Good Evening, Sweet Baby,
I am excited about your news, and also very curious to see what song you'll be recording! Are you gonna wait until it's all done to announce it? Maybe you can give a hint in the meantime. :)
I think it's great and I am glad you are keeping a hand in your music. Good for Johan, too.
I was up at Aliso Canyon for a while this afternoon, hiked the full length of the trail, 1.5 miles each way. In a while I will go out and look for more sunset pictures. I figure that as long as we are having this monsoon weather, I might as well take advantage of it. It was hot on my hike, but then the temperature dropped all of a sudden by about 20 degrees, and clouds came in and the wind blew, like it was gonna rain. I hope it goes back to being nice, cause I wanna finally take my train trip Downtown tomorrow. I will check weather.com later tonight.
Well, I have just enough time before sunset to watch another werewolf movie from the Legacy Collection, so I will start now. This time it's "She-Wolf Of London", from 1946. I'm scared already! :)
I will be around most of the night, except for my sunset walk, and I will write more later.
I Love You. Can't wait to see your video! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
1:15am : There's Late Night, Super Late Night, and Super Duper Late Night - this qualifies as the latter. Sorry about that, my Darling, but the more days I have off, the more I revert to Adam Hours, lol. I did have a nice walk, and got more good sunset pics for the third day in a row. My photo teacher is gonna kill me! Good thing I haven't seen him in 38 years........ :)
Truly, though, he was one of those teachers who really had a major effect on my life. Even if he didn't like sunset pics.
Tonight's werewolf movie was very good - excellent in it's sets and production design, and some of it, the scenes in a desolate park, look as if they could have been shot at Corriganville or someplace similar, in the Valley or nearby. Remember the movie business maxim, for location shooting : "Never drive any further than you have to". In other words, if you can make the Valley look like England, go for it. And Universal Studios is right here in the Valley.....
Anyhow, it was a good flick, but.............spoiler alert!.........
There wasn't an actual werewolf in the film. It was more of a psychological premise; June Lockhart thinks she's a werewolf because of a long standing family curse. But in reality, she's being framed.
I wish they made a dozen of these Universal Studios Wolf Man movies! I could watch 'em day after day.
Well, Sweet Baby, I hope you had a good day. You don't post much lately. I know you are excited about your video, though, and busy too.
See you in the morning. I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Monday, June 29, 2015
Monday Hello (late night love)
Good Evening, my Darling,
I'm just hanging out at home and wanted to say hi. It's still super hot and muggy outside, so I will go for most of my walk later, and will do a little bit in about an hour so I can check for more good sunsets. I hope you are having a nice day. You are probably busy with projects, though I saw your one post for your friend's band that got signed. I liked the name of their label : "Progress Productions" - very progressive, of course!
I hope things are going well of late. I will probably watch another movie at some point during the evening. Right now, I'm just gonna hang out til sundown. I'll write more later.
I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
12:30am : Hi, Elizabeth. Happy Late Night. I getting started a little later again. Tried to make the most of my night, so I went out and took more sunset pictures, then came back and watched a movie : "Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man" from 1943. Yes, I'm on a serious Wolf Man kick at the moment! :) I realised that I'd never seen the original all the way through, because it used to scare the heck out of me when I was a little kid, and whenever it was on TV, I'd turn it off when Lon Chaney started to turn into a werewolf. So, I a couple weeks ago I knew it was finally time to watch it, so I ordered the Universal Pictures "Legacy Collection" disc set of Wolfman pictures. I've seen two and still have two to go. In tonight's movie, Lon Chaney rescued Frankenstein out of a block of ice, but then - spoiler alert!.......
he winds up killing Frankenstein when he turns into The Wolfman at the end of the movie. So The Wolfman can take Frankenstein! Who knew?
It actually has a lot more plot than that, and the old Universal monster pictures have atmosphere galore. They really are classics, and you may remember that when I first went to Corriganville in Fall 2013, seeing the drained concrete pond there got me interested in seeing the series of "Creature From The Black Lagoon" movies, which are also in a Universal "Legacy" collection. And now I'm doing The Wolfman.
I think he scared me more than just about any other monster as a kid. :)
Well, I'll post now cause it's late. You are probably asleep so I send you instant Sweet Dreams to reach you immediately.
See you in the morning. I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
I'm just hanging out at home and wanted to say hi. It's still super hot and muggy outside, so I will go for most of my walk later, and will do a little bit in about an hour so I can check for more good sunsets. I hope you are having a nice day. You are probably busy with projects, though I saw your one post for your friend's band that got signed. I liked the name of their label : "Progress Productions" - very progressive, of course!
I hope things are going well of late. I will probably watch another movie at some point during the evening. Right now, I'm just gonna hang out til sundown. I'll write more later.
I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
12:30am : Hi, Elizabeth. Happy Late Night. I getting started a little later again. Tried to make the most of my night, so I went out and took more sunset pictures, then came back and watched a movie : "Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man" from 1943. Yes, I'm on a serious Wolf Man kick at the moment! :) I realised that I'd never seen the original all the way through, because it used to scare the heck out of me when I was a little kid, and whenever it was on TV, I'd turn it off when Lon Chaney started to turn into a werewolf. So, I a couple weeks ago I knew it was finally time to watch it, so I ordered the Universal Pictures "Legacy Collection" disc set of Wolfman pictures. I've seen two and still have two to go. In tonight's movie, Lon Chaney rescued Frankenstein out of a block of ice, but then - spoiler alert!.......
he winds up killing Frankenstein when he turns into The Wolfman at the end of the movie. So The Wolfman can take Frankenstein! Who knew?
It actually has a lot more plot than that, and the old Universal monster pictures have atmosphere galore. They really are classics, and you may remember that when I first went to Corriganville in Fall 2013, seeing the drained concrete pond there got me interested in seeing the series of "Creature From The Black Lagoon" movies, which are also in a Universal "Legacy" collection. And now I'm doing The Wolfman.
I think he scared me more than just about any other monster as a kid. :)
Well, I'll post now cause it's late. You are probably asleep so I send you instant Sweet Dreams to reach you immediately.
See you in the morning. I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Sunday, June 28, 2015
Sunday Evening Love (rock n roll)
Good Evening, my Darling,
I am home and off work until Thursday afternoon. Just chillin' right now. We have some monsoon weather happening, coming off the Pacific Ocean, so it's super hot and ultra muggy. We never get monsoons here, lol, just the aftermath weather, but it sometimes makes for nice sunsets so I'll take my camera along on my walk in a little while. I think my friend Ono might be coming with.
I hope you had a nice day, and I hope your photo shoot went well, if indeed you did have a shoot (I think you said you were gonna).
I have already watched one movie today - "The Wolf Man" from 1941 - so maybe later I will watch another. I will also write more later on, no later than the usual time. For now, I'll be here till about 7:30. Enjoy your evening!
I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
12:25am : Happy Super Late Night, my Baby. Sorry about the late hour, I was with Ono for a while, then went for my walk, watched a "Breaking Bad" - you know I always revert to my own natural hours whenever I have days off. I guess you were busy today anyway, and I hope all went well.
We did get an awesome sunset, just as I predicted. It's almost impossible to reproduce in a photo, but you've gotta snap it anyway, lol. As you know, my high school photo teacher would not have approved!
Well, it was quite a surprise, and a bad one at that, to hear of Chris Squire's passing this morning. I got a text while in church, figured it was for something innocuous and didn't check it until later. Then I was shocked, even though it was reported a couple weeks ago that he had leukemia.
I know you know who Yes are, pretty sure you've probably heard at least a couple of their songs. For people my age who were fans in the 70s, it's really hard to overstate the impact Yes had on our ongoing musical experience and education. It's hard to be original in music, to sound like no one else, but those guys did it, and Chris Squire was one of the main reasons or maybe even the main one. Not just for his bass playing and his backup singing, but for his musical vision. Today was quite a day, to lose a guy of Chris Squire's stature, but we are at an age now when we are indeed losing some of the guys who were so young when they were making all that great music, and because it's rock n' roll, I guess we never think of them as old, even though some are now heading into their 70s.
At any rate, here's to Chris Squire, one of the greatest musicians in the history of rock. And here's to the art school tradition in England that produced so many incredibly creative musicians in our lifetimes.
That's all I know for today. I hope you had a great day and I will see you in the morning. Sweet Dreams.
I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
I am home and off work until Thursday afternoon. Just chillin' right now. We have some monsoon weather happening, coming off the Pacific Ocean, so it's super hot and ultra muggy. We never get monsoons here, lol, just the aftermath weather, but it sometimes makes for nice sunsets so I'll take my camera along on my walk in a little while. I think my friend Ono might be coming with.
I hope you had a nice day, and I hope your photo shoot went well, if indeed you did have a shoot (I think you said you were gonna).
I have already watched one movie today - "The Wolf Man" from 1941 - so maybe later I will watch another. I will also write more later on, no later than the usual time. For now, I'll be here till about 7:30. Enjoy your evening!
I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
12:25am : Happy Super Late Night, my Baby. Sorry about the late hour, I was with Ono for a while, then went for my walk, watched a "Breaking Bad" - you know I always revert to my own natural hours whenever I have days off. I guess you were busy today anyway, and I hope all went well.
We did get an awesome sunset, just as I predicted. It's almost impossible to reproduce in a photo, but you've gotta snap it anyway, lol. As you know, my high school photo teacher would not have approved!
Well, it was quite a surprise, and a bad one at that, to hear of Chris Squire's passing this morning. I got a text while in church, figured it was for something innocuous and didn't check it until later. Then I was shocked, even though it was reported a couple weeks ago that he had leukemia.
I know you know who Yes are, pretty sure you've probably heard at least a couple of their songs. For people my age who were fans in the 70s, it's really hard to overstate the impact Yes had on our ongoing musical experience and education. It's hard to be original in music, to sound like no one else, but those guys did it, and Chris Squire was one of the main reasons or maybe even the main one. Not just for his bass playing and his backup singing, but for his musical vision. Today was quite a day, to lose a guy of Chris Squire's stature, but we are at an age now when we are indeed losing some of the guys who were so young when they were making all that great music, and because it's rock n' roll, I guess we never think of them as old, even though some are now heading into their 70s.
At any rate, here's to Chris Squire, one of the greatest musicians in the history of rock. And here's to the art school tradition in England that produced so many incredibly creative musicians in our lifetimes.
That's all I know for today. I hope you had a great day and I will see you in the morning. Sweet Dreams.
I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Love & Sweet Dreams
Happy Late Night, my Darling,
Just to check in and wish you Sweet Dreams. Nothing really to report today, just a typical Saturday. I hope your day was good. After church tomorrow I will be off until Thursday afternoon, so that will be nice. Hope all projects are coming along well. :)
Sleep well, and I will see you in the morning. I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Just to check in and wish you Sweet Dreams. Nothing really to report today, just a typical Saturday. I hope your day was good. After church tomorrow I will be off until Thursday afternoon, so that will be nice. Hope all projects are coming along well. :)
Sleep well, and I will see you in the morning. I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Friday, June 26, 2015
Saw Your Post, Don't Worry (Friday Night Love) (explanation)
Good Morning, my Darling,
Well, you know I don't usually post this early, so it must be important, and it is. I just saw your post, of Tristan Kang. Wow! That is a very direct message from you, at least it sure seems to be. All I can say for now is no worries. I have to leave in a couple minutes to drive out to my sister Sophie's place to take her shopping, but I will write more as soon as I can, maybe later this afternoon.
I asked if it was too weird for you, and if it is, I won't write it. But I will try to explain more fully later on. In any case, please don't worry and have a great afternoon.
You know I love you and everything is good. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
10:45pm : Good Evening, my Darling. I am still getting situated at Pearl's, so I will write more at the usual time, but I just wanted to check in to say hi and see how your day was. Mine was busy, mostly with my sister. One nice thing - really great actually - is that she isn't in the convalescent hospital anymore. She lived there for the last five years, but recently her social worker found her a spot in a private assisted living facility, and it's a house! These small facilities are simply converted houses, and so Sophie now lives in a very nice house with five other clients (i.e. patients). Two ladies run the place, do all the cooking, everything. So it is quiet and clean, and even though her convalescent hospital was a nice place (as those places go), it was still a hospital environment, and so this is a night-and-day difference, really fantastic. It's also closer to me, in Burbank, which is next to Glendale but this new place is about 5 miles closer and right off the freeway.
I took her shopping, then got home at 2pm and just relaxed, cause it was hot out.
I hope your day was good. I will write more once I get situated here, but I won't write any weird stories tonight, so don't worry. I do wanna say a few things about all of that, though, so I will when I come back. Nothing heavy, so again, don't worry.
Back in a few at the usual time. I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Midnight : Okay, I am back. I just wanted to address your post from this morning. I know it wasn't your own words, and that you were just trying to convey how those stories make you feel, but the message basically said that (I paraphrase) "it sucks when lousy memories ruin good music" and that it "caused the person (the poster) anxiety". Because I had asked you to tell me if my stories were bothering you, or were too weird, I took that post to mean that you don't like the stories about what happened to me, and that, possibly, they cause you anxiety.
I don't know if you read a lot of my back-catalogue blogs in the Myspace days, but I am guessing you did, because all I have written in the past couple days are just two or three very short pieces about hypnotic states and a helicopter crash. Weird, to be sure, but taken all by themselves, hardly enough to cause such a strong reaction on your part. I deliberately talked around the subjects rather then address them directly for that very reason, so as not to cause a reaction.
You have obviously seen the list of books I have on FB, so you know I am an avid researcher of (for want of a better term) "alternative" theories on subjects such as 9/11, the Kennedy assassination, et al. So you have known from the get-go what some of my interests are. Elizabeth, I have a lot of interests. Music, obviously, is and has always been one of my main interests. Film too, and photography. I like regular stuff, regular life (though specific to my tastes), and my range of interests is as big as life has to offer.
But when I was 33, I discovered that my life was not as normal as I thought it was. And that is something I have to live with, every day.
I have no one to discuss it with, not even my family members. My parents were my best friends, but they are gone. What happened to me is a taboo subject. No one will talk about it; consequently, I have to just talk about it - or think about it - to myself.
That is not easy, after 22 years.
What happened to me was not on the news. It was never told to me, in the way an accident victim might me told in the hospital what has happened to him.
It was simply done away with, through technological means I have tried to describe, and then I was left to pick up the pieces, and to simply suck it up when I finally remembered what happened to me.
I have had no recourse whatsoever.
If you were to talk to, say, the parents of a missing child, or someone related to an unsolved cold-case murder, you would discover that the search for truth never ends for such people, unless they are fortunate enough to uncover that truth, and thus to find closure.
I won't go on and on any further tonight, except to say that it's not easy.
I can offer an analogy, and it's not the best analogy, but it describes the general feeling of weirdness that is attached to a series of very real violent crimes that were perpetrated against me, and also in one one incident my Mom and Dad, in 1989. Please remember that the weirdness stems from some of the people involved, and from the technology used, and from the amnesia factor. And people focus on that. But what is important to keep in mind is the violence. I was a victim of severe violence in September 1989, to the point where, when I really consider it, it's amazing that I lived through it. And had I suffered through that violence in a "normal" context, I'd have been on the news, and had therapy, and had my story told, and I suppose I'd be right where I am today, more or less, except that I'd have had some form of closure, to allow me a return to some level of normality. But what happened to me was anything but normal, and what was substituted for closure was induced amnesia, and so the Weirdness Factor is what takes precedent, and thus, it scares the heck out of everybody I know who even has an inkling of what happened, and the truth is that most of my friends, and my sister Vickie and brother Chris, know much more than they will ever say. I hate to use the term "cowards", but it applies in many instances, for the people I know.
My own family would rather walk away instead of talk about it. And my friends have convinced themselves that it was "just a dream", and that is because they participated, and thus want no part of the truth.
So all I have is myself. And I will keep it to myself, at least here at the blog. I have written FOIA requests from time to time, but they (surprise, surprise) never turn up anything.
Anyway, here is my analogy : Imagine one day that you woke up and realised you'd been to the Moon. I don't mean that you dreamed it, or hallucinated it, or imagined it, but that you knew it. And you knew other people knew it, too, because they'd been with you. But it was a weird experience, and it scared them, and they didn't want to talk about it. Then imagine that you yourself only remembered it years after the fact, and not in it's entirety.
And yet, you knew it had happened.
You would wonder why you went there, how you went there, what happened there, and what it all meant. And you would be so curious that it would become part of your life. And you would want to tell somebody, to talk about it.
So that's all I wanted to say, and don't worry, because I understand entirely your point of view on the subject. I won't bring it up again here at the blog. I just wanted to explain my side, is all.
Thanks for reading, and you know I Love You. I'll go back to regular blogs; everything is good.
For now, Sweet Dreams and I will see you in the morning. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Well, you know I don't usually post this early, so it must be important, and it is. I just saw your post, of Tristan Kang. Wow! That is a very direct message from you, at least it sure seems to be. All I can say for now is no worries. I have to leave in a couple minutes to drive out to my sister Sophie's place to take her shopping, but I will write more as soon as I can, maybe later this afternoon.
I asked if it was too weird for you, and if it is, I won't write it. But I will try to explain more fully later on. In any case, please don't worry and have a great afternoon.
You know I love you and everything is good. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
10:45pm : Good Evening, my Darling. I am still getting situated at Pearl's, so I will write more at the usual time, but I just wanted to check in to say hi and see how your day was. Mine was busy, mostly with my sister. One nice thing - really great actually - is that she isn't in the convalescent hospital anymore. She lived there for the last five years, but recently her social worker found her a spot in a private assisted living facility, and it's a house! These small facilities are simply converted houses, and so Sophie now lives in a very nice house with five other clients (i.e. patients). Two ladies run the place, do all the cooking, everything. So it is quiet and clean, and even though her convalescent hospital was a nice place (as those places go), it was still a hospital environment, and so this is a night-and-day difference, really fantastic. It's also closer to me, in Burbank, which is next to Glendale but this new place is about 5 miles closer and right off the freeway.
I took her shopping, then got home at 2pm and just relaxed, cause it was hot out.
I hope your day was good. I will write more once I get situated here, but I won't write any weird stories tonight, so don't worry. I do wanna say a few things about all of that, though, so I will when I come back. Nothing heavy, so again, don't worry.
Back in a few at the usual time. I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Midnight : Okay, I am back. I just wanted to address your post from this morning. I know it wasn't your own words, and that you were just trying to convey how those stories make you feel, but the message basically said that (I paraphrase) "it sucks when lousy memories ruin good music" and that it "caused the person (the poster) anxiety". Because I had asked you to tell me if my stories were bothering you, or were too weird, I took that post to mean that you don't like the stories about what happened to me, and that, possibly, they cause you anxiety.
I don't know if you read a lot of my back-catalogue blogs in the Myspace days, but I am guessing you did, because all I have written in the past couple days are just two or three very short pieces about hypnotic states and a helicopter crash. Weird, to be sure, but taken all by themselves, hardly enough to cause such a strong reaction on your part. I deliberately talked around the subjects rather then address them directly for that very reason, so as not to cause a reaction.
You have obviously seen the list of books I have on FB, so you know I am an avid researcher of (for want of a better term) "alternative" theories on subjects such as 9/11, the Kennedy assassination, et al. So you have known from the get-go what some of my interests are. Elizabeth, I have a lot of interests. Music, obviously, is and has always been one of my main interests. Film too, and photography. I like regular stuff, regular life (though specific to my tastes), and my range of interests is as big as life has to offer.
But when I was 33, I discovered that my life was not as normal as I thought it was. And that is something I have to live with, every day.
I have no one to discuss it with, not even my family members. My parents were my best friends, but they are gone. What happened to me is a taboo subject. No one will talk about it; consequently, I have to just talk about it - or think about it - to myself.
That is not easy, after 22 years.
What happened to me was not on the news. It was never told to me, in the way an accident victim might me told in the hospital what has happened to him.
It was simply done away with, through technological means I have tried to describe, and then I was left to pick up the pieces, and to simply suck it up when I finally remembered what happened to me.
I have had no recourse whatsoever.
If you were to talk to, say, the parents of a missing child, or someone related to an unsolved cold-case murder, you would discover that the search for truth never ends for such people, unless they are fortunate enough to uncover that truth, and thus to find closure.
I won't go on and on any further tonight, except to say that it's not easy.
I can offer an analogy, and it's not the best analogy, but it describes the general feeling of weirdness that is attached to a series of very real violent crimes that were perpetrated against me, and also in one one incident my Mom and Dad, in 1989. Please remember that the weirdness stems from some of the people involved, and from the technology used, and from the amnesia factor. And people focus on that. But what is important to keep in mind is the violence. I was a victim of severe violence in September 1989, to the point where, when I really consider it, it's amazing that I lived through it. And had I suffered through that violence in a "normal" context, I'd have been on the news, and had therapy, and had my story told, and I suppose I'd be right where I am today, more or less, except that I'd have had some form of closure, to allow me a return to some level of normality. But what happened to me was anything but normal, and what was substituted for closure was induced amnesia, and so the Weirdness Factor is what takes precedent, and thus, it scares the heck out of everybody I know who even has an inkling of what happened, and the truth is that most of my friends, and my sister Vickie and brother Chris, know much more than they will ever say. I hate to use the term "cowards", but it applies in many instances, for the people I know.
My own family would rather walk away instead of talk about it. And my friends have convinced themselves that it was "just a dream", and that is because they participated, and thus want no part of the truth.
So all I have is myself. And I will keep it to myself, at least here at the blog. I have written FOIA requests from time to time, but they (surprise, surprise) never turn up anything.
Anyway, here is my analogy : Imagine one day that you woke up and realised you'd been to the Moon. I don't mean that you dreamed it, or hallucinated it, or imagined it, but that you knew it. And you knew other people knew it, too, because they'd been with you. But it was a weird experience, and it scared them, and they didn't want to talk about it. Then imagine that you yourself only remembered it years after the fact, and not in it's entirety.
And yet, you knew it had happened.
You would wonder why you went there, how you went there, what happened there, and what it all meant. And you would be so curious that it would become part of your life. And you would want to tell somebody, to talk about it.
So that's all I wanted to say, and don't worry, because I understand entirely your point of view on the subject. I won't bring it up again here at the blog. I just wanted to explain my side, is all.
Thanks for reading, and you know I Love You. I'll go back to regular blogs; everything is good.
For now, Sweet Dreams and I will see you in the morning. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Late Night Love & Weirdness
Happy Late Night, my Darling,
I hope you had a nice day. FB has been acting funny all day - the newsfeed doesn't scroll and only shows a few posts at a time. I'm talking about the sidebar newsfeed, the one that says "so-and-so likes such-and-such" or "so-and-so shared a link". That's the one I use to find your posts, ever since the Close Friends feature stopped showing them, except today, the newsfeed didn't work either. Anyhow, if you posted I'm afraid I didn't see it. Of course, you are probably busy with Summer stuff and projects, too. :)
I hope the Weird Stuff I posted wasn't too weird for you. I know a lot of it sounds pretty "out there", but really what I wrote so far wasn't too far out I don't think. I'm just musing about stuff, and rather than re-write what happened to me, or focus on the details, I'm just "thinking out loud" (i.e. writing about) questions that I have built up as I have considered the whole thing. It was an event that lasted many days, perhaps close to two weeks - not continuous but on-and-off - and because I had amnesia, and my memory is still fragmented, I wonder about practical things, like where did I sleep? Was I at home some of the time? Did I eat? Obviously I must have eaten, slept, etc.
Today I drove over to a site called the Wilbur Wash, which is an offshoot concrete-channel "tributary" of the larger concrete channel L.A. River. The section of the Wash I am talking about is located at the intersection of Wilbur and Valerio Streets in Reseda (Google Map it!), about a mile and a half from Pearl's. My memory tells me, since 1997, that a truly unusual event took place there, of which I wrote about in my book.
This is definitely Weird Stuff, but it's also real, and it involves special ops military and technology. But the reason I drove over to the Wash was to see if a helicopter could fly there, or hover there, because there are electrical towers that span the Wash, and they hold up the high tension wires that provide electricity to that area of the Valley.
Looking at the landscape, and the high tension wires, I concluded that - yes - there was room for a helicopter.
I am interested in how the military - special ops military - secures a site where a Top Secret incident has taken place. At Roswell, for instance, the story goes that a special team got out there very quickly after a rancher reported seeing the crash. But at Roswell, and at other sites of crashes of different kinds of aircraft - including Stealth when it was still classified - the incidents usually happened in remote areas, where it would be somewhat easy for a military team to create a perimeter, secure the site, clean it up and maintain secrecy.
But I have wondered how such a team would be able to secure a site in a suburban neighborhood, on a street lined with houses. If a helicopter crashed, near a Wash, and there were houses nearby, you would think such an event - noisy and shocking, and scary - would draw a crowd, even if it happened late in the evening.
I know that a perimeter could still be created to minimize the crowd. Such a tactic is used at everyday crime scenes. But how would you keep immediate looky-loos away, or keep them from talking, if the crash was part of a secretive or classified event? How would you keep news helicopters away? Indeed - how would you keep the local police department away, in this case the mighty L.A.P.D. , the world's most famous police force?
Well, the answer is that you could do it - if you were with the Federal Government. Because they supercede everybody. And there are entities within the Federal Government that even supercede the Federal Government.
At any rate, you could cover up such a crash, though I suppose it would not be easy.
But basically, I think that if you order people not to talk about something, they will probably obey. And after time passes, the incident fades, no matter how weird it is. It fades on the outside - as an urge to speak about it - but on the inside it remains, perhaps relegated to the realm of dreams.
That is how people can "forget" reality. By pretending that something didn't happen. Because it was horrible, and shocking - nightmarish - and because they were ordered never to talk about it. And so it became a dream, and didn't "really" happen.
I know it's weird, my Baby, but just bear with me a bit. I am just writing about it because I have only myself to bounce thoughts off of; nobody else will touch this with a ten foot pole.
But I will write just to muse about it, in a roundabout way, and therefore keep things to-the-point, like a detective would.
That's all for tonight. If it's too weird, just say so! But it's part of my life, so I tell it. :)
I Love You and send you Sweet Dreams. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
I hope you had a nice day. FB has been acting funny all day - the newsfeed doesn't scroll and only shows a few posts at a time. I'm talking about the sidebar newsfeed, the one that says "so-and-so likes such-and-such" or "so-and-so shared a link". That's the one I use to find your posts, ever since the Close Friends feature stopped showing them, except today, the newsfeed didn't work either. Anyhow, if you posted I'm afraid I didn't see it. Of course, you are probably busy with Summer stuff and projects, too. :)
I hope the Weird Stuff I posted wasn't too weird for you. I know a lot of it sounds pretty "out there", but really what I wrote so far wasn't too far out I don't think. I'm just musing about stuff, and rather than re-write what happened to me, or focus on the details, I'm just "thinking out loud" (i.e. writing about) questions that I have built up as I have considered the whole thing. It was an event that lasted many days, perhaps close to two weeks - not continuous but on-and-off - and because I had amnesia, and my memory is still fragmented, I wonder about practical things, like where did I sleep? Was I at home some of the time? Did I eat? Obviously I must have eaten, slept, etc.
Today I drove over to a site called the Wilbur Wash, which is an offshoot concrete-channel "tributary" of the larger concrete channel L.A. River. The section of the Wash I am talking about is located at the intersection of Wilbur and Valerio Streets in Reseda (Google Map it!), about a mile and a half from Pearl's. My memory tells me, since 1997, that a truly unusual event took place there, of which I wrote about in my book.
This is definitely Weird Stuff, but it's also real, and it involves special ops military and technology. But the reason I drove over to the Wash was to see if a helicopter could fly there, or hover there, because there are electrical towers that span the Wash, and they hold up the high tension wires that provide electricity to that area of the Valley.
Looking at the landscape, and the high tension wires, I concluded that - yes - there was room for a helicopter.
I am interested in how the military - special ops military - secures a site where a Top Secret incident has taken place. At Roswell, for instance, the story goes that a special team got out there very quickly after a rancher reported seeing the crash. But at Roswell, and at other sites of crashes of different kinds of aircraft - including Stealth when it was still classified - the incidents usually happened in remote areas, where it would be somewhat easy for a military team to create a perimeter, secure the site, clean it up and maintain secrecy.
But I have wondered how such a team would be able to secure a site in a suburban neighborhood, on a street lined with houses. If a helicopter crashed, near a Wash, and there were houses nearby, you would think such an event - noisy and shocking, and scary - would draw a crowd, even if it happened late in the evening.
I know that a perimeter could still be created to minimize the crowd. Such a tactic is used at everyday crime scenes. But how would you keep immediate looky-loos away, or keep them from talking, if the crash was part of a secretive or classified event? How would you keep news helicopters away? Indeed - how would you keep the local police department away, in this case the mighty L.A.P.D. , the world's most famous police force?
Well, the answer is that you could do it - if you were with the Federal Government. Because they supercede everybody. And there are entities within the Federal Government that even supercede the Federal Government.
At any rate, you could cover up such a crash, though I suppose it would not be easy.
But basically, I think that if you order people not to talk about something, they will probably obey. And after time passes, the incident fades, no matter how weird it is. It fades on the outside - as an urge to speak about it - but on the inside it remains, perhaps relegated to the realm of dreams.
That is how people can "forget" reality. By pretending that something didn't happen. Because it was horrible, and shocking - nightmarish - and because they were ordered never to talk about it. And so it became a dream, and didn't "really" happen.
I know it's weird, my Baby, but just bear with me a bit. I am just writing about it because I have only myself to bounce thoughts off of; nobody else will touch this with a ten foot pole.
But I will write just to muse about it, in a roundabout way, and therefore keep things to-the-point, like a detective would.
That's all for tonight. If it's too weird, just say so! But it's part of my life, so I tell it. :)
I Love You and send you Sweet Dreams. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Thursday, June 25, 2015
Late Night Love & Weird Stuff
Happy Late Night, my Darling,
I hope you had a nice day. Mine was routine (of course, lol), but busy. Still very hot here, and when I left to drive up to Trader Joe's at around 2pm, I noticed a ton of smoke coming from near the Mission Point area. That's the local mountain I hiked up to the top of last year. There was a brush fire, and it turned out to be on the other side of the mountain, in Santa Clarita, near the Towsley Canyon park that I also hiked a few times. It was about a mile or so from my very favorite trail - Rice Canyon, and I am glad that they put it out fairly quickly. It took over 200 firefighters and a couple helicopters! So that was the big deal for the day.
As for my new project, I will just write in short bursts here and there, because I just don't have the time I used to have to write at length. And when I do have time, I am often tired, due to the nature of the nighttime sleeping situation here at Pearl's. We have her taking Melatonin now, so hopefully that will help. In the old days, I used to walk over to the Oviatt totally focused, and just start in. In re-reading my book, I can hardly believe I held all that information in my head, but I did, and I was able to get it all out, and onto paper.
I have a million questions about what happened to me, but even so I understand a lot of it. It has taken me many, many years to come to this point. It's funny, because the mid-80s I had little to no interest in any of this stuff - secret military operations, air force bases, underground bases, memories, missing time, et al. If you look at my "books" listed on FB, you know I read about a lot of alternative stuff, what the average person would call "conspiracy" books. But the average person has no idea - literally - what goes on in the world.
I never did. In the 80s, I was vehemently against Reagan, and I thought communism was cool, but that was the extent of it. I was very, very political, but on a surface level. I had no idea that there was a "behind-the-scenes", let alone having any information about it. As for aliens and UFOs, I saw "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind" in 1977 and thought it was a great movie. But that was it.
Before 1989, and really before the mid-90s, my reading consisted mostly of fiction, my favorites being of course Stephen King and other horror writers. I read a lot of true crime, books about serial killers and that kind of stuff. I really should have been a detective, lol.
But in October 1993, my life changed, because one day, without trying to, I recovered a memory. Now, I don't like to use that term because is has a lot of negative connotations due to some phony-baloney psychologists who have written books about the "falsehood" of recovered memory. The phenomenon was much in the news in the late 80s and early 90s, and often dealt with adults who had recalled buried memories of child abuse, that often was associated with Satanic cults and things of that nature. I am not a fan of a lot of psychologists, because like any discipline (even something like music) there are good practitioners and downright lousy (even phony) ones. I know that, on the other end, there are a lot of phony-baloney people who make claims about things, claims of child abuse, of alien abductions, you name it. So there are charlatans on both ends, and I stay out of those things. You know me, and you know that I am not a joiner of groups, nor am I easily succeptible to belief. Everything in my life - everything - is run through a psychic filter. I get a feel for things, and I get a feel for truth. Once I get a feel, then I run it down with a ton of information, by reading mostly. At any rate, suffice to say that, post 1993, my reading habits changed, and at that point I wanted to know as much about what I will call "buried" subjects as I could get my hands on.
Subjects that nobody wanted to talk about.
One of the first subjects I delved into was MK Ultra, the now fairly famous (or infamous!) CIA program that was run mostly in the 1950s, that involved all kinds of mind control. That term has become a cliche, but there was really a lot of science behind it, science involving the study of the lobes of the brain, and which functions were controlled in a given area. That science, purely evil in my opinion, was pioneered in Nazi Germany, and after the war many Nazi scientists were surreptitously brought over here to America, lest the Soviets get them. The CIA was also formed right after the war, in 1947, and that was when a lot of really sinister research began in this country. It is also when the UFO phenomenon began.
Because this is a "short burst" of writing tonight, what I am interested in at the moment, concerning my own life, is studying the different states of consciousness, between waking and sleep. A normal person, on a normal day, experiences basically those two states, with perhaps brief spells of what are called "alpha" or hypnogogic states in between wakefulness and sleep, and even more powerfully, between the end of sleep and waking up in the morning. That is when many dreams occur.
But just as there are those "normal" or day-to-day states of hypnogogia, ones experienced by most people, there are also other forms of hypnogogic or altered consciousness. One of them is "state of shock", which can be experienced in full wakefulness by a person under extreme stress, such as a soldier on a battlefield. The Nazis - and the scientists at work for the CIA during MK Ultra - also discovered that this stress could be artificially created, and that sections of the brain could be manipulated, through the use of drugs and hypnosis, to produce a hypnogogic state in a subject, in a state of full wakefulness.
In this way, a subject could be manipulated to do things while in that state, and, having done them, could then be brought out of the state with no memory of what he had done. That is the story of Sirhan Sirhan and the Robert F. Kennedy assassination. Mind control, then, is not a cliche but a very real and ultra-sinister science, utilised by people who wish to control things, control governments, world affairs, etc.
A form of mind control is to cause a person to forget that a section of their life has taken place. This section cannot be too long, or the deception won't work, but at any rate, the phenomenon is known as missing time.
This is what I experienced, although I wasn't aware of it. I also experienced amnesia, though I wasn't aware of that, either, until four years after the fact.
That is what I will be exploring at first, just questions involving memory, not just for myself, but as to how an event like mine can go unacknowledged for 26 years, without a single person ever having mentioned it besides myself. I am interested in how a known event, such as Roswell, was covered up in the first place, being as there must have been at least 25 to 50 people in that town who witnessed, knew about, or had heard about what had happened there in July 1947.
Ditto Northridge in September 1989, though what happened here isn't strictly a UFO story. There were many witnesses, however, and I am wondering how they've all kept silent for all these years, and that is a topic I will perhaps explore in my next short burst of writing.
Tonight the hour is late, so I will post now.
I Love You, Elizabeth! Thanks for reading, and I will now send you Sweet Dreams and see you in the morn.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
I hope you had a nice day. Mine was routine (of course, lol), but busy. Still very hot here, and when I left to drive up to Trader Joe's at around 2pm, I noticed a ton of smoke coming from near the Mission Point area. That's the local mountain I hiked up to the top of last year. There was a brush fire, and it turned out to be on the other side of the mountain, in Santa Clarita, near the Towsley Canyon park that I also hiked a few times. It was about a mile or so from my very favorite trail - Rice Canyon, and I am glad that they put it out fairly quickly. It took over 200 firefighters and a couple helicopters! So that was the big deal for the day.
As for my new project, I will just write in short bursts here and there, because I just don't have the time I used to have to write at length. And when I do have time, I am often tired, due to the nature of the nighttime sleeping situation here at Pearl's. We have her taking Melatonin now, so hopefully that will help. In the old days, I used to walk over to the Oviatt totally focused, and just start in. In re-reading my book, I can hardly believe I held all that information in my head, but I did, and I was able to get it all out, and onto paper.
I have a million questions about what happened to me, but even so I understand a lot of it. It has taken me many, many years to come to this point. It's funny, because the mid-80s I had little to no interest in any of this stuff - secret military operations, air force bases, underground bases, memories, missing time, et al. If you look at my "books" listed on FB, you know I read about a lot of alternative stuff, what the average person would call "conspiracy" books. But the average person has no idea - literally - what goes on in the world.
I never did. In the 80s, I was vehemently against Reagan, and I thought communism was cool, but that was the extent of it. I was very, very political, but on a surface level. I had no idea that there was a "behind-the-scenes", let alone having any information about it. As for aliens and UFOs, I saw "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind" in 1977 and thought it was a great movie. But that was it.
Before 1989, and really before the mid-90s, my reading consisted mostly of fiction, my favorites being of course Stephen King and other horror writers. I read a lot of true crime, books about serial killers and that kind of stuff. I really should have been a detective, lol.
But in October 1993, my life changed, because one day, without trying to, I recovered a memory. Now, I don't like to use that term because is has a lot of negative connotations due to some phony-baloney psychologists who have written books about the "falsehood" of recovered memory. The phenomenon was much in the news in the late 80s and early 90s, and often dealt with adults who had recalled buried memories of child abuse, that often was associated with Satanic cults and things of that nature. I am not a fan of a lot of psychologists, because like any discipline (even something like music) there are good practitioners and downright lousy (even phony) ones. I know that, on the other end, there are a lot of phony-baloney people who make claims about things, claims of child abuse, of alien abductions, you name it. So there are charlatans on both ends, and I stay out of those things. You know me, and you know that I am not a joiner of groups, nor am I easily succeptible to belief. Everything in my life - everything - is run through a psychic filter. I get a feel for things, and I get a feel for truth. Once I get a feel, then I run it down with a ton of information, by reading mostly. At any rate, suffice to say that, post 1993, my reading habits changed, and at that point I wanted to know as much about what I will call "buried" subjects as I could get my hands on.
Subjects that nobody wanted to talk about.
One of the first subjects I delved into was MK Ultra, the now fairly famous (or infamous!) CIA program that was run mostly in the 1950s, that involved all kinds of mind control. That term has become a cliche, but there was really a lot of science behind it, science involving the study of the lobes of the brain, and which functions were controlled in a given area. That science, purely evil in my opinion, was pioneered in Nazi Germany, and after the war many Nazi scientists were surreptitously brought over here to America, lest the Soviets get them. The CIA was also formed right after the war, in 1947, and that was when a lot of really sinister research began in this country. It is also when the UFO phenomenon began.
Because this is a "short burst" of writing tonight, what I am interested in at the moment, concerning my own life, is studying the different states of consciousness, between waking and sleep. A normal person, on a normal day, experiences basically those two states, with perhaps brief spells of what are called "alpha" or hypnogogic states in between wakefulness and sleep, and even more powerfully, between the end of sleep and waking up in the morning. That is when many dreams occur.
But just as there are those "normal" or day-to-day states of hypnogogia, ones experienced by most people, there are also other forms of hypnogogic or altered consciousness. One of them is "state of shock", which can be experienced in full wakefulness by a person under extreme stress, such as a soldier on a battlefield. The Nazis - and the scientists at work for the CIA during MK Ultra - also discovered that this stress could be artificially created, and that sections of the brain could be manipulated, through the use of drugs and hypnosis, to produce a hypnogogic state in a subject, in a state of full wakefulness.
In this way, a subject could be manipulated to do things while in that state, and, having done them, could then be brought out of the state with no memory of what he had done. That is the story of Sirhan Sirhan and the Robert F. Kennedy assassination. Mind control, then, is not a cliche but a very real and ultra-sinister science, utilised by people who wish to control things, control governments, world affairs, etc.
A form of mind control is to cause a person to forget that a section of their life has taken place. This section cannot be too long, or the deception won't work, but at any rate, the phenomenon is known as missing time.
This is what I experienced, although I wasn't aware of it. I also experienced amnesia, though I wasn't aware of that, either, until four years after the fact.
That is what I will be exploring at first, just questions involving memory, not just for myself, but as to how an event like mine can go unacknowledged for 26 years, without a single person ever having mentioned it besides myself. I am interested in how a known event, such as Roswell, was covered up in the first place, being as there must have been at least 25 to 50 people in that town who witnessed, knew about, or had heard about what had happened there in July 1947.
Ditto Northridge in September 1989, though what happened here isn't strictly a UFO story. There were many witnesses, however, and I am wondering how they've all kept silent for all these years, and that is a topic I will perhaps explore in my next short burst of writing.
Tonight the hour is late, so I will post now.
I Love You, Elizabeth! Thanks for reading, and I will now send you Sweet Dreams and see you in the morn.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Summer Evening Love (sweet dreams + project)
Good Evening, my Darling,
I am home, just relaxing, gonna wait till the sun is setting to go on my walk. I hope you had a nice day. I must say that I really liked your post this afternoon. I can't recall the person's name, because for some reason when I got home, it's not in my newsfeed scroll anymore, but it had a beautiful message about two people always being there for each other. The picture was of two guys, a guy and his friend, but the words could apply to any two people, so I thought maybe you meant it for me. :)
The guy said if his friend were a girl that he'd "wife" her (a new verb, lol - to "wife"), so that part could definitely apply! :):)
I liked all of it, and it made my day.
I didn't do a lot, except to bring The Kobedog up to CSUN while Pearl was at Golden Agers, but I had a nice day anyhow. The song I posted earlier, "Incense & Peppermints" was a huge hit in 1967. All I did in those days was listen to Top 40 radio, on a very famous station called KHJ. I mean, I did a lot of other stuff as any seven year old would, but no matter what I or my friends were doing, it seemed there was always a radio within hearing distance. So my very first favorite music, after The Beatles, was all the Top 40 pop songs on KHJ in those days. And "Incense & Peppermints", which I am sure you've heard before, was one of my very favorites. They must have played it a thousand times that Summer.
Well, I am gonna do a little bit of reading and then go for my walk. I will be around all evening, and on Usual Schedule, and I will of course write more later tonight at the Usual Time.
Enjoy your evening! I Love You.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Midnight : Happy Late Night, Sweet Baby! Did you have a nice evening? Hope you did, and I'll bet you have something in the works. Like I said, even while you are waiting for your next project, you can "do homework" so to speak, just by thinking of visual concepts to some of your favorite songs.
I am kind of doing my homework, too. I have been re-reading my book for the first time since I finished my first edit of it, way back in 2008. It took a humongous effort to write it, and I did it in about six months, from late Summer 2006 to Spring 2007. Then I let it simmer, as they say (i.e. let it sit, or percolate) for another six months, until September 2007, at which time I began my first edit. I got almost all the way through that edit when my Dad got sick in April 2008. Being with Dad after that was first priority, and so the book got put away, and it stayed put away until April of this year, when Grimsley said he wanted to make a copy of it. He had been saying that for years, but lo and behold, he finally did it. I took it to a copy shop with him, and now he has the only other copy of the edited version.
But what happened, when we got back from the copy shop, is that I thought "well, I have finally taken that thing out of it's box after 7 years. I might as well read it and see what I've got". And I've been doing so.
What I've got is a unique story, to say the least, that I think is pretty well written, if super-duper long.
I don't know if you read any of my back catalogue blogs on Myspace, when you first met me, but if you went back to those years, and read anything that sounded.......off the wall....but was still well written (I think) and well articulated (ditto), then you may have read part or parts of my book. Now, it wouldn't make much sense out of context, precisely because it is so strange. But anyhow, that's what a lot of the Myspace blogs consisted of - chapters of my book.
So now that I am finally re-reading it, I have a project, too, and what came with the re-reading was a greater clarity of what happened to me in 1989. Time brings clarity, and this situation required it. My project is not to really do another edit, but rather to try to bring the entire experience to life in what I will call "real time memory", in the normal sense. Picture the way you might remember your recent trip to Italy, for instance. You don't remember it as a vague dream, but in the normal sense of memory - you can picture yourself there, you can visualise the things you did, in your Mind's Eye (and Ear), and most of all, you can feel yourself there. That is what I call Visceral Memory, memory that feels real, i.e. is real.
Normal memory is part-and-parcel of life. Without memory, a human being is nothing but an automaton or forward-moving physical being. In the mind and consciousness, memory is our personal history - literally who we have been, who we are up to this point in our lives.
A person can say, "I am a doctor". How does he know that? Because he has lived his life and he knows who he is, what he has done, who he has become, from child to man. Memory is central to who we are, and in a sense it is everything for the life of a human being.
So what I am gonna do, for my occasional project, is just to examine things, questions and such, that come to me as I am reading my book. I am already about halfway through but it's a long book, so it will take a while for me to finish.
Anyhow, this is all just to say "if you see me going off on weird and inexplicable tangents, that's why"! On Myspace, I always wrote as if writing to myself; as if I were musing on things. So if you see me musing, it's just me working on my project. :)
But of course I will write all my regular stuff, too.
I just figured that my book was just sitting in a box, and it's a story that sooner or later has gotta be told, and there's nobody to do it but me.
That's all for tonight, my Baby. You are probably already having Sweet Dreams, and so I will send you extra.
I Love You and will see you in the morning. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
I am home, just relaxing, gonna wait till the sun is setting to go on my walk. I hope you had a nice day. I must say that I really liked your post this afternoon. I can't recall the person's name, because for some reason when I got home, it's not in my newsfeed scroll anymore, but it had a beautiful message about two people always being there for each other. The picture was of two guys, a guy and his friend, but the words could apply to any two people, so I thought maybe you meant it for me. :)
The guy said if his friend were a girl that he'd "wife" her (a new verb, lol - to "wife"), so that part could definitely apply! :):)
I liked all of it, and it made my day.
I didn't do a lot, except to bring The Kobedog up to CSUN while Pearl was at Golden Agers, but I had a nice day anyhow. The song I posted earlier, "Incense & Peppermints" was a huge hit in 1967. All I did in those days was listen to Top 40 radio, on a very famous station called KHJ. I mean, I did a lot of other stuff as any seven year old would, but no matter what I or my friends were doing, it seemed there was always a radio within hearing distance. So my very first favorite music, after The Beatles, was all the Top 40 pop songs on KHJ in those days. And "Incense & Peppermints", which I am sure you've heard before, was one of my very favorites. They must have played it a thousand times that Summer.
Well, I am gonna do a little bit of reading and then go for my walk. I will be around all evening, and on Usual Schedule, and I will of course write more later tonight at the Usual Time.
Enjoy your evening! I Love You.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Midnight : Happy Late Night, Sweet Baby! Did you have a nice evening? Hope you did, and I'll bet you have something in the works. Like I said, even while you are waiting for your next project, you can "do homework" so to speak, just by thinking of visual concepts to some of your favorite songs.
I am kind of doing my homework, too. I have been re-reading my book for the first time since I finished my first edit of it, way back in 2008. It took a humongous effort to write it, and I did it in about six months, from late Summer 2006 to Spring 2007. Then I let it simmer, as they say (i.e. let it sit, or percolate) for another six months, until September 2007, at which time I began my first edit. I got almost all the way through that edit when my Dad got sick in April 2008. Being with Dad after that was first priority, and so the book got put away, and it stayed put away until April of this year, when Grimsley said he wanted to make a copy of it. He had been saying that for years, but lo and behold, he finally did it. I took it to a copy shop with him, and now he has the only other copy of the edited version.
But what happened, when we got back from the copy shop, is that I thought "well, I have finally taken that thing out of it's box after 7 years. I might as well read it and see what I've got". And I've been doing so.
What I've got is a unique story, to say the least, that I think is pretty well written, if super-duper long.
I don't know if you read any of my back catalogue blogs on Myspace, when you first met me, but if you went back to those years, and read anything that sounded.......off the wall....but was still well written (I think) and well articulated (ditto), then you may have read part or parts of my book. Now, it wouldn't make much sense out of context, precisely because it is so strange. But anyhow, that's what a lot of the Myspace blogs consisted of - chapters of my book.
So now that I am finally re-reading it, I have a project, too, and what came with the re-reading was a greater clarity of what happened to me in 1989. Time brings clarity, and this situation required it. My project is not to really do another edit, but rather to try to bring the entire experience to life in what I will call "real time memory", in the normal sense. Picture the way you might remember your recent trip to Italy, for instance. You don't remember it as a vague dream, but in the normal sense of memory - you can picture yourself there, you can visualise the things you did, in your Mind's Eye (and Ear), and most of all, you can feel yourself there. That is what I call Visceral Memory, memory that feels real, i.e. is real.
Normal memory is part-and-parcel of life. Without memory, a human being is nothing but an automaton or forward-moving physical being. In the mind and consciousness, memory is our personal history - literally who we have been, who we are up to this point in our lives.
A person can say, "I am a doctor". How does he know that? Because he has lived his life and he knows who he is, what he has done, who he has become, from child to man. Memory is central to who we are, and in a sense it is everything for the life of a human being.
So what I am gonna do, for my occasional project, is just to examine things, questions and such, that come to me as I am reading my book. I am already about halfway through but it's a long book, so it will take a while for me to finish.
Anyhow, this is all just to say "if you see me going off on weird and inexplicable tangents, that's why"! On Myspace, I always wrote as if writing to myself; as if I were musing on things. So if you see me musing, it's just me working on my project. :)
But of course I will write all my regular stuff, too.
I just figured that my book was just sitting in a box, and it's a story that sooner or later has gotta be told, and there's nobody to do it but me.
That's all for tonight, my Baby. You are probably already having Sweet Dreams, and so I will send you extra.
I Love You and will see you in the morning. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Late Night Love
Happy Late Night, my Darling,
Just checking in to see how your day was and to wish you Sweet Dreams. I see that you have a photo shoot coming up? Excellent news yet again. I know you will have no trouble securing the models you need, and I'll bet you have already got 'em lined up. :)
Not much to report here, but I had a nice walk this eve with my friend Dave F. and his daughter, down to the Orange Grove and back. At the end of the week, on Sunday, I will have another five days off. Then, I hope to shoot some photos, and definitely take my train trip downtown.
For now, sleep well and I will see you in the morning.
I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Just checking in to see how your day was and to wish you Sweet Dreams. I see that you have a photo shoot coming up? Excellent news yet again. I know you will have no trouble securing the models you need, and I'll bet you have already got 'em lined up. :)
Not much to report here, but I had a nice walk this eve with my friend Dave F. and his daughter, down to the Orange Grove and back. At the end of the week, on Sunday, I will have another five days off. Then, I hope to shoot some photos, and definitely take my train trip downtown.
For now, sleep well and I will see you in the morning.
I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Monday, June 22, 2015
Highly Impressed Am I
Happy Late Night, my Darling,
Happy First Day Of Summer, too! Well, I have to say that I just checked your professional site again, about an hour ago, and the new blog feature you have just set up is fantastic. Very articulate and explanatory. I also have to say, Elizabeth, that if I were to look at that site unsolicited, not knowing you, and see the layout and the work and read the text throughout, and then if someone were to say, "this is the site of a 22 year old young lady", I'd wonder if they were kidding me. :)
I mean, it's not just that you're a natural at all of this, but that you're such a natural. You have a technical aptitude that enables you to learn all kinds of systems (and seemingly very quickly) - lighting, sound, editing, color - and then you have an artistic sensibility that allows you to be able to be creative with all of that technical ability.
I have to say, again, that I have never before heard of a one-woman do-it-all video service, and I know you have help in the making of the videos, but it's basically all your doing.
Amazing, I say.
I am glad to see you are consulting with your Dad, too, and maybe today you were able to celebrate Father's Day with him? I know that's personal stuff, but I only broach the subject because it made me happy to see that you mentioned your Dad in your blog, and I know you worked with him on your original video, "Autre Temps" (a classic!).
So.............as I once remarked on FB, "sometimes, all you can say is Wow".
So that's what I am saying tonight!
I had a nice first day of Summer. Great singing in church this morn. A very hot day followed by a long, cooling eve - with purple sky and in-line Venus/Jupiter/Crescent Moon conjunction. My friend Ono brought his English Bulldoggie "Boo" over for a walk down to the Duck Pond and back. And now I'm here at Pearl's, and all is quiet.
Here's to a great Summer.
My Goodness, Elizabeth!
Sweet Dreams, I Love You, You Rule. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Happy First Day Of Summer, too! Well, I have to say that I just checked your professional site again, about an hour ago, and the new blog feature you have just set up is fantastic. Very articulate and explanatory. I also have to say, Elizabeth, that if I were to look at that site unsolicited, not knowing you, and see the layout and the work and read the text throughout, and then if someone were to say, "this is the site of a 22 year old young lady", I'd wonder if they were kidding me. :)
I mean, it's not just that you're a natural at all of this, but that you're such a natural. You have a technical aptitude that enables you to learn all kinds of systems (and seemingly very quickly) - lighting, sound, editing, color - and then you have an artistic sensibility that allows you to be able to be creative with all of that technical ability.
I have to say, again, that I have never before heard of a one-woman do-it-all video service, and I know you have help in the making of the videos, but it's basically all your doing.
Amazing, I say.
I am glad to see you are consulting with your Dad, too, and maybe today you were able to celebrate Father's Day with him? I know that's personal stuff, but I only broach the subject because it made me happy to see that you mentioned your Dad in your blog, and I know you worked with him on your original video, "Autre Temps" (a classic!).
So.............as I once remarked on FB, "sometimes, all you can say is Wow".
So that's what I am saying tonight!
I had a nice first day of Summer. Great singing in church this morn. A very hot day followed by a long, cooling eve - with purple sky and in-line Venus/Jupiter/Crescent Moon conjunction. My friend Ono brought his English Bulldoggie "Boo" over for a walk down to the Duck Pond and back. And now I'm here at Pearl's, and all is quiet.
Here's to a great Summer.
My Goodness, Elizabeth!
Sweet Dreams, I Love You, You Rule. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Saturday, June 20, 2015
Saturday Afternoon Love + Have A Blast (how'd it go + night sky) (super late night p.s.)
Hey, Sweet Baby,
I just wanted to wish you a happy afternoon. I'm at home on a shopping break, but will head out in about a half hour or so to hit another store. Gotta get some yogurt and bottled water, oranges and avocados. If you think of anything else, let me know and I'll pick it up. :)
You will probably be getting ready to go to the Ultrea party in a little while, and I will just be gettting back from Pearl's while you're there, so have an absolute blast and take some pictures, too. I'll be back later to see how it went!
I Love You! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
(back in a bit)
12:10am : Happy Late Night, my Darling. How did it go tonight? I hope you had a great time and also that the band did too. Hope they had a good crowd for the release party. I imagine you took pics, so if you post any I will look forward to seeing them, though I know it's a professional situation, so I know you may have restrictions on posting........but post if you can and if you want to. :)
All is well here, nice and quiet. Tomorrow morning is choir, our song is gonna be "Send The Light" by Charles Gabriel. It's old fashioned, sounds like a marching song - something by the Salvation Army maybe - but it's fun to sing and I always look forward to singing.
Tomorrow starts Summer, which is gonna be awesome, and I forgot to mention these last couple of nights, but have you seen the sky? I'm sure you have. The configuration of Jupiter, Venus and the Moon has been amazing, like a triangle or a bow. Here in the Valley, with all our light pollution, we don't see many stars, but the brightest planets do show up (when they're in town), and so it was really awesome to see, in twilight as the sky was turning purple, this triangle in an otherwise blank sky.
It looked like an arrangement. There was something perfect about it.
Anyhow, I hope you've been seeing it, and it's gonna continue for a few more days, I think.
That's all for tonight, my Baby. Sleep well and get ready for a great Summer.
I Love You! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Sweet Dreams......
Super Late Night P.S. : I see just now, by your Vaia Balekis post, that tonight was a good night, and if so, then I am as happy as the kid in that picture! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
You Rule, Elizabeth.
I just wanted to wish you a happy afternoon. I'm at home on a shopping break, but will head out in about a half hour or so to hit another store. Gotta get some yogurt and bottled water, oranges and avocados. If you think of anything else, let me know and I'll pick it up. :)
You will probably be getting ready to go to the Ultrea party in a little while, and I will just be gettting back from Pearl's while you're there, so have an absolute blast and take some pictures, too. I'll be back later to see how it went!
I Love You! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
(back in a bit)
12:10am : Happy Late Night, my Darling. How did it go tonight? I hope you had a great time and also that the band did too. Hope they had a good crowd for the release party. I imagine you took pics, so if you post any I will look forward to seeing them, though I know it's a professional situation, so I know you may have restrictions on posting........but post if you can and if you want to. :)
All is well here, nice and quiet. Tomorrow morning is choir, our song is gonna be "Send The Light" by Charles Gabriel. It's old fashioned, sounds like a marching song - something by the Salvation Army maybe - but it's fun to sing and I always look forward to singing.
Tomorrow starts Summer, which is gonna be awesome, and I forgot to mention these last couple of nights, but have you seen the sky? I'm sure you have. The configuration of Jupiter, Venus and the Moon has been amazing, like a triangle or a bow. Here in the Valley, with all our light pollution, we don't see many stars, but the brightest planets do show up (when they're in town), and so it was really awesome to see, in twilight as the sky was turning purple, this triangle in an otherwise blank sky.
It looked like an arrangement. There was something perfect about it.
Anyhow, I hope you've been seeing it, and it's gonna continue for a few more days, I think.
That's all for tonight, my Baby. Sleep well and get ready for a great Summer.
I Love You! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Sweet Dreams......
Super Late Night P.S. : I see just now, by your Vaia Balekis post, that tonight was a good night, and if so, then I am as happy as the kid in that picture! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
You Rule, Elizabeth.
Friday, June 19, 2015
More Awesomeness! (question) (okay, got it) (late night love + movie)
Good Evening, Sweet Baby,
Well, I see by your post - for 7 Seasons Deep - that you may have another band lined up for a video. Is that correct? If so, that is awesome! One of the first things we ever talked about is that Life Is Magic, and it sure seems to be working out that way. Wow! And, the timing is perfect because I've just been saying that you are gonna take over the Madison band video scene. I'm callin' em as I see 'em, lol. :)
This is all great, Elizabeth, and it's a blast for me to see it happen. One great Summer, coming up!
I took The Kobester to the vet this morn, and he got a great report. His heart doctor took x-rays, and she said his heart shows no enlargement from the first time he was brought in a year ago, and also that his lungs are clear - no fluid in them. She said it's unusual to see such good results, usually there is progression in the heart disease. But not for The 'Ster, cause he's The Man. So that was great news, too.
You are probably out enjoying your Friday evening. I am just getting home, so I'll relax for a few and then go on my walk, watch a show or read when I get back. I'll write more later tonight at the usual time.
Everything is rockin', Sweet Baby! (I'm trying to see how many rockabilly songs I can find with "baby" in the title - or couldn't you tell?) :)
I Love You! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
(back in a bit)
10:50pm : Hi Elizabeth. I'm writing a little bit earlier because just before I left to come back here to Pearl's, I saw a picture on FB posted by Kyle from Ultrea. You are tagged in it. Now, I know I sound like a broken record on this subject, but because of the way the photo looks, and because of what is written about it - both by Kyle himself and one of the commenters - I am afraid I've gotta ask once again : is he your boyfriend, or just a friend? I don't wanna jump to any conclusions, because I've been down that road with the whole Johan thing last year. However, he describes the picture as "an absolutely wonderful day"; there are only just the two of you in the picture (and the nice doggie); you both look very happy; and finally, one of the commenters, a girl, says "very happy for you", which is a common thing a person says to a new couple.
Also, I guess the April Lavigne post you made the other day is an in-joke between you two, because he references her as well (April Pantene).
So, sorry to ask once again, but I'm just asking, and all I have ever asked is that, if you ever do have a boyfriend, please tell me. It's hard enough to follow what's going on ever since FB changed their "close friends" posting policy a couple months ago.
Anyway, I hope if you see this blog tonight, in the next couple hours, you could post something on FB to let me know what is happening, just so I won't have to wonder all night.
Thanks.
11:10pm : Okay, I see a Sweet Baby picture in the newsfeed, up near the top, so it looks like you just posted it, and I will take that as your answer. So all is well. It was just because of the several different factors I mentioned about the picture (the commentary, etc.) that I had to ask. Sorry! Everything is good, then, and I will be back in just a bit at the usual time because I've still gotta get a few things situated here.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
(back in a few)
Midnight : Happy Late Night, my Darling. I hope you enjoyed your evening. I had a nice walk and watched another episode of "Breaking Bad", one wild and crazy show, lol. This afternoon, after taking Kobi to the vet, I watched a movie I'd never heard of before, a weird thriller from 1965 called "Mirage". Gregory Peck stars as a man who, following a blackout in the New York City skyscraper where he works, develops amnesia and can't remember who he is. Different people insinuate things to him, and he suspects a plot against him.
There really was a very famous blackout in New York (and much of the east coast) in 1965, and in fact, it is one of the very first newspaper headlines I can remember that stuck in my mind. I think it was one of the worst blackouts in history, and in seeing this movie, it was interesting that they used this motif. I wonder if they shot it before or after the blackout happened. At any rate, it also grabbed my attention because of Gregory Peck's amnesia, which as you know is something I have experienced in my life as well.
In the future, I may write more about that experience, as I am coming to understand it with greater clarity. It's really weird - beyond weird, in fact - which is why I haven't written much about it in recent years, but sooner or later I will have to make a big push. It's a story that has to be told, and one day, when it is, you'll be able to say, "hey, I know that guy - that's my Sweet Baby"!
So I may write a bit about it from time to time, but I am also right here in the present, because we are having an awesome year and we are gonna keep having an awesome year.
That's all for tonight. I send you Sweet Dreams and I will see you in the morning.
I Love You, Elizabeth. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Well, I see by your post - for 7 Seasons Deep - that you may have another band lined up for a video. Is that correct? If so, that is awesome! One of the first things we ever talked about is that Life Is Magic, and it sure seems to be working out that way. Wow! And, the timing is perfect because I've just been saying that you are gonna take over the Madison band video scene. I'm callin' em as I see 'em, lol. :)
This is all great, Elizabeth, and it's a blast for me to see it happen. One great Summer, coming up!
I took The Kobester to the vet this morn, and he got a great report. His heart doctor took x-rays, and she said his heart shows no enlargement from the first time he was brought in a year ago, and also that his lungs are clear - no fluid in them. She said it's unusual to see such good results, usually there is progression in the heart disease. But not for The 'Ster, cause he's The Man. So that was great news, too.
You are probably out enjoying your Friday evening. I am just getting home, so I'll relax for a few and then go on my walk, watch a show or read when I get back. I'll write more later tonight at the usual time.
Everything is rockin', Sweet Baby! (I'm trying to see how many rockabilly songs I can find with "baby" in the title - or couldn't you tell?) :)
I Love You! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
(back in a bit)
10:50pm : Hi Elizabeth. I'm writing a little bit earlier because just before I left to come back here to Pearl's, I saw a picture on FB posted by Kyle from Ultrea. You are tagged in it. Now, I know I sound like a broken record on this subject, but because of the way the photo looks, and because of what is written about it - both by Kyle himself and one of the commenters - I am afraid I've gotta ask once again : is he your boyfriend, or just a friend? I don't wanna jump to any conclusions, because I've been down that road with the whole Johan thing last year. However, he describes the picture as "an absolutely wonderful day"; there are only just the two of you in the picture (and the nice doggie); you both look very happy; and finally, one of the commenters, a girl, says "very happy for you", which is a common thing a person says to a new couple.
Also, I guess the April Lavigne post you made the other day is an in-joke between you two, because he references her as well (April Pantene).
So, sorry to ask once again, but I'm just asking, and all I have ever asked is that, if you ever do have a boyfriend, please tell me. It's hard enough to follow what's going on ever since FB changed their "close friends" posting policy a couple months ago.
Anyway, I hope if you see this blog tonight, in the next couple hours, you could post something on FB to let me know what is happening, just so I won't have to wonder all night.
Thanks.
11:10pm : Okay, I see a Sweet Baby picture in the newsfeed, up near the top, so it looks like you just posted it, and I will take that as your answer. So all is well. It was just because of the several different factors I mentioned about the picture (the commentary, etc.) that I had to ask. Sorry! Everything is good, then, and I will be back in just a bit at the usual time because I've still gotta get a few things situated here.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
(back in a few)
Midnight : Happy Late Night, my Darling. I hope you enjoyed your evening. I had a nice walk and watched another episode of "Breaking Bad", one wild and crazy show, lol. This afternoon, after taking Kobi to the vet, I watched a movie I'd never heard of before, a weird thriller from 1965 called "Mirage". Gregory Peck stars as a man who, following a blackout in the New York City skyscraper where he works, develops amnesia and can't remember who he is. Different people insinuate things to him, and he suspects a plot against him.
There really was a very famous blackout in New York (and much of the east coast) in 1965, and in fact, it is one of the very first newspaper headlines I can remember that stuck in my mind. I think it was one of the worst blackouts in history, and in seeing this movie, it was interesting that they used this motif. I wonder if they shot it before or after the blackout happened. At any rate, it also grabbed my attention because of Gregory Peck's amnesia, which as you know is something I have experienced in my life as well.
In the future, I may write more about that experience, as I am coming to understand it with greater clarity. It's really weird - beyond weird, in fact - which is why I haven't written much about it in recent years, but sooner or later I will have to make a big push. It's a story that has to be told, and one day, when it is, you'll be able to say, "hey, I know that guy - that's my Sweet Baby"!
So I may write a bit about it from time to time, but I am also right here in the present, because we are having an awesome year and we are gonna keep having an awesome year.
That's all for tonight. I send you Sweet Dreams and I will see you in the morning.
I Love You, Elizabeth. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Thursday, June 18, 2015
Good Connections (late night love)
Good Evening, my Darling,
I am home from Pearl's and just thought I'd check in, cause the last couple nights I haven't posted until Late Night. I hope you had a nice day and are enjoying your evening. I saw your one post, for the band Haliwel. Are they a new client? I am thinking that you will get more and more Madison bands calling, and you will become the Go-To Girl for bands getting their videos made. Also, because you have the Megatone connection, and because Paul knows a lot of people, he can refer bands to you (which I am sure you have already thought of, of course!). :)
Seriously, though, because you now have the two videos done, if you can get - say - maybe two or three more in the near future, then the ball that is already rolling will be unstoppable. Local Madison bands will say, "hey, everybody is using her for their videos", and then they will call, too.
As I said the other day, you are already developing a look to your videos. Fingers are crossed here for new clients asap, in the same way that a new actor will have several films due for release around the same time period, for saturation.
And then, as I also said, once you become well known in Madison, then it's on to Chicago and anywhere else. But right now, that Megatone/Paul connection is great. I can't wait to see what comes next! :)
I am back up to par once again, all soreness is gone and good energy is back. Yay for the heat! For now I am gonna hang out til about 8 or 8:30, then go for my walk. Enjoy your evening, and I will write more later.
I Love You! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
12:10am : Happy Late Night, Sweet Baby. I saw your Kelsey Manders post a little while ago, so maybe you read the first part of this blog (above) after I wrote it this afternoon. I always interpret those photo posts by the girl's expression or eyes, lol.
But I seriously think I am right about all I am saying about your videos and keeping the ball rolling, preparing for Total Video Takeover. :) Now Saturday night, you are going to the Ultrea release party, so that might be a chance to meet some other bands, or a member of a band. You already know all this stuff, but as usual I reinforce you!
Tomorrow morn I have to take The Kobester to see his heart specialist. Yes, doggies can have such! I always thought vets were vets, but last year his regular vet recommended him for a specialist. He hates going, of course, and trembles when he gets there, but the gal is usually pretty quick, so his trauma will be short lived. He seems to be doing well as far as I can see, especially for a guy who is now 15 1/2. He sleeps a bit more nowdays, and his walks aren't marathons like they used to be, but he still goes tearing after the Black Kitty every time he sees her, and he's still raring to go when he wakes up in the morning. All of that is good enough for me.
Well, that's all for tonight, my Baby. I'm looking forward to the first official weekend of Summer and I know you are too. I will see you in the morning - Sweet Dreams until then.
I Love You, Elizabeth! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
I am home from Pearl's and just thought I'd check in, cause the last couple nights I haven't posted until Late Night. I hope you had a nice day and are enjoying your evening. I saw your one post, for the band Haliwel. Are they a new client? I am thinking that you will get more and more Madison bands calling, and you will become the Go-To Girl for bands getting their videos made. Also, because you have the Megatone connection, and because Paul knows a lot of people, he can refer bands to you (which I am sure you have already thought of, of course!). :)
Seriously, though, because you now have the two videos done, if you can get - say - maybe two or three more in the near future, then the ball that is already rolling will be unstoppable. Local Madison bands will say, "hey, everybody is using her for their videos", and then they will call, too.
As I said the other day, you are already developing a look to your videos. Fingers are crossed here for new clients asap, in the same way that a new actor will have several films due for release around the same time period, for saturation.
And then, as I also said, once you become well known in Madison, then it's on to Chicago and anywhere else. But right now, that Megatone/Paul connection is great. I can't wait to see what comes next! :)
I am back up to par once again, all soreness is gone and good energy is back. Yay for the heat! For now I am gonna hang out til about 8 or 8:30, then go for my walk. Enjoy your evening, and I will write more later.
I Love You! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
12:10am : Happy Late Night, Sweet Baby. I saw your Kelsey Manders post a little while ago, so maybe you read the first part of this blog (above) after I wrote it this afternoon. I always interpret those photo posts by the girl's expression or eyes, lol.
But I seriously think I am right about all I am saying about your videos and keeping the ball rolling, preparing for Total Video Takeover. :) Now Saturday night, you are going to the Ultrea release party, so that might be a chance to meet some other bands, or a member of a band. You already know all this stuff, but as usual I reinforce you!
Tomorrow morn I have to take The Kobester to see his heart specialist. Yes, doggies can have such! I always thought vets were vets, but last year his regular vet recommended him for a specialist. He hates going, of course, and trembles when he gets there, but the gal is usually pretty quick, so his trauma will be short lived. He seems to be doing well as far as I can see, especially for a guy who is now 15 1/2. He sleeps a bit more nowdays, and his walks aren't marathons like they used to be, but he still goes tearing after the Black Kitty every time he sees her, and he's still raring to go when he wakes up in the morning. All of that is good enough for me.
Well, that's all for tonight, my Baby. I'm looking forward to the first official weekend of Summer and I know you are too. I will see you in the morning - Sweet Dreams until then.
I Love You, Elizabeth! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Late Night Love & Sweet Dreams
Happy Late Night, my Darling,
I am pleased to report that I felt much better today. Whatever that was with by back, or pinched nerve, must have relaxed during the night last night, because it didn't bother me anymore today. I just had a little residual soreness from yesterday, but that will be gone by tomorrow.
Boy, our Summer is starting off with a bang. I know it's officially a few days away, but we went from that heavy cloud cover for about a month, to 95 degrees - overnight. Now the weatherman says it'll be 95 to 100 for the next several days, so you know I am loving it, lol. Usually it doesn't get that hot till July or August.
It was just a typical day for me, so nothing much to report. I hope your day was good.
For now, Sweet Dreams, and I will see you in the morning.
I Love You, Elizabeth! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
I am pleased to report that I felt much better today. Whatever that was with by back, or pinched nerve, must have relaxed during the night last night, because it didn't bother me anymore today. I just had a little residual soreness from yesterday, but that will be gone by tomorrow.
Boy, our Summer is starting off with a bang. I know it's officially a few days away, but we went from that heavy cloud cover for about a month, to 95 degrees - overnight. Now the weatherman says it'll be 95 to 100 for the next several days, so you know I am loving it, lol. Usually it doesn't get that hot till July or August.
It was just a typical day for me, so nothing much to report. I hope your day was good.
For now, Sweet Dreams, and I will see you in the morning.
I Love You, Elizabeth! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Sweet Babyism & Late Night Love
Hi, my Darling,
It's a Happy Late Night check-in from me. There was not a lot to report today, though I loved your Sweet Baby post earlier. I love it when I am the Sweet Baby! :)
I was dealing with a little bit of discomfort all day - I must have slept wrong, because my back felt weird on the upper left side behind the shoulder blade. It didn't hurt, per se, but it just felt all bunched up, and also like a nerve was pinched, which caused my left arm & leg to feel weird, too. I did some stretching, which helped a bit. What will really help will be a full night's sleep in a relaxed position. :)
At least we know it's gonna be a great Summer, now that the Warriors beat LeBron.
That's all for tonight, but tomorrow I should be back on track and feeling fine. And the weather is getting hot, too. Summer is finally here.
I Love You, Elizabeth! Sweet Dreams through the night, and I will see you in the morning.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
It's a Happy Late Night check-in from me. There was not a lot to report today, though I loved your Sweet Baby post earlier. I love it when I am the Sweet Baby! :)
I was dealing with a little bit of discomfort all day - I must have slept wrong, because my back felt weird on the upper left side behind the shoulder blade. It didn't hurt, per se, but it just felt all bunched up, and also like a nerve was pinched, which caused my left arm & leg to feel weird, too. I did some stretching, which helped a bit. What will really help will be a full night's sleep in a relaxed position. :)
At least we know it's gonna be a great Summer, now that the Warriors beat LeBron.
That's all for tonight, but tomorrow I should be back on track and feeling fine. And the weather is getting hot, too. Summer is finally here.
I Love You, Elizabeth! Sweet Dreams through the night, and I will see you in the morning.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Monday, June 15, 2015
Excellent Additions! (sweet dreams)
Good Evening, my Darling,
I am just home from Pearl's. This afternoon, I checked out your professional website, and I see that you have done a lot of updating in the past few days! Excellent job! Everything you have added to your video section, all the explanatory text, is really, really, good. Listing all the reasons a client should choose you - you have articulated everything to a T. Everything is well stated and you have even anticipated an important point when you state that "everyone and their best friend has a DSLR nowdays", and then you go on to explain why they need a professional - You - because you know all the technical aspects of making a video, even including makeup. You do not just click the "record" button - you do it all. You are the one-stop-shopping of video production!
I was very impressed to see all of that added to your site, and to see how well stated it all is. And so, I just had to tell you! I also saw your FB post for a band that is recording at Megatone. Maybe they are gonna be your next project? Just guessin'.
Anyway, super-talented lady, I am gonna relax for a few, cause I'm just getting home. Then I will go for my walk in just a bit, and after that probably watch an X-Files or a Breaking Bad. I'm on Season 8 and Season 4 respectively, almost done with both series. But don't tell me what happens! :)
I will be around all the rest of the night, except for my walk, and I will write more at the usual time.
I Love You! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
12: 15am: Happy Late Night, Sweet Baby. The evening was uneventful (which in some ways is good, lol), so I don't have anything more to report. It is nice and quiet here and I am listening to KUSC. I hope your day was good, and I am thinking that you may be already working on your next project. All is awesome.
For tonight I will sign off and wish you Sweet Dreams. Then I will see you in the morning.
I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
I am just home from Pearl's. This afternoon, I checked out your professional website, and I see that you have done a lot of updating in the past few days! Excellent job! Everything you have added to your video section, all the explanatory text, is really, really, good. Listing all the reasons a client should choose you - you have articulated everything to a T. Everything is well stated and you have even anticipated an important point when you state that "everyone and their best friend has a DSLR nowdays", and then you go on to explain why they need a professional - You - because you know all the technical aspects of making a video, even including makeup. You do not just click the "record" button - you do it all. You are the one-stop-shopping of video production!
I was very impressed to see all of that added to your site, and to see how well stated it all is. And so, I just had to tell you! I also saw your FB post for a band that is recording at Megatone. Maybe they are gonna be your next project? Just guessin'.
Anyway, super-talented lady, I am gonna relax for a few, cause I'm just getting home. Then I will go for my walk in just a bit, and after that probably watch an X-Files or a Breaking Bad. I'm on Season 8 and Season 4 respectively, almost done with both series. But don't tell me what happens! :)
I will be around all the rest of the night, except for my walk, and I will write more at the usual time.
I Love You! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
12: 15am: Happy Late Night, Sweet Baby. The evening was uneventful (which in some ways is good, lol), so I don't have anything more to report. It is nice and quiet here and I am listening to KUSC. I hope your day was good, and I am thinking that you may be already working on your next project. All is awesome.
For tonight I will sign off and wish you Sweet Dreams. Then I will see you in the morning.
I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Late Night Love & Concepts
Hi my Darling,
Happy Late Night. I see by Ultrea's post, and your comment earlier this eve, that they are playing your bands on the radio? Good Morning V and Ultrea? It looks like they were at a radio station, so maybe they were doing some promo for their EP? All good, and good for you as well. Girl, you are well on your way to becoming well-known in the local rock community (or you may already be!), and that will spread out.
Chicago scene could come calling, too, and after that, who knows? But you are in control of all that, and it will happen in your way. You already know this, but make sure to keep shooting stills at any concerts you go to, especially your bands. Finagle a photo pass whenever you can, so you are shooting up close, or from the side of the stage. Now that you are into it - your career - just shoot and shoot some more, every chance you get. Think creatively, just to get your mind in the habit. Think of a song you like, by any band, and visualise a video concept for that song. Keep your mind attuned to creative thinking every day.
It's like me; how the heck did I wind up singing in a choir? How is that for weird, lol. :) Except that it's weird but good. It's weird, because if you'd told me a year ago I'd be singing in a church choir I'd have asked what you were smoking..........but it's good because I did become a member of a choir - not of my own volition - and it turned out to be a huge blessing because I found out how much I love singing.
So how weird is that, Sweet Baby? It's doggone weird, but in the best possible way, the way of Life Magic.
Most of the influence of life is psychic, and this psychic influence relays all over the place, from person-to-person, to person-to-nature, person-to-sense input (music is huge in this regard, an enormous psychic force), and finally, person-to-God. I know I harp on this a lot, but just continue to output who you are into the world. Not just your desires, i.e. what you want to become, but who you are. That part is important.
It's a trip how it works, but it does work.
It was a good day, good singing in choir and it looks like Summer is finally here, with hot weather coming this week. All is good.
I will see you in the morning, and you know that I Love You.
And, I wish you Sweet Dreams as well. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Happy Late Night. I see by Ultrea's post, and your comment earlier this eve, that they are playing your bands on the radio? Good Morning V and Ultrea? It looks like they were at a radio station, so maybe they were doing some promo for their EP? All good, and good for you as well. Girl, you are well on your way to becoming well-known in the local rock community (or you may already be!), and that will spread out.
Chicago scene could come calling, too, and after that, who knows? But you are in control of all that, and it will happen in your way. You already know this, but make sure to keep shooting stills at any concerts you go to, especially your bands. Finagle a photo pass whenever you can, so you are shooting up close, or from the side of the stage. Now that you are into it - your career - just shoot and shoot some more, every chance you get. Think creatively, just to get your mind in the habit. Think of a song you like, by any band, and visualise a video concept for that song. Keep your mind attuned to creative thinking every day.
It's like me; how the heck did I wind up singing in a choir? How is that for weird, lol. :) Except that it's weird but good. It's weird, because if you'd told me a year ago I'd be singing in a church choir I'd have asked what you were smoking..........but it's good because I did become a member of a choir - not of my own volition - and it turned out to be a huge blessing because I found out how much I love singing.
So how weird is that, Sweet Baby? It's doggone weird, but in the best possible way, the way of Life Magic.
Most of the influence of life is psychic, and this psychic influence relays all over the place, from person-to-person, to person-to-nature, person-to-sense input (music is huge in this regard, an enormous psychic force), and finally, person-to-God. I know I harp on this a lot, but just continue to output who you are into the world. Not just your desires, i.e. what you want to become, but who you are. That part is important.
It's a trip how it works, but it does work.
It was a good day, good singing in choir and it looks like Summer is finally here, with hot weather coming this week. All is good.
I will see you in the morning, and you know that I Love You.
And, I wish you Sweet Dreams as well. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Saturday, June 13, 2015
Steven Wilson Tonight (as good as it gets)
Good Evening, Sweet Baby!,
I wanted to check in and say hi before I leave for the Steven Wilson show at 6:30. I hope you are enjoying your Saturday evening. I think I should be home semi-early. It says that the doors open at 7pm, which means SW should come on by 8 or 8:30. I can't imagine him making people wait much longer than that. There's no opening act, so if he comes on at 8:30 and plays two hours, I'll be back at Pearl's by 11:30. So I should be back to write at the usual time.
I am really looking forward to the concert. One thing about SW, you always get an excellent sound mix. He usually has some good visuals, too. And of course I love his music.
So I'll see you when I get back. Enjoy your evening!
I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
12:15am : Happy Late Night, my Darling. I actually got back from the show at 10:55pm, but I've been making a late night snack and getting things situated here. Good Lordy Moses, what a show! His band is off-the-charts incredible, playing very advanced music, not so much in the complexity - because SW always puts melody first (though it can be complex) - but in the sound dynamics. A huge part of Steven Wilson's deal is sound, and there were some low end sequences, featuring synchronized playing by a supernaturally tight band, that sounded almost three dimensional. Best sound I've ever heard at a venue of that size, and in some ways, the best sound ever. That 3d low end stuff was unreal, like music from Jupiter.
They played from 8pm to 10:15, and that's another thing I like, a concert that runs on schedule. I was able to get back to Pearl's in time to post my nightly song for my Sweet Baby, so thank you Mr.Wilson in that regard, too.
His music really takes off in concert, really becomes huge, and in that setting it sounds like progressive music for the 21st century, a whole new sound, and in that regard it lives up to the great concert experiences of the original progressive era of the 1970s. The visuals were incredible, too.
All I can say is "Wow".
As you know, sometimes that's all you can say. :)
Well, my Baby, that's all for tonight. I will see you in the morn, and then again after church.
I Love You! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Sweet Dreams.......
I wanted to check in and say hi before I leave for the Steven Wilson show at 6:30. I hope you are enjoying your Saturday evening. I think I should be home semi-early. It says that the doors open at 7pm, which means SW should come on by 8 or 8:30. I can't imagine him making people wait much longer than that. There's no opening act, so if he comes on at 8:30 and plays two hours, I'll be back at Pearl's by 11:30. So I should be back to write at the usual time.
I am really looking forward to the concert. One thing about SW, you always get an excellent sound mix. He usually has some good visuals, too. And of course I love his music.
So I'll see you when I get back. Enjoy your evening!
I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
12:15am : Happy Late Night, my Darling. I actually got back from the show at 10:55pm, but I've been making a late night snack and getting things situated here. Good Lordy Moses, what a show! His band is off-the-charts incredible, playing very advanced music, not so much in the complexity - because SW always puts melody first (though it can be complex) - but in the sound dynamics. A huge part of Steven Wilson's deal is sound, and there were some low end sequences, featuring synchronized playing by a supernaturally tight band, that sounded almost three dimensional. Best sound I've ever heard at a venue of that size, and in some ways, the best sound ever. That 3d low end stuff was unreal, like music from Jupiter.
They played from 8pm to 10:15, and that's another thing I like, a concert that runs on schedule. I was able to get back to Pearl's in time to post my nightly song for my Sweet Baby, so thank you Mr.Wilson in that regard, too.
His music really takes off in concert, really becomes huge, and in that setting it sounds like progressive music for the 21st century, a whole new sound, and in that regard it lives up to the great concert experiences of the original progressive era of the 1970s. The visuals were incredible, too.
All I can say is "Wow".
As you know, sometimes that's all you can say. :)
Well, my Baby, that's all for tonight. I will see you in the morn, and then again after church.
I Love You! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Sweet Dreams.......
Late Friday Night Love
Hi, my Darling,
Happy Late Night. Another day with not too much to report, just "usual schedule" stuff. Grimsley called up to report that he delivered flowers to the legendary Vin Scully, the announcer for the Dodgers. That was the big news of the day. Grim is a delivery driver for a flower shop, and he's delivered to some famous people, including Brad Pitt & Angelina, and The Kardashians (oy...if it were me, I'd have turned around and gone home, haha). In L.A. you see celebrities all the time, but with Vin Scully, it's different. He's like the Voice Of Los Angeles for the last 60 years; no "instant celebrity"........
I saw your post for Avril Lavigne. I did not know she has Lyme Disease. I figure you must either be a fan (I know you like some punk or pop-punk music), or know somebody with Lyme Disease, or maybe you posted it for me because I hike and thus am out where the ticks are. If so, you can rest assured that I am always covered up almost head to toe on my hikes, even when it's 110 degrees. Always long pants, never shorts. Long sleeve shirts, too, with collar turned up. A hat, too. I did it originally cause I hate slathering sunscreen all over me, but then the more I read about ticks, I made sure to cover up even more : socks pulled up, shirt tucked in, etc. I am very careful and always check after a hike, but I've never had a tick on me. And, just for the record, I do use sunscreen on my face and neck. I just didn't wanna have to put it all over me, hence the long pants and shirts to begin with.
So far, I haven't seen a tick, or a rattlesnake, or even a mountain lion. And I hope it stays that way!
I do hope I see more deer, though. And red tail hawks. :)
I hope you had a good day. Maybe you've got a new project in the works? I'll bet you do, or one's on the way.
Tomorrow night I've got Steven Wilson, so I'm looking forward to that.
That's all I know for tonight, Sweet Baby. I will see you in the morning.
I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Happy Late Night. Another day with not too much to report, just "usual schedule" stuff. Grimsley called up to report that he delivered flowers to the legendary Vin Scully, the announcer for the Dodgers. That was the big news of the day. Grim is a delivery driver for a flower shop, and he's delivered to some famous people, including Brad Pitt & Angelina, and The Kardashians (oy...if it were me, I'd have turned around and gone home, haha). In L.A. you see celebrities all the time, but with Vin Scully, it's different. He's like the Voice Of Los Angeles for the last 60 years; no "instant celebrity"........
I saw your post for Avril Lavigne. I did not know she has Lyme Disease. I figure you must either be a fan (I know you like some punk or pop-punk music), or know somebody with Lyme Disease, or maybe you posted it for me because I hike and thus am out where the ticks are. If so, you can rest assured that I am always covered up almost head to toe on my hikes, even when it's 110 degrees. Always long pants, never shorts. Long sleeve shirts, too, with collar turned up. A hat, too. I did it originally cause I hate slathering sunscreen all over me, but then the more I read about ticks, I made sure to cover up even more : socks pulled up, shirt tucked in, etc. I am very careful and always check after a hike, but I've never had a tick on me. And, just for the record, I do use sunscreen on my face and neck. I just didn't wanna have to put it all over me, hence the long pants and shirts to begin with.
So far, I haven't seen a tick, or a rattlesnake, or even a mountain lion. And I hope it stays that way!
I do hope I see more deer, though. And red tail hawks. :)
I hope you had a good day. Maybe you've got a new project in the works? I'll bet you do, or one's on the way.
Tomorrow night I've got Steven Wilson, so I'm looking forward to that.
That's all I know for tonight, Sweet Baby. I will see you in the morning.
I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Friday, June 12, 2015
Late Night Love & Awesomeness
Happy Late Night, my Darling,
I am back at Pearl's, feeling good after my days off. Everything is quiet, and I am situated for the evening. I hope you had a great day, and I was glad to see that your video is getting good comments and likes, and also over a thousand views already on Youtube. You have some trademark camera moves that I notice, short bursts of motion (vertical or horizontal), and close ups on objects like the teddy, or her black bag. Here's a question : what photographs are those that she burns? They look like old photos, and yet I know (obviously) that you would not burn anything that was from a family album or any heirloom photograph. One looks like an old building (a barn?), so maybe they are prints of photos you took?
Good idea, too, to use the band's medallion as a closer, the item that brings her back to life, so to speak.
I am just super impressed, once again.
Well, this will be just a little over two weeks work cycle for me, and then I will have another five days off. I can't wait to start taking Summer pictures myself.
I will send you Sweet Dreams for now, and then I will see you in the morn and get back into the swing of things.
I Love You, Elizabeth! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
I am back at Pearl's, feeling good after my days off. Everything is quiet, and I am situated for the evening. I hope you had a great day, and I was glad to see that your video is getting good comments and likes, and also over a thousand views already on Youtube. You have some trademark camera moves that I notice, short bursts of motion (vertical or horizontal), and close ups on objects like the teddy, or her black bag. Here's a question : what photographs are those that she burns? They look like old photos, and yet I know (obviously) that you would not burn anything that was from a family album or any heirloom photograph. One looks like an old building (a barn?), so maybe they are prints of photos you took?
Good idea, too, to use the band's medallion as a closer, the item that brings her back to life, so to speak.
I am just super impressed, once again.
Well, this will be just a little over two weeks work cycle for me, and then I will have another five days off. I can't wait to start taking Summer pictures myself.
I will send you Sweet Dreams for now, and then I will see you in the morn and get back into the swing of things.
I Love You, Elizabeth! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Wednesday, June 10, 2015
Santa Su Redux (Pro = You) (late night love & sweet dreams + intent)
Hi, my Darling,
Well, I did not take my trip Downtown today. I blew it, because I didn't check the train schedule until this morning. I haven't been on the Metrolink train since 2006, but I just figured it ran on a regular, even schedule all day, just like the subway does. But I guess that the train schedule is more geared to business commuters because while there is regular scheduling in the morning and late afternoon, there is a gap in the middle of the day. So, the last morning train from Northridge leaves at 10:50 am. Because I went to sleep so late after Agalloch last night, I didn't even wake up until 10am this morning. By the time I checked the train schedule it was 10:15, and I hadn't had breakfast or coffee..........so I didn't make it. The next train after 10:50 wasn't until 2:40, and that was too late. But my free passes are good til the middle of July, and my next break is coming up fast on June 28. I'll have another five days off then, and now that I know the morning train schedule, I'll definitely make it.
What I did instead was go back out to Santa Susana. I just got back a little while ago. This time, I went on one of my most major hikes that I've ever taken out there. I hiked all the way up the Devil's Slide to the top of the mountain, where the Lilac Lane entrance is on the other side, and then I took another trail a short ways down into the north side of Santa Susana, where Spahn Ranch is. I have been looking for that trail for a while now, and I finally found it. It's a little tricky looking, kinda skinny and overgrown, but I have been looking for it because Spahn Ranch was both famous and infamous. It was once a movie ranch for making Westerns, but as you may or may not know, it was also the home of The Manson Family in the late '60s. There is nothing up there now, no buildings or any other sign of the ranch, just trails, hills and rocks like the rest of Santa Susana State Historic Park, but I've been wanting to hike that section of the park for a while now, and now that I've found the trail, I can do it, later on this Summer.
Today on my hike, I probably already put in about 4 miles, but I've still gotta walk down to Northridge Libe in a little while to return some movies and pick up other ones. But that's good! The more miles the better, I say. It'll keep me in shape for hiking season, and you know something, Sweet Baby? On my way down The Slide I passed another hiker who was coming up. As we got closer to one another, I could see he had two hiking poles and was breathing a little heavy. The Slide isn't the hardest hike in the world, but it's no piece of cake, either. I just thought, "maybe the guy's a newbie". I was breathing hard my first time up, too, last year.
But then as we passed each other, I could see that the guy was a senior citizen. I mean, he looked between 75 and 80 years old! And he was climbing The Slide.
I thought, "that'll be me one day". I think all you've gotta do is just keep doing it. That guy wasn't a newbie at all, and may have been hiking The Slide for decades. When he passed me, I said "Enjoy your hike" and he said "you, too". I thought that was awesome. :)
I hope you have had a nice day, too. I will probably walk down to the Libe at about 7pm, and then I'll be around all evening. And I'll write more at the usual time.
I Love You! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):
7:30pm : Wow! OMG, too! I just got back from the library, and the first thing I saw was that your video had been released. I watched it, and......
Elizabeth! You are awesome.
You are a straight-up professional videographer, right out of the starting block. Everything - your camera angles, camera movement, edits, intercutting of your actress - everything looks and feels great. 100% professional, could be shown on VH1 or any other channel that shows music videos. Your teacher was right, you are a natural at it, you have an instinct for how the shots should flow, and how camera movement should sequence from one edit to the next to maintain fluidity.
I am enormously impressed. You got a great look with the band in the warehouse, a kind of shiny silver/grey backdrop for the black clothes of the band. I take it you used a local trail for your storyline? Maybe that's what you meant by your comment about using a location that has worked well for you in the past? You said something like that just before you started filming. The night shots look great, well-lit, good color balance. Your actress Morgin looks great, too. I take it she is running away? Burning the past? Just a guess, but the lyrics and the torched photos and teddy bear seem to indicate that. Love it!
I have been saying many times that your career has already begun, that you are not "on your way" to a career but are already into it. You showed it when you made the Good Morning V video and now you have cemented it. You should count on more work coming your way, from now on.
Incredible job, I am super proud of you (if I may say so), but I always knew you not only could do it, but were gonna do it. And you have. :)
I will be back later at the usual time.
My Goodness. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
12:15am : Happy Late Night, Awesome Lady. I see that you have updated your professional site, too, and added a lot of photos, including one of yourself in your bio section. Your site is filling out now, and everything looks professional there as well. Man.......this is a trip, you know? :) Because I am always talking about intent, which is really the psychological projection of one's self-certainty into the world (meaning "certainty of who one is"), and you have always known that you are an Artist (in the all-inclusive sense), and so you have projected that self-certainty, and now it is taking shape, like what happens when a seed is planted.
The projection of self-certainty into the world is done quietly, but with great focus and confidence. As a person who has lived my life this way, I know that second guessing can creep in there from time to time, but the important thing to remember is that the self-certainty is what is real, thus the confidence always wins out. The self-certainty comes from the deepest recesses of your soul, and this is how you knew that you were not meant for a career in linguistics - even though you liked the subject, and even though you were good at it. You now all of this, of course, but just like in the old days of a couple of years ago, I reinforce you. :)
As for doubt, there is no room for it! You have made a kick-ass video, and you are now on track to make your next one. Your intent is in high gear.
You are Stylin'!
This is my last night off for the time being, but I've got another break coming up, and I feel nice and rested after these few days, so all is good. For now, I will wish you Sweet Dreams, Sweet Baby. It's gonna be another great Summer, just like it always is.
I Love You, Elizabeth. I will see you in the morning. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Well, I did not take my trip Downtown today. I blew it, because I didn't check the train schedule until this morning. I haven't been on the Metrolink train since 2006, but I just figured it ran on a regular, even schedule all day, just like the subway does. But I guess that the train schedule is more geared to business commuters because while there is regular scheduling in the morning and late afternoon, there is a gap in the middle of the day. So, the last morning train from Northridge leaves at 10:50 am. Because I went to sleep so late after Agalloch last night, I didn't even wake up until 10am this morning. By the time I checked the train schedule it was 10:15, and I hadn't had breakfast or coffee..........so I didn't make it. The next train after 10:50 wasn't until 2:40, and that was too late. But my free passes are good til the middle of July, and my next break is coming up fast on June 28. I'll have another five days off then, and now that I know the morning train schedule, I'll definitely make it.
What I did instead was go back out to Santa Susana. I just got back a little while ago. This time, I went on one of my most major hikes that I've ever taken out there. I hiked all the way up the Devil's Slide to the top of the mountain, where the Lilac Lane entrance is on the other side, and then I took another trail a short ways down into the north side of Santa Susana, where Spahn Ranch is. I have been looking for that trail for a while now, and I finally found it. It's a little tricky looking, kinda skinny and overgrown, but I have been looking for it because Spahn Ranch was both famous and infamous. It was once a movie ranch for making Westerns, but as you may or may not know, it was also the home of The Manson Family in the late '60s. There is nothing up there now, no buildings or any other sign of the ranch, just trails, hills and rocks like the rest of Santa Susana State Historic Park, but I've been wanting to hike that section of the park for a while now, and now that I've found the trail, I can do it, later on this Summer.
Today on my hike, I probably already put in about 4 miles, but I've still gotta walk down to Northridge Libe in a little while to return some movies and pick up other ones. But that's good! The more miles the better, I say. It'll keep me in shape for hiking season, and you know something, Sweet Baby? On my way down The Slide I passed another hiker who was coming up. As we got closer to one another, I could see he had two hiking poles and was breathing a little heavy. The Slide isn't the hardest hike in the world, but it's no piece of cake, either. I just thought, "maybe the guy's a newbie". I was breathing hard my first time up, too, last year.
But then as we passed each other, I could see that the guy was a senior citizen. I mean, he looked between 75 and 80 years old! And he was climbing The Slide.
I thought, "that'll be me one day". I think all you've gotta do is just keep doing it. That guy wasn't a newbie at all, and may have been hiking The Slide for decades. When he passed me, I said "Enjoy your hike" and he said "you, too". I thought that was awesome. :)
I hope you have had a nice day, too. I will probably walk down to the Libe at about 7pm, and then I'll be around all evening. And I'll write more at the usual time.
I Love You! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):
7:30pm : Wow! OMG, too! I just got back from the library, and the first thing I saw was that your video had been released. I watched it, and......
Elizabeth! You are awesome.
You are a straight-up professional videographer, right out of the starting block. Everything - your camera angles, camera movement, edits, intercutting of your actress - everything looks and feels great. 100% professional, could be shown on VH1 or any other channel that shows music videos. Your teacher was right, you are a natural at it, you have an instinct for how the shots should flow, and how camera movement should sequence from one edit to the next to maintain fluidity.
I am enormously impressed. You got a great look with the band in the warehouse, a kind of shiny silver/grey backdrop for the black clothes of the band. I take it you used a local trail for your storyline? Maybe that's what you meant by your comment about using a location that has worked well for you in the past? You said something like that just before you started filming. The night shots look great, well-lit, good color balance. Your actress Morgin looks great, too. I take it she is running away? Burning the past? Just a guess, but the lyrics and the torched photos and teddy bear seem to indicate that. Love it!
I have been saying many times that your career has already begun, that you are not "on your way" to a career but are already into it. You showed it when you made the Good Morning V video and now you have cemented it. You should count on more work coming your way, from now on.
Incredible job, I am super proud of you (if I may say so), but I always knew you not only could do it, but were gonna do it. And you have. :)
I will be back later at the usual time.
My Goodness. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
12:15am : Happy Late Night, Awesome Lady. I see that you have updated your professional site, too, and added a lot of photos, including one of yourself in your bio section. Your site is filling out now, and everything looks professional there as well. Man.......this is a trip, you know? :) Because I am always talking about intent, which is really the psychological projection of one's self-certainty into the world (meaning "certainty of who one is"), and you have always known that you are an Artist (in the all-inclusive sense), and so you have projected that self-certainty, and now it is taking shape, like what happens when a seed is planted.
The projection of self-certainty into the world is done quietly, but with great focus and confidence. As a person who has lived my life this way, I know that second guessing can creep in there from time to time, but the important thing to remember is that the self-certainty is what is real, thus the confidence always wins out. The self-certainty comes from the deepest recesses of your soul, and this is how you knew that you were not meant for a career in linguistics - even though you liked the subject, and even though you were good at it. You now all of this, of course, but just like in the old days of a couple of years ago, I reinforce you. :)
As for doubt, there is no room for it! You have made a kick-ass video, and you are now on track to make your next one. Your intent is in high gear.
You are Stylin'!
This is my last night off for the time being, but I've got another break coming up, and I feel nice and rested after these few days, so all is good. For now, I will wish you Sweet Dreams, Sweet Baby. It's gonna be another great Summer, just like it always is.
I Love You, Elizabeth. I will see you in the morning. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Agalloch Tonight + Triple (Heavy Metal + Love + Sweet Dreams)
Hi, my Darling,
I'm checking in earlier today because I'm gonna head out to the Agalloch show in a couple hours. It's near Downtown L.A., at The Echoplex, where they've also played the other two times I've seen them. With traffic, it'll probably take an hour or more to get down there. Can't use the subway for this show, it doesn't go to this part of town, so Grimsley is gonna drive. We'll leave about 7pm. I figure that if Helen Money goes on around 9 at the latest, Agalloch should probably be on by 10 or 10:15 and over by Midnight, which means I should be home around 1am.
That's super late for you, and I know you'll be asleep, but I'll write anyway when I get back, just to tell you how the show was, and also to send you Sweet Dreams in your sleep.
I hope you are having a great day and doing something fun. Our weather is crazy - yesterday we finally had a Summer day, blue sky, bright Sun and 95 degrees, and today it's overcast again, and drizzly, and about 75 degrees. It's nutty, I tell ya...... :)
Well, in a few minutes I will do a half walk, and that will suffice for the day. I don't wanna overdo it because I've gotta stand in one place for hours at the concert, so I need to save my feet and legs for that. Anyway, tomorrow I will do a ton of walking when I go Downtown on the train.
That's all for now, Sweet Baby! Enjoy your evening and I will write more when I get back.
I Triple Love You!!! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
1:05am : Happy Super Late Night, my Baby! I am home from the show, and my ears are ringin'. :) OMG, were they ever loud. But my goodness, were they ever good! Two hours of bone crushing riffs and shredding guitars. I was up front as usual, right up against the stage on the J William W side. I was also right in front of an incense pot on top of a log, so when John came out to light them, I was right there. Man, Agalloch is an awesome live band, just killer. Don Anderson always winds up on the floor at the end, shredding away with his guitar in the air. I'll bet his English Literature students would get a kick out of seeing him that way, if he's still a professor, that is. :)
Helen Money opened with a half hour of Heavy Metal Space Cello, so it was an awesome double bill.
You know what made my night perfect, though? Right before I left, I saw your post of your friend Sarah's picture of a pathway, and what looked like pavement or stepping stones, and she wrote "walks" in the text section. I thought maybe you posted that for me, and it made me feel great all night long. One of these days, you are gonna come with me on a walk, and it will be in a beautiful place and we will always remember it.
These are the things in life - the moments, the so-called "little things" which are actually the biggest things of all - the things you never forget.
It's an amazing life. I Love You, Elizabeth, and I send you Sweet Dreams till the morning.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxooxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
I'm checking in earlier today because I'm gonna head out to the Agalloch show in a couple hours. It's near Downtown L.A., at The Echoplex, where they've also played the other two times I've seen them. With traffic, it'll probably take an hour or more to get down there. Can't use the subway for this show, it doesn't go to this part of town, so Grimsley is gonna drive. We'll leave about 7pm. I figure that if Helen Money goes on around 9 at the latest, Agalloch should probably be on by 10 or 10:15 and over by Midnight, which means I should be home around 1am.
That's super late for you, and I know you'll be asleep, but I'll write anyway when I get back, just to tell you how the show was, and also to send you Sweet Dreams in your sleep.
I hope you are having a great day and doing something fun. Our weather is crazy - yesterday we finally had a Summer day, blue sky, bright Sun and 95 degrees, and today it's overcast again, and drizzly, and about 75 degrees. It's nutty, I tell ya...... :)
Well, in a few minutes I will do a half walk, and that will suffice for the day. I don't wanna overdo it because I've gotta stand in one place for hours at the concert, so I need to save my feet and legs for that. Anyway, tomorrow I will do a ton of walking when I go Downtown on the train.
That's all for now, Sweet Baby! Enjoy your evening and I will write more when I get back.
I Triple Love You!!! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
1:05am : Happy Super Late Night, my Baby! I am home from the show, and my ears are ringin'. :) OMG, were they ever loud. But my goodness, were they ever good! Two hours of bone crushing riffs and shredding guitars. I was up front as usual, right up against the stage on the J William W side. I was also right in front of an incense pot on top of a log, so when John came out to light them, I was right there. Man, Agalloch is an awesome live band, just killer. Don Anderson always winds up on the floor at the end, shredding away with his guitar in the air. I'll bet his English Literature students would get a kick out of seeing him that way, if he's still a professor, that is. :)
Helen Money opened with a half hour of Heavy Metal Space Cello, so it was an awesome double bill.
You know what made my night perfect, though? Right before I left, I saw your post of your friend Sarah's picture of a pathway, and what looked like pavement or stepping stones, and she wrote "walks" in the text section. I thought maybe you posted that for me, and it made me feel great all night long. One of these days, you are gonna come with me on a walk, and it will be in a beautiful place and we will always remember it.
These are the things in life - the moments, the so-called "little things" which are actually the biggest things of all - the things you never forget.
It's an amazing life. I Love You, Elizabeth, and I send you Sweet Dreams till the morning.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxooxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Monday, June 8, 2015
Santa Su Inspiration You (Odd Man Out)
Good Evening, my Darling,
I hope you've been enjoying your Monday. I've had a pretty good day, and you inspired me. I saw your post this morn of your friend standing on the rocks with her boyfriend, and I said "I'm going to Santa Susana". It was a hot day, too, about 95 degrees! So almost everything was perfect for my hike...........almost, because it would have been perfect if you were there, just like your friend and her boyfriend in the picture. :):)
You probably wouldn't wanna go on a hike in 95 degree weather, lol. I know I'm likely the only one nuts enough to wanna do that, but I thrive on it as you know, and I've been waiting all Spring for the "Winter" to be over, with all that jacket-wearing overcast weather we've been having. But still, you've gotta go on a hike with me anyway. We'll go on a medium hot day, or we can go in the evening, like 7pm say, and watch the sunset.
I actually didn't go to Santa Susana right away. I spent the morning doing some much-needed cleaning around here. Then I watched a movie I've been waiting eons to see : "Odd Man Out" (1947) starring James Mason. More on the movie later. But then I went to Santa Su after that, at about 4pm.our I had an awesome 3 mile hike, and here I am now. Grim is gonna come over at 8pm to hang out for a while, but I will be back at the usual time to write more.
Your video should be coming out any minute now.......(tick, tick, tick...)
I Love You! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
(back in a bit)
12:21am : Happy Late Night, Sweet Baby. I know the hour always starts to creep up a little later when I am off work, and it's just my body reverting to it's natural "stay awake super late/sleep late but not super late" pattern. Grimsley was over until about 11pm, and then I went for the rest of my walk. I like doing it late like that. I love the quiet of the night, it's so great for thinking.
About the movie I watched this afternoon, "Odd Man Out", well it's kind of interesting - I have been occasionally Googling that movie for about ten years now, to look for available dvd copies. It had been released on dvd, but it had sold out it's run and was for many years a collector's item. I had seen it on TV as a teen (can't remember the year, but I was probably 12-15 years old), and it left such an impression that I never forgot it.
But I couldn't quite remember why. All I remembered was a single image from the film; the star James Mason, lying shot on a street corner after exiting a building. I just remembered that particular image, and it stuck with me all these years and was powerful enough to cause me to look up the title 30 to 40 years later. It was made by a British director named Carol Reed, who made a classic called "The Third Man", among others. He also directed the Oscar winning musical "Oliver!" (exclamation point included in the title) in 1968.
Well, recently "Odd Man Out" was listed for release by Criterion, so I checked to see if it was in the Library system, and it was. I placed a hold on it, and I got a copy just yesterday. Today I watched it, and as it played out, I remembered much more than just the one image of James Mason in the street.
"Odd Man Out" is an unusual film, and after seeing it again today, for the first time in perhaps 40 years, I was blown away by it's uniqueness. It starts out as a Noir, an IRA gang in Belfast is planning a bank robbery, and when they carry it out, their leader James Mason (one of the greatest British actors) is shot and left behind as the rest of the gang make their getaway.
But there the film takes a turn, and the rest of the story revolves around the attempts of certain local citizens to find him, as he has become lost somewhere in the city.
I will leave the premise at that. However, I just can't say enough about this film. I knew there was a reason it left such a mark, so much so that I was still thinking about it after 40 years. For one thing, it has unforgettable black and white photography, mostly shot at night, in the grim city of Belfast. But what makes it so unique is that it begins as a simple Crime film - a Noir - and by the end it has turned into a full-blown philosophical/spiritual quest to resolve the life of James Mason's character. That's a vague description, I know, but I say "see it" if you have any interest in older films of classic cinema. The photography alone is worth it. It is an unusual film, and it may or may not be to your taste, but to me, well.....after seeing it for the second time, as an adult this time, and getting a full appreciation of it, it now will go into the list of my all-time greatest films, up there with "Diary Of A Country Priest" and others.
So that's what I wanted to tell you about the movie, and how it had me hooked for all these years.
I hope you had an awesome day. I send you Sweet Dreams, my Baby.
I Love You and will see you in the morning. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
I hope you've been enjoying your Monday. I've had a pretty good day, and you inspired me. I saw your post this morn of your friend standing on the rocks with her boyfriend, and I said "I'm going to Santa Susana". It was a hot day, too, about 95 degrees! So almost everything was perfect for my hike...........almost, because it would have been perfect if you were there, just like your friend and her boyfriend in the picture. :):)
You probably wouldn't wanna go on a hike in 95 degree weather, lol. I know I'm likely the only one nuts enough to wanna do that, but I thrive on it as you know, and I've been waiting all Spring for the "Winter" to be over, with all that jacket-wearing overcast weather we've been having. But still, you've gotta go on a hike with me anyway. We'll go on a medium hot day, or we can go in the evening, like 7pm say, and watch the sunset.
I actually didn't go to Santa Susana right away. I spent the morning doing some much-needed cleaning around here. Then I watched a movie I've been waiting eons to see : "Odd Man Out" (1947) starring James Mason. More on the movie later. But then I went to Santa Su after that, at about 4pm.our I had an awesome 3 mile hike, and here I am now. Grim is gonna come over at 8pm to hang out for a while, but I will be back at the usual time to write more.
Your video should be coming out any minute now.......(tick, tick, tick...)
I Love You! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
(back in a bit)
12:21am : Happy Late Night, Sweet Baby. I know the hour always starts to creep up a little later when I am off work, and it's just my body reverting to it's natural "stay awake super late/sleep late but not super late" pattern. Grimsley was over until about 11pm, and then I went for the rest of my walk. I like doing it late like that. I love the quiet of the night, it's so great for thinking.
About the movie I watched this afternoon, "Odd Man Out", well it's kind of interesting - I have been occasionally Googling that movie for about ten years now, to look for available dvd copies. It had been released on dvd, but it had sold out it's run and was for many years a collector's item. I had seen it on TV as a teen (can't remember the year, but I was probably 12-15 years old), and it left such an impression that I never forgot it.
But I couldn't quite remember why. All I remembered was a single image from the film; the star James Mason, lying shot on a street corner after exiting a building. I just remembered that particular image, and it stuck with me all these years and was powerful enough to cause me to look up the title 30 to 40 years later. It was made by a British director named Carol Reed, who made a classic called "The Third Man", among others. He also directed the Oscar winning musical "Oliver!" (exclamation point included in the title) in 1968.
Well, recently "Odd Man Out" was listed for release by Criterion, so I checked to see if it was in the Library system, and it was. I placed a hold on it, and I got a copy just yesterday. Today I watched it, and as it played out, I remembered much more than just the one image of James Mason in the street.
"Odd Man Out" is an unusual film, and after seeing it again today, for the first time in perhaps 40 years, I was blown away by it's uniqueness. It starts out as a Noir, an IRA gang in Belfast is planning a bank robbery, and when they carry it out, their leader James Mason (one of the greatest British actors) is shot and left behind as the rest of the gang make their getaway.
But there the film takes a turn, and the rest of the story revolves around the attempts of certain local citizens to find him, as he has become lost somewhere in the city.
I will leave the premise at that. However, I just can't say enough about this film. I knew there was a reason it left such a mark, so much so that I was still thinking about it after 40 years. For one thing, it has unforgettable black and white photography, mostly shot at night, in the grim city of Belfast. But what makes it so unique is that it begins as a simple Crime film - a Noir - and by the end it has turned into a full-blown philosophical/spiritual quest to resolve the life of James Mason's character. That's a vague description, I know, but I say "see it" if you have any interest in older films of classic cinema. The photography alone is worth it. It is an unusual film, and it may or may not be to your taste, but to me, well.....after seeing it for the second time, as an adult this time, and getting a full appreciation of it, it now will go into the list of my all-time greatest films, up there with "Diary Of A Country Priest" and others.
So that's what I wanted to tell you about the movie, and how it had me hooked for all these years.
I hope you had an awesome day. I send you Sweet Dreams, my Baby.
I Love You and will see you in the morning. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Sunday, June 7, 2015
Mercury Hours (plural) + Love (sweet dreams & autochrome)
Good Evening, Sweet Baby,
Just checking in to say hi and see how your Sunday has been. Today seemed like The Mercury Hour all day for me, lol. I talked on the phone to Mike B. (he's my FB friend, too), whom I haven't seen since 1990. I've known Mike since 1970, he was the first kid I met when my family moved to the Rathburn Avenue house in Northridge. Over the years, we did a lot of stuff together : beach trips, many, many concerts, and just all kinds of stuff. Mike worked his whole life in the film industry, and I am the guy who got him into the biz. First, my Dad got me a job at the Metrocolor lab in 1979, and I got Mike in a few months after I started. He wound up making a career out of it, and went from being a film developer as I was, to working in color timing and making negative transfers and all kinds of advanced stuff. Mike was telling me today that, over the years, he wound up working with cinematographers like Roger Deakins and Vittorio Storaro. The DPs always work closely with the lab guys during post-production, to ensure that the film and color comes out exactly as they'd designed it to look. So it was cool for me to hear that, knowing I gave Mike his start.
We talked for three hours! So, that was the start of The Mercury Hour....
Then I discovered that Grimsley had left me a million messages while I was talking, and then finally, my friend Ryan (The Prime Minister) came by to pick up the Kiss movie I ordered for him, "Kiss Meets The Phantom Of The Park". We wound up talking for an hour as well, so now I am all talked out, and The Mercury Hour is over. Left to my own devices, I am not a big talker myself, or at least not a big conversation starter. But my friends can do some Serious Talking, and then I get going too, and then the next thing you know......
Mercury Hour. :)
Choir was good this morn. We sang a Spiritual : "I'm Gonna Sing When The Spirit Says Sing". I got to belt it out on the "tenor only" section.......
I hope you had a great day. I am gonna go for half my walk and then just chill and do some reading, maybe watch a show or a movie but just generally keep things low key for the evening. I will be back at the usual time to write more.
I Love You! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
(back in a bit)
12:15am : Happy Late Night, my Darling. My friend Mike send me a link to a UK article about a photographer named Etheldreda Laing, who lived about 100 years ago. She shot in color, and of course I had never heard of color photography from that far back, but it's pretty amazing looking. Here's the link:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/11643104/Etheldreda-Laing-portraits-from-a-pioneering-photographer.html
The process she used was not color film (which didn't exist then) but a filter made from potato starch (yep!) that broke the incoming light down to colors which then were projected onto the photographic plate in the camera. Plates came before film. Anyhow, the process was called Autochrome, and I had never heard of it before tonight. It wasn't cheap, few photographers used it apparently, but take a look at those colors. I think they are amazing, so natural, yet rich, like an early version of Technicolor which is also based on a dye transfer tri-color process. Great stuff!
Well, Sweet Baby, it's been a busy and talkative day. Tomorrow I will have a full sleep-in, and not have to wake up early like I did for church today, so I should get some major league rest (although I will no doubt have nightmares because LeBron's Cavs won tonight's game - oy!).
Then tomorrow I can wake up with my head on straight.
I Love You, Elizabeth! Sleep well, and have Sweet Dreams.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Remember that You Rule.
Just checking in to say hi and see how your Sunday has been. Today seemed like The Mercury Hour all day for me, lol. I talked on the phone to Mike B. (he's my FB friend, too), whom I haven't seen since 1990. I've known Mike since 1970, he was the first kid I met when my family moved to the Rathburn Avenue house in Northridge. Over the years, we did a lot of stuff together : beach trips, many, many concerts, and just all kinds of stuff. Mike worked his whole life in the film industry, and I am the guy who got him into the biz. First, my Dad got me a job at the Metrocolor lab in 1979, and I got Mike in a few months after I started. He wound up making a career out of it, and went from being a film developer as I was, to working in color timing and making negative transfers and all kinds of advanced stuff. Mike was telling me today that, over the years, he wound up working with cinematographers like Roger Deakins and Vittorio Storaro. The DPs always work closely with the lab guys during post-production, to ensure that the film and color comes out exactly as they'd designed it to look. So it was cool for me to hear that, knowing I gave Mike his start.
We talked for three hours! So, that was the start of The Mercury Hour....
Then I discovered that Grimsley had left me a million messages while I was talking, and then finally, my friend Ryan (The Prime Minister) came by to pick up the Kiss movie I ordered for him, "Kiss Meets The Phantom Of The Park". We wound up talking for an hour as well, so now I am all talked out, and The Mercury Hour is over. Left to my own devices, I am not a big talker myself, or at least not a big conversation starter. But my friends can do some Serious Talking, and then I get going too, and then the next thing you know......
Mercury Hour. :)
Choir was good this morn. We sang a Spiritual : "I'm Gonna Sing When The Spirit Says Sing". I got to belt it out on the "tenor only" section.......
I hope you had a great day. I am gonna go for half my walk and then just chill and do some reading, maybe watch a show or a movie but just generally keep things low key for the evening. I will be back at the usual time to write more.
I Love You! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
(back in a bit)
12:15am : Happy Late Night, my Darling. My friend Mike send me a link to a UK article about a photographer named Etheldreda Laing, who lived about 100 years ago. She shot in color, and of course I had never heard of color photography from that far back, but it's pretty amazing looking. Here's the link:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/11643104/Etheldreda-Laing-portraits-from-a-pioneering-photographer.html
The process she used was not color film (which didn't exist then) but a filter made from potato starch (yep!) that broke the incoming light down to colors which then were projected onto the photographic plate in the camera. Plates came before film. Anyhow, the process was called Autochrome, and I had never heard of it before tonight. It wasn't cheap, few photographers used it apparently, but take a look at those colors. I think they are amazing, so natural, yet rich, like an early version of Technicolor which is also based on a dye transfer tri-color process. Great stuff!
Well, Sweet Baby, it's been a busy and talkative day. Tomorrow I will have a full sleep-in, and not have to wake up early like I did for church today, so I should get some major league rest (although I will no doubt have nightmares because LeBron's Cavs won tonight's game - oy!).
Then tomorrow I can wake up with my head on straight.
I Love You, Elizabeth! Sleep well, and have Sweet Dreams.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Remember that You Rule.
Saturday, June 6, 2015
Saturday Evening Love From Home (12 + sweet dreams)
Good Evening, my Darling,
I am home, just chillin'. We actually have some Summer weather here today, although it's not real hot. But at least the Sun is out, and the heat feels like it's on it's way. I hope you are enjoying your Saturday evening, and that you had a nice day too. Now I've got five days to recharge, so tonight I'm just gonna watch a movie, and take my walk of course. I think I will take that train trip Downtown either Monday or Tuesday, maybe leave around 11 and just take a little photographic walking tour of the area. Stay til about 4pm or so, and then walk back to Union Station and take the train back. I'll leave my car at the Northridge train depot, which is about two miles from my apartment. It'll be fun!
Then I can do it again in July, because with this promotion they gave me two round trip tickets. If I knew anybody who wasn't working and was up to walking around Downtown for five hours, I'd ask someone along and just make it a single trip. But as with most things I do - hikes, concerts, etc. - I don't know anyone who would wanna come with me. So I'll make two trips! :)
Next time you're in L.A., you can come with me. :):)
Well, anyway, I'm not gonna try to do a ton of stuff with my days off, mostly just relax and stay local, do a hike or two. And I'm gonna see Agalloch on Tuesday night. Oh boy! Grimsley is gonna come with me to that one, and it was only 15 bucks for the ticket. Those guys are super cool. So that will be a great show, and I am looking forward to it.
I will be around most of the evening, except for my walk (probably around 9:30), and I will write again later, maybe a little earlier than usual cause I'm not working, but certainly no later than the usual time.
Enjoy the rest of your evening! I Love You!
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Midnight : Happy Late Night, my Darling. I'm enjoying my night off, didn't watch a movie but I did watch an episode of "Breaking Bad". Did I mention I've been watching that series? I think I did, a month or so ago. Anyway, I'm on Season Three. The whole thing is one of the wildest and craziest tv shows I've ever seen, but it really well done, well written and acted, and you never know what's gonna happen next. It's pretty amazing that they made an ultra popular series out of that particular subject matter, but then, given the story arcs, I suppose that it all fits into classical dramatic structure and thus involves the audience emotionally or arouses curiosity in standard ways.
I remember in 8th grade, I think it was, that we learned there are only 12 types of drama (is it 12?). "Man's inhumanity to man", etc. Now I wish I could remember all 12. What Mrs. Fields (our teacher) meant was that all storylines boil down to one of twelve conflicts or story arcs, and all drama is built on that.
Kinda like all music is built on 12 notes!
It's interesting how these things work, and why the number 12 comes up so much in human affairs.
Anyway, I watched a "Breaking Bad" and took my walk. That was about it. Tomorrow morning I will go to church, even though I am off work, because I love choir and it just feels good to be there. And, I'll be helping Pearl, who is in the choir with me.
I hope you had an awesome evening. I will be back home after choir practice, probably by 1pm, and then I will be around most of the day. For now, I send you sweet dreams.........
I Love You, Elizabeth. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
I am home, just chillin'. We actually have some Summer weather here today, although it's not real hot. But at least the Sun is out, and the heat feels like it's on it's way. I hope you are enjoying your Saturday evening, and that you had a nice day too. Now I've got five days to recharge, so tonight I'm just gonna watch a movie, and take my walk of course. I think I will take that train trip Downtown either Monday or Tuesday, maybe leave around 11 and just take a little photographic walking tour of the area. Stay til about 4pm or so, and then walk back to Union Station and take the train back. I'll leave my car at the Northridge train depot, which is about two miles from my apartment. It'll be fun!
Then I can do it again in July, because with this promotion they gave me two round trip tickets. If I knew anybody who wasn't working and was up to walking around Downtown for five hours, I'd ask someone along and just make it a single trip. But as with most things I do - hikes, concerts, etc. - I don't know anyone who would wanna come with me. So I'll make two trips! :)
Next time you're in L.A., you can come with me. :):)
Well, anyway, I'm not gonna try to do a ton of stuff with my days off, mostly just relax and stay local, do a hike or two. And I'm gonna see Agalloch on Tuesday night. Oh boy! Grimsley is gonna come with me to that one, and it was only 15 bucks for the ticket. Those guys are super cool. So that will be a great show, and I am looking forward to it.
I will be around most of the evening, except for my walk (probably around 9:30), and I will write again later, maybe a little earlier than usual cause I'm not working, but certainly no later than the usual time.
Enjoy the rest of your evening! I Love You!
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Midnight : Happy Late Night, my Darling. I'm enjoying my night off, didn't watch a movie but I did watch an episode of "Breaking Bad". Did I mention I've been watching that series? I think I did, a month or so ago. Anyway, I'm on Season Three. The whole thing is one of the wildest and craziest tv shows I've ever seen, but it really well done, well written and acted, and you never know what's gonna happen next. It's pretty amazing that they made an ultra popular series out of that particular subject matter, but then, given the story arcs, I suppose that it all fits into classical dramatic structure and thus involves the audience emotionally or arouses curiosity in standard ways.
I remember in 8th grade, I think it was, that we learned there are only 12 types of drama (is it 12?). "Man's inhumanity to man", etc. Now I wish I could remember all 12. What Mrs. Fields (our teacher) meant was that all storylines boil down to one of twelve conflicts or story arcs, and all drama is built on that.
Kinda like all music is built on 12 notes!
It's interesting how these things work, and why the number 12 comes up so much in human affairs.
Anyway, I watched a "Breaking Bad" and took my walk. That was about it. Tomorrow morning I will go to church, even though I am off work, because I love choir and it just feels good to be there. And, I'll be helping Pearl, who is in the choir with me.
I hope you had an awesome evening. I will be back home after choir practice, probably by 1pm, and then I will be around most of the day. For now, I send you sweet dreams.........
I Love You, Elizabeth. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Friday Night Love
Hi, Sweet Baby,
Happy Late Night. It's been a quiet day for the most part. I drove The Kobester out to Le Groomer this morn for his scheduled appointment, but when we got there, the shop was locked up with shutters drawn. I rang the buzzer, waited five minutes, rang it again and waited.......but no one ever came. So Kobe got a reprieve, and we drove home. More slight weirdness to the week. They had him scheduled and everything, but then they weren't there.
Well, after tomorrow morning I will have five days off. Without this break, I would not have lasted much longer. This has been the most difficult work cycle I have had in the 5 - plus years I've been working for Pearl. She just plain doesn't sleep, except in fits and starts, and when she does sleep, it's in the daytime for an hour here and an hour there, and then she's up all night and thus I can't sleep. It's dementia, and it's not easy to deal with as a full-time caregiver. I will keep doing my level best, because it's my job and also because I need the money, but I am gonna have to find a way to adjust to her (non) sleeping pattern to avoid collapse. I am sorry to say that I think the non-cohesive sleeping on Pearl's part is gonna be a permanent thing from now on, because it's a brain pattern that's locked in : she wakes up constantly thinking it's morning or even lunchtime, and I can even open a curtain and show her the dark night sky but it doesn't convince her.
So, I can go to bed at 1 or 1:30, but then she will wake me up at 2:30. Then I get her to go back to sleep and she will wake me up again at 4am, and then again at 5:30 or 6am. Her mind is programmed, or stuck on "it's morning, time to wake up", no matter the time of day. So a full night's sleep is a thing of the past for me at the moment.
I do wanna try and continue for now, however, because I am able to save more money than before.
At any rate, nothing is at a breaking point just yet. I will try to find a way to even sleep in the daytime, if necessary, or work around it somehow.
Sorry that this blog is a bunch of complaining by me. Things will improve eventually. And, I have five days off to help me regroup, which will be great.
Also, yesterday the Warriors beat the Cavs, so maybe they can keep LeBron from winning the championship, haha. That's one of my sports obsessions, I know. I am anti-LeBron, but in that I know I'm not alone, so Go Warriors!
I hope you had a great Friday, and a nice start to your weekend. By tomorrow afternoon I will be home until Thursday. I will see you in the morn.
I Love You, Elizabeth. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Happy Late Night. It's been a quiet day for the most part. I drove The Kobester out to Le Groomer this morn for his scheduled appointment, but when we got there, the shop was locked up with shutters drawn. I rang the buzzer, waited five minutes, rang it again and waited.......but no one ever came. So Kobe got a reprieve, and we drove home. More slight weirdness to the week. They had him scheduled and everything, but then they weren't there.
Well, after tomorrow morning I will have five days off. Without this break, I would not have lasted much longer. This has been the most difficult work cycle I have had in the 5 - plus years I've been working for Pearl. She just plain doesn't sleep, except in fits and starts, and when she does sleep, it's in the daytime for an hour here and an hour there, and then she's up all night and thus I can't sleep. It's dementia, and it's not easy to deal with as a full-time caregiver. I will keep doing my level best, because it's my job and also because I need the money, but I am gonna have to find a way to adjust to her (non) sleeping pattern to avoid collapse. I am sorry to say that I think the non-cohesive sleeping on Pearl's part is gonna be a permanent thing from now on, because it's a brain pattern that's locked in : she wakes up constantly thinking it's morning or even lunchtime, and I can even open a curtain and show her the dark night sky but it doesn't convince her.
So, I can go to bed at 1 or 1:30, but then she will wake me up at 2:30. Then I get her to go back to sleep and she will wake me up again at 4am, and then again at 5:30 or 6am. Her mind is programmed, or stuck on "it's morning, time to wake up", no matter the time of day. So a full night's sleep is a thing of the past for me at the moment.
I do wanna try and continue for now, however, because I am able to save more money than before.
At any rate, nothing is at a breaking point just yet. I will try to find a way to even sleep in the daytime, if necessary, or work around it somehow.
Sorry that this blog is a bunch of complaining by me. Things will improve eventually. And, I have five days off to help me regroup, which will be great.
Also, yesterday the Warriors beat the Cavs, so maybe they can keep LeBron from winning the championship, haha. That's one of my sports obsessions, I know. I am anti-LeBron, but in that I know I'm not alone, so Go Warriors!
I hope you had a great Friday, and a nice start to your weekend. By tomorrow afternoon I will be home until Thursday. I will see you in the morn.
I Love You, Elizabeth. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Friday, June 5, 2015
Late Night Love
Happy Late Night, my Darling,
Not a lot to report today, hence the late check-in. They did turn my power back on this afternoon, so that was a blessing. I never got a satisfactory reason why it was turned off, but c'est la vie. I hope your day was good, and I'll bet you are either near the finish line for your video, or you have already crossed the finish line and are done.
Tomorrow morn I've gotta take The Kobester to Le Groomer, so maybe while he's there I will attempt a hike. It usually takes about three hours till he is done. I say "attempt" just because my free time, and my energy, isn't what it was a year ago when I was a hiking machine. Man, last year was awesome, hike-wise. All that discovery, all those trails, all those photos.......
I think once the hot weather starts - and I'm talkin' 100 degrees+ - then the vibe will come back. Right now we're still doing the heavy overcast thing.
Anyway, my five day break starts Saturday. I have two free round-trip tickets on our Metrorail system (our train) that I got through a promotion, so maybe during my days off I will take a train trip downtown to Union Station and take a walking photographic tour. I did one way back in 2006, when I still used disposable cams, so maybe it's time for another. And the train ride is fun, too.
That's all for tonight. Sweet Dreams, and I'll see you in the morning.
I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Not a lot to report today, hence the late check-in. They did turn my power back on this afternoon, so that was a blessing. I never got a satisfactory reason why it was turned off, but c'est la vie. I hope your day was good, and I'll bet you are either near the finish line for your video, or you have already crossed the finish line and are done.
Tomorrow morn I've gotta take The Kobester to Le Groomer, so maybe while he's there I will attempt a hike. It usually takes about three hours till he is done. I say "attempt" just because my free time, and my energy, isn't what it was a year ago when I was a hiking machine. Man, last year was awesome, hike-wise. All that discovery, all those trails, all those photos.......
I think once the hot weather starts - and I'm talkin' 100 degrees+ - then the vibe will come back. Right now we're still doing the heavy overcast thing.
Anyway, my five day break starts Saturday. I have two free round-trip tickets on our Metrorail system (our train) that I got through a promotion, so maybe during my days off I will take a train trip downtown to Union Station and take a walking photographic tour. I did one way back in 2006, when I still used disposable cams, so maybe it's time for another. And the train ride is fun, too.
That's all for tonight. Sweet Dreams, and I'll see you in the morning.
I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Power To The People (or at least me) + Million Dollar Smile + Mercury (sweet dreams)
Good Evening, Sweet Baby,
I'm at Pearl's, I got here early tonight because my power is still out at home. I called the DWP a little while ago, and they informed me that the building owner didn't even call to have it turned back on. I told the manager about the problem at around 2pm and he said he'd call the owner right away. I guess he never did. Also, the reason he gave me - for why my electricity is off - doesn't make any sense. He said that the girls next door, who just moved out two days ago, must have called the power company (DWP) to have the electricity in their unit shut off, as would a homeowner who was moving, for instance. They lived in unit #19. I am in 19A (the famous Tiny Apartment), and my unit was once a part of theirs. At some point, the owner put up a wall and made two units out of one. Anyway, the electricity in my apartment is connected to the circuitry in their apartment, #19. The circuit breaker for both units is in their unit, so, if they had called to have their electricity shut off, mine would automatically have been shut off as well. But the manager's reason makes no sense, because A) the girls in #19 didn't pay an electric bill. Nobody does in our building. The owner pays for water and power. And more importantly, B) even if they did call, the person on the phone at DWP would take a look at the account listed for our building's address, and would say, "I'm sorry, but I cannot authorize that request because your name is not on the account. It looks like the building's owner is listed as the account holder. You'll have to have her call us".
A person can't just willy-nilly call up to have power shut off at a given address unless their name is on the account. So the reason the manager gave me makes no sense. So, I don't understand what is going on, and I don't understand why the manager told me he'd call the owner right away, but then nobody called the DWP to turn my power back on. When I called them an hour ago, they had heard nothing.
Weird, weird and weird. And a big inconvenience, and I don't like it. I pay a ridiculous sum of money (more than most mortgages in other parts of the country) to live in an apartment so small I can barely turn around in it, and somebody turns my power off for no good reason and then takes their sweet time to turn it back on.
Well, that's the end of my rant. Sorry about that. :) It's just frustrating, is all, especially because it makes no sense........
Anyhow, I like your photo, and that is once again your Million Dollar Smile making an appearance! And the post also answers my question about when the video is coming out : next week, and so I am looking forward to seeing it very much! I know it's gonna be great!
Man, that was what my Mom would have called "The Mercury Hour" earlier this evening, when all those comments were going back and forth about The Runaways. Back in the 70s and 80s, when Chris and I were younger, whenever the phone would ring a lot with friends calling, Mom would say "It's the Mercury Hour". I guess meaning Mercury as the God of Communication. So my Suzi Quatro photo, which I'd remarked wasn't getting any likes as compared to the Cherie Currie photo, all of a sudden brought on The Mercury Hour with the topic of The Runaways. My goodness.....
I am gonna make some split-pea soup real quick, and then I'll be back for a little more at my usual Late Night time. I hope your day and evening have been great!
I Love You, Elizabeth. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
(back in a bit)
12:15am : Just me again, checking in to wish you Sweet Dreams. I sure hope they turn my power on tomorrow morn, and then when I have my five days off beginning on Saturday, I can just relax, relax, relax. It's all I wanna do, lol. Just a whole lot of nothing.......
Fingers are crossed for a good day tomorrow, and continued good results for your video, if you are still working on post-production.
I will see you in the morning, my Darling. I Love You! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
I'm at Pearl's, I got here early tonight because my power is still out at home. I called the DWP a little while ago, and they informed me that the building owner didn't even call to have it turned back on. I told the manager about the problem at around 2pm and he said he'd call the owner right away. I guess he never did. Also, the reason he gave me - for why my electricity is off - doesn't make any sense. He said that the girls next door, who just moved out two days ago, must have called the power company (DWP) to have the electricity in their unit shut off, as would a homeowner who was moving, for instance. They lived in unit #19. I am in 19A (the famous Tiny Apartment), and my unit was once a part of theirs. At some point, the owner put up a wall and made two units out of one. Anyway, the electricity in my apartment is connected to the circuitry in their apartment, #19. The circuit breaker for both units is in their unit, so, if they had called to have their electricity shut off, mine would automatically have been shut off as well. But the manager's reason makes no sense, because A) the girls in #19 didn't pay an electric bill. Nobody does in our building. The owner pays for water and power. And more importantly, B) even if they did call, the person on the phone at DWP would take a look at the account listed for our building's address, and would say, "I'm sorry, but I cannot authorize that request because your name is not on the account. It looks like the building's owner is listed as the account holder. You'll have to have her call us".
A person can't just willy-nilly call up to have power shut off at a given address unless their name is on the account. So the reason the manager gave me makes no sense. So, I don't understand what is going on, and I don't understand why the manager told me he'd call the owner right away, but then nobody called the DWP to turn my power back on. When I called them an hour ago, they had heard nothing.
Weird, weird and weird. And a big inconvenience, and I don't like it. I pay a ridiculous sum of money (more than most mortgages in other parts of the country) to live in an apartment so small I can barely turn around in it, and somebody turns my power off for no good reason and then takes their sweet time to turn it back on.
Well, that's the end of my rant. Sorry about that. :) It's just frustrating, is all, especially because it makes no sense........
Anyhow, I like your photo, and that is once again your Million Dollar Smile making an appearance! And the post also answers my question about when the video is coming out : next week, and so I am looking forward to seeing it very much! I know it's gonna be great!
Man, that was what my Mom would have called "The Mercury Hour" earlier this evening, when all those comments were going back and forth about The Runaways. Back in the 70s and 80s, when Chris and I were younger, whenever the phone would ring a lot with friends calling, Mom would say "It's the Mercury Hour". I guess meaning Mercury as the God of Communication. So my Suzi Quatro photo, which I'd remarked wasn't getting any likes as compared to the Cherie Currie photo, all of a sudden brought on The Mercury Hour with the topic of The Runaways. My goodness.....
I am gonna make some split-pea soup real quick, and then I'll be back for a little more at my usual Late Night time. I hope your day and evening have been great!
I Love You, Elizabeth. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
(back in a bit)
12:15am : Just me again, checking in to wish you Sweet Dreams. I sure hope they turn my power on tomorrow morn, and then when I have my five days off beginning on Saturday, I can just relax, relax, relax. It's all I wanna do, lol. Just a whole lot of nothing.......
Fingers are crossed for a good day tomorrow, and continued good results for your video, if you are still working on post-production.
I will see you in the morning, my Darling. I Love You! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Late Night Love & Sweet Dreams
Happy Late Night, my Darling,
Sorry about yet another late check-in, but it was a unique day. First I was really tired, from two nights of not much sleep, then I had to do some shopping in the afternoon, and then this evening Grimsley came over to show me some more of his SNL and David Letterman tapes. So I went from exhausted to busy, and now I am hoping that Pearl will stay asleep the whole night through. That will rule if she does.
I hope your day was good. I only saw your one post about the Ultrea release party, so I will take that post as a "yes" to my question of when your video is gonna be released. I hope also that you are taking pictures and/or filming in the interim, or doing something fun. I don't really know what your average day is like, or whether you are working or have all your time to yourself for your own work (hope it's the latter!), but I have no doubt that your current projects are going to attract attention.
I will be better with my blogs once I get a few days off here, and I am always pretty quick to recover my energy following a work cycle. For now, I send you Sweet Dreams and I will see you in the morning.
I Love You, Elizabeth. You are awesome and you rule.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Sorry about yet another late check-in, but it was a unique day. First I was really tired, from two nights of not much sleep, then I had to do some shopping in the afternoon, and then this evening Grimsley came over to show me some more of his SNL and David Letterman tapes. So I went from exhausted to busy, and now I am hoping that Pearl will stay asleep the whole night through. That will rule if she does.
I hope your day was good. I only saw your one post about the Ultrea release party, so I will take that post as a "yes" to my question of when your video is gonna be released. I hope also that you are taking pictures and/or filming in the interim, or doing something fun. I don't really know what your average day is like, or whether you are working or have all your time to yourself for your own work (hope it's the latter!), but I have no doubt that your current projects are going to attract attention.
I will be better with my blogs once I get a few days off here, and I am always pretty quick to recover my energy following a work cycle. For now, I send you Sweet Dreams and I will see you in the morning.
I Love You, Elizabeth. You are awesome and you rule.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Monday, June 1, 2015
Love & Pictures (sweet dreams)
Hi, my Darling,
I am just getting home. Hope your day has gone well and you are enjoying your evening. I am a little bit toast this evening because Pearl woke up several times last night. I'm actually doing better now that the day has worn on, however. This morning I was down for the count, lol.
I went over to the Oviatt to use their computers for the first time in ages, so that I could post my photos which are on a disc. CSUN is the only place you can still find desktops that have a disc slot. Anyway, you may have seen 'em, the ones I posted. I initially just wanted to post the pic of me and Suzi Quatro, just because I had that cool story to relate about Joan Jett, who just went into the RRHOF. By the way, I am 14 in that photo, lol. Just about to turn 15. But yeah, then I noticed I had the Cherie Currie photo on the same disc, and it's funny because that photo - which I didn't take - has now gotten more "likes" than anything I've ever posted (about 25 so far), while my own photo with Suzi has gotten exactly zero likes. I guess nobody knows who she is anymore, but at the time, in the mid-70s, she was quite famous. :)
Today is my sister Vickie's birthday. I told her she can now legitimately sing The Beatles' "When I'm Sixty Four".
No movie today cause Pearl had a dental appointment, but I'll pick up the pace as the week rolls on. Later, maybe Friday, I'll try to sneak in a hike, too. It's gonna be a great Summer, Sweet Baby.
I Love You! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
(usual schedule, see you in a bit)
12:05 : Happy Late Night, my Darling. All is quiet and I am hoping that tonight it will stay that way so that I can get some sleep. Pearl was awake for the better part of the last 24 hours, and that's one of the major symptoms of dementia, from what I've read - sleeplessness. Anyhow, fingers are crossed.
I hope all your projects are going well, and I can't wait to see your video. Maybe it will debut when the EP is released? That's gotta be the case. :)
Anyway, I am coming to the end of this work cycle, and I will have five days off starting Saturday afternoon. Much, much needed.
Sending you Sweet Dreams.....
I Love You, Elizabeth. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
I am just getting home. Hope your day has gone well and you are enjoying your evening. I am a little bit toast this evening because Pearl woke up several times last night. I'm actually doing better now that the day has worn on, however. This morning I was down for the count, lol.
I went over to the Oviatt to use their computers for the first time in ages, so that I could post my photos which are on a disc. CSUN is the only place you can still find desktops that have a disc slot. Anyway, you may have seen 'em, the ones I posted. I initially just wanted to post the pic of me and Suzi Quatro, just because I had that cool story to relate about Joan Jett, who just went into the RRHOF. By the way, I am 14 in that photo, lol. Just about to turn 15. But yeah, then I noticed I had the Cherie Currie photo on the same disc, and it's funny because that photo - which I didn't take - has now gotten more "likes" than anything I've ever posted (about 25 so far), while my own photo with Suzi has gotten exactly zero likes. I guess nobody knows who she is anymore, but at the time, in the mid-70s, she was quite famous. :)
Today is my sister Vickie's birthday. I told her she can now legitimately sing The Beatles' "When I'm Sixty Four".
No movie today cause Pearl had a dental appointment, but I'll pick up the pace as the week rolls on. Later, maybe Friday, I'll try to sneak in a hike, too. It's gonna be a great Summer, Sweet Baby.
I Love You! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
(usual schedule, see you in a bit)
12:05 : Happy Late Night, my Darling. All is quiet and I am hoping that tonight it will stay that way so that I can get some sleep. Pearl was awake for the better part of the last 24 hours, and that's one of the major symptoms of dementia, from what I've read - sleeplessness. Anyhow, fingers are crossed.
I hope all your projects are going well, and I can't wait to see your video. Maybe it will debut when the EP is released? That's gotta be the case. :)
Anyway, I am coming to the end of this work cycle, and I will have five days off starting Saturday afternoon. Much, much needed.
Sending you Sweet Dreams.....
I Love You, Elizabeth. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
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