Monday, October 29, 2007

monday is "focus" day




*Halloween was fun for the first time in 10 years. I decided to find a costume and go to a party or two, where I met interesting and fun people and expanded the circle.
Many thanks to miss Allison Wise for suggesting the Brawny Paper Towel Guy. Unfortunately he has no earrings and a full head of hair but it did lead me to Mr. Clean, which not only was easy to assemble, but seemed to bring out the best in people. I had no idea how beloved Mr. Clean was. My cleaning bottle of Pear Absolut & Gatorade no doubt helped keep things...shiny. Next year: A Genie? Yul Brynner? So many choices. The odd part is that now there is no hair on my face and I'm quite naked, round, and completely bald and have two first dates this week...nice.

*So many good things are percolating around me right now from the work I've done all year. I feel better externally and internally, but I am so disorganized that I'm afraid that these opportunities are slipping through the cracks. Do I have too much on my plate? This will be a recurring theme. I don't think so. I just think I need to have a system, a plan of attack. There is so much that I want to see, feel, do. Priority. This is a word I could use to focus on today. Wait, "focus" is a good one too. Hmmmm. Isn't that what meditation is? Focus. Okay, FOCUS is the word today!

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

santa anas




It's that time again.
Hot, dry winds dropping down to ignite the city and fuck with my head.

Everything's dusty and acrid. It feels like my conflict, anxiety and worry feeding on my undernourished confidence and leaving it dry. My hopes and dreams and expectations burning up before they've had a chance to be.

Could the heat of the flames be my conflict, anxiety and worry, the shit I've carried around, igniting from the pressure of positive change and finally burning away?

Hey man... if I'm gonna be dramatic and self-indulgent, it's gonna be in my favor from now on!



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Now playing: KT Tunstall - Miniature Disaster
via FoxyTunes

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

weird fishes


In Rainbows is here.

I stayed up to download...and now I'm listening to it. As I listen to "15 Step", through my open window I hear...it's also coming from a neighbor's apartment.

I'm not alone this morning.

We're all weird fishes.

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

wiser time



Amorica

One of the sexiest-sweetest-cut you open-make-you-shake-it-happy-high hours of music possible.

I wore this cassette out on my cross country drive out here in January or February of 1998 in my red '88 Acura Integra. Went to see 'em last night at the Orpheum downtown. I waited for every song from Amorica.



Each song reminding me.

Almost 10 years out here. Wiser for the time.

I am different
I am the same
I am neither one of those
I am greater that I was
I am much less
I am neither one of those
I am my body
I am my mind
I am neither one of those...

I must recognize and cultivate my "reminders" each day. The conscious or unconscious things that by virtue of their existence, instantly remind me the world is beautiful.

Amorica is one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzw-7NWRFFw


Wiser Time
No time left now for shame
Horizon behind me, no more pain
Windswept stars blink and smile
Another song, another mile
You read the line every time
Ask me about crime in my mind
Ask me why another read song
Funny but I bet you never left home
Chorus:
On a good day, it's not every day
We can part the sea
And on a bad day, it's not every day
Glory beyond our reach
Seconds until sunrise
Tired but wiser for the time
Lightning 30 miles away
Three thousand more in two days
Chorus








Wednesday, October 3, 2007

overwhelmed

Constantly catching my breath. Running from one thing to the next.
Carving out time with dad, creating an entirely new paradigm for my company, afraid that we don't have the capability to live up to our dreams, sleeping on the couch bed, writing with Harry, nursing my wrist injury which isn't going away, fighting off a virus which is keeping me from training as hard, entirely too much red wine ( this one is tough because I'm having fun drinking it because it usually means I'm with other people ), learning from clients how to succeed, trusting my instincts more and more, watching my father play piano and pledging to play with him one day...no, by the end of the year, not enough sex, not enough connection, moderate amounts of gratitude that could be more, realizing that's not present thinking...breathe.

The truth is: I'm grateful for everyone of these problems and challenges.

Monday, October 1, 2007

hey jonathan...what's with the title of this blog?



http://youtube.com/watch?v=BBJ53_YDfU4

How to Fight Loneliness

How to fight loneliness?
Smile all the time

Shine you teeth 'til meaningless
And sharpen them with lies

And whatever's going down
Will follow you around
That's how you fight loneliness

You laugh at every joke

Drag your blanket blindly
And fill your heart with smoke

And the first thing that you want
Will be the last thing you ever need
That's how you fight it

Just smile all the time
Just smile all the time
Just smile all the time
Just smile all the time

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

reasons to see "good luck chuck"

I'm not embellishing any of this in an affort to make you go see it :


1) The soft core kiddie porn,1985 flashback opening "spin the bottle scene" with 12 yr old looking kids talking about fucking each other which we later find out were actually 10!.
2) The tender beach scene where Dane Cook's girlfriend rips off her shirt, shakes her breasts in his face, drops to her knees and starts blowing him, then says "I love you" with his dick in her mouth and is then irate when he isn't emotionally available enough to say it back...as her erect nipples hug the camera lens.
3) Dane Cook as a Dentist who only wears hip t-shirts and jeans and is conflicted about sleeping with the hot woman in his convertible, in front of his condo, but happily consents to it when he discovers they're using him, until he gets a call from Jessica Alba and all of a sudden has a change of heart.
4) His obese Black secretary who calls him "Dr. Charley! Dr. Charley!"
5) Same secretary who shows up in his apartment after finding out the curse, in garters and corset and stradles him on his dining table, begging him to sleep with her saying "just close your eyes and pretend that I'm someone...beautiful" to which replies, grabbing her face tenderly "No. I'll pretend it's you" and then promptly fucks her.
6) Dane decides to test the curse by asking out the fattest woman he can find, who's covered in zits and lounging in a bikini by the pool; her farting when he says hello; her eating three lobsters with roe running down her chin as he dry heaves talking to her; his dry heaving as she rolls on top of him naked.
7) His plastic surgeon girlfriend-less, fat best friend who Dane finds jerking off into a microwave heated grapefuit, then pulling a tiny soap brush out of his ass and then sniffing his fingers as a button to the scene!
8) The three breasted woman his friend finds at the end of the movie who falls for him because he "appreciates" her.
9) The penguin at Jessica Alba's job ( she's an adorable pet wrangler at a zoo ) who shits and then a few seconds later eats it. ( obviously the writer's moment of metaphorical summation )
10) The constant mugging and indicating of Dane Cook and the spiking of his hair as a major character choice.
11) The extremely harsh lighting that makes everything look like it's taking place during the daytime.
12) The outtakes where Dane Cook has cunnilingus and then analingus with a stuffed penguin.
13) The Goth girl who cursed him, now a housewife years later, who lets Dane inside her house only after he shows her and her young dauther his penis on the front lawn , then sends said daughter out of the living room when they're conversation gets more adult.
14) The total and complete disregard for any kind of continuity, quality or story.
15) The ad campaign that doesn't feature the basic premise and omits all of the credits from it's posters.
16) The shower I had to take after viewing.


I encourage everyone to see this fine film so that we may discuss.