer Aniston movie Management on the 15th, because I'm in it for like one minute, and a couple people I know are also in it.

Things I need to do TODAY:
-Study for my accounting test tomorrow
-Write a draft of my paper for BA 205
-Drink more coffee
-Go to work

Things I already did today:
-Hung out with mom (mother's day and all)
-Took a nap

Yeah... I need to get movin' on stuff...