Thursday, January 22, 2009

Life is Beautiful

Recently while driving up La Brea ave, I noticed that someone had taken red paint to a plain cement wall, and scripted "LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL" in huge letters which were slightly imperfect across the entire wall. For some odd reason these simple three words spoke to me through their sloppy red text.

I've been going through some shit lately and no matter what, when I drive past, it cheers me up, makes my eyes water up a little, and calms me down. In the middle of traffic it takes me from stressing about one thing or another to stop and think. Reminding me that through every struggle and circumstance, you grow. At times when you're soo low, even though subconsciously you know it, it's hard to see there's a potential light at the end of this dingy dark tunnel.

In the middle of the smut, the filth, and sin on the streets of Los Angeles, some person probably took a couple cans of paint, and an hour or two, to create this beautiful imperfect, mural of words, uknowingly affecting myself and most likely many many other. And I thank them, for reminding me that Life is indeed very beautiful. Life is art. Without all of the imperfections, you wouldn't be appreciate the beauty.


I encourage more powerful and enlightening words to be spread through the many corrupt streets, wish it upon any city, any town, any building. This is what I call art. Art to me, isn't a picture, or a painting, it is something that has been created by a pair of hands, and provides the capability to make others feel it. To me art is a feeling. which can be felt through craft.

Unfortunately, I am always on the opposite side of the street and haven't been at a good angle to capture a photo. I thank computer god's for google, because I was able to find a photo of it, and now am able to share it with you all.



Now, it has been painted all red, and has a paintings of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and Barrack Obama staring you down, reminding you that history is still in the making, as you cruise down La Brea Ave.



Sunday, January 18, 2009

shit.

lump in your throat,
ache in your heart
weight on your brain.

all side affects after a bad case of verbal diarreha.

Friday, January 16, 2009

Love

I love my best friends. They make my world go 'round. Each one has their own quirks and craziness that I absolutely adore. I will never ever ever let you go. At this point in my life, I am in love, in love with each one of you ladies. You are what keep me smiling, keep me sane, what remind me of who and why I am.

Love Love Love.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

won't you be my neighbor.

My Neighbor Talks Loud, Her dogs barks even louder, but on the upside, has great taste in music- which unfortunately settles at the quietest decibel of them all.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

she's eavesdroppping

I've started a separate blog.

I completely dedicated another waste of (cyber) space to being subtly rude: Eavesdropping.

I mentally note things that I hear which intrigue me. Either because it's a peculiar statement, or unexpected words to hear from unexpected people. Some may be humorous, some sad, and hopefully just plain crazy.

I admittedly eavesdrop a lot, and I've decided to let (whoever wants in) on the whispers that my ears collect throughout Los Angeles.
So, let the shames begin.

http://sheseavesdropping.blogspot.com/

Gran Torino

I saw this movie tonight off the cuff, wasn't planning to see a movie and had no clue what it was about.

I can 100% say that this was HANDS DOWN one of the best films I've seen in a long while.

And... I cried.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen. A movie that made this cold-hearted snake shed a few handfuls of tears. Please go see it.



Now.


Monday, January 12, 2009

Mind Check

I've come to realize I'd never shared one of my favorite quotes from Walt Whitman. And on this bright and shiny day in Hollywood, with a sparse bank account, and an overloaded frame of mind, I read this over and over and appreciate everything I have and it reminds me why I'm here. Both on this earth, and in my little ol' apartment.



Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.