Bad news: I have 1 ex-bf, 1 current bf & 1 accidental lover who's in love with me (or I am pretty stupid in thinking of him this way). A-N-D I have no f*cking idea what I should do with all of them. Really hard to decide between ex and current plus I still want some freedom. Oh!
В колонках играет - Survivor - Eye of the tiger
My dear friend Katherine left me in LA, while she will be spending days with her theatre friends at some premiere @ O'Neill's. And the main point of writing this post is my boss, who said smth like 'You should stay here, and work cuz you took too much weekend days last week'. That is so much unfair!
Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
В колонках играет - Rob Duncan-The final fight People who have never been to Los Angeles often have some pre-conceived notions about Los Angeles that are more based on Hollywood fiction than reality. Here are some of the most common misconceptions people have about the City of Angels.
1. It’s always sunny.
In Los Angeles, winter is both the rainy season and the sunny season. Between the occasional rain days or rain weeks, the sky is a clear blue, even in the morning. The layer of marine clouds that are known as June Gloom actually hang around throughout the summer, making most mornings overcast until at least noon, especially at the beach.
2. It’s hot at the beach.
The average temperature at LA area beaches is about 70 degrees, all year long. This can be about 20 degrees different than inland temperatures. In winter, the thermometer hits 70 for a few minutes then bounces back down. In summer the mercury lingers longer before declining. There are usually a few weeks of summer where heat waves bring beach temperatures into the upper 80s or 90s, but it could equally well be 70 in July and August.
3. Nobody walks in LA
It may be true that distances in LA often preclude walking from where you are to where you want to be. However, there are lots of walkable shopping and beach areas in Hollywood, Downtown LA, Venice Beach, Santa Monica, Pasadena, Long Beach and down the coast. Guided walking tours or walking maps are available at local Visitors Centers. There are also great hikes in and around Los Angeles, including Runyan Canyon, just a few short blocks from the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
4. Everyone works in the entertainment industry.
The number one industry in Los Angeles is actually manufacturing. Los Angeles is the largest manufacturing center in the United States.
5. Everyone is beautiful.
There are lots of beautiful people in Los Angeles – highly concentrated in upscale nightclubs and shopping areas. There are also lots of ordinary people that make the effort to look their best. That leaves the majority of the population just as overweight and ordinary as the rest of the country.
6. The beaches are full of blond bombshells.
The majority of blonds can more likely be found on southern Orange County beaches. Los Angeles beaches are more populated by ethnic families with kids and tourists. The population of Los Angeles County is about 70 percent non-white, with Hispanic being the largest group at 44 percent.
7. It’s all concrete.
Visitors to Los Angeles are often surprised by LA’s tree-lined streets and frequent parks and green patches. Griffith Park is over 4000 acres of green within the city limits. The Hollywood Hills and Santa Monica Mountains provide a green backdrop for the city all the way to the beach. Even the inner city in Los Angeles is made up of sprawling neighborhoods of single family homes and small apartment buildings with little patch lawns and trees.
8. It’s hard to drive in LA.
Driving in Los Angeles is usually pretty straightforward. Most streets are laid out in a grid with a few notable curves and angles. Few areas have one-way streets. Downtown areas are the exception. Freeways are reasonably well marked, but follow the freeway numbers, not the names, since names change, depending where you are. Freeway signs usually include the name of a city direction, but that doesn’t help if you don’t know which way Santa Ana or San Pedro is from where you are.
9. Los Angeles is a dangerous place to visit; everyone is in a gang.
Most tourist areas in LA are at least as safe as other big cities. There are parts of LA that are dangerous, especially at night. Make sure you have good directions when driving in LA. Normal precautions should be taken, such as locking cars and keeping track of your personal belongings.
10. People dress formally to go out.
LA is the center of the U.S. fashion and clothing industry, and yet LA fashion is casual and individualistic. Despite the best efforts of nightclub bouncers, nice jeans and flip flops go just about anywhere. Some people do dress up for the opera, ballet or symphony – and, of course, the major entertainment award ceremonies.
В колонках играет - Horace Silver Quintet-Song for my father
Morning guys!
I'm expecting a very long weekend. Tomorrow I'll be enjoying barbecue and a nice walk in Griffith Park.
Hope, I'll take some pics from this huge holiday and post them here later.
See u!! Kisses.
В колонках играет - Syntax-Pride
Mr. Mandela, thank you so much for everything! And Happy 90th Birthday (dunno why in London they decided to celebrate it today, not in 18th of July, but who cares?!)
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela: [xolíɬaɬa mandéːla] (born 18 July 1918) is a former President of South Africa, the first to be elected in fully representative democratic elections. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist and leader of the African National Congress and its armed wing Umkhonto we Sizwe. He spent 27 years in prison, much of it on Robben Island, on convictions for crimes that included sabotage committed while he spearheaded the struggle against apartheid.
Among opponents of apartheid in South Africa and internationally, he became a symbol of freedom and equality, while the apartheid government and nations sympathetic to it condemned him and the ANC as communists and terrorists.
Following his release from prison on 11 February 1990, his switch to a policy of reconciliation and negotiation helped lead the transition to multi-racial democracy in South Africa. Since the end of apartheid, he has been widely praised, even by former opponents.
Mandela has received more than one hundred awards over four decades, most notably the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993. He is currently a celebrated elder statesman who continues to voice his opinion on topical issues. In South Africa he is often known as Madiba, an honorary title adopted by elders of Mandela's clan. The title has come to be synonymous with Nelson Mandela.
Mandela has frequently credited Mahatma Gandhi for being a major source of inspiration in his life, both for the philosophy of non-violence and for facing adversity with dignity.
В колонках играет - Joey Ramone-Stop thinking about it
So after a few disappointments in relationship, I have gathered some common themes among the men I have been in short and long relationships with, as well as my behavior in these relationships. This comes after a friend telling me I "need to pick better men". I believe it is true! I should value myself enough to be conscious of what I want in another person, as well as be aware of who I am and how I behave in a realationship. This is an ongoing list and I'm not going to use it as a checklist, I'm not crazy, just a set of suggestions to keep in mind. No real order here:
* A man must have friends of his own. This is an indicator of his social skills as well as loyalties to people he cares for (non-family). * A man must live on his own or with roommates, just not at home with family. This is an indicator of his independence as well as individual financial stability. * I will not introduce the person I'm dating to ANY family until it is serious. That includes my brother and my niece. * I will not bring along a person I'm dating to outings with friends until we've both had time to get to know each other well. * A man must not be emotionally unavailable. FIRM on this one! * A man must be college educated. This is not me being a snob of any sort; the degree can be from Westwood College or Harvard for all I care. It is the pursuit of higher education that I am interested in. It says a lot about the person's dedication and motivation. * I will not let my "guard" down completely until I know the other person is not just wasting my time. Not to say that I won't open up to someone, just that I will be more cautious since this is what makes me hurt later. * I will not settle for what appears to be a good guy. His actions must match his words. * A man must have some sort of humanitarian side. I'm tired of guys always telling me that I have a good heart for helping people. I want to be able to say the same thing to someone else. It's a quality that I would like to share.
YOU CAN argue about whether it's better to live here or New York or San Francisco, but one thing is for sure: Los Angeles is the best place to die.
The rest of the country is still stuck in the somber, generic, sterile, 20th century funeral mind-set, the kind that's all focused on death. In the L.A. mortuary community, on the other hand, it's not even cool to use the word "funeral." Now it's an End of Life Celebration. And, at 35 years old, I was already a little late in planning mine.
Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, author of "Remember Me: A Lively Tour of the New American Way of Death," told me that if I wanted to have a decent video — a basic staple for any End of Life Celebration — I should start shooting now. When I asked Cullen if making my mourners watch a movie about me would come off as a little self-absorbed, she told me that I had wisdom to pass down and that I was stuck in a pre-YouTube mentality. "Nobody would find it strange if they went to your funeral and saw your giant face on a screen talking incessantly about yourself," she said. "In fact, they'd expect it."
To plan my party, Cullen sent me to Lynn Isenberg, who turned her novel, "The Funeral Planner," into Lights Out Enterprises — a kind of party planning service for dead people. Isenberg, who charges $1,000 per fiesta, has planned some sweet end-of-lifers. One includes a $75,000 video complete with animation and underwater photography; another established a fund so a guy could force his family to see the Detroit Red Wings every year. Though that was clever, I figured I could up the ante by making my family see every new Kevin Smith movie.
Isenberg sent me two long forms to fill out: one for me and one for my wife. After reviewing them, Isenberg impressed me with her can-do attitude. Regarding a question about whom I'd like to speak at my funeral, she wrote back: "As for Thomas Pynchon, I would try to contact now and see if there's something he'd like to write about you or say about you on audio/video so that you have it to show, assuming he precedes you in death."
We agreed on an end-of-life dinner at the sixth-highest Zagat-rated restaurant in L.A. I'd have a very small guest list because I don't care who gets mad for being left out, me being dead and all. They'll show my movie, and I'll pick four people to speak for four minutes each. Three if Pynchon comes through.
Like every event in L.A., I'd need a gift bag. Lash Fary, who runs the gift bag company Distinctive Assets, thought he could hook me up with two bags: one for any celebrities in attendance — which might be a problem because my one celebrity friend is Robert Goulet — and one for everyone else. Fary was pretty sure he could get chocolate-covered Altoids and some copies of the L.A. Times. And, if I mention the products in a posthumous column, probably Solstice sunglasses and a T-shirt with the Star of David in Swarovski crystals. Done and done.
For my cemetery, I decided on Hollywood Forever, right next to Paramount Studios. Not only do they show movies there in the summer, house lots of celebs and a tremendous amount of headstones with Russian faces etched in that '80s county-fair, computer-drawn T-shirt style, but they have a hot receptionist, road signs written in that "Addams Family" font and a general ironic-cool vibe that says: Sure I'm dead, but I get it.
I was leaning toward being cremated (everyone's doing it, Cullen assured me) and put into a compartment in these adorable, tiled, 5-foot-tall Thai stupas in the Buddhist garden. Then, on a tour, Jay Gianukos — who, for prices starting at $2,500, directs bio movies for the cemetery — told me about a new virtual plot up in Fernwood. They'll wrap your body in cloth, let you biodegrade into the ground and mark your body only by a GPS machine that will show your video when visitors arrive on the correct patch of land. Even more than a huge statue of myself, like Johnny Ramone has, an eco-burial seemed like the most effective way of telling everyone that I'm better than them.
Finally, because my wife, Cassandra, who is always looking to embarrass me, told Isenberg that before we go to sleep I say "Good night my sweet girl. Sweet dreams," Isenberg suggested that I record that so she can hear it for a little while after I'm gone. Because what could help you fall asleep better than a dead guy talking about your dreams? I might even put on a brown fedora and some metal finger extensions for it.
So I'm not going to do any of it, other than having my ashes scattered. Because all this is still nothing more than striving for immortality, and immortality is the foolish fantasy of weak egos. Everything is eventually forgotten anyway, and I'm OK with that. In fact, it might work in my favor.
В колонках играет - Nickelback-Fight for all the wrong reasons
I love having sex with him! I like everything new with him! And I'm still in love with him his way of life. We are so bitchy alike, bitchy the same.
В колонках играет - Mattafix-Living Darful
I'm absolutely healthy (that means that I can walk and drive, but no heels at all).
So, how was your weekend?? Mine was rather ok, actually boring, cuz nothing happened.
To Kat_Davis: Kat, pics from that party are awesome!! Wanna see more! Have you got pics from Halloween (the old one), that Jonathan photographed? They were really funny.
В колонках играет - James Marsters-Patricia
OMG! That was the hardest night ever. I can't feel my feet anymore ('specially the left one). The reason is a party in Ultra Suede (West Hollywood), and after dancing we (me & Steve) took a taxi to Pasadena, and then decided to walk a little (ok, to walk a lot) to my house. And I grazed my feet so bad that had to call emergency and they even gave me some pills. Very nice evening.
N.B.: NO MORE WALKING IN NEW BOOTS!
В колонках играет - Divinyls-I touch myself
Giles: We have to talk.
Buffy: I don't suppose this is about happy squirrels?
Giles: Vampires.
Buffy: That was my next guess.
Xander: I laugh in the face of danger. Then run and hide until it goes away.
Willow: Happy hunting.
Buffy: Wish me monsters.
Xander: [to Buffy] Can I have you? Duh... heh-heh... can I help you?
Buffy: Who are you?
Angel: Let's just say ... I'm a friend.
Buffy: Yeah, well, maybe I don't want a friend.
Angel: I didn't say I was yours.
Buffy: Angel?
Angel: Hmm?
Buffy: Do you snore?
Angel: I don't know. It's been a long time since anybody's been in a position to let me know.
Xander: Now I'm sayin' something. You saw him naked?
Buffy: I invited you into my home and you attacked my family. Why?
Angel: Why not? I killed mine. I killed their friends. And their friends' children. For a hundred years I offered an ugly death to everyone I met, and I did it with a song in my heart.
The Master: A dream is a wish your heart makes.
Principal Snyder: There're some things I can just smell. It's like a sixth sense.
Giles: No, actually that would be one of the five.
Buffy: Sorry, but I'm an old fashioned gal. I was raised to believe that men dig up the corpses and the women have the babies.
Buffy: I wasn't gonna use violence. I don't always use violence. Do I?
Xander: The important thing is you believe that.
[Angel tracks Buffy to the graveyard where she's patrolling.]
Angel: What are you saying, you want to have a date?
Buffy: No.
Angel: You don't want to have a date?
Buffy: Who said "date?" I ... I, I never said "date."
Angel: Right. You just want to have coffee or something.
Buffy: Coffee?
Angel: I knew this was going to happen.
Buffy: What? What do you think is happening?
Angel: You're sixteen years old. I'm two hundred and forty-one ...
Buffy: I've done the math.
Angel: You don't know what you're doing, you don't know what you want ...
Buffy: Oh. No, I ... I think I do. I want out of this conversation. [starts to stalk off]
Angel: Listen, if we date, you and I both know one thing's going to lead to another.
Buffy: One thing already has led to another. You think it's a little late to be reading me a warning label?
Angel: I'm just trying to protect you. This could get out of control.
Buffy: Isn't that the way it's supposed to be?
Angel: [grabs her roughly] This isn't some fairy tale. When I kiss you, you don't wake up from a deep sleep and live happily ever after.
Buffy: No. When you kiss me I want to die.
Drusilla: Do you love my insides? The parts you can't see?
Spike: Eyeballs to entrails, my sweet.
So after a few disappointments in relationship, I have gathered some common themes among the men I have been in short and long relationships with, as well as my behavior in these relationships. This comes after a friend telling me I "need to pick better men". I believe it is true! I should value myself enough to be conscious of what I want in another person, as well as be aware of who I am and how I behave in a realationship. This is an ongoing list and I'm not going to use it as a checklist, I'm not crazy, just a set of suggestions to keep in mind. No real order here:
I love having sex 
