Friday, November 23, 2007

A San Diego Day


Damn. there is something about San Diego, especially when you are staying with close friends in the now gentrified community of north park and have a VIP pass to the San Diego film festival from my good friends at FlagPop Productions. Saturday night was filled with free booze, clubbing, too much social networking and some powerful and some crappy films. Gentrification is a sad concept. middle/upper class rich folk moving in to help develop a usually older traditionally minority community and then subsequently turning into a haven for hipsters and overly manicured lawns and overpriced bars.

Saturday was filled with times of self-reflection and good conversations with great people. I spent a couple hours wondering by myself, eating a tuna melt sandwich from Anthony's by the bay, thrift store shopping and having a couple random interesting conversations with strangers. I think in Amerika we have a little problem with self and society. Even in San Diego the city with great beaches, local bars, a convenient airport, a semi-content homeless population, happy tourists and an over glamorized "college" scene.

I have been thinking. we need to embrace art more and if everyone really followed their passions in life im agine how different the societies we live in would be. I hope that the time is coming soon to declare our independence to the cooperate sector and focus on community, unconditional love and fostering creativity.

This morning was beautiful. (Sunday) I went on a long walk and bought some magazines and small coffee. Went to a local soccer game and had nice greasy fresh with guacamole California burrito, came back to the apartment and sat outside appreciating the cool breeze and smoked a long anticipated cigar from Honduras, drinking some white leaf tea and read a bit.

I forgot to mention, don't ever park in Horton Plaza in the Gaslamp district in downtown San Diego. Or if you do, get your ticket validated before the shops close at 11pm. 56 dollars is what I paid for parking, insane huh? Damn the man. But I am over it. I just paid for the

last ten years of good luck parking I have had and hopefully for another ten years.

I think right now I should be hitting spell check to make sure my dyslexic tendencies have not escaped into my typing and I think right now I should be summarizing my three main points in my "blog". I love ending any paper and starting the last paragraph with "in conclusion" I feel like that is one of the few things I learned in my public high school English classes…

Talking to God is important. Listening to yourself is also very important. Keep your friends close. Forget about your enemies because you shouldn't have any. Let creativity flow in any and every avenue possible.