well, unless they are of the ghoulish nature. i'm in the fiend club. so. it's fully halloween. time to egg children and put razorblades in apples. use recycled toilet paper and eco friendly soap to mess shit up. just like every year. remember, if the sign says to take only one piece of candy, please, only take one fucking piece. it really is - that serious. so, my life has been coming into serious focus lately. especially this week. i feel a little topsy turvey to be honest. it's a good shake up as perspective is always needed and sometimes it just takes a minute to see the long play. or even the short one. regardless, i am taking action steps to address some things that are surfacing and i am looking forward to evolution. as always. this is my 301st posting to this site - shit, i may have just written a book. oh my. stay off orchard street on halloween, that's all i know! xo
music: misfits (what the fuck else?) "teenagers from mars"
.: words: angular 10/31/2007 01:34:00 AM
hanging out, hanging in, drive around the block again. whoaaa, need to sit down.
seriously, last week was so hectic that it's taken me days to get back into the flow of normal behavior (whatever that is). i'm at least back on a slightly normal sleep schedule. i ditched out on going to LA this week as it was just too much to deal with. or rather, i re-scheduled it. no big deal, i needed to take care of things being neglected in brooklyn. mostly myself. i also wasn't into the idea of flying into an area that is burning or being on a plane landing with strong santa ana winds blowing us around like a kite. fuck that. my baggage is packed and looks like i'm ready to jet at a moments notice. i usually always have a bag half-packed or half-unpacked at any given time. i'm not gonna bother unpacking it as i may do something random within the next week anyways. oh, on a really awesome note, i did just book my trip to london and prague for christmas, which i have always wanted to do (the prague bit, though i love london as well), so i'm happy about that. not going to scotland in a week as i decided to try and stay put for a couple weeks and really feel the autumn. though i am trying to do as much personal travel as possible - work always invades no matter what the occasion. i hope it snows while i am in prague -- walking the streets of a beautiful eastern european city in smart coats and boots. i have a feeling it will remind me of salzburg, austria. ooooh, that would be lovely. i can't wait. i'm resting all weekend and laying low and writing and reading. that's it. i may go to NJ to open up the cottage and get that all sorted out, but i think it may have to wait until next weekend. the plan for right now is to not overexert myself, at all. the perfection of laziness. on saturday i anticipate the city being full of plenty of halloween parties (that i won't be attending) and the crazy energy that always comes along with that night. the only time i ever experienced being near gunshots in nyc (thank goodness) was on halloween night in 1997. bullets whizzing by me on orchard street of all places. crazy shit, but i'll save that story for the screenplay. however, i absolutely cannot wait til halloween proper. the neighborhood that my brother and his wifey live in is super cute and residential -- it almost looks like the area i grew up in but with gorgeous victorian homes. right smack in the middle of brooklyn. grass, sidewalks, the whole nine. it's really different and special and mellow. ditmas park, baby. basically, i want to experience an old school halloween and i think it'll be going off in his hood for sure. trick or treating, kids everywhere, who knows. i do plan on egging and toilet papering my friend's house in midwood, but i warned them already. ghostly is having a night on halloween as well that will be hard to resist as matthew dear is performing live. i've seen enough live music recently so i may stay away from it though i probably won't be able to. all hopped up on candy and full of energy, i'd imagine. luckily, music is like food to me. well, good music, that is. vegetarian music? oh goodness. heh. okay, thursday nights are busy nights so i must leave you. so long, so long. *waves*
music: bad veins "the lie"
.: words: angular 10/25/2007 09:44:00 PM
okay turn this fucking car around. right now.
ah, too late.
it's cmj week and i'm in full effect, all over this shit. somehow i've managed to be home by 3am every night and completely sober. there must be a god as all i wanted was a mellow week of music and friends. i got both. a hell of a lotta good shows, tons of overhyped bullshit (no, i don't like "black kids"), and people from all over descending on the city like even more rats we don't need or want. but seriously, it's nice to have all the random music peeps around (bands, managers, a&r idiots, agents, lawyers, pr chicks, yadyada whatever it is you do, and most importantly, fans). it has made the lower east side feel like a mix of london and silverlake in los angeles. i am seeing all the same faces i see in those cities (the ones that came) mixing with the nyc regulars who use the lower east side almost like a church, as i do. religiously seeing music as often as possible (which for me is almost daily), regardless of music festival or not. yeah. so the good news for me tonight is that i'm going to bed before 3am - so, it's time to make that happen. tomorrow it may rain, but regardless i hope to end up in the planetarium to see a special performance by my old friend josh wink. saturday is hectic as all hell and then it's time to gear up for another journey and finishing my ink. thank god for hydrocodone. oh, side note: i liked the darjeeling limited as i knew i would. wes anderson is hands down my favorite director. also, it made me slightly more enthusiastic for my journey to india. it's looking like my trip is coinciding with my old hardcore hare krsna friend's trip so i may join his already pre-arranged group. it's going to make my life so much easier and they are going to all the same places i wanted to visit. swimming in sacred rivers, visiting krsna temples, singing bhajans, etc. plus, yoga everyday. life changing indeed. i need to hit the gym hard and start my private yoga practice again just to sharpen my blades. that trip is at the end of january til valentine's day, including my 34th birthday. should be insanely wonderful and i'm thirsting for this kind of life experience. or rather, i'm starving. it's so necessary i don't think any syntax will do it justice. it is, indeed, something to look forward to. i hope your week has been as fun and interesting as mine. xoxohh.
music: the black ghosts .live-ish. and "someway through this"
.: words: angular 10/19/2007 02:41:00 AM
ssssshhhhhh. svp.
j'aime montréal.
il pleut, mais beau.
xo. oui.
music: jane birkin and serge gainsbourg "je t'aime... moi non plus"
.: words: angular 10/12/2007 02:35:00 AM
oh, hello october. i have no idea what the hell happened to september. it evaporated. lost in a blur of airplanes and hotels and not much has changed. actually, nothing has changed though i'm in a different country at least. canada. i love it here, i think i was canadian in a previous life. three of my fave cities are in canada and i don't know what else to say about it that i haven't already. so at least i'm somewhere i like! somehow i have managed to stay away from writing for over a week, which has been somewhat liberating but also stressing me out. every night i have been meaning to write something but i am so not sure what to say. not that i need to say anything, sometimes it's just the process of writing that is the journey. telling a story, even if it may be boring (and a lot of times i am sure it is, but it might be interesting to me, etc. yadayada). so, i am sitting in a lovely hotel in toronto that i frequent when i stay here. it's been yet another insane week of overscheduling myself, strange shifting weather patterns, killer allergies, and more airmiles. all good, i can work with that. i'm definitely earning my vacation time, to say the least. a quick rewind from the past week: i got back from LA on friday the 28th of september and managed to gather quite a crew that came to the special "flashlight tour" of the green-wood cemetery, which is the massive, gothic graveyard up the street from my home. i'm obsessed with it, though it will take many, many years to research it properly. i'm in no hurry, it's fascinating. overall, the tour was amazing though the catacombs were locked up for some silly reason which was disappointing. after the scooby doo adventure we ended the night in a drunken mess of records being played in greenpoint at our friend's bar with sister in law and her bff at the controls. great tunes and cool crowd. the odd part about the graveyard tour is that i took a lot of random photos and i got a few that look like i've captured orbs of light or perhaps some paranormal activity. maybe it's just dust on the lens though the other hundred or so pictures i took were totally clear. also, i looked at other people's cameras and some similiar photos came up featuring random spectrums of orbs floating around. check it out here and you be the judge. spooky eh? saturday night my whole crew ended up at lcd soundsystem on randall's island. they rocked it and being outside with people i love on such a beautiful night in october is absolutely rare. it was enjoyable to no end. sooooo i ended up coming to toronto on monday which was canadian thanksgiving. nothing was open and the streets were so fucking hot. the rest of the schedule has been packed with meetings and shows and random hangs. i haven't even had a chance to do my ritual shopping venture in this city. it will have to wait until next time for sure. i have a show in an hour in the venue downstairs. i love that. so super convenient. then shooting off to catch the klaxons who happen to be in town while i am. bonus. tomorrow i am off to one of my other all time fave cities. montreal. i haven't been there in years and i miss it a lot. it's gonna rain, which sucks, but it's my own fault as i had all summer to get to montreal and failed to do so. at least i thought to bring my yellow rain slicker. i also just discovered from one of my close friends who lives here in the t-dot that he has an apartment in montreal and is giving me a set of keys as he's never there. six hours drive from nyc. will be a nice escape if i can actually do it on the regular. oh and even better, a close friend is giving me their family cottage for the winter. it's nearish to the atlantic ocean in new jersey. i can't wait to be a hermit. so basically i don't have to rent the upstate crib as i had thought about doing. problem solved. maybe it's time to write that screenplay finally. so as i was just sitting here trying to figure out a way to wrap this up the phone just rang. my bff in london just called and begged me to come to scotland in 2 weeks. ummm -- okay! assuming i can make it work with my schedule i'd love to go to scotland. no shit. might as well. once again i have succeeded in writing a whole lot of nothing. the miracle of the internet. time to go down and see this performance then hit the other stuff and perhaps be in bed at a decent hour for once. next week is CMJ so it's just more of the same, though i do intend to pace myself and be a lot more methodical about it. we're having a party on that saturday which should be a good time. then back to los angeles and i guess the UK now. perfecto. my ears hurt just thinking about it all, though i really do love my life! yeahhhh. xo!
music: lights "last thing on your mind"
