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Hope comes home to roost
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soulAt the end of the movie Gorky Park (starring William Hurt; a great mystery, rent it if you haven't seen it), there are ermines (think white ferrets) running, jumping, leaping, playing, fucking cavorting in the snow, and the underlying music is the Waltz from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, strings ( Read more... ) -
Il mio tesoro è nei miei sogni
My treasure is in my dreams ( Read more... ) -
Shark's in the salsa.
I was wrong about coming slowly back to the land of the living. I was bumped/yanked/enticed rather quickly.
Found myself again in my brother's arms. Smiled over his child and mine playing together, met his lady. Felt warm. Will see them again soon.
Found myself again in my friend's arms. Made each other's bellies ache with laughter, learned new ( Read more... ) -
In two years it will be 6-6-8, The Neighbor of the Beast
When I was in high school, there was a girl who had 666 as part of her driver's license number. As the story goes (her best friend was at DMV with her and her mom), Amy totally freaked out when she saw the number on her paper temporary license. She begged for a different number. Sorry, we can't do that, the DMVbots said. Besides, the numbers are ( Read more... ) -
A lot can happen in a year
Fourteen months if you want to be more precise. A trip around the sun and a little bit more. A run through each of the holidays, which are important when you have a kid. Some films released, some more worked on, but in truth, except for seeing Lucia's almost daily growth in so many ways -- she's 8 1/2 now and blossoming like crazy, getting really ( Read more... ) -
Friday Night in Greater LA
One of the cool things about living in a big city is that you can be alone without being alone. Does that make sense? Lucia is spending the night with a friend and I decided I wanted to go out. Made a few phone calls, didn't catch anyone at home, so I just went. Funny how you can still practically drive on autopilot to a place you haven't been for ( Read more... ) -
The Future Ain't What It Used To Be
Which is a good thing, I think. Watching from backstage as Beck plays a small unannouced local gig, watching Rainbow watch him, watching the audience watch him, watching Beck watch the audience, take their energy into himself, transform it like he does in a secret method that no one knows, and give that energy back tenfold, artist and patrons in ( Read more... ) -
El Encanto El Dorado El Diablo y Diablita
You can check out any time you like
As Number One Hundred was, so Number One Hundred Thirty-Five shall be, and Poe's Raven sings
He's lookin for that home, and I hope he finds it
He is me and we are all together
Brother I need you
Lover hey fuck you
heavy and dim
heaven or hell
remember ... forget
long , strange
We are all ( Read more... ) -
View of the Kodak from the Right Coast
Lucia reminded me that we'd never been in New York for the Oscars, so we had a little party, some of the other kids in our building that she's become friends with. From what I've seen so far, New York kids seem less impressed with celebrity than LA kids. Yeah, I was in some movies, mostly ones they haven't seen, except a few saw Sky Captain. It was ( Read more... ) -
The Left Coast
Happy Birthday to my lovely, talented, and intrepid co-star, Miranda OttoLucia and I flew to Los Angeles today. She wanted to go to Roscoe's House of Chicken 'n' Waffles for dinner, so we did. Tomorrow she's taking me to our favorite Mexican restaurant for my birthday, then going to the premiere of Phoenix. We've both missed good Mexican food so ( Read more... )