at night in the forest with love

crack in the ventrillica

tracing my blogspot roots

Well, I think I found my earliest blog from back in 2004. I've been hunting down the ones in between. I think this is all of them:

http://jrs1972.blogspot.com/ 12/31/20015 -> current
http://thezenfulbohemian.blogspot.com/  7/3/2007 -> 3/29/20015
http://pinkduckorangelips.blogspot.com/ 1/19/2007 -> 5/31/2015
https://jrs72.blogspot.com/ 3/1/2004 -> 3/2/2004

spending the night with coffee & peaches & the b-52s

Friday night - I'm listening to Peaches. The rain has stopped and everything is green. It's strange to see a different color other than grey in L.A. It's a nice change. I stopped off and got an Americano from Coffee Bean on my home from work.

Last week I met with a few people from my old work to go to happy hour. I've been at my new job for 4 months now and they are still wanting to hang out once in a while which I think is really cool because I've never stayed in touch with anybody from my previous jobs. They to meet at a bar in Beverly Hills, which I agreed to go too because I felt like doing something totally different. I really don't drink and try to avoid places of wealth at all costs, but I wanted to say hi to everyone so I headed down Wilshire to Beverly Hills. I met everyone infront of the bar and Dan put our name in to get a table, but the wait was 45 minutes so we headed down to Subway and all got sandwhiches. I got to hear about all the news .... oh god trying to write this blog is so boring...honeslty... .god, I seriously can't figure out how to write these goddam things. I've been reading this guys's blog called "incidents and happy accidents" and I am so into his blog! all he really talks about is sleeping too much and riding his bike to the laundry mat and it is so interestint!! I swear to god, it's absolutely fascinating and I'm like 'oh hell I can do that' so I run home and try to make a super awesome post like that guy and I start talking about work and beverly hills - YUCK!!!!

but honestly, this guy is completely captivating and inspired me to start on my blog again. so I'm just going to babble about whatever and not try to be coherent - let's just see how that goes

now I'm listening to old B-52s, from their self-tiled album 'The B-52s' from 1979. such an amazing album! I listened to them when they were big in the late 80s with Rock Lobster, but I was 10 at the time and totally wasn't into music or understood what that was all about yet. I really love 'Dance This Mess Around' is one of my favorite songs.

I've started reading again, kinda by accident - I reached up to get something off my bookshelf a few days ago and knocked over an old book. I picked it up and remembered how much I loved that book and put it back on the shelf, but I was like 'well, why not read it again?' which goes against my golden rule of never re-reading a book I've loved because I'm afraid I won't enjoy it again and lose that magical feeling when I 1st read it. it's kind of like dating a past girlfriend again only to realize she is absolutely crazy and has terrible breath. anyway, I started reading it again and am totally in love again. the book is a collection of short stories about a guy who is either waiting for the bus / on the bus / or just got off the bus. it's titled 'Stop Requested' by Wyatt Doyle. There are a bunch of lo-fi illustrations by Stan Zappa. it's very cool but he hasn't written anything since but he did come out with a book of photography about thrift store halloween decorations which I'm going to check out next.

ok - this computer is starting to act crazy. It keeps switching the focus of the window to fucking Pluto!!!! gotta go and read more of my book - talk soon :)

l.a. rain

A wonderful cold and rainy day! I haven't seen it rain like this for years it is soo nice. right now I'm sitting in my cold room with my new christmas lights I bought on discount for 70% off. It's Friday night and I'm really just exhausted from all the inaugural crap. very sad to see Obama leave, but a new chapter must be written and, well, here we go I suppose.

I cleaned out the back bedroom where my 2 daughters were sleeping, they moved into the other room - it's like musical beds all the time. So I took Tuesday off from work and reorganized everything, cleaned and moved stuff around. there are 2 beds in the room, so I leaned upward against the wall thinking it would be temporary so that I could clean under it, but I found it was a great place to hang my new lights. so I'm leaving it up. in the corner, I stacked two plastic storage containers and pulled in an old plastic chair to make a desk, which is where I'm writing now. Overall, I like how the room looks. there still a small pile of crap I'll probably never move but I can kick it over to the corner so good enough. I kinda wished I took a before picture, but trust me when I say it was a disaster. it took me 6 hours to clean. But I really enjoyed it, it was very relaxing and after a while it was very meditative.

Anyway, there is something I love about this room, it's got a really good energy even though this room shares a wall with my neighbor who is either crying or yelling. When we first moved into this place I turned this room into my art studio. I'll see if I can get some pictures of that. now that I have the room back (at least for a little while) I've been able to tap into the energy again and have been editing my latest novel. god this book has been dragging on for 5 years and I'm really excited to finally be working on it again but damn I got to move on to other books. this feels like it's turning into my own Chinese Democracy

listening to Simo Soo right now https://soundcloud.com/simo-soo love this guy! ok, gotta get back to the rain :-)

dancing through the rainbow

another friday night