So last night Amy and I decided to take a leisurely drive over Mulholland Drive after sun-down. Hey – if you want to know what Mulholland Drive looks like just keep a lookout for the new “driveable headlights” commercial for the VW passat (guy in passat follows cyclist at night). I just saw the ad and thought “hey I was just there last night…and those turning lights really would have come in handy!” But hey, since most tv commercials are filmed out here – I end up saying things like that a lot.
Speaking of being “out here.” I’ve now been out here for a year and then some.
On Thursday night after a three month hiatus, Aldo decided his back was well enough to jam with us again.. It was also an opportunity to try out a new guy on bass. The guy didn’t work out, but no matter, as Aaron sent me his resignation notice the next day anyway. So, looks like it’s gonna be another long hiatus before I play music again. This has made me focus all (or a lot of) my energy on the scripts. Supposedly Chi (who I’ve been told is a genius of sorts) is moving out here in January to join us in the script/production company adventure. I hope so.
In health news, something funky is going on with my ring finger on my right Handy. It was all cracked and everything and then I got my first ever ingrown fingernail (ha! You thought I was going to say “G6”…but no, this is a REAL first). Amy wins the competition though with what we (and my mom the medical professional is included) think is a broken rib. We’ll find out when she gets back from the doctor tomorrow.
I’m very close to ordering new art supplies for painting. I’ve been sketching Amy for a month or so to get back into the spirit of “serious” art making. I can almost smell the mineral spirits now.
By the way, Cingular’s mobile to mobile hype is a bunch of bullshit. Amy got a Cingular phone/plan in August. She is the only person I call nowadays (a lot anyway) so I didn’t pay attention to minutes used anymore. After getting an $80 bill (supposed to be 30+tax) I found the fine print that says both phones have to have “mobile to mobile minutes.” According to the fine print “Mobile to Mobile minutes” is a legal phrase that means – each phone must have a plan paying $40 a month or more (before tax) and have signed up for the new plan since January 2005 and also must have signed a two year contract. I guess I should have seen it coming seeing as the “Cingular all-over network with more bars in more places” doesn’t include Los Angeles, a city with over four million people and a local economy to rival most nations.
Wow, Seth Macfarlane is out of ideas. The season premier of Family Guy was funny enough, but the premiere of American Dad is a knock-off of a King of the Hill episode when Hank and Peggy don’t want Bobby to be taught about sex education in school so Peggy ends up teaching the class. In American Dad, the dad teaches the class. How original. Not surprising since American Dad is a poor offshoot of Family Guy that exists only to espouse the political jokes that didn’t seem at home being discussed by the Griffin family but Macfarlane knew we HAD to hear. There is a Dick Cheney is evil joke in every episode. Now, don’t get me wrong, Dick Cheny IS evil and deserves to be the but of more jokes than Monica Lewinsky, but that is what we have the Daily Show for. Or at least I did when I had cable. Maybe I should stop talking while I’m still ahead. Too late.
