I was in Los Feliz the other day. I wanted to stop by Wacko to replenish my dwindling incense supply, but they were out of it. Not wanting to waste the opportunity, and feeling rather famished, I stopped by Yuca’s for a couple tacos. I gave my name as “Will” and waited and watched a […]
Say I’m talking about my script, the delicate skin, to an executive and he’s read it and he knows it’s about Elizabeth Short (The Black Dahlia) and he leans forward and he says, “Brian DePalma’s at work on the adaptation of James Ellroy’s novel, “The Black Dahlia.” Of course I know this is coming, and […]
Still feeling terrible. I feel as if I’m not eating well, but that can’t be right. I eat nothing but salads and vitamins and eggs and almonds, which I’m getting quite sick of, frankly. I guess I’m just what’s commonly known as “under the weather.” Rent’s due tomorrow. I have $32 in my checking account. […]
Actually, that’s kinda grandiose. It’s not so much an aftermath as it is a “Day After.” I spent the weekend doing nothing. In the morning, I wrote. in the evening I hung out. On Saturday I stopped by Rocket to drop something off for Sara’s friend Michael. I ended up chatting at length with the […]
So I was called into a meeting yesterday. I had been waiting for this to happen. Indeed, it was overdue. I was to sit down with both of the owners and discuss details of recent events. Since I had hours to kill before the meeting, and an enormous tension skating about under my skin, I […]
Since I established this paltry website a year ago I’ve had a music section. Long neglected, it merely sported a “coming soon” image. Finally, I’ve finally decided to start using it. I’ve uploaded my first “mini-mix” to test the waters of streaming audio. It’s just five tracks, which is about the max I want to […]
Just talked to Jeff. Sara had agreed to cover my shift today. Because I didn’t want her to miss her flamenco class, I told her I’d work the first half of the shift. When I relayed this to Jeff, he said they had a new guy coming in so I didn’t have to work. That […]
March 25, 2004 – 12:22 am
Just for the record, Kevin Bacon passed on my Black Dahlia-based opus, the delicate skin. I’m very disappointed in him. We won’t be playing Footloose as often at the store, that’s for sure.
March 24, 2004 – 10:44 pm
I seem to have incurred Bonehead’s wrath. He’s at it again, banging his scepter about and crying thief. It all started with this. It’s a warning notice. I was written up for two laughably minor charges. Here’s how it happened: Bonehead approached me with four movies he wanted to rent. I dutifully rang up his […]
March 19, 2004 – 11:39 pm
Tomorrow is Melisande’s wedding. I’m doing my usual last-minute preparation for the DJ gig by digging through cd’s, ripping tracks I can see myself playing, gathrering music and burning cd’s. It’s amazing how much music I have, and how poorly I can distill it into something useful. Here’s a list of what I actually burned. […]
March 19, 2004 – 11:32 pm
Sara and I were gonna go see a screening of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind on Wednesday. She stopped over, we chatted for a bit and then hit the road. But by the time we got there, the traffic was thick with movie-goers. The screening was at the WGA Theater. I thought I would […]
March 17, 2004 – 11:42 am
I’d like to know more about how this website came about. It’s pretty funny. Black People Love Us!
March 16, 2004 – 12:44 am
As usual, my friend Michael Keefe is light years ahead of me on the music scene. At the moment I’m listening to the album “Mount Eerie” by The Microphones. He gave it to me about six months ago and I’m finally getting around to listening to it now. It’s like the musical equivalent of E. […]
March 16, 2004 – 12:23 am
My boss handed me a stack of books the other day. He wants a bunch of scans. He’s been doing this a lot lately. I’ve got a decent scanner (when it works) and he’s doing some health research for Herbalife (eek!) so I’ve been scanning lotsa images of cells, macrophages, skeletons and the occasional free […]
March 16, 2004 – 12:08 am
Damn it, there wasn’t supposed to be a Rocket Report tonight. I dropped by the store briefly at 5:30 to sign myself out for the night before (I’d forgotten to sign us out.) Ryan never showed up. I called him. He didn’t call back until well after he was supposed to start. He’s still stuck […]
