The city of Santa Clarita is in the very northern part of Los Angeles County where suburban sprawl vomits out onto Interstate 5. The city is comprised of the smaller communities of Saugus, Canyon Country, Newhall and Valencia, which is where my wife and I have lived for most of the last 7 years. If you’ve ever driven north on the 5 on your way out of Southern California, you’ve passed our main drag; Magic Mountain Parkway which is named for a historic and bloody act of Chaos Magick that occurred not far from where the the exit ramp stands today.

( Read more... )

I'm sorry... I know this is wrong but I think it's brilliant. Some guy hooked four of his friends up to electro-stim units controlled by some sort of sequencer (fetishmystique will know what this is I'm sure). It's like a facial ballet. It might be a bit too long for some but be patient and get through the first 30 seconds....

I just found this on a sheet of paper that my friend MItch gave me when I was in the loony bin:

Give up Judgement
As in condemnation
Increase Judgment
As in Discernment
And ask only for
Exactly what you want
In every situation

From A Course in Miracles

No more loony bin...  LIfe is good.

Sasha is coming home today.  Woooooooot!  My meds work.  Double wooooooot!

I loveledasgirl ....  She loves me!  Fuckin-A Wooooooot.

Oh so very tired.....

I don't sleep past 5:30AM anymore.  I physically can't. 

I get out of bed... Have coffee.... Feed and walk Hankie...  And go to work.  By 7:30 this morning, I had written a rough draft of a case study and done the dishes from last night's feast .

While the productivity is lovely, I'm tired by 9. 

I want my old slothey ways back!

However, I'm excited.  A (my 15 year old stepson) is graduating from Garage Band to Logic.  We're heading to the Apple Store to pick up a copy in a few minutes.  I just want to say how proud I am of this kid.  He just does stuff without much fuss.  He's pretty fearless and launches himself head long into the fray.  I wish I was that way when I was fifteen.

A judge has accepted Landsource's request for chapter 11 restructuring and has given Barclay's bank to free up the operating capitol that they need to complete the job.  When I inquired at he sales office, they still could not tell me when the shared amenities would be complete.

Feeling like a painful fucking was coming our way, I had a friend take the tour of the model homes here and ask about the pool and it's supposed completion. They also got the price sheet for the complex which turned out to be bad news.

First of all, despite the freed-up capital,the three pools will not be done until next summer. Again... We were told that they'd be done this last May.  This is amazing to me since most of the project is apparently complete based on the view from outside.  The second problem is that the price sheet indicates that prices for a comparable model to our home has dropped ten percent since we bought eight months ago.  This is no doubt due to a combination of general economic factors and Lanna dropping the price in order to sell in this market where no one gets a mortgage. 

I know the president is not the Commander and Chief of the economy and that our economy is based on market forces BUT he and his have gone a long fucking way in creating the environment where this can happen.  I was sick of them before this all happened to to us.  Now I'm doubly sure that if McBrain gets elected I'm learning French and we're moving to Montreal.

Note to self: double the amount of calls you make for Obama...  Not THAT enamored of French food.

I'll post some good news later....  I'm just getting up and cranky.... 

I love the colorofchange.com campaign to bitch-slap Fox Noise ifor their incredibly racist actions including referring to Michelle Obama as Barack's baby momma, referring to Lynching Parties and the use of  other inflammatory and racist terminology.





COLBERT REPORT INTERVIEW AND NAS PERFORMING "SLY FOX"


Stand by colorofchange.org to help make Fox and friends accountable for their racists mudslinging propaganda that they spin on behalf of the white house and consrvative republicans.

The truth is that the  REPUBLICANS  CAN'T WIN A CAMPAIGN RUN ON THE ISSUES. They know they'll lose on the issues and therefore must run a campaign based on lies, disassembly, revisionism and baseless attacks

Brilliant!

Ahhh... Life in Santa Clarita!!!

So... When we bought this place the community wasn't completely built. It's still not completely built and the fact that the company that's responsible for all of the common areas has filed for Chapter 11 restructuring is not going to help matters.

The pool and recreation center were supposed to be complete by May. Because of the bankruptcy proceedings, we're not going to see a pool here until after the summer at best.

The builder, Lennar, sent us a letter offering us passes for two to the local "Aquatic Center" which is a lovely way of saying public pool. As an option to that they offered us passes for two to Hurricane Harbor - the local water park. Wowee!

I was moved to write a letter today to the Regional VP of Lennar thanking him for his magnonimity in making that gesture. It's some of the funniest shit I've written lately. I hope the asshole enjoys it.

This is the day we planned our east coast trip around.

At 10:30 AM we'll cast off from Rye Harbor, NH for the Isle of Shoals - otherwise known as Appledore Island. This Island in the Gulf of Maine is the home of Shoals Marine Laboratory and is also the place where we scattered my father's ashes in 1997. Today we're bringing my mother's ashes there for scattering. Sweet Irma died in October but I've waited until now for the weather to warm up here.

We've been on a road trip that included Vermont and Western Massachusetts. I've scattered some of her ashes in places along the way that meant a lot to her. We climbed to Dear Leap in the Green Mountains and walked the grounds of Emily Dickinson's house in Amherst, Massachusetts; both places she visited and loved. The visit to Emily's house was the most emotional for me thus far. It just felt right. Mom was a bird lover. I followed a jay as it hopped into the woods and scattered some remains where it took off. I know I sensed my mom relaxing when I did that.

I'm curious as to what my emotions will be like today. L and I will be with our friends David and Flora with whom we've been traveling. We'll also be joined by my brother Joe and his girlfriend of quite a few years, Paula. So far, I've felt like I've had the emotional ground to myself but I'm happy that Joe will get his chance to say goodbye too.

Several emotional layers were added a few days ago when my friend Jerry died after a long bout with cancer. Jerry was a close friend of both David and I. Jerry and I had had a falling out but had patched it up as recently as this year. Dave had remained in contact with him throughout and had been to Jerry's recent book release party. He had tried over the years to get Jerry and me to clear the air and we did partly due to his efforts.

It's ironic that David and I were together when I got the call from Jerry's sister. Dave and I live on opposite sides of the country and it was only for the trip to scatter my mom's ashes that we were in the same place at the same time.

When we climbed Deer Leap in Vermont we built a small stone cairn for Jerry right next to Leda's cairn for AJRose93.

It's been some week I tell you.

Thanks for reading the scattered thoughts.

What a bunch of crappy irony!

I don't even know where to begin... I don't think I'm going to try at this moment...

All I can say is this year has begun to wear out its welcome. Another person who was very dear to me has died. I'm tired of this.

I knew he was sick... He's been sick for a few years... But this came like a kick in the balls.

Jerry was a collaborator and an inspiration.

What a fucking tragedy that he died when he was just getting going. What utterly unfair bullshit!



The Untimely Death of an Extraordinary Man

I didn't know this video existed. Made my day! Now I can get to work. I wonder were I can find those tall pants. Big and Tall Shop?

Fucking memes... I hate them and have vowed in the past not to indulge in them. After all... If you don't have anything to say, why let some stupid fortune cookie thing speak for you? And after all... I ganked this from the millionth one of my friends that has it in their journal so I'm not even an original meme-er.

That having been said....

Based on the lj interests lists of those who share my more unusual interests, the interests suggestion meme thinks I might be interested in
1. elections score: 6
2. congress score: 5
3. sex workers rights score: 5
4. human waste project score: 5
5. community building score: 4
6. national security score: 4
7. lili haydn score: 4
8. plain fried rice score: 4
9. tobey torres score: 4
10. paz lenchantin score: 4
11. hillary clinton score: 4
12. college republicans score: 4
13. perry farrell score: 4
14. moon theory score: 4
15. aimless driving score: 4
16. bad 80s music score: 4
17. lipstick lesbians score: 4
18. ramones covers score: 4
19. porno for pyros score: 4
20. binging and purging score: 4


Here's what I have to say about the results....

Yes to the elelctions... Yes to congress... I am politics junkie after all. Hells yeah to Sex Worker's Rights....

The human waste project? What is that and does it have anything to do with that awful "Two Girls One Cup" video?

Community building? Sure... Why not....

National security... Hmm... That one scares me... I guess it depends on what you're doing in the name of national security....

Absofuckinglutely NO to Plain Fried Rice! It MUST have all the goodies in it.

Who are lili haydn, tobey torres and paz lenchantin???? Until I find out I say NONONONO!

I'm only interested in college republicans or hillary clinton if the College republicans are being chased by a steamroller crewed by naked sex crazed college democrats while hillary is strapped to a pole at the top of the steamroller like a sail with a ballgag in her mouth and the whole thing is being propelled by her hot air... I just free-associated that and I'm not going to delete it... I don't care if it's stupid....

Perry Farrel, moon theory, aimless driving and bad 80's music... yes, sure, absolutely and uh huh....

Lipstick Lesbians.... You betcha!

Porno for Pyros and anything to do with the Ramones is a YES.

And lastly... Binging and purging.... No so much.

Sorry I didn't hide this behind a cut.

But I didn't.

Create Fake Magazine Covers with your own picture at MagMyPic.com

Sorry for having posted a movie that auto-plays. It was annoying to me that it played every time I visited my own journal. Problem fixed.

It occurs to me that I haven't posted some very big news. In a couple of months it will be possible for me (and you) to go to the local video store, iTunes, or OnDemand and view something that I spent a year and change of my life on...

"Permanent Vacation," directed by my very good friend Scott Peake and edited by me, will hit shelves/interwebs/cable boxes everywhere. After shopping it around for a year, Scott has found a great home-video distribution deal. Finally... I'm going to get paid!

You can go put it on your Netflix Queue now.

Wooot!!!!!

Is Give Pits a Chance....




Adopt a Pit-head today.

Of course, my edit system went down ON the day I started to cut a project that has a deadline. I'm sick of being an I.T. guy just so I can do a little editing.

My assistant, Richard was chugging along digitizing footage. After about three hours of footage (out of 40) the system starts acting all ass-like. Refusing to pass audio along to my speakers, freezing, footage is getting corrupted.... Restart, restart, restart, restart.... Then nothing. Start and crash.

My system is a few years old. Its AppleCare agreement has expired. I can't afford the $6500 to buy a sexy new Intel Xeon 8-core Mac Pro tower. I spent all day Saturday trying to find a field tech that was available on short notice. They get abut $85/hr and this was going to be a long process. By the time all was said and done I'd probably be in for a grand.

Of course no one was going to be available until Tuesday. I decided to take the issue into my own hands. I spent the entire weekend backing up and wiping my system drive, installing fresh versions of the operating system and working software (installing final cut is akin to installing World of Warcraft.... Don't ask me how I know that...

So anyhow... as of last night, I was back in business. Saved myself at least a grand. Did it with a bare minimum of drama.

I'm digitizing as we speak. Started from scratch to minimize the possibilities of corrupted footage so I have a few days of work just to get the bulk of the master footage in and sent off to the client in DVD form.

Did I say I was happy as hell to be working?

I'm sure this is snarky biology talk but it could also be botany.

I found this on a myspace that I saw as part of a project I'm working on...

quote:

I'm looking for a man to photophosphorylate me all night long. - w4m

"I will fondle your vesicles while you caress my golgi body. My stroma is leaking all over the place. We can do it in the alpha or beta configuration, whichever you prefer. You whip me with your flagellum, tubulin subunits flying everywhere. We can make a mess as I've hired some lysosomes to clean up after. Please have a smooth endoplasmic reticulum but know that I like it rough, if you know what I mean. I also prefer my ribosomes bound… tight. Spin me round with your basal body and make sure it's turgid. Pump me up and down your concentration gradient, letting the chemiosmosis take control. I can go both ways, just like an amphipathic phospholipid. Do you like aerobic respiration as much as I do?

Let me know if this makes you secrete."


I don't know why but I'm fascinated by this. Something about turgid basal bodies.....

E