The Bounces

So the spring is in my step a bit today. I've been doing excellent at reinvigorating my physical regime, which has a positive effect on my life all around. I feel much more focused. Though my productivity has yet to return to pre-spring levels. I'm not fretting though, productivity is one of those concepts that doesn't really seem to have tangible significance.

Today the dandy warhol's initial mix of the album that was eventually released as "welcome to the monkey house" came out as "the dandy warhols are sound". This represents the bands version of the album, as they wanted it to be. I'm blown away. I love "monkey house" but "are sound" is really the dandys at their best.

Thinking about getting back to some of the fiction writing that I've bveen threatening a few people with. My neighbor Lionel has inspired me to again attampt to pick up the pen, only in a virtual manner. Still intending to continue work on the novella "Tequila Summer".

I've been enjoying living near the LA River. At first glance it's a rather ugly concrete drainage ditch. However nature and a slightly enlightened man both seem to be slowly reverting it back to it's original state. I've been trying to do one run along the river per week. Last night I actually saw a family swimming in it. I would have never thought I'd see that. I suppose swimming maybe is a bit far reaching. They were sitting in it, and rolling about. I'm not sure I'd try it, but more power to them.

I'm looking forward to Maui with the family over Christmas.

I saw bruno last night. Very funny. Not quite on the level of Borat, but still hilarious. It shines a light, however filtered on something very ugly that lives in our world, especially here in the states. We've come a long way baby, but we got a long way to go.

Griffith Park has been seeing more hours of my time. I discovered a really grueling stretch of stairs that run perhaps a quater mile up from mineral wells to amir's garden. Holy shit do they kill. Halfway up I thought I might very much die from the lungs out.