I took hundreds of pictures, but i'm gonna put em up somewhere else soon.
So... The LONG STORY
Friday i spent all day at epic sports taking pictures of everything that george wants to sell. I set up lights and a little backdrop and started into it. It took me about 5 hours to shoot about 200 items of mechandise. And... it's not all done. I gotta go back and shoot some more. I finally bailed out of there at about 4:30 and got all my shit home. At this point it's fuckin raining and i've heard the reports on the swell. Jen is still up for the trip across the channel, so we pack up all our shit and are out the door by 5:30 to sit in a fuckin parking lot on the 710 freeway. What the fuck did you expect. We gave our selves more time than we needed and we get to terminal island in Long Beach to get on the Catalina Express. We were going to be on the Jet Cat Express which is one of the best boats they have going across the channel. The fucker moves fast even in bad seas. So we stand around waiting, Jen pops her drugs for the trip and then we get on board. Most of the occupants are drunk guys going to a wedding who are still in the middle of a bachlor party evening. They are fun to watch as they scream at the people on the boat to change the TV to the lakers game. They don't know that a few minutes before the lakers had lost 100 to 99 as the lakers just stood around watchin a guy go baseline for the winning goal. FUCK! well, back to the story. We pass the breakwater and the boat starts to pitch. HEHEHE. I'm on my second drink and i'm loving it. Jen bails to the back of the boat. My gameboy batteries die and i follow her just to find all the drunk guys standing there lookin at her like OH SHIT, She's gonna be SICK. we make it across the channel just fine, and then as we are pulling into the dock at avalon, then Jen pops. Just like clockwork. exactly 55 minutes into the trip. We get off the boat and file into the taxi que. No problem... Ed is waiting there for us with a golf cart. We drive across town and into Hamilton cove drop all our shit and then drive back to town to get dinner. We decide to go to Anthony's Pizza (i think that's what its called) right next to Armstrongs. Drunk guys are there in the bar. Same ones from the boat. Now louder and make less sense. And.. they try to constantly make toasts to somebody. Can't figure out who. I watch the highlights from the NBA games that night on the screen above jen's head. BTW it's still raining. Back to hamilton cove for the night. jen digs into some work that she brought. I hook up the PS2 and start to play GTA Vice.
Saturday - RAIN
Well avalon still looks good in the rain. We decide to drive all the way from hamilton to buffalo nickel for lunch. This has gotta be one of the best places to eat on the island, and it's out in the middle of fuckin nowhere. Lunch is good as always and we cruise back to the city. We fuck around for a little on the boardwalk and in some shops, then go to the store to buy crap for the day. Go back to hamilton to sit around in the rain. I get a long way in GTA Vice and pop in Tony Hawk 4 to finish off a few goals. I cheat as much as i can becaue my kung fu is not as good as jason's. I need to use slowmotion to complete a few of the goals. We go to Armstrongs Fish for dinner that night and sit at Barb's table. She tells us about all the shit that's going on and brings us drink after drink. And the FOOD. DAMN... the fish there is always fuckin great. We bail from armstrongs and head to the casino. At this point on saturday night it's finally clearing off. We stand out at the breakwater and look at the stars. This may be amazing to a few of you, but there is ONE place in Los Angeles county where you can see the stars clearly. I consider going to see the ring at the casino theater, but nobody else wants to see it after Jen tells them that is't a horror movie. Sunday - WORTH WAITING FOR
I get my ass out of bed at about 6:30 in the morning to go piss. I can't go back to bed cause the bed i'm trying to sleep on is hard as a fuckin slab of steel. So i go take some pictures of the sunrise and then wake everybody else up to tell them to make coffee. We bumb around for an hour or so and sit on the deck. Then we get ready and go get breakfast at the dockside cafe. Well that's not really what its called, but i always forget what they actually call it. There's not a fuckin cloud in the sky. AND.... cause there's been so much rain, there is nobody in the city of avalon. We just hang out and soak up the sun. We don't do much of anything the entire day except relax and sit around. That night we go to Prego for dinner and keep drinking as usual.
Monday - do we have to leave
We get up early again and sit out in the sun. I cruise ship pulls in at about 6:30 in the morning just after sunrise. We go to dockside again to get a bite to eat at about 10 and then run around for the last time in town while my mom buys cards and shit that she wants. We get back to the place and pack up our shit and catch a cab back to the dock. We get on the 11:45 boat and the sea is FLAT! Jen and i sit on the back of the boat the entire time and she makes it across just fine. I get home and just go to sleep. Doing nothing all weekend really takes a lot out of you.
side notes:
Remember: last time i was in avalon in the rain i perched a golf cart with 5 people in it, on a small rock and got us stuck. Now when i drive on the roads i am told where EVERY rock on the road is. When it rains in avalon, the roads are covered with rocks. Jen and i are driving on friday night and a huge fuckin rock came down right in front of our cart. heheh.
ok, that should be enough for the blog police.
So yesterday Jen and I went to the USC homecoming game. Well, the game is really not the point. The point is to hang out with everybody and have a good time. So we met everybody over on campus before the game and drank and drank and drank.
Then walked over to the coloseium for the game.
Anne had a just gotten a nice job done on her toe nails, so she decided to wear a pair of shoes that would show off her nails. Lets just say that she was not a happy camper when it came to walking as much as we did. (at one point she resorted to using some zig zag papers to put over the blistering skin.)
All in all it was a great time. We went to la Barca (el boca, el duche, la bota ?) i forget. Mexican food on Vermont. It was DAMN crowded but well worth the wait. Great food, but there is room for improvement on their margheritas.
Ok, Blowling for Columbine was one of the best movies i have seen in a long time. Not only does it make you laugh at some really fucked up things about this country, it REALLY just gets in your face about how bad it has become. I love the fact that Michael Moore has the balls to address these issues. AND... he has taken some people in particular and held them up, showing them for what they really are. A BUNCH OF COMPLETE FUCKIN NUTS. Some of the interviews are so completely insane that you can't help laughing at them while you are watching. But in the end Michael Moore takes the interviews to where you can see these people for who they are. He makes Charlton Heston look like satan. He makes our media in the US look like the people shouting "WITCH" during the good ol days of Salem. And all in all he makes our country look like a bunch of white scared little racists that hide in our houses with the doors locked and guns loaded. Well, i have to think now.... Is that really far from the truth? Just go see it and make your mind up for yourself.
1:? Start out going North on GRACE DR toward COLUMBIA ST. 0.03 miles
2:? Turn RIGHT onto COLUMBIA ST. 0.07 miles
3:? Turn RIGHT onto FAIR OAKS AVE. 0.32 miles
4:? Merge onto CA-110 S. 9.12 miles
5:? Take the I-10/SANTA MONICA FWY exit. 0.15 miles
6:? Take the exit. 0.24 miles
7:? Merge onto I-10 W toward SANTA MONICA. 5.26 miles
8:? Take the WASHINGTON BLVD exit toward FAIRFAX AVE. 0.22 miles
9:? Turn LEFT onto W WASHINGTON BLVD. 0.49 miles
Total Estimated Time: Total Distance:?15.91 miles
17 minutes
That's great. So, for me to get to a 6:30 interview in culver city i should only have to leave at about 6:00 PM. Damn, i'll be happy if it takes me less
than an hour.
(sorry for the obscure nature of the entry. For those of you who don't know Los Angeles traffic, lets just say you're lucky)
Ok, this looks good, but i still have doubts about the final movie. I read the script a long time ago and helped work on proposals for the movie web site. I've just got this bad feeling that all the action and all the special effects cant save the story. I do hope i'm wrong. It would be a shame for an EVEN to suck.
I have just gotta ask the questions... What the fuck would you do with this house? Who really has 12 MILLION lying around to buy a little piece of property like this? AND WHO would actually be running the fuckin bid up 16 days before this auction ends?
Think about this honestly. If you took out the BEST fire insurance on this house and it burnt down, do you think theyd give you 12 million? This is almost as bad as Tod McFarlane buying the Mark McGuire Ball when he broke the record. YOUR PISSING YOUR MONEY AWAY. The only way this house is going to keep it's value is if Marshall get's off-ed. Otherwise he's just gonna put out ONE shitty album, and everybodys gonna soon forget about him. Shit i wish he wouldn't even put out ANOTHER shitty album and people would just forget about him.
