To pass the long tuesday morning

Here's a little something to look at and enjoy.

Alex Prager

my view

So it's been pretty effin beautiful here, I do love the weather.
Sometimes I get lucky and on my smoke breaks I get to see the dog next door, he is the cutest.

end of the week/end

So it's been an interesting week but unfortunately now it's over, or almost anyway. I've got a few hours left and I need to work on some websites, ugh. But I did manage to make myself a very tasty Pitza for lunch today. You should try it cause it's really good and really easy to make.
Get yourself a pita, some kind of tomato sauce (I just used some Ragu), shredded cheese and whatever veggies/meat you want on your pitza. Put the sauce, cheese and all ingredients on pita and stick in the oven for about 10 mins at about 375-400. Just check and see when the cheese gets golden brown. So so yummy. Here is mine, mushrooms, pepperoni and lots of cheese. Some apple juice to wash it all down.

Stranger things have happened

My Shuffle has disappeared
I have a bruise on my knee
I could have gone camping today

something is amiss

your holiness

The funniest part has to be to right at the end. Seriously GW? Thats what you told the POPE?!
Ah jon stewart, you make my life better.
The visit

Now this is pretty sweet

If we all go out in a black hole, so be it.

clean desk, matches to boot and two months + a few

So it's been a rough month. Forgot to post my little two month review. Actually i'm sure i've missed a lot of things. The last month has basically been spent in the office so I don't have much else to say other than I'v been working my ass off.

I'm actually at the office waiting for yet another assignment to come in.

I see my kitties in the morning. Actually the other morning i saw a kitty sitting on a log and right behind him was a bowl full of seeds and a squirrel was eating of out it, so cute. But yeah, more kitty in the morning stuff. I did get to play Rock Band at the last happy hour which totally made my day. Ahh Maps, they don't love you like i love you. Besides that I haven't done much. Sitting around playing FFT, watching the occasional movie and just trying to relax during the little time that I have off.

Rae is coming into town this weekend which will be nice unless I have to work. I can't really think of much else at this moment. I'm just sitting here hoping I won't have to stay too late tonight, cross your fingers for me.

Here's to the new life.

on my way places

So I've told you that I run into some pretty kitties on the way to work. It makes me happy to pet a kitty in the morning. The other morning though I walked passed a kitty that was on a leach that was attached to the gate. Poor guy was just hanging out on the sidewalk wondering why the hell is couldn't go any further. Last night I saw a big fluffy raccoon, he was so cute but this is the best one by far. On my way to work today (we'll talk about that in a sec) I was outside my building and I bum walked by, nothing strange there right? Except this bum had a leach and on the end of that leash was a beautiful fluffy black kitty just walking along with his master down the street. It was amazing. I've seen cats on leaches before but they always seem like they hate life. This guy was just trotting down the street looking like he was having a grand old day. I tried to take a picture with my phone but in all the excitement I must of deleted it cause i went back and all i had was the second photo which was just of the ground. So freaking cute.
So I hope that everyone is having a wonderful Easter sunday. I am, in fact, at work. That's right, i'm at work on a sunday that also happens to be a holiday. How fun is that? A lot of fun let me tell you. So after this I get to finally do my laundry that I haven't done in two freaking weeks cause i literally worked every single day for the past 2 weeks. 12 hour days, at least. Yup, the joys of being in advertising. Here's to ridiculous life decisions. And all that other good stuff. Hope you guys find some sweet eggs...

time lapse

I started work a week before the spring forward event.

For nine months before that I kept a pretty loose schedule of waking up and going to sleep. The perks of being a freelancer.

My first week of work I woke up at 7:30 no problem.

After the spring forward.... all fucked up.

I wake up an hour to early ever day and then ai'm really tired when it's actually time to get up. How is that my body which didn't have a schedule for so long could all of a sudden take the one I had for one week and make me suffer for it? I don't get it.

I'm tired.

habits of a nation

So here it comes, the other point of view.
I've been working 10+ hours days for the last couple of days, and yes it's saturday. And yes, I have to go in tomorrow on sunday for what is probably gonna be one of the worse days so far. They've got me working like a horse which most of the time doesn't bother me cause I know "that is what is expected of me". But then I think "That shit ain't right. People should be allowed to have lives!".
Where is the point that you put an end to this? I know in this country its regular (especially in my field) to work to all ends of the night every day. Shit, my boss still does it. I see him on IM almost every night when i'm at home just playing around on the computer/doing my own work. Is that right? Is that the way it should be?
Am I saying this because i'm lazy and don't want to work 60/70 hours a week or is it because my fellow country men get all the perks of two months vacation and 38 hour work weeks? Do they over work their designers in europe too? Do they have never ending days and weekends like we do here? Is it just a designers life to be worked till you want to just give up but you have nothing to give yourself up to cause all you've done is just work your entire life away?
Either way, if i ever make it past all this to seventy (which if you know me you know i don't think i will. Extra prize for the person who can tell me the age I keep saying i'm going to die) I know what i'll be doing. Hello CDF and hello to being young again. I'll fight even if it's just for a day.

inspiration

So here is a bit of inspiration for everyone (and if you don't check out Fecal Face periodically, you should). Here is some amazing photography by Amy Stein. Enjoy.

my first week

I've now been at work for a week, well, a week and a day. It's good so far, pretty good. I'm kinda stressing about a web site concept that i'm going to present tomorrow but hopefully he'll like what i have to show. So I do have a few stories about the first week... Let me see, I guess I'll just go chronologically.
Monday:
At 11 a.m. I get an e-mail saying "Grilled cheese mondays are back! in the Milk Bar from 11:30-12."
It wasn't a joke, one of the guys in the office was making a butt load of grilled cheeses for everyone to enjoy, quite nice.
Tuesday:
For lunch we had 5 Alarm Records bring us some very good and lots of sushi, beer and sake. They talked about what they could do for us and the commercials that we make and showed us a reel. Pretty sweet.
Wednesday:
Got another e-mail saying something about Collective Soul, at first i didn't pay much attention to it but then I realized that it said he was coming. That's right on wednesday afternoon we had the lead singer from Collective Soul give us a little accoustic show of his own. And yes, he played Shine On (or whatever that song is called). That was pretty awesome.
Friday:
Happy Hour day. What i didn't realize is that they are crazy serious about it, they have a different theme every friday. This friday was polka dots. So we had jello shots and beer with orange slices. Yes, you heard me correctly. It was a lot of fun, ended up making friends with the smokers obviously and actually was one of the last to leave at around 8:30. So it I would say it went pretty well. Actually I would say it was Awesome 2000.
The Weekend:
Got my board set up, read a book.
Monday:
I tried the carpool for the first time this morning. For those of you who don't know heres how it works:
It's free for me, i go to a designated spot (next to the BART station) in the morning and instead of paying $3.40 to take the BART I get into some strangers car and they drop me off 3 blocks from my work. It's pretty awesome and takes just about the same amount of time as taking the BART. Except i'm sitting in comfy car and not squished in the train. Oh and this morning I got to listen to NPR on the way to work for the first time in a very long time. I really liked that.

That was my week, how was yours?

one month

So it's not officially been a month.
So here are a few things I did over the last week.
- Got a job at DDB
- Went back to Houston
- Did my taxes
- Bought a sweet coat
- Got a new phone
- got Final Fantasy Tactics. One of the best games ever made, seriously. (I feel like i'm back in high school again hanging out with kelly and allan in my bedroom. Except now i'm in California laying on my bed hanging out by myself playing it on a tiny screen that someone inches its way closer to my face as I play. It's still great though, one of the best games ever and it brings back a lot of memories.)

So yes, tomorrow is my first day to work. I'm really excited and really looking forward to this. I know it's gonna be awesome but I think it might actually be awesomer that I even anticipate... we'll see.

food, half eaten

My favorite sandwich ever is the mozzarella turkey sandwich.
It's a baguette, an avocado, lemon juice and melted mozzarella on the bread. So freaking good I could eat this all the time. It's really easy.
Get a baguetter or similar bread, turn on your oven.
Put the mozzarella on bread and stick in oven about 5 mins. Time for it to melt the cheezy and make the bread a bit crispy.
Couple of slices of turkey and slice your avocado kinda thin.
Take the bread out of the oven and put lemon juice on the bread so it soaks up it a bit. I find more is better, gives it a bit of zest.
Put on your turkey slices and try to cram as much avocado on there as possible. Since its the fruit of the gods and all, you can't go wrong.
Enjoy the deliciousness that is the sandwich.
I had some chips and coke go along, tasty dinner.

I miss you...

i miss you like a tree misses leaves
I miss you like a pen misses paper
i miss you like stars miss their gravitation pull
i miss you like earphones miss ears
i miss you like a cameras misses a subject
i miss you like a 6th grader misses clear skin
i miss you like a cigarettes misses a lighter
i miss you like dessert misses a spoon
i miss you like a sidewalk misses soles
i miss you like a keyboard misses keys
i miss you like a movie misses a star
i miss you like a nun misses her cross
i miss you like a car misses wheels
i miss you like a train misses its tracks
i miss you like a light misses the night
i miss you like a song misses a chorus
i miss you like a kid misses candy
i miss you like laces miss being tied
i miss you like the wind misses a breeze
i miss you like a whore misses male attention
i miss you like a table misses legs
i miss you xbox, you should be with me

They don't love you like i love you

When I listen to Maps by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs I dream of playing Rock Band. More specifically I dream of playing the drums for it. I love the drums on that song. I doubt I'll get to play that anytime soon though....
Oh, do you guys who have a mac and use mail for your e-mail program hear the got mail noise at about 21 secs into the song? Cause every time I listen to the song I hear that chime and think I got mail. It got really annoying in the last day or two since I'm anxiously awaiting to hear back from DDB.

Speaking of, the official bring french matt home.com has launched. Go check out the in depth site and you know, chip in if you can.

where did cendre go?

No, i'm not talking about myself. I'm talking about my webiste.... yes it's gone but should be back up in the next 12 to 24 hours. Thats just my dumb ass having to deal with register.com. See I bought that URL so long ago that I used register and its been there ever since. Well I never transfered it over to dreamhost which I should have about 5 years ago. Anyway, it expired, i didn't know cause all the e-mails were going to an e-mail account i probably haven't used since a year or two after getting cendre... so you know, like a decade almost. But the other problem was that it was so long ago that it's not a register anymore but a sister company, so I can't access it from register.com. So Llama Cafe is on register but cendre is on poweryourname.com. Fucking ridiculous, seriously. Anyway, things should be ok and it should be back up soon. And next week you can rest assured that I will be transferring cendre and llama cafe over to my lovely dreamhost account so I never have another freak out like this again. And yes it has to wait till next week cause I'm out of minutes for this month and they only start over on the 19th. And i'll probably be on the phone for a good hour with them i'm sure until I can convince them to get me the authorization code to switch it over. You can't even do that on the site, you have to call them, bastards.
Anyway, hopefully this will all be over soon and I can get back to my regular www lifestyle.

you wanted to see me?

Well now it's easier than ever to hang out with Matt. The new website lets you see FM more often than you might of ever thought imaginable. It's all up to you, so go check it out.
BRING FRENCH MATT HOME.com

din din

So I didn't know what I was going to do for dinner. I was out of food and wondered what I could make. Well, with a few left over ingredients I made myself a lovely and quite large dinner.
Ingredients for Omelette:
2 eggs
1/8 of a green pepper
shredded mozzarella
1/4 avocado
salt & Pepper, crushed d peppers

Ingredients for Salad:
Lettuce
1/4 avocado
pepper jack cheeze
sauce (dijon mustard, olive oil and red wine vinegar)

And some bread, of course.
hmm, good.

faux hawks and the fights they get you in

Faux hawks are pretty Euro douchebag if you ask me. It's like the business in the front party in the back thing. You have short hair but you decide to make it do the only thing mother nature intended it not to do: all in one direction pointing up to the heavens.
On a side note since i'm talking about douchebags if you haven't seen hot chick with douchbags.com you are a fool. It is probably the funniest site on the entire w w w. Not even kidding.
Anyway, so back to the faux hawk, this is what I looked like this morning after a good nights sleep. Really, i didn't touch it, natural faux hawk.
I must also say that the idea to take pictures of my hair came from Melissas great documentary of her own bed head/hair. Go check it out at flickr. It's pretty brilliant.... (start doing it again mel)





Yes it's pretty sweet if i say so myself. But what happens when the douche comes out in you? Well probably nothing or maybe hot chicks but this is what should happen:




Yes, that is a picture of me getting punched, don't ask.