St. Margaret of Scotland

X-mas has come and gone and not a minute too soon. The holiday makes people stupid. Everything seems to be moving at breakneck speeds and everyone starts taking meth just to keep up.  Needless to say it really annoys me in almost every way. Everyone always says that people act uncharacteristically vicious in their shopping / interpersonal behaviors around the holidays, but I think it’s the total opposite.  I think it’s this Christmas frenzy... Read More

Bums

The fucked up thing about dry cleaning is that I can never completely remember if I just dropped something off or picked it up.  Regardless, I had a pack of matches in my pocket from my buddy’s wedding and it came from my dry cleaning, wherever the hell it was.  I hopped into my truck and drove north.  Through the choking traffic and caustic fumes of car exhaust into the barren black hills that are all that remained after the wildfires. ... Read More

Lemon Time

Another weekend bites the dust (and I have nothing to show for it).  God life is just pouring out of me these days.  Time seems to be speeding up.  My finances are starting to dwindle like the glimmer of a fading star.  I worked on John Hancock all weekend up in L.A. and I find myself counting the breaths between the work and the paycheck.  The contracting companies are like desperate women and can smell... Read More

Iron Man

Well just in case you were wondering why the site hadn’t been updated in a week its because I wa up in LA working on the new Iron Man movie. Movie making is a completely new experience for me.  Its was like total chaos for 5 days straight.  People running around like crazy, nobody seemingly in charge of anything, almost like they put a hundred people in a room with a hundred different jobs and somehow a movie is what came out.  I couldn’t... Read More

Thai New Year

Everything that went inside and came out of my stomach list (thai new year): Friday - 2 double double’s from In n Out - 3 stiff vodka lemonade drinks at Brad’s [preparty] (the third drink was mostly spilled all over when I punched the glass full power while playing Nintendo Wii) - 2 pitchers of beer at the Red Lion - 2 baskets of fries soaked in malt vinager - 1 shot of malt vinager - 3 Corona beers at the Grasshopper - “Meat Bowl”... Read More

Back to the Future – by Brad I.

Maybe it’d be simpler to just sum up this 3-day saga into chewable little bits – portions ripe for consumption. Well, the truth is, I can’t – or rather – won’t do that. Fuck that. Life doesn’t spill out its narrative at that pace, no matter how much this all-encompassing ‘postmodern’ framework tries to convince us otherwise. It’s an epic, sprawling clusterfuck of success and failure, of sheer... Read More

Subway

Deep within the steaming underground – beneath Los Angeles in August 2006 Down between the walls of shadow Where the iron laws insist, The hunger voices mock. The worn wayfaring men With the hunched and humble shoulders, Throw their laughter into toil. Subway – Carl Sandburg #gallery-2 { margin: auto; } #gallery-2 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-2... Read More