My Adventures in Funemployment

Highbirdproductions.com is live!

2010-06-28T23:20:00.000-07:00

Check out the beta HighBird Productions site at http://highbirdproductions.com

Or just click here

Our next event ROCKET IN THE SKY is going to be epic 7/10/10

Cause I'm a triple double O G Gangsta!

2010-06-26T18:12:00.000-07:00

Steve AOKI and LIL JON straight CRISTAL SHOWERIN EVERYONE!!!! AN ELECTRIC DAISY MIRACLE! PLUR FOREVER AND EVER!

I can't stop cringing... Rivers cuomo and B.O.B.

2010-05-16T21:42:00.000-07:00

I feel confused by this...

I mean I understand Rivers Cuomo is on the hook, and it sounds decent. I also really enjoyed B.O.B.'s last LRG mixtape. However the combination makes me a little squeamish. I thought Rivers was making an ironic statement with his song "I can't stop partying" featuring lil wayne for the hip hop industry's over use of glamor, fortune, and life of excess.

Now I feel he may be smitten with it and that is the reason for collaborating with Chamillionaire and B.O.B.

It also might just be the fact that he is a terrible dancer and that this video may belong on the site http://thingswhitepeoplelike.com

Last name ever, first name greatest: drunk people

2010-04-23T01:47:00.000-07:00

01:00 solo project/performance
02:00 fridge pole dance
04:00 manager joins
04:30 crowd ensues
05:40 getting his shit together

gets better...

07:00 pinball
07:20 assisted sideways world
07:30 evangelist
08:20 the thriller moonwalk
08:30 oliver twist
08:45 ray charles
09:45 Middle eastern negotiations
10:30 back into the wild.

180 degree turn-around

2010-03-19T11:16:00.000-07:00

Watch out world!

This weekend is going to be filled with watching the

Coen Bros Filmography,

Wedding Crashers,

Happy Go-Lucky,

Chocolat,

Crooklyn,

Ponyo,

The Wrestler,

and TR0N.

Turning my life around beginnnnnssssss............ NOW!

Also buying a 1080p 42 incher to return in a matter of days from costco. Yea, I'm from the school of Hard Knocks.

Thug Liphe...

Getting Lost and stupid jock bar RANT!

2010-02-01T23:49:00.000-08:00

Wouldn't it be cool if there were bars and restaurants dedicated solely to premium television. I don't really give a shit about sports, I feign interest at the extent of social gatherings (similar to an in-the-closet-male when asked about Megan Fox). Just think, you could drink and order all you want, but while the show is on, the lights go down and people enjoy the show. After the show you get shit-faced while watching the director's/cast commentaries. How does that not sound like the best thing ever.

Imagine this, "Dude, let's go to HBO Couch bar and grill, Weeds is on."

"What about the Colts game?"

"I haven't seen the past games so I don't ever know what's going on."

"Oh, ok. I guess I'll just TiVo the Colts."

FOR ONCE, I FLIP IT ON THEM, STUPID JOCKS!

Basically, I want to know if there is a bar in L.A. that's going to be playing the LOST season premiere?

My TV sucks and it would be nice to see Jack and Kate in 1080p.

Inspiration

2010-01-23T03:03:00.000-08:00

"Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen." Conan O'Brien

Is Google going to take over the world?

2010-01-16T19:12:00.000-08:00

Hottest shit from 2009... Polarized 3D TVs, Google voice, iPhoto 2009, Google Wave, and Megan Fox (more of a Zoey De Schanel fan but hey, objective journalism here)!

Of all those things listed above, google is the only one that is free (unless Megan Fox is giving free hand outs). What's in it for Google? Is Google going to take over the world?

Honestly, do you remember email before GMAIL? Shoot, we owe them. Go ahead Google. Do your will. I think a google ruled world may be a better world anyway. Awesome utility for minimum advertisements, no stupid billboards, and way cooler sidewalks and roads. Now I'm excited for my google overlords.

Working on www.davemavro.com

2010-01-08T00:05:00.000-08:00

Fawk you MTV!

2010-01-06T19:40:00.000-08:00

The sad thing now is that MTV has a hold of my "what's cool." My death metal, my punk rock, my emo music, my grandmaster flash. The fucking cold hand of the grim reaper, that is MTV, is touching, no sodomizing the hipster indie movement. The stuck up, audiophile, fashionistas- who love angsty rock songs by the smith and cure just as much as they love the stadium rock of Kiss, and are soothed by the rhymes of Common sense and Lupe Fiasco are being found out by all the phonies. As if there weren't already enough phonies in the world, now they' ll be dressed like me! First it was Nick and Norah's infinite adventure and now a series called My life as liz on MTV. FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK.

What the fuck is cool now if everything I love is going to be on MTV. Maybe I missed the new "cool" cusp and am just old. Wow... this just got even more depressing.

It's Funny because it's true

2009-12-05T12:00:00.001-08:00

All I want for Christmas is you...

2009-12-05T11:58:00.001-08:00

Skinny, pretty, and black- just the way I like it. Canon s90 for all!

2009-11-12T21:54:00.000-08:00

Booyah, I have a point and shoot return at best buy than $100 later I will have the most awesome point and shoot of all time. Yum Yum Yum.

Check out the full review at Gizmodo here.

Han Solo shirt rocks!

2009-11-12T21:48:00.000-08:00

Yummy...

It's funny because it's true

2009-09-10T01:38:00.000-07:00

Effing Awesome...

2009-09-09T00:33:00.001-07:00

Why don't I have this?

Things I Likey... part 1

2009-09-08T23:19:00.000-07:00

1. Blik: Wall Decals because I a hate white walls, but don't own my own place.

2. TVeRSITY: Watch all your downloaded content on x-box 360 from your PC in under 5 minutes.

3. Mac OS X Snow Leopard: No (very little) aesthetic differences, but a complete overhaul on the most non pretentious, kick-ass, MAC OS ever! Different because it is better, not just different to be different. haha take that windows 7!!!

4. Last Call at Neiman Marcus: Like Nordstrom Rack... but way more baller.

5. My Jailbroken Iphone 2.0: Sure it's on the Edge network, but it's $120 dollars less a year and I have all the newest software updates, oh yea and did I mention better network coverage?

Join me in my quest to figure out the cholo/pachuco mystique.

2009-08-28T20:59:00.000-07:00

What's up Holmes!? Check out these flicks for chicano, zoot suit, and cholo history.

American Me

Quinceañera (2006)

Blood in, Blood out

Why a Goofy Movie made me the man I am today.

2009-08-14T03:54:00.000-07:00

Coming Soon!

Why Nike 6.0 is the premiere leader in action sports

2009-08-13T04:38:00.000-07:00

Style up the ying yang...

2009-08-13T04:37:00.000-07:00

Finally...iPhone officially jailbroken

2009-08-04T00:58:00.001-07:00

Ok I know I haven't updated in awhile, but I had to share.

If you are using redsn0w to crack/jailbroken your iphone and are waiting for the second reboot, I finally have the answer.

Start up Redsn0w like usual, when you get stuck at the second reboot, unplug and then replug in your wire.

The screen will turn white and then the jailbreak process will continue.

w00t!!!!

Works for iPhone 3.0, 3.0.1, 2g, 3g, and 3gs!!!

check out http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/126908912/redsn0w-in-june

Day 97

2009-06-04T14:40:00.000-07:00

Why I am glad I moved to California.

Day 93 Upload party

2009-06-02T02:15:00.000-07:00

Photos from a side project shoot/cocktail party. A look into my personal life and professional.

Day 93 Sad Day

2009-06-01T14:55:00.000-07:00

I lose...
However the TV f0recast widget is awesome.

Day 92... Side project/calling all web designers

2009-06-01T00:55:00.000-07:00

So I've not been entirely honest. I haven't been unemployed completely. For money I have picked up some freelance gigs (Red Bull, Surf Monk, Catering) and have kept myself very busy with a side project I have been trying to develop.

The side project which some of you may know about is heavily video based. With our dot com, we're having serious trouble finding a solution to sorting the back end metadata, content database, videos with YouTube API on our flash platform. Anything further explaining how to incorporate YouTube API with Flash would be amazing. Please excuse my lack of knowledge and jargon.
Here is the conversation worded by my web designer.

"What we're looking for is a way to create a content database that can then be displayed in flash and maintained in an external text file. So a way to organize video links, thumbnails, text, and tags that can then be organized by flash into elements that can be displayed in grids, searched, and sorted. We need to know how to organize the content database, and then also how to get it to work in flash."

I mean, I imagine the database would look something like this (depending on the language):

The Video
The Video

The Video
http://www.youtube.com/whatever
The best video to watch
http://www.oursite.com/image.jpg
Video, Home

But then getting that to somehow work in flash, be sorted, be organizable, etc. Yeah, that's the part we need help with.

Any help anybody can offer is much appreciated.

Day 81: Key to Good Music

2009-05-20T18:04:00.000-07:00

Good music can only be appreciated in moods. When I was in high school I would spend my day scouring the "interweb" for new music and violate the most obscure music rags for new music. If I was extra desperate I would go to Easy Street Records (http://www.easystreetonline.com/) and sheepishly ask the insanely hot aspiring Bettie Paige or the rasta upper east side guy what they were listening to. Of course I asked while dropping band names (even fake ones) to prove my merit.

I came across some of the most amazing music that way...

The Flaming Lips

The Sounds
Ben Kweller
Deathcab for cutie

Some not so fantastic bands as well...

All American Rejects
Simple Plan
Blue scholars
Starting Line

And then some midway bands...
Limbeck
Dashboard confessionals
Douchebag mayer a.k.a. John twitterer idiot who lost Jen Aniston
NFG *

*********PLEASE SKIP, I had a Teenage Dirtbag Baby brain fart****excuse me**********

Continuing on, with the extra time sitting in front of my computer I've been listening to a lot of music I haven't really heard lately. Music that has been skipped or just burried. Music that I know all the words too, but haven't played since my Dell PC dorm days freshman year of college.

I think that's because in college, I was too busy ponging, working, parking lot pimpin (unskillfully), studying (lulz cats), lifting, and shooting/editing to worry about listening to quality music. Don't get me wrong, college is where I fell in love with Blackstar, the faces, and Simon and Garfunkel. And of course if anyone would bring up any kind of bull shit music (creed, nickelback, pussy cat) I would of course crucify them with out a doubt or at least judge the bejeezus out of them. The complex emotion and symbolism that I enjoyed in quality music was lost on me. I had no need to hear their stories, I was writing my own (I guess I actually had a "life" if only high school me could see me now)! In high school I was an asian, three-time high school transfer student with a live journal/xanga (the asian version of Livejournal, dude don't even get me started on Asian Avenue) with 300 friends on AIM. Unable to fit-in comfortably anywhere, I found solace in music where I could see through the eyes of a disconnected eccentric, drug addict, mohawk boy, intellectual, (insert your favorite cliche here). Trying to find myself and anyone to relate to was..... ugh I'm over this.

***************MUSIC********************************

Good music is not judged by BPM, lyrics, and chord transprogression, but the relevance to you and the connection the music has to your soul. When I was happiest in my post-college life I couldn't get enough of indie-dance and 80's rhythm and blues. When I went through a breakup Kanye West's 808's and Heartbreaks was complete therapy. I actually purchased that CD (hard copy) after I pirated the pre-release. The first CD I purchased since Jimmy Eat World's Clarity! Today I finally sat through the entire flaming lips discography (so damn good).

"So what? Music depends on your mood. Great work Spock!"

Now that I know this I can self medicate. Flaming Lips and Radiohead while I'm semi distracted not to swirl into a ball of angst, Simon and Garfunkel to chill me out, Kiss to get me pumped, and Weezer so I can float on. What did you think this was about, a tool for you? Haha and I bet you think all your twitter followers are your friends too!

Wow...this takes me back to my live journal days.

*fight me all you want. eff you this band rocks and defined a mother effing generation. Like blink but without the hit which kept them from the radio. So MXPX sucked too?

Dude, they covered "Glory of Love." You may have to bite me.

Day 80: things are looking up due to wiiings?

2009-05-20T03:38:00.000-07:00

Entertained the thought of taking yesterday's blog down. Thought I would let it stay. I was pretty down yesterday and if I start editing myself now, wtf is the point of this blog. Am I right?

Today I sat in a website development meeting while the creator of a show (talent/above the line type of guy) and I tried to explain to an eccentric developer (who lived in a duplex in Torrance with housed toads) tried to understand our web jargon/gibberish/concept. After getting no where for about two hours, we basically asked him to "be creative." Could have done that electronically. Found out he doesn't do meta data back-end. Shitty.

Luckily my colleague drove us down there, as I don't even have the funds to frequent a chick-fil-a. However I did spoil myself with a coffee bean and tea leaf green tea as I was feeling under the weather yesterday.

Stopped by the RBNA headquarters and said hello and picked up a few pieces of a equipment for some contract work. Great thing about visiting Red Bull is all the free mother effing Red Bull.

Shitty thing is being unemployed and a loser, but that's pretty much anywhere I travel.

Day 79

2009-05-18T15:46:00.000-07:00

Things are starting to get pretty dark here.

2 months late on rent.

4 phone bills

2 late loan payments

1 late credit card payment

8 overdraft fees

I need a job.

Am I going to write something in my FB status update? How do I ask my friends for a job without "asking" them for a job. Is it a matter of pride, or a matter of actually looking less valuable in the eyes of my future employers? The fact is it's probably both.

Today, I applied for a job at starbucks after working for Red Bull North America. ... it's official.
FML.

DAY 70

2009-05-09T12:30:00.000-07:00

This weekend I took time away from my busy schedule to spend time with my friends for my buddy's bachelor party.

They keep saying how nice it is having "nothing to do." Weird, because I feel like I finally have
something to do.

Last night we were at the the Dodger game and that was pretty fun. and by fun I mean we got our butts handed to us by the dumb Giants. Hopefully the day of bbq'in, grillin, and homerun derby'in will make up for the dry game.

Day 54

2009-04-23T20:20:00.000-07:00

Day: 54

Today I setup HD television on my personal home projector.
Here's a preview. Also nyquil + no job = 2PM call time.

FML?

Photo by iPhone

Cecilia- Live Local Natives

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2008-11-24T15:13:00.000-08:00

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2008-11-24T14:56:00.001-08:00

Booyah....

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2008-11-24T12:19:00.001-08:00

Fuck you pay me!

Holler at your boy

2008-11-24T12:11:00.000-08:00

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720 Test 2

720 Embed code test

2008-11-24T11:56:00.001-08:00

720 Test

2008-11-24T11:56:00.000-08:00

adasdsdad

2008-10-31T13:39:00.000-07:00