L.A.

While it seems mostly ridiculuous to be blogging, because I'm with half of my blog's audience, I'm spending time on the internet for the first time in a little while, and I've been missing interacting with my blog world. Katie and I are in LA visiting Eden (and my brother). We have been busy! Today is the first day we've had some down time, which is generally the majority of my time. We went to a club (Katie's account should be more intriguing than mine), went to the beach, went to many stores (I spent more money on a single pair of jeans than my last three pairs combined, I'm still mulling over the purchase), have eaten at some fine establishments (yummy Cuban food for one), and have generally just been having fun being together. I'm sure I'll be more anecedotal when I get back.

In media land, I finished reading A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick. It was quite interesting; I don't know if I can say that I liked it, but I'm glad I read it. The author's afterword that dealt with his personal experience dealing with drugs that inspired much of the book was rather poignant. I'd like to talk about it with someone though. The book seems to be an interesting result of the culture of the sixties in regards to lifestyles, government, etc. Somewhat cynical and despairing at the same time. I think there's a movie coming out soon, so hopefully that'll give me a forum to discuss this with some other thinking souls.