Floating, Floating, and Floating with Travilis

I have no style.

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 12:19:51 -0500

I have no style. I thought I use to have it but I was just following trends. I don’t really care how I dress anymore. As long as my clothes don’t smell bad and I don’t have stains on them I don’t really care what I look like. I thought when I got older I was gonna be able to buy all the name brand clothing that my money could buy but i think that’s fucking idiotic now.

I buy all my socks from dollar tree. The all black dress socks. They thin out quick as fuck but their in dollar tree for a reason. I think about going to thrift stores, but I can’t make myself actually plan to go to one. They’re are plenty in Memphis though.

You can kinda tell people who let brands make them. They’re always dumb. Not drool out of their mouth on the table dumb but a functioning idiot. Those people always have the best jobs. Some people I know take the last bit of cash they have and blow it on $200 shoes that they wear for 3 months, then they just start over with another pair of $200 shoes 3 months later.

I know people who dress babies in Gucci. I’m talking about a incoherent not being able to speak yet baby. That’s some shit you wear to the Cannes Film festival not in a low income neighborhood. I think the only time you should wear Gucci, Louie Vuitton and all that other really high dollar shit is if you’re so famous that they give it to you for free. No other times.

I love my Nike Flip Flops. This past memorial day they turned 3 years old and are still going strong. Only cost me $20 and they look great with my black dollar tree dress socks. If only I could somehow wear them in the winter.

I’m mainly a wolf by nature or rather I was raised around wolves so I always spot things. Nowadays the guys who use the word “swag” or have a shitload of non-sense tattoo’s are the one’s who get leant on. Those are the ones you gotta watch though. They’re the weakest one’s so they buy guns in abundance. They’re sporadic too so they’re not afraid to use them. I just want to to live 15 more years and see where those tattoo’s go.

G-Fades use to be the thing in like 1998. That’s when you got a gerry curl and cut off the sides. Eventually they got old but at least you could just cut your hair off and be done with it.

I live on 6dollarshirts.com and Threadless (when they have those $10 sales). Threadless shirts feel more comfortable and 6dollarshirts feel like the early 90’s to me for some reason.

Today while sitting on my pops front porch while burning someones unsecured Wi-Fi up a nice red...

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 18:18:37 -0500

Today while sitting on my pops front porch while burning someones unsecured Wi-Fi up a nice red chevy hatchback pulled up to the house across the street from me. It has a for rent sale in the yard and I’ve noticed cars stopping by every now and and then to get the number.

The car pulled into the driveway and a little girl got out and knocked on the door. No answer. There was a car already in the driveway that had never been their before but I hadn’t seen it pull up or anybody get out of it, so I didn’t know if the car was just parked there or somebody from that car was in the house.

After the the little girl got no answer the woman on the driver side and got out and got my attention.

She asked did I know the people who owned it. I said no. She said she had been calling for the last three days and got nothing but the voicemail. I didnt say anything.

She said if the white folks who owned it didn’t want to rent to her because she was black they should just say it. I was like okay. She said that if I saw the white folks I should tell them give her a call.

She said thank you and left.

She wasn’t too bad looking either but she was definitely crazy. She wasn’t crazy enough to be submitted but she was up there.

30 minutes later a little kid walked out the house went to the corner store down the street and on his back he high fived a smaller kid on a bike.

I told my sister I deleted this picture but she don’t know...

Tue, 29 May 2012 22:51:19 -0500

I told my sister I deleted this picture but she don’t know what a instagram is. (Taken with instagram)

Bukowski’s Women (Taken with instagram)

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Bukowski’s Women (Taken with instagram)

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Bike has been completely stripped. Now to rebuild but make it...

Wed, 23 May 2012 17:37:29 -0500

Bike has been completely stripped. Now to rebuild but make it just electric. #electriceptor (Taken with instagram)

Washed Out 5/19/2012 (Taken with instagram)

Mon, 21 May 2012 00:07:41 -0500

Washed Out 5/19/2012 (Taken with instagram)

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Sun, 20 May 2012 16:08:17 -0500

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Sun, 20 May 2012 10:53:58 -0500

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They’re beautiful. (Taken with instagram)

Fri, 18 May 2012 11:15:27 -0500

They’re beautiful. (Taken with instagram)

Washed Out - Untitled #5

Fri, 18 May 2012 09:10:59 -0500

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Some people want me to direct a music video for them but I don’t want to put my name on...

Sun, 13 May 2012 15:43:00 -0500

Some people want me to direct a music video for them but I don’t want to put my name on something that is shit. For instance, I know my skills will be on my point but what if the song they want to use is really shitty. I’m having a hard time about whether I want to do it or not. I told them my asking price and they agreed to it quickly.

I do love money and getting paid from this can fund the things that I want to do.

But I’m also a control freak and I’m gonna wanna control every aspect of what I’m directing, like the concept and everything. I don’t want to whore myself out to them just to do what they tell me and put it together the way they want to, but that money is calling me, like right now.

I haven’t been this confused since this morning when I didn’t know whether I should open a box of waffles or pancakes first for breakfast.

Right now I’m leaning toward yes, but I also don’t want them getting it confused that I’m just a work for hire and not a part of their “team”.

Also Penny Hardaway is somehow intertwined into all of this.

Flipped my last laptop a few minutes ago. I sold it to...

Fri, 11 May 2012 18:13:30 -0500

Flipped my last laptop a few minutes ago.

I sold it to a Mexican guy and his two younger kids. He wanted me to change the language to Spanish which wasn’t hard. His son was super talkitive though, but he looked like he was 5 and that’s what 5 year old’s do. I tested out everything for him and made sure it was in working condition.

He said if I came across a smaller laptop just call him because he’d buy that too. I said if he has any problems with that one just call me, but they never have any problems, because I know my shit.

The first Spider-Man came out 10 years ago last weekend. It was released May 3, 2002. It broke every...

Thu, 10 May 2012 19:02:16 -0500

The first Spider-Man came out 10 years ago last weekend. It was released May 3, 2002. It broke every box office record at the time. My little brother whose two years behind me, I was 14 and he was 12 walked to the theater to go see it. It was at the Highland Quartet which is closed now.

That was one of the first geek movies I had to go see on opening weekend. I remember getting out of school everyday and going to the Memphis Central library and watching that trailer over and over again for about 4 months straight. After I saw it I tried to build a glider aka a hang glider type contraception attached to a bike but it failed so bad I just gave up.

10 Years later this past weekend The Avengers came out and I took my 10, 11, and 15 year old brother to see it and I ended spending like $55 on 3D tickets and nachos’ and drinks and all that garbage. My now 22 year old brother couldn’t go because he was to busy being an adult and having sex / arguing with his girlfriend and whatnot.

The Avenger’s ended up breaking a lot a records and it’s probably gonna hit a billion dollars by Sunday, which is a big deal. Spider-Man at the time blew my mind because it was Spider-Man in real life. The Avenger’s, even though it was the shit, didn’t really do that. My little brother’s loved it though and I hope it’s their Spider-Man and in 2022, (ew) as adults I hope there’s another mindblowing movie that we all can go see together.

Sidenote 1: When my brother and I went to see Spider-Man in 2002 the girl at the box office was rude to us for no reason. I wonder is she dead now or is her life miserable? Who know’s.

Sidenote 2: That new Spider-man with Andrew Garfield looks like ass but I’m optimistic

The fuck?!?! I’m not gonna lie though, I understand all of...

Thu, 10 May 2012 15:15:19 -0500

The fuck?!?!

I’m not gonna lie though, I understand all of that.

If my wife looks like that at 40 and I get to take a shit in...

Wed, 09 May 2012 17:24:00 -0500

If my wife looks like that at 40 and I get to take a shit in front of her while looking at / being able to afford a 3G Ipad, what is there to complain about?

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Tue, 08 May 2012 15:14:02 -0500

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On the way to see the Avengers last night my little brother Zay who is 10 starting talking about...

Sun, 06 May 2012 20:43:00 -0500

On the way to see the Avengers last night my little brother Zay who is 10 starting talking about adult diapers out the blue. He’s 10 so I just let him talk because it’s Zay, and he say’s a lot of batshit stuff, and it’s best to let him get it out to me before he starts talking about this stuff to the world at large.

So we go in Avengers, see that shit in 3D for two and half hours, and get back in the car and Zay just continues his conversation about adult diapers saying he knows where he can get me some if I need them. That was weird, but funny.

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Thu, 03 May 2012 19:00:35 -0500

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A year ago this week I was this close to asking this girl to go see Thor. She was the friend of this...

Wed, 02 May 2012 15:22:00 -0500

A year ago this week I was this close to asking this girl to go see Thor. She was the friend of this couple I buy weed from. She had yellow/blonde hair so I always referred to her as “The Feisty Yellow Haired Girl. She was extremely hood too. I’m talking about “punching people in cars while they’re still moving” hood.

I told my friends that I wanted to talk to her and even though they relayed that message back to her, when she was around I was cold as shit towards her. I then made this plan to win her over in one night. I was gonna gonna invite her to see Thor and eat like a shitload of pancakes at a 24 hour pancake shop all while under the influence of marijuana. I knew she smoked.

On the last day of the semester I spent the day driving around giving mounted photographs away from my photography class. I stopped at my friends house to give them one and The Feisty yellowed haired girl was there. I was to about to ask her but then I smoked a joint and forgot.

Like three weeks later I went over there again and they told me she had just found out she was pregnant. I don’t know what would have happened on our Thor date but from my experience with them, pancakes are like an afrodisiac.

I haven’t looked up how long it takes a woman to conceive because I’m scared of what I might see, but chances are if that Thor date did happen, I’d either be getting ready to go on Maury, probably was already on Maury, or I’d be in one of the Dakota’s faking a form of amnesia, but it didn’t and everything’s normal. Haven’t seen her since either.

Avenger’s comes out this week too and I’m going to see that shit by myself.