Dear Christmas,
I forgot to add the list of things I'm in love with right now.

* Navel Oranges
* My Family
* Holiday Travel
* All the Stephanie's of the world and all the Ray's that come with that.
* Coupons
* My shopping excursions with The Butcher.
* Never sleeping again before my parents house.
* Yule Shoot Your Eye Out (The best emo christmas song ever)

Thats all for now but I'm sure I'm leaving someone out.

Don't worry, I'm in love with you. Hell, you're my lobster.

Dear christmas, i love you. Love, josh.

Minnesota

So, no one seems to call me when I'm at home, relaxing and being bored by myself on the weekends, but as soon as I make plans to go out of town, it seems everyone calls me and wants to hang out.  Oh well, at least they call at all.  It could be worse, I could have no friends at all.  
Right now I don't have Internet access at my apartment, so I've really been slow about adding recent photos of me and my friends.  The photos that you can look forward to:

• Pennsylvania
• Random clubs and bars
• Halloween (Super-creepy Josh)
• Minnesota (Super-cute Stef)

Which brings me to my current happenings.  Right now, having served my civic duty to render a verdict in a jury trial, I am in Minnesota.  I got a really cheap ticket on Travelocity and I've been here since Thursday!  So all in all, the end of Three Wishes has been very productive.  That's all for now.  I'll check back in soon.

Thanksgiving is so soon, and I have so much to be thankful for. 

Hearts and Scars,

Josh

"I am such a loser,
I'm a sucker for the truth or
dare me to just be honest with myself"

To do today:

• Invest in black lipstick
• Try new leaf, turn if necessary
• Find a family, make Christmas happen in October.
• Scheme on how to get out of jury duty
• Tell her how I feel
• Save Money
• Drink ruckus juice and get crunked up.

Peace,

J

heartsandscars

XemoisnotabadwordX
but it sure doesn't mean what people think it does
and no one really thinks it's a good thing
especially not me

Back In LA

In a cab, speeding along at 100 mph. I can't wait to get to my bed, talk on the phone, be at rest... for 12 hours

--

Mobile Email from a Cingular Wireless Customer http://www.cingular.com

Haiku4You

Even now, i know
you're keeping me in your heart
and you are in mine

--

Mobile Email from a Cingular Wireless Customer http://www.cingular.com

Early

So this morning i woke up at 4:40am after waking up at midnight and having trouble sleeping. I'll be sleeping on the plane.

--

Mobile Email from a Cingular Wireless Customer http://www.cingular.com

Early To Pa

So i'm on my way on another casting trip. Right now i'm on my way to beautiful harrisburg, pa. Gotta love reality tv!

--

Mobile Email from a Cingular Wireless Customer http://www.cingular.com

Travel

Good morning blog... I am up way too early! All work and no play make josh a dull boy. All work and no play make josh a...

--

Mobile Email from a Cingular Wireless Customer http://www.cingular.com

Do bad people know they're bad?

Did Buffalo Bill know what he was doing was wrong?  Who knows, he's made up.
But does anyone actively know that they're bad people?  Would I know if I were a bad person?  I'm beginning to suspect that I wouldn't and I am.  Who knows.  Ever just feel like an asshole?  Sometimes I do and I wonder if that life's way of saying quit being a jerk.  Be a better person. 

Be better, feel better. 

Makes sense to me.

P.S.

I'm in serious hate with the world right now.

-J

whoareyou?

I look into his face and he looks back. I look into his eyes and they look back at mine. Then they look at my mouth so I look at his mouth, then back to his eyes, backing up, at his whole face. I think, Who? Who are you? His head tilts to one side.
I say, "Who are you?"
"What do you mean?"
"Nothing."
I look at his eyes again, deeper. Can't tell who he is, what he thinks.
"What?" he says. I look at his mouth.
"I'm just wondering," I say and go wandering across his face. Study the chin line. It's shaped like a persimmon.
"Who are you? What are you thinking?"
He says, "What the hell are you talking about?"

-"Lust"
By Susan Minot

Sometimes I walk around with blinders on. This should be obvious to anyone who knows me. I think it must be a combination of tunnel vision and a survival mechanism. This lends itself to a sort of youthful innocence that can be somewhat endearing but can also lead to a lot of naivete. To me, I try to keep my head in the game but not cause problems.

So what I'm trying to say is, sometimes the clouds around my head part and show me a piece of something larger that shows me what I've been missing. This is a real What the fuck? moment for me usually. I reel and attempt to grasp the scope of what I've been too dense to see.

I just had another one of those moments.

whothehellareyou? no, really.

hearts and scars,

Josh

Second Test

So, this is another test to see just how absurd tech can get. Turns out i can only send emails with 80 chars or less

--

Mobile Email from a Cingular Wireless Customer http://www.cingular.com

Email Test

I know you'll be amazing, cause you are.

Just a test...
A-HA!

Now I can post from my mobile phone. Suckers!

Michigan Madness

So just a quick update.  I'm in Michigan right now, doing interviews for Three Wishes and tearing ass across the state.  Things are good.  I miss California, but I miss Minnesota more.  I'll write more when I get a chance.  Later. 

 

PS. For a good time in Marshall, Michigan try the stagecoach inn.

 

Josh

Holy Shit! Giant Squid! (Warning Strong Language)

What the fuck!? I told you... First bloop and now this? Check this shit out! Japanese scientists finally managed to photograph a live giant squid in the wild. What the FUCK! Does that squid have a laser gun?

Check out these scary-ass pictures, it looks like the squid is fighting back, firing his fucking LASERGUN right at the dudes shooting pictures of it. Fuck yeah! Stay away from giant squids who shoot fucking lasers. I'm looking at you, Japan. I told you so... stay out of the ocean. Who knows what fucking scary ass, tech-equipped mutant lifeforms exist way at the bottom.




























Jesus Christ! Next up, Leviathan! Google it, read your bible, cause it's down there folks and I'm not talking about Hobbes. I'm talking giant, man-eating (Possibly equipped with some sort of fucking missile launcher) largest animal ever on Earth. Google it and be afraid.

Don't say I didn't warn you.

There's a pain... in my head.

So, I'm sitting here,
writing again to you, my journal
bouncing things off thin air.

Looks like Haiku, but it isn't
now when I write, poetry comes out
but when you breathe, life comes out
breath by breath I watch air that was yours
and I wonder when I'll see another

turn some into words,
somehow yours can take my breath away
somehow, you can.
maybe I know how

But there's still a pain... in my head.
It feels like my eyeball is trying to escape my head.
Leave the skull behind completely.

Job vacancy.  New eye needed for 26 year old male. 
Previous experience required.

Going to Michigan.  Can't wait. Can't breathe until then.

-Josh

Hearts and Scars

You're inside, but I'm inside out
The last train out of town,
Catch a wreck, direct to your car
To find shared breathing in the dark

I'm standing outside of your house, waiting for you to come home
Walking with the ghosts of the days you spent alone

I watch you, lying in your bed,
all beauty, with a deadly edge
I'm buried alive inside, I'm never coming up for air
Lock the doors, no one should see what I'm about to bare

Hearts and scars

Memories traced veins and fingertips...

When you're around, I always sleep so sound

whenxyou'rexaroundxIxalwaysxsleepxsoxsound

Grace

When life is darkest

I stretch, fumbling in the dark
Finding only you

Searching in the dark
I stumble but catch my feet
Standing face to face

Grace, the state of mind
Not only that but virtue
You are and have it

Things I'm in love with...

• Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• The Hush Sound
• My friends, my coworkers
• My mom (and yes, the rest of my family)
• Sunset over Southern California
• The welcome first chill of night air
• Pete Wentz and Fall Out Boy
• Writing Music for you
• Writing Haiku and poetry and leaving it scattered across the Internet
• October Fall
• October period. Cherry Blossom never smelled so good
• Coded messages
• The written word and how yours touch me. How your book stays with me all the time.
• Signed Baseball cards.
• Music makes my heart swell and come out my mouth, just a little.
• People who are smart. A very smart person once told me the brain is the sexiest part of the body.
• Feeling 16 again for the first time in almost ever
• You whispering in my ear, even now, even so far away.

Update: Grace

"it feels like the first day of my life, glad i didn't die before i met you".

Come and see us.
Come on, the moon's right, and I'm right here.

I wouldn't miss this for the world.
These kids have no idea.  They never will
Maybe we weren't supposed to.  Oh, well, someone fucked up
Now it's too late to make other plans, and someone should have lost theirs job/head over this one

We got put back together in the wrong/right place and now we're all jagged lines and weird angles that shouldn't fit together, like puzzle pieces that look like corners, but really attach. if you pay close enough attention, you can watch them slide together in the box, ever...so...slowly...

Bulletproof

you and me, we're bulletproof.

the way people aren't, ideas are. well, they can be
the way we both know before, before it's ever really spoken
the way you used to trick you brother into believing you can read his mind. that's how.
the way you let me hang, sway in the wind

the way i'll let you do the same in a different breath
the way it all adds up, in all the ways you're fantastic

we're not solid, we're not concrete, we're fucking bullet...proof
we've got the tools
we've got the goods
we know how to talk/dance/sing/drive/insert verb of choice/sleep
lean way in and listen, cause this is important.

can i say this again? i won't say sorry if i don't really need to
will you need to? maybe. maybe less than you really think.
maybe we're just

bullet-proof

Savannah

Savannah before Vegas
Vegas before Los Angeles
Michigan before Savannah

New Philadelphia before Michigan
before Cleveland...
before Canton...

Tracks stretch off into the distance
I can almost see where they go
But I love where they end up

Love Haiku

Written in your book
I cannot tell you the words
It's so hard to leave

T-Minus

+ The weekend is almost here
+ The Midwest is always fun (I'm big in Ohio)
- It was not margarita Friday today
+ It was danish Friday today
+ Standing up for your friends
+ Speaking your mind about what you believe
- None of that matters when politics is involved
- Long distances (More than 15 hours)
+ Pretty young reporters from Ohio

Conclusion:
I am in serious like with girls from Ohio who read, are very sweet, and are diabolical.

Thank you punk hoody (for keeping me both safe and warm)

^^^
Punk Hoody
(actual picture taken just before leaving the apartment)

I think I almost got mugged last night. Yup. Maybe it would have really happened, maybe not. I definitely felt unsafe. Here's the story:

I left ye olde apartment last night to walk around the block, listen to Pete and the Fall Out Boys sing to me and I stopped on the corner of Brockton and Santa Monica, very close to my apartment. I noticed two gentlemen ride up on bikes. They were speaking Spanish and eyeing me. (Speaking Spanish does not make one more likely to mug someone, I'm not an idiot or a racist... I just don't speak it so I was a little off balance)

One of the gentlemen then rode his bike up next to me and continued giving me the stink eye and talking to the other one. The, get this, the other one rides up next to me too. Keep in mind... Midnight, Los Angeles, deserted street scene. I'm just saying they have plenty of free space to stand, just don't do it a foot from me.

So they both keeping eyeing me and talking until one decided to shove off. He took off and yelled to the other one, leaving me a little rattled but thankful for my new punk hoody (See pic above from the night in question)

I'm not sure I would've been mugged anyway, but had I been wearing something else less...stand-offish, I probably would've been in trouble. That's why I say, thank you punk hoody.

To order one for yourself and for other cool punk schwag... Check out The Clandestine website

Why you should come to California (You know who you are)

+Warm sun, onshore flow keeps it from getting too hot
+All you favorite celebrities live here
-So do most most Reality TV Stars
+Free plane tickets (Inquire within for details)
-Price of gas
+I'll drive you around, so forget the last one
+Craig Ekedahl lives here... period.
-So do I, and I've been referred to as "creepy" on several occasions. But then, they might not know any truely creepy people.

It puts the lotion on it's skin, or else it sleeps in the cage again

This is so messed up on so many levels:

Creepy article

Love in the time of Cholera

I think the idea of a bookclub with just two people in it is super.

Blackout

Supplies Needed to survive a blackout in Los Angeles:

• Water (Fresh) obtained from kitchen at work. Fiddle with coffee percolator until you can pee in the top and get out fresh water. Commence taking iodine pills once fresh water runs out.
  
• Full tank of gas. A fuel efficient vehicle. Fleeing inland only gets you so far in an SUV.
• GUNS - To survive on the highway, you'll need to fight off roving motorcycle gangs a la Mad Max.
• A monkey-proof shelter to lay low until natural selection takes over and only hot chicks survive.Plus, who knows what 40-foot apes will be on the loose. There isn't any power, anything can happen.
  
• A map to dry land, unless by some freak chance, California hasn't fallen into the ocean.
  

Open letter to the guy who thinks I don't know about Alkaline Trio

Google the title of my blog, douchebag.

The Perfect Weekend

• I am Inspired. I want the perfect weekend. I think this may be just within my reach, I just need to be patient.
• I'm big in Ohio, wish I were big in Minnesota. I've never been there. Well, except the airport.
• I'm not worried
• My heart swells and bursts when I wonder where you are and who you're with. Sometimes me. I'm inside out when we talk. I just can't hide anything. Maybe I don't want to anymore and am glad I can't
  
• Again, I want my own perfect weekend. Maybe I already had it. Maybe it's yet to come. Hopefully, Tim Burton will help.
  
• I'm not really emo. No matter what anyone says or how long my hair gets.
  

-J

Podcast

Ok, this is a feedburner test.  Check out my first podcast here.  Or go to http://feeds.feedburner.com/intendingtoburn

Update

Ok, so I haven't written anything personal in a while, so here's what's up with Team Josh.  Now with convenient bullet points.

• I went home for my sister's wedding.  It was a blast and I saw a lot of friends and family I hadn't seen in a while.  Check joshmills.textamerica.com for the pictures.
• I tried out to be the new host of Attack of the Show on G4.  I sucked.  Still have glimmer of hope of PA'ing for the show and working my way up.
• I'm going to Connecticut soon to shoot an independent film.  Check out Road Dog Pictures for details on the project.
• I'm still casting for NBC's Three Wishes.  yes, it is VERY satisfying to actually be helping people with a reality show.  I really love the show and making an impact.  Stay tuned and I'll hopefully inform everyone on where we're headed next.
• I'm fighting off the damn sickness everyone else is carting into our office in barrels.  I will win because tonight I'm going to get some Airborne.
• I'm still painfully single, and will probably remain so for a least a little while.
  

Until next time.

Josh

Unidentified Sea Creature Found After Typhoon

Typhoon Haitang seems to have deposited an unknown creature onto the shore in Ningbo City in east China's Zhejiang Province. From the fishery bureau, "He said its overall structure means it's unlikely to be a fish, but the shape of its head is like a crocodile's." 12 meters long weighing nearly 2 tons. Picture included at china.org.cn's story.


"Holy crap, holy crap, holy crap...
I told you there are scary things under the sea that we have no idea about. Next up: Leviathan."

-Josh

The "world's deadliest gun"

In the wake of the London bombings and the subsequent angry condemnation of terrorism, an Australian company has invented what it claims is the "world's deadliest gun". This weapon of ultimate terror will be used by precisely those countries that claim to fight terrorism.

"Holy crap, holy crap, holy crap..."

*wets himself and cries under his desk.

-J

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Asteroid headed near Earth in the future?

Not as crazy as it sounds. Here's a quote from USA today online that tips the iceberg that may end up being the real-life-imitates-Michael-Bay-"art" in our not so distant future. Definately check out the USA Today Article.

From USA Today online:

"Humans live in a vast solar system where 2,000 feet seems a razor-thin distance. Yet it's just wide enough to trigger concerns that an asteroid due to buzz Earth on April 13, 2029 may shift its orbit enough to return and strike the planet seven years later."

J

World's Largest Digging Machine

This is the largest digging machine (or trencher or rotating shovel) in the world. It was built by Krupp and is shown here crossing a road in Germany on the way to its destination, an open air coal mine.

"Holy Hell, this thing is a land monster. Check out this gigantor digger."

J

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Teen Titans is the perfect Emo kid show

Here's why:

• Emo kids like to pretend to be into all sorts of cool and different things like Anime.
• Teen Titans is cool and Anime, but american enough to be absorbed easily without too much effort.
• Emo kids like to identify with dark and emotional characters, like Raven from said Teen Titans.
• Emo kids dig romantic sublots. Teen Titans features a subtle romantic and sweet subplot between Robin and StarFire.
• Teen Titans features a theme song by cute Japanese girls of the group Puffy Ami Yumi. The song is catchy and kitsch. Emo kids love kitsch and wish they could write catchy songs.

For these reasons and more, Teen Titans is the perfect cartoon show for emo kids with long hair, one lip pierced, a zipped up hoody and Elvis Costello glasses.

Watch me change

What a crazy way to market a clothing company. Check it out. I This was made for the Gap.

"Now if only I could learn to dance like those crazy virtual bastards, maybe I could get a date"

-J

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Google Adds Playable Option Google Video

Now you can search only the "watchable" Google videos.

It was kind of tough to find videos on Google video that you could actually watch but now you can specify which type of search you want to execute. Kinda nifty. Gotta love those Google kids.

Josh

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AutoStitch

AutoStitch is the world's first fully automatic 2D image stitcher. Capable of stitching full view panoramas without any user input whatsoever, AutoStitch is a breakthrough technology for panoramic photography, VR and visualisation applications.

"I'm actually using this program for work right now. I'll try to post some of the results.



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Could blogging spread computer worms?

Could RSS feeds become a conduit for the transmission of computer worms? Security experts are at odds over the possibility. Those who play down the threat point to the fact that no virus has ever used the propagation technique.

"I've been really excited about RSS for a while. I think it's a great innovation that will shift a lot of focus away from the user towards automation. This may have it's drawbacks though. Overall, RSS/XML is exciting, BitTorrent is exciting, but it really depends on what you shove through the feedline."

-Josh

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How to make an RSS Enclosure

OK, kids.  Podcasting is getting bigger and bigger, what with iTunes integration on 4.9 but are you still relying on your blog to provide you with RSS feeds?  If you are running your own site (which is admittedly high-labor/low result), than you may want to take a look at this article to get an idea how to create an RSS feed on your own.  Sydication abounds when you can create your own feed.  I haven't done it myself yet as of right now but I will soon.  You know I do have a podcast but not a direct feed from my site www.joshmills.net just an indirect link from the RSS/XML fed teamjosh.blogspot.com.  Check it out kids.  Enough for now, I have to get ready to go to Covington, GA.  Gotta love southern women.

Google's Summer of Code program

The Summer of Code is Google's program designed to introduce students to the world of open source software development.

This sounded like a really cool opportunity (SP?) for coders to hone their skills and maybe get paid for it. I'm not too great with different languages but I thought an open-source intro was the way to go. Too bad I missed the deadline.

-J

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Audio Tips

With my recent foray into podcasting, I noticed this article on digg.com. Check it out.

Link below:

Seven Steps to Noise-Free Digital Audio by Bruce Fries -- Virtually all audio recordings will contain some amount of noise. Learn what causes it, how to avoid it, and how to remove it from your files. Based on Digital Audio Essentials by Bruce and Marty Fries.

-Josh

Podcasting 101

Check out my new podcast:

Click here to stream/listen/download

Enjoy and email joshuatmills@gmail.com for complaints/suggestions.

Josh

Damn Time Zones

Ok. so I admit I haven't been around in a while. Most of that has to
do with the fact that I don't have access to the Intar-Web in my room
right now (that is until I drill some holes in my apartment and void
my security deposit) but some has to do with the fact that I've been
working on some labor-intensive shows. Right now I'm working on NBC's
Three Wishes with Amy Grant. Check out:

http://www.nbc.com/nbc/footer/Three_Wishes.shtml for more details.

I've just returned from a very successful trip to Farwell, TX and
Clovis, NM. For those of you unfamiliar with west Texas, Clovis and
Farwell are separated by about 7 miles, one state border, and one
timezone. Yup, that's right. The two towns we traveled between
daily were only about 7 miles and one hour different in time zones.
What an infuriating experience to figure out which time is in which
town and whether or not you told them the timezone or whether they'll
figure it out on their own. Keep tuned to my MoBlog for the awesome
pics of myself, Mandy and Traci Green on our rocking excursion to the
Southwest. Until then, I'd better get back to work.

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The real Simpsons House

Ok, I know I haven't posted anything in a while, let alone anything personal, but I've been busy and now I don't have an internet connection at my house. So anyway, check out my MoBlog for semi-current pics of my co-workers birthday party and soon to come Viva Las Vegas, again. Until then, check out this person's house that is a real life replica of The Simpsons house on Evergreen Terrace.

The link is below:
http://www.damnfunnypictures.com/html/The-Simpsons-House.html

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Super NES & other game Endings

Take a trip down nostalgia lane with screenshots of your favorite games. Navigate to find NES and other classic systems

Link:
http://www.vgmuseum.com/end/snes

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Super NES & other game Endings

Take a trip down nostalgia lane with screenshots of your favorite games. Navigate to find NES and other classic systems

Link:
http://www.vgmuseum.com/end/snes

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Download embedded videos from websites

Check this out, this could be huge!

Step-by-step guide using Firefox & Greasemonkey Firefox Extension to download embeded videos.

http://www.uneasysilence.com/archive/2005/04/2597

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Blambot: Comic Fonts

Blambot offers a ton of their professional-grade lettering fonts for free, as well as some nice sound fx and typefaces. Also pay-for-fonts available and speech bubbles in .eps format for doctoring up those Easter pictures with entertaining captions.

Bloggo News: Digg adds blogging features

New to digg today: the ability to digg stories to your blog. Choose a story that you wish to blog, then click "blog". digg will instantly post that story to your website. If you don't like the way a story is worded, you also have the ability to rewrite your blog post. Supported blogs: Typepad, Live Journal, Blogger, Moveable Type, and WordPress. (note: you must be a registered user to see these features)

Josh: "Isn't it ironic that I blogged the story itself? Ha ha ha"

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New Job?

So I haven't posted in a while. Maybe you have and maybe you haven't noticed, but my latest moblog pics have been from the inner workings of E! entertainment television. I guess my life has really come a long way from central Ohio. In other news, Scott made it through surgery withuot complication on St. Patty's day and I was there to help his wife see him through. Enough for now, I'm tired and I have to work tomorrow morning.

RIP: The Screensavers

VIVA TSS!

Last night I sat down, drank a beer and watched then end of a great show, The Screensavers on G4. Pour a sip of Olde English 40 oz on the curb for The Screensavers tonight.
Next, get ready for... Attack of the show!

Thank you Kevin Pereira, Kevin Rose and Sarah Lane.

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Lightning Bolt! Lightning Bolt!




There is nothing funnier than pure, unbridled nerd-hood, of which I sometimes dabble in. But this video exceeds my wildest nerd achievements. You haven't lived, or really laughed till you peed, until you've watched these D&D Nerds (Read Dungeons and Dragons) tramp around in the woods, reenacting their favorite adventure. Particular note goes to the magic user exclaiming "Lightning Bolt" over and over as he tosses "spells" at an ogre. Also noteworthy is the troll against a tree who simply casts death upon one of his attackers, who drops to the ground but then recovers. Also, check out the remix. It's pricelessly set to "Blaze of Glory" by Bon Jovi.



Click here or on the picture for the original.




Click here for the remix with Bon Jovi.

Band of The Week, 3/07: The Streets

Ok, I know you love it, I know you wait for it and here it is bitches! It's the band of the week. This time I'm bringing you The Streets.








He may look like a mild-mannered white boy on the outside, but inside lives the soul of a street-hardened tough-guy that... Oh, who am I kidding? Let me just tell it to you straight up. The Streets aka Mike Skinner is a white rapper from England with a mastery of his craft so tight he'll make you gasp in excitement every time he spits a line. Remember when Eminem was cool and edgy and his lyrics we're unbelievable? Well, The Streets says bring it on and then blasts Em away. Between rhymes on his latest album "A Grand don't come for free," The Streets exposes himself to all sorts of different emotions and perspectives that Eminem couldn't even imagine. On the drug-fuelled hypnotic groove, "Blinded by the lights" Skinner dances between such always tricky subjects as drugs, mayhem and heart-ache. The clip features subdued guitar samples and a set of dreamy female vocals. If you haven't heard it yet, you have to hear it to believe how incredibly captivating it is to hear him search for his girlfriend in a hazy club and alternately lamenting over his lack of cellphone reception. Not hooked yet? Check out the danceably catchy tune "Fit but don't you know it." This track features a knockout punch hook and a clever rhyme style and honesty factor that leave you laughing and cringing at the same time, all the while falling in love with the white-boy stylings of The Streets. The what makes him, my Band of the Week.

Playing at "The Library"

Bunnies are better than people. There, I said it


This is the best flash video to come out since
"Super Mario Reloaded"


Halcion and on and on...

OK, 1:26am. Slight insomnia, nothing to be concerned about. I've now taken a mildly narcotic sleeping agent. I've done this numerous times, but I've been sick lately and I can't take any cold medication. I have a condition that interacts with a lot of drugs and nutritional supplements. I can't take regular sleeping pills or ballerina root, which by the way, really works if you can take it. I can't take Daschle or nicely or anything containing an any type of Ephedra. Even if it's pseudoephedrine, which is in nearly every over the counter cold medicine. Hence sudafed pseudo-fed. This leaves only narcotic sleeping pills to battle my insomnia with. And alcohol. Alcohol is good because you can have just a little to take the edge off and not worry about addiction. Not the same goes for narcotics. OK, 1:33, nothing yet. So anyway, the reason I'm thinking tonight might be different is that when your body calls out all it's defenses to battle off a head cold, things tend to affect you differently. Nerve ending fire off in weird directions and neural impulses get reworked. This results in what a lot of people, myself included, refer to as a fever dream, and I've had my share of bizarre nocturnal transmissions. Besides suffering from occasional insomnia and what I suspect is BPH, I have some sort of parasomnia as well. This means that sometimes I'll be totally asleep and think I am hearing, seeing or feeling things. I then "wake up," mind you I'm not really awake and look around the room. I'll sit up and swear I'm seeing a jewel-green snake wrapped around my headboard, or tendrils shooting out from under my pillow towards my face, or whatever. Usually it freaks me out and I reach for a light switch, or more recently, I've been keeping a giant flashlight on the bed next to me. 1:40 and I feel slightly relaxed, I'm listening to Brand New and chilling out. The giant flashlight is great. It throws a beam of one million candle power. For those who don't know, it's fucking bright enough to snap me right out of wherever I need to leave. Generally, this parasomnia isn't much of a problem when I'm working because my brain and body are more active during the day and rest at night. But right now I've been out of work and I can tell my brain is seeking exercise because almost every night I point the sungun around my little room and freak out for about 10 seconds, then I go back to sleep. Good thing I sleep alone, or someone would hate me so much. OK, enough about my freaking conditions. I'll status post later tonight if anything interesting happens. Hopefully I'll just pass out in my clothes. "Ahhh! Cobras..."

Band of the week 2/20/05

It's about that time!

It's time for Josh's Band of the week! They are:

Brand New

Check them out at: http://www.brandnewrock.com/

Brand New will rock your faces off. They have a great blend of rock, punk, pop and emo. If you get a chance, pick up their latest album, Deja Entendu. But if you are a scavenger and you download songs from the internet or from iTunes, check out tracks like "Quiet things that no one ever knows" "sic transit gloria (glory fades)" and "I believe you but my tommy gun don't." Brand New can break your heart with one track, adn rock the hell out of you on the next, then keep you intrigued throughout their entire album. I haven't seen a band with this much promise since I heard Saves the Day's first major label album "Through being cool." Keep an eye out for their next album. Rolling Stone billed them as a band to watch in 2005 and Brand New aren't fucking around, they lay it down.
Alright, now I must go. I am sick and I am tired and there's a freakin' police chase going on in my neighborhood.

Last night was yummy!

"I'll eat YOUR dinner"

This is my roommate Jessica. She is very nice also. Last night I came home from rehearsal and I was very tired, and I was on the verge of becoming very sick, (I am sick today) and I really just didn't feel like making and eating ramen again. So when I came home, Jessica was making dinner. Evidently she had made it for her and someone else, but the other person, who shall remain nameless, declined and left. So here's the verdict. Fuck off dude! I ate your dinner and I loved it! It was exquisite! Ha ha ha... jerk.



In other news, our drummer Eric broke his first cymbal last night. I think this was a big deal, but he plays so hard every day that I'm not too surprised. By the way, I think we're going to have to change our name from The Addictions. There is another band that had it first, so I'll be taking suggestions at Joshmills@mail.com. I hope to hear some good ideas.

Rain pics

Here comes the rain again.
And they say it never rains in Southern
California.

The infernal machine itself

This is what Allison, and later myself, faced when putting it together. It actually turned out to not be so bad.

Elliptical Madness

This is my roommate Allison. She is very nice. Today she bought an elliptical machine to work out in the living room with. That sentence ended with the preposition with, so I will reformat it. Today my roommate Allison bought an elliptical machine with which to workout while still in the living room. I helped her lug it inside in the torrential rains that have plagued southern California of late. Working out in the living room will be nice, it might help preserve the local squirrel population. Whatever.

Click here to check out a pretty cool little movie of a road trip between LA and NYC. It all takes place in a matter of minutes and is pretty amusing. I found this link on Kevin Rose's website. Kevin is a host of the G4 show The Screensavers. If you are interested in new technology or video games or DRM (digital rights management), you should check it out on cable. It's on at 7pm et/4pm pt on G4TechTv.

My future wife and why she may be a dude

[ I Will Still Live Even Without You ]

I think I may be in love with this girl, who knows. She may not even really be a girl, or she may be in high school. Whatever. I found her blog by clicking on the "view next blog" tab above my own blog. After a few clicks, I found hers. Complete with some acoustic song and her broken heart and weird slang way of writing stuff like som1. Oh well, she's probably really a dude or something equally horrible. Anyway, I must marry her.

I poisoned myself last night

One green potato won't kill you. But six or seven may. This might be the only lesson I have to reflect on as I clutch my stomach and lie in the fetal position on my bed. Between bouts of gut-wrenching pain and distention in my lower abdomen, I have been sitting up long enough to blog a little bit about last night, a fairly ordinary and uneventful Friday night around the homestead wherein I just sat around and watched Zoolander on TV. The movie was a little better than I expected, and the food was a little worse than I expected. But all things being equal, I did Google "Green Potatoes" last night to find that infact no, Solanine (uh oh, here comes the pain again as I write) probably won't kill you, if you eat one green potato. But one potato won't feed a grown 26 year old man (Not again, I cramp and curl up) so I ate five or six. It seems that a six-pack of Solanine-laced spuds will do quite the number on your plumbing. Solanine is a poison that is present in all potatoes to some degree, but is particularly concentrated in the skin and eyes, especially in green ones. (uh oh) So when one consumes five or six green potatoes, bad things tend to happen. But not so bad, I think I'm going to make it, but it isn't pretty. For all you kids out there, stay off the green potatoes.

Band of the week: 2/13/05

Besides being the week of my loving father's birthday, this was also the week I became totally obsessed with the band Coheed and Cambria. For those who are artistically bankrupt and haven't experienced new music, this might be a good place to start.



Listening to Co&Ca is like eating a stick of crisco, it may not be good for you, but it sure tastes like shit. Ok, bad analogy. Coheed and Cambria are a semi-punk/emo/whatever-core band that formed a few years back from the remains of a band call Shabutie. The lead singer Claudio Sanchez, sings in like seven different octaves, usually at the same time. How does this sound you ask? Fucking brilliant, although you may not know it's a man when you first hear their music. As for the music itself, Coheed and Cambria are a band unto themselves. Their first album, The Second Stage Turbine Blade, introduced the world to a brand new concept album. Namely, a super-futuro-scifi tale involving the two lead characters, a man and wife named Coheed and Cambria. Starting to get the picture? Well, it doesn't get much clearer on their second album, In Keeping The Secrets Of Silent Earth:3, which continues the tale of Co and Ca and their children. On the surface, Co&Ca is worth a listen just for their music, but beneath is a wonderfully realized set of concept albums (There will be four, but they tell the story out of order) just waiting to be dissected and enjoyed. That's why Coheed and Cambria is the

Band Of The Week!

Numa Numa

Alright, it's time for you to laugh your ass off. Check out my favorite new internet movie star. I actually saw this clip about 2 months ago and since then I've seen it everywhere from other websites and even on TV. I mean it, you will laugh hard.



Now you must watch the video to get your face rocked off. Newgrounds is hosting it here.

Click the word "here," then sit back, relax and watch a weird kid lip-synch his way into your heart. Click on "Watch This Movie!" when you get to Newgrounds.

I'm a bad blogger

I realized tonight that I am a bad blogger. People comb the internet and real-life every day to blog some interesting things on a daily basis. I, however, have almost nothing interesting to say to more than about a handful of people and most of them are in my family. I guess either I don' believe my life in interesting enough, or it really isn't. Either way, here's a little bloglet to let you know what I've been up too.

I ran over a squirrel on my bike yesterday. I mean, I wasn't trying to, but I was riding on the sidewalk and someone was running in the street, which confused the small fuzzy creature into running for the lawn, which as is turns out was a bad move as I promptly hit it with my bike. But it was ok. I digress.

As for The Addictions, rehearsals continue to sound better and better and we will have two gigs coming up soon. When I have more information, I will post it at www.joshmills.net/theaddictions.htm. Check it out. Peace for now.

Email Test

Hello out there in blogger land. This is an email test. You see I've set up my blog so that I can send emails and publish remotely. This means I can be on my cellphone (Which is currently on the fritz) or on a PDA and email a blog post, bringing you the latest news from LA LA land. Awesome, now I'm off to do battle with Cingular Wireless. To the victor goes a new phone, hopefully with a camera in it. I'm so behind the times. Later.

Hollow Hills

So I figure, if comics are in serial form and so are TV shows, why can't one use a blog like an other type of serial medium and post stories arcs in increments like a comic? And the answer is "Hollow Hills," a work of serial fiction created by me that explores the bizarre and mysterious town of Hollow Hills and it's many "diverse" citizens. Although to call it the answer would be to assume that Hollow Hills holds anything but more questions. You be the judge. Check it out at http://hollow-hills.blogspot.com.

Damned Golden Globes

So what I thought was going to be a really cool afternoon turned out not quite so great. It wasn't really strressfull but it was just a long day. On the morning of the show, our crew had a production meeting, going over some of the things we were going to do that day and it sounded like I was going to be stationed near the red carpet, but it turns out we weren't allowed to film there. Instead, I was stationed at a Starbucks across the street from about 3:00pm to 9:30pm. Oh well, I've had more stressful days.
As for The Addictions, we had our first practice after the new year. It had been about a month since we played together, and we were abit rusty but that's to be expected. We will be practicing at least twice a week for now so hopefully I'll be posting our next show dates soon. Check here for our next show.

Golden Globes

So lately I haven't been working in casting. Hollywood shuts down for the most part between late December and early January, so consequently most productions won't start between Thanksgiving and New Years. This meant that since I wrapped Distraction, which will be airing it's premiere January 28th at 10:30pm on Comedy Central, new productions weren't really starting up for me to work on in the casting department, so I'm working as a PA on "The D List," Kathy Griffin's new show for Bravo. So since Kathy is working The Golden Globes this weekend, I will be too. So check back here for details about rehearsal and the show itself.