Im preparing both mentally and spiritually to go to Tijuana to meet people in the mexican death metal circuit there.
Some day I am going to write about Mexico's representation in American literature. It's been seen as the true land of freedom, with the deregulation that the US is supposed to engender. In Westerns, the outlaws don't look to California to be free; they look... Read More
i kept thinking keanu was a plant, too! but we talked to his alleged roommate at the bar so apparently he's the real deal. the spirit of keanu was indeed in the house that night!
Im supposed to be writing two articles for tomorrow, one being a book review regarding "rap music's rise to prominence in the aftershock of Black power"
and the other about the new President of LACMA.
Instead I've had to much espresso, and I can't leave this site...
I've been writing this piece about the car art of the developing world, you know like those taxi's and buses that are painted all crazy colors and have drivers with very few teeth that somehow in that gaping cave of a mouth can somehow smile with more conviction than I can?
Im specifically writing about the Tap Taps of Haiti and the Jeepney's of the... Read More
It's strange how homes can change into houses, and houses into homes.
I'd never think that LA would become my home, but now after 6 years of living here, I've put down roots. My house here in Culver welcomes me home with newspapers gathered in my driveway, my Christmas tree wilted, and junk mail reaching out to me from the mailbox.
I consider myself an adventure-seeker working in the medium of Los Angeles. Not fully a nerd or a dweeb, I engender a juxtaposition of both. I believe I can be catagorized as a neeb or a dwerd.
For a meager living I work as a writer for a fashion/arts/music magazine (while I'm finishing grad school), where I reluctantly interview sorta famous people (yes, that's... Read More