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Growing! Yeah. That's what it's about. And at the same time, stillness. Been reading Eckhart Tolle's book, A New Earth. It's amazing! Wow. It's basically the concepts of Buddhism and meditation broken down into a language I can easily assimilate and understand. Very cool. Also have his earlier book, The Power of Now. All good stuff.

Went to the beach today for a break. Much needed. The band has been rehearsing and it's sounding good. We've been slamming in lots of new bands for Rock n Roll TV. Planning to film more for The Raw Pirate Gourmet and Bam is having a birthday this week on Thursday!

Whew. Oh... and still trading those options. Yes. Life is never dull around here.

Over and out.

It's funny how things just work out. Bam and I started talking about playing again as Bubble and then ... suddenly all sorts of things fell in to place. Now we're jamming with a new bass player, and we got a gig coming up on Sept 25th at the Viper Room. All in a matter of 24 hours. Crazy how life can change from one moment to the next.

Our new site is live! I am soooo excited. A lot of late nights spent tweaking the website and of course, editing the videos. There's only two videos there so far but the blog is regularly updated.

What is it about?
Raw foods and how to incorporate them into your life. We hope to inspire other people to feel as good as we do from changing how you eat. Hey... it's anarchy baby.

Where is it?
Raw Pirate Gourmet

Peace n RAWk n roll,
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Well, it's official. I tried both Safari and Firefox and myspace won't give me the 'advanced' editor on either on my MacBook Pro. Bastards! So I'm stuck with a simple looking blog. Sorry folks.

HANCOCK REVIEW


It's still hot hot hot here so we escaped the heat and ran away to the budget afternoon matinee of Hancock starring Will Smith and Charlize Theron.

This film is f-u-n-n-y! If you like superhero films but you're no sucker for formulaic crap, then you'll dig this off the wall take on the superhero flick. Excellent CG to boot. Smith and Theron were both brilliant in this and if you want summer entertainment... totally worth the big screen IMHO.

UPCOMING MOVIES
Now on the other hand... WHY oh why does Brendan Fraser have not one, but two, count 'em two big blockbuster summer movies coming out? Does he have dirt on someone in Hollywood? Does his agent give good head? The guy sucks the wind out of the screen every time he appears. He can't act. He is nothing to look at. Did I miss something here? Encino Man people. C'mon! Can we start a petition to get him canceled from Hollywood? He is soooooooo lame. So that ruins those two movies for me. Him and Keanu Reeves must have the same agent. Funnily enough, even Keanu is 1% better than Brendan Loser. Wow.


On the flip side... I saw a poster for an upcoming film with "Black, Stiller and Downey Jr" where Downey Jr is made up to be a black dude. WTF? I stopped dead in my tracks and was like hang on... THAT is Robert Downey JR???? With those three goofballs in it... it's gotta be hilarious. That's a win/win movie on my list. Don't know anything about it other than that those three lunatics are in it. It comes out in early August... I've read zero reviews or previews on it and don't need to. The cast is all I need to know. Robert Downey Jr has emerged as the true talent he always was and we will soooo be there to see this film in its first week. (loved Ironman!)

BAD RESTAURANT BEHAVIOR
After the flick yesterday, we wandered through Pasadena to find a salad. We sat down at a lovely little Italian place called Mi Piace on Colorado Blvd. The hostess came outside with menus and announced to us in a surly, teenage manner, "The next time you come here, please come inside first to let us know you're sitting outside, okay?"

We sort of looked at each other in astonishment. Wow. We were just told off for seating ourselves in their tiny outdoor area so I guess she had had to get off her lazy ass and pay attention to who might be giving them money! Wow! I should add... they were NOT BUSY.

Needless to say, we left and went to the standard establishment of Louise's Trattotoria where at least you know you'll get served with a damn smile.

HAPPY 3RD OF JULY
Since I'm married to a Brit, I can't really celebrate the 4th like you normal Yanks... so I'm wishing you a happy 3rd instead. We'll be here cooking up new ideas for the Raw Pirate Gourmet and working on Rock n Roll TV. Maybe we'll even drive all the way to the beach. Who knows. But enjoy the holidays wherever you are, go see Hancock if you like off the wall funny superhero films (and if you don't then why are you reading the blog of this goofball???? HA HA!) and.... eat a salad instead of a steak this weekend. ;-)

Damn. It's hot in LA. It's like 10 at night and it's still hot out there. Whew.

That's my complaining about the weather done.

MOVIE REVIEWS

We saw Wall-E and Wanted in the past few days. Wall-E ROCKED and Wanted almost put both of us to sleep. Wall-E has heart and a story that is amazingly well written. Wanted has great CG and .... well.... great CG.

MEANDERINGS

I'm rambling cuz I think my mind is melting in the heat. Oops. There I went complaining about the weather again. Sorry. (penalty buzzer gets hit... bzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!)

Yeah. Been workin' on Rock n Roll TV episodes, been doing my options trades, and just sorta low key dudesters. But seriously, it's hot.

Okay. I know I know. BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.
I know. Now I am truly done with complaining. I'm done. I'm gonna go sulk on the couch like a normal couch potato. For people who don't have cable tv or satellite tv or even rabbit ears, we sure manage to find ways to watch a lot of tv! Ha! Gotta love netflix.

Oh and iTunes. Which reminds me. Tonight. After midnight. I can download the final episode of Hell's Kitchen. Now there's a bit of irony for ya. A couple who live on raw, vegan foods... and are addicted to Hell's Kitchen - a cooking reality tv show! Don't ya love when Gordon Ramsey rips them a new asshole? I love it. I cheered when Jen was kicked off the show. Her voice drove me bonkers. And Matt? C'mon. Where do they find these people?

Yeah. I'm a junkie. I admit it. I may even stay up to watch it even though I have an appointment at 7:30 in the morning. Egads! One must feed one's addiction when it is a harmless Hell's Kitchen addiction, mustn't one?

Ciao.

Location: Los Angeles, CA - little house somewhere in the hills between the San Fernando Valley and Hollywood
January 17, 1994
4:31 am.

Cracking sounds.
I woke up in bed next to a control-nut-obsessive-alcoholic-dude who I'd somehow ended up living with for 4 years and had just broken up with over Xmas. Now an earthquake was coming to crush us and I'd be buried in the rubble next to him. NOOOOOO!

I jumped up, grabbed my dog, found shoes (broken glass everywhere) and headed for the door frame. (most stable place to stand or so they say.) As we stood there, we heard the sound of a house crashing down the mountain. I was terrified.

It was craaaaaaaazy. The instability of it all made me think about staying with that lunatic bf but my good senses came back.

We scrambled cash together to go out and find a market that was open and buy water, bread and peanut butter. This was in fact, all that you were allowed to buy in the market where they let you in one person at a time. After that, I drove to a friend's place to help calm her down. I realized how un-freaked out I was compared to her! She was literally rigid underneath her dining room table. Frozen with fear!

A few weeks later... our basement apartment in the hills was condemned.

I was elated! Finally, the bf would HAVE to move out now! Well, so would I but hey, at least we would no longer be together.

I found a place that would take both me and my dog and eventually everything went back to normal. They say earthquakes are terrible things and I know for a fact that it ruined many people's lives not to mention the death and destruction it caused. But for me? I thanked my lucky stars for the "Big One" of '94 for giving me my life back.

I used to think that getting there as fast as I could so I could do whatever it was I was doing was what mattered. "It's the journey..." as John Lennon would sing... but I didn't KNOW what he meant. I mean... there's knowing and then there's knowing. Now I understand it a tiny bit more.

Being on a 53 foot yacht in the Bermuda triangle in a hurricane with no radio (I was part of the ship's crew).... THAT brought me into the moment but I was pretty busy making deals with God to get me out of there alive and if he did, I would move to LA and pursue my dreams. (now you know why I moved out to SoCal)

While we were in the storm, the 'man overboard life preserver' went overboard. Only the captain and the ship's first mate were allowed 'on deck'. The other 3 of us, had to remain down below where everything was flying around and we kept taking waves of water from above and... well, it felt like a damn 'movie of the week'. It was just surreal.

I broke up with my boyfriend on the boat during the storm and when it all cleared after about 9 hours, we found our course again and eventually went to Bermuda. We all got good and drunk and kissed the land and I parted ways with all of them. Next adventure please.

Then there was the time that I drove from SoCal to Minnesota in my 1970 white Mustang Coupe so my brother could fix it up for me. On the drive through Texas, the carburetor kept sticking and I had to slam it in to neutral at every stop and rev the engine. By the time I got to Minnesota, I had water on my knee and was exhausted. But that, my friends as they say, was the easy part. It was October and by the time my brother finished the car.... new heating system, totally tuned up and purring, took unleaded fuel... man, this thing was CLEAN! So me and my dog piled back in. Right away, the trip started off badly. In Kansas I was pulled over for a speeding ticket. (66 miles an hour in a 55 zone.) Then they decided I looked like a druggie and told me to get out of the car and called the dog squad in and proceeded to take every single item out of my car. You have to realize, I had visited my parents and they gave me all that stuff that had been too heavy to ship out to California, so this car was PACKED and packed just right! Of course, even back then, I was into health foods and all they found was tofu cheese and gluten free bread. No drugs mate.

The next night somewhere in Texas I think... some drunk rednecks saw me unloading the car and decided in the middle of the night to come and bang on my motel door. Fortunately, my medium sized dog had a very big sized dog bark. He went berserk and the lads scattered away. This didn't help my sleep much that night!

It was the next day that was a turning point. I got to Arizona and it started to snow. And snow harder. I was going up a mountain and a Mustang does not have the best traction plus I wasn't prepared. I had already prepaid for a motel for the night and desperately wanted to get there as I didn't have a credit card to just pull over and stay somewhere on a whim. So instead of listening to the reasonable voice in my head that said pull over and call friends to use a credit card you idiot. No. I thought... i can drive through this. I'm from Minnesota! As I plowed on and up and the snow got heavier... suddenly I skidded and fishtailed and an 18 wheeler rear ended me. Next thing I knew I was waking up in a ditch full of snow. I checked my dog, Charlie to make sure he was alright. Then I smelled gas so I grabbed his leash and tried my door. It wouldn't open so I kicked his open and we jumped out.

Bear in mind, there were no cell phones back then and I had no way to call for help. Fortunately, a good samaritan (he called himself that?!) pulled over and called the cops on his cb radio. Meanwhile, the trucker had pulled over as well.

The story goes on and on with me spending the night in the tow truck garage with one eye open as the owner showed me his gun collection and told me about his cheatin' wife. (I heard the banjos from Deliverance playing in my head.) The next morning I went to the cafe in the town. (I was stranded in a tiny town on Route 66) The owner of the cafe was a lady who was married to the mayor. She took pity on me as I cried while I watched my totaled Mustang go by on the tow truck as there was too much snow the night before. She said I could leave it in her backyard as they had a huge property.

Wow. This is getting long.

Okay.... I ended up hitching a ride with a waitress to Bakersfield where a friend picked me up. The whole way there she told me about her no good drug dealing son who was in prison and her shitty daughter who was a crackhead whore. Meanwhile, she stopped to pick up every hitchhiker on the freeway! I was sure I was never gonna get to Bakersfield! But I did.

And then a very dear friend who shall remain nameless came to my rescue and simply loaned me the money to buy another car. He just made me promise I wouldn't give up on music.

You might be wondering... when did the first adventure happen? In 1982.
When did the Mustang/Route 66 adventure happen? 1994.

So it was truly the journeys that shaped me. Not the destinations. Both of those adventures were amazing in their own way. Scary? Yes. Would I go sail on a boat in the middle of the ocean again? Hell yes. Would I drive cross country in a Mustang again? Hell yes. Well, I'd probably do the Mustang thing again but in a new Mustang this time.
;-)

The cool part is that now I have someone to do the adventures with. Bam. He IS my adventure. In fact, he is the most adventurous person I've ever encountered.
So there.
And that is this night's bloggie blab.