i could play this over and over......no wait I do :D

Cashmere hills filled with evergreens
Flowin' from the clouds down to meet the sea
With the granite cliff
(Big Sur mount)
As a referee
Crimson sunsets and golden dawns
Mother deer with their newborn fawns
Under Big Sur skies
(Big Sur mount)
That's where I belong.

Big Sur I've got plans for you
Me and mine are going to
Add ourselves to your lengthy list of lovers
(Big Sur mount)
And live in canyons covered with a springtime green
Wild birds and flowers to be heard and seen
And with my old guitar
I'll make up songs to sing.
Sparkling springs from the mountainside
Join the Big Sur river rushing to the tide
Where the kids can look for sea shells at low tide
Big Sur my astrology it says that I am meant to be
Where the rugged mountain meets the water

And so while stars shine brightly from up above
The fog rolls in through a redwood grove
And to my dying fire I think I'll add a log.
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An eagle's nest on the head of an old redwood on one of the
precipice-footed ridges
Above Ventana Creek, that jagged country which nothing but a fallen
meteor will ever plow: no horseman
Will ever ride there, no hunter cross this ridge but the winged ones, no
one will steal the eggs from this fortress.
The she-eagle is old, her mate was shot long ago, she is now mated
With a son of hers.
When lightning blasted her nest she built it again on the same tree, in
the splinters of the thunder bolt.

In a broken shack an old man takes his time about dyin'
And just at the back a wild flowerbed that he'll lie in
In dawn's new light a man might venture
A horse drawn stage from Monterey.

The she-eagle is older than I: she was here when the fires of eighty-five
raged on these ridges,
She was lately fledged and dared not hunt ahead of them, but ate scorched
meat.
The world has changed in her time; humanity has multiplied,
But not here; men's hopes and thoughts and customs have changed, their
powers are enlarged, their powers and their follies have become fantastic.

Spilled down the hill a wagon load of bodies lay scattered, shipwrecked
at sea.
Limestone ore is all that mattered.
They took it from the hills right through the cargo doors
How many ships have come and gone at Thurso's landing shore?

The unstable animal never has been changed so rapidly.
The motor and the plane and the great war have gone over him,
And Lenin has lived and Jehovah died: while the mother-eagle
Hunts her same hills, crying the same beautiful and lonely cry
And is never tired: dreams the same dreams,
And hears at night the rock-slides rattle and thunder in the
Throats of these living mountains.
It is good for man
To try all changes, progress and corruption, powers, peace and anguish,
not to go down the dinosaur's way
Until all his capacities have been explored: and it is good for him
To know that his needs and nature are no more changed, in fact, in ten
thousand years than the beaks of eagles.
Of the eagle's plight, we know that nature's balance is undone.
And it's the birthright of man to unify and live his life as one.
A whisper of the word will let you soar with your soul.
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On my way to sunny California
On my way to spend another sunny day

Water, water get yourself in the cool, clear, water
The sun shines brightly down on Penny's place
The sun shines brightly down on the bay
The air's so clean it'll just take your mind away
Take your mind away
Take your mind away

Have you ever been south of Monterey
Barrancas carve the coast line and the chaparral flows to the sea
'Neath waves of golden sunshine
And have you ever been north of Morro Bay
The south coast plows the sea
And the people there are of the breed
They don't need electricity
Water, water, cool cascades of clear, clear water
The sun dance final scene sets the hills ablaze.
Horizon edges quick up the mountain's way.

Have you ever been down Salinas way?
Where Steinbeck found the valley
And he wrote about it the way it was in his travelin's with Charley
And have you ever walked down through the sycamores
Where the farmhouse used to be
There the monarch's autumn journey ends
On a windswept cyprus tree

Water get water get yourself in that
Get yourself in that get yourself in that cool, clear, water
The sun shines brightly down on Penny's place
Get yourself in that water
The air's so clean that it just takes your mind away
Take your mind away
Take your mind away

Have you ever been to a festival, the Big Sur congregation?
Where Country Joe will do his show
And he'd sing about liberty
And the people there in the open air, one big family.
Yeah the people there love to sing and share
Their new found liberty

L'innocenza...

HERE'S A VERSION W/ SPANISH SUBTITLES :)

lo-lee-ta

I made a reference to Darian (Adrienne) Forrester in a post a lil over a year ago but I'm still feelin' her style today.

nylonmag.com

Gonna watch the movie again just for fun ♥
As luck would have it, The Crush will be available for Instant Watch on Netflix 7/1 :D

Growing up, I always wanted a pair of heart shapped shades.... they remind me of Kubrick's Lolita

Sue (or Suellyn) Lyon & I share birthdays, 7/10

summer reading perhaps? Not for me, my list is full, but if you've never read Nabokov's Lolita you definitely should:

Lagos Jump

Last week I introduced y'all to a band with a Saturday night residency (that only has 1 more show left!!) @ Casey's Irish Pub in Downtown LA but I didn't really tell you who they are.
Vocals/guitar is Jonathan Kovacs
Guitar by Nathan Hodson
Vocals/drums is Christina Gaillard
& on bass, Jeff McElroy
Who knew me forwarding one friend's number to another friend could ever turn into something as awesome and amazing as this?! When my bff Puah told me her older brother Johnny was looking for a drummer I almost immediately thought of my girl Christina. I knew they'd get on well but I had no expectations past that. I mean, I always knew they were both incredibly talented musicians but when they played their 1st show @ a party on Halloween in 2010 I had no idea just how hard they were gonna rock my socks off!!! I've been in love ever since. If you live in LA I highly recommend you get your ass down to Casey's next Saturday, June 25th & see Lagos Jump blow you away. It's a FREE show & the drinks are awesome. (I recommend the Bradbury shot!) Do a YouTube search for more videos of them playing shows at places around LA to hear more of their music.

filmed by Jerry 6.11.11


Filmed by yours truly last night!!

I suggest...

TLC station on Pandora is what's uppp

peep this

While we're on the subject of recommendations, if you haven't seen this movie yet, do yourself a favor and rent/ buy/ download it.

Earlier this year when I was in Berkeley to see my fratello graduate I got a chance to hit up the local theatre with Jules, Hadin, and my other brother Alex. The tickets were a bargain at $8 and the seats were these giant plush leather chairs with cup holders conveniently big enough to hold our 40's!

The movie wasn't exactly what we had expected but a good time none the less. What it says about art and the graffiti movement, I'm not sure, but the theme of repetition that is so adamantly emphasized throughout the film is something the guys and I have always stressed. 

I just forced Gabe to watch it and he hated Thierry Guetta SO much. For all his faults I still couldn't help adore Theirry's lovable moronic ways. I don't think Thierry set out to be the copy cat he became. When the journey began there was this real sense of admiration and fascination Thierry had with all the artists that felt so genuine to me.

So ironic that in the final act he ended up completely exploiting this art form he had set out to praise. Still it's not like Shepard Fairey, Bansky, and the like hadn't already morphed into these weird underground, unwilling, celebrities they had never really planned on being....

Check it out and let me know what you think! 

pour over this.

I've never done any book recommendations here...not that I can recall at least...but I'd like to propose that everyone I know put down whatever book they're wrapped up in and head out to buy or download a copy of this book:

La Coquête du Pain, or The Conquest of Bread by Pierre (or Peter) Kropotkin

It's interesting how without ever had read his work before I already had the same ideas and opinions about the inadequacies of capitalism. Kropotkin discusses how fucked up the system is and how it thrives on keeping the poor down. He suggests an economic system built on mutual aid. He points out that this isn't anything new either. Kropotkin brings up all kinds of interesting points that I'll let you discover on your own. When you're ready to discuss (because what good is it to read a book if you don't reflect on it afterwards) I'll be here waiting. :D