After 3 years of flaking out, I finally went to visit Joyce for her epitaph project during the LA Day of the Dead festivities last night. She was off the main path from all of the big altars in a small grove of young trees that she hung lanterns from. Ryan and I offered to get her some food from one of the stalls and she was ecstatic when we brought back tamales with mole. I had a frijole e queso pupusa, myself. Joey and Rob seemed a bit reluctant to eat from the stalls. But we had just been enjoying some bread, cheese, marcona almonds and wine at his place… which reminds me of Lou. Mmm… we walked right by it to get to Rob’s and boy was it tempting!
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Read personal blog entries written by Anji Bee from 2006 to present day.
Ooh my head!
Wow did I have a lot to drink last night… Finally made it out to Lou with an interesting group of folks and found myself drinking glass after glass of the tastiest wine! Started out with white, then progressed to red. Also munched on plates of olives, almonds, cheeses, breads; it was heaven. Joey and Rob talked about their recent trip to Paris and Antwerp, while Jonathan and Danielle shared tales of their European tour, including England, Morocco, and Amsterdam. The last trip I took was to Ontario, CA, for PodShow’s UnExpo — and I didn’t even spend the night! Speaking of Podshow, what the hell is up with their site today?
Breakfast on the beach
Snuck off this morning for breakfast at Crystal Cove. I know, I know, you probably hate me… Fall really is the time of year I go to the beach the most, because I prefer to avoid Summer crowds and am jonesin’ by the time Fall rolls around. I do some of my best thinking down there, so it’s a necessary pleasure.
Woo hoo!
The site is coming along quite nicely now. I just keep adding little touches here and there to bring it up bit by bit. I am currently chatting with PME 2006 Award Winner, C.C. Chapman, (heh heh) about Technorati. Let’s see if my plug in is working yet…
Music in my head
I woke up with a Cocteau Twins song in my head, one with a big soaring chorus background vocal, very dramatic. Their song names are so crazy that I honestly don’t know most of them! There was a snatch of lyric, however fleeting, that goes, “You are a woman just as you are a man.” Odd, yes? Anyway, turned out to be “Seekers Who Are Lovers” from Milk & Kisses. I really do love that CD. I prefer their late period material.
I like my horoscope for today: Balancing out the intellect and the heart is a tricky business.
Awesome morning at Bolsa
Took some time off from building the site to enjoy the perfect weather watching the local surfers down at Bolsa State Park Beach. Man! Nothing quite like a great morning outdoors to recharge your batteries. Saw my neighbor pal, Brian Anderson, ripping up small waves when I got there. He is really fun to watch; mad style and makes it look so easy. I just found two YouTube videos of “Loaf” which is cool, because he doesn’t have much of a web presence. Too busy surfing, I guess! Didn’t get stellar shots, but put up some pretty pix on Flickr.
On my Shuffle I was listening to Ghost in the Machine, by The Police, which I hadn’t heard in fricken years. I just picked up the CD through lala.com. Man! It blew me away when I was a kid and I think it still holds up today. People think “80’s music” is all fluffy goofy new wave, but this shit is amazing. Their use of reverb alone is great. But the lyrical content – holy crap – it’s even more true now — “Rehumanize Yourself,” “One World”, and “Too Much Information” – come on!
So… great morning/afternoon. Back to work, I guess!
I heart Jules!
Yesterday Julien Smith and I got together virtually for a special collaborative podcast mashup of The Chillcast and In Over Your Head and just absolutely had a ball! Jules will be playing the first 24 mintues of our conversation and musical mayhem on Sirius Satellite Radio Channel 102 this Friday at 7:30 ET. He may or may not put up the full version on his podcast feed, we’ll just have to wait and see…
Gathering and Sorting
Life honestly seems to be a constant process of gathering and sorting. So much of my time is devoted to this activity. Sometimes I think I should be more classically Buddhist by trying to not own things. I’m not even always aware that I’m collecting things until I notice that I need to organize them or discard them. My house is so tiny that it can’t fit many things in the first place, so just a few things can really make it seem crowded or messy. I’m at a point now where I look around and see small stacks piling up here and there which drives me crazy.
I’ve been listing many CDs on lala.com just recently, but of course, more CDs come back to me… So my large stack of unwanted CDs will be replaced with a similar stack of wanted ones. Which is better, I suppose. I’m stil in the process of digitizing my whole CD collection, which is pretty time consuming. I made smaller bit rate files of many songs back in the early mp3 days, so I’m trying to replace those with 320 aacs now. Plus I’m adding in the artwork, too. Gathering and sorting. Oh, and deleting.
Anji Riel on Comic Strip Blog
Just noticed that Comic Strip Blogger seems to be lampooning me on his site again. I am the middle avatar. I just kept laughing and laughing and laughing when I saw it today.
For those that haven’t seen me in game yet, here’s a snap of “Anji Riel” – my SL avatar – at Curry Castle:
Anji Bee on Comic Strip Blog
Daily Source Code followers will likely be familiar with the infamous Comic Strip Blogger, who comments religiously on Adam Curry’s blog. I recently mentioned him in some audio feedback to Adam, and now CSB (as Adam calls him) has mentioned me in his comic strip! Now, that is usually NOT a good thing, but I was somehow spared his wrath and appear in a fairly positive light. Of course, I should remind him that Ryan was the one to the sell the 50,000 CDs, not me…
