Irish Nachos

Originally uploaded by benhustis

Is anyone reading this?

So, we’ve all heard about Michael Phelps’s crazy diet. 12000 calories a day is an amazing energy intake. Those of you know me may or may not know that I’m pretty in to both nutrition and cooking these days. Therefore I do not eat like Michael Phelps, because most days I’m sitting in an ambulance. I like to work out and run in the woods and be active when I can, but EMS work isn’t anything like the constant energy burn of bike courier-dom.

However, I LOVE food. Usually food that’s not good for me. So, if I could eat like Michael Phelps, this would most likely be my meal plan.

Breakfast

• scrambled eggs with cheese
• A Cinnabon (the crappy microwaved kind you get at Sunspot at Winter Park)
• 3 cups of Irish coffee
• a chicken fried steak
• a plate of hash browns
• 2 White Russians
• biscuits
• sausage gravy
• a McDonalds Steak, Egg, and Cheese bagel (modified to be an everything bagel)
• One of each kind of Whataburger taquito
• 3 IHOP smiley face chocolate chip pancakes

or, barring the creation of that breakfast menu, Sherry of the Sherry’s Soul Food Kitchen in Deland could come cook me whatever she wanted.

Further meals to come… I’d write them down now, but I’m just getting REALLY hungry.

So it’s obviously been a while since I’ve posted anything to this space… you’ll have to forgive me. In the last couple months I’ve moved across the country for a job, and it’s been whirlwind trying to manage all the stuff that goes with actually establishing myself in a new place. I actually had to get a Colorado driver’s license. THAT was wierd. Now I’m trying to get my car legal and tie up a lot of loose ends in my life that have been swinging for a while.

I’m starting to DJ again now that I’ll be working an EMS schedule (48 hours on, 96 hours off) and have picked up Traktor Scratch as my newest DJ software of choice. Once I get my mixer repaired, I’ll be in business. I’ll be traveling to Dallas in the next couple of weeks to DJ a charity event for Equest, a therapeutic riding center, so if you’re there, I’ll be down for the weekend. Other than that, things are good. I’m running a lot, as there are some really nice trails all over this town and I don’t see why mountain bikers should get to have all the fun.

New DJ mix will be out soon… working title is California Sun, but I’m sure I can think of something less cheesy. If you can guess the theme of the mix you win a prize.

Um… wow. I like Cee-Lo, a lot. In all incarnations. Solo, Dungeon Family, Outkast, and Goodie Mob. And I thought Danger Mouse was OK. But I mean DAMN. When you put them both together, something ridiculous happens. Some of my “real-life” friends may remember me trying to tell them about Gnarls Barkley a couple months before “Crazy” dropped. Not trying to build myself up, but just saying. Now I have reason to believe that they are going to top everything they’ve ever done before, except maybe “The Last Time.”

Goldfrapp’s video for A&E, the most recent single. I like it very very much. Something about the combination of a pretty song and synchronized dancers in ghillie suits works for me.

Tags: musicvideo, CG

I’m leaving to visit New York for the weekend, so I’m not going to be able to totally finalize all sections of the site. Which is disappointing, however I am but a student in CSS-fu. Hopefully next week, the entire site will be fully live.
If you’re looking to check out my photography, go to my Flickr page (linked at the top of the screen). some of my live video work is posted up at my vimeo account (guess where that one is). If you need to get ahold of me, I’ll have my cell, and if you’re in New York ring me up. Time to be a tourist.

Things to do in NY

• Find Busta Rhymes, try and get him to remember me
• Take lots of pictures of graffiti
• Be cold
• Warm up with whiskey
• Lunch with rock stars
• Totally stare at the guy acting like a robot in the subway

Bizarre dreams the past few nights. Things in my room (a boxing dummy, my covers, electronic equipment) coming alive and trying to attack me. The house I grew up in. There’s always this impending event, and it feels like I’m the only one who can do anything about it, but I have a million and one other things on my radar at the same time.

Which I suppose is a pretty good analogue to my real life, but I don’t like to admit. Stress does wierd things to people. Hopefully today I’ll have my photo portfolio updated and ready to rock. Live video should be coming soon, whenever I can get everything encoded to flash.

So a few things finally happened and came through, so I’ll be developing this web log and personal art/photo site in parallel with http://www.littlestereodesign.com. I’m kind of excited to see what happens going forward.

In the meantime I’m living in Philly, thinking about snow. If anyone needs a DJ you know who to call.