fame

saw these guys [from FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS on hbo] yesterday at intelligentsia:


the one on the left also just did a movie called EAGLE VS. SHARK [http://www.eaglevsshark.net/]. can someone give me their real names?

this one's pretty funny too:


anyhow.. it's funny because i've been thinking a bit about how some people i see from day to day spend their time and/or make a living and how it can feel to know that ''''famous'''' people live and work around me.

Labor Day Bike Polo Tourney in Los Angeles

[me trying to dribble in the air]

The rest of Sean's pics

and Steve?s pics.

EDIT 9/11: and another photo set from the bikerowave tourney.

Matt's team took first and lots of people came out. At the end they played AMERICAN FLYERS but I was zonked out so I went home (plus Tattiya was rafting in Bakersfield and some kids broke into their car and jacked a bunch of their shit so I was freaking out about that).

Los Angeles bike polo is gaining momentum.

business casual and white walls

i started teaching again yesterday. it's pretty unnerving when you become responsible for what people need to learn. worse enough when impressions count and one must make themself trustworthy of their position. however, it's pretty damn cool being able to shape people's lives.

i did these renderings two years ago and miss the process, and most importantly, the product of design. the things that we allow to encompass our lives affect greatly those around us and mostly give validation to our actions in the future. i'm going to start looking for a design job for the mere sake that i want to create bigger things and as cliche as it may be, at least make a better life for others.

got lots of fine tuning and work to do, so if i don't see anyone, it's because i'm balls deep into my portfolio. plus i need to fulfill my insatiable need for beer, coffee, and cigarettes.

August

Faces and spaces
what does it mean to be settled
anyway?
and a buck’s exploding on my arm
in my head
anyway.
I still don’t believe in fate
(besides, ashtrays don’t do much good with this wind)
anyway.

Forty hours a week yeah sure why not
take that to go yeah sure why not
ride across L.A. yeah sure
meet up when you’re in town why not
keeping it concealed yeah
stay here for a bit sure
wishing things were different why
hold my hand yes please do
not.

Some people speak with their hands
and some sit and watch.

Where do we what do we get here how did
that happen?

And “so this is just something temporary?” (you have no idea)
so then where’s rent coming from (no idea) what
do you think when you hear _________
and what makes a day
a bad one?
(what day of the week is it?)
everything has to wait, right? (right)
All my things
are missing but three days ago
I was in a movie.

And then, the writer reading.
“Why don’t we each read a few pages and then
reconvene?”
“Sounds good.”

How are you really? You seem to repeat yourself more
now. Really I’m fine
really, thanks. Yeah, sorry though that was just a lull you caught me in last night.

I was about to write down that it’s funny how I don’t feel the need to have my phone near me when you are (then a slew across my face of days marked forever).

Why is it important that I spent Sunday near the ocean and how do I keep this going now that I’ve come clean?

Didn’t sleep much last night and I’m seeing spots
ocassionally my right
finger is numb (is that symbollic?)
I guess I’ll just keep picking
up because I’m forever
leaving off stepped
into the cheese store today (and later saw two old men playing chess)
and I wanted to taste everything.

Here everyone can pretend to be beautiful. Cue it up.
An evening can be telling
the truth
and that can bend the imagination
in ways it wasn’t ready or willing
and that can lead to wakeful nights
watching eclipses against yard lamps
through eyes looking for something bigger
to believe in—searching for relativity—and then
nextdays that are really full of shit
and Tuesdays that don’t deserve a name.

I put my book down because there’s too much to
say today to have time
or energy for that… An outdoor scene and a bus murmurs to downtown and Mexican horns light the heat another three degrees in the right direction. Look at the kids.

I like to be alone (always on my mind) but I’m tired now and too busy talking to myself to write poems
too busy asking rhetorical
questions
to write
poems
a harmonica unused at home bridled by
the real hours of the day and new! Coming soon! Future
attractions include:
“Jared goes home and rekindles a relationship with his family”
followed by
“A poet who drinks”
and
“A visit to the wilderness, a simple camping trip with a love” in which our hero comes to terms with his sentimental stacks and buys a new pair of sunglasses
and
“He finally gets settled, starts publishing consistently” and makes enough money to travel: a cool one that explores movements and also with hints about what it can mean to be
smoothing out, with hints of a child named August in the previews for upcoming features.

9.1.07

[wrote this this morning but wasn't able to post it til now..]

let the lapd be. yeah.. last night tattiya and i were a block from home on our bikes
when we passed a cop car at a light who was turning without a signal
and for some reason i felt it necessary to say, "blinker," after which
the car turned around and pulled us over in front of our house. they
were serious. very serious. but i got off scott-free and was left
with a reminder that i shouldn't say shit to a cop about traffic
regulations when i don't have a front light or brakes...

anyhow, that was about six hours ago and now i'm about to go to work
and i'm listening to george strait. "amarillo by morning," anyone?
intelligentsia has been going really well. best coffee i've ever had.

happy almost september.


[and now..]

ran into vuki while tattiya and i were eating at bay city deli in santa monica tonight. so damn random! ugh.. ok, tired now. i've been writing and i'll try to post this weekend.

bike polo and work and life

we had our first polo match on sunday the 19th at pan pacific park... a good amount of people came out and i'm excited to see where this will go!



see the rest of tattiya's pics.

i also just quit my first job at lark cake shop and am hoping to snag a spot at the new http://www.intelligentsiacoffee.com/ (based in chicago) that just opened in silver lake.


[[[update 8.26:: got the job full-time at intelligentsia. it's a pretty cool company. for real.]]]


things are good..

it was great to see ben and jan this weekend.

842 E. Dayton St.

without this, i am screwed for my entire day...

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this has been keeping earl and myself busy
[our new place under construction]


the kitchen

looking into the dining room from the kitchen

looking into the living room from the dining room

earl [the ceiling aint that low

looking into the loo from the dining room

my bedroom

earl.s bedroom

updates soon.