trairat.syndrome

once a day

2010-05-25T17:25:00.001+02:00

now documenting day with amats, one of my modena conspirators/artist/editor/inspirer.find us here: once a day

hiatus

2010-03-04T03:52:00.001+01:00

it's been exactly a year since i last posted. moving on to reblogging culture. might start this up again, but until then, find me a trairatsyndrome.tumblr.com

i want my crayon back please!

2009-03-04T17:42:00.003+01:00

i've come to the conclusion that i don't write more (here or otherwise) because 8 hours a day (sometimes more), 5 days a week, i spend my time thinking and writing.it's how i make a (meager) living. not that i'm really complaining. other than being on an emotional rollercoaster most of the time (i.e. pissed or not pissed), the job's pretty good. the people are decent to nice. and most days i am

date-rape

2008-11-15T16:18:00.005+01:00

Had my first experience with a "date rape" drug today. Sister to Rohypnol, Dormicum induces a semi-conscious sleepiness. While it's normally used for procedures such as a gastroscopy or colonoscopy, it can also be purchased over-the-counter and applied (though I certainly hope not) as a date rape drug. It can be dripped into a beverage, but I took mine through a drip IV with saline solution.

Beating Bond

2008-10-31T11:50:00.006+01:00

Don't know how I feel about the new Bond--I'm more a Pierce Brosnan pre-flab kinda gal, but this Quantum of Solace business looks pretty cool. Actually, I'm going to have to look up what Quantum + Solace means together. But the clip here is more about the film as a product, or how a product can be branded using a film. I've got to say, James Bond is a pretty good choice. Kung Fu Panda probably

le chien du bureau

2008-10-30T04:01:00.004+01:00

at the office, we have a dog named chip. smart smart dog. it rides the elevator and checks up on us every once in awhile.I've gotta admit I've been miffed at Chip though. He growled at me and charged at my leg with his nose/snout/muzzle, whatevs! These days we're just not on great terms. (won't be handing him anymore food if he comes to visit the 5th floor)Kid's got sad eyes though and you know

duped

2008-10-04T21:01:00.003+02:00

it's a case of leslie and the "lies"! my mother may as well have been lining the disco with a pan of crisco.apparently all we've been cooking with is PALM OIL! and you know what that means...SATURATED FAT/LDL CHOLESTEROL + BLOOD CHOLESTEROL. I don't want to die yet, so I bought soybean oil today. I don't know why I'm so upset. As for y'all, better watch out for palm oil in:cookies

salsa to barcelona, or chronic dissatisfaction

2008-08-22T09:48:00.011+02:00

with vicky and cristinaLast night I wanted to go salsa dancing downtown at Ole Madrid so I recruited my friend Thao and dragged Albert along for no-cover night. Our original plan was to park at Horton Plaza, validate the parking ticket, and then walk over to the club but then we discovered that WHORETON got really stingy and turned off their validation machines at 9pm EXCEPT at the movie theater

gymnastics fantastic (29:16)

2008-08-15T00:20:00.009+02:00

in the spirit of the olympics, i raced to finish my first mixtape.a little rough around the edges BUT extremely danceable.here's the track list:lykke li - breaking it upVNDLSM - uh oh!rafter - magicthe beatles - money (mike the 2600 king's fuck you pay me remix)mark ronson ft. santogold - pretty greenthe rapture - get myself into itthe human league - don't you want meannie - heartbeats (krazy

food & wine: recherche et expérience part II

2008-07-11T03:03:00.008+02:00

a backlogged post I hadn't finished editing a few weeks ago...a couple of weeks ago we had a party at the w.ave--our last blowout/triple b.day party/reunion of sorts. j-- wanted to make something experimental involving liquor, a re-take of something well known perhaps (as is the custom with culinary wonders these days). i think we'd been watching too many food videos on youtube when he came up

food & wine: recherche et expérience

2008-07-11T01:59:00.008+02:00

i was on foodgawker.com looking at food after a day of working with food (overdone much?) when i came across some scones i really wanted. so i went to this post called "tuesdays with dorie: apple cheddar scones" on a whisk and a spoon's food blog (mainly because it reminded me of "tuesdays with morrie"--a book i never read but was given to me by my soccer coach as a high school graduation present

party like it's 1998

2008-07-07T04:41:00.004+02:00

just finished uploading trairatsyndrome part tres.included are some random internet stuff with fun beats and el madmo--the sassy version of norah jones who sings "cause tonight we're gonna party like it's 1998!" against a disco break in the gritty "nonny goat mon," a gloria trevi's mexican wild girl classic "pelo suelto" that j-- and nancy kindly introduced me to, and the "islands in the stream"

sleepytimes

2008-07-04T06:45:00.006+02:00

in my writing classes i learned about appropriation, which is borrowing something and putting it in another context (see: kathy acker). in a way i guess remixes and mixtapes are sort of like that, too. however, today's tidbit is not a remix but actually 2 oldies-but-goodies that i think manifest the idea of appropriation: badly drawn boy's silent sigh seems to be borrowing from the smith's asleep

chameleon(s) part II, minus the music

2008-06-27T02:37:00.004+02:00

in response to j--'s post on animals (part II) and specifically lizards, i'm posting this video from about a year ago that i recently rediscovered. apparently chameleons not only love music but dancing, too.

bones from the butcher

2008-06-27T01:28:00.010+02:00

went downhill to the Iowa Meat Farms meat shop (conveniently found on yelp) on Mission Gorge to purchase some marrow bones yesterday. the store smelled like meat (obviously) + chlorine (not a great smell but it's comforting to know your meat is kept in a regularly sanitized place), old fashion butcher style like this place called Thai French in Sukhumvit my mother used to make me wait in while

music for chameleons

2008-06-16T01:45:00.003+02:00

It's actually my first time reading Truman Capote despite all the hype surrounding "In Cold Blood" (supposedly THE nonfiction book to read) while I was in school. I am pleasantly surprised by the subject matter and the easy-going, well-paced style that uses just the right amount of detail. One of my favorite stories so far has to have been "A Day's Work" in the Conversational Portraits section

sneak peek

2008-06-09T18:36:00.006+02:00

a video playlist compiled by nanoorom for the june triple party featuring a set by dj-- and yours truly.

things to disturb you for life

2008-06-08T22:33:00.003+02:00

i couldn't finish watching this video in one sitting. the most disappointing part, other than the blatant onstage pedophile action going on, might have been how the audience seemed to react normally like they were watching any children's singing contest. WTF

swank

2008-06-08T02:40:00.006+02:00

drove all the way to la jolla to have fancy drinks at whisknladle last night. the orginal intention was a lavender cosmo, which wasn't anything too exciting. however nancy got the smoked pear vanilla (pear & bay leaf rum, vanilla bean) which had a slice of the smokiest peach i've ever had. she, however, thought it reminded her too much of bacon. the exciting drink of the night was sean's london's

oldie but goodie

2008-06-08T02:21:00.009+02:00

i first read about Res in high school when i picked up a free magazine on chapel street in melbourne when i was visiting my sister who was going to school there. there were gold bootie shorts and hot pink in the accompanying photos (a la american apparel part I). i went home and downloaded some stuff online and remembered thinking "golden boys" was the most awesome song i'd heard in a long time,

muxtape messed up

2008-05-28T17:26:00.008+02:00

despite the recent chaos involved with muxtape (where songs disappear or whole playlists even), i've managed to get something together:revised trairatsyndrome part II- featuring she&him, santogold, dj lobsterdust, freeblood, gabo & orchestre poly-rhythmo, and etc.new springslinger for the beginning of summer- kings of convenience, the hood (ABX), kenna, lykke li, and more

mute

2008-05-15T02:48:00.004+02:00

check out the good stuff from the streets--(thanks to albert)Muto by Blu of Bologna, ItalyMade in Buenos Aires & Baden.

must

2008-05-14T17:58:00.001+02:00

go here and watch this: saysayismit's pure genius.

man, i feel like a woman

2008-05-14T08:54:00.004+02:00

backtracking...try tandem watching.

around the world: a re-visit

2008-05-14T07:28:00.005+02:00

while catching up on some blog browsing, i stumbled upon this video in one of chez pim's posts, which is to say "unlikely" (because she runs a (mainly) food blog). in any case, the first part visual-wise reminds me of daft punk's around the world--the music is much noisier/more dissonant, and then around 2:00 or so it gets into this asian scale which resembles thai elevator music or the

seconds

2008-05-02T11:31:00.003+02:00

the second incarnation of trairatsyndrome, 45:24 min.

broken records

2008-04-26T03:22:00.004+02:00

apparently i do the same thing over and over again.this one from last month at balboa parkthis one from last year at the guggenheim, bilbao

nature walks (or drives)

2008-04-26T01:11:00.007+02:00

the closest i get to nature (not very close)

wanderlust

2008-04-14T08:32:00.001+02:00

made another mixtape and tested it out on the way to portland and back--more on that later.worldwinds

mixtape tuesday

2008-04-01T23:49:00.008+02:00

this is what i have been doing instead of looking for employment:trairatsyndromefaux and frenchspring slinger- your internet dj at ned's noodle bar...

the great outdoors (sort of)

2008-03-30T00:10:00.009+01:00

took my yashica T4 out for a spin with some expired slide film.results = a lovely long-term relationship to come, i think.catalan ladies workin' the paella at mission baya teepee down by the border

fair & friends

2007-10-09T00:42:00.002+02:00

day two of the street fairthe fair ended early so hyo missed it.we had sangria at bamboo lounge instead.

roadblockin'

2007-10-07T23:56:00.000+02:00

i woke up late one afternoon and there was the adams avenue street fair going on outside.lisa came by later that day. she was very excited about the SPAM trailer.

lomographic life (bkk ed.)

2007-10-03T05:07:00.007+02:00

the post that was never publishedlooks like she's driving the boat but it really wasn't that glamorouswe went on some river boat tour to koh kred for worked the graduatestrays from dudesweetdad & mum

lomographic life

2007-10-03T04:54:00.001+02:00

scenes from moving next door.this was from earlier in the summer, too.j-- and nancy came to help me clean up before i left for bkk.we walked to vons.i can't remember who he was on the phone with.nancy got a pushpop.

newly lit

2007-10-03T04:42:00.001+02:00

roll 3 from back in july.there are things that i would call "same-old", but they don't always stay that way.i recently met a guy who lived behind this bingo place.the cowlights moved from the old house to the new earlier this year, but the plug doesn't reach and we never bothered getting an extension cord, so it never gets lit up.mai came down. we went to spread then baked with the her new

occupied in old town

2007-09-10T21:32:00.000+02:00

some are occupational...occupying space... i took this photo because the text from the truck put together with the text on yellow was funny. กองถ่ายทําภาพยนตร์ ทรงพระเจริญ = long live the film crewor just occupied...@ mon nomsod on thanon dinsor (pencil rd.)umm....(at the rim of sanamluang)this one's just preoccupied.

back in (old) town

2007-09-10T20:59:00.000+02:00

and the road finally gave me back, but i don't think i'll unpack...a couple of saturdays ago i went to old town with tanyawan before she left for paris. i hadn't been home for a year, but i think not much has changed. we went for a similar walk last summer (and as tanyawan kindly reminded me, the winter before that, too).this time we switched it up a bit and started with noodles by tha prachan.

pretend tourists

2007-07-30T03:07:00.001+02:00

friday, la jolla with mike plouffesealsit's a dream come true in a parking lotgood spot, ucsdeveryday things every day or night

san diego summer

2007-07-30T02:39:00.001+02:00

i'm really going to do it this time. by "it" i mean put up backlogged photos from europe travels so that they can be of some use. that, and nostalgic factors. so that's that, but meanwhile...adventures in 35mm and my lomo colorsplashsupersized sidestreets behind el cajon blvd.neighborhood activities

barcelona in retrospect

2007-02-22T04:58:00.000+01:00

sadly, back in san diego nowhave been back for a long time, often just not feelin' it, sometimes.it's not bad here, but it also isn't.so i'm starting this all over again, from the beginning so that i can put myself in another place, another time.

where hippies and hipsters unite

2006-09-08T19:29:00.000+02:00

leftovers from last weekvintage dress a la momplaza john lennon, gracia(wi-fi! oh shit!)in gracia, where i live now, everyone has crazy haircuts, wears aladdin pants, walk around like they're in the design business or travel frequently to india and morocco. any shop might pose as gallery, and vice versa.i'm carrying a bottle of squid brand fish sauce around with my laptop and a few other things

hola barcelona

2006-08-29T14:18:00.001+02:00

hola todos,i'm now living in the semi-suburb of barcelona called gracia with a little bar across the street and an espresso bar 2 doors down. unfortunately, the internet has been incredibly difficult to come by, so until then...

head over feet

2006-08-23T23:12:00.001+02:00

(on cities to love...)for davis and j--with <3.

holy toledo! (so not ohio...)

2006-08-20T11:57:00.002+02:00

a little alley called hellthe olive trail (in the middle of nowhere, andalucia)

arcs

2006-08-20T08:58:00.001+02:00

at the alhambra. granadaarchitecture with curves

men & children

2006-08-20T03:00:00.001+02:00

bilbao guggenheimbarcelona streets

Cc:

2006-08-20T02:45:00.001+02:00

construction (everywhere)charming segovian stoolcalor!closed/cerrado (por vacaciones)castles, cathedrals comida, corridos...si/sé.

ABC

2006-08-20T02:22:00.001+02:00

your long distance call and your capital letterskeep me asking for more.ABC = "another bloody cathedral," a clever acronym popular among those who have spent just a bit too long traveling around spain for the first time, hitting up one cathedral after another in every city/town. i suspect the british tourists may have had something to do with popularising this phrase. in any case, i am very much

spanish graffiti

2006-08-20T01:58:00.002+02:00

politics in segoviafrom salamanca alleys behind the university/cathedral areain toledo, above puente de san martinaccidentally shot on the way to madrid

dogs of segovia

2006-08-15T22:34:00.001+02:00

per request of ms.le

bona nit

2006-08-09T01:08:00.001+02:00

it's a switch--onthe swish of a skirtshadowstouchwithout handssilhouttesslip outoff proportionsin a waythat's quitestill

españa parte 2

2006-08-08T23:26:00.001+02:00

¡valencia!sartorially yourssomewhat?alley graffiti.vision nubladoi've become a lightweight! (not that i ever was a heavy weight, but i feel as though my alcohol tolerance has gone to shit within the past 2 weeks) now i'm getting tipsy approximately nightlyafter a glass of cava and blanca, i was gone...schiesse!

españa parte 1

2006-08-06T23:20:00.001+02:00

madrid - valencia, via cahuencasights & soundsupon stepping on bus no.34 in madrid towards el prado, i heard gwen's voice (when she was still no doubt). don't speak was playing on the radio, followed by toni braxton and celine dion's my heart will go on.the little shop at a gas station from cahuenca to valencia sold sex education books along with "bajas calorias" cookbooks & michelin starstudded

oh mother! oh boy(z)! woof!

2006-08-01T21:14:00.002+02:00

(photo from jasonvaughnart.com)i can't believe that up until a few days ago i hadn't heard wolfmother. i've heard of them but have always confused them with wolf parade, which i also still had never listened to until today. stereogum wrote a post called "know your wolves" which was sort of helpful for identification. wolfmother is very 70s retro analog sounding stuff, like jimi hendrix + black

in and out (and about)

2006-08-01T20:05:00.003+02:00

post-park sunday night we stopped on a street corner (the klongteoy part of rama IV) with my mother's dentist friends, near the Q-club snooker joint for some roadside chinese food: sharkfin/fishmaw soup and etc. great stuff at a reasonable price. chinese food is usually the last on my list of preferences, but this little cart was really quite exceptional. the dentists in matching reds next

the fashionable and the questionable

2006-08-01T19:20:00.002+02:00

and it was all yellow...a collective fashion faux pas perhaps?at the moment, and by that i mean mostly mondays and fridays, everyone is wearing yellow--a trend started in order to honor the king's recent 60th coronation anniversary (it's his color). while most asians are advised to choose yellow-based foundation in terms of cosmetics, the same doesn't at all apply sartorially.i intended to spend

when it comes...together

2006-07-25T16:24:00.002+02:00

"sincerity's eroticism is different from that of wit's" - lisa robertson(inside - outside. amazing john granger things! also, inside and out a la feist, one of my favorite girls)i was listening to tv on the radio's return to cookie mountain today and really felt like this might be a great album to listen to while you're stoned. i wasn't, but it had something that reminded me of broken social

backlog

2006-07-21T21:08:00.002+02:00

i once recorded a fragment (something that isn't enough to be a song, maybe better called a snippet) that went something like this:backlogged letters, unwritten replies.friday morning i kiss you goodnight. we're plainhearted people who've lost track of time.i just happened upon a few fotos from last year that i'd completely forgotten about. they were stashed away in this computer courtesy of my

drinking and driving

2006-07-21T19:52:00.002+02:00

chill-out afternoons...customized jeansfreshly cut and cuffed this morning before running out of the house. (inspired by the sartorialist in milan.)my cousins are cute! on a good day, they look like the summer collection out of a magazine. today they're nautical & al fresco in the backseat.3 factors must auspiciously conspire for one to be able to experience maximum traffic: rain (check your

new wave old town (via bangkok)

2006-07-19T16:24:00.001+02:00

bangkok things--nouvelle vague plays la fete 2006. for so long i've been in the wrong place at the right time, or vice versa, but one day, voila! the newspaper advertises a free show as part of the french cultural festival. it was raining, i broke in my rainbow sandals with several slops of mud. the girls had lovely dresses on and the keyboardist had a yellow bruce lee stencil shirt (yellow is

candy!

2006-03-11T20:42:00.001+01:00

one of the things i'll miss about living at modena--even though her visit was brief, candy was a handful, a noseful and then some. we've had our differences but in the end it's this picture of her i usually remember: candy wrapped in the blanket we appropriately named heaven (the other multi-colored plaid one we named las vegas after the cocteau twins song, heaven or las vegas. that one was