List of Vehicles I Would Like to Own

On 07.29.10, In Cars, By Philip

A long time ago on my blog, I seem to recall having made a list of cars I liked and would like to own some day (which means they have to be affordable, meaning if it can’t be purchased new or used for ~$60k or less, I don’t even bother hoping for/wanting one cause I’ll probably never be able to afford that. This is pretty much that list updated for 2010. I can’t see myself ever getting rid of my Camaro, because this is the car that made me love cars, so any of these cars would be in addition to Evey. :D

Chevy Corvette Z06

Pretty much this, except with the single black rally stripe down the middle. Yes, I have a thing for yellow cars.

Ford Mustang Shelby GT500

This color looks amazing in person. (Yellow is not offered on Mustangs anymore.)

Kawasaki Ninja 650R

I’ve never ridden one before, but it sure looks like fun. The green looks sweet, and of course, they don’t offer yellow. These aren’t expensive, especially used, but I have more important things to buy for now.

Nissan GT-R

This is the least realistic car in the list and would absolutely have to be purchased used, but regardless, it’s a totally sick car and one of the only foreign cars on this list (the only one if you don’t count the street bike). A 370Z would be more realistic, but I’d rather a Camaro SS or Mustang GT if I’m gonna drop $40k. 370Z is also a very nice car though.

Chevy Cobalt SS

Yeah, you’re thinking, “WTF, why is a Cobalt on this list?” Well, this is the last year of production for this car, so I doubt I’ll ever own one, but it’s a nice looking car, it’s somewhat inexpensive, and it’s fast. The Cobalt SS will run 0-60 in 5.7 seconds – that’s 0.2 seconds faster than my Camaro LT. The Cobalt would make an excellent daily driver, but then again, so would this next car…

Chevy Volt

The Chevy Volt isn’t exactly the best looking car, but it’s the most practical hybrid I’ve yet to see, and it’s still better looking than every foreign hybrid I know of. The Volt travels 40 miles on nothing but electricity, but has an extended range (with the help of a gas generator) of about ~320 miles with the help of a gas generator, which will still get you 50 MPG. This is pretty much the perfect daily driver car for just going to work or the grocery store or whatever.

-Philip

 
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Yasseah

On 05.20.10, In Cars, Life, News, By Philip

I never realized how much college and my old job used to shape how much stuff I had to write about here until now. Since I don’t write about my current job here as a precautionary measure, that’s eight hours out of my day that go unrecordable. That combined with Twitter seems to have eaten most of my blogging abilities.

I always feel like talking about my car on here, but for some reason, I keep from doing it because I’m worried that other people will think that I’m bragging, when that’s not the case at all. I just really like my car, and I want to talk about it, just like I talk about my computer(s)…and, well, everything else I own that I talk about.

That said, I still haven’t posted any detailed information on it, and I plan on getting around to it at some point, complete with some pictures. I need to wax it, but I’m going to wait until the body work on it is done.

That reminds me: do not, I repeat, do NOT take your car to Winner’s Circle in Tigerland. I took it there to get my tire plugged and I got it back with some missing paint on the edge of the driver’s side door. One of my friends also messaged me recently to ask how I got them to pay for it, because one of their friends brought their car there and it came back with a scratch. Some of the people that work there apparently do not care about your car, and the owner is convinced that all of his employees are 100% honest about reporting accidents, so it’s fun to try to convince him that you respect your property far too much to fling your door open into something without even noticing.

I went to the dentist the other day – the first dentist I’ve gone to in Baton Rouge. That said, I highly recommend Bruns Family Dentistry. It’s run by a husband and wife, and though I didn’t have my appointment with the male doc, I can say that the female one was the best and most open dentist I’ve ever been to, if it’s possible to judge based on a first time visit. She told me a lot of stuff that I didn’t know about my teeth.

That’s all for now. Keep up with my experiments with lucid dreaming on my dream blog.

-Philip

 
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Blacked out, stop, drop it down to 8 bits

On 12.20.09, In Cars, Movies, Music, Pictures, By Philip

Spent about three hours washing Evey and blacking out the bowties on Saturday.

Normal Chevy bowtie

Blacked out bowtie

front Chevy bowtie
Front bowtie blacked out
Normal rim

Blacked out bowtie on rim

Other than that, I’ve not been doing a whole lot. I saw Ninja Assassin last week and it was pretty good relative to what I was expecting. Lot of blood and ownage. :D

I also saw both of the Twilight movies, and…unfortunately…I liked them. :(

And now for the obligatory “what I’ve been listening to” part of the post. I have been into electronic stuff pretty hardcore lately, and my latest kick is electro-hop, which is – as it sounds – electronic hip-hop. I’ve never taken hip-hop lyrics seriously, but I’m really digging this genre (it helps that I love keytars :D ).

The band I’m enjoying the most is Hyper Crush. This video is for their song “The Arcade.” It’s pretty much about how awesome old school video games were, I guess. hahahaha.



I love the Mercedes emblem around Donny’s neck, the shirt Preston (the keytarist) is wearing, and the Super Mario Bros. video in the background with Megaman instead of Mario. :P

-Philip

 
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The Key to Snow

On 12.09.09, In Cars, Music, Pictures, Videos, By Philip

Evey in the snow last Friday.

Evey in the snow

Every in the snow

Okay, yeah, it was a pretty weak snow, but…it was cool nonetheless. It’s a lot easier to see in this video that I took under a lamppost.

Also, I’ve been meaning to share this for a while, but I kept forgetting. It’s a very short video of the key to my Camaro. Just so I don’t get any smartass comments, I know Volkswagon did this first, but it’s genius and every new car should have this kind of key.

On a final note about cars, I have six Camaro Hot Wheels cars. I’m collecting them. :D

I’ve been listening to one of Fall Out Boy’s new songs, “From Now On We Are Enemies,” a heck of a lot. It’s about the composer Antonio Salieri being jealous of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart because he thought Mozart was very undeserving of his fame because of his lifestyle (as far as I can tell). It’s a great song and another of Pete Wentz’s fits of lyrical genius.

Song plus lyrics:

That’s all for now. Media overload! :D

-Philip

 
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Hackensack

On 12.01.09, In Anime, Cars, Family, Friends, Games, Music, By Philip

I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything of linguistic substance, but lately I haven’t had much to post about besides Evey.

First of all, Katy Perry’s MTV Unplugged live CD is absolutely amazing. I love her voice so much. She did a brilliant cover of a Fountains of Wayne song, and the entire album has a “lounge” feel to it. It’s really worth checking out if you appreciate beautiful singing.

Anyway…

Yesterday I hit the 400 mile mark on Evey. When I got the car, it had 20 miles on it from the factory and the PDI at the dealership, and I took a picture at 22. The odometer reading grows so quickly. :P Come tomorrow, I’ll have owned her for a week, and I couldn’t be happier. Every time I walk up to it, I smile. There’s liking your car, and then there’s this – finally having a car that I once called a dream car. I just flat out love this car. It’s so much fun to drive. :D Everything about it is fantastic, right down to my switchblade key. I think between the Camaro and the Chevy Volt, GM is really looking up (Chevy Volt > all hybrids).

Last week was pretty awesome. I took off on Wednesday to pick up my car, and then I had the rest of the week off for Thanksgiving to enjoy it.

And speaking of Thanksgiving, I hope everyone had a good one. I usually make a post about being thankful, but I guess I’ve just been neglectful of my poor blog lately. :( We had delicious food (duck and deer, mmmm), and I have plenty of leftovers in my freezer right now. The rest of the holiday was spent with family and friends.

Now, it’s Christmas time and I guess I should be happier about that, but I really enjoyed the Thanksgiving holiday. :P The tree is up at my parents’ and I put up a little one at the apartment, though I only turned on the lights once.

Other than that, I’ve been watching way too much anime and playing Starfox 64 a good bit. :)

I need to get back in the habit of updating this thing regularly, because I hate making this catch-up posts where I have to condense a bunch of crap into something readable (or slightly readable :P ).

-Philip

 
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