Circles

there is going to be an intermission within these stories for the time being. nothing permanent. I'm just looking for a new way out and I think I have finally come full circle with this particular story. don't get left behind.. the past, though reflective, can be subconsciously intrusive. try not to get caught up in it all.

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July 4, 2011 // 00:46

I've been keeping a notebook

"It all comes back. Perhaps it's difficult to see the value in having one's self back in that kind of mood, but I do see it; I think we are well advised to keep in nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were. I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be..."

--Joan Didion - On Keeping A Notebook, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

The Great Wall of Los Angeles

The Great Wall of Los Angeles, located in the Tujunga Flood Control Channel in Valley Glen (San Fernando Valley), is the longest mural in North America as well as the largest monument of interracial harmony in the world. This panel of the wall memorializes the struggles and injustices imposed upon Japanese Americans in California during World War II. Designed between 1976-1984, The Great Wall is currently experiencing a massive restoration project. Keep it tuned... the world is changing before us!

Social and Public Art Resource Center, Venice, CA:: http://www.sparcmurals.org:16080/sparcone/

Save LA Murals Campagin:: http://www.savelamurals.org/now/index.php

Coheed and Cambria - The Second Stage Turbine Blade

goodmorning sunshine... awake when the sun hits the sky............. .. . ... . .

The Movielife - Jamestown @ Chain Reaction 2003

The Movielife - Forty Hour Train Back To Penn (Drive Thru Records 2003)

The Movielife, Long Island legends throw down at southern california punk staple Chain Reaction. This footage captures a pivotal and yet rare instance of the Movielife's spontaneous and enigmatic live performance. They were a band without precedents that sent forth an attitude and a sound unique to the perceptions of pop/punk at the time. Jamestown will forever be a classic among hardcore enthusiasts of the DIY punk culture of the early 2000s. Fuck the fame... I'm going out on top!

On The Road (7)

God was gone; it was the silence of his departure. It was a rainy night. It was the myth of the rainy night. Dean was popeyed with awe. This madness would lead nowhere. I didn't know what was happening to me, and I suddenly realized it was only the tea that we were smoking; Dean had bought some in New York. It made me think that everything was about to arrive--the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever. (Kerouac, 128)

On The Road (6)

Just about that time a strange thing began to haunt me. It was this: I had forgotten something. There was a decision that I was about to make before Dean showed up, and now it was driven clear out of my mind but still hung on the tip of my mind's tongue. I kept snapping my fingers, trying to remember it. I even mentioned it. And I couldn't even tell if it was a real decision or just a thought I had forgotten. It haunted and flabbergasted me, made me sad. It had to do somewhat with the Shrouded Traveler. Carlo Marx and I once sat down together, knee to knee, in two chairs facing, and I told him a dream I had about a strange Arabian figure that was pursuing me across the desert; that I tried to avoid; that finally overtook me just before I reached the Protective City. "Who is this?" said Carlo. We pondered it. I proposed it was myself, wearing a shroud. That wasn't it. Something, someone, some spirit was pursuing all of us across the desert of life and was bound to catch us before we reached heaven. Naturally, now that I look back on it, this is only death: death will overtake us before heaven. The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is the remembrance of some lost bliss that was probably experienced in the womb and can only be reproduced (though we hate to admit it) in death. But who wants to die? (Kerouac, 124)

On The Road (5)

The radio had been fixed and now he had wild bop to urge us along the night. I didn't know where all this was leading; I didn't care. (Kerouac, 124)

On The Road (4)

He was out of his mind with real belief. "And of course now no one can tell us that there is no God. We've passed through all forms. // You see how long ago? Everything is fine, God exists, we know time. Everything since the Greeks has been predicted wrong. You can't make it with geometry and geometrical systems of thinking. It's all this!" He wrapped his finer in his fist; the car hugged the line straight and true. "And not only that but we both understand that I couldn't have time to explain why I know and you know God exists." At one point I moaned about life's troubles // "Troubles, you see, is the generalization-word for what God exists in. The thing is not to get hung-up." (Kerouac, 120)

Inside the [HEAD]phones / June 2011

All I bleed are smiles

Best Interest - Camera Shy But Still A Star (Best Interest, 2006)

The Movielife - Forty Hour Train Back to Penn (Drive-Thru, 2003)

Coheed & Cambria - The Second Stage Turbine Blade (Equal Vision, 2002)

Immortal Technique - Revolutionary Vol. 2 (Viper, 2003)

Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma (WARP, 2010)

Inside the [HEAD]phones / May 2011

While I'm alive I'll feel alive, and what's next I guess I'll know when I've gotten there

Why? - Alopecia (Anticon, 2008)

Radiohead - In Rainbows (Radiohead, 2007)

Cold War Kids - Mine Is Yours (Interscope/DGC, 2011)

Incubus - Alive At Red Rocks (Epic/Immortal, 2004)

I am free -- with the wheels between my feet

Original Skateboards, 2009

[chances are I've posted this before. But it's certainly worth a few more reposts]

What Downtown LA Would Like Without Cars (VIDEO) | Planetizen

What Downtown LA Would Like Without Cars (VIDEO) | Planetizen

video made by 3 Cal Poly Architecture students -- rep!!

Daytripper

//Daytripper (Vertigo Comics, 2009)

I'm a stranger, someone left me for dead

new found glory - don't let this be the end (not without a fight, epitaph records, 2009)

Inside the [HEAD]phones / May 2011

The windy season makes me think...

Dengue Fever - Cannibal Courtship (Fantasy, 2011)

Nuggets - Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968 (Elektra/Sire, 1972)

Moby Grape - Grape Jam (Columbia, 1968)

The Chambers Brothers - The Time Has Come (Columbia, 1967)

The Entrance Band - The Entrance Band (Ecstatic Peace, 2009)

Incubus - Monuments and Melodies (Epic, 2009)

Inside the [HEAD]phones / April 2011

but I don't gotta say a word I just flip em' the bird and keep going I don't take shit from no one

Dengue Fever - Cannibal Courtship (Fantasy, 2011)

Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP (Aftermath, 2000)

Jay-Z - The Blueprint (Roc-A-Fella, 2001)

Eminem - Recovery (Interscope, 2010)

see, I'm a poet to some

Going Through Changes

On The Road (2-3)

They were like the man with the dungeon stone and the gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that I was slowly joining.

[Kerouac, 54]


Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk--real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.

[Kerouac, 58]