My life is pretty awesome. I mean really. What me worry?
Friday, I went up to Zoo Productions on the Paramount lot and interviewed for a position that Andrew tipped me. We also dropped off some casting materials for Andrew at NCIS. While at Paramount I saw the only likable and telegenic cast member of Glee, Jane Lynch. I also got kicked out of the lunch line for Happy Endings. Andrew did not suffer such a humiliation as he noshed on the salad bar.
Saturday, we shot a spec commercial for Jake Albrecht's Jimmy Johns Subs So Fast You'll Freak! I love producing. I love being able to make it happen for awesome directors like Jake, Danny, Parker and Rachel. I love seeing their burdens of pre-production fade so that they can focus on the aesthetic challenges of the moment on days of production. But double bonus was I got to act in it as well!!!
I bought a bunch of books at this used bookstore. I didn't buy everything that I wanted but I did get a biography of Erwin Rommell, two epistolary books by Cicero and Chretiens de Troye - a compendium of medieval stories.
Saturday night, I went to Hollywood for Liisa Evastina's birthday party in Hollywood. I bought Liisa a drink. She thwarted my attempt to unduly corrupt her morals by insisting I purchase for her a sparkling water. I drank milk.
It was great to talk about the hard work that Liisa and our team has done. It brought back fond memories I have and great esteem for Levi's photography and our team coming together Danny, Polito and Curtis. I met all sorts of cool people. I can't party in Hollywood though - too expensive, too many wierdies, and too many cops. So I stopped off at this cool pizza place at the end of the night called Vito's on LaCienga. I ate my first Canoli. I have to say the customer service was excellent!
Sunday Andrew insisted we leave the house and cruise Abbot Kinney. Bowing to his forceful demands, Danny and I walked to Abbott Kinney. We had tea at a cafe called Intelligensia where 2 lesbians smelled Andrew's tatoos. I met a woman in a fur coat and we followed an Asian woman in hot pants into a Thai Massage parlour but we didn't pay. Then we went up Calabasas to do some location scouting for Andrew's next cinematic adventure - See Danny Thompson's photos. And while on the way back, a Highway Patrolman caught me on my cellphone. He gave me a ticket for being lippy with him. He wanted to arrest me, insist that I take a sobriety check, and search the car. I only got the ticket.
Andrew then said we should cruise Sunset and Whittier to look over the location where Ronnie Chasen was killed. I didn't want to go, but couldn't see a reason why not to go besides being squeamish about it. It was night by then and creepy. We three suspect the LAPD as the hired hitmen. Why? They killed musicians in the same manner. One disgraced LAPD cop/hitman confessed to the murder and the LAPD failed to follow through on a further investigation after the disgraced LAPD cop/hitman fingered more.
This weekend like Al Gore after a rub down had a happy ending.
Monday, November 22, 2010
Friday, November 05, 2010
The Belle of the Ball
The bell of the ball was a brunnette named Jessica. A toned woman who was a ballerina, we had good conversation. As usual, dancing is like going to watering hole. The Apache say you never want to build a house near the water because everyone goes to the watering hole. And a dance floor is not complete without serious dance rivals - Count Dracula and Dragon Balls Z.
It's the end of the night and Dragon Balls Z already has a girlfriend Princess Leah. And where is this guy? He is hovering around the belle of the ball and her lady in waiting. The thought occurred to me to ask the two of them if they wanted to go to Ihop to chat afterward. But Dragon Balls is there.
JIMBO
So Dragon Balls, isn't it time you practice your
Christianity rather than proclaim it?
DRAGON BALLS
You know I am not a complete idiot.
JIMBO
No one wants to accuse you of sincerity.
No, I didn't say that, but I wanted to.
It's the end of the night and Dragon Balls Z already has a girlfriend Princess Leah. And where is this guy? He is hovering around the belle of the ball and her lady in waiting. The thought occurred to me to ask the two of them if they wanted to go to Ihop to chat afterward. But Dragon Balls is there.
JIMBO
So Dragon Balls, isn't it time you practice your
Christianity rather than proclaim it?
DRAGON BALLS
You know I am not a complete idiot.
JIMBO
No one wants to accuse you of sincerity.
No, I didn't say that, but I wanted to.
Tuesday, November 02, 2010
I try
Another poem
In the Wilderness again,
Alone in the world
A strange and fantastic neverland
With different boys and girls
Here is the tree of life
Here is the tree of knowledge
Here is the treasure born of strife
Here is the epitaph of degraded heroes
There’s the low road
Here’s the high
Here’s a peasant’s death
Here for slaves
But even slaves are born free
And not without redemption, dignity or virtue
You can look at my past
Faith is my future
Quotes
“There’s no sign of life
It’s just the power to charm
I’m lying in the wind
But I never wave bye bye”
- David Bowie “Modern Love”
“Are you a gentleman Mister Johnston,” asked the last emperor Pu Yi.
Mr. Johnston as played by Peter O’Toole replied, “I try.”
- Bernardo Bertulucci
“A thousand half loves must be foregone to take the whole heart home.”
In the Wilderness again,
Alone in the world
A strange and fantastic neverland
With different boys and girls
Here is the tree of life
Here is the tree of knowledge
Here is the treasure born of strife
Here is the epitaph of degraded heroes
There’s the low road
Here’s the high
Here’s a peasant’s death
Here for slaves
But even slaves are born free
And not without redemption, dignity or virtue
You can look at my past
Faith is my future
Quotes
“There’s no sign of life
It’s just the power to charm
I’m lying in the wind
But I never wave bye bye”
- David Bowie “Modern Love”
“Are you a gentleman Mister Johnston,” asked the last emperor Pu Yi.
Mr. Johnston as played by Peter O’Toole replied, “I try.”
- Bernardo Bertulucci
“A thousand half loves must be foregone to take the whole heart home.”
The State of California has determined
Choppers hovering above my head.
The sounds of sirens wailing.
The Black and whites stacked along the street
Weapons drawn, cuffs, flashing lights blue and red,
A spotlight hovering high, a failed state wavering
Innocent people criminalized
Criminals sanitized
Pay your fine, Pay your tax, Pay our fee,
Or else . . .
The State of California finds you . . .
The State of California declares you . . .
The State of California has determined you . . .
Obama Biden!
Make Love Not War!
Stop the Genocide!
Recycle!
Coexist!
No smoking here but you can roll up another joint.
The voicemail belonging to . . . is full.
If you were China, would you put your money here?
The sounds of sirens wailing.
The Black and whites stacked along the street
Weapons drawn, cuffs, flashing lights blue and red,
A spotlight hovering high, a failed state wavering
Innocent people criminalized
Criminals sanitized
Pay your fine, Pay your tax, Pay our fee,
Or else . . .
The State of California finds you . . .
The State of California declares you . . .
The State of California has determined you . . .
Obama Biden!
Make Love Not War!
Stop the Genocide!
Recycle!
Coexist!
No smoking here but you can roll up another joint.
The voicemail belonging to . . . is full.
If you were China, would you put your money here?
poems
Lady in a bar
Out of the darkness of the drizzling rain, thunder rippling along the edges of the Valley, I stepped into a room bright, red and yellow
Steve said hello.
And there she was.
Sitting at a table to a well dressed man without a face
I didn’t know desire had such clear skin.
She has soft eyes and an oval face
Hair that was shorter than I on other occasions would have preferred
And other days I got her to smile and laugh more.
She has a ticklish laugh and a weak heart
We danced a jig
I kicked her high in the air
She told me later her first dances were with me
She is light on her feet.
She was so serious tonight
Wearing the look of killers not wanting to do the deed.
Was it because others were watching?
Was it because the hammer was about to fall?
Was it because she was manning her defenses after the commander surrendered unconditional?
I didn’t know and pretended not to care
She was serious
I urged her, dared but didn’t beg
She warned me
Life and love is like rugby, you’re going to get hurt
I did not say those words exactly
She understood my words precisely
Her gaze returned like the familiar spring
We took turns staring at each other
Except that I looked more stupid
As she grew in grace
I paid the bar man
She walked me to my car
For a second time, I told her to kiss me and talk to me sometimes
I had already exceeded my quota of maximum allowable kisses
And again our parted lips met
The Intersection of two souls
The port from one world to another
The momentary experience of pleasure
The gift of a deathless promise
This and me and my night was over.
She is So Awesome
She is so awesome
This I know is true
She dances with a quickness of hummingbird and is lighter than rain
She is so awesome
This I know is true
She cares. She loves me even if she says otherwise
She is so awesome
This I know is true
She is the challenge of the new me
She is the future of what still could be
She is the mother of smiles
She is wife to laughter
She is companion in health and labor
She is partner in woe and wiles
She is so awesome
Because she is so true
Out of the darkness of the drizzling rain, thunder rippling along the edges of the Valley, I stepped into a room bright, red and yellow
Steve said hello.
And there she was.
Sitting at a table to a well dressed man without a face
I didn’t know desire had such clear skin.
She has soft eyes and an oval face
Hair that was shorter than I on other occasions would have preferred
And other days I got her to smile and laugh more.
She has a ticklish laugh and a weak heart
We danced a jig
I kicked her high in the air
She told me later her first dances were with me
She is light on her feet.
She was so serious tonight
Wearing the look of killers not wanting to do the deed.
Was it because others were watching?
Was it because the hammer was about to fall?
Was it because she was manning her defenses after the commander surrendered unconditional?
I didn’t know and pretended not to care
She was serious
I urged her, dared but didn’t beg
She warned me
Life and love is like rugby, you’re going to get hurt
I did not say those words exactly
She understood my words precisely
Her gaze returned like the familiar spring
We took turns staring at each other
Except that I looked more stupid
As she grew in grace
I paid the bar man
She walked me to my car
For a second time, I told her to kiss me and talk to me sometimes
I had already exceeded my quota of maximum allowable kisses
And again our parted lips met
The Intersection of two souls
The port from one world to another
The momentary experience of pleasure
The gift of a deathless promise
This and me and my night was over.
She is So Awesome
She is so awesome
This I know is true
She dances with a quickness of hummingbird and is lighter than rain
She is so awesome
This I know is true
She cares. She loves me even if she says otherwise
She is so awesome
This I know is true
She is the challenge of the new me
She is the future of what still could be
She is the mother of smiles
She is wife to laughter
She is companion in health and labor
She is partner in woe and wiles
She is so awesome
Because she is so true
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