One Street Over

Yesterday as I was heading towards the apartment from my recently parked van, I was inspired to take pictures of the street next to mine. I thought to myself: "This will be a special compliment to the blog I wrote yesterday." And so it shall.

Enjoy

The Sunny Side Up The Street

I enjoy my street, I'm fond of how it looks. It adds something to my life in the way of psychic good vibrations. It can improve my mood.
The first picture below is not from my street, it's from one block over, Ogden. I snapped it because I found it funny that someone carved Yesir into the tree, which I was thinking of as Yes Sir, now I realize given my neighborhood it was probably just some young Russian gang members name.

The other pics were taken walking back to my apartment from Whole Foods Market. This is as my street looked at 6:15 on April 30th. I had two bottles of wine, some sushi and other assorted snacks. I decided to snap the pictures because I'm always made to take note of how I feel about the palm trees. I like how the perspective blurs big time in at least two of the photos, it fist the purpose of the blog that even a photo should not be exact.

Take not if you will of what I enjoy about West Hollywood's building code, because there is a height restriction you can very seldom see a building from another street when you look up. I think this allows the mind to not feel as trapped in. Even though there is metro for miles in all directions the mind isn't reminded. Lets keep that in mind, it may be nice to live in a tall building, but is it nice enough to fuck up other peoples day?

That last sentence was almost Carrie Bradshaw.

Distracted Tractor

I've been dead baby tired this past I don't know how many weeks, and this is my stated reason for not blogging about all things I will later wonder why I didn't blog about. I'm comfortable with this, and because you can see words begining to be worded again you can be comfortable with this as well.

I'm pretty happy today, because I've had good sleep. It's too bad that we humans have to often get up when we are not yet ready, I think we'd all be in much better moods if this were not the case. Wouldn't you agree? An alarm is in fact alarming, and it's pretty well understood that waking up to something alarming is bad, yet we do it nearly everyday. There have got to be some serious social ramifications to this method of dealing with sleep. I for one as a result can be a total non blogging dick face when I have been forced from bed by something alarming at an hour which is in fact nothing less than shocking and illogical.



So I've been a distracted tractor, which is to say I've been working, just not always in the most useful of ways. A tractor when not properly operated can cause much damage, thus far Iv'e only taken down a hedge row and a barb wire fence. Luck would have it.

I'm excited though. Things are good. The new CD is fun for me, people are hearing it and liking it. It's avaliable for purchase where ever it is avaliable. I think everyone should own a copy.

Playing at Los Angeles Pride was good. I wore a lot of gold and black. I have played better shows. I enjoyed myself.

The parade which predeeded Pride was great too. I really enjoyed handing out flyers for the first time in a long time. We handed out something like 2500 of them. Wowza.

This is a picture of wine with Katherine Hepburn.

I wish I had more pictures of wine.

This variety is a $9 French Pinot Noir. I enjoy it.

I don't know why it's posing in our restroom with Kat.

Good Luck everyone, we've all got a lot to do, lets get to it!

I Feel a Sin Coming On

Today our new CD Sidesaddle Sweet Talk is in stores. Our goal was to have it finished and ready to go in time for LA Pride, and we did it. The packaging looks lovely and the sounds are great. I'm very pleased with the finished product.

Now we gear up for Pride, the biggest weekend for our beloved chosen home of West Hollywood. You can always tell as Pride approaches there are more people around, going out to eat and out to bars.





Here is a window display at some clothing place, LASC I think, it advertises an appearance by Angeline:

Last night Amy and I ate at Tango Grill, I took this picture because I love where Tango Grill is and the way Santa Monica Blvd looks from a table there.
This photo was taken Sunday by the afternoon drink that got totally out of bounds and ended up being a mobile party of folks that gained steam and picked up people through a variety of scene settings. Several unfortunate people ended up going into work having just hit the pillow before the alarm went off. Do we ever learn?
This is me, on the other side of that there camera/phone.

Bob - RIP

Amy's Dad would have just celebrated his birthday Sunday, were he still alive, here are some photos for him:



A very dear friend Myless Matisse lost his mother yesterday, I copied his myspace bulletin and post it here with love. Myles is a wonderful soul and he gives sound advice at the end.

Date:
Jun 4, 2007 02:54 PM

Subject:
My Mother Died Today...

Body:
I wanted to reach out through this bulletin and let everyone know at one time about my world...

My mom died today at 3.05pm in Atlanta at my sister's after struggling with cancer. In April, I got to spend an entire month back east with her and spend some amazing time loving, caring for and helping. Playing cards, preparing her food, watching TV, talking, laughing, putting scrapbooks together...it was a great month. Coming back out to California last month was tough, but it was what she wanted. Not knowing how long she really had left, she didn't want me to leave my life on hold indefinately. I'm just glad I got to spend a month full of meaning with her...knowing it would more than likely be the last time I see her again.

Over this past weekend, my sister called and had me speak one last time with her on the phone. By this point, she couldn't answer back, but could hear so I thanked her, let her know I loved her and that all was okay with me here in Hollywood.

Just to let everyone know, I'm doing well considering and realize I'm in a place in life that is on the right path. I'm happy, healthy and working on my talents daily. That's what my mom wanted for me most.

Make sure and take time for those closest to you and for those whose mothers are still alive, each moment is an opportunity to share, talk, love, laugh, cry and treasure with them. Before you know it, they'll be gone.