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Caramelize
I ran 18 miles this morning. I recorded ten guitar tracks this afternoon. I’m going to eat pizza and drink beer now. And I’ll be fast asleep by sunset. I spent Friday and Saturday helping Chris and Jen move. Five flights up and down in the old place, four in the new. Yikes. At the…
View Post The Time/Space Continuum
Just so you know, I’m back in New York City, safe, sound and struggling to stay awake. I just woke up from an hour-long power nap, and I’m due over at Chris and Jen’s new place, so I gotta’ be quick. But I just wanted to say, real quick… Um, what did I want to…
View Post Gigantic (A Big, Big Love)
What a gas it was to see ’em. If you had told me, say, yesterday, that I would be doing an eeny meeny between the Teen People party at Chateau Marmont, “I Love Huckabees” premiere at The Grove, or Pixies at the Greek, well, I wouldn’t have believed you. That I started my Wednesday at…
View Post Genie In A Bottle
So there’s this genie. And his trying to teach this kid a lesson, so he gives him seven tasks. For the first task he says, “See that mountain over there? The one with the river in the valley below? Here, take this teaspoon, and move the mountain from one side of the river to the…
View Post Crash Into Me
The first sound I heard this morning was the sickening, metallic thud of two cars crashing into one another. I rose from my bed, pulled back the drapes, and looked down. Sure enough, Fourth Street was backed up behind two crumpled SUVs. Aaaaaah, California. Just now, as I drove west from Hollywood some seventeen hours…
View Post Looking California, Feeling Minnesota
Funny thing happened when I got to L.A. I got robbed. I was less than an hour in town. I’d I landed around 10 a.m., grabbed my Hertz, pointed it north on the 405, dropped my things at Le Duble Tres (The Doubletree). I headed over to my buddy James’ in Santa Monica. We spent…
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