HEY !! WHY DON'T YOU TAKE A RIDE ON THIS FU**ERS!!!!

FUCK FEAR. This post is dedicated to everyone  who despite their fears are making this world a better place. thank you, and get out more.

Sofía: Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.-VANILLA SKY

Greatest deed Luke Skywalker ever did was take down the Death Star, right? As far as I'm concerned, that's what everybody needs. You need that one bad-ass thing that lets you live on forever, you know. -FANBOYS

Duderinos,  If you find yourself in North Hollywood for whatever reason and looking for a cheap way to get out, consider this: Metro Red Line. It is a relatively new and expanding form of public transportation, that is finally connecting the sprawling landscape that is Los Angeles. As of today October 2011, you can purchase a day pass for $5.00. It is Located on Lankershim blvd and Chandler.      
     Keep this in mind about the North Hollywood Red Line Station:
1.  It is underground.
2.  At the North Hollywood station, it is either the end of the line or the take off point heading to UNION STATION in downtown L.A.
     So even though there are two rails and sometimes two trains.  It will only go in one direction at this point. If a train has just arrived and people are evacuating and some are hoping on, regardless of the train track passengers have either: reached the end of the red line going North into the San Fernando Valley, or are about to go South to the Los Angeles Union Station allowing you to get off at any one of its 12 vastly interesting red line stations stops. All stops have signs above the previously mentioned two rails pointing out their destinations: either UNION STATION in DOWNTOWN, or back to NORTH HOLLYWOOD, in the SAN FERNANDO VALLEY. At this point you may transfer using your day pass on most public buses to get to: China Town/Olvera Street, Staples Center, Santa Monica Beaches, Long Beach, and of course Hollywood Boulevard and Highland , or Universal Studios.
    The most frequently asked question from people looking lost and disoriented at the NoHo (North Hollywood ) station is: Does this train go to UNION STATION?
 I  remind everyone of point no.2 this is both the end of the line at NORTH HOLLYWOOD or take off point for UNION STATION, DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES since this is North Hollywood we must be heading to  Union Station in Downtown Los Angeles. This Red Line cannot physically shove you any further North into the hills...yet.  All aboard.

  maps an timetables available at: http://www.metro.net/around/maps/

Of interest for people whose blood sugar dropped suddenly:  McDonalds on the Highland stop, or the Trader Joes for some organic jalapeno almonds with an organic fruit roll-ups at the Hollywood and Vine stop.

Of interest to vinyl lovers and lovers of all music:  Amoeba Records on Sunset and Cahuenga blvd., a brisk walk from the Hollywood and Vine stop. (stop your whining , it's good for your heart, and will make up for the extra fries you had to have back there).


Of interest for men who love other men and don't want to drive drunk: The Santa Monica and Vermont stop leaves you a couple of blocks from The Faultline located on Melrose Blvd. and Vermont. The bar for men who just happen to love men who smell like well ... men and not so much like that one strong cologne with a girls name I can never remember. Some may be smoking cigars and be extra hairy. This bar is not a leather bar it's considered a levi's/leather bar. The leather bar is The Eagle, a couple of more blocks down on Santa Monica blvd. Play nice, now.

  maps an timetables available at: http://www.metro.net/around/maps/

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PUBLIC RESTROOMS can be found at NOHO red line above ground , Union Station stop, Macdonalds,  HOLLYWOOD & HIGHLAND SHOPPING center. All except  NOHO (50centst) are free.

 

SMILE.

Sofía: Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.-VANILLA SKY
Fuck Fear.
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I have feared that people are and always have been for the most part apathetic, always have. Some people lead and decide, so no, not everyone but most people don't bother. Maybe that is why so many bad things have happened throughout history and now. Subscribers of the ignorance is bliss philosophy. The NIMBY people, I don't care what happens in the world as long as it's Not In My Back Yard. It is not a good way to view the world. It's hard to trust anyone. So if you live this way, give it up, find a different way to see things. It's hard at first but, very possible. The world is a beautiful beautiful place. Trust me, I don't know how to prove that to someone, who doesn't want to see that. All I know is when you decide to be happy, If you start to look for reasons to be happy and free of fear you start finding them. Things start presenting themselves that seem like a coincidences over and over. And you start to feel it happy. Try it.
Sunday I woke up to find New York was occupying wall street, how did I not hear of this? Maybe because I had long ago turned off my t.v. that insisted on my watching somebody's reality being made into a show and transmitted with bleeped outbursts. These shows are sponsored by some company that no doubt has lost a good part of it's employees while it's CEO got their ever present if not increasing bonuses. I'd missed it. I didn't even know we were really upset as Americans. I was waiting for the TEA PARTY to alert me as to how I felt. Or a politician in touch with the people. I was too distracted to notice. But here it is something called Occupy Wall Street , search locally and see what pops up. I typed it in, I'm in Los Angeles and I got some group of people occupying Los Angeles and they're mad. They're upset by many different things, the economy, loosing their homes, bailouts for billionaires companies. UTLA , the teachers union was out there in force one day. Good for them. Someone asked my what they were protesting down there I replied : " I don't really know, everything I think..." I had to laugh.
Life is beautiful. Emotions, people finally reacting to their emotions. People.

Greatest deed Luke Skywalker ever did was take down the Death Star, right? As far as I'm concerned, that's what everybody needs. You need that one bad-ass thing that lets you live on forever, you know. FANBOYS

Sofía: [in Spanish] Open your eyes.-VANILLA SKY.

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get some rest REM

      My roommate just told me REM broke up. I never got to see them, they were always too big to go see, I just can't see a band in a stadium. unless it's a big band like Queen or E.L.O.
      What an amazing career these guys have had. From being the alternative little fish, contemporaries to the Replacements and the Violent Femmes, to being the standard all other rock bands are measured against for artistic integrity, longevity and most importantly the music. What sweet sweet music. Not all the songs were Aces (shiny happy people, superman), But who cares when you've got albums and albums of beauty and mystery, yes mystery. There are some mumbled lyrics for sure.

Many have heard the hits, but have you heard the whole album: Automatic for the people?  songs like night swimming and New Orleans instrumental no. 1 and * me kitten. Such sadness and beauty.

Have you ever heard Murmur? I don't wanna say you should, 'cause you should have already. If you are in fact tired of what's being offered to you musically, then ...yes you should, sometime soon and remember it was done in 1983.

 I won't say R.I.P., REM, because you can't keep a band this creative from creating. I will say get some rest and we'll see you soon.

Blank Dogs - Keeping All The Time

Blank Dogs - Keeping All The Time: Blank Dogs - Keeping All The Time

This beer tastes different now.

One of the most exciting times I ever had was when I traveled alone to visit relatives in a different state. My whole life I’d somehow felt lost. I had always felt I needed something else, and I was angry because I couldn’t imagine or put into words what that was clearly, or freely. Given this one time opportunity, though, I ran with it. I planned and planned again, after that I made sure my plans were right. It was a dangerous game I now know, but it was lifesaving at the time. So much was at stake I thought, no one could find out. I was terrified and excited all in the same breath. The time came and finally I was able to leave one day early, and arrive before I was expected. That meant I had one night to myself. One night to do anything I could fit in my young imagination, as a single male in a new city with everything to experience.  I was a young 21. As opposed to the older 21. I had never traveled alone This was it. I could pee myself (not on purpose, just to be clear).
        I had the general idea of what I would do, in this new city, but nothing specific. I had lined up a couple of hotels and motels that I could afford, and all were near a couple of bars, some gay, some not. After that, all was up in the air. I had never experienced such freedom, such defiant and emboldening freedom as I did that night (nor have I needed to, thankfully). Almost in slow motion, I stood in the cold, hearing the gravel underneath my boots, outside of the the first nondescript bar before stepping inside. I remember walking on a cloud of cigarette smoke. I brushed closely up against several men. It was close enough to smell them wearing different scents, some artificial and very sharp others more pleasant. For sure all were very warm compared to the winds in the cold night outside, as I walked past them to the bar, and I ordered my beer. I caught a glimpse of myself illuminated by the blue neon in the mirror behind the bartender. I  didn’t recognize my face.When it registered, I almost winked at myself. Now a couple of years later, I understand I just planned to go get a couple of beers and head to sleep alone for sure, but, things could change and I was slowly becoming fine with that, finally. It would take a couple of years before I could do all this outside a bar in the daylight instead of neon lights, and without a beer, sad for sure, but a path I had to walk through. Now I see me reflected somewhere and it registers who it is, I do wink at myself sometimes, you know, sorta like an acknowledgement to the younger me we did good.It makes me quietly laugh. I like life, it was a little bit of hard work but we did it. It did change me to feel that much freedom available to me, though. I didn’t know that much world was available, as odd as that sounds.  I imagine it’s akin to when people go paragliding or jump from a plane for the first time, with a parachute of course.

A little about me.

A little about me. I like long walks in short pants. Movie dates that start out with brushing hands and touching knees and end where someone gets their integrity compromised or at least groped. Not on the first date of course.
I’m an able and avid escalator rider. An armchair therapist and a lover of frozen yogurt.  Menchies.

One of the sexiest times with my clothes on had me being invited to dance to a new wave song by a straight drunk guy who insisted I dance with him to this song. He held me by shoulder and was so drunk we were joined at the waists, totally out of sync with the song (we had a rhythm of our own going, wink, wink) and an intense stare that lasted the whole song through. Everybody was too drunk to notice and I was too young to push for some follow through, so… whenever I hear the one song I um…
 and no it's not mambo no. 5
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little bit of sun finally.

like a fly on the wall. On the paris subway.  (okay , okay it's the LA redline)

Getting some!   (sun that is)