I was living in a dingy apartment on the 4th floor of the Asbury, a crumbling art deco masterpiece in a once tony, now seedy neighborhood, across the street from a historic old hotel, a tamale shop, and the art college where I was attending my third and final year. The Asbury had, for a short [...]
Archive for March, 2010
A Hardboiled Alien Love Story
Posted in Hollywood Hermit, tagged alien, architecture, art deco, asbury apartments, california, film noir, hollywood hermit, kozmique, los angeles, love story, macarthur park, raymond chandler, speakeasy on March 26, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On
Posted in Hollywood Hermit, tagged hollywood hermit, kozmique, los angeles, northridge earthquake, san andreas fault on March 17, 2010 | 4 Comments »
While enjoying my first long, sound sleep in ages, I was rudely awakened, at some completely unreasonable hour, by a shuffling commotion followed by a sudden poke in the eye, as a smallish person clambered into my bed. Apparently, I had just slept through an earthquake. Unable to return to a state of peaceful slumber, I lay [...]
Showing up fashionably late to my own coming out party.
Posted in Hollywood Hermit, tagged california, concrete jungle, hollywood hermit, ishi, kozmique, los angeles, yahi, yana on March 12, 2010 | 6 Comments »
One summer in 1911, a man clad in animal skins was discovered wandering through the corral of a butcher shop in Oroville, CA. He spoke a language no one left on Earth could understand. He was the last of the Yana people who were indigenous to California. Most of his tribe had been massacred 40 [...]
The Hollywood Hermit Shares a Piece of Sky
Posted in Hollywood Hermit, tagged california, hollywood hermit, kozmique, los angeles, poetry, sky, stars on March 9, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I love my piece of sky Like a curious rectangle, or the 51st state It frames my view of the amniotic breath Of the Earth; outline of the day Window at night Down below, the mewling And puking actors stage Big City dramas Trying to forget cornfields And the big, big sky My piece [...]
