Second Day

Thursday

1. rode the bus to santa barbara and listend to music and stared out the window. it was nice. i always love leaving a show on the bus with that sun coming down, it feels perfect. i wrote a letter to sarah because her face is maybe the cutest thing that was ever made. i drew on the envelope. i slept a little. wrote a little. this is action packed huh?

2. got to santa barbara and transfered to the train, kept on heading south along 101. the coast was beautiful and big. shot movies of it, just strips of blue. i wanna go on a road trip and get out of the car and go jump in the pacific, be baptized let the waves smash me and kiss me. i love the train because there are electric sockets. pulled out the computer and worked on some music, a little bit of writing. since sending off the manuscript i haven't written that much. which is fine, i think my brain needs the break. but there's a novella about this oy named barntley who's looking for his brother that i started working on a bit ago. i hope i can finish it.

3. arrived in los angeles around 5. the union station there is beautiful inside, spacious and art deco and old los angeles. i think of bukowski even though it's clean in there. hard not to think of hank when i think of la. my friend from scad kim picked me up. we went back to her house in los feliz which is super cute and i took a shower then we went to amoeba music, probably the greatest music store there is (the only other time i was in la, i went to amoeba three times in that week). it was a toss up between a used copy of bob dylan john wesley harding or a used copy of this kate bush import from a box set. i gto the kate bush but i haven't listened to it yet. while in the store i got a call from my friend regina. a long time ago i loved her so very very hard and she loved me and it was very short and i was leaving and she needed to find what it was like to be herself so i wasn't allowed to stay and outside of seeing her randomly on the street of savannah for a couple minutes, i haven't seen her in nearly five years. we're having lunch in a couple of hours.

4. after amoeba, kim and i went to IN-N-OUT. woo hoo! nuff said.

5. we watched days of heaven, the terrence malik film that i've been meaning to watch. it's beautiful. then me you and everyone else we know. i hadn't seen it since the theater. i'd forgotten how funny it is. it still feels like a first film to me and though there's a lot of beautiful things in it, it doesn't knock me over like i wish it would.

6. i ate gummy candy while watching.

7. then i went to sleep and dreamed some dreams.


i hope i get to see sarah soon