tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31746292011-04-21T15:55:10.852-07:00Absinthe of MindFrom Hotel, CA. I'm on a road to nowhere, come on inside...<br><br> [Updated infrequently -- almost a certainty.]Xianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00305318861729580051noreply@blogger.comBlogger261100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3174629.post-56158986659442855562009-03-21T20:08:00.001-07:002009-03-21T20:08:16.498-07:00is about to watch the Mad Max Triple Feature Marathon at the New Beverly CinemaXianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00305318861729580051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3174629.post-7008756369522594612009-03-11T09:32:00.003-07:002009-03-11T09:32:52.366-07:00Workin', and happy to be doing soXianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00305318861729580051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3174629.post-21960888635532830742009-03-11T09:32:00.001-07:002009-03-11T09:32:47.679-07:00Workin', and happy to be doing so...Xianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00305318861729580051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3174629.post-11316546737586687842009-03-09T14:00:00.001-07:002009-03-09T14:00:48.599-07:00Just conducted a successful training class on GE home financing loans for our sales group - good students all!!Xianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00305318861729580051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3174629.post-55192935212395428752009-03-08T09:09:00.001-07:002009-03-08T09:09:11.455-07:00Mixed feelings upon seeing "Watchmen" Hurm...Xianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00305318861729580051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3174629.post-38290138403179186532009-03-07T15:41:00.001-08:002009-03-07T15:41:30.731-08:00About to watch the "Watchmen". :)Xianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00305318861729580051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3174629.post-10655483701656259122009-03-07T11:28:00.001-08:002009-03-07T11:28:15.335-08:00Ice blended mocha time. :)Xianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00305318861729580051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3174629.post-18849290936486663842009-03-06T22:38:00.000-08:002009-03-06T22:39:00.437-08:00Just finished watching "The Fisher King" (again) w/Bonnie... We love this film!!Xianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00305318861729580051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3174629.post-78554153764039391922009-03-05T21:12:00.001-08:002009-03-05T21:12:38.308-08:00Watching David Lynch's "Mulholland Drive" @ Little Toni's in NoHo... Thanks satellite tv!Xianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00305318861729580051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3174629.post-12054152765847814892009-03-05T21:01:00.001-08:002009-03-05T21:01:11.357-08:00Having' a Newcastle @ Little Toni's Pizza. Waitin' for Bonnie...Xianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00305318861729580051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3174629.post-27609918876012363342009-03-05T09:49:00.001-08:002009-03-05T09:49:06.651-08:00Who critiques the critics?Xianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00305318861729580051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3174629.post-63949061479863023282009-03-03T23:33:00.001-08:002009-03-03T23:33:16.450-08:00Cinema Rule: Don't watch 80's gore-horror classics before going to bed... ZZZzzzzzzYIKES!!Xianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00305318861729580051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3174629.post-832987333492338792009-02-28T17:05:00.001-08:002009-02-28T17:05:58.663-08:00Leavin' the beautiful Pasadena park with Bonnie, the artist, in tow... Going out to dine with PaulXianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00305318861729580051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3174629.post-51406925733738120622009-02-27T21:21:00.001-08:002009-02-27T21:21:21.302-08:00"Twitter [is] beginning to look more like yet another gateway drug to full-blown media narcissism." -- New York Times, 2/27/09Xianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00305318861729580051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3174629.post-68981071481396884642009-02-27T20:38:00.001-08:002009-02-27T20:38:34.581-08:00Watching Rachel Maddow :)Xianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00305318861729580051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3174629.post-86555342754343542022008-06-11T00:07:00.001-07:002008-06-11T00:07:31.056-07:00Finally, backBeen quite a while since I last posted to this here ol' blog... Lately, been starting a new blog at Chud.com (details to follow)... but mostly Hotel, California has changed quite a bit... but like the song sez: I coulda checked out, but then, I can't ever really leave.Xianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00305318861729580051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3174629.post-1097123186007522852004-10-06T21:26:00.000-07:002004-10-06T21:26:26.006-07:00 lapd01 Originally uploaded by acedian. Xianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00305318861729580051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3174629.post-1095624444999080562004-09-19T13:07:00.000-07:002004-09-19T13:12:18.530-07:00FlickrStrange, but true!! Two blogs within a week! I've changed the look of the place with a nice, flat blue background... courtesy of Blogger... buuuuuut, I'm thinking of going hi-fi... I mean, er... hi-tech. I'm thinking of playing with pictures... Joined this image host below... and now, maybe I'll ignore all this again for a few months. This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing. Xianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00305318861729580051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3174629.post-1095283257702657172004-09-15T14:14:00.000-07:002004-09-19T13:08:26.933-07:00It's been nearly two years since a last post from Hotel, CA. Well, what did you expect? Daily dispatches on whatever effluvia crossed my mind? That's what other blogs are for... (look back though, I did attempt an early critique of the War on Terror... but alas, I grew bored with it and Michael Moore does it oh-so much better). In essence, I think I just have nothing to say, but am proud to sayXianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00305318861729580051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3174629.post-917563242003-03-31T20:54:00.000-08:002004-09-15T14:42:35.983-07:00Originally crafted 8-26-02 (a lost blog) ******************************************** 10 things I learned since last year (with format apologies to Greil Marcus): 10. I love shrooms. --You can only do them rarely, but if you do them, do them with gusto. There’s this rollercoaster feeling... eight fucking hours of rolling and coasting. You trip, then you fall, but not very far before you Xianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00305318861729580051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3174629.post-806435172002-08-23T21:32:00.000-07:002002-08-23T21:51:10.000-07:008-23-02 It’s not like I’ve been on a trip, or was abducted. No one issued an Amber Alert on me. Aliens didn't take me away... Elvis never bumped into me in some well-lit hallway of Area 51. There was no lost time incident. I was never in a Turkish prison. I just didn’t feel like writin’ nothin’. I still don’t. But Hotel, CA is quiet tonight... the whole town’s turned in it seems. It’s Xianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00305318861729580051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3174629.post-77479832001-12-07T22:22:00.000-08:002001-12-12T19:19:14.000-08:00Well, there goes another month, as infrequently as I can make the trip, I’ve returned to jot a little something down. Lately I’ve been suffering from separation anxiety. I’m separated from Hotel by 26 miles of freeway (the ultimate misnomer) for eight hours a day, which kinda makes me miserable (oh! woe! is me! I should be so lucky right... a small commute to be sure) compounded by job Xianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00305318861729580051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3174629.post-69049612001-11-05T23:21:00.000-08:002001-11-07T21:24:57.000-08:00"The night was hot, it was wet, it was... humid, that's humid!"  "The night was sultry!"--'Throw Momma From The Train' Infrequently certainly means infrequently... All night long, well almost all night long, I've been staring at the screen, staring at my hands. I'm alive. I'm dead... filling the whitespace... and doing nothing original at all. Every line is quickly deleted and begun anew, Xianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00305318861729580051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3174629.post-66023522001-10-25T00:28:00.000-07:002001-10-25T12:22:36.000-07:00the hardest part is things already said    getting better, worse, i can not tell   why do good things never wanna stay?    some things you lose, some things you give away --Sleater Kinney It’s late... Hotel has rolled up its streets for the evening though the occasional somnambulist rolls back home with engines growling and prowling--Xianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00305318861729580051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3174629.post-63691942001-10-15T20:05:00.000-07:002001-10-24T21:24:39.000-07:00Hotel, California is awfully warm tonight... the whole city seems thick and stagnant, and it’s October. Shouldn’t they change the calendar around for So.Cal’s sake? We’re having summer now, after having a long mild spring that wandered into August. September got warmer and October is feeling downright hot, or maybe it’s just that I’m inside Sanctuary with those “Casablanca” fans making the Xianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00305318861729580051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3174629.post-63317462001-10-14T11:35:00.000-07:002001-11-05T23:56:57.000-08:00Today is the first day of the rest of my blog. This is my blog. There are many like it, but this one is mine. Another Sunday morning, sitting in front of the news shows (vacillating between CNN and FOXNews), it’s getting monotonous, but I keep them on in the background... the war report. So that’s it then... this is my war journal, as I sit in Hotel, CA., home of the Hotel Eagles (GO EAGLES!)Xianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00305318861729580051noreply@blogger.com