only in L.A. do people ask you for money in the middle of an earthquake ( Read more... )

the very first thing he said to me upon opening the front door to his house was, "let me show you somethin'...", beckoning me to follow him. and i did. i always did.

i loved hanging out with my cousin cesar at his house. he was my hero. he was the coolest person i knew. and he didn't mind me coming over, which made me feel cool in all my pre-teen ( Read more... )

somehow we ended up on the same sagging mattress in some random hotel room in lancaster somewhere. i don't even remember how we ended up there. i just remember that my pulse had been beating irregularly since she had wrapped her arms around my neck and kissed me earlier that evening amid a drunken stupor. she had caught me off-guard; confusing my ( Read more... )

When life gets rough, I love submerging myself in riddims. With my headphones turned up to the red so that the bass can massage my skull, creating a counterforce to keep my head from exploding. The thicker and heavier the bassline, the better. If the drummer can keep a steady chill tempo, it'll get my head bobbin'.

Sometimes, it's all I need.

He asked me if I believed in God ( Read more... )

I've developed a very strange obsessions with Sudoku puzzles.

Everyday, I have the urgency to sit down and complete two or three puzzles. If I don't, I start randomly visualizing little 3x3 grids on empty flat surfaces (walls, tables, the floor, etc.) with random clues thrown in here and there... a hallucinatory puzzle beckoning me to solve... ( Read more... )

A couple of weeks ago, a very good friend of mine mentioned that there was a 2012 conference happening in Hollywood, where scholars and researchers from different fields were supposed to grace the same stage and present their findings and their theories/thoughts of what's to come in just four years ( Read more... )

setting: living room
time: 10:00 pm

[FOX news is on in background. news anchor announces that brittney spears visited her children today among today's top headlines.]

jesús: i don't understand why her visitation situation is a headline... it makes no sense to me.
monse: you know why it's such an important news headline today? because U.S. ( Read more... )

i've been dating this really nice girl recently. we've known each other a little over a month now, and we've been dating exclusively for the past couple of weeks. and, in spite of my neurotic nature, it's been going quite well ( Read more... )

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