![]() ![]() The Krav Maga studio and the hypnotism center, the barnlike sushi place and the U-Haul and the jolly old IHOP, the biker couple exiting the Star Bar with the tremendous, ponderous dignity of the totally smashed. space, which is tingling and car-swept and horizontal and prolific on a scale quite amazing to a Brit like me, raised in a blighted hedgerow on a diet of HobNobs and mushy peas. Out there on Devonshire Street I’m deep in L.A. “I want a mushroom omelet without the mushrooms.”ĭowntime? Dreamtime. “This is gonna crack you up,” she promises her waitress. It needs some work-the shocks, the steering rack, the fluids, the whole (if I may) gestalt-so there’s a bit of downtime at a Holiday Inn in Chatsworth, in the San Fernando Valley Inside the IHOP, an elderly woman orders her meal. In L.A., prepping for the big drive, I instruct the fine mechanics at RM Automotive in Northridge to make the little Camry roadworthy. “Well, if he didn’t,” I say, “I’m in trouble.” ![]() Not fervently, not dogmatically-we’re having a lovely conversation-she just wants to know. ![]() “Do you believe Jesus Christ died for your sins?” asks the woman sitting next to me on the flight to L.A. That’s the evolution of consciousness, pretty much. 500 B.C.: A Greek artist paints a human foot from the front for the first time, thereby placing himself at a revolutionary new angle to nature.ġ637: Descartes writes, “I think, therefore I am.”ġ966: Owsley Stanley introduces LSD to the San Francisco underground at the Trips Festival, and the brain becomes the universe.ġ991: I see a bumper sticker that says I claim my own power and lovingly create my own reality. ![]()
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