Got up this morning and came to the LaLa at 7AM to meet James (carpenter number 10) and lo and behold Giovanni sheepishly showed up on the back porch. He looked at me worried we were going to have a row and I said, are you here to work? And he said yes and took off his coat and we resumed normalcy for the day. James put screens in on nearly all the doors and…
Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else’s vision. – Penn Jillette
Joe was supposed to help me move but I was trapped like a rat and finally when I could get away I called him and he said he was sitting with his boys drinking beer – but then he said he’d come – and you know what he helped me move my desks and file cabinets up into the office. While we were piling the desks into the elevator he asked me if he could…
H&T wrote and told me that Little Tokyo didn’t have their liquor license and they were giving away free wine – and so G & and I went after Bacchanal to eat and test out the theory of no wine and we had delicious sushi – we ordered rice paper rolls and other items of note and then this couple came and sat besides us who had been in Iraq the last 22 months and…
We drove over to Bacchanal and when we walked in Chris – the owner – said where have you been – I just went to bed at 10AM this morning – and then he asked me to dance and dipped me all the way down to the floor. We did this about five times and finally G and I got a Seghesio Zinfandel and I bought that terrific French champagne that is so salty from…
G and I stopped at Felix’s and got oysters and a salad. My dad used to go to Felix’s in the Quarter and eat about six dozen oysters but for G and I – a dozen was good enough. A young boy, I call them now sippy cups, sat next to me and engaged in conversation and I said you know what – too young to >>> – is all I could say.
G and I made our way to Ernie’s to see Thoth and we parked in rock star parking by the Audubon Park and made our way. We got there with time to spare because this parade too so LONG to roll. And there we caught up with old friends and met new ones. Can I say that N has the most beautiful lips I have ever seen on a man. Okay, that being said, we…
The LaLa’s floors are perfect and pristine – that in and of itself makes me somewhat nuts – because they will not stay the way they are right at this moment. So I creeped inside to turn off the lights that Julio left on in every room and in my stocking feet I went through and photographed the house. My home. It’s incredible.
I got up late having had a fitful sleep – a sleep that was interrupted by dreams of my asshole neighbors contesting my fence (which James is supposed to erect on Monday), of the screen moldings that I did such a lousy job priming, of so many other things that I have no control over – all enough to start my day with an anxiety rush that could paralyze less than the average bear. Then…
So Giovanni was a no show – I went to Home Depot and bought all the screen molding and decided to prime it myself – okay we could call this a big mistake – but maybe I can sand down the problems – the drip globs – whatyagonnado? It’s such a drag to realize how inept you really are. I was so tired and have no food in my house so I went to La…