Hello all, my name's Trevor. My buddy Adam started calling me Skeeter Valentine a long time ago and now everybody calls me Skeeter or Skeet for short. This is my blog. I basically post things I find interesting or funny on the internet. Feel free to link here and if you do so, let me know so I can return the favor. Also if you're into dumb jokes and social commentary FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER.
So last night I played “the sleepover” in dallas at Ghost Bar. First of all that club is amazing, it’s on the 33rd floor of the W and it’s got he most incredible view. Pretty awesome. I felt like crap from traveling and being up all night the day before for Shwayze’s Bday. Cisco and Shwayze were supposed to make it out, but they were both exhausted from Radio Promo so Lisa and I went out without em and did our best to hold it down.
Anyways I was gonna film the view when the sound guy “Lonnie” asked if I was gonna go to the pool party today… I’m headed back to LA so I’m not gonna make it. Pardon my hoarse voice.
I also took a video when I played lollipop. Lisa was dancing in her bikini awww shnap.
So remember when I had to miss all my WMC Dates? And I said it was because of something big? Well the boys and I had to film a national television commercial for Pontiac and their new “Vibe.” The commercial features “Buzzin” and has Shwayze’s mug all over it. It’ a seriously good look for the whole Shwayze record. I’m super excited it’s out now, I know some friends have seen it already but here it is online.
So cisco and I were supposed to leave yesterday at 7:40am on Virgin… time change, going out, and blackout curtains put an end to that idea real quick. So luckily we were able to reschedule for today at 9:30am, I woke up at 8:40 and we’re in midtown fuck fuck fuck.
It’s kind of incredible because I slept through the unfadeable blackberry alarm which never lets me down. I even skipped Beatrice last night so i’d definitely get up and go back. And we were flying the best airline ever VIRGIN AMERICA so how i fucked this one up twice i’ll never know. Anyways now we’ll probably just fly straight to texas and hope everything works out at sxsw. Shit Shit Shit, I guess NYC just doesn’t want us to leave.
whateverzzz all i’m thinking right now is…
Cause God blessed Texas with His own hand
Brought down angels from the promised land
Gave ‘em a place where they could dance
If you wanna see heaven brother here’s your chance
I’ve been sent to spread the message God blessed Texas
So I really would have been keeping you updated on a regular basis but the internet at our lodge wasn’t capable or working for more than 30 seconds at a time. Basically after the incidents in San Francisco and Oakland I made my way to Salt Lake City, got swooped by the driver and headed out to Park City, dude was giving me the royal tour on the way talking about the valley and mormons and other shit that I didn’t want to hear at all cuz all I was thinking was “need sleep.”
I finally got to the lodge, and as I was walking up the stairs I ran into our manager jordan and gave him my room so he didnt have to bunk on the couch with Cisco and Shwayze. He just hopped on his homie’s Jet so he didnt get himself a room. I basically changed my shirt and headed out with Jordan to meet Cisco, Cat, Shwayze and the rest of their posse and they dodged in and out of gifting suites. I felt like shit by this time and there are few things worse than dragging around a bunch of crap you don’t really want through a snowy mountain town. Either way we did some interviews and lied a whole bunch hahaha, then me and shwayze went to Cisco’s rehearsal with Camp Freddy. It was supposed to take 15 minutes but ended up taking 3 hours as there was some trouble locating drum sticks.
We ended up leaving that spot and heading back to the room. We got our shit together and went to Paris’ dinner party at the turning leaf. Had some good food chatted with Denise, Abby, and Charles from Virgin America Airlines. Charles was the coolest dude ever, I introduced him to Perez (who informed me he reads EatSkeet?! Crazy! you better comment perezzizizzzle) and we chatted about the bay area, richard branson, and how dope virgin is in general. He gave all of us free roundtrip flights and basically was the best guy ever. After my little chat with Charles me and Shwayz went to talk to and Taelor about being pescatarian(vegetarian with fish?) and about how much I love nashville since she’s from there.
Anyways after Paris’ little dinner shindig I went to Stereo where I was gonna DJ but I felt like death and there were already 3 other DJs in the house, so I said fuck it went home and went to sleep at like 12.
Only to be woken up at 3:45 am by cisco and shwayze and 3 sisters who turned out to be the coolest people ever. They drove from LA to sundance on a whim and had no place to stay so we let em crash in our lodge and they’re actually there right now.
Here are some pics of sisters Felicia (yellow jacket), Whitney(black beanie) and Chelsea (blue beanie).
Basically they woke me up and we all fucked around till like 7am when me, chelsea and felicia passed out on the couch and everyone else found beds haha. Chelsea sprawled and kneed me out of the bed at like 10am and I was up for good. Another night of no sleep in the books.
We got up and got our shit together by 1 o’clock and met up with Ted and Matty O from myspace and we went to the Myspace lounge to have breakfast, the girls did their own thing and we talked about myspace parties, facebook and other random shit. After breakfast I went to the LRG/Skullcandy gifting suite and saw my skullcandy dudes Quang and Brad (also got some new SK Pros love those things). And I finally got to meet Julian AKA Red Foxxxworth who was out there doing video interview work for Karmaloop.
I left that place feeling terrible, like no bones about it I was sick. I had been popping airbornes and emergenc’s but they clearly had not done enough. The driver got cisco, shwayze and the girls and they scooped me so we could all head back to the lodge. We were trying to sleep, but a half an hour into the nap Rory and Natalie found our room and stopped by to say what up. I had met them briefly in the past, but Radam tossed Rory my # and she wanted to hang. We chatted for a bit and she headed home.
Next on the schedule was Chef Dance which was one of the longest (3 hours) and best meals I’ve had in a long time. Food was incredible, and I actually hit up our driver dude Rob to grab me some cold/cough medicine so I could function when we had to play at 2am.
He came through so big and got me some sudafed which really helped, and after the meal we headed to Tao. It was the clusterfuck of the century so me, myspace Ted, and Cat from suretone went to Green Door early and missed Cisco play with Velvet Revolver (You Go Dude!).
Cat, Ted and I wandered around this 30,000 SQ FT mansion of mansions and found a hot tub, a pool, a basketball court and a living room the size of the roxy all inside this place. As we were getting lost inside it started snowing hard and we were informed it was gonna drop 18 inches tonight. So here I am in the SLC airport after driving through the gnarliest storm from park city, watching the plane outside the window just get covered in snow. Somehow I don’t feel like it’s the best idea to fly through a snow storm, but i figure they’re probably pro’s at this in Salt Lake.
Anyways tonight we’re playing in Miami @ Stoli Hotel. I’m pumped on it.
Also I just remembered that I used to have this Tee and it’s nowhere to be found.
Check the video for the song I did with Dirt Nasty. “1980″ Directed by nick goossen. Featuring appearances by myself, Mickey Ave, Andre Legacy, LMFAO, DJ AM, Shwayze and even friggin’ ALF!!!! Alf doing BLOW!!!
So I am in St. Louis and I just took off and put back on my shoes for the 12 billionth time even though it has been shown over and over again that shit gets through anyway. I am hung over but I am also well hung so i have a smile on my face. AND I just rode to the airport with a childhood idol of mine…DOUG E. FRESH!!!!! The dude needs to start a whole new career as a comedian because he is the funniest guy I’ve ever met. I HAVE TO GET HIM ON A TRACK! He tore it up at the club last night with SLICK RICK too. St. louis has a vibe going on that is hard to put my finger on. The club might as well have been in Las Vegas and supposedly they spent 15 million building it…in St. LOUIS!!!!??? What is this world coming to? We are living in a fast food-us weekly-800-dollar-a-bottle-when-its-50-at-the-store-world. Now thats HYPHE! Oh well, see u at the opening of the next mega-club. As long as Doug E. is there…so am I! P.S. Go watch Captain Ron!Â
A nasal spray of a key brain hormone cures sleepiness in sleep-deprived monkeys. With no apparent side effects, the hormone might be a promising sleep-replacement drug. Photo: Flickr/Mayr
In what sounds like a dream for millions of tired coffee drinkers, Darpa-funded scientists might have found a drug that will eliminate sleepiness.
A nasal spray containing a naturally occurring brain hormone called orexin A reversed the effects of sleep deprivation in monkeys, allowing them to perform like well-rested monkeys on cognitive tests. The discovery’s first application will probably be in treatment of the severe sleep disorder narcolepsy.
The treatment is “a totally new route for increasing arousal, and the new study shows it to be relatively benign,” said Jerome Siegel, a professor of psychiatry at UCLA and a co-author of the paper. “It reduces sleepiness without causing edginess.”
Orexin A is a promising candidate to become a “sleep replacement” drug. For decades, stimulants have been used to combat sleepiness, but they can be addictive and often have side effects, including raising blood pressure or causing mood swings. The military, for example, administers amphetamines to pilots flying long distances, and has funded research into new drugs like the stimulant modafinil (.pdf) and orexin A in an effort to help troops stay awake with the fewest side effects.
The monkeys were deprived of sleep for 30 to 36 hours and then given either orexin A or a saline placebo before taking standard cognitive tests. The monkeys given orexin A in a nasal spray scored about the same as alert monkeys, while the saline-control group was severely impaired.
The study, published in the Dec. 26 edition of The Journal of Neuroscience, found orexin A not only restored monkeys’ cognitive abilities but made their brains look “awake” in PET scans.
Siegel said that orexin A is unique in that it only had an impact on sleepy monkeys, not alert ones, and that it is “specific in reversing the effects of sleepiness” without other impacts on the brain.
The research follows the discovery by Siegel that the absence of orexin AÂ appears to cause narcolepsy. That finding pointed to a major role for the peptide’s absence in causing sleepiness. It stood to reason that if the deficit of orexin A makes people sleepy, adding it back into the brain would reduce the effects, said Siegel.
“What we’ve been doing so far is increasing arousal without dealing with the underlying problem,” he said. “If the underlying deficit is a loss of orexin, and it clearly is, then the best treatment would be orexin.”
Dr. Michael Twery, director of the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research, said that while research into drugs for sleepiness is “very interesting,” he cautioned that the long-term consequences of not sleeping were not well-known.
Both Twery and Siegel noted that it is unclear whether or not treating the brain chemistry behind sleepiness would alleviate the other problems associated with sleep deprivation.
“New research indicates that not getting enough sleep is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease and metabolic disorders,” said Twery.
Still, Siegel said that Americans already recognize that sleepiness is a problem and have long treated it with a variety of stimulants.
“We have to realize that we are already living in a society where we are already self-medicating with caffeine,” he said.
He also said that modafinil, which is marketed as Provigil by Cephalon and Alertec in Canada, has become widely used by healthy individuals for managing sleepiness.
“We have these other precedents, and it’s not clear that you can’t use orexin A temporarily to reduce sleep,” said Siegel. “On the other hand, you’d have to be a fool to advocate taking this and reducing sleep as much as possible.”
Sleep advocates probably won’t have to worry about orexin A reaching drugstore shelves for many years. Any commercial treatment using the substance would need approval from the Food and Drug Administration, which can take more than a decade.
Tonight I played in Atlanta, had some issues with the gear which kind of bummed me out. But it was good to see a lot of you people. Tomorrow in San Diego @ the hard rock, then new years there as well. Get at meeee.
Also Cisco is another huge asset to EatSkeet. Shit is going dowwwwn.
I’m really tired at this nice house in Atlanta, the craziest thing about Atlanta is how everyone can buy houses and everybody has their own home. Whatcha know bout $200,00 homes.
Hello to all loyal Skeet-ophytes…My name is Cisco Adler…yes the guy with the huge hairy…EARS? Oh stop it! I will be your newest source of everything that I think you ought to know…
1.I do have pretty big ears but they are most definitely not hairy. I think they help me with my music though so Ive decided against plastic surgery. If I was flat chested it would be a different story.
2.I have no comment on my ex-girlfriends DUI other than it happens and it shouldn’t be the breaking news of the day on CNN…eatskeet.com however will have a full report(I will not be the reporter on that story) .Â
3. I just started working with this dope chick from London called Remi Nicolle. She is said to sound like a combo of Lilly Allen and The Arctic Monkeys. I personally think shes even deeper than that and has this dope matter-of-fact-british thang going on that is completely intoxicating on track! Check her out on MYSPACE. We just started so our tunes wont be up for a while but SHIT is dope..SO CHECK IT!! As soon as we finish em I will post some tracks for u to peep.
4.Im in cold, dark St. Louis tonight with Shwayze for the opening of HOME nightclub. Danny M. and Wilmer are hosting the shin dig and A.M. is spinning…should be fun stuff. If your in the area please stop by and gimme a kissy…LOVE YOU,CISCOÂ p.s. still figuring out how to be BLOGGERIFIC so bare with me… hahaÂ
So last week me,cisco and shwayze went to the dragonfly to be on dave navarro’s internet tv show called “mania TV” videos from the performance are below. First one is us playing a song called “polaroid” second one is us playing a song called “buzzin.”
 
