This should actually be called Gifts for Skeet and Brick cause it’s both of their birthdays today.

Just go to Target and pick up one of these desks
It should be in the “colored” section in the back of the store…

I guess this only works for Skeet, but I’m sure Brick would rock it too.. Oooooh!!!!!

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 sorry for not being around, but I’ve been really busy with “real life” shit and unable to tend  to this “digital world” we all live in on the side. I’ve been in the studio with REMI NICOLE for the past week cuz after the first two songs we made together last month, or whatever, her record company decided to send her on back. We just cut 3 more tunes. Ask Skeet about these bangers because they are certifiable dance machines.

I also have been dealing with the “end of the begining” of the SHWAYZE record. Shwayze and Skeet and I are gearing up for some solid touring this summer! We just shot the sickest backyard bbq video for “BUZZIN’” – directed by Robert Hales who has done videos for Gnarles Barkley, Justin Timberlake, and Mark Ronson. Dude is SICKY DICKY!

We also got the sickest remixes of “BUZZIN’” coming at ya soon. We dipped into the vault and got some stinky cheese from the dopest fools around. Gonna be a free mixtape that u all can get ur little paws on…ur purdy little paws. Have u all heard of HELLA SWEATY COCK FIGHTS?????????? They are the sickest french-new-wave-rave-disco-backbeat-remixes. I would use more words but I feel like u get the point! These dudes are ruling the clubs from Tel-Aviv to Brussels. Look for em…and if you dont be ready for a big I told u so!

 BOOK OF THE MOMENT! – 2012 The Return of Quetzalcoatl by Daniel Pinchbeck Recently a few friends of mine had a collective other worldly experience while held up at the Roosevelt Hotel during the Malibu fires. Granted, we were on a bender, but the only substances we were abusing were Marijuana and chilled Patron Silver.  Throughout the week we all elevated our conciousness and joined in a paradigm switch which resulted in overflowing free thought and uninhibited childlike behavior much like that of a mushroom trip…only we were not on mushrooms. We all dressed up in drag and showed up to the uber-lounge HYDE and ended up running around the place in our underwear while people sneered and cawed but never stopped us. We searched for ghosts in the bowels of the Hotel til 7am one night and it wasnt until 3pm the next day that some of us actually met one in the elevator who asked us to go back to his room for cocktails…only the room number he gave us didnt exist! Eventually we settled into our new state of mind and started thinking about why we have started to think like we have and if their are any like minded souls. Recently my friends and I have been pondering the future. The future of what you might ask? The future of this Big Mac World with Super Size fries that numbs your mind with gossip while the world falls to pieces for a profit. This book is about the proposed “end of days” that is said to be coming in the year 2012 according to the Mayan calandar. The book talks not of an explosion or a worldwide war but of a subtle but supreme switch in the minds of certain humans as we near the end of one of the great cycles of our existence. The world may be heading to complete chaos…but out of chaos comes order. CHECK IT OUT! ITS GREEN! 

Sooo I linked up with Hootan Vahidi a while back to do a photoshoot and he just put some of the shots on his Photo site here. Go there and check out me next to Manson, Girls Aloud, Busta Rhymes and others! Photogs love my boobies.

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.

How good is the Converge record “Jane Doe” OMG!

Major props to Giant for one hell of a party. Peep a few pics of the awesomeness:

Snorting a Brain Chemical Could Replace Sleep

By Alexis Madrigal  12.28.07 | 12:00 AM

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.

Such a product could be widely desired by the more than 70 percent of Americans who the National Sleep Foundation estimates get less than the generally recommended eight hours of sleep per night(.pdf).

The research follows the discovery by Siegel that the absence of orexin A 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.

1) Bat for Lashes – Fur and Gold
2) Jamie T – Panic Prevention
3) Battles – Mirrored
4) Chromeo – Fancy Footwork
5) Stars of The Lid – And Their Refinement of The Decline
6) Everybody Else – Everybody Else
7) Peter Bjorn + John – Writer’s Block
Caribou – Andorra
9) Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
10) MIA – Kala

I was gonna do a whole little blurb about every album, but fuck it theyre all really good. YOU NEED THE BAT FOR LASHES IN YOUR LIFE.

And Brian Lichtenberg, Awash, fuck it basically every hipster in LA. Check the Japanese Blog Post Here

I’m posting this becasue I love everybody at Heatherette! Lysee sent it over and I thought i’d share it with the whole world. There’s some footage of me DJing at the end.

So my camera broke a while back and I stopped updating photos. Then I got a new camera and the damn photo plugin stopped working. So i fixed everything and here we are.

Friends go look at photos of yourselves. Outsiders you’ve got a new cobrafake to check out on the daily.

Holler.

You have to post of the following pictures on your friends Virb,Myspace,LJ, what the fuck ever they have. Or your mother will get eaten by moths.

Starting my own chain letter awesome!