Thursday, August 27, 2009

Faithful In A Room Full Of Hos

I've been at my house in New Brunswick for the past two days and other than getting attacked my mosquitoes, moths and maybe ants, I've been taking in the New Brunswick air. In between cleaning my room I'd step out on the porch and see what was going on in my new neighborhood. People in the Brunz are vampires, there isn't ever anyone outside during the day, but at night they come crawling out of the wood works. I feel like I'm on some I Am Legend type shit.

Anyway, in front of my porch there is this mini garden, fenced off metal and a concrete slab representing a column. It is a mixture of vines, weeds, and ugh, poison ivy. Amidst all the chaos though are these flowers. They all span different ages. Some are dying, some are at their prime, and others have yet to bud. While there may only be a handful of them, they have added the most dynamic to the "garden", that fences my house.

They add the prettiness to what is now dubbed "The Rats Nest".


Saturday, August 22, 2009

Randawsome.

We got a koi fish in the house. He's small right now, but he's gonna get fucking big. How big? So big that the person my mom bought it from wouldn't let her buy another because there would be no space. He doesn't like when people tap on the glass and goes crazy when they do. He's cool colored though and he has a fumanchu.


My grandfather's birthday party was last Saturday. He's like 80. Throughout my 21 years of life I haven't seen him smile a lot.He was happy to have his family surprise him. How happy? Happy to the point that his Jesus piece was showing.

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Best Thrift Store Find

When I go to Thrift stores, I normally go with something in mind, usually it is a jacket of some sort, possibly a pair of shoes, and all the time it's flannel. I don't like pants from Thrift stores. Tops and feet. Tops and Feet. so important I had to say it twice. Now while pants are very important to any man's wardrobe, one can always get the simplest of trousers, mainly something unwashed, and with a simple rear pocket design or no design at all; the top and shoes make the man.

Fall is my favorite season because it is layering season. I can walk out with a cardigan, hoodie or light jacket, showcasing my layering techniques, and a variety of my wardrobe, but I digress.

When I go to Thrift stores, I look for tops because they come in variety and abundance. I remember during the winter, I was hell bent on finding a motorcycle jacket, and after basically raping and pillaging every thrift store I came across, I went back to the usual spot and found it. The Salvation Army in downtown Jersey City. It never ever has done me wrong.

The reason why it's my favorite piece ever, because it's all leather, worn, and cost me all of 30 dollars, maybe even 15. I don't remember. I would have put up the Clark's Walabees I got for two dollars and fifty cents, but I don't give them enough love as I do this jacket. This jacket is tough as fuck, simply put. It's heavy, sturdy, and I'm pretty sure I can survive a stabbing with this beast. It's almost as if I am wearing a bullet proof vest with this bad boy. I'd layer it with one of my favorite hoodies, so jeans and Docs and kick ass in the night.

Come fall and winter, I'm gonna be that dude, now if all I can get is a motorcycle.

Monday, August 17, 2009

Levis 510 Super Skinny

I have a lot of pants. I don't wear them all because I just wear one pair. And after the third pair I think I am finally going to retire them, put them in the Hall of Fame, and have them enshrined in Canton, OH. But really I am going to subject them to painting jeans. Jeans I wear them I have no other jeans. The ones I wear when I wake up after a drunken night and put them on in the morning because they are the first pair I grabbed.

I purchased these a summer ago on August 29th, right before I went to start the Fall 2008 semester. I had a pair a year before that but while trying to fix them into a pair of cut offs, I turned them into a denim skirt. I bought them so late into the summer of 2008 because at that time I was working for American Apparel and I was either wearing their pants or a pair of cut offs. But I needed another pair of Levis 510s, I loved them so much I bought two of them, it was a solid investment of 100 dollars.

Both pairs have built a personality of their own. Both have the same holes but have developed entirely differently. I bought them both unwashed, almost selvage denim. I don't know denim that well, but they had all the quality of selvage. I am showing you one because currently I can't find the other. And because I am retiring one pair, I am retiring both. This isn't a Barber situation where Tiki goes and Ronde stays, they are both going. Folded in my closest or crumped in my bed, they both will find peace.

They were pencil thin all the way to the ankle. Still are, a size 34x34, I did not mind the bunching at the bottom at all. But I feel like I need to grow out of the legging-esque denim. I was going to get a fourth and maybe 5th pair, but I settled for a regular skinny fit, one that didn't hug my calves as much as it hugged my ass down to my knees. I'm trying to get used to freedom around my ankles. I mean the pairs I bought to replace them are still skinny, but skinny like grown man skinny and no skinny like "your girlfriend's jeans" skinny.

I am going to miss these. Wearing them on a daily basis, wondering which day will be the day the croch of the jeans just has had enough and explodes on me. Seeing this picture makes me want to put them on. a part of me is just say "wear them until they do just tear completely at the croch". Look at them for Pete's sake. So distressed, so worn, so dirty, so awesome.

They will always have a place in my heart. I mean I'll still wear skinny, I'm just dropping the "Super" in front of it.

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

These look good.

Stussy x Dr. Marten Chukka boot looks so dope. Stussy always does nice collabs, but since I'm a big fan of boots, and Dr. Marten's, I really like this pairing. BUT I will also include that I hate that the street wear game is again bastardizing something inherently punk, the Doc Marten. You already have the mohawk. Still I like the collaboration. The sole is dope.


PF Flyers are killin it. If they were priced down to Converse, Vans and Pro-Keds, I'd think about coppin', but they got dumb high prices for sometimes the same materials as the aformentioned. But anyway this perfed delight looks good, and I like looking at it.


I'll blog with a photo sometime soon.

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Twin Series

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