"City Of Angels"
by The Distillers

It’s going down tonight in this town
Cause they stare and growl
They all stare and growl
I take a scar every time I cry
Cause it ain’t my style no it ain’t my style
Going down to the gravel, head to the barrel
Take this life and end this struggle
Los Angeles come scam me please
Emptiness never sleeps at Cliftons 6 am
With your bag lady friend and your mind descending
Stripped of the right to be a human in control
It’s warmer in hell so down we go

They say
This is the city
The city of angels
All I see is dead wings

It’s a ghost town rabid underworld
Dionysian night vitriolic twilight
A mirage comes up it never ends
Once you get burnt you’re never the same
Left behind erased from time
Ain’t no decency in being boxed up alive
Look around ain’t no R.I.P. signs here
We don’t rest in peace
We just disappear

So here we are Los Angeles
No angels singing in your valley of unease
I watch the sun roll down the pacific
Over hookered sunset strip

There’s a black moon tonight
Ain’t shining down on the western neon lights

They say
This is the city
The city of angels
All I see is nothing

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So it ain’t a bright shiny California song, but it’s still really good. I suggest you go download it right now or suffer the consequences. The consequences involve running away from a pack of rabid, legless seagulls. It's harder than it sounds.

Sometimes I worry that I’m not productive enough at work. I think about all of the internet browsing I do in-between tasks and wonder how much more I could get done if I stopped doing that. But I can’t work like that. I have to have my little tiny breaks or else my head will explode in a mess of blood and brain matter. And no one wants that. Heard a little more about work after bossman’s pending last day, seems they’re not replacing him, I’m just working under bosslady in the girl’s department. I worry that there’s too much there between girls and infants for her to keep track of it all. I’m kind of glad I’m not in her shoes.

I’m glad I’m in my own shoes. Because they’re really comfy.

Not that I’m wearing shoes at the moment. I’m wearing socks.

Not that you’d care what I have on my feet. I just like to keep y’all updated on the particulars.

Question for all of you out there that have eaten tamales: (not the Hot ones from the candy isle at your local grocery store!) can you eat the corn husk? I’ve had tamales quite a few times over the past 4-5 years or so, and I never knew for sure if I could eat the husk before. I just assumed you couldn’t, and I’ve been scraping all the innards out. Didn’t really stop to think about it until today during lunch with steph and ryan that hmm… maybe I’m wrong and you can eat the husks. So e-mail me and let me know. Because I just may lose sleep over it. And if you write and tell me I can eat them and I try it and end up in the hospital because they’re poisonous or some crazy shit like that I’m gonna come after you and beat you over the head with my giant, tiki-god carved, wooden fork. I do have one. So beware.

Actually went to the gym after work instead of just talking about it, then came home and made dinner. There’s definitely hope for my cooking; I was really surprised at how well it went tonight. No fires or anything. I finished sewing a skirt that I started last weekend. Got the fabric off of the free table at b’gosh, and there’s the word “sample” scrawled a few times across the wrong side of the fabric. So I have that on the outside of the skirt every now and then. It’s pretty neat. But I screwed up the hook and eye thing above the zipper, so before I actually wear it out of the house that’ll have to be re-done.

Then, cue the fanfare, I worked on the website some more! Woo! The frustrating thing is that there’s still nothing new on the actual site; I’ve just been working on behind the scenes type of stuff, like compiling all of the gallery images. I’ve got almost 60 different images and 60 thumbnails of those images almost set to go. Just need to optimize the shit outta them and then throw them into the Flash file. There’s so much to do on the damn website it boggles the mind. It’s all just a matter of time.

Got an email from Wendy tonight, and if you’re in the market for a large lot of stuff on Ebay then they are your people! They’re selling everything they own on Ebay in one big auction, and are actually getting some press from it. I haven’t listened to it yet, because the soundcard on my ‘puter is busted, but if you go here you can listen to one of their radio interviews. I just hope they remember all of us little people when they’re big Ebay selling stars.

And now, on that note, I’m gonna go to bed. I hope I don’t have nearly as many problems getting up tomorrow as I had today. Maybe if I start doing Speed in the morning I won’t have that problem.

By doing Speed I mean watching the movie every day before work. There’s nothing like a good cheezy dose of Keanu to get you going for the day.