jes and i put together a tutorial for the m.i.s.s. blog a few weeks ago on how to make yourselves dollar bill rings #oldskool! – i hope you enjoy it and girls, if you make one – send me a pic! leave a comment here<3

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since my coming of age around 12/13 i absorbed and turned into:

an r&b and hip-hop head, an alternative/grunge and punk lover, a beavis & butthead (and daria) addict, a tommy hil and nautica consumer, a huge advocate of handball and public nyc parks, a rocker of a black bugaboo columbia jacket, a drinker of the finest st. ides special brew and liquors around all by 14, a super nintendo gamer nerd, a misfits addict, a graphic designer, a web designer, a super-sneaker-out-of-the-houser, a great kisser, a roamer of queens in general, a bay terrace mallrat, a thief kleptomaniac, a greenwich village dweller, a make-out slut, a smoker of pot, an adopted latina, a stoop dweller, a total hard ass, a pin cushion (i’ve had like, 11 piercings), a mosher, a friend of vampires, an MTV offices regular, a raver, a lover of anything with synth in it, a mild drug user (e), a cam girl, a blogger, a saucony’s/vans girl, an awesome girlfriend to few, a frequent MTA rider, a south-bronx dweller, a ska-loving skanker, a chick magnet, a  bouncing souls show regular, a high school graduate, a video store clerk/manager, a jackass addict, an ikea addict, a tony hawk pro skater pro, an aimless whitestone stroller, a myspace fan, a graffiti lover, a sparks drinker, a roommate, a loner, a restaurant manager, a toughlover<3, a pet owner, a traveler, a glassjaw addict, a camper, a wifey, a guest list dweller, a mistress, a canvas for a few tattoo artists, a full-time website developer, someone with multi-colour hair, a brooklyn resident, a ranger fan (again<3), a tweeter, and most importantly a (self-destructively/overly loyal) good friend… etc.

which leaves me feeling like i love how all over the place i’ve been, good and bad.
i’ve also been realizing as i get older that NYC is really fucking tiny. and the older i get, the closer the social circles are linked.
(this has been proven many times in the last year…)

my friend dated this dude who was amazingly creative and seriously talented. and i remember thinking when they started dating that their creative flow together was amazing. in fact, ever since i met this girl… we’ve had such a good flow together, too.

when i met her,  from day one, we just clicked.  ideas flowed, we wanted to do things… this was before this cat was even in the picture. we sat there for hours chit chatting away and even though we had a website that was “coming soon” for a straight year… we launched it.

when i met jes five years ago, the whole situation was via my ex who did graff…  or at least the way that i found her, he didn’t know her personally…  anyhow, seeing and hearing about nyc writers that he liked got me into graff…  he really liked writers that used characters, like a one icon deal, like jes’s j-heart.  long story short, jes was confused with someone else that we knew with (almost) the same name and i started checking out her shit on myspace (RIP).  i was looking at all of her fills and i fell in love.  i remember one of the first pictures i ever used for a contact table – which is still one of my favorites – is why i started talking to her – it was adorable (below).  it was a collabo between her and bob will reign.

i was instantly hooked.
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…i didn’t know i was going to be on the show with jes, i thought it was just gonna be her being interviewed while sheena and i were just chillin’ out watching… but we got in on it toughlove team styles<3 spoke our minds, sheena and i got way too many laughs in and jes made me laugh with her spitfire self. ♥

fall is coming… need new fall kicks

along with my creepers/moccasins – i think these are going to be lined up for me as well…

i need another pair of plaid vans so badly – i miss mine
i had a pair of old skools that sort of looked like the above, but they were…  well…  old skools, lol – with white laces and a white vans stripe…  they were my favorite.   i even bought them like three times over a period of almost ten years to ensure i’d always have a pair!  …then like an idiot, i wore them on a snow day and they got a little musty.  i can’t remember if sophies mother threw them out or if i threw them out because of it.  either way, by then, vans had stopped making them and it has left me heart broken.

one of the only pictures i have of them: (and you can barely see them…)
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(cross-posted from tlnyc.com)

late last night when i was walking into TGIF’s on austin street, i focused in on a chick that was leaving wearing a Tough Love Grimey Glamour shirt… i was like fuck yeaaaaaaaahh!<3 at first she kinda looked at me the like uh, what? so i pointed at her shirt... i was trying not to sound like a total weirdo, going up to a random girl and telling her what brand of shirt she was wearing, i introduced myself as the webmaster of toughlovenyc.com… i think that helped, lol.

so… i totally live in a box and i go to the same places all the time and never pay attention to my surroundings when i’m out (always in la la land), so this was rather exciting for me …it’s cool to see girls out there wearing my girl’s brand. makes me happy… i remember five years ago when we were just in talks about all of this. reality strikes! love it.

figured i’d share my little tough love moment<3

my homegrrrrl sheena she interviewed my lovie jes of toughlovenyc.com after a meeting of the minds recently (a la starbuckles, mmm.), and she posted it yesterday – go read it! and have i mentioned we just dropped new shirts and will be again very, very shortly???

either way, go check out both of those websites. sheena always has crazy inspiring/creepy/art-driven posts – great stuff. glad we met…

the beauty of the internet<3

my favorite homegirl and i met up for a wonderful day of bk escapades! …i needed to hit up the bk heights ricky’s for hair dye and i thought going from dumbo to brooklyn heights would be a nice day trip…

i work between the manhattan and brooklyn bridges, if you didn’t know… it’s gorgeous down there in the park, so i figured it’d be a good place to just chill out for a while… it was a gorgeous spring day out today, glad we got to enjoy it before we start sweating our nyc balls off…

we got some starbucks, walked around dumbo for a few, and then we went to brooklyn bridge park… chilled out for a while, were talking… TLNYC CREATIVE BRAINSTORMING… and as jes took this picture on the left (dont mind my fat arm? lol), one of my bosses walked over to say hi, lol… we got to see his son charlie and his wife, we chatted for a few and then they went to a birthday party in the park. it’s funny i bumped into him, i’m usually never in dumbo on the weekends since i frequent it so often during the week

so we sat there for a while shooting-the-shit, and then decided to hike up to the heights… here are some pics i took

(click the thumbnails, people!)

i had a creative epiphany to make this just now while cleaning out my iphone photos… i was having fun with my super cool iphone app that takes multiple shots at once last time i was with jes and edited it into this.

hope she likes it<3 :B

so this is the black wall. the purple side hasn’t been finished yet – no sneak peeks!
this has a short wall in the back like 5/6 feet wide and goes a little longer to the right of the picture where you can’t see.

i love it. it doesn’t make my apartment feel smaller either, which is what i was afraid of.
even my landlord liked it

thanks again jes and rob for all of your help! (GO BUY SHIRTS FROM THEM!!!!!! – they are two creatively brilliant minded friends of mine<3)

ALMOST THERE!

according to my website statistics, i get the MAAAADDDDDDD hits on wednesdays and sundays.

aren’t those considered “boring” days?
le sigh.

unproductive week, thank god. lots of chilling will commence.
must. prime. my. apartment.

thursday COME OUT FOR AN ILL BANGER EVENING NYC! it’s my lovie doo jes’s birthday (we celebratin’ toughlovenyc! stylez<3)

that is all. i will now put on my pj’s and hop into bed.

sorry about the lack of posts… i get blocked sometimes. life has had some twists and turns in the last two weeks that have left me feeling loopy… i’ve become disappointed, excited, annoyed, nervous, confident… all mixed up, don’t know what to do.

friday night i had an escape from it all… i went to go see the bouncing souls at webster hall (left). i went with steve and a few of his friends that i’ve been acquainted with before (on more than one occasion-they’re just more his friends than mine…). so we had some drinks, caught a buzz and went into the crowd… the set list was okay, no great songs they never play though, but i danced my little ass off and had a lot of fun. one of the better shows i’ve been to in the last two years, i must say.

on saturday afternoon, jen brought her little dog jackson over to meet oscar but oscar wasn’t havin’ it… the attempts were cute though… we made an exquisite, “adult” salad (as jen puts it, lol) and she read my tarot cards… which were kinda on the money. the reading (of course referring to my love life, lol) made me cry, and also gave me positive vibes… at night my friend matt was showcased at a gallery in williamsburg and i went down there to support/enjoy. i met up with jes and her main squeeze KA and my boy george also rolled through… we did a walk-through, chatted it up outside and got our drink on until everyone departed because of the lack of booze at the gallery… so we all went to some bar near where we were and hung out for a bit. george left and we went to hope lounge which SUCKED. the music was horrible and it was filled with vinny mozzarella’s (lol) so we went to the diner and got our eat on.

sunday was supposed to consist of: rox, missy, jen, booze, sun and girl talk… but in actuality, it wound up being: jen, jackie, drizzle, booze, and san loco instead… which turned out to be a fabulous time!<3 …my lazy ass got up way too late to make a free show to see girl talk in the hip(w)-burg (barf!) – so we wound up chillin’ instead… jen slept over and we had a temporary tattoo, bed cuddling, fun time – so all in all, a fun weekend – woo!

…the day that jen and i have been IMPATIENTLY waiting for has finally arrived. oh yes. drum roll please…

hellllll yes! (no, i’m not kidding!!!) haha, i find it so funny i actually found another person in their 20′s that loves degrassi as much as me<3 i could only force my ex's to watch it with me before that... give it a whirl if you never have! ...shit gets deep. a friday night sleepover - what fun! i feel like a teenager again, lol! friday night, degrassi, pajama's, popcorn, (hopefully BEER and/or malibu/juice), PUFFY PILLOW SHARING CUDDLE SESHHHH! okay, i'll stop.

my favorite little inspiration in the world came over tonight ja-ja-ja-JESS!<3! i really love seeing her... we give each other such good ideas about so many things... talks, laughs, brain stormin', and we gave her website a bit of a face lift tonight... she recently put out her "classy criminals" > black on white tshirt – better get one before they’re gone!

i’m too EXHAUSTED to post anymore, i need to lay down. zzz.
gnite gnite gnite!

i find it somewhat humorous, and somewhat annoying that people that seem to succeed by copying off of other people to get there…

humorous because they’re loser asses can’t originate any ideas on their own, and annoying because the people that actually have talent go unnoticed.  i honestly don’t know how some people actually feel confident about themselves.  i’d go to bed and wake up feeling like an asshole if i were just copying off of others everyday.

example: my homegirl jes started making t-shirts…  came up with a cool idea called “classy criminals” (top two shirts) – now fine, i get that she used the chanel logo – but do you see how she took it and made something brilliant from it? it’s got a story behind it, a clear idea… my issue brought up into example… this store ran with it.

now how does one feel everyday knowing they do that?

the line between flattery, inspiration and straight up jocking seems to be very vague to some people…  and it’s.quite.irritating

“everyone does it”…  that’s an easy excuse.  no, not everyone does.  a large majority of people do, and it’s just the people that can’t conjure up ideas on their own… and no, it’s not okay.

it’ll never stop, i get that.  but a big F@#! YOU to anyone that does do it.
because you know you’re doing it, that’s shitty, and it makes you a loser (and you know it).
karma always catches up.

i don’t think i push my homie enough, and i don’t think i’ve ever done it here…

one of the best things to come out of myspace is my friendship i started up with jes… from the moment we sat down in her apartment and started running our creative ideas off of each other, we’ve been quite a creative duo.  i built her website for her finally after like two years of us going back and forth about it, and i’m so happy that she’s benefiting from her ideas.  she’s such an INSPIRATION…  full of ORIGINAL ideas, and we make each others light bulbs turn on.  lol.  that’s why i appreciate having her in mi vida loca so much<3 xoxo

so if you don’t know about them j-hearts – go to http://www.toughlovenyc.com/ right now.  read the blog and comment!!!!, buy shirts (whoaaa! fyi: i helped co-design the “my mood is real rude” shirt! bonkers!), and most importantly – - – stay tuned!!!

jes is one talented little lady, and if you don’t already know who she is – get with it.

i’m wearing the “classy criminals” shirt in the pic below. it’ll be debuting again this month!
KEEP YO EYES PEELED!