Malibu Fire Version 2.0

NY Girl Of My Dreams

I love the internet.

http://www.nygirlofmydreams.com/

Ochre

This is the color scheme I'm going with for the new apartment

For the Girl Who has Everything

Hello Kitty


http://www.styledash.com/2007/10/25/assault-in-style-hello-kitty-style/

Malibu Fire Sunset

Heard the sirens all day today and could see the smoke across the ocean.

Under the Sea

A photo I took this afternoon of two jellyfish

Deluxe Apartment in the Sky

The move is over... save for a few boxes. The view is amazing... from the ocean all the way to downtown; Santa Monica to the 'Sades... life is good

Funny Advertisement on Craigslist

THIS IS THE COUCH THE PROPHECIES FORETOLD - $60

Oh jesus christ this couch is too much.

Imagine a more innocent time. A time where irony was hip and new. You could buy outlandish furniture and not bat an eye, because everyone around you assured you it would be hilarious. Imagine you've just purchased a large leather burgundy couch. It arrives at your house and its glorious. Truly a sight to behold. You eagerly call your friends to help you move it inside, and when they arrive you begin your task.

and then your couch doesn't fit through your door. your retarded friends scratch up the sides of your door, and your new leather couch. it is wedged so thoroughly that a layman's eyes would be unable to tell where couch ended and doorway began. Your trust in your friends shattered, and your innocence all but lost, you succumb to a depression so deep, medical science has yet to find a cure.

large. leather. burgundy. straight from bad 80's porn that you stole from your dad when you were 11. how much would you pay for the abomination? 900 dollars? your first born? your virginity? NAY.

for the low low price of 60$ this monstrosity can be yours.

"But whats the catch, James?" you say to yourself, hoping the people around you won't think you've got the crazies. I in no feasible way, will help you move this couch. I am defeated. I've moved it like 3 times, as I myself have moved, and never again am I even going to look at it. We're done, couch. Its not you, its me. Honest.

No really. You're gonna have to pick it up. Tie it down, all that. Cause seriously. If I'm not capable of getting in my own house, what makes you think I want anything to do with getting it into yours? HUH? HUH?

60 bucks for a ugl- uh, SWEET leather couch thats been sitting in a garage for 5 years. Thats a better deal than that time I paid my sister to show me her privates.

OH GOD WHY AM I SO AWKWARD I can be reached (and i used that phrase very liberally) at (562)715-4401. ask for James. Or if you're a hot lady, ask for mmmm. yeahhh, Jaaaames Or more realistically, leave a message.

East of the Sun and West of the Moon

Went to see Diana Krall with N last night at the Hollywood Bowl. Nice balmy night... good music. I think she excells at the slower ballads and forces the faster arrangements to much. Traffic coming out of the bowl is always a hassle but affords for lots of people watching in Hollywood along Sunset Boulevard.

Insert the Theme from Close Encounters Here:

The new computer has arrived! I am blurry eyed from trying to familiarize myself with it... but it's great to be back online when I GOD DAMN WANT and without imposing on others. I think this is the beginning of a beautiful relationship.

Becks Has Arrived

Yes - he is one of the most charismatic athletes of the century. Yes - he def. has a look and sense of style that only elevates his popularity (he refrains from wearing over-sized pinstripe anything, diamond studs that are too big for his ear lobes or sneakers as a fashion statement). AND he can play soccer/football really, really, well BUT does the arrival of him and Posh qualify for evening news coverage? Does it?

I Can See the Light

I should have my new HP Pavillion notebook by next week and once I finish sucking everything out of my old PC into the new one, life will begin to go back to normal.

This is what I got:

Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium (32-bit)
AMD Turion(TM) 64 X2 Dual-Core TL-60(2.0GHz/1MB)
17.0" WXGA+ BrightView Widescreen (1440x900)
2GB DDR2 System Memory (2 Dimm)!
NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) Go 6150
HP Imprint Finish + Webcam + Microphone
802.11a/b/g WLAN and Bluetooth!!
200GB 7200RPM SATA Dual Hard Drive (100GB x 2)
LightScribe SuperMulti 8X DVD+/-RW with Double Layer Support
HP Expresscard TV Tuner for Windows Vista Notebooks!
8 Cell Lithium Ion Battery
System Recovery DVD w/Windows Vista Home Premium
Microsoft(R) Works 8.0

Hot.Hot.Hot.

Record Heat at the Beach

Tomorrow Jul 03
Hi: 86°
Lo:63°

Wednesday Jul 04
Hi:87°
Lo:64°

Thursday Jul 05
Hi:88°
Lo:64°

Friday Jul 06
Hi:87°
Lo:64°

Saturday Jul 07
Hi: 82°
Lo:64°

Waiting on the World to Change

Cathy & Me at the Hollywood Bowl listening to Ben Folds waiting for John Mayer to take the stage.

Sting, Andy & Stewart

Roxanne

Saw The Police concert at Staples last night. Good show - low energy from the crowd - typical L.A. crowd. They opened with Message in a Bottle and did two encores ending with Every Breath You take... Great performance of Roxanne... nice use of the screen with graphics... It's a shame they waited 30 years to do this - to see them every summer would be a treat but this is the final goodbye.

source link review:
http://www.dailynews.com/entertainment/ci_6195615

Still Having PC Problems

To iMac or not to iMac... that is the question. Should have some answers soon.

Art Review Los Angeles

Eden’s Edge: 15 L.A. Artists The Hammer showcases vibrant new L.A. artists
Through: 9/2/2007

The museum founded by Armand Hammer in 1990 has betrayed the mission of its founder, said David Littlejohn in The Wall Street Journal. Thank goodness. By breaking ties with the past, “the Hammer has re–created itself as one of the most interesting and active havens for cutting–edge contemporary art” in the country. Hammer’s original collection of impressionist and old master paintings was conventional and mediocre, and rarely as interesting as the small contemporary exhibits the museum mounted off to the side. This year, however, the Hammer broke most of its ties with the family foundation, freeing itself to concentrate on acquiring and displaying the works of young and lesser–known artists. This “must–see exhibition” of artists from Los Angeles confirms Hammer’s importance within the city’s cultural scene.

It also confirms the city’s importance in the broader contemporary art scene, said Christopher Knight in the Los Angeles Times. New York still dominates the art market, but L.A. has a more active and vibrant community of working artists. The Hammer’s new chief curator, Gary Garrels, has culled the work of 15 local artists to create not a traditional survey but “a series of miniature one–person shows.” Ken Price creates ceramics that ooze and billow gorgeously. They’re almost as sexual as the explicit works here by Monica Majoli and Jason Rhoades. Lari Pittman’s “lush images of figures in elegant free–fall and bodily distress are lavishly adorned and chromatically pungent.” Like the intricate collages of Ginny Bishton, they have none of the coldness that turns many people off to contemporary art. “These are artists who make things,” often quite beautiful things.

Most museums wouldn’t take a chance with a show featuring so many unknown artists, said Doug Harvey in the LA Weekly. That’s why Eden’s Edge is such “a great and unexpected pleasure.” The artists turn out to have more in common than just geography. Very few create entirely abstract works; most include either recognizable human figures or landscapes. They jumble up high and low culture with evident enjoyment, and “many seem to capture and freeze moments of seething fragmentary flux.” Other themes are easily identifiable, but thankfully the curators don’t strike you over the head with them. Instead, the exhibition’s laid–back layout allows you to wander from room to room discovering the “distinctly Angeleno strain of contemporary visual language” for yourself.


Source link:
http://www.hammer.ucla.edu/