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Tuesday, October 07, 2003
 
Oh and I guess I forgot to mention that the San Francisco video shoot for the Land of Nod song What's Your Name?, the reason for my whole trip, was fabulous. It was a guerilla-style, shoestring operation with a skeleton crew and grapefruit rinds for shoes, or whatever, but it was fun to get kicked out of several locations by navy-blazered security drones. The video will feature a giant robot costume, a pan-Asian dance corps, and a guitar solo scene where I make ridiculous "rock faces," according to the cameraman Bourgie T. Here is a picture of the core crew at our farewell breakfast. Notice that the director B.Perks has even longer monkey arms than I do, which allows him to take wide-angle self-portraits. As soon as I see a rough cut, you will too.
     ANYWAY back to complaining about Los Angeles: I decided to start walking like Captain Jack Sparrow on Melrose, because being around Californians always makes me acutely aware of my comparative sobriety. Can I say again that everyone in Los Angeles is stoned all the fucking time? Seriously, there were seven people in Raekool's living room on Sunday, and the six people who weren't me each had a cute little "you put your weed in it" box -- one utilitarian film canister, two twee cameo snuffbox deals, a triumphantly emptied lip balm canister, and two of those long-dead dotcom souvenir giveaway circular mint tins that snap when you close them and potheads can't get enough of them, oh my fucking god.
     But so, on that rare pedestrian expedition, I tried to stumble around like Johnny Depp's POTC:TCOTBP Keith Richards impression, with my hair mussed and sunglasses askew, with my fag-hand help foppishly aloft at shoulder height so it was easier to take frequent drags and blow tuburcular gusts of smoke at girls with yoga mats. What's the point, man? Nobody notices anybody in California because everyone is already trying so hard to be so lookit-me-I'm-fucking-crazy-put-me-in-your-movie, and anyway, Angelenos can only see through automotive glass, so I was invisible. Yes, invisible. Me. So I upped the ante a little, buggering random dogs and homeless people with those serrated things that fall off palm trees, and I was nominated for Governor.
     But as sketchy as I was trying to be, I was hopelessly outsketched at 2am in the parking lot of Wendy's Donuts (Ashley: "Dude, I don't know what a place has to do to only get a 'C' rating from the health inspectors. Are you sure about this?" -- apparently on the California letter-grading cleanliness system, a "D" means 90% rat turd content -- but it's donuts, brah, I have no illusion of health here) by a Nolte-looking dude with the dirtiest white pants I'd ever seen who mumbled something so unnervingly incoherent at our car that I had to drop the Pirate impression and put on my NYC don't-fuck-wit-me face, which sadly required the removal of the giant purple sunglasses. Damn! Hate the game, not the playa! Can a nigga get a table dance?
     There were a few signs of life during my visit. Zorgot and I honked encouragingly at three high school girls who were walking through Marina del Rey with handmade don't-vote-for-Arnold placards, one of which had an amusing diagram of a swastika with a line through it -- a bold anti-swastika stance, blondie, and kudos for that. Go high school, it's ya berfday!
     Also, I had a revelation that I must pass on to you readers: if you are at a party and somebody says that you look sexy, you must kiss them immediately, without saying a word, and then walk away. Do not grope, do not fuck, do not collect $200, but remember that the more people you kiss, the sexier you look, so the trick is iterative: the more you kiss, the more you kiss, and kissing is good karma. The Buddha loved a good tonsil-washing. Report your successes to Maggie -- she loves that shit.

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"I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you!"
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"from whence"
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"...the exception that proves the rule"
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any use of the question "spit or swallow?"
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the phrase "drop trou"
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fake-o reviewer verbs:
"penned" for wrote
"helmed" for directed
"lensed" for whatever
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"expat"
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the euphemism
"passed away"
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pronouncing merci beaucoup as "mercy buckets!"
(see also: "grassy-ass!")



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"confinscated"
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trying children "as adults"
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"drownded"
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misuse of reflexive pronouns, as when someone says "Please talk to Bob or myself." Come on people now. "Myself" is not just a fancy version of "me"! LEARN IT.
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tattoos in the Courier font
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any use of Comic Sans