Half Moon Motel (Sepulveda Blvd.)

Springtime in Los Angeles

On Virgil, north of Melrose.

Two Quotes From Werner Herzog

1. Facts do not provide illumination.

2. Storyboarding is for cowards.

March 25, 2007
Santa Monica

Capt. Johnny

"Got everything I need."

After Midnight

Last Week / This Week

Last Week - Lost keys and lost address book.

This Week - broken computer and bank account hacked into ($302).

Dinner: Trader Joes organic pasta with Trader Joes Seafood Blend and Trader Joes pesto.

Another George Packer article in the New Yorker which outlines how badly we treated pro-American Iraqis.

Laundry On Third

This week: I received a totally uncharming letter from my landlord. I had forgotten (first time ever) to send in my rent check. Eviction beckoned...This week I lost my housekeys/car keys. This week I lost my address book. This week I took the above photo and posted it just ninety minutes later. It reminds me of Billy Wilder's Seven Year Itch and everything else about the Fifties that I like. This week I donated money online and misread the word verification dialogue box and somehow donated the money twice. This week Napster quit working on me and their tech support is shut down by the time I get home from work. This week I planted three tomato plants & started listening to Amy Winehouse. Can you blame me? This week I bought a large amount of bee pollen and am taking it everyday. This week I am using Google Docs & Spreadsheets, using it right now as a matter of fact. This week I started listening to The Fall after a twenty year sabbatical. Mark E Smith = Artuad.

Quote of the Week: Apparently there is a great discovery or insight which our culture is deliberately designed to supress, distort and ignore. That is that Nature is some kind of minded entity. That Nature is not simply the random flight of atoms through electromagnetic fields. Nature is not the empty, despiritualized lumpen matter that we inherit from modern physics. But it is instead a kind of intelligence, a kind of mind.
- Terrence McKenna

Trader Joes Product of the Week: Chicken Salad with cranberries and pecans

Hotels In Hollywood

If you've ever stayed at the Mark Twain or the Gilbert hotels, you're probably not reading this.

Beware of Wine

Thought For The Day: Fear causes us to exaggerate the importance of succeeding.

I Ching (#62)

Stairs In West Hollywood

Happy 50th birthday, Mark E Smith. (Rather surprisingly, Napster has 45 cd's of The Fall to listen to.)

Also, here's this: If you've ever lived in California the state might be holding some of your money. CA Unclaimed Property Good luck

Sign (Boyle Heights)

A Doll In A Window

Shadows and Rust

Shalom Hotel

Emmett With Water & A Handful of Cigarette Butts

Dress Shop On Third

Downtown Girl

Linda

Orchid

[click onto the photo for more detail]

At My Desk With Coffee (#13)

In the past, my "At My Desk With Coffee" entries have been miscellaneous mashups of whatever the past week was all about. Tonight the only thing it means is that I'm eating some delicious enchiladas with extra sour cream while listening to John Fahey.

And Hound Dog Taylor.

Downtown Market