life.

Man:Do you know Giacometti, the sculptor?
Woman: Oh, yes. He was hansome.
Man: Well, Giacometti once said: "If caught in a fire and I had to choose between a Rembrandt and a cat...I'd choose the cat.
Woman: "..and then I'd let it go."
Man: Did he say that too?
Woman: That's what's so wonderful.
Man: Yes, it is. Between art and life, he said he'd choose life.
Woman: Beautiful.
Man: Yes.

Prelude to a Kiss..

By photographer Tom Polumbo. Paris. 1962. The romance is all there. the nostalgia and the innocence. and most of all..the love.

Summer Mix Part 1

A Nice summer afternoon with some rain to take the heat off...

Caroline, No - Beach Boys
a song to play by the sunset.. of nostalgia, disappointment and love.

Visions of Tokyo- This is Oxford
just a fun song that has that beach feeling.

Homesick- Kings of Convenience
how i feel these days. you can picture yourself sitting by the windowsill looking out the window. are you sitting inside or locked out?

I lose some sales and my boss won't be happy
But I can't stop listening to the sound
Of two soft voices mended in perfection
From the reels of this record that I found
Everyday there's a boy in the mirror
Asking me what are you doing here
Finding all my previous motives
Growing increasingly unclear

I’ve travelled far and I’ve burned all the bridges
I believed as soon as I hit land
All the other options held before me
Will wither in the light of my plan
So I loose some sales and my boss won't be happy
But there’s only one thing on my mind
Searching boxes underneath the counter
On a chance that on a tape I’d find
A song for
Someone who needs somewhere
To long for

Homesick
Cause I no longer know
What home is

Postales- Federico Aubele
I saw them in concert with Thievery Corp. Awesome.

Cambodia- Kim Wilde
Very 80s feeling song. Was in a movie i just saw.. Dans Paris. in probably the best scene in the movie.

She Loves Everybody- Chester French
New band signed by Pharrell. Again, just fun, great sound.

Paper Planes- M.I.A

Photographs are not memories- Victor Bermon

The Look of Love- Sergio Mendes
Always a classic..

Light My Fire- Astrud Gilberto
A summer evening.. music, good company, candles and wine.

Changes- Seu Jorge
Also in concert with Thievery Corp when i saw them.. perfect for my rainy day. I think i like this version better than the Bowie original. Heartbreaking.

You and I- Dennis Wilson
Another California feeling sound. Recently reissued.

Summerlong- Paper Cuts

A Summer Song- Chad and Jeremy

Your Summer Dress- Dirty on Purpose

Sweet and Low Ponies in the Surf.

Terminus by Paul Fryer

"I sort of hanged myself that day
when I turned and walked away...
nobody every knows the pain we feel
especially at vain regret...
And so
I caught the next
and ended up
at the end of the line alone
crying as too tired I tried to write
my squeaky excuses on wet metal
with my empty indelible pen"

Thievery Corp+Perry Ferrell= Crazy Delicious

Revolution Solution

The Hollywood Bowl was originally a natural amphitheater. The first person to be employed to design a shell for the stage in order to help broadcast the sound was Lloyd Wright, son of Frank Lloyd Wright. In 1931 Lloyd Wright’s wooden shell was replaced with a concrete one designed by Allied Architects of Los Angeles. That shell was in turn replaced by one designed by Frank Gehry in 1982. The fifth and latest dome (2004) is the design of Hodgetts + Fung Design Associates.

I went tonight with my best pal samson to see Thievery Corporation. It was an unexpected surprise. I didn't come to LA for the happiest of occasions, but left with one of the best experiences of my life. The venue is such a beautiful place, being in the middle of all these trees, and the beautiful california sky, it feels so classically los angeles, which makes me want to live here again. there is a romance of la that i think has been lost, but more on that some other time. the music was so wonderful, bebe gilberto and thievery corporation.. and perry ferrell came out for what i believe was Revolution Solution. I can't think of a more awesome surprise.

People were dancing in the aisles, and i could totally picture you there too... dancing free, letting the beats overtake you. and i felt like you were there. you knew how much i loved to see you dance. and it made me smile.

there is a primal feeling to it. a few well placed beats and you can't help but nod your head. pictures to come.

Endless Summer..

This is how summer should feel like. the movie "endless summer" call me nostalgic... but when i walk out everyday, i don't feel summer. i feel like urban hell. :) maybe i should move back to california...

"a summer chill" - this is ivy league. that's my first song of summer.

i'm still reading (re reading) sun also rises.
"it is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing"
so terribly true. in one sentence, life is explained. at night, even if you're with someone, aren't we all just a bit lonely?

one i always loved..

If You Forget Me

I want you to know
one thing.

You know how this is:
if I look
at the crystal moon, at the red branch
of the slow autumn at my window,
if I touch
near the fire
the impalpable ash
or the wrinkled body of the log,
everything carries me to you,
as if everything that exists,
aromas, light, metals,
were little boats
that sail
toward those isles of yours that wait for me.

Well, now,
if little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you little by little.

If suddenly
you forget me
do not look for me,
for I shall already have forgotten you.

If you think it long and mad,
the wind of banners
that passes through my life,
and you decide
to leave me at the shore
of the heart where I have roots,
remember
that on that day,
at that hour,
I shall lift my arms
and my roots will set off
to seek another land.

But
if each day,
each hour,
you feel that you are destined for me
with implacable sweetness,
if each day a flower
climbs up to your lips to seek me,
ah my love, ah my own,
in me all that fire is repeated,
in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten,
my love feeds on your love, beloved,
and as long as you live it will be in your arms
without leaving mine.

Pablo Neruda


i've had a sad day today. death is always difficult for me, and i i guess you know i take it hard in my own way. i wish you were around to speak to. you'd know the right words to say. i re read some of your old notes.. even words written in the past were good for some comfort. i always loved this poem by neruda. sometimes i fear that the 4th stanza rings true for you... i hope not. i tend to disagree with neruda as much as i love this one. love does not need to feed on love. sometimes it needs to nourishment. and it lasts forever.. and its roots will always remain.

freedom..

Was watching the z-boys movie again. remember how much we loved it duuuude? when i see it, i can see the freedom that you always talked about and loved. the youthful energy of how people just did what they wanted and created something new and great. it's funny how sometimes we don't see it until we're older..

addendum: the word you used to use was spontaneous. :)

The sun also rises..

i read this today. it reminded me you..

she was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. they would look on and on after everyone else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. she looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things.

-hemingway "the sun also rises"

the past..

I saw someone today as i walked out of the subway station. it was a glance, and looked again, and i saw someone we knew from the past. And he looked the same. with another friend of his. And i looked at him, and there was no emotion from me. There was a time that I would even despise thinking of him, but now, just nothing.

I think of whether not you see him or not, and how you didn't like him either, but he may still be in your life somehow.

The weather is cool tonight. People are out, buzzing with excitement for the weekend. It's supposed to be very warm. I'm moving through time without leaving one place.