Delayed Reaction
Current mood: fascinated
Category: Music

Although I read NME from time to time to sift and find some good music tidbits and get a sense of what's going on the other side of the Atlantic... I really do have to say... Thank the Queen Mother herself I'm not a Brit.  They're really sponsoring some crap right now... How did they vote these "winners"?!

The Klaxons - Best Album?  I couldn't even stand 5 minutes of this. The Arctic Monkeys - Best Band? My Chemical Romance nominated in several categories including worst? (You know who's fav "Emo" band reference also won Best Int'l Band in 2007!). Their Awards show even had a US spin off held at the El Rey which must have been just as painful to fathom... save the Arcade Fire and dare I say... Foo Fighters (yes, I do have a soft spot for these commercialoids of the mainstream)... Anywhoo..

The NME Awards looks like it really went to crap after 2004... before then there were at least bands like Radiohead, Oasis, Mogwai, The Stone Roses, Chemical Brothers, The Vines, The Strokes, White Stripes, Kings of Leon...

I will give Kudos for the category "Year's Worst Villian" - and, it going to our very own GWB for the past three consecutive years.

Okay, that's it. 

Just a side related comment - For those of you who don't realize it... We're pretty spoiled out here in LA with one of the best radio stations on the air ever anywhere in the world... 103.1fm  Seriously. It'll kick ass on any awards show on any given day - If these award shows actually listened to good music - they'd really know the difference! (Although the station does have glitches such as playing bands like the Ting Tings - Ugh!) I guess I'll never be completely satisfied!

Cheers.

Currently listening : Here Come the Warm Jets By Eno Release date: 2004-06-01

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Amethyst
Current mood: inspired
Category: Dreams and the Supernatural

the prophetic dream left to interpret.
there is only darkness
and the shadow yet to fall
with the rise
of dawn and awakening.
slumber transports soul
to walk the heavenly realms.
the invisible plane
that men long to traverse.
i walk, i run, and i stand still.
i rest, and then sojourn again.
the bubbling oasis
offers comfort for a night.
in the distance
the song of the gypsy caravan
plays eternal -
a familiar tune
i have heard before birth.
discovery where horizon
is the edge of nothing
converged on everything -
i am so close this time.
if i found the word,
the core,
the source,
the omniscient being
i have believed in for so long -
would he cleanse my soul,
and bestow upon me three wishes?
i suspect he must know what i seek,
awaiting my arrival.
and, in his hands he holds
the sacred amethyst heart -
deep purple resonated glow
through the lamellae.
rippled fractures layered luminesse.
purple, yellow, fire red, deep siberian.  
antiquited intaglio intricately weaved
with strands of gold and gem.
wisdom would bestow
my personal mythology
exists in transcendence.

- e

Currently listening : Phaedra By Tangerine Dream Release date: 29 June, 1992

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Crusher Destroyer
Current mood: amused
Category: Dreams and the Supernatural

The wolves are loose in my neighbourhood street that's sparsely sprinkled with old modest homes, pale, thinned leafed trees, that are shivering in the bitter cold... Wolf dogs howling, biting, running rampant... Gnashing at anything they can get their teeth into are suddenly stopped dead cold in their tracks... As the grey winter sky is eclipsed by the shadow of a Grizzly Bear... His old brown eyes reflecting both strength and tiredness of living in the new era of Man's suburbia... Suddenly morphing into a majestic tusked Mastodon...Expending the rage and fury of a hundred thousand Aeons ago species Extinct ...

One could call on the symbolism of the Animal Totem... But, it was merely a sequence in my dream...

The funny (peculiar) thing is... While I was submersed in this nocturnal reverie, I wondered... Why were these images in my thoughts? I really beleived it had to mean something until I realized the influences...

The Answers were as simple as this:

1. I was listening to Jonesy on 103.1 last Friday and they had a discussion on saving kennel dogs... they mentioned all dogs are descended from Wolves...

2. I've been listening to Grizzly Bear and had a friend mention they were going up to San Francisco to see them this coming weekend...

VS

3. I've also been listening to Mastodon...

  VS

Silly, really... Maybe I'm listening to too much music... Is there such a thing? Nah, I really probably shouldn't eat too late at night ;)

Xx's

Currently listening : The Acrobats By Helvetia Release date: 01 March, 2008

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Chaos
Current mood: impervious
Category: Life

So, yesterday I was feeling discombobulated - you know, the out of sorts, garbled mess, super sensitive person who secretly wants attention but instead withdraws into their shell kinda mood. I kept my social interaction minimal, tried not to email or speak with anyone on the phone. I'm just really aware when I am in this space that I can often turn the miniscule behind an innocent statement or deed into a grandiose misunderstanding, argument or misdeed. Which could possibly create an even further spiral into darkness. So, I kept to myself.

I mean, who can blame me?  We've just entered the first Mercury Retrograde of 2008.  Merc Retro makes me feel completely insane, so much so that I really have to make it a point to take things "slowly", let things take their course and be really, really, really patient.  For those of you who know what I'm talking about or have experienced it for yourself... An example would be just yesterday, I am looking for a check that I need to really deposit.  I'm ready to head to the bank and guess what?  I can't find it.  I look around for 30 minutes.  I give up. WTF? Where? And, I finally find it... On top of the small garbage canister I have in my bedroom. In the garbage.  Could've been thrown out with trash. Duh. (Although my astrological scapegoat might also be contributed to by A.D.D.) The pressure or stress or confusion of Merc Retro is somewhat of an illusion, or, more appropriately - a temporary state of being. [Note to Self: Remember That.]

Anyway, during these alone times with intent of stabilization, my mind is running rampant with thoughts and thoughts and thoughts... Like... I'm reading 'Blink" - The Power of Thinking Without Thinking.  It makes sense.  In Chapter 2, One of the topics about "priming" or how our subconcious is somehow affected by words to either positive or negative - actions, reactions, etc... I'm really considering this and realize that over the past week, I have been my own worst case study of "priming"... I've recently watched The Shining again, finished reading "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy (great, by the way), we've had rain like no end last week - and, believe me... no one is used to that in Los Angeles - it's the exact opposite reason of why people live here - Weather!, watched Zodiac on Monday night - unsolved serial killings, Wristcutters last night - a light love story that takes place in the afterworld filled with people who've committed suicide, watched a little doomsdayer youtube type video on TU42 - the huge asteroid about the size of Sears tower that's much too close for comfort to the earth... and, which purportedly could cause "unknown" electromagentic changes on the earth... Ahem, like earthquakes, global change, etc... yep, really sunny, hippy happy shit right?

Sure enough you know what effect that's had on me?  I've had ghost dreams with evil spirits trying to lead me to my demise on three nights... OMG, someone is really trying to kill me!  I've woken up and started several mornings with a frown, fear and hesitation - for no other reason than the content of what I've been entertaining my mind with. My self "priming" caused an annihilistic, fuck this fucked up world, it's too much for me to handle attitude where I feel I'm walking alongside the man and the boy with their shopping cart and me with my knapsack sharing the bleak road... [Don't worry, this blog doesn't contain a spoiler to the book... I won't give it away.]  I mean, my state of mind could be monumentally worsened if I got sucked into the whole propaganda of pharmaceutically doped up, zombified, heartless, soulless, politically biased, hollywood based tabloid altered reality of what life is really like rantings of the media... Ugh.

I again woke up with a bit of a frown this morning, and, the awareness turned into intention that - Shit, I better snap out of this!  So, anytime today I felt like being sarcastic or biting or overly sensitive or just feeling like I should throw a wrench to fuck up the moving cogs or people in my way... I didn't.  I drove around in the afternoon and it was a beautiful day (albeit windy), I listened to some good ol' happy cheesy gay music, thought about some upcoming music shows, talked to my favs, ate some ice cream, sent out positive words... and, as simple as that - I anti-primed, my anti priming. I'm feeling better.

Humor is key. And, hey - it's Dan's birthday today along with all my fellow Aquarians and/or Feb bdays this month - SB, SE, PB, JR, JL... CP and my Sis - Pisces! Happy Bday to y'all and anyone I missed. Get yerselves some boob and blow... Uhm... employment careers.

Chaos. Yep, good times, good times... Oh, and, Merc Retro ends  on Feb 18th... everything will be alright soon.

Xo's

Currently listening : Strange Magic: The Best of Electric Light Orchestra By Electric Light Orchestra Release date: 11 April, 1995

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Mirabilia
Current mood: content
Category: Life

light journey through time. expansive infinite constant.
idiosyncratic searching soul discarding obsolete paradigms.
psychological liquidation of illusory apotheosis.
purge the cliched ire of conflicted intellectualized experience.
deconstructed paragons descend into the abyss
foray into realm of shadows brings forth illuminated abstraction.
bouyant perspective in loom emerges a gorgeous mystery
of sacred heart beating in lyrical consonance
expressionistic reverance of sensories. marvel in it's splendor.

- E

Currently listening : Passionoia By Black Box Recorder Release date: 10 March, 2003

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The Apartment
Current mood: relaxed
Category: Life

I drove up the street, off Bellevue and Rampart? The sidewalk is dingy, grey and strewn with litter. It's around a curve that I often miss (intentionally) and have to back track - never locking it into permanent memory. With intent to misplace or forget in my mind. I don't ever want to remember how to get to this place. I refuse to know the street address, only the spot.

I walk up to the right front bungalow that's one out of a triplex.  The entire street is quiet, as if evacuated and there's not a soul in sight.  There are sounds of cars whizzing by from the nearby freeway off ramp. And, the rustling of leaves and the creaking of trees bending with the wind. It's almost the end of summer.

I have the keys to unlock the door that seems to almost be hanging off it's rusty hinges, behind the old screen.  I look through crooked and bent blinds trying to get a glimpse of the inside.  I stare at the stucco'd side walls of the building walls before I enter. I take a deep breath and hold the knob in my right hand ready. I'm not sure I can go in. But, I know I must. I just came here to get some things.

I'm 21 going to school and working. I left work early, just east of Downtown. It was only 15 minutes away. Still early evening with light outside. The electricity and gas was turned off some time ago.  It's been almost three months since someone has been here.  I brought candles for later on. I like candles.

I turn the knob and let the door slowly creak open. It's dark and I try to get my eyes focused before I walk through the entrance.  After a few minutes of hesitation, I walk in and take two short steps forward. The smell is musty and an old dying sickness fills each breath - old food, dust, decay and filth. I lift a pile of papers and a band of roaches scurry away. I feel like puking and hold my hand over my nose and mouth. It's disgusting.  I wish I hadn't come here alone.

The space is small.  A one bedroom that's about 400 sq ft, at most.  There's a kitchen off to the right side that's set up with one of those cheap, folding card tables and chairs.  There are spices, boxes and cans of food, utensils, a white microwave, rice cooker, chrome pop-up toaster, pots and pans on the counters.  I open the refrigerator and the same scent of sickness pervades as if a spirit escaping it's carcass.

I walk to the living room. Boxes, piles of papers, a tv and old style radio by the window. The couch is by the wall heater, covered with blankets and throws on the opposite side.  The pillows are slumped and disheveled.  In the corner is a side table where a cordless phone sits, along with some toys and clothes. Everything is in disarray. I slowly and purposefully walk through - scanning, lifting, sorting through the remnants looking for small pieces of treasure to hold onto.  There's not much.

I go through this process with the rest of the place - the bathroom and bedroom. My mind going through random episodes of childhood and memories, trying to resolve it with what I was dealing with before me. I spend about 5 hours there and it's almost 9pm. By the door I set aside a small tv, photos albums, some vhs tapes, some LP's of the Beach Boys, the Carpenters, Elvis Presley and a watch. That's all I wanted to leave with.

I don't know where anyone in my family was that day... my mom, brother, my sister? We all handled this in our own ways, independently. I didn't tell them I was going. I also didn't allow myself to let anyone else in my life know. *Sigh* It seemed less complicated that way.

I lit up a cigarette and took a slow drag and exhaled.  I really shouldn't smoke. I never thought I would. I place my hand on one of the photo album covers and remove dust with my fingers. Feeling around it's edges and bindings, but not opening to it's pages.

I do know where my father is this night.  He's laying sick on a hospital bed in county general.  I hate hospitals and especially that place. It was the only place he was admitted under the circumstances. Suffering a stroke and then a heartattack, he lapsed into a coma for a month.  He had came out of it. But, his faculties would never be the same. His liver and kidneys were no longer functional on their own. We were told he'd have to be on dialysis 3 times a week and under constant supervision to stay alive. He would need to be transferred to a convalescent hospital for long term care. His 2nd wife disappeared when all this happened... along with a 4 year old half brother I would never get to know.

I was overcome with intense swirls of love, sadness, guilt, embarassment, regret and compassion for this man who lived a Bukowski'sh life. With random spurts of successes that only brought temporary reprieve... Layers upon layers of insecurities and doubts of self worth that formed skin and host to the embodiment of demons... haunted... ceremonius torture... the cause of his own impending demise. Still, I loved him.

I shed no tears. The door was shut closed. No one ever went back.

Currently listening : Amazing Grace: His Greatest Sacred Performances By Elvis Presley Release date: 25 October, 1994

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Radiogasm
Current mood: Inspired
Category: Inspired Music

The current state of radio is sad and depressing. I can barely muster myself to turn it on, instead opting for cd's, iPod, online or XM. Honestly, the only traditional airwave radio stations I listen to are KCRW, Indie 103.1, KLOS and 93.1

One program stands out above the rest for me - Big Sonic Heaven on 103.1

I've been listening to the show sporadically since the beginning of this year. It's now on from 10pm-12am every Mon-Thurs.

F*cking listen to this show. Feel lucky you live in Los Angeles. It's a refreshing submersion and wafty float of bands and music that actually have layers, texture, melody and mood. It makes me feel good - it makes me feel.

Shoegaze and Dreampop divine.

Darren Revell, you just get it. You're a good man.

Check it out :
Big Sonic Heaven @ Myspace
Big Sonic Heaven @ Indie 103.1

Xo's

Currently listening : Live a Little, Love a Lot By Moose Release date: 30 May, 2000

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Chapter XXIV
Category: Life

A movement is accomplished in six stages
and the seventh brings return
The seven is the number of the young light
It falls when darkness is increased by one

Change, returns, success
Going and coming without ever
Action brings good fortune
Sunset

The time is with the month of winter solstice
when the change is due to come
Thunder in the other course of heaven
Things cannot be destroyed once and for all

Change, returns, success
Going and coming without ever
Action brings good fortune
Sunset
Sunrise

A movement is accomplished in six stages
and the seventh brings return
The seven is the number of the young light
It falls when darkness is increased by one

Currently listening : The Piper at the Gates of Dawn By Pink Floyd Release date: 25 October, 1990

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Gimme Some Grey!
Current mood: chipper
Category: Life

Okay, Okay... so I do miss ONE thing about the Westside already... !!!

I miss the Gloom!  I miss the Grey! I really miss the marine layer that rolls in after 6pm and cast melancholy shadows on the landscape. I'm sorry, but I love it.  Is it wierd that it makes me happy?  I have a sense of comfort in greys, clouds and fog.  Oooh, Fog.  I guess that's why I love SF and I really need to take a trip to London and anywhere that is overcast for long periods of time. I'm only truly happy when I'm sad. I fear that these loveliest things are no more... Someone tell me they're here, too.

Anyone who has lived West of the 405 knows what I'm talking about.  It is generally cooler and the temperature ranges from 65-78 on average. You can feel it like an invisible portal as you drive and cross that line... Ahhhh.

The eastside is Hot. It's sunny. It's way too bright.  Cover your eyes and don't put on any clothes... another hot and sunny day! Someone show me the dimmer switch... Seriously?!... Please?! I am panting in my car. I am sweating. The heat sucks every ounce of my strength and being.  I want to run through my neighbours sprinklers in underwear. Jump in a pool. I need to stick my head in the freezer. Air conditioning you say?  Well, I've never had to use air conditioning in over a decade!  It's not that I'm against it, it's just that it's always made me feel a little sick.

Anyway, enough of my whining. I f*cking love the new change of venue. I love the proximity and adventure of checking out restaurants, music, nightlife, friends, people, life. I love being near Hollywood Bowl, Amoeba, and awesome neighbourhood I can walk around in. I should  really just shut up... I mean, really!

But, hey... You can't blame me for asking for some grey, can you?!

Xo's
E

Currently listening : Complete Recordings By Black Tambourine Release date: 04 May, 1999

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Billboards...
Current mood: dreamy

Billboards...

The one thing I've noticed since I've moved are the billboard's...
A cluster of them that stretch from West Hollywood, Melrose and
Just slightly out past Franklin and Highland... Ryan Gosling's
face is almost at a stand off with Anthony Hopkins, promoting
Fracture... Hmmm, wonder what will replace that one... As I drive
around the city... I contemplate... Do I love the tall, lanky palm
trees against the backdrop of buildings that meet skyline... or the
Billboards... more?

Something beautiful about them all juxtaposed against the lowering
Sunset as the City switch turns on the Night Lights across the Boulevard...

- E

- - - - - - - - - - -


" ...I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree
And, if, and when, the billboard falls
I'll never see a tree at all..."

- Ogden Nash

Currently listening : Darklands By The Jesus and Mary Chain Release date: 11 July, 2006

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Paranoid
Current mood: mischievous

Today, I got an awesome gift from my fav... Fluxblossom



Vintage Vinyl in it's original cover.... !!!

Hmmm...
Desire for another's is a sin...
Covet People, Covet!

XX's + OO's
E

Currently listening : Paranoid By Black Sabbath Release date: 25 October, 1990

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I Love You...
Current mood: cheerful
Category: Life

Dear Westside,

I Love You...


But,

I've Chosen...

                                                                           
Eastside...


I'll cherish the memories...
& will always have a place for you in my heart...

Xo's
E

- - - - - - - - - - -

After living by the beach for over 13+years... I can't believe I'm trading it all in... I've definitely been hesitant and a bit peevish... resisting change... Trusting in the comfortable... In the things that are sure and that I know... But, I've decided - it's better to move forward than to stay in the same place... Yeah, a move is just a move... Shouldn't be that big of a deal... It's not like I'm moving thousands of miles... But, at this moment it truly symbolizes a change for myself... Growth, experience, connecting... I've traveled a lot throughout my life, made major upheavals in my career and as a person in the last five years... The Westside has always been something I could count on... I mean, how great is it to be going to the same cleaners, nail shop, post office, etc... and people knowing you? Now, I'm looking ahead to a new environment... The excitement of finding a new place to hang out, meeting new people... getting to know a new neighborhood... Being able to release the old and welcome something different... I find support in being closer to my favs, dear ones, friends, people,  nightlife and music, music, music...

And, y'know... the Hills ain't so bad... ;)

Currently listening : There Is A Season By The Byrds Release date: 16 January, 2007

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Travel Blog : Returning : 01.22.07
Current mood: tired
Category: Travel and Places

I'm currently on a layover in NRT Airport, Japan. Current Date - Time : 01.22.07 3:44pm. It's pretty dead and boring right now.  Flew out of Shanghai, CH earlier.  Had an amazing trip, but now can't wait to get back home. I've got another hour here.  Thank goodness I found an outlet to charge my laptop, phone, iPod and they're progressive enough to have wireless. Certainly saves one from going bonkers. I'm getting back (tomorrow), 'cause it's the 22nd here.  Does that make me a time traveler?  I'm in the future, headed to the past... Hmmmm. I'm going to back track on blogs and stories from here on, and see what happens :) 9 hour flight ahead... I'm as excited as when I left...Yay, Los Angeles - I'm Yours!!!

Currently listening : Sleepless Nights By Gram Parsons & The Flying Burrito Brothers Release date: 20 June, 2006

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Travel Blog : Day 1 : 01.14.07 : Flight Out + HK
Current mood: I'm finally exhausted, I'm going to sleep.
Category: I'm finally exhausted, I'm going to sleep. Travel and Places

So, as some of you know... I'm out in CH on a business trip.  I haven't been in 2 years and it's my first time into Hong Kong and Shanghai. The trip itinerary is HK, Guangzhou, Guangdong - Shenzhen, another city I' dont remember the name to and then Shanghai. I'm currently in Shanghai for the last leg of my trip.  It is currently 4 or so in the am. The weather is 0 - 4*F. Cold, but nice. I still havent adjusted to the time change.  I've been told it takes about a week, which works out to the timing when I head back. Can't wait to see how funked up my sleep will be when I get back home... Also, is it really snowing out there?  My mom just sent me an email... Well, if it is snowing in LA, take pics! :) I'll try to write as much as I can before I konk out tonight.  I need to be up in about 3 hours.

Xo's
Em


Day 1 : Flying out.
Flight from LAX to SFO to HKG.  Flew from Los Angeles to San Francisco for the connecting flight into Hong Kong on United.  Also, met up with Morton, our sourcing agent who lives in Santa Rosa. We arranged the same flight out to HK. Was squished in the Economy class and was lucky enough to get a free upgrade to Business.  There was a guy to my right who was compeletely sick, coughing and just a human phlegm ball... an oozing mess.  Solution?  Airborne! which I took and was completely protected from the germs... Seriously, it saved the day... and, possibly the trip.

Gawd, it was a long flight.  I think my ass hurt and body ached from being scrunched up in those seats for about three days afterwards. What do you do for 14 hours??? Luckily, I had a book which was loaned out and recommended to me by CB  - "Waiting", by Ha Jin.  Thank you so much for the recommend.  This book was perfect for my trip.  "Mao!" I found myself during actually being on excursions thinking back on it.  It is about 300 pages or so, and I finished all the way up to the last two chapters on the plane.  I'm holding off til the last day of my trip to read the last two. I'm not sure why.  Anyway, I always seem to read the right book for the trip I'm on. Last trip to CH, I read The Alchemist. That one always sticks with me. Anyways, other entertainment... iPod, Netflix Movies - Nacho Libre, My Life to Live, Magazines and naps in between.

Morton and I have known each other for about 5 years and this was our first trip together.  He's a really nice man, 59 years old, and we caught up with family and life.  He's my sourcing agent for products in China and Asia. I love working with really good, solid people.  I prefer working with people I would consider my friends or extended family... and, in most cases will not work with people otherwise.  I feel very fortunate that he has stuck with me, even when I was still very green in this area of business. Anyway, sporadically in between the flight we would look at each other and trade glances of "When the Hell is this flight going to be over? I'm about to go nutz?!*#@! ".  Well, we lived through it... and got into Hong Kong.

WOW.  I can tell you, I immediately LOVED this place. (...and JL this is to answer your question of why I found it such a great place)  Having read and heard stories about it for so long, It was really amazing when I actually arrived and was submerged in it. It was exactly how I had imagined... Street lined with markets, shops, buildings old and new, western and asian fused into one. I espeially loved the mix of people around.  You could see not only the Chinese, but from almost any area in the world.  It had that feel, too.  Which is completely intangible and can only be experienced.  I believe that a lot of people were in from out of town for Fashion Week. I could totally see myself being there for a week or more, being able to strike up conversations, meet people and just have a fab time. Unfortunately, I had about a day there.  Well, we made the most of it.

We stayed at a Boutique Hotel called the Minden.  It was really cute and quaint. lots of character.  Morton and I dropped off our bags, freshened up and then started off with hitting the wine bar inside the hotel for complimentary drinks.  We then headed out into the city. We did a wee bit of shopping here and there... Not as many deals as you might think... Hong Kong is pretty expensive, unless you are buying off brand-non designer items.  I found the electronics and things I was looking for to be more expensive.  When we finally got hungry, we headed to an Italian restaurant Morton has been to.  They know and greet him immediately when he steps in.  The area where the restaurant is located is a cute brick stone lined street.  There are trees and lights and would be something I would expect in more of a place like Europe or Italy. There are people walking and bustling everywhere. There are cities I can compare I just love like this... New York and San Francisco... Now, Hong Kong. We eat an awesome meal and drink more wine.  We walk around and end up at a place called Aqua.  It is an upscale, kind of "in", bar and lounge.  It's in a high rise bldg that overlooks the city with 180" views of the water.  Breathtaking.  I drink about 3 Dirty Martini's that night. Morton sticks with Vodka Kettle One.  There's a DJ spinning Reggatone, which isn't bad, but I'm not so into. We watched people dance and have a good time.  I soaked up the amazing views and skylines from the windows.  We decided to head off at some point, walked around more. It's a great walking city!  And, right before we ended up at the Hotel we spotted an English pub and had one last drink.

Yum.  Went back to the Hotel.  Tried to sleep and ( as  both Morton and I found out the next day, we were unable to and did emails instead) got ready to go into CH the next day....

Currently reading : Waiting: A Novel By Ha Jin Release date: 19 September, 2000

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Resolutions
Current mood: bouncy
Category: Goals, Plans, Hopes

Okay,  so obviously... since it's taken me 8 days to actually state my resolutions... not procrastinating is somewhere in between the list... and, forget about them being resolutions... it's just my laundry list of things to do!

Piece of cake, right?

1. Taxes, DMV, Paperwork...
2. Clean Garage, Organize, Throw junk out...
3. Write, Email, Phone, Keep in touch more... I am the worst at this.  
4. Trips : San Francisco, CA, NY, New York (Yes, I love this city that much), Austin TX, London, Europe, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Shenzhen + Shanghai China (Jan 14!)
5. Health, Well Being, Fitness...
6. Be a better person all around....
7. Take more risks. Less fear in what I undertake, feel, do, express in life and love......
8. Read more; catch up with Netflix; go to movies @ the theatre... so I don't feel like such a leper for not being able to engage in conversations!
9. Spend more time with my folks before they officially move + retire to Paso Robles in the fall...
10. Hmmm... changing my zip code to... TBA!
11. Learn how to use my DVR...
12. Magritte Exhibit...
13. Drink more water...
14. Travel Blogs, Photos + Stories...

Here's to an amazing 2007.

Xo's
E

Currently listening : Z By My Morning Jacket Release date: 04 October, 2005

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