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0182 Want to post again to this blog so that BlogDrive doesn't delete it - but it's done and have gone on to my current Green Roads blog. Addresses for other blogs I've done since January Two-Thousand-Four, chronologically, are: starplane.blogspot.com vagrantrogue.wordpress.com sweetdango.typepad.com greenroads.blog.com
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Pers Comm www.streetlevels.blogdrive.com …Blue
Tomorrow, Delighted Beauty, Strange Heaven – three titles I’ve given files in
the past that I like…///Rebecca’s Solnit’s new atlas of San Francisco – 22 unique
maps – is Infinite City. It appeals to me…///Went through the 400 voice notes
on a second digital recorder I have, different from the one I’m using now on a
daily basis – from about ten months ago. Some things still the same – like Trader
Joe’s references, since I was out in South San Francisco with friends, and
there’s one of them near the BART station…was just there this past three day
Thanksgiving visit, got for about five bucks peanut butter, yogurt, and a
protein drink. In retrospect, could have done without that peanut butter, and
really could have done without that protein drink. The yogurt was a smart buy…as
of this I’m about 36 hours into a fast, have had only yerba mate tea and some
lemon water…want to get smarter about what I eat…have a long-standing junk food
and sugar issue that I want to resolve…///My eye reflected in the small screen
of my smartphone – made me think of the “All-Seeing Eye” idea…///Joke line for
something: “It’s ubiquitous. And also everywhere…” – could go into the Rancho
Parnassus movie…haven’t been there in a few days – had been going every day for
a long while…part of my housecleaning of body and mind, changing patterns of
behavior. R. from there, opens up at 6am, called me, concerned, and offered to
send food over, which was very nice of him…friend and Odd Fellow brother S. has
sent two or three e-mails, also concerned…///Another line: “It’ll take a few
seconds, even at the speed of light…”///Watched during this past Thanksgiving
away from the city Vicky Christina Barcelona, which I had out from the
Mechanics’ Institute Library…very pretty – don’t just mean Scarlett Johansson
and the other lady stars, but in the way Woody depicts Barcelona…noted standard
use in his movies of white text on black background for the opening and closing
credits…///Gavin Newsom leaving January 3rd, leaving his position as
Mayor…reference about his replacement in a radio story to “a puff of white
smoke” – meaning, the signal from the Vatican when a new Pope’s been selected…///Talking
to a friend about the origin of the word “sincere” – literally, “without wax” –
referring to statues, I guess made of marble, without wax added to fill in
cracks…also, during Thanksgiving dinner, I offered up a fact about forks that I
learned from The Mental Floss History of the World, that they became popular
only long after spoons and knives…///Discussed with a friend the Rancho
Parnassus “B-grade epic stream-of-consciousness science fiction movie”, as R.
there terms it. He emphasized the importance of a story…///Same friend also
mentioned the corporate Archer-Daniels-Midland influence on NPR…I listen to it
a lot…just looking at an article that says it’s not what it used to be…a lot of
money put into it “invested in maintaining the status quo.”…///Friend, an Odd
Fellow sister, a while back, gave me a “Perception Dollar”, and I’m only just
now looking up online what it means…look up that term and go to the
communitycurrency.org site…
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Pers Comm www.streetlevels.blogdrive.com …Eminem
on the cover of the latest Rolling Stone, talking about writing – he said even
as a kid he wanted a lot of words to rhyme – he cites “transcendalistic
tendencies” as a sample phrase – he’d write that out with all the syllables
divided, then underneath he’d write, matching the syllables, “and bend all
mystic sentence trees”. Even if it didn’t make sense he’d do this as a drill to
practice…///Eminem wearing a hoodie on the cover, his face masked. Have myself
been always sporting a hoodie, I felt an affinity…///Was recently out with good
friends in South San Francisco for three Thanksgiving days…know the lady across
the street, her son a bit better…once they were driving down to the Trader Joe’s
near the BART station and asked if I wanted something, which was very nice of
them…///Walking to the nearby suburban Walgreens
to get triple A batteries for my digital voice recorder…just 3:40pm and the sun
was already low on the horizon – late November…///Just looked up the word “history”
in Wikipedia – simple definition – “the study of the human past.”///The older
son of the lady of the house was down there at Walgreens by the time I had
walked there – he’d taken his car, on the way to somewhere else. He was talking
to a homeless black guy who I’d seen there before, had bought food for…we went
into the store and we split a package of batteries – six bucks for twenty of
the little things – a great deal at about 30 cents each…///Back at the house,
NPR on – musician interviewed, made observations about Jerry Garcia – he said
he was a blank screen upon which the audience projected things…and Garcia once
said “no thoughts” to him after they’d come off the stage after what the
musician thought was a bad performance – he meant, don’t be so critical…he said
Garcia really gave himself over to the music…the musician’s name is Peter Rowan…///Up
at 6:30am one of the days I was over – older son sleeping on the downstairs
sofa, with the house cat Sybil on top of him – cute picture…///Two things I’d
forgotten to bring over and that I missed – the house key, and my transistor
radio, so I could turn NPR on now and again…///Story on the radio about Amanda
Knox, who was found guilty of murdering her roommate in Italy…reporter said she
really does now understand the gravity of her situation, as she’s facing a long
time in prison…///Found a Website about the spiritual dangers of yoga and the
martial arts…a Christian martial artist talking about this…he says Hindu yogis
had long ago channeled, I guess it would be called, an influence that led
eventually to the creation of the various martial arts…///Roman Polanski’s
movie Chinatown mentioned in a story about the history of water in the western
United States – since it deals with how water was brought into Los Angeles
decades ago…///Liked the verb “surmise” used by Philip Roth in an interview on
the Michael Kraszny program…///”Zenarchy” mentioned by P. at the Rancho
Parnassus – Kerry Thornley describes it as “the social order which springs from
meditation.” P. very into Robert Anton Wilson, Discordianism…
STREET LEVELS 000179 STREET LEVELS 000179 by Pers Comm www.streetlevels.blogdrive.com ...saved weight and space in my rucksack when spending three recent days away by taking only five DVDs alone without their cases – but a friend there wondered about this, thought they'd be damaged. I said I'd transported them in individual pages of a book. Tho' I'd stacked them one atop the other when I got to where I stayed...///May take to converting whatever cash I have, at the bank, to ones, so I at least FEEL wealthier, and look it to some extent when pulling that out...///”Wild West Hero” by the Electric Light Orchestra – hadn't heard it before, gave it a listen, but it's not one I'd want to hear again, like I do several of their songs...ELO has got dozens of tunes I've never heard, may one day explore them – same with many other bands...///Line for a character: “That's something you can always count on...”///Phrase “Trotskyite conspiracy” used in VOODOO HISTORIES: THE ROLE OF THE CONSPIRACY THEORY IN SHAPING MODERN HISTORY, by David Aaronovitch...friend at the Rancho Parnassus just bought some book about Trotsky. I don't know much about him...//Discussion also in Aaronovitch of WAR IS A RACKET, by Smedley Butler – he was a career military officer who wrote of, says Wikipedia, “how business interests commercially benefit from warfare.” He says he spent most of his time as a Marine “being a high-class muscle man for big business, for Wall Street, and for the bankers...a gangster for capitalism...”///And maybe related to that, at the News Buster site, an article entitled “New World Order Elitist Wants a Microchipped Society”...///Thing to do – look up the KPFK schedule for Roy of Hollywood's “Something's Happening” after-midnight programming...///Last thing I listened to before the three Thanksgiving holiday days away, the very last part of Henry David Thoreau's Walden...very last sentence: “The sun is but a morning star.” A very abbreviated recording of the Concord American Transcendentalist classic...may get the complete version from one of the libraries I go to and attend to it...///Chilly the morning before I left town – only wearing flip flops these days – gave my only pair of shoes away to a friend who seemed to need them more – have come to sort of regret that decision – would replace those with an exact same pair – a hundred dollar Keen brand...nothing between my bare feet lately and the weather – my feet chilled that morning in question...///Reighley at the Rancho Parnassus talking about the Social Security system collapsing – a system I personally depend upon for my monthly small dispensation...Paisley says replacement security would be to find a “tribe” to be a member of...///Minna Street next to the Rancho recently repaved, and subsequently imprinted with a brick-looking pattern. Civic improvements...///Paisley contributing animation to the Reighley's Rancho Parnassus movie – he had created a small set out of styrofoam...he put up a sign: FILMING IN PROGRESS – DO NOT DISTURB...he's very resourceful – I'll be looking at the resulting footage in days to come. Want to add captions or subtitles...///Reighley thinks the movie could receive an art grant, if properly applied for – can look into this...there's an eHow.com site describing how this is done...///He also wants a day devoted to building a model spaceship – thinks an ad in Craigslist could help with recruiting...///And he used the phrase “a sense of ownership” - what he wants those taking part in the film to have...///Also, Reighley mentioned visiting Arcosanti, Paolo Soleri's visionary city near Phoenix, Arizona...///Sent an e-mail about Rebecca Solnit's new Infinite City atlas of San Francisco to a cartographically-inclined friend in Southern California – quote from Solnit from a 7X7 article: “cartography used to be both an art and a science. I wanted to return to that.” She also said that maps make people happy, by showing them where they are...///A soft-spoken woman came into the Rancho that morning – she said she was a shaman – not sure what her credentials were...had spent time teaching in a remote part of Alaska. Wanted to listen to her, but her voice wasn't very loud...
STREET LEVELS 000178 STREET LEVELS 000178 By Pers Comm www.streetlevels.blogdrive.com …walking up Taylor, north from Market – and on our right, the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts – still don’t have a good sense of what’s happening with that – intriguing…some European connection, I think…Swiss funding – “dedicated to building social consciousness through digital culture” says their site…across the street, on the Taylor side of the Warfield, a Jerry Garcia mural…I think Jerry would smile at the mysteriousness of the GAFFTA…///Back today from three days away for Thanksgiving with friends in South San Francisco – I’m so very glad they’re in my life – they give me a good sense of family, the familial…///Been listening carefully to what one of the movie collaborators at the Rancho Parnassus has to say – he’s got a very visionary philosophy that he can express well…he told me that just by sincerely heeding him he’s been inspired to think about and express thoughts he hasn’t entertained for a while. So that could feed into the movie…///Line for the movie, a character: “A great poet once said, ‘People are strange…’” – that poet being Jim Morrison…Sixties flashbacks, would embed those into the countercultural references in the movie…///A great studio where the business and art of making movies could co-exist – an ideal suggested in Mike Medavoy’s You’re Only as Good as Your Next One…he’s being critical of, I think it must’ve been, rivals Jon Peters and/or Peter Guber…Medavoy said on the audiobook cover to have been “a Hollywood rarity: a studio executive who, though controversial, remained loved and respected through four decades…”///CONSPIRED ATTAINMENTS – title for something…///…in that Rancho Parnassus movie, would put in lines like “Tied up the MOOSE ends…” – not “loose ends”…would like silly puns of that sort…have suggested to R., who’s masterminding the production, that I could type in subtitles and/or captions, into the Apple that sits at the front of the Rancho awaiting use by any who want to take part. Would not particularly care to involve myself that much in the visuals, but could make suggestions…such as: how it’s all taken over by a superhuman intelligence…///SOUTH DAKOTA RES on a sign of a Market Street panhandler – “res” meaning “reservation”…a long way from home...and VISIONS OF A BURGER sign seen earlier – more humorous…///R. at the Rancho – one recent day he wasn’t there exactly for the 6am opening – I walked for twenty minutes and came back, and was glad to see he’d reported for work. He lives about a block away and told me to go pound on his door if it happens again…I want to be a presence there for the duration of this production, add something…///Got a copy of Shakespeare’s sonnets that I haven’t been attending to – was thinking of reading one a day, getting that artistic exposure. Have myself been working with the iambic pentameter meter for a while, and can produce readily enough a decent heroic couplet – that is, a pair of rhymed iambic pentameter lines…///Looked up theYouTube for “Ultimate You”, which concludes the Lindsay Lohan Freaky Friday remake…memorable from when I saw the flick a while back…Lohan due out of rehab soon…
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sweetdango@hotmail.com
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…RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM mentioned in THE MENTAL FLOSS HISTORY OF THE WORLD, noted in the previous posting – the work features four-line poems with rhymes in the first, second, and fourth lines…”rubaiyat” means “quatrain” in Arabic…the authors of the history say it’s possible Khayyam, known mostly as a scientist, didn’t actually write the poems…they say there are no contemporary accounts of him “ever picking up a quill and placating his muse…”…///”Preciser lettered numbers, digital…” – iambic pentameter…///Discussion of the effects on human intellect of the Black Death in Europe – the population decimation said to have made people “more thoughtful about what it meant to be human”…///PETRARCH said to have been “a one-man literary revolution”…read a little bit of him back when I was going to U.C. Berkeley – his famous short work about climbing a mountain – made that physical act into some sort of symbol for something…///In the Mental Floss world history, DANTE’s INFERNO said to have been “somewhat petty”, ‘cause he put all those he disliked into Hell suffering strange punishments…///RECLINING BUDDHA – note to myself to study what its meaning is…///Also in the history, point I found noteworthy, the frequent finding of women, certain women, in medieval Europe, to be witches, and their subsequent mistreatment…mention of how they were killed, their property stolen – SYBIL LEEK also mentions this in her diary…///Deeply again into my morning yerba mate regimen – have got a pot of it in a mix with peppermint and nettle leaf – for the silicon content – always brewed…///In that Mental Floss history, frequent mention of how often Jews were killed over the centuries…///Possible destination lately, the PEET’S in Opera Plaza on Van Ness, since a friend gave me a few tickets for free coffee or tea for my birthday, along with fifty dollars…///7th and Market, going to the 26 7th Street Odd Fellows Hall to see who was operating the elevator – approached by a couple of the corner dealers, asked if I wanted anything – I must look like a prime customer…///Couple of the Hall workers in the lobby, exchanged some good humored words with ‘em…sense of community…recent Guardian or Weekly article about the CLAY THEATRE, how it may close – said to have potential as a community-oriented gathering place…REBECCA SOLNIT quoted in it about a definition of “home” she likes: anywhere she can walk to…her INFINITE CITY atlas of San Francisco just out, would want to spend good quality time with that, might even pay for a copy, save for that – at least order it free through the library, like I did with the audio version of ZERO HISTORY, the new WILLIAM GIBSON novel…///From an Asian lady, bought two protein bars for a dollar…liked a four dollar big container of pretzels, but felt it was too costly for me now…
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sweetdango@hotmail.com
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…”despite the spate of spats among different Muslim factions” – line I liked in VOODOO HISTORIES, by DAVID AARONOVITCH, one of a stack of about a dozen audiobooks I have out now that I’m studying…but come to think of it, the line could be from THE MENTAL FLOSS HISTORY OF THE WORLD, by Sass, Wiegand, and Pearson…took note in that of how the Muslims “gradually ate away the Byzantine Empire”…///”The Byzantine Empire: We’ll Always Have Constantinople” – chapter title for that Sass, Wiegand, and Pearson book – reference to the CASABLANCA line about always having Paris…and: another line I took a voice note on about “a succession of emperors from Macedonia…”…so much has happened in the course of history, let alone the pre-history that wasn’t written down…///Another note: by the beginning of the 13th century – that numeration according to the Western system – the Toltecs were being replaced by the Aztecs…who were powerful mercenaries that created a strong society in central Mexico until an even stronger force, the Europeans, arrived in the early 16th century…mention of the Toltecs reminds me of the CARLOS CASTANEDA Mexican sorcery thing…ideas from his work frequently occur to me in the course of my thinking and feeling and sensing and…the fourth thing…oh yeah, no thanks to my memory, but to a computer search: intuiting. Which I feel/think/sense is maybe my strongest trait – this quadripartite distinction discussed in the MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR system – another site calls them THE FOUR PREFERENCES…///STARBUCKS HOTEL NIKKO the other morning – my usual there is the buck-50 small/tall coffee – sometimes splurge another half buck for a refill…homeless guy inside selling roses, and I bought one for a buck-50, and engaged him in conversation a bit, but it was nearly impossible to understand what he was saying…reminded of a character in COMMITTED, the HEATHER GRAHAM movie, a shamanic healer sort of guy, who just stood and listened carefully to someone who was mentally really out of sorts…kept the rose, have it in my hotel room stuck in a can…at the Starbucks had a seat afterwards and the rose was on top of my copy of MICHAEL HOWARD’s MODERN WICCA, and it formed the letter “i” in “wicca”…///DRAGOS ROUA – recommend his lists of motivation tips – such as reasons why being an early riser is a good thing…he says it’s empowering, to frequently witness the change from the nocturnal to the diurnal at daybreak…this said by Roua to give one more confidence in one’s life…///Roua also says there’s a distinct social advantage in rising before dawn, well before – you’re awake and thinking, feeling, sensing, intuiting before “the whole group”, his term, is…”an enormous advantage in front of your colleagues” results, he says…
STREET LEVELS 000175 STREET LEVELS 000175 By Pers Comm www.streetlevels.blogdrive.com …VOODOO HISTORIES, by DAVID AARONOVITCH – takes apart the conspiracy theory of history, got the audiobook out…will likely begin an immediate second listening to it when done, and I don't say that about every audiobook I take out…was at the OPERA PLAZA BORDERS the other day because for my birthday a friend gave me free coffee tickets for PEET'S, which has a place in that same plaza – there's the BOOKS, INC. also there, and I went in this past Sunday morning – at loose ends and starts generally that day of the week, since the library doesn't open until noon…went into the bookstore and saw what audiobooks were to be had – ZERO HISTORY, the new WILLIAM GIBSON – been wanting that for a long while. Also, would take LIFE, the new KEITH RICHARDS memoir, and a new one about FRANK SINATRA…but Zero History most, most of all…just saw the library's got it in, but there're two holds on it, so I could be waiting for months…///Got some raw eggs the other day, was given 'em, and cooked 'em in my room – have not been doing any cooking in there at all…got a little messy, some dropped…reminded me of the kitchen facilities, in fact, in the backwoods cabin of the West Virginia cannibal flick WRONG TURN…not a pretty sight…///Line in the Aaronovitch book: "…or more vulgarly…" – nice turn of phrase…am considering lines for this Apple-based animated/live action movie a friend at the RANCHO PARNASSUS is making, and giving more thought to what I would offer as dialogue…///CHARLEY PRIDE's KISS AN ANGEL GOOD MORNIN' – on a classic country hits disc I got at a Walgreens recently for just 4 bucks – 17 songs, about a quarter each, a good deal! Same place also had CAROLE KING's TAPESTRY for 8, a true pop classic – for the longest it was the biggest-selling album, and it still retains real magic…///The Aaronovitch – first conspiracy he mentions and takes down is the faked 1969 moon landing one…///Walking to the CAFÉ MASON long before dawn a recent morning, as usual, to transcribe digital voice notes, continue reading in MICHAEL HOWARD's MODERN WICCA…doorman at the Hilton just up Mason from my more modest lodgings opening the door for a woman entering with a bicycle – he said something about "sleeping, sleeping" – I took that to mean someone the woman knew still slumbering while she was up, active…I thought that the area in general's the "downtown" that's sung of in the PETULA CLARK Sixties song…linger on the sidewalk where the neon signs are pretty – except that's not entirely advisable in some Tenderloin parts, especially in the middle of the night, when you're likely to attract attention of a most-unwanted kind…///One particular cutie not at the Café Mason that morning – must admit I've had visions of biting her neck – gently, of course, not enough to draw blood…upon leaving, joked to another – cute, but not THE cutie – about if I had to pay for my three dollar iced tea – that's with tax and tip - before giving her my credit card…she didn't seem to take entirely to my humor – the Cutie, capital C, seems a bit or a lot more on the playful side… STREET LEVELS 000174 STREET LEVELS 000174 by Pers Comm www.streetlevels.blogdrive.com ...was thinking of skipping coffee entirely, but haven't gotten that mandate into progress quite yet – two cups already today, on top of all the yerba mate tea I've started drinking again. At least in my hotel room I'm just doing that tea...coffee's just a convenient thing to buy, a non-food choice, when I'm out and about...plus, want to contribute cash into the Rancho Parnassus coffers – bought coffee there this morning, and an Oxylent vitamin/mineral drink, so that's about 4 bucks spent...wanna see the place thrive...///Speaking of yerba mate – at Rainbow Grocery, saw a new two-pounder package, different brand than the EcoTeas I've been buying...may get one of them just to have a good store of it...but even the pound EcoTeas size I generally get can last, like, two months...and my current amount, mixing it with peppermint and nettle leaf, so that extends it...///From Rainbow, free, pages from Common Ground and the Share Guide...have put some of that material into a three-ring binder at the Rancho, for others to look at...///Goodwill store at Van Ness and Mission, cursory look at the tank tops, found nothing – there's the As Is place off Market that has 'em – bought a marijuana leaf one for a dollar there once, which I gave away after a time to a pot-loving friend...///Walking along Market, guy comes up – saw his slight approach and didn't take evasive action -thought he was gonna ask directions, but he called me brother and said he lacked 80 cents for a cup of coffee – gave him 47 of that...///And a bit later, guy standing there, front of his shirt not tucked in – looked at that, and he must've noticed my attention and disliked it, so he spat – did seem to be a connection between my looking at him and that spitting, a show of some disdain – maybe he thought I was gay and was looking at his crotch...often it's best to not indicate any observation of most on the street...plenty out there not quite involved in the civic economy of the city and not happy about it...///U.N. Plaza foundation, seagulls lifting off very close to my body, felt like I had to dodge...one of them hit your head, you'd know it...///Woman said: “...I should kick him in the face for that one...” - it was a punchline to a humorous story, albeit a violent one...isn't it said all humor is based in violence of one kind or another?///Pun possible: Austin, Texas, cheek-by-jowl with “ostentatious” - similar wordplay found in the S.J. Perelman writing for the Marx Brothers...///2:34pm a recent day, taking back to the Mechanics' Library four audio books: two Ian Fleming Bond novels, the soundtrack of the 12 Fawlty Towers, and David Bianculli's Smothers Brothers history...///Police converging on Market to chat – two on stand-up electric vehicles, whatever they're called – hadn't seen those before...silent and fast, and no exertion needed like on bicycles...///Friend mentioned the Jesse Ventura conspiracy theory cable program...says “the Elite” of the globe have divided the continental U.S. into ten zones and have internment camps set up all ready to go – and also have plenty of coffins that fit four bodies each also at the ready...///At a Civic Center BART exit, graybearded guy pontificating to no one, gesturing with his left hand...been calling such folks “skinjobs”...///The day described, abbreviated Friday U.N. Plaza artisan market, rain maybe keeping some merchants away...///Ran into a guy I know from a hotel I was in a while back, said he was looking for a particular woman, and was wanting to “move” Vicodins he had – drug slang verb...///Two audiobooks I have out: The Mental Floss History of the World – a lot of facts strung together in a semi-humorous manner – the cover art resembles the Terry Gilliam animation for Monty Python, so that indicates the tenor of the mindset of the authors – and Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History, by David Aaronovitch...///Recent purchase at a dollar store on Market Street: 2 more dollar notebooks to transcribe and amplify my digital voice notes, and a buck-25 bag of corn chips...///In to the 26 7th Street Odd Fellows Hall...Brother Pete there...no work, but he gave me yogurt and let me select from a box of lodge-related goods – took a piece of metal to put hot pots on, Odd Fellows logo on it, plus more.
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Pers Comm www.streetlevels.blogdrive.com …4:05am,
average for me at that hour - being a very early riser - into the Mike Medavoy
film executive memoir, You’re Only As Good as You’re Next One…peer Jon Peters
doesn’t come across well - Medavoy at one point calls his behavior “possessive
and volatile” and blames it for ruining an Orion studio project…///Am getting
to know Reighley at the Rancho Parnassus - have joined his filmmaking crew, in
a peripheral capacity - equipment at the Rancho set up to make a movie…plan to
be there as soon as the place opens at 6am and see how it progresses and add my
two dollars worth - the cost of a packet of Oxylent, my breakfast of champions…///Medavoy
also has choice words of Michael Ovitz…///Starting to make yerba mate tea in my
room, and that’s been affecting my energy levels. Also not eating much - must
eat small amounts of high-quality food instead of the standard American diet -
S.A.D. - of large quantities of food with too much salt, sugar, and fat, carbs…///The
Medavoy book is one I can listen to over and over, for some reason…same with
Last Words, a George Carlin memoir…the voices of experience, true voices…///And
an article I’ve been attending to on my smartphone: “The Many Benefits of
Fasting”…also, a friend gave me an elastic exercise device, which is like a
large rubber band with handles, and I’m applying myself to that with good
benefit…need and want to take off at least five or ten pounds and tone up…I can
get so much into my head that I have to make it a point to include my body in
my consciousness…///Alejandro Jodorowsky - the visionary Mexican filmmaker…would
include aspects of him in that Rancho Parnassus movie, if possible…it’s a
small-scale production, but I think something interesting can be created…fella
named Paisley, myself, and the aforementioned Reighley are at least three ones
solidly into this for the duration of whatever it takes to get it done well…///I
stand to win a hundred dollar Safeway gift card if I have the “winning code” in
a drawing at the hotel I’m in - they like to encourage a sense of community in
the building. Could use that…but as I said, I’m eating less, and feeling and thinking
the better for that…///Actually got back 40 bucks in fines from Bank of America
- eighty clams levied due to charges I didn’t know about from ATM cash advances
I was taking…thought the money was gone for bad for good but a B of A operator
suggested it as a possibility, and she was right, at least by half…///Passing
loan stores on 6th Street on the way to the Rancho Parnassus a
recent morning - reminded me of a friend who just came to see me for my
birthday - he offered to buy me breakfast but I didn’t take him up on that,
said I valued much more his presence, his friendship…he’s also an Odd Fellow
brother. In the windows, have wanted personal DVD players and portable music
machines, but the prices asked really aren’t all that low. Might as well just
buy the devices new…///Thinking of suggesting that Enter the Dragon quotes be
inserted into Reighley’s movie, which he is calling, at least for now,
Desperate Measures. He’s open to suggestion, could easily go for that…specifically,
would put in words of the Han character…
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