UFO's - Updates on the Flying Object

The flying saucer got a parking ticket! There are parking Nazis in our area, and the solar saucer was left too long in the same spot. Imagine how the the agent felt ticketing a flying saucer. And, my housemates told me they were hanging out with a friend of theirs named Spaceman while at Lightning in a Bottle. He is not connected to the saucer, but how funny is it that they hung with the Spaceman, then brought home a UFO? I told you I live in an interesting place.

Music Box a Little Off-Key

I was late to the Ladytron concert on Friday night because of this:

http://cbs2.com/local/Chase.Crash.Suspect.2.737325.html

It happened right in front of me. I was at the corner of Hollywood and Vine, and suddenly a low-speed car chase was occurring, with this car ultimately trying to go the wrong way down Hollywood, and then trying to turn onto Vine, all while being pursued by about seven cop cars and a helicopter. The cops lost patience and smashed into him, almost sending his car plowing into the crowd waiting for the bus. I ducked into a recessed doorway in case they started shooting, but they wrestled the guy into submission fast. Then they blocked the street off and it was hard for me to get home, but I finally did, and waited for the excitement to die down, because the concert venue, the Music Box at the Henry Fonda Theater, is only about two blocks from there. I got a decent parking spot on Sunset, but I missed all of Modwheelmood. I thought they were the second band, but apparently I was mistaken. I sat down just in time for Datarock, who were cool, but I was disappointed when the next act was Ladytron. I wanted to see all three bands. I'm cursed with Modwheelmood. This is the second time I've tried to see them and something happened to prevent it. It was just a weird evening in general, since it got off on the wrong foot and never quite righted itself. Nothing quite like a good old-fashioned Los Angeles murder suspect bizarre car chase. We're known for that kind of thing worldwide and I had front-row seats for that show if not for the music one. I'll give a more detailed rundown of the parts of the concert I did actually see on my music blog, click through on the sidebar if you are interested. I'll write and post it when I have a minute.

Photos

I just installed my digital computer software and uploaded my photos into the program folder. They look great, see samples above. I'm going to work tomorrow on getting them onto Etsy along with product descriptions.

Bookmarking

Okay, going into this weekend I'm more than halfway though another reading of The Flower of Knighthood and making very few changes, which is an excellent sign. I'm going to work on that, and prioritize the Etsy photos, and get some sleep. I'm going to a concert tonight in Hollywood, the Ladytron show at the Music Box (look for a review of it on my fleurdamourmusic blog in the next few days), and after that, it's time to rest and focus.

Victories for the Constitutional Ideal of Freedom of the Press and the Free Flow of Information on the Internet

Here is another great article I found via Mediabistro's media news aggregator service. This one is regarding big media regulation, and a recent victory for democracy whereby proposed legislation that would have allowed large media companies to own newspapers as well as TV and radio stations in the same markets was shot down.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080616/mcchesney

At least there is some sense left in this country. I've worked for several big media companies and they have a whole lot of positive aspects, like greater resources and, at least in the past, more employment stability, but no one company should be allowed a monopoly on the press in any given area. Big media already owns too much, in news and entertainment. Thank god for the internet. At least that's still open to anyone, and a lot of people are putting up a fight to keep it that way.

Last Man Standing

All but one of the saucer guys has left, headed up the road to San Francisco, and the movie crew seems to have wrapped up, too. I heard conflicting reports about what their project was; someone told me it was a big studio movie, but one of my housemates said he thought it was a TV show. Whatever it was, it was well-financed, because they sure had a lot of trucks. The last remaining saucer dude is named Scottie, an artist who lives in Utah. He got invited to Lightning in a Bottle by the festival organizers because they had seen the saucer at other events, and they covered the cost of his gas to get it there. Sweet. A UFO takes a lot of gas to travel interstate - that thing is really big. This is why the artist's community is so much fun. I like living in a place where a flying saucer shows up.

I got a little editing done last night, but at some point I realized I was re-reading the same passage over and over again because I was so fried. It's been a busy week and I am very tired. I gave up on it, took a shower, and watched Sex and the City DVD's with my housemates. I call that show the junk food of the mind, and I was ready for some. I've read my book I think ten times since I started revising it in February and I feel battle-fatigued, but it's almost there. I am very happy with it and it will be done soon.

When Worlds Collide

There is a giant flying saucer parked in front of my house right now. Some of my roommates went to the Lighting in a Bottle music festival just north of Santa Barbara over the Memorial Day weekend and several of their friends came back with them for a few days. The guests made a huge solar-powered UFO for the festival circuit, and it's now outside our house. There is also a major motion picture being filmed on our block starting today, so it's like a three-ring circus out there. It should calm down by this evening when I get home and start my book editing for the evening. There were so many people in the house Monday night when they all got back from the festival that I gave up trying to do any work and put in a DVD of Donnie Darko and sorted my socks while I watched it. It was like the circus was in the house then, no sense trying to work, so I thought putting in the weirdest movie I could find would fit the atmosphere, and it did. Some of the saucer people sat down and watched it with me. All we needed was a wormhole for them and they could have gotten home to Utah pronto.

Here is the saucer: http://www.thesolarsaucer.com/Photos.html