caught red handed: dudes' night out







stv slv and c-gizzle a living legend stopped by this weekend, and together we painted the downtown brown. we kicked off the festivities by dropping off may or may not albums at b-side, attempted a dropoff at exclusive (the "guy" wasn't there), left one at the union (where we reminisced about the WUD M&E committee.. then we reminisced about how the current M&E director interviewed us while we were filming the world's worst music video ever), then sat by the lake and watched ducks eat and sailboats tip over. WE ARE SOME HAPPENING DUDES

bu-bu-bu-bu-but wait it gets worse!

after gawking at the innards of the gorgeous overture center which is slowly but surely eating away at the heart of madison like a beautiful cancer, we returned to the crib to throw down a new 446 track (it's hott, PLEASE believe this). it still needs some special touches, so don't hold your breath for it just yet, but it'll beeedat. during the recording sesh, we were graced by the arrival of navid, garber, and lil' aaron leff.

paul's was crowded, the dollar was dead. we swung by the tornado, rounded up kraus and karl, then headed over to natt spil, where we bumped into yosef tek., who was bartending there. we were then joined by hat party jeff, and moved from there to the slipper club. a handicapped parking sign was inexplicably pulled out of the concrete by some he-men and we capped off the night with some ian's.

so there, because you asked, is a play-by-play of what happened last night. all you're missing is the soundtrack. which at this point, only exists in OUR MEMORIES

this educational lesson brought to you by dr. j around 9:10 PM |

well, i've dropped my peds sub-i. correction: i've been given the go-ahead from the head of pediatrics that it's ok to drop it. however, it's under "locked" status on my schedule, so i can't drop it. hopefully they'll do it for me.

anyway, this makes me a free man from 10/24/05-11/18/05. the easiest thing would be to just pick up a rotation at UW. ideally, i'd pick up a TLC (that's ICU in cutesy UW hospital speak) rotation, but there are none open during that time slot. also under consideration: ER rotation, or possibly... cardiac consults. *shudder*

prime choice for replacement would be to continue my NYC stay (with accomodations pending bard's approval, since i'll already be out there from 10/3-10/21 on rotation at mt. sinai) with an away rotation at NYU. problem is, the lady that coordinates the rotations is NEVER available. i've called 4 times the past day and a half, and she's either been out to lunch, on the other line, or went home. i guess i'll try again tomorrow.

another fine idea would be to spend the time in a rotation at northwestern memorial hospital. i contacted the clerkship director last night, and this morning i already received a response that there are openings, plus he left me a message on my phone! stellar work! very impressive. i hear the residency is tough and the case load is insane, but i also hear great things about the hospital. plus 90% of everyone i know lives in chi-town so it'd be fun. basically i just want to work in this ridiculous ivory tower hospital, just to see it. but i'd have to find a place to shack up while i'm there.

any takers?

this educational lesson brought to you by dr. j around 8:23 PM |

the weekend in photos






now listening: new dandy warhols. verdict so far: disappointing.

the festival was a lot of fun. i got sunburned, i got dehydrated and passed out, i ate a lot of ice cream (ice cream lines were always shorter than the corndog lines), drank a whole lot of bottled water (but evidently not enough at times), did a whole bunch of sweatin' and dirtyin' up, and met a lot of cool new people. i even met the elusive PLASTIC PASSION, whom i was previously convinced was merely a figment of like, hundreds of peoples imaginations, but i GUESS NOT.

BIG UPS to my main man stv slv for hooking me up with a couch and a pillow. he also made me waffles saturday morning. then we snuggled and read the paper and talked about international politics. stv also hooked me up with some SWEET posters he's printed over the year(s). i got a badass bloc party poster, and one for the faint, and MIA/LCDss, and may or may not that jp did, and a little may or may not card thing, and PTX/bangbang!, and an anti bush poster thing, and and and! and this dvd of rappers that i need to watch soon. THANKS STV. how should i frame this shit?

while browsing flickr for photos tagged with intonation, i found pictures of myself and stv taken by a stranger. wait, that's not true. stv knows her and he told me about the pictures. but then i browsed the pictures and found some more. actually just one more. and stv and i both commented "OMG ITS ME" or something nearly intelligent on the photos. have fun trying to find them.

radiology is ni-i-i-i-ce. start at 8:30am, finish at 3:30pm. seriously. and it's like all lectures. yeah, it's like school and school sucks, but since its rads all the lectures are based around pictures and pointing at pictures and staring real close at pictures. with the lights turned down. so i've been drinking lots of coffee.

i'm trying to get rid of my pediatrics sub-internship and replace it with something more relevant/worthwhile of my future direction. first, i've got to unload the sub-i. then i'm going to consider extending my 3 week away rotation in NYC to 4 weeks (the standard length, which was truncated especially for me). also i am currently scrambling to see if i can find a spot to rotate in this fall at NYU, Northwestern Memorial or MCW. i would just stay in madison and do an ICU rotation, but that shit is all full.

losing this sub-i is an extra headache because we signed a "contract" for the sub-i which is "technically" binding, but several students have dropped already, so maybe it's still possible. if not, then oh well.

in the meanwhile: work on a personal statement; work on CV; start lining up where i want to apply for residency; read the new harry potter. not necessarily, but probably should be, in that order.

this educational lesson brought to you by dr. j around 7:25 PM |

in 23 hours i'll be cracking into what will presumably be an insufferably irritating nine hour (maximum) computer based exam. i fucking HAAATE computer tests. reading all that shit on the screen hurts my eyes which gives me a headache, and i can't cross off the answers i know are wrong, like i was trained to do for just about every other test i've taken.

you know, i was going to post more but i really should study.

broke-ass PC at the creepy testing center on the west side: see you tomorrow morning. let's hang
chicago: see you tomorrow night.

this educational lesson brought to you by dr. j around 10:01 AM |

finally got to hear the kill the vultures album. wow. this shit sounds evil. (i guess it's to be assumed from a group with a name like that.) it's gonna take me a little while to wrap my head around this one, for sure. it's like really dark, grimey (not like uk grimey) beats paired with rapping that rides the beat like a pissed off poet. but i like the fact that it's so... challenging. and not challenging like "this sucks, but i'll keep listening until i convince myself that it doesn't", but more like "whoa, whahappened? i need to listen to that one again and try harder [pistol whip]"

when i first heard about KTV i was curious, because as far as i could tell, it was oddjobs, minus dj deetalx, and back in minnesota (say sshhh). i remember i got all excited when i heard oddjobs' album "drums", and listed them under "favorite music" on my friendster profile. then alexei/crescent moon friendstered me and told me that his band sucks. HAH! then later i met him when oddjobs opened for atmosphere at the orpheum a couple years ago on the seven's travels tour, and i introduced myself as "friendster" and he either remembered that shit, or pretended because i bet he gets it alot.

wow this post totally sounds gay.

anyway the point is: they have a blog!

p.s. here's a kill the vultures interview over at the giant peach.

What’s got you guys in the dark?

Nomi- Look at our generation. There's a war going on, the same war that started when we were kids in the 5th grade. Michael Moore movies are getting to me, we got an extra from Dukes of Hazards in the White House. I work long days making money for whitey, try to find the energy to write rhymes, tell my woman how much I love her, do push-ups and wash the dishes. Only to have a few hours of sleep before I repeat the cycle. My finances are always an issue, and if I was not afraid of jail or getting deported, I would sell something...my people back in the Philippines are dying, my sister wears blue contacts. Sorry, I'm tripping. I'll stop there.


this post brought to you by the fact that the new kanye west single blows (the video too) and i have about 38 hours left until i take the boards. details to follow (as soon as i procrastinate studying again)

this educational lesson brought to you by dr. j around 7:14 PM |

i think i'm gonna barf

this educational lesson brought to you by dr. j around 5:32 PM |

yes i've been awake longer than i'd like to admit. i'm going to go hide in a coffee shop and mainline some caffeine. yessss

for my listening enjoyment:










if you only listen to one record on repeat today, make it FELT 2.

this educational lesson brought to you by dr. j around 8:59 AM |

man it has been a shit whirlwind* the past couple weeks, the details of which i'll go into never. i haven't truly updated in a grip and i have about a billion perfect excuses/reasons for that. details to be included with the shit whirlwind.

the bottom line is that step 2, aka the USMLE boards exam step 2, aka the theres-better-ways-i've-spent-half-a-grand-exam, aka THIS FRIDAY from 8am until forever, is coming up soon. everyday has been the same. no, seriously. wake up, turn on CNN, think "wtf", turn on mtv, watch a mike jones/missy elliott/papa roach video, sing/dance/swear, study. eat sometime during the day. maybe night if i've been supermotivated to study that long. feel guilty about doing things that aren't studying, i.e. eating or taking a shower. wonder how i'm going to do on this part of the exam. wonder if i should stop thinking about how well(?) i'll do and just fucking study. either way, it's going to be over this friday, late afternoon. maybe early afternoon if i drink enough coffee/lose faith. i wasn't too thrilled about my step 1 score, so i'm hoping to kill this one.

it has been so nice and sunny and warm and i am terrible studying outside because i get so distracted. sucks. also my ipod holds about a 2 hour charge now so that won't fly (and while i'm complaining about that, i'd also like to add that my cell phone holds a charge as long as i'm not using it. less than an hour of use drains the "battery" and gives me the LOW BATTERY POWER signal.)

i am definitely looking forward to spending some much needed time in the sun in chicago next weekend ($22 for two days! score! i've had dinners that cost more than that! shit, i've had GAS TANKS that cost more than that. FUCK. driving to chicago will be more expensive than the weekend. FUCK (madison, are you going? hit me on the hip 281-330-8004)). at this point i've spent so much time indoors studying and not baking out in the sun that i'm whiter than a lot of white people. THAT IS JUST EMBARASSING/illegal. anywhoo, i'm looking forward to somewhat reclaiming the parting gasps of a social life. and taking pictures with my oh-so-neglected camera. i'm also looking forward to (in no particular order) prefuse 73, diplo, four tet, jean grae (i know, i missed her in madison a while ago), dfa1979, out hud, broken social scene.. actually that sort of is in a particular order. there you have it folks.

so here's what's important. tomorrow slim thug's album will be released.




*not literally**
**ok maybe literally***
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this educational lesson brought to you by dr. j around 8:42 AM |

not to sound like i only pay attention to my own tiny personal bubble of a world (even though i sorta do), don't you just FUCKING HATE IT WHEN (TERRORIST) EXPLOSIONS ROCK THE CITY WHERE YOUR CLOSEST FRIENDS LIVE.

i do.

this educational lesson brought to you by dr. j around 8:22 AM |