a plane to Phoenix. Meeting up with Matt Dadgum Dean.

@itsjustbrent

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 at 4:24 PM

Good food and good conversation tonight with Danielle Chatfield and Matt. Also, Phoenix is the hottest place in the whole wide world.

Home. Awesome.

At The Cavern with my buddy Brad Ray, whose favorite band is Tony Danza Tap Dance Extravaganza.

I'm (at) Batman.

Geez. That movie was awesome.

Casey's bachelor party is now.

At Top Golf USA, the driving range of the future. My swing looks like a midget with vertigo riding a unicycle.

Drinking wine and playing truth or dare like children.

I plan on farting around today.

Yesterday, as I was distracted, I nailed a curb and jacked my wheel up. So I don't have a car for the next couple of days.

At Starbucks. Drinking a smoothie that tastes like sand.

Just found out that at the end of all the service I needed to do anyway, my car's going to cost around a grand to fix. Lame.

Happy at Natalie Singer for recommending I listen to Phosphorescent. It's the good stuff.

Question for CUers using social media (including @savingssleuth, @cuwarrior, @wazaroff, @stormtwitter): http://tinyurl.com/6krogd

Brad, that is so awesome man.

Okay, the new Beck jams. That's that.

Coner Oberst has dropped the "Bright Eyes" moniker and is putting out a new album. Listen here: http://tinyurl.com/3ebwhv

My dad's in town for the day, so we're hanging at coffee shop.

RIP Estelle Getty. We'll miss your hard-nosed Italian sass.

Recording music all day.

Just another unicyclist taking a breather: http://twitpic.com/55j6

I'd like to thank Matt Fagala for making me aware of Masutatsu Oyama, the Japenese bullfighter who drops bulls with one karate chop.

And I know I misspelled Japanese.

Watching spoken word in Deep Ellum.

Last night, the SNL party happened: http://twitpic.com/5m2o

Apparently I need to get caught up on Mad Men. Everyone is losing their mind tonight about the season premiere.

This weekend I bought a BB handgun from a thrift store for $10. It is awesome.

Going to Ft Worth to hang out with a toymaker, a bluegrass singer, and a high school teacher.

Jumping on Charlie's trampoline and digging for bugs in his back yard.

Twitter gets you where you're going and lets you rapidfire love / hate / philsophize / b.s. about it.

Retweeting @guykawasaki: Social Entrepreneurship: SocialEntrepreneurship.Alltop.com is now open. http://tinyurl.com/5rbaw5

Increasingly overcommunicated.

At a couple of good friends' wedding rehearsal.

Please check out this photoset by @chaztoo. Crazy circus shots through a Tru-Vue: http://www.flickr.com/photos/chaztoo/sets/721576062264 ...

Oops, let's try this URL: http://tinyurl.com/6xvacn

Retweeting @listeningpost: Video: Amplive and the Anatomy Of A Remix: http://tinyurl.com/6q9g7q

Working out and listening to RadioLab.

Do any of you know someone that works at IDEO?

At a used book sale, judging books almost entirely by their cover.

Two close friends are getting hitched tonight. To each other, no less. It's going to be a good one.

Working all on a video proposal all day from Crooked Tree Coffeehouse.

For any of you who've worked with me and Carter on a design project, but haven't had the pleasure of meeting him: http://vimeo.com/1465072

Artists I've loved lately: Basia Bulat, Coner Oberst, Erykah Badu, She & Him, Travis Morrison Hellfighters, and Susumu Yokota.

I lose my shoes or keys at least once a day.

Loving the heck out of crackle.com .

I just learned that ACDC is going on tour at the end of the year. Okay.

Reading Calvin & Hobbes until I'm asleep.

About meet a friend Metro Diner. Its a good day for a jukebox full of Hank.

That's "meet a friend at Metro Diner." Its still early for me.

Its almost 1:00, I've been working all day, and I haven't opened my computer once. Awesome.

Last night I dropped my blackberry and the back broke. Now I have to keep the battery in with duct tape. Classy.

12seconds - dont stop believing. http://12seconds.tv/channel/itsjustbrent/11818

Crap, I forgot to eat lunch.

Re-setting up Quickbooks on my new computer, sending invoices, booking travel. Administration is where I shine.

Beer at Old Monk with good friends was good tonight.

How many of you Twitterkids work from home?

Wow that's awesome, I didn't realize there were so many of yall.

Well damn. I may have lost my passport in the last move. Or maybe the one before that.

Working on a mosaic for the courtyard of an elementary school.

12seconds - Just for Terrell. http://12seconds.tv/channel/itsjustbrent/12846

Bureaucracy and politics in big organizations gives me heartburn. And makes me infinitely happy I don't work for one.

Lakehouse. All weekend. Bye.

Oops, just now making it to bed. See you in the mid-morning.

Listening to oldschool ENIAC demo recordings. It's nostalgic.

Today's coffee mug: http://skitch.com/itsjustbrent/unpq/coffee

Tonight I had several epiphanies, but thought I didn't need to write them down. Turns out I did. They're gone.

Another late one. Tomorrow I'm hellbent on being productive all diggety day.

Google is tech-centric. In a search for "lame," "LAME MP3 Encoder" is the first result. I figured it'd be a "Reba" fan-site or something.

Garageband has been freaking out. Deleting tracks, merging 2 tracks into 1, throwing errors, & randomly panning left. It's annoying.

Putting the emo haircut squarly on my scalp and listening to Brand New all day.

work out » relax » back to work

Tonight was a series of great conversations.

Between its shoddy phone service and its jacked up internet, AT&T is wearing me out today.

http://twitpic.com/7kee - We don't know the secret to cold fusion, but we do know this movie is going to suck.

Also, yall are lucky That's going to be a fantastic show.

Worked for a couple of hours at Crooked Tree, then landed on the front porch of Gingerman, talking philosophical jibber jabber with Carter.

Listening to the Blood Brothers. Its been a while.

Talking about pitching, typography, and shop-alouds at Likemind.

At Dallas Jelly with a funkily furnished room full of cool kids.

Working on a presentation all day until church tonight. Separately, bandsintown.com is really rad. Add me: http://is.gd/1Gkm

Binging on inspiration at the downtown library.

Across the street is a homeless guy, dressed in an old three piece suit, tie, and some dapper shoes, looking through the trash.

Retweeting @bnferguson: Interaction Designer made me lol: http://tinyurl.com/68w2ly

http://twitpic.com/85vj - Yesterday, at the library, I found this scrap of poetry on the ground.

Meanwhile, this rainy/overcast/cool weather is fantastic.

Of course I feel awkward to have discovered that in the early 80s @chaztoo and @changstein had an unholy love child: http://is.gd/1HQC

Having to get my car towed.

Nice little touch of humanity in WAMU's billpay: http://is.gd/1I4U

I have too much to do tonight. I'm going to run for a while.

Fact: I own too many books.

My life improves when I turn off my blackberry's data services.

Most likely pulling an all-nighter.

Yup, still all-nightering.

Back after it.

Confession: I still think it's funny when people say "________ much?" Like: "Dumb much?" or "Jealous much?" or "Gassy much?"

The duct tape is starting to fall off of my phone and leave a gummy residue in its place. Neat.

Khaki pants make me tired.

Thanks Hoop, Warrior, & Rob. Also you three should probably think about starting a band.

If I read that billboard correctly, Huey Lewis and the News and the Dallas Symphony are playing a concert together soon.

Retweeting @gapingvoid: From Psychology Today: An article on "The Creative Personality": http://tinyurl.com/67txsg

Hey, car-that's-next-to-me-at-this-red-light: All those stickers make your car look dumb.

Because of @cjsteven & @changstein, I'm listening to Chopin and reading Steinbeck's "Travels with Charley." Thanks for the culture.

Passing by "Chupacabra's Ice Cream" and thinking that the goat-sucker was an interesting choice.

Congrats to the Trabian crew for launching SF Fire CU's new site. Boom, sons: http://is.gd/1Q6e

My buddy is moving to Hong Kong tomorrow. So we're going to wear fake mustaches and see him off.

Reading and writing by the pool.

First church, then making a night of it in Denton.

Did anyone else ever wear "Knights of the Round," the Polo knockoffs sold at Weiner's, back in the day?

A little work, a little chilling out, a little hanging with my dad when he gets into town.

Working on a design until the wee hours. Road to Perdition is on in the background. Tom Hanks is about to give some gangsters the what-for.

I get the feeling that tomorrow will involve a lot of caffeine.

...or have conversations with my larynx.

Cantbelievable: I actually have a name for my design company. Trademark, logo, and site love start this week.

Photoshop is acting like a mee-maw on barbiturates today. Come, ol girl. You can do it.

After about a month of 16 hour days, I'd like to take a deep breath and get back into blogging this week.

Too bad The Garland Group lives in BFE. They're rad.

Are you allowed to say BFE on Twitter?

Wore a hat to the passport office. Took the photo. Committed to hat-hair for the next ten years.

Playing harmonica while waiting for a client to call. Unrelated: being out all day has been great.

http://www.nophonetrees.com is so very awesome.

Sadly, I'm not going to make it to Finovate this year after all.

Note to the world: Never ever ever deposit a check through WAMU's ATM if you want to see it within the next two weeks. They are skiddish.

Overheard, delivered with the utmost sincerity, at this coffee shop: "So what's shakin bacon?!"

People are specific, in-depth, and awesome. The closer we get to letting people unpack that on an individual level, the better off we are.

Lots of administration today. But also, trying to convince Carter to buy an gigantic TV for the apartment. And maybe a Wii.

Inspired by @hooper, I learned to play "Will The Circle Be Unbroken." ...And realized that its a really sad song. Next stop: Hannah Montana.

Who on Twitter is also on IM, but not on my buddy list?

Finding time to think is so 90s.

I want this book: http://is.gd/28a2

This weekend I found a creepy/sweet message inside of an old book of short stories: http://is.gd/28RE