all i hear is static

sweetness

2008-09-25T18:08:00.001-07:00

passed my road test!! shit was easy, took it the same place as keithy and i have no clue why he failed, basically you can pass if you have feet, hands and a brain, all that are fully functional..i guess keith doesnt qualify on the latter =/. my lady was some jamacain who was very large and seemed hungry (ya mon[jamaican accent]). it took all of five minutes and was super sweet when we stopped and found out i passed. so next on the agenda is to turn 17 so i can stop driving with mommars and poppars, and thats only 10 days away so, until then..

Syke!!!!

2008-09-06T13:15:00.000-07:00

So remember how i was all like I'm getting this 02 Liberty, yeah well that isn't working out. The company over there in Riverhead is like a bag of asses, they wouldn't return any phone calls and haven't been helpful at all since we signed papers and put down a $100 deposit (which is refundable). So we recently have been talking with Island Jeep in Lindenhurst and they've been really nice. Last night dad went over there to put down a deposit and today we went over to check it out and give it a spin. It's an 03 Liberty in Silver with 70k miles and was about the same price as the other one. It drives great and everything works perfectly, and it'll look really nice once they prep it and give it a bath and vaccuming. The guy is even putting in a new battery for no extra price and he seems really nice,which is great. We were able to set a pick-up date for this Friday, yay! I'm excited to finally have a car in my possession. Here's some pics.. (oh and ps those aren't my floor mats in the last one, mine are already in the car.)

I GOT A CAR!!!!

2008-08-31T06:29:00.000-07:00

Holy shitzners!! Yesterday afternoon pops and I went out to Riverhead to look at cars, and we ended up buying one!!! Its a beautiful 02 Jeep Liberty in Metallic Blue (same color as Keith's car). I am super pumped and can barely believe it yet. I'll add pics after we pick it up on Tuesday hopefully.

Best Breakfast Ever!!!

2008-08-06T09:45:00.000-07:00

Seriously my new favorite breakfast, when i first saw it i thought it was kinda weird but was still intrigued enough to want to try. It's now my new favorite breakfast, add in a cup or two of coffee and you're all set. I'm not going to ruin the surprise so watch the video and try it out!!!

Australians are..

2008-07-14T05:54:00.000-07:00

officially the shit. seriously this dude is hilarious and he's a pole vaulter, and anyone familiar with the track world knows that vaulters are usually somewhat out there since they hurl themselves 20 ft in the air on a stick. enjoy

is your dog retarded??, megan's is

2008-07-12T19:15:00.000-07:00

meet megan of the new vh1 reality show, "I Love Money", and well her dog Lily isnt exactly right in the head, basically shes mentally challeged, or just plain retarded. they do say dogs mimic their owners, oh well at least her owner is hot.

and what will megan do should she win the $250,000 you ask?? thats right, raise awareness of retarded dogs, and i quote, “I really want to spread the word about mentally challenged dogs. I’ve saved one myself, my dog is retarded. And I want to adopt more of them and save them.” way to go megan, saving mentally challeged dogs everywhere, you should recieve an Oscar, but please, dont strain yourself and make a speech, you're not exactly MLK

**disclaimer this is in no way meant to hate on megan, i just find retarded dogs funny, dont hate me**

i'm shipping off to boston, so its been a week

2008-07-12T18:33:00.000-07:00

hello my dear blog readers (keith)!!

a week and two days ago i made my way to jfk international airport for my 4pm flight to boston. i got into logan right around 5:10 and made my search for keith, but he was no where to be found. i gave him a call and he did not answer!! =( it took me a bunch of calls to finally reach him and find a pick up location, it was a blasty.

we headed back to his new apt in waltham and began our 4 day weekend of fun. we hit it off with a viewing of "grandma's boy" which was hilarious and we both loved, many quotes ended up being repeated throughout the 4 days. then we went to a small mexican resaurant to get some take out and while they were making our food, occupied ourselves by intently studying how those weird slushie machines work, good times. we went back to the apt and we had to have watched something but i cant remember=/.. at some point that evening, we made up a game where we would throw a small orange ball at each other from across his carpet and if it hit the ground, the thrower got a point...lets just say keith sucks at ups, and lows, if it hits him in the stomach hes ok. that probably lasted for a while and we eventually went to bed.

friday, we woke up probably around noon and around one i decided i'd go for my run. so i head to the charles to get in a nice 30 mins. somewhere around the 10 min mark, i got stung in the arm by a black, pretty large, bug. i knew it got me, so i hit at it a couple times to try to kill it (i think i got revenge) and went on my merry way. i got back to the apt after my 30 and put ice on it for a second, thinking it was a standard mosquito bite. we went to play some basketball at the nearby park, and i won, basically cause keith aint got no speed. at some point we got sandwiches for dinner, watched another awesome movie, "old school", and went to bed, thinking nothing of my bite...

woke up a little late on saturday, the day mom and dad were supposed to arrive as well as the day we were to celebrate keiths b-day, and noticed my arm had swelled up a good amount, but still didnt think much of it. ma and pa got to the apt around 6, 2 hours later than they said they would get there. and mom made a big deal out of my arm. we went to dinner at margaritas, which was good, and then mom basically forced a trip to the ER. basically they had no idea what bit me, so gave me an IV of some antibiotics and a push of benadryl. they said it was an allergic reaction and sent me home with a Rx for anit-b's and benadryl, so that was fun. (btw my arm is fully healed now, yay). we went back to the apt to open presents, and keith was happy, i gave him the best presents- some RAMEN noodels and skittles. then we played some wii for a while, mom and dad left, played some more wii and went to bed.

sunday we met mom and dad for lunch at Cheesecake Factory, which was fine, said our goodbyes and made our way back home to NY

it was an awesome little vacation, and i had a lot of fun!!

p.s. stay tuned for retarded dogs

keith's rap

2008-06-22T12:04:00.000-07:00

heres a little rap since i havent posted in a couple days...

drop the beat bitch..

this is my brother
he's a dude lover.
his shit is weak,
i visit in a week!!

for weeks he's promised me a blog,
all he's done so far is drop a log.
what the hell keith??
stop beating your meat...

and thats a rap

Celtics are world champs!!!!

2008-06-18T14:31:00.000-07:00

In my opinion Kevin Garnett had a hell of a night. The guy was a beast from everywhere on the floor, shooting raindrops all day. Post-game, you could really see how much this meant to him and the Celtics. Hell, he cried on national TV.

The game as a whole was fun to watch. Lots of energy coming from the Celts and the crowd was LOOOUUUDDD. Too loud to watch TV at a normal level, i had to turn the volume down a bit. The whole time you could see how much the Celts wanted it, Rondo was everywhere up and down the floor constantly and had some spectacular steals. Ray Allen drained 3's from downtown like it was his job (oh wait..hmm). And Paul Pierce, who did not have a spectacular game, easily deserved this the most. After spending 10 long years carrying this team, he finally was able to bring Boston a championship.

Overall, it was a pretty well matched series, but one thing can be summed up for the Lakers:

Kobe + no defense ≠ championship

Congrats Boston on a great season, and great Finals performance, you guys deserved it.

hello life..

2008-06-17T16:02:00.000-07:00

so i'm now officially on a roll. this has been the most consistent i've ever been blog wise. arent you pround of me?

since my last blog before last nights, i have finished junior year of high school. it wasnt as bad as people has always said it would be, "junior year is the hardest", "junior year is the worst". i thought it was great actually. i continued practicing my slacking ways, doing my best to do the least amount of work possible, but still get good grades. i also think that this year i connected with my friends on a deeper level (how gay does that sound?). we definitely got to know each other more and become closer. also i made a lot of new friends and got to know them better than i had in the past. i'd like to think that this year was pretty big on personal growth, i liked it.

now on to running for the year. i had a pretty good XC season, coming on at the right time and all, so that was pretty successful. then winter was ok running a lot of 800s on our 4x800 relay, ran a nice pr of 2:03. i was happy with that. then spring sucked dick. i really barely did anything very productive. i pr'ed in the two mile and steeple but not by as much as i would've liked. whatever thats over, time for summer training i guess.

so thats been pretty much it from then to now, exciting right? there were definitely exciting things along the way, i'll share as i think of them. today i pretty much chilled then ran for aboot 25 mins. yesterday after my run i had to do a weight workout and basically today my triceps are so sore i can barely lift my arms. it sucks, washing my hair and putting on a shirt are posssibly the most excruciating things ive had to do today, yeah its that bad. alright thats that. im out, be good.

p.s. shamrock learned how to read!!

hello again

2008-06-16T19:07:00.000-07:00

this is a pretty cool video on a USA 1500m runner who is sort of on the outside of getting on the olympic team at the trials in a week. its an intro to a short series on him and i liked it so i thought i'd share. i hope to be posting more often and get back into this thing and talk a little aboot track and stuff post more vids that are cool (most from Flotrack). anyway thats that, maybe tomorrow i'll post a little aboot whats been going on between the last time i blogged and now. au revoir mes amis!!

UPDATE: after reading all my past blog entries realized they're fucking gay. sorry

From Russia: A fish? A monster? An alien? A mermaid?

2007-03-01T18:30:00.000-08:00

Yikes! Today in Global History my teacher somehow got on the subject of an "alien monster fish" found in Russia. So here is the story:

Some Russian fishermen were fishing in the Sea of Azov, and caught the strange looking "fish". The men first believed it to be a monster or an alien, which squeeked, and took video with a cell phone camera. Then they ate it! Specialists have looked at the video and say that the "fish" is not extraterrestrial, but have been unusure of the species. Some have said it looks like a skate, a member of the sting ray family, others say a sturgeon. The thing is preety strange looking and i was amazed while watching it. Here is the link:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6tfTMjYsS-U&mode=related&search=

From Christmas to New Years to Now

2007-01-11T18:42:00.000-08:00

First off, sorry for not posting in a while, been busy/lazy. Secondly, I'm using Keiths blog to refresh my memory so some stuff may be similar. Ok, here we go.

12/22/06--- First day with no school, thank God, also Dads birthday, yippe. Keith came overat 7ish and we played basketball until dinner (he won, which has been happening recently, I need to start ballin' more!). Had a delicious dinner of something tasty, then gave some b-day presents to Dad. My gift was the best. Then came dessert which was followed by Christmas presents, yay! My big gift was an iPod nano, but also got a magazine subscription and running apparel, which was appreciated. The night ended with some tv and putting songs onto the "pod", then a great nights sleep.

12/23/06--- Woke up early to go for a 40 minute run before finishing packing and getting ready to go. Got back, showered, packed, and we finally left at around 12 (i think). Survived through the 3 1/2 hour drive to Lenox, MA, home of the Birchwood Inn, the delightful place where we would be staying. Checked in, said some hellos to relatives, and brought at least 100 items from the car up to the room. Then we hung out with family until Keiths arrival at 5:25, about 5 minutes from dinner. We all went to Napa Grille in the center of town for a pretty good dinner, mine was a big plate of ribs mmmm! We came back to the inn and more family arrived, then played some trivial pursuit. Then we all retired for the night.

12/24/06--- Woke up for a morning run, showered, and went downstairs for breakfast with Keith, Jon, and Ryan. While eating i was told a story about how Ryan thought he heard/ saw the ghost presumed to be haunting their room. I didn't believe him, but went along with it. Then Dad, Keith, Ryan, and I went skiing at Jiminy Peak. When we got there it was raining, and the slopes didnt look too good, but we tried it anyway, and it cleared up and we had a great time. We got back with enough time to shower and get changed for dinner at Lenox 218, which was just ok, i had some pasta and shrimp dish, which i got tired of really fast. Went to the inn for some Secret Santa exchange, i got a medley of gifts from Emily, including an iPod sport case, picture frame, and other small stuff. Then we played Scattergories until bed.

12/25/06--- Yay Christmas!!!! Woke up and ran as usual, but this morning was unusually peaceful, nice actually. Then had some breakfast and planned on sleeping through church, but plans to go to church got botched and we didnt go, could my Christmas get better, YES! Keith, Jon, and I played some football on the front lawn, but it turned into beat on Todd for fun, and we eventually got tired and went inside for some gift exchange. Gift time was nice, i got Tiger Woods PGA Tour '07, a new putter, practice golf balls, and a $50 gift card to iTunes. We then got ready for a delightful dinner at The Red Lion Inn. I had salmon, and watched my brother and cousin Jon try to see who could get the waitress to like them more, she had an engagement ring too, by the way. This ended unceremoniously, but with laughs. Keith then decided to play chess with little cousin Liam, and let him break a glass chess piece, way to go Keith! We then went back for some Pit, Mom and I tied for last. :sigh: Then bedtime.

12/26/06--- Woke up and guess what I did, yes run, another good one. Then came breakfast, goodbyes and a long ride home. We dropped of cousins Jon and Emily, who rode in our car, then picked up Shamrock. Came home and loafed around the rest of the day. Watched tv and the like, then bed.

12/27/06--- Track meet in NYC, did pretty well, this took up my whole day, it was from about 6:30-9:30 at night, we stopped for Mickey D's, then went home and probably tried to catch up on sleep.

12/28/06--- Nothing exciting, sorry. Ran, loafed, went to bed.

12/29/06--- Morning track practice, grrr, then did nothing.

12/30/06--- Run, loafing, sleep.

12/31/06--- Last run of '06. Went to the mobbed food store, came home, spent New Years with mom and dad, it consisted of eating and watching tv. then i went to bed.

1/01/07--- Woke up, first run of the new year, watched bobby knight become the winningest coach in NCAA basketball. Did nothing all day, maybe some homework at night, bed.

1/02/07---Last day of vacation. Ran, and spent my day doing hours of assignments due the next day, why do i always do that?

1/03/07--- School, track, tv, bed.

1/04/07--- ditto

1/05/07---ditto

1/06/07--- track meet in NYC, did ok, this also took up my whole day

1/07/07--- swim meet, then some tv, sleep

1/08/07--- school, track, tv, bed

1/09/07--- school, track, keith came over. we played basketball, he won, went to taco bell for a snack, then looked at keiths old yearbooks, which were pretty funny, then i went to bed

1/10/07--- school, track, tv, bed

1/11/07---school, track, swim meet, blogging.

So theres my recent journeys, sorry for some redundancy, but school can make that happen. I'll try to make some interesting blog soon, but until then...

100 things about Todd!!

2006-12-21T19:43:00.000-08:00

After some computer difficulties (not being able to post), i have finally delivered. So without further adeu:

1. i have a brother, Keith
2. i like the Lillingtons
3. i like to run...a lot
4. i have a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Shamrock
5. he was born in Ireland
6. He is very attractive
7. my blog title is also a song title on The Lillingtons “The Too Late Show’
8. I go to St. Anthony’s High School
9. Unlike Keith’s alma marta my school enjoys the presence of females
10. In kindergarten, I started to miss my mommy and had crying episodes, so my mom gave me a picture of herself that I would look at when I was sad
11. My mom dressed me like a goon when I was little, i.e. sailor outfits, and suits where you where shorts instead of pants (last time I checked we didnt live in Bermuda when I was little)
12. My mom tried to raise me to be a gentleman when I was little, I think she forgot gentleMAN and tried to raise me as a gentleLADY
13. My mom is crazy
14. But I love her and now that I make my own MANLY decisions, we share many jokes
15. My dad hates to laugh
16. I like to say: Try to make my dad laugh, he’ll try to make you cry
17. Sometimes people think I’m talking to them, when I’m actually singing to myself
18. This makes me laugh
19. I also make my own jokes which I think are quite funny
20. Keith and I have many jokes about each other
21. When we are together, we are rarely not laughing
22. I enjoy basketball, both watching and playing, although im not good enough for my school team
23. I really like to cook
24. I watch the food channel often
25. Not the how to cook shows, shows about the history of food and stuff like that
26. You would probably find it boring
27. I don’t care what you think
28. I did horseback riding when I was little because my mom forced me to
29. I was the only boy in the class
30. I wear contacts
31. My eyesight is very bad and if my contacts are out and my glasses are not on, im almost legally blind
32. I have no idea how my eyesight got bad, it was great when I was little
33. I had an ulcer in my eye a year ago, if I let it go further without medicine, my eye would’ve been removed
34. I use my mouth like my hands and use it to hold stuff
35. I don’t have a cell phone
36. Or an ipod
37. People don’t believe me when I say that
38. Believe it!
39. I love Krispy Kreme (Ksquared as I like to call it)
40. Sadly they have removed the franchise from long island
41. I can settle for dunkin donuts
42. Kind of.........
43. Im a lot like my brother
44. Weird how that always happens with siblings
45. Actually most relatives in general
46. My family goes away for Christmas very often
47. I love it
48. People in school always say they have lots of work to do. I never find myself with more homework than a half hours worth
49. I never study for tests and still do awesome in school
50. We’re halfway there!!
51. I wish Moe’s Burritoes would expand more on our beloved island so I could enjoy it more often
52. I love nachos
53. My brothers dog bit me when I was 2
54. What a mean hearted dog!
55. I was only trying to give you your food
56. My dog wont eat unless he is hand fed
57. That annoys me a lot
58. He recently ate both of my sandals
59. My locker buddy threatened to stab someone in my school, he was suspended for that
60. He is not psychotic
61. He IS very nice and cool
62. MY other locker buddy might be gay
63. Cool locker buddy and I tease him about it all the time
64. He always responds with gay comments
65. Cool locker buddy and I laugh
66. I like to make fun of people often
67. Not to their face of course
68. Behind their back, duh!
69. Another trait I share with Keith
70. I love all types of candy
71. Especially Skittles, Twizzlers and Starbursts
72. I love chocolate
73. But not chocolate ice cream
74. Last year’s future job plan: lawyer
75. This year’s: doctor
76. Two years ago: guess what? (thats right!) Doctor
77. This leads me to believe that I have no idea yet
78. Which I’m told is quite alright
79. I want to go to Times Square one New Years Eve
80. I’ve been to Germany
81. It was awesome
82. Bermuda was amazing too!
83. Last year we went skiing in Park City, Utah
84. Have wanted to go back like crazy
85. I snowboard
86. Mom and Dad both ski
87. Switched from skiing to snowboarding two years ago
88. I love it
89. I’m getting pretty good...I think
90. I used to be really good at math, now im just ok
91. I love that calculator
92. I wanted to teach myself to play the guitar two years ago
93. Still do, but have little time, and no guitar
94. Mythbusters is the greatest show ever, I watch a new episode every Wednesday night at 9
95. I could hold a full conversation in spanish if I had too
96. Never had to, never want to
97. I hate getting my hair cut, they never do it right
98. Mom wont let me do it myself, although I swear I could do a fine job
99. The only sport I’m really good at is running
100. Yes, we wear short shorts, we’re proud!!

After lots of effort i finally gave to you people! You're welcome and Merry Christmas!!

midweek suprise!!

2006-12-07T18:43:00.000-08:00

Being the awesome person that i believe myself to be, i decided on giving you a intro comment to this weekends extravaganza in the form of blogging.

1. The seniors have "decked the halls" with thousands of multicolored lights, wrapped lockers, those weird blow-up globes that are supposed to be on front lawns but are in the middle of the hall instead, and mornings filled with random people offering free baked goods and holiday cheer. This makes my level of pumpedness to boost from super-pumped to crazy, European soccer fan pumped. The decorating skills of the seniors will also give me a great excuse for walking into class super late ("i got strangled by a string of lights", or "i got crushed by a giant blow-up globe" and possibly, "i couldn't find my locker thanks to pounds of Hanuka/Kwanzaa/Christmas wrapping paper covering it"). Thank you seniors for making 7 1/2 days left 'til break a blast!!
2. My Kenyan living is going great , in case anyone cares.
3. I am halfway done with 100 random things about Todd with the full list to be put on this weekend.
Teaser: numbers 1-3 (thanks Sarah) and 4 and five are your gift from me
1. i have a brother, Keith
2. i like the Lillingtons
3. i like to run...a lot
4. i have a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Shamrock
5. he was born in Ireland

Extravaganza post this weekend!!

Hi and intro to my blog, and recent happenings

2006-12-04T17:52:00.000-08:00

Hi!
After my brother, Keith, started his blogging I decided to take it upon myself to start my own. I took a few of the characteristics to his blog and added some "Todd-like" elements to it. For example, my blog title, "all i hear is static" is part of the lyrics from a very enjoyable song i listen to often called, (you should NOT be surprised by this) " All I Hear Is Static" by one of my all-time favorite bands, The Lillingtons. Their newest album, The Too Late Show is very good (this is where the song is from), although not as spectacular as a previous release of theirs, Death by Television.

Now on to my recent events. As, many of you should know i am a runner and i am pretty into it, leading to my knew habits, adopted from the Kenyans who dominate long distance running. This includes working extremely hard on my workouts (for all you non-trackies, that's running done on the track, usually the same distance of shorter than that of your event, at a very quick time, therefore increasing speed, lactic acid capacity/pain threshold, and increasing red blood count, making oxygen absorbed better during the next workout or race), running any distance/recovery runs long and at a solid pace, resting as much as possible, and eating like a Kenyan. Kenyans primarily eat mostly carbs and protein. Their regular diet consists of ugali(explained later), fruit, rice, meat, vegetables, and lots of tea, yes tea. Ugali is a mixture of cornmeal and water, in a 1:2 ratio, which is heated and served with a stew. Kenyan tea is also the main export from Kenya, and it is ingested regularly by the athletes, a lot of milk and sugar is usually added to this strong tea. A simple diet yes, but it is very beneficial to their performance, energy coming from the large amount of carbs and protein aiding in muscle recovery.

Other than my new, Americanized (but still resembling Kenyan style) habits, not much has been happening on Louis Drive.

An update may come later in the week, probably Sunday.