Blue Footed Booby

This is a nesting blue footed booby.

love,

diego perez

Media, PA

Well... I'm here... In Media, PA. According to their official website:

"Media Borough is the County Seat of Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Located 12 miles (19 km) west of Philadelphia, Media was incorporated in 1850 when the court records were moved from Chester. From that point on, Media has been developed as a planned community with an infrastructure to support growth and commerce for years to come. Its active shopping districts, quiet residential streets, numerous civic and religious institutions, and convenient transportation facilities are all within easy walking distance of each other."

Well... I walked 2 miles to the bar tonight. Had a few drinks and met a very eccentric gay male named "jimmy".

Happy St. Patrick's Day you son of a bitches.

love,

diego

People Seriously Still Rave

This seriously happened last night here in providence in 2009.  I have never seen so many god damned black lights.  Where do these people come from?  

Pinball Machines i Forgot

I forgot a few pinball machines here they are:

Scurvy Dog - Judge Dread.  I don't think i can give a review of this game.  It has "super scoring" and all kinds of nonsense.  Also I can't see the fucking thing.  If you are going to play this game bring a headlamp and put it on your head.  This bar is alright.  It's the scurvy.

The Red Fez - I recently wrote a review of Stern's Indiana Jones on the Internet Pinball Database. In this review i call it "quite possibly one of the worst games ever made".  However i wouldn't be that hard on it.  It is in fact a pinball machine in an alright location and on this past valentine's day i played it for a few hours with my mom.  Get that multiball.  over and over and over and over and over.

Previous Pinballs:

Hudson st market - Had a great electromechanical game called "Stampeed" 

Firehouse 13 - had Time Warp which has Banana Flippers.... 

Pinball

I've been meaning to write a blog about pinball machines in Providence so here it is:

E & O Tap - Spiderman and The Dark Knight.  Spiderman has a broken "Doc Ock" Multiball this is a total bummer. Also the tilt is a bit sensitive.  This game is pretty alright. I wouldn't really play it unless it was somewhere where you can have a few beers in the meantime. Current Replay is at 29,000,000 i believe.  The Dark Knight is a recent addition replacing the ever so horrible Indiana Jones. This game is alright better than spiderman, but again nothing special.  Tilt is average and i think everything is working properly. Replay is 29,000,000 as well.

JavaSpeed Scooters -  Currently have the best game in town i think which is Bram Stoker's Dracula.  This game is great i think that is all i have to say about it.  They also have the easily forgettable Road Kings and NASCAR.  Also always on display is a broken The Shadow pinball machine.

White Electric - Currently has SafeCracker.  A pretty weird game, which can be played multiplayer despite the rumor that it can't be.  I think it'll be out of there soon.  It shoots coins at you when you get inside of the middle of the "vault".

Fellini's Pizza - I heard that Attack From Mars is gone and now Lord Of The Rings is there. I haven't really seen this yet, but Lord Of The Rings is alright. It's no Attack From Mars.

Campus Pizza - No Good Gofers.  This game blows.

New York System Smith St. - Popeye, this is probably the best location for a pinball machine in town.  Popeye is mildly whack.

The Blackstone - This is in Pawtucket in the "hope artiste lofts".  The atmosphere sucks, the drinks are expensive and their Monster Bash is truly "bashed".

I think thats all of em. 

Dan Flavin and I at the Pearly Gates

Oh Dan Flavin.

Your florescent garbage piles look even better when i am smiling next to them. Here is a picture of Dan and I in heaven. I hope you're doing alright up there. Who knew he would manifest himself into a tower of light.

I guess it's getting warmer out there.

Does anyone remember when George W. Bush said he was going to launch another space shuttle to the moon? What ever happened to that stupid idea? Instead we are stuck with the Kepler Mission which just launched a few days ago.

The Kepler Mission:

Nasa just launched a thing into space looking for "other earth-like planets" Sounds like bullshit to me. I think this is some Raelian conspiracy.

The Raelians:

Claim that they have human cloning technology and have done it.

I just recorded a song the other day. It isn't so exciting except that i wanted to try out Alvin Lucier's "I am sitting in a room" in a room filled with plants. For those of you not familiar with Alvin Lucier's "I am sitting in a room" this is it:

" I am sitting in a room different from the one you are in now. I am recording the sound of my speaking voice and I am going to play it back into the room again and again until the resonant frequencies of the room reinforce themselves so that any semblance of my speech, with perhaps the exception of rhythm, is destroyed. What you will hear, then, are the natural resonant frequencies of the room articulated by speech. I regard this activity not so much as a demonstration of a physical fact, but more as a way to smooth out any irregularities my speech might have."

This is a song written for plants using the room and plants to create it. I want to upload it onto here, but i have to accompany it with a movie, so the movie is of a cuttlefish communicating. I think that is all i have for today.

Enjoy.

Love,

diego