Some Garbage Like The Sky

Jun 22, 2009

I got to see Charlie today! In case you didn’t know, Charlie is my uncle Danny and aunt Kendall’s child, who was born almost two moths ago as a micro-preemie baby (super premature). He weighed only like one pound when he was born, so the whole situation was very alarming. (For the whole scoooop on teh baby, read Danny’s blog. Duhhh.) That said, he is so cute! Observe his tiny lil’ baby presence:

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My mom saw the nurses change his diaper last night and was very surprised by his… “The baby’s three pounds and his penis takes up two of them.” Jeesh. (I can’t imagine what kind of audience this paragraph will attract.. Well, I can, but I’d rather not :/ .)

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Los Angeles has been fu-u-un. Since we landed two nights ago, we’ve been swimming, walking, swimming, playing basketball, swimming… Not to mention our car ride from the airport. Ah, so many [innapropriate] quotes were made that night.. Let’s just say the theme of the ride was farts, Botox, balls, donuts, more donuts, and balls. And swear words (ooooh, watch out, we’re hardcore – just like my tattoo!). I tried to chronicle our expedition via tweet but it was only half successful (you can’t relay everything through txting).

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(the donut place we went to) Win. And fail. But mostly win.

The plane ride was not nearly as wonderous. I finished The Perks Of Being A Wallflower, which I liked very very much. I read the last page right as our plane started landing (perfect timing, brah). It is a great – they’re not good, they’rrre grrrrrreat! … just had to put that somewhere – book that I would highly recommend reading. Like I could not stop saying before, there are so many things to think and write about this book. And, of course, when I actually do start writing about it, I forget nearly all of them. T___T oh wellz. More about it later.

When we finally got to the hotel it wasn’t long till someone was running around in boxers and we were all eating caramel corn and watching Urkle on TV. Whaaat? Yes, we are SUCH a b.a. rockstar fam.. You don’t even know. I doubt this hotel will even be in business when we leave. (Or how big our expenses bill will be.) MUAHAHA. Juuuuust kidding. Not about the Urkle part, though. Or the caramel corn. Or boxers. *evil-ish skeptical eye*

Our hotel is, well, a hotel in L.A. It’s kind of like some obnoxious wannabe-celebrity hangout bar thing – diiisgusting. Such a peculiar place, L.A. is. I mean, we’ve been here before. But it’s always weird seeing fancy bars and whore-houses and whatever. Hah! That makes us sound like some hillbillies. But it’s true – we is not from this land.

Father’s Day was fun, too. We went to my zaid’s (yes we call him zaid) buddy’s house.

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Me and Leah chillin’ in a sun-pod.

You know, I never really knew where to put the apostrophe in Fathers Day. Wouldn’t it be “fathers’ ” because it’s possessive to more than one father? Or just “father’s” because the general public would be confused by an apostrophe after the “s” (whoops, non-misanthrope status revoked)?

Okay, internet is literally like four bugajillion dollars here (per computer, also). Wilco’s playing a show tonight, so expect a lack of sleep on my part. Adios!

P.S. In a rush livin’ the Hollywood lifestyle (yeeeeah right), so I’ll probz refine this post later. Thank you.

(Title: Lyric from one of my teacher’s band’s (yes my teacher) songs. They’re quite good, actually. Very strong Pavement roots, which I think is not a bad thing (gotta luv Pavement). Btw, the sky is, in fact, not garbage. And I love this song.)

| Posted by Spencer on Jun 22, 2009

14 Comments

Rock & Roll Ghost
Jun 22, 2009 at 6:40 PM

My best friend since grade school is coming to LA to shoot Tuesday night’s Wilco show. Lots of people I know (or sort of know) are in LA this week. Very weird. Wishing I could be out there. Sounds like fun.


 
Sarah
Jun 22, 2009 at 7:53 PM

As the mom of a 6 day old son, it’s weird how much attention the kid’s genitals get. When he’s older he is going to hate me with with every fiber of his being for taking naked baby pictures of him. Sorry in advance, Ben.

Enjoy the show!


 
Wes
Jun 22, 2009 at 8:00 PM

Donuts in California taste different (better) than anywhere else I’ve had them. Never met Randy, but maybe you’ll get to try some other places, too. What’s your favorite Pavement album? Mine is probably Brighten The Corners or Terror Twilight. They are releasing a 4LP mega box set of “Brighten The Corners” with a slew of outtakes, etc. tomorrow. Hope you get to stop by Amoeba if you have time. It’s overwhelming.


 
Leslie
Jun 22, 2009 at 8:09 PM

Randy’s Donuts…the most fun ever for $3.60. And my hearing just returned this morning from the Saturday night car ride. You really captured the evening.


 
Sarah
Jun 22, 2009 at 9:07 PM

Looks like you are having a blast. That sun pod looks a-mazing!! Have fun at the gigs.


 
Hannah
Jun 22, 2009 at 10:34 PM

That song is tight!!


 
Mare
Jun 23, 2009 at 9:20 AM

I’ve come to think that this is the right address for you – http://www.savethewords.org/, but remember, if you adopt the word you have to promise to use it as often as possible.. :)
I’ve seem to promise to use nubivagant and magistricide.


 
Sharyl
Jun 23, 2009 at 12:16 PM

Great to see Charlie doing well! So you’re here!!! Gonna see dad and the boys? We had a blast at the Wiltern last night, we were right by James Spader. And never before have I seen an LA show with people singing, shouting, dancing, cheering, just unfettered public displays of affection :-) RAWK Enjoy sunny LA and hangin’ with the fam


 
Sarah J
Jun 23, 2009 at 1:43 PM

Aww! Deh babeh! What your mom said sounds like something my mom would’ve said. It made me explode with laughter when I read it though. :D
It’s good to know that there are people as white as me that hide from the sun in not-so-sunny-sun-pods. ;) Totally kidding.

THAT TATTOO IS BOSS. You are a totally BAMF imho.

My captcha says: LOL gophers.


 
K Wild
Jun 25, 2009 at 9:32 AM

totally unrelated to this post, but made me think of something you wrote recently, about your mind being like a computer screen. I heard Regina Spektor interviewed on NPR this morning and she said “Your mind is sort of like an Etch-A-Sketch. It gets shook.” I love that image – it feels even more right than a computer screen, with the fuzzy edges of an etch-a-sketch, and the fact that sometimes it’s garbage and sometimes it’s a hard-earned image, but regardless, it gets shook.

Enjoy the surreal world of LA!


 
Kelli
Jun 25, 2009 at 11:36 AM

apostrophe s (’s) indicates possession,it’s your father’s day. fathers’ day doesn’t work because you’re not celebrating all fathers, you’re celebrating your father. make sense?


 
Sarah J
Jun 25, 2009 at 1:07 PM

Here’s my opinion: Fathers’ Day celebrates ALL fathers, and you don’t say “it’s *your* father’s day” because it isn’t just for one dad. Right? :D I mean, it celebrates your dad, and everyone else’s dad. Maybe they’re interchangeable..

Like, if it was Sarah’s Day -heh- it would be.. my day. But if it was Sarahs’ Day then it would be all of the Sarahs out there. Plural and possessive.
Did I confuse you enough?


 
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