Wisdom of Carl. February 8, 2007
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You can be played or you can be a contender.
Don’t drink to fuck. Fuck to drink.
Red Bull Soap Box Derby October 30, 2006
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So for all of you that said you were thinking about going or said you thought about going… kick yourselves now. The races were absolutely insane cool. I can not even tell you adequately. That was the coolest thing I have done in a LONG TIME. I was impressed Red Bull did it up right…and not just because I got a VIP pass for the after party (yes feel free to hate me. I will share the details).
http://www.redbullsoapboxusa.com/
The cliff note version- races were not only judged on speed and design but what kind of show they put on before, during and after the race. There was also a peoples choice award (which went to WashU Students team). Cars had to roll on their own no engines ect and they dropped in off a forty foot ramp in the Muny lot in Forest Park.
They had no test runs. I myself knowing some of the drivers was a bit nervouse.
I will share a few of my personal favorites…
Superman-and yes a man layed down on top of him and rode him down. He wiped out and broke the dummy’s hand off but tried did finish but only before making the attempt to push with his feet look obscene. Great idea thought they were professional street luger’s and had a great idea if they hadn’t gotten messed up in the wreck. Another one with the same idea or a street luge that is worth noting– a team from St. Louis I don’t have pictures of was called Lucille. The team all dressed like blues brothers and one guy rode a guitar named Lucille down. They ended up being pretty fast I was impressed.
While I wasn’t impressed with the car initially hence I have no photo’s of the mini pope mobile this team was probably one of the top three best performance wise. They had an awesome skit. The car while seemingly boring white mini pope soap box actually had a level that he pulled and it kicked the car up into wheelie’s and another lever and the car rode on the two side wheels! It was fricken HILARIOUSE! Also he would get out of the car run along side and high five people and get back in! I loved it. AWESOME Job!
These guys were funny, the Drunk Elvis’s they were some semi corporate gig from California. They had some big financial backing, but they were drunk and they were all Elvis and they were funny. There was a wedding going on in the lower Muny lot after words and these guys go and take over the photo shoot. Great! Their car was FAST too.
Here is Big Sharks. While it isn’t as flashy construction wise other teams picked them to win due to the construction of the cart. They had like no show at all- it was more like lets stand around and act cool while everyone else who is cool is making us look like the dorks.
The first team to go literately disintegrated. Here is the picture recap.
Photo credit to Grant HoustonWhen they wrecked they had to spend a half hour cutting a whole out of the ramp putting in new ply wood and recovering it. I about lost it getting nervous after that one! Here is the carnage of the baby carriage…
Since I already borrowed a few of Grant s photo’s here is another few I borrowed and when I say borrowed I mean I am showing you without telling him….yet. love you Grant keep up the good work!
The Pope Mobile!
The People’s Choice Champion and WashU Student team Brainfart!
One of my very few complaints with the day was sure this is cute-but wasn’t very fast wasn’t a great show but won people choice award..why because in my opinion you got to text your vote to rbull 72855 as many times as you liked for free and basically they had everyone they know do it over and over again…and what else better do college students have to do. And while sure any team could have done that I don’t really feel that it was a good representation of the True Peoples choice award.
And while I am ranting my only other complaint on the day was the judges. They picked some pompous wanna bee assholes to sit up there and throw numbers up, they weren’t even paying attention half the time not that the scores really mattered in the end, it was more of a crowd annoyance the judged got boo’d more then anything else. I am telling everyone I know at Red Bull how I thought that whole “judge” thing was a pile of crap. Wanna be B list Celebs and girls who thought they were hot….they sucked I openly boo’d them. And I am done! -=D
You know your in a baseball town when a team makes a derby car of the old Busch Stadium back when the cards weren’t even going to make the Playoffs and then they get to race the day after we become the WORLD CHAMPION SAINT LOUIS CARDINALS!
It was a whole lot of fun for the rest of the race recap visit the WebSite. The guys that one had a pimp first class car. Was called fast food and it was Waylie Coyote chasing the Roadrunner it was SLICK and obviously fast. Cute old men did it! -=D
Big Shark ended up having one of the best wrecks of the day-it will make the commercial for TV-and yes they still managed to cross the line. Here is after carnage…
Thankfully no one was hurt during the course of the day. The whole event ( other then the texting and judges) was first class. Food, Beer Beverages, Sound System, Entertainment. KICK YOURSELF FOR NOT BEING HERE! Seriously! Tons of people came out. Was awesome.
The Vip after party was insane! They brought in red leather couches and flat screens all over the patio at the Muny and had Dj’s Bands and Catering, free food and Open Bar…YOU MISSED OUT!
Feel free to look into next years I hear rumor that it will Be in Seattle so far one a year this was the first ever in the States, there have been two previously in Europe. Flutogg is also worth noting that is the creation of flying machines they take and try to launch off an Air Craft Carrier!
http://www.redbullflugtagusa.com/
and here is Red Bull Wiki for most of what you ever wanted to know and more
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Bull
I found sweet videos on YouTube check these out this is the best compliation I found:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skQkczJYJQ8
and Big Shark Crash:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9_WeOxxvuA
The Pope Mobile doing thier thing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcOIDP0gya8
This is a Great Compilation of the trucker- AND I make a cameo!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI5ytyDzBQ4
Cute Compliation Shows the winner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p1bzJmIoTI
and the numerator:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJpK7If3mdU
and nice footage:(no pun intended -=x)
On Creativity and hair…. September 12, 2006
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Sooooo….I have pretty much had the same hair cut since I was 15. I chopped my hair off back then because my volleyball coach had this awesome hair cut so I went out and got the same one….well..my hair was different then hers and on me it looked not so awesome. I had my hair done by the same woman since I was about 5. I loved her she did a great job. I decided I would eventually have to move on anyways and this trendy edgy salon moved in next door to my sister work and they were doing a great job with my sisters hair so I started going there. I love them too. They are all young and “cool” and you know “know” cutting edge “style”.
So Tasha used to cut my hair…see my other post on haircuts….and then she quit to spend more time with her boyfriend…and Jason took over for her…well I like somone with style and confidence….Jason lacked confidence and he lacked the peopel skills. He insulted me and I told Brandy and Martina the owners and now Martina cuts my hair. She did a great job. Amanda does my coloring. She also does a bad ass job of styling my hair. I love it when she blows it out for me. So like I said I have more less had the same hair cut since i was 15 and grew my hair out. I have long hair with layers. I lack creativity with hair. I like hair on other people….but with my own. I stick with what I know works. Long layered and blonde.
SO yea I get bored with it…I have a very flavorful personality…why not hair…I never do colors. I am over short hair…i did it when I was young–long is so easy. So this winter I decided to see what i looked like dark all my sibblings are dark…if i hadn’t done it I would have always wondered. So I went dark…I am a blonde. I was enjoying my long blonde hair. I always trust the people who cut my hair..a. because i am very picky who i let do my hair and b. because they know a whole hell of alot better what they are doing then i do. and c. they are trained in this they know hair they do it all day I let them create they are the artist. I wish they would just do what they do and make suggestions on whats best for me and help educate me through the process. I tell them I am bored…but other then a few bangs…same ole long layered blonde hair…and I love it.
The other day i get offered the opperunity to be a hair model. Basically i get a bunch of perks and oppertunityt o do something neat with incentives and a sevral hundred dollar haircut and a promise it wont be to out there or to short. I am down. It is just hair it grows. Sooo it was an awesome experince i met a lot of very nice people who are very talented at what they do. But they frirst of all dyed my hair dark again..and put blonde panels in it… I am looking like rogue from Xmen here and my dad is telling me so…then cut off a ton…i mean the length is KINDA there but the hair is sooo textured and layered i have less hair then when I cut it when i got pregnant. I know it is just hair but i am frustrated..and i think it is more so with me then the hair and it is all coming out on the hair. Sure I wish i was more creative and could pull off funky fun hair…but I think i keep learning…stick with what work when it comes to hair. I never seem to be happy with it and now I have to spend like another hundred dollars to go back blonde….
I am tierd and depressed I am heading to bed…but one final thought. So Martina and I were talking about women who never update thier hair and have really outdated hair and still rock the same style after like 20 years and she said that women who do that are wearing the style form the last time they had really good sex and the associate the really goood sex to being attractive and that with the hair cut/style. Being a psych major this interested me. It got me to ponder the therory.
I don’t know that has a whole lot to do with creativity as so much as insecurity…anyways…i am off to bed. I will write more later on my project ideas. I had two stellars ones and I have like 4 subjects jotted down to blog on. Teasers: food:Stir-crazy, Creativity vs. Style, Creator and Creation-Image of God and Man, Alice, My mom and a Box.
From the Loop and I am Proud April 3, 2006
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I love St. Louis. I try to rep it up when ever I can. I support local business's. I'd rather pay more to the little guy then live in a world of boring corprate bullshit. So I love the loops. I love it'd ethnic, edgy, counter culture, cultured feel. I love that it is pretty much soo St. Louis. I even love subway and ben and jer-though they are corprate imports. I love the Tivoli. I am a movie addict and I am into artsy films. I belong to the St. Louis Film society. So I frequent alot of landmark movie theaters for films that aren't really mainstream. So Wesday I was doing my thing and went and saw Why We Fight at the Tivoli. A documentry on the Military Industrial Complex of the United States. I really liked it. (Insert war rant here.) I love my boys that are over there fighting and it is so emotional to let go of them and know they might not come back and they choose to go over, and it is over such stupid bullshit as proetcting our economy. *sigh* They frustrate me. Two of my silly best friends. Breaking my heart. Anyways I highly reccomend it.
http://www.landmarktheatres.com/Market/St.Louis/St.Louis_Frameset.htm
Trailor:
http://www.sonyclassics.com/whywefight/
So I am walking down the loop crying and bitching out my friend for being a marine after the movie (isnt that nice of me to be supportive) it is around 9:ish at night. People out flyering I am used to it. I spend alot of time on the loop. My sister manages a store there, which i work at sporadically but have a huge loyalty too. As well as all my friends that I have made from being a loop rat and hanging out at my sisters store. I am collecting the flyers and carrying bags from shopping earlier that day- proof I am a shopping addict and I support the loop. Take the flying-walking talking…and then about at Sunshine daydream a girl offers me a flyer i go to take it and realize it is the same one, do her a favor spare wasting a copy I tell her no thanks I already have one,keep walking.
The girl who appeared to be all of 15 says "No bitch go up to that store up there."
The store is relatitivly new. I havent been in it yet, but I had been meaning to stop by and check it out, espcially after the flyer from the first gentleman. I shurg it off and keep walking acting like it didn't happen. Her friend gets in front of me while she kinda pinned me in from behind and gets in my face aggressivly and saying "Go in the fucking store" While the first girl knocks the ponytail out of my hair. So she didn't quite hit me, but hit me! WTF what a way to run a business and get people in to your store. I am so shocked I don't do anything but laugh and keep walking my friend on the phone, who was the resident bad ass in highschool is freaking out hearing all of this. I am like whatever, I can't belive that just happened! So I go to Jimmy Johns and get a sandwhich. I go home and tell my sister what happened and she cant belive it either. I resolve to find out who owns the store and speak to them about it. Not so much that I care about what happened to me, but that I love the fricken loop. And what if it had been some one else. My worst fear is that it had been or will be somone else. Some one, thier first time on the loop, and thats thier experice. Makes me sick to my stomach. These small local business's work hard, and atttracting people and promoting and foot trafic alot goes into it, and no little punk girls should be out ruining that.
Flash forward to Saturday. I worked for my sister all day and then headed over to FiFi's to hang out with Kelly untill she closed. While in there Martina who cuts hair inbetween Kelly's Store and My sisters comes in with friends and starts ranting about the Antagonist- the store who the little girls where repersenting. I asked what it was like, they said nothing special and make fun of a few things, and then I relay my story from the other night. They also are shocked…but really who isnt. That was some random experince. Kelly informs me she knows who owns it. I ask if she can put me in touch and she is already dialing her phone. She talks to them for a second and says "here is the store manager they seem really intrested in hearing your story". I relay the story..and they apologize, i get the feeling he is afraid i might press charges or something. But I keep saying I don't care, just wanna protect the loop. He thinks he knows who i am talking about and will handle it. So I guess I did my part. I may still check out the store…probabaly not. But who knows. I still love the loop. These stores I highly recommend from my story! -=D
Fifi's- www.myspace.com/fifis
Big Shark: www.bigshark.com
