baddabing

so apparently wawa doesn't have breakfast sandwiches before 5 am.  What's up with that? How do people on the radio get their food if wawa isn't serving nice hot meals before 5 o'clock.

i'm going to die before noon today.  there's no way i'm going to last.

someone save me.

shimmy and shake,

TopsyTU

yo yo yo

welcome back scout!

Weekend Cliff Notes

A postless weekend can only mean one thing... a long action-packed weekend.  Thanks to the holiday, there were 5 days and nights of fun.  A weekend that revolved around its culminating return bbq, was sure to be a memorable one when rumors of mudslides and snowstorms cancelled the return from Utah.  Here's the shortened versions.

Free Tix For Duran Duran

Rum

Incubus mouthing off to bouncers

Minimal Techno

McDonalds

Stick It

Sandlot

Vision Quests

Green Stripes

Islands

Rooftop Sitting

Reggae Night

Social Retardation

12 Hour Treks

Playing with dogs in Rittenhouse

Casinos

Winning Big on the Nickles ($0.35)

Beer in taco bell cups on the beach

Black & Milds

"What Legs Lisa?"

The Bump/The Mashed Potato

Skee Ball

Drinking Mudslides

Qwink

Apples To Apples

Bagles

Run The Bases

BBQ

UNCLE FRANK!

Psyching Out

Everyone Doing The Bump

Joker's Wild.

what have i become

i'm not sure if i should make some kind of bulleted list to describe the Best Memorial Day Weekend Ever or if i should write some kind of sprawling narrative but i'll just start with the list and see where i end up

- THE BUUUUMP
- lion lion roar roar hunting hunting hunting hunting
- pasta party with uncle frank
- apples to apples with uncle frank
- uncle frank dancing like ellen degeneres
- beers in mcdonalds cups
- whammo
- turning into dirtbags
- 24/7 arcades
- atlantic city nickel and penny slots
- my robot soul

i guess the sprawling narrative didnt really work out WHATEVER

update from two days ago

1>i need to learn to shake my hips more like lead singer from duran duran. 

2>throwed off almost loves duran duran as much as viral incubus.

3>i like stupid movies (anaconda)

4>this is my personal diary

5>tesseract performs the most amazing slide/running man on steps ever

6>hawkeye scores the best tickets to shows

7>bull ruth is an alter ego that no one will ever be able to explain

8>dragon_lord has the ability to appear whenever wherever

9>windfall loves obama and hates that other stupid bitch

10>sum41 is catching a second wind

11>take it off culinary colt

-topsT

Slingshot Dakota and Iced Tea.

There was a sweet free show yesterday at AKA music. The Brooklyn/Easton guy/girl drum/keyboard duo of Slingshot Dakota played a short but very sweet set upstairs at the record store. They were described to me as "Like Mates of State if they were good." Now, I love Mates Of State, so I figured these guys would be great too. The drummer played in underwear and a tshirt, and smashed the drums as if they had raped his sister. He was merciless on those skins. And the keyboardist/cutie Carly was adorable and full of energy. Fantastic band, you should check them out. Afterwards Algernon Cadwallader played, but I had to leave by that time. I thought the show would happen earlier, but it got started about an hour late, and Algernon didn't even show up until an hour and a half after they were supposed to. This sucks, because I haven't seen them in almost a year now, and I really love watching them play. Boo.

However, there is a more important point to this post. After the show I bought some amazing iced tea. Seriously, it was mind-boggling. I've been exploring the world of real tea (not nestea or lipton, or Celestial Seasonings or any of that stuff, I'm talking fresh off the bush from Sri Lanka type shit) lately, and I really love maté teas. They have a delicious dark tea flavor with a hint of chocolate and cream in the aftertaste. They're truly amazing. Not to mention all the health benefits plus their high superiority to coffee when it comes to caffeine and alertness. The tea I bought was Herbal Mist brand. It's all natural, and sweetened with cane sugar, not corn syrup o' death. So the sweetness was real, but not overpowering. The tea actually filled me up for an hour or two. I hadn't eaten much that day, and I planned on grabbing a sweet vegan chocolate banana cookie at my favorite coffeeshop, but the tea pretty much made me feel like I was full. I still bought the cookie, but I wasn't really hungry anymore. This feeling of fullness lasted a few hours until I went to the Duran Duran show, where I became hungry like a wolf.

Conclusion:

1, Listen to Slingshot Dakota if you like guy/girl, drum/piano, awesome/cute music

2, Drink Herbal Mist tea if you like delicious as hell drinks that keep you awake and nourish you. Also, if anyone sees this tea anywhere in Philly, please let me know where you found it, because I need to get it on a regular basis, and the only store I know of that carries it is at 2nd and Market.

Thank you.

Oh, thursdays.

The internet rules

But sometimes I still get bored

Need more webcomics.

Victims of Conformity

Celebrity Run-Ins: Topanga

Sorry its taken so long to post these but enjoy...



Kirk touched her hand.

the nightmare i survived

nyfanmm11 (11:18:07 AM): i was traveling with someone

nyfanmm11 (11:18:26 AM): and we had like become famous for doing something

nyfanmm11 (11:18:31 AM): and we were gonna make a lot of money

nyfanmm11 (11:18:41 AM): so we were driving across the country to go do it

nyfanmm11 (11:18:55 AM): and we joked around about ppl making threats to us

nyfanmm11 (11:19:00 AM): and i told all of them to fuck off

nyfanmm11 (11:19:17 AM): so we were driving

nyfanmm11 (11:19:30 AM): and i had a premonition i was in this other car

nyfanmm11 (11:19:33 AM): and there was a gun

nyfanmm11 (11:19:40 AM): so then i realized it was the same road as us

nyfanmm11 (11:19:47 AM): then all of a sudden we stopped

nyfanmm11 (11:20:04 AM): then i was like fuck this guy is in traffic with us tyring to kill us

friendlynigerian (11:20:14 AM): hahahahaha

nyfanmm11 (11:20:14 AM): so my friend didnt want to leave but i was like im out

nyfanmm11 (11:20:20 AM): and the guy found our car

nyfanmm11 (11:20:32 AM): and somehow put bombs in the back

nyfanmm11 (11:20:37 AM): and i was like we gotta get out

nyfanmm11 (11:20:53 AM): and then i knew the guy was in the trunk cuz i could hear his raspy voice

nyfanmm11 (11:20:59 AM): so i left

nyfanmm11 (11:21:18 AM): and then my friend came out of the car as i was walking away and was like stoppp hes fine hes cool

nyfanmm11 (11:21:26 AM): and the guy walked behind my friend

nyfanmm11 (11:21:34 AM): and then the cops shot

nyfanmm11 (11:21:36 AM): the guy

friendlynigerian (11:21:40 AM): jesus

nyfanmm11 (11:21:41 AM): cuz they saw he had a gun

nyfanmm11 (11:21:49 AM): and my friend and i survived

nyfanmm11 (11:21:56 AM): that was the hole dream

friendlynigerian (11:22:50 AM): hahahaha jesus

read at your own risk

bla bla bla....bla bla bla...beware...gotcha

My Current State of Mind

mish

in all my years of existence.  i have boiled my raging mind and spirit down to what seems to be a case of cholangiopancreatographic brain disease.  it became relevant after screaming out of my musty smelling car (reference wet pants in the trunk gradually decaying from a state of unidentified liquid on the ass side)  that people are right and my views are just straight up ridiculous.  my existence has culminated into what seems to be an endless abyss of raging fun and spontaneous black spots that re occur randomly, typically friday night saturday night sunday night and now tuesady night.  yes. i will never learn from my mistakes, why you may ask, because i enjoy my mistakes way too much to stop doing them.  

i am a social idiot.  this is what makes me, me.

tops.

I need someone to show me the things in life that I cant find

can we take roll
joe and gary's theory on paranoia the other night got me nervous
i think we should all know who everybody really is
maybe we can out joe and gary's secret texters.
if you want to contribute, post who you are in the comments

I am being overtaken by paranoia...

Somebody

is

 Fucking

With 

Me!

 

my weekend

kicking bars, black kids, cut copy, sparks, pbr's, gay bars, getting kicked out of gay bars, getting married, being from israel, social idiots, end of the world parties, mass destruction, way too much fun, nothingness, beach, pizza and music passing via car...what's going on here?!?

fucking shimmy and shake,

tops.

topsyturvy's new theme song?

fantasy

after watching narnia i simply live my life trying to live in a fantasy world. that is it for today...

Prepare to be brainfucked.

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

the next morning

i am drunk. i just drove hom,e.  i dont know whats going.  i have no clue what happened after the penn bar.  as far as im concerned ben is 21 and that is awesome.  happy birthday benny and jimmy dev texted me so im pretty sure im ok.  life is good. im going to ny today. running on the beach in southampton.  i will talk to all of you later ill probably be back mid nightish.  call me i love you. 

shimmerish and shakiesh

TOPSYMOTHERFUCKINGTURVy

p.s. post more blogs/videos about john reid

Ben Turns 21

prose fails me

still shuddering from a weekend
memories shattered by fun
million ton shithammer of joy
too drunk to see
dropped jmil on his head
kegstand kegstand kegstand
freaking those who freak squares
hong kong is gone
so is my soul

is this summer
my shoulder hurts

howard i can't believe you drove here
from manayunk
alwin threw up and slept on the floor
beer hockey
life as a blur
feels so good

is this summer
my shoulder hurts

summer check up

so you called last night.  on mother's day.  you informed me of your ability to chop heads off and sweat naked with other men.  i was a little shocked at this news but also intrigued all at the same time.  i looked for my windsurf equipment today and i believe it's still at your shore house.  yea it took me a year to realize i left it there.  shame on me.  its been pouring rain for like days now, i wish it would stop so i can see the sun.  

prom was the shit by the way.  my left leg is still cramped up from dancing.  if that night has any warning of what the summer has in store for us then god bless us.

i tried playing the jurassic park theme song today on the piano...it wasn't going so hot so i came to the computer to check out what the theme song really sounded like (my version was no where near)  i sang to the colt on the phone today.

tomorrow im trying to make cheese.

shimmying and shaking since 1987....

TOPSYtuRvy

Say It Loud: We're BACK and We're Proud

As part of a night that can only be described as a whirlwind of realized adolescent dreams, another piece of history has reportedly been resurrected.  In the hushed corners of high school electronica indie basement dance parties and on the pages of infant blogs across the web rumors have been circulating about the reemergence of the once renowned trio.  After a short stint of benefit shows some three years ago the aforementioned threesome was previously thought to have permanently thrown in the towel.  BUT last night amid the sweet sounds of danielle fishel's rap and the incoherent smatterings of bros the famed three felt the time had come to fill a new hunger, to quell the starvation of the repressed rhythm-deprived youth.  This september the group will once again be strapping on the space boot dance shoes, recording a new laserdisc as well as breathing new life into the philly club scene.  I for one cannot wait to shake my hips and cut some rugs once again.     

Stardust Casino Implosion

I really don't have anything to say about this other than I wish I was there and that it's one of the coolest things I've seen in a while.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/474724/stardust_demolition/

This is the casino that the movie 'Casino' was based off of.

I'd embed the video but it's not from youtube and I don't want to figure how to do it otherwise.

My Recent Trip to the Gay Bar

Just a quick recap of last tuesday...
The night started as we went to hong kong which was closed (wtf). We ended up at some other asia town for food. Following this, we conducted what has become the usual: drinking, loud dance music, and the television on mute. After numerous attempts of getting gober to come out with us, we ventured over to say good night in person.

Unable to resist the collective charm of myself, colt, hawkeye and "alex", gober decision to put her work on pause and come. It was at this point that myself, hawkeye and colt partook in our first ever "Japanese Little League World Series". (More or Less indoor wiffleball with sake)

So we eventually made it Woody's to see the Get Physical Tour, which included dj sets by audiofly heidi and M.A.N.D.Y. The night was incredible (see above photo). A very apt description of the evening can be read below, (Taken from the tour blog),

"There’s only one club in the world where clubbers sit down on the dancefloor to pay homage to DJs.

That club is DC10 in Ibiza, but last night in Woody’s in Philadelphia it happened thanks to the Get Physical crew.

The clubbers on the dancefloor just suddenly all started crouching down in the middle of a breakdown during M.A.N.D.Y.’s set and as the beat came back in they all jumped up in the air as one.

For a Tuesday night in America, it was an amazing thing to witness, especially considering it was impromptu and totally spontaneous.

It just happened (there must have been some Circoloco fans in the audience), and that’s the amazing power of electronic music.

There’s communication through dancing, a feeling of unity.

Does that sound like hippy talk?

Perhaps.

But it was damn cool, and so far Philadelphia has been the best date of the Get Physical tour."

another year

Well it's that time of year. yep. another year is in the books.  On that note I would like to recap some of the more memorable moments from the 07-08 school year.

I don't know why but I feel like the first shout out needs to go to the graveyard.  Inhabited by some of our fellow bloggers, this structure has been the nothing less of a bender spectacle, time after time (no pun intended cindy).  The graveyard can bring out the best in people (the night it snowed and we wrote/slid on cars out in the street) it can bring out other things as well (poop, piss, bathroom sinks, demons, and ghosts).  There was dancing and music raving rather non-stop.

Everyone remembers a certain thanksgiving dinner at my place which dealt with a 16 pound bird.  Well most of us remember, some were too busy defacing the floor and bull ruth's face.

A green room that 3 cronies found their souls in.

A wing bowl that may damage the minds and soul of our youth but was definitely not lacking any hooters.

A champion was born, the birth of one of the greatest amateur boxing champions to ever live won his first title in South Bend this year.

Team Tupp's founding members and first ceremony ever was held.

The torch from an older crew of hoodlums was passed down in form of paper towels on 17th and asbury to the next generation.

A little christmas caroling that ended up with a van of some of the coolest cats and dogs around.

There was some lion king in there too.

We camped, we hiked.

At the b-LUD we grilled, we colted EVERYTHING. we drank lambsblood, we danced, we laughed, we danced more, then we colted some more.

Now we get ready to head into warmer days and sweatier dance scenes around the streets of philadelphia and surrounding tri-state area.  I'll see you out there

Shimmy and Shake

-TOPsyturvy

Noon has passed on this Thursday of Thursdays...

Prom is in two days

You should probably be there

Or eat ass and die.

It's the first monday of May, and we all know what that means....

It's time for our annual list of 14 music videos that were popular 14 years ago.

Scatman John - Scatman

Reel 2 Real - I Like to Move it

Pavement - Cut Your Hair

The Flaming Lips - She Don't Use Jelly

Sheryl Crow - All I Wanna Do

Lisa Loeb - Stay

Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun

Counting Crows- Mr.  Jones

Blind Melon - No Rain

Ace of Base - The Sign

Beck - Loser

Snoop Doggy Dogg - Gin & Juice

All 4 One - I Swear

TLC - Waterfalls

See related weekly poll

this is great

where do i go from here...maybe the train station and listen to MIA, maybe 476 up to the mountains, or 80 over to surprise boner...i could do it if i wanted to.  

maybe a beer...scratch that... beer pong....ping pong, bowl and bong....what is bowl doing?!?

in first grade i threw out a picture of the Mother Mary, and told the teacher i didn't do it on purpose, she made me stay after school for detention...i hate her, funny how i remember her before any other teacher.

people in the library are stupid.

do you realize that if you worked hard in anything, studying, working out, whatever for a short amount of time, really concentrating its better than hours of pointless bs'ing shit...bullshitting shit.

what is wrong with me.

maybe because its cinco de mayo.

maybe because i have a semester left of college.  maybe cuz bullruth doesn't respond to my im's.

where is dan osusky?!? 

Did your mom tuck you into bed?

Everything is soft and sweet.

I long for that moment when i'm outside running, i see the sun, hear the birds, i realize i can do whatever i want, i feel like im on acid...I CAN DO ANYTHING

Goodnight all you jolly fuckers...i'm gonna go grab a beer.

 

summer

summer 08

i cant wait

I'm in a weird way

electrically charged

I'm pretty sure that I'm electrically charged.  I have come to this conclusion based on several different situations.  1 every time i touch my car, like every single time I set off a static charge that I can see, it's now to the point where I'm scared to close the door.

Secondly, I've gone through 2 laptop power chargers over the last 2 days, when i plug it into the wall, blue sparks come out.

The final one is that now my battery in my car is dead.  It was running perfectly yesterday but now seems to be resting in peace.  

The weather people are calling for thunder and lightening later, if I get hit by lightening  tonight then I guess I was given all the signs to stay away.  

Shimmy and Shake,

Topsytuvy

Will It Blend