Beverly

Band: The Mulhollands
Song: Beverly (vid link on myspace)

Why: This beautifully shot video took me a by surprise. By the end all I wanted to do was sigh.

I'm still trying to figure that part out.

please be nice

Testing out Google's new feature / company they just bought. be nice.

Wait! Was that a...?

just another echo park film permit

THE PRODUCTION COMPANY: BENZOMATIC PHOTO
WILL BE FILMING: LEVI'S
UNDER PERMIT: S-212688
LOCATION: Intersection of Echo Park Blvd. and Fairbanks Pl.
DATES: 2/26/08
HOURS: 7:00 A.M. - 1:00 P.M.
DESCRIPTION OF SCENE: Models against scenery sitting on bus bench. Stationary picture bus in curb lane. Camera and equipment on street and sidewalk.

One orangutan with trainer.

10 Things from the Vday Weekend

So when my girlfriend flew into LA last Thursday, neither of us expected a perfect VDay weekend. While we might be extremely sappy people, we are not the type caught up in the general expectation that this was to be a super romantic getaway.

So ok, when I picked her up from Terminal 3, there was some wrapped candy under the seat - actually eight boxes of NECCO sweet heart tarts.

So ok, we did have the best breakfast ever at Millie's Cafe Friday morning, seated along the sidewalk, ooh and ahhing over each other as much as each dish served in our area.

So ok, we did the uber couplely thing of hitting Trader Joe's for supplies to stay in. I would attempt to make pancakes for each morning slept in or for dinner, post afternoon nap.

So ok, I took her out for a walk hand in hand after Trade Joe's, but it was while I had my oil changed and she didn't mind one bit. (pic)


So it with the bar set so low and with the intent to merely pend time with each other, it hella sucked when poor B came down with a fever that night.

Of course I took care of her and worried like any boyfriend would: Will she be one of those sickly crybabies over a low grade fever??? **

Thankfully the answer was no; she sucked it up with Tylenol cold medicine.


**it's ok if you're really, really, maybe I need to go the ER sick

So before I put on my PJs I'm going to fill out this meme that dear Sonia tagged me with (What? The person who mocks LJ has an active LJ account? Duh, where don't I have an account?).

blah, blah, write a blog with 10 interesting facts/things/habits about yourself.

1) I've an irrational fear of being sucked into the ocean by a giant rouge wave.

2) This is embarrassing: You know how they say never putting anything larger than your elbow into your ear? Well I managed to have a cotton swab (aka generic q-tip) get stuck in my ear. . . on two separate occasions.

3) To this day I have trouble with the use of surnames. Mr. Mrs. I'm not talking about being paid to do so as part of customer service - just with parents of my previous relationships. Being polite I will pull out a proper greeting when required; I just avoided this fake level of respect with control freaks for parents. Not surprisingly, my best girlfriends had parents that insisted on being called by their first name. They respected us as maturing young adults and spoke volumes about the girl.

4) I've owned, and primary have worn doc martins since 1987. Then Guess! bought them and it went all downhill from there. I don't remember buying a pair of sneakers since 1998.

5) I was honestly appalled when supermodel Christy Turlington admitted to me that she had never read Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club.

6) I've never been surfing, skiing, or snowboarding. But I have bungee jumped and leaped off a 40ft granite rock into a chilly sierra pool of water.

I have a minor fear of heights though. I was more nervous being raised in the crane than actually bungee jumping off it.

7) I love wooden roller coasters - well pretty much any amusement/thrill ride. Only chickened out once when I was strapped into the ride that shot you straight up on the Stratosphere tower in Vegas. Completely chicken out at the last second based on a bad gut feeling more than the height.

8) I have zero kinks or fetishes. This is not to say I don't have fun.

9) I have no problem eating a pound of almonds in a day.

10) I'm always seem a little sick - or think I am. It's usually just allergies. I'm not a whiner.

Gemma Hayes - Ran For Miles

A lovely little video of Gemma Hayes recording Ran for Miles at Abbey Road studios.

She's Your Sister - 2nd to last show tonight

If you haven't heard already, the Chicago, now Los Angeles based band She's Your Sister has decided to call it a day.

Tonight at the Silver Lake Lounge is their second to last show, so come out and say goodbye. Final show will not be until March 29 @ ElCid.

Such a great band. I highly suggest going tonight.
Show info on flyer

"If you were socks and I were hands, we'd be a sock puppets."

zero percent = zero
More about calculator.

With a phone call and a miscommunication, I went from 100 percent to zero.

I'm sorry. I feel like I'm disappointing people left and right tonight.

strange days

Second or third day working eleven hours at my desk seem to make me a little loopy. In those moments I'm somewhat touched that a trade mag used one of my quotes. Granted it was self supplied PR dribble I wrote in ten minutes; I just didn't realize that it would be incorporated into the feature article.

And when I found a mystery package from B in the mail, I found myself ecstatic over the contents: vintage high school band buttons dug out from a prehistoric percussion room in Michigan. It's ok I'm with band would make a hella great shirt.

During an office chat yesterday about another trade show in New Orleans I spoke of a finding an old friend* that slipped out of the Bay Area into a bar tending gig on Bourbon Street and rumble bout with rough times. She was alive but I didn't know how well.

Seven years later she chose this morning to find me on myspace, from Portland teaching yoga no less.

Strange days indeed.


* Yes corey, we did date (read the comments)

I'm tired of being tired.

But it goes on; back to a job that I love and loves me back by wearing me out, back to two hour phone calls that I love to repeat on a daily basis. This what normal people do. But normal people also got out and I've done only that once in the last month.

I just need to get the f' out tonight and have a drink.

So if you're voting, bring your "I Voted" sticker down to Seven Grand for LAist's Super Tuesday Party and a free drink for the first 75 people (7-9pm).

It's what normal people do.


(You should probably vote and not mug someone of their sticker)