Lorange Blog

I bonded with bees last night. Hipsters bees buzzed buzz inside Spaceland: "...did you catch the last band? wow they, she was great!" spoken in bathroom hallways, and "..an amazing voice!" repeated three ways by one on the main floor. I couldn't agree more. ~~~ Tired of hiding the cigarette from myself in the little game of where did that come from? I find them a lot in my hands these days always sneaking up to my lips. Giving in to honesty: I'm smoking again. The first step to quitting. Again. ~~~ Noticed that brakes on ice cream trucks scream more than children. The bell tingles dingles as carts are pushed up my hill past couches and boys wasting summer evenings sitting on them. This is where I live. ~~ Things have been wacky and yet still happy as an unemployed person can be right without hearing the elevator operator call out "Basement: Desperation, Breaking Out In Hives, and Self Hating." Thankfully not there yet. The curse of being happy go...

Being unemployed is not sexy. But it is liberating, yeah liberating. I was at wells fargo taking care of some legacy banking issues that I could've done years ago. Plenty of downtime spent sitting in an air conditioned bank was not a bad place to be that day. When the account setter-upper asked where I working I couldn't help but laugh at my answer: I'm not. Weird to be so open about it. Nothing to brag about but that's the new truth. Speaking of...I've shared too much real info lately; I've whittled down to real. Reasons range from I've done little of the going out stuff to feeling all my little non-real thoughts where just so trivial. music, infatuations. who cares. Well I do. For my new readers (KE? maybe...don't worry I have no idea who my lurkers are) and others welcome to my little imaginary world. This is not a diary though I do reveal parts of my life here, sometimes hidden, sometimes blunt and obvious. Mostly boring. For example... Skipped the M...

I just remembered this little rumor from my recent Bay Area trip and thought I'd share it. Earlier I posted about my future Vegas trip in late August for my Brother's 40th birthday and how many relatives where flying out for the event. Sadly one was unable to take leave from their military job for a couple reasons, one being that they might be needed if someone politically important dies that week. This person? Former President George H Bush Senior. Word is that he is being treated for something back East currently and is expected to be no longer of this mortal world in the next month or two. [my opinion ahead] While his ::administration:: was less evil then the current one, they still did invade Iraq first (though props for not occupying) , allowed the ultra conservative right gain more of a foothold after Reagan that enable the current administration to be elected, and a personal affront to me, ignored the AIDS epidemic nearly completely. what kind of administration hurts the...

I heard a knock on my door this morning and answered it with coffee in hand. In front of me were two serious cops; in front of them was a guy wearing blue pajamas with a shirt adorned with three penguins and the words "Chill Out!" "We're responding to a report of screaming kids from your apartment." the one on the left informed me. His partner watchfully said nothing. Lefty specifically asked if there was any screaming inside my little place. "You mean screaming bloody murder type of screaming?" I specifically questioned. The partner had no reaction other to see his partner start to answer "no" before taking control of the conversation again. All I wanted was clarification; was it scream of a slow and painful death, I won the lottery, or I walked into a spider web type of screaming, not that I ever did the later. I thought it was a fair question and fortunately my shirt already put them in a tranquil place mentally so they took it at such. ...

I had prepared answers and no asked questions the other night when shyness and doubt brought my streak to an end. Frustration that some parts of me might never shed . moving on... I've been well and incredibly thankful for family and friends this month. It could so much worse and it is for so many in this city. Piling clothes unwanted to donate to make room for new slacks and shirts in my closet. I'm lucky I can do this. So when they killed my product line and in turn my job (mfr: besides Sam they laid off Dr. A.. who you didn't know and Antonio -maybe more) due to the company slowdown (so many reasons I'm not going into) I lost my only connection to the internet. I was kind of proud of being offline on my downtime but when the whole day is your downtime one starts to go a little loopy after say day four. what to do, what to do? not cook for three days spend a day at the natural history museum stand in line at 7-11 kwik e mart (random kids for size comparison) say on...

A partridge family of upper management walks into the office which the absentee owner never uses. I haven't seen him in at least two months. The Office Manager calls me in and I allow her to sit first among the awaiting Director of Operations and Plant Supervisor. They look uncomfortable holding the table with downward stares. I chuckle at seeing two envelopes on the desk. "Oh this doesn't look good." I stand within the nervous laughter for a moment then take a seat with a smile. Yup. ten years, three moves (Bay Area to Central California to the City of Industry and finally to Gardena), three different owners and I hear words never spoken to me before: laid off So I ask you internet strangers if you happen to know of any leads that my product manager skill base might lend itself to, please let me know. While I would love to join with someone to fund a new vitamin related company (already mentioned to the couple individuals I know) I have to be realistic and be open t...

so um I won't be blogging for awhile. shit I don't know what the hell is going on right now. those who know, know why.

I feel like smoke blown into a bubble. Traveling has wore me down, the nicotine I inserted into my brain does little to wake me from the daze that keeps music from cheering me up. I'm clinging to Swedish pop for a sugar rush but find it bland like flat soda. At shows this week I wonder where you are in your separate world. maybe NYC, maybe along some coastline. In my fantasy life you'd been my plus one at the wedding last week. Instead while reminiscing with old friends there were the questions I don't want to answer. Outside on the country club steps I was asked why I wasn't seeing anyone. "I'm just not." I replied. "What do you mean? I always thought we were just like each other; always having someone in our lives. We were never alone." I shrugged not able to explain away the last three or four years depending on how you define seeing someone. "Really?" "Yeah it's been a couple years." She thought that statement false an...

half tempted to make another turnaround trip for this: Sat July 14th Spoon @ Cafe De Nord in San Francisco $10! tix day of show only hmm ... a couple venues in LA have the 15th open. crosses fingers. I only recently got around to listening to Spoon so I can't tell you if the new album is better than their older stuff, but it's a wonderful album to speed down the 5 to like I did coming from the Bay Area last weekend. more on that later.

Don't use this flyer as a guide to set times. A little bit of Kiss or Kill action at El Cid after work [Yes I'm working. Yes my company is lame - but I did have Monday off] and then I'll see you folks that I know at J's house later that night in EP for "...getting drunk, barbecuing, chair racing [down the street], domino-ing, breaking stuff, listening to soul music, doing the funky chicken, stumbling down to the lake for illegal fireworks, killing terrorists and civilians, claiming land in the name of manifest destiny and playing "i am a real american" by hulk hogan" . See you there! Posts from last year's party . Sadly my drunk audio blog (well the company that handled it) from that night went kaput. Anyhow enjoy your holiday, drive safe, blah blah blah.

Blogging on an iphone. Yay!

Regular posting on Tuesday I can has a cheezburger yeah it's been around for awhile - yet still amusing to me.

It is the rare day like this when I wish I could crawl into bed and take a nap next to someone.

Mountain Goats in-store July 22nd at 5 p.m. Rhino Records 235 Yale Avenue, Claremont

I'm not posting this week work work work that and I'm trying to hold back from writing vague notes to strangers here

ha. I won 1st place.

I swear the third spot for tonight has been the biggest revolving door of bands: first it was mother tongue, then p cow was booked but danny had prior plans, and finally the Randies were to set to play until late yesterday when the word was "The Automatic Music Explosion returns to the Kiss or Kill stage to fill in for The Randies after a busy recording period." Um that would be code for drummer issues again and right after I causally mentioned how this might be a good year for them with said new drummer last week. As a fan I hate to hear news like this. Since The Automatic Music Explosion has been the flavor of the month at kork this should be a good turn out coupled with, I think, their second show since recording with producer Mike Chapman (Blondie -parallel lines, the knack -my shorona, Pat Benatar) last month. If you like that self described "Blast Pop" sound and attitude you'll love AME. (read AME's blog about it here ) These pictures I snatched fr...

how many times has this post has been drastically rewritten: 5, 6, 7 times? this post is not deep - just rambling. two weeks ago after the night show I'm down at the top of my stairs, I'm down staring into a pot of cold rice I pulled out of the refrigerator thinking about over the shoulder smiles and the answer my friend came back with. two weeks of my head down blurry eyes watching late night poker with a slightly less salt in the mouth reaction to infomercials. The television reception lost I give up and in to sleeping on top of comforters with the fan buzzing out sounds of buses and trucks rumbling down Glendale over the same bump in the street. Two weeks of staying in then a week mostly up and about to three most nights and all I wonder if this week will even out somehow. So Friday I slept and Saturday still sick and I remember cooking and sleeping for hours as the 99cent nyquil put me out and over comforters without revelations to my current state of mind. I slept on it a...

If you picked up the current issue of the LA Weekly you might have noticed on page 140 tonight's Looker [ myspace , website ] show at Metal Skool is listed as their GO pick of the week for Monday. Pretty cool but even cooler is that they're playing Kiss or Kill this Wednesday at El Cid, and unlike the Sunset Strip parking is free and ample (relatively). Only five bucks and less big hair. Monday: Killradio.org - show/interview 3.30pm Key Club with Metal Skool $15-20? Tuesday: Little Radio (God's Girls) interview/show 3pm KXLU interview/show 5pm Wednesday: Looker @ El Cid ( Kiss or Kill ) with Wake-Up Incinerate 9:45, Looker 10.30, The Randies 11:15, The Killdevils 12:00