Paul's Journal

03/05/2009 09:06 #47954

Courtside Eviction
Category: housing

So we are at court today to evict one of our tenants who doesn't live
there anymore and hasn't paid rent in months. The thing is she left
lots of stuff in the apartment and you can't just remove it without an
eviction proceding. If she actually shows up i might end up on court
for something else, lol. It's not just inconvenient, it costs money
to evict someone. The thing is if this ever happens again it is no
longer a mystery process and I will jump on it sooner. For example
with our new tenants that have not paid march rent yet - what the fuck!

So our sheet says the court case is at 9am but now that we got here
the courtoom we in in actually says the court opens at 9:30. Thanks
city of buffalo?

The real problem is that at 8:30 we put one dollar in the new style
parking meter. But now, because it's just a printed receipt instead
of a meter, there is no way to add time until later. I find that
super frustrating. You should be able to feed you old receipt in and
add money.

enknot - 03/05/09 13:35
Eviction be damed... that picture is worth a million bucks...

If you're not busy Sunday night we should hang. I'm getting Drupalized proper right now.

joshua - 03/05/09 10:33
Hmm - so in this sense was Saddam Hussein 'evicted?' LOL!

paul - 03/05/09 09:53
Okay, seriously it's almost 10am, everyone is sitting in the court and the judge hasn't even shown up yet. Sidenote: for anyone getting evicted, they have free legal service for you. Our tenant hasn't even shown up. Maybe I should just file a missing persons report.

james - 03/05/09 09:33
ugh, murder should be a legally acceptable form of eviction.

03/05/2009 00:55 #47953

OMFG - DJ Andy C in Toronto 03/29/09
Category: dancing

Destiny

is throwing a party at Circa on March 29th. For once all the stars line up. A huge club, my favorite DJ - Andy C

, a night I can go. I bought myself a ticket and one for (e:terry). I am so freakin excited. Also on the lineup Mystical Influence. I freaking can't wait it is going to be so awesome.

On these recordings you cannot hear the massive bass which is the most amazing part. You know those cars that hum with bass, this is like that x 10,000. The bass actualy shakes your body. Its such a great feeling.

Andy C

And mystical Influence

- from WEMF 2008

theli - 03/05/09 14:21
Jungle? Fun.

So how much were those tickets? Guessing widly at $60 american or so?

03/04/2009 22:25 #47949

My love of TV commercial music
Category: music

It all started with Ingrid Michaelson's old navy commercial (e:paul,41443)

Then I heard this JC Penny song the other day

The Stony Rebels - Unbelievable

But the real winner was OMG "Oh My God" by Ida Maria that plays for the intro to the Gossip Girl Commercial.

Here is their site:

The wikipedia article:

Last FM:

I searched for so long before finding it. Okay for like 5 minutes but thats a lot for me. These one have seem to have potential. I love bands that have a lot of recordings on youtube. I also love their unpolished sound. It reminds me of my most favorite singer Kimya Dawson.

This is the more polished official video

This video, I live you so much better when you are naked is so inspired by Nina Hagen.

03/04/2009 18:07 #47947

The rabbit
Category: animals

Wow, a year lster he is still behind the hsbc in no man's land.

This (e:paul,45553) is when the rabbit was at its most disgusting peak, in case you don't remember.

tinypliny - 03/15/09 18:03
I never cross that lot. Why do you jog across all that rubble??!

theecarey - 03/04/09 18:41
The fate of the Easter Bunny is grim.

03/04/2009 09:32 #47941

Dream about elmwood ave design
Category: elmwood

Last night before I went to sleep (e:matthew) told me about how elmwood enacted a design standard. I totally think thats great and support it. However, somehow in my dream it turned into some really grotesque, ultra modern, turqouise and blue, chunky plastic disaster. The bright blue was to represent the old blue neon lights on the tops of some of the buildings along the strip and the brown plastic was supposed to represent brick I think. It looked kind of like Room brown and blue meets 60s plastic future on the moon and had the same sheen as if it was made out of legos.

None of the parking lots were up front though.

I wish I had time to model what I am talking about.

metalpeter - 03/04/09 19:32
I'm kinda mixed on the Idea my self. I get what they are trying to do they want to keep the place to look like the city and not the suburbs. Well that isn't right really. They don't want it to look like big box places. But see there is a danger in that. One of things that I think passed is no names on aunings or how ever you spell it, aren't there all ready places like that and doesn't it look kinda cool. If I where going to open a shop and I could go on another strip where I could design my building how I wanted it and I could do what ever with the sign then I would go there and not Elmwood. The risk you take is sending people away. The other risk that is bigger is by saying there are certain things you can't do at some point in time, then every place could wind up looking the same. If you don't believe me think back to what Grant St. Did. Yes it was a good idea but it didn't work and lots of places closed anyways. Grant St. came up with this cool looking signs. All the places had black signs and around the edge was Bronze/gold and then the raised lettering was the same color. Yes it was cool and made all the places with them look unified. I'm guessing that with all of those bought they got a good deal. But what about when you need a new letter or a place closes.