I’m back and alive, having barely survived the beast that is the city of angels. On Thursday I made a stupid mistake and left SD around 2pm for LA, bad mistake. It took me over 4 hours to get up there, just stop and go for 122 miles, and our Honda does not have AC and it was hot (not Ohio hot, but hot enough for no AC). Finally, after getting lost a few times, I made it to Amoeba records around 6:15pm. I spent about an hour and a half in there, and restrained myself to only 6 cds. I picked up the new New Pornographers cd, which is very good (they are Canadian, Jenkins knows of them). I got an old Apples in Stereo cd, old Ash cd, a Huntingtons/Retards split cd, the latest Hot Rod Circuit cd and just for fun I bought a Catherine Wheel cd, which is very good as well. After Amoeba, I went up to Hollywood Blvd and walked around just for fun. I ended up at some big mall that is connected to the Kodak theatre and the famous Mahn’s Chinese Theatre (which I think is called something different now) I ate dinner at a Johnny Rockets and stuffed myself (burger, fries, shake and pepsi, cost me 13$!!) I headed out around 9:30 to find the Koufax show, which I eventually did, even though getting lost again several times. The show was quality. The lead singer went on a mini rant about how bad it sucks to live in Ohio, which I laughed at. I was wearing my Rusty’s Jazz tshirt and some dude asked me if I was from Toledo, I told him BG and he said he was from Toledo, and then walked away. After Koufax I headed out to Hermosa Beach to my friend Rob’s place. Got there around midnight. Rob and his roommates were playing Halo online and yelling at each other a lot. We stayed up till about 4am just chillin. They had Satellite tv and I watched Stripes, even though it’s on Comedy Central every other night. We got up around 10am Friday and got some Starbucks. Rob lives about 20 blocks from the beach, so we all walked down to the boardwalk area of Hermosa and first went to some big beach house party for a bit. Later on Rob and I split off and went to his ex-girlfriends house for a BBQ. I met a guy from Belgium there, not much else to say about him. Around 3pm we headed back down to the beach to check out an illegal punk show that was on a flat bed truck (illegal cause they just stopped in the middle of the street). On our way there we were walking by a beach house and I noticed Lance Bass from the Backstreet Boys sitting there at a party. I pointed him out to those with me and we had a good laugh. Later on Rob and I went back to his place and BBQ some steaks, then at night we went down and checked out the fire works, which were not very good. I ended up leaving Friday night to come home cause I didn’t want to sleep on their couch again and wanted to miss traffic.

This weekend I’ve been either outside playing bball or watching movies inside. I watched Dark Blue, which I thought was very good, especially Kurt Russel, I like him. I watched Tears of the Sun, which was not bad, very sad actually. Later tonight I’m going to watch We We’re Soldiers. I saw some ads on Comedy Central for the South Park movie uncut and they were going to show it at 1am last night, so I thought I’d check it out for fun, and sure enough, uncut and brutal. I had heard from someone who had seen it (I won’t say who it was, Ma, whoops, I did) that it was really bad, cussing wise at least, and it was, so I turned it off after a few minutes. I worked out last night around midnight as well, which I discovered makes you not able to sleep, since I stayed up till 4:30am last night, wide awake. I miss my wife and have another week to go on that. I talked to AStevens for awhile today, that was funny. Any of the music standing out to you Justin that I sent? Too bad about your IPOD, weird and good that I have not had any problems, usually the first version has all the bugs, oh well.