popular things i’ve never understood

rooting for the yankees

peeing fetishes

foot fetishes

electronic dance music

modern day conservatism

incest porn

lack of outrage over priests fucking boys

coldplay

ryan seacrest

the designated hitter

clothes shopping

not wearing condoms

call of duty

smoking cigarettes

ass play

black socks

cucumbers

guns

san diego

super bad drivers

not washing your hands after using a public rest room

law & order

marrying for money

strawberries

root beer

bondage

picked up a guy at usc who had a complicated knee brace

i was all, snowboarding?

he said, skiing.

i was like, kids still ski?

he goes

but before he could i answered for him, not well.

LOL

id been driving for about two hours around SC. today was their first day back from break.

after so many days of getting very few rides i just wanted to do like 15 or 16 in a couple of hours and get the mojo going again.

did 22.

this guy was the last one.

he goes, hold on got my buddy coming.

im all, youre the invalid and you got here first?

his friend arrives with a jovial, hey cripple.

i slide the iphone and start the ride. Arabian Nights? whats that?

he goes, we’re gonna buy a bong!

LOL

his buddy is like, all the guys on our floor chipped in and we’ve got $100.

i go, what sort of flooring is happening in this dorm?

he’s like hardwood.

im all well you cant get glass.

he’s like i cant use a plastic bong.

i go dude one bong and an entire floor of freshmen dudes? that things gonna break.

he goes, theres carpet in the rooms.

and im well alright then, but maybe you should rubberize it or something. get creative.

and his buddy murmurs, the old one did break. glass.

i said SEE!

freshmen.

there will be days when the road you take is blocked off

dont fight it.

theres nothing to fight.

there will be a time to fight things.

but most of the time the lesson is, how can i work this?

how can i improvise while going with the flow?

how can i adjust?

today there was a bomb scare or a real bomb at that big white building right there at the corner of Wilshire and San Vincente across from where i did lifespring way back in the day.

back when i was a lad i got my French visa from the embassy near there. i met a girl a few blocks from there who rode me around her moped and kissed me overlooking the valley.

one thing led to another and she told me to hit her. i said what? she said dont stop feeling me up, but with your other hand slap me. it turns me on. so i slapped her. she said harder. i said come on. she said no you come on. hit me bitch.

she had the sweetest voice and behind all the make up and punk rock clothes and attitude and book smarts she was one of the softest creatures ive ever been close to. it was impossible for me to hit her. so i just knocked over her scooter right there on mulholland.

well that was dumb, she complained.

so was taking wilshire this morning, i want to tell her.

gonna try something new this week while driving

works simple. first half hour of each hour try to get a Select ride.

if no rides appear by the second half of the hour just take any old ride.

the goal is $20 an hour. if you can do that for 20 hours that gets you $400 a week.

my goal last year was $250 a week which i hit but i rarely took any old ride.

its gonna rain pretty hard tomorrow they say

everyones probs gonna croak.

then tuesday Casie from Canadas gonna be in town.

but i will try this experiment, have no fear.

somehow.

dont do school

theres nothing to understand. it’s all just a wheel that spins and lands on something and then we all have to do that dance.

theres nothing to feel. it’s just all lights and colors and our brains says beep boop bop and our lips moves and eyes blink and we march into the voting booth

and do the wrong thing

knowing we are doing the wrong thing

knowing that there are actual smart people in the world who should be flying the plane, building the future, splitting the atoms, beginning the beguine.

she said can you stop writing about yourself

he said who is me, do you know? does he. does God?

she said God knows everything.

he said, then how is it interesting to him? who wants to watch the Brady Bunch for 45 years every day? dont we want to see marcia get hit in the nose by the football and then grab a knife and chase Peter around or Bobby or whoever threw it and say im a high school girl, my nose is everything, youve ruined me, the girls will laugh at me more than the boys because high school boys are so horny they dont care, i just have to keep wearing these short dresses but how am i gonna survive the girls. fine, i’ll just move to a land of the broken nosed rejects.

eat your drugs, lunch lady. stay in vegetables, sloppy joe.

vote for the baby, states who dont think women should choose what happens to them.

play with fire, gullibles and history haters.

God does know everything

worst of all, he knows our hearts.

are we going to die? yes. is it ok? yes.

for here is what happens when you die:

if you werent a total jerk to people

you get to fly

theres pie

you have the most incredible body ever

but people know you because of your heart.

like the shade of color it is

how strong it pumps

what some of your interesting veins look like

if it knows any jokes

what sort of beer it brews

how much it really cares about the less fortunate

and of course, if it believes a woman has the right to decide what happens with her body.

you’re really good at skateboarding in heaven

and skiing and surfing

and the water is always warm

and your soda never loses its carbonation.

 

to eat, they make you star in musicals, but you kick ass at singing and dancing

and you remember all of your lines always.

afterwards you have to kiss your way out to the alley

where theres a limo waiting

made of pizza

im the oldest man in the stratosphere

radiohead, meh
kendrick, meh
only beyonce can captivate that giant audience.
im not sure if i was even half my age if i would spend $1k on this.
which is a lie, of course i would. it’s rarely about the headliners.

my favorite memories about coachella were rarely about the people on last.

it was about the good times in the tents, the people i met, the people i went with

the entire weekend.

i would love to see Lorde.

and Banks

and the XX.

one day there will be a night where you just lay on your back, stare into the stars

and the music washes right over you.