Searcy (finally) brought me “The Best Lakai Shirt Made” and possibly “The Best Skate Shirt in 5 Years”.  It reads:  Skateboarders of the World Unite and Take Over.

I had a very coastal weekend. Yesterday we went sailing, well, kind of. There was no wind whatsoever so we just motored out and sailed around slowly for a bit before dropping the jib and just floating and swimming in the Pacific. But, fun to be on a boat with friends regardless.

Today we rode bikes to Craigs and walked to the beach in Venice. I don’t think I have been to the ocean two days in a row since I have lived in LA.

On the bike ride home I stopped at a corner to wait for Powers and the Captain and I saw a hippy lady with jewelry for sale. I walked over and noticed that she had a few pins and I asked her how much they were before I looked at the selection. Long story short, I bought a Smiths “The Queen is Dead” pin for fifty cents.

Now I am at hime sunburned and exhausted. I am going to try to fall asleep watching the Godfather. Ciao.

Go. 

• Continuing my life in the 9to5 world.
• Saw the “Friends and Family” screening of the new Jackass movie at Paramount last night. We all had to fill out little questionnaires about what we thought of it. I am pretty sure I am not supposed to say anything about the content of the movie, but I can say that it is way funnier than I expected. And gross. On the questionnaire I responded by saying “less shit”.
• I hate Pink Floyd. I always have. But with all of the radio RIP’s last week I heard “See Emily Play”, a song I had never heard before. It’s great. Sounds like The Kinks. Just bought it from iTunes and the Bowie cover. But I still hate the Pink Floyd that everyone thinks of when they think of Pink Floyd.
• Sailing in the morning.
• Kind of drunk right now from 3 Newcastles.
• Wearing Jersey shorts and shirt right now because it is so fucking hot in this house.
• One misspelling is a typo, two is stupidity.
• Pom Tea is great, but doesn’t $2.99 seem a bit steep (no pun) for tea? Even if you do get to keep the glass.

Over+Out for now.

If there is one thing that I love it is organization, and the more anal and digital it is, the more I love it. Bring on Library Thing. It’s the perfect web based application for anyone with a decent book collection. I have been entering ISBN’s for a couple of days now and I am about one-fifth of the way through cataloguing my collection. Going through my books is such a trip down Memory Ln. of the phases of my life. The naive bohemian Kerouac days, the dirty Henry Miller days, the pomo days, the completist phase… And the realization that I have several copies of many of the same titles. I know that I used to buy books in paperback that I already owned in hardcover as to not fuck up the spine of the cloth cover. I have many first editions that I kept in pristine condition, until my roommates tried to put the xmas tree in the fire a few years ago and burned down the living room and charred the spines of most of my collection.

You can see my collection here. Library thing is free for up to 200 books, an unlimited membership costs $10/year or $25/lifetime, a small price to pay for an OCD outlet. You can also make a cool little widget that shows random books from your collection like I have down there in my sidebar. And it’s all linked up through Amazon Associates so click and buy some of the books in my collection because I need money.

On my way to Lake Mead I was taken by some of the beautiful landscapes that we were driving through at 70 MPH.  RP and I began to discuss the fact that there is hardly anywhere that you look that you don’t see power lines and towers.

Which made me remember the image that you see here.  I have been spending more time reading in my garden (by Hollywood standards it counts as a garden) and the a few weeks ago I noticed this electrical eyesore.  I realize that we need power, but c’mon, that is hideous to look at.  I didn’t notice it for two years because I am adjusted and used to seeing things like that.  But the other day I realized that these lines are criss-crossing throughout my property just a few feet above my head.  It seems like there has to be a better way.  Can’t we bury these things?  Would it cost a stellar amount of money to rework our infrastructure?  Have we built ourselves into aesthetic doom?

Anyway, the NYT ran an article about it today.