On Brick Top, My Hollywood "Signs" and The Wheel in the Sky...

Posted over 2 years ago

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Journey
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Infinity
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Wheel in the Sky

...see that sign...up close, it's just that...a fekkin' sign comprised of huge letters on a hill but it boggles my dome sometimes at all the drama that takes place in this town when the cameras aren't even rolling...I started writing this piece last week, after a screener while waiting for a bus in front of the Larry Flynt building over on Wilshire and La Cienega, I continued writing on the subway and finished it up when I got to the pad...it was about 12:30 but the adrenaline from realizing that I was almost smoked an hour or so prior was still swirling through my veins...the message in the tune below goes with the tale which is continued "*on the Chronicles of Ridicule...*":http://chronicridicule.blogspot.com/2007/08/on-brick-top-my-hollywood-signs-and.html

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RGM says So I guess they finally fixed it cause it was looking pretty shabby b4 I left L.A, lol.

Permalink posted 08/26/2007
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disneyr says I enjoy reading your perspectives of the "great Hollywood shellgame". I wish you the best and hope you, as an obviously genuine person, can crack the everpresent cabals of fakeness that rule LA both in Hollywood and Century City.

Permalink posted 08/26/2007
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Mike the Knife says Love the sign. Blown away by the essay. Hate "the game." Shame about the song. (Sorry, C.P. Just can't stand Journey. Must be my San Fran hipster bias.)

Permalink posted 08/26/2007
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CrashPryor says @RGM: perhaps, don't know when you left (or when that pic was taken) but it's all good... @Disney: thanks, brah…when one door closes…find the nearest window… @Mikey: haha…if we were all plugged into the same shite at all times…it’d be just like the radio on here…I got a little personal baggage with that one…you know…something life-changing is taking place and this tune’s pumping in the background…alle ist en butter, ‘Frisco…

Permalink posted 08/26/2007
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disneyr says I don't listen to Journey often now (although I might just start again after your post). I have fond memories of snow skiing down the mountain with Don't Stop Believin' in my cassette walkman headphones.

Permalink posted 08/26/2007
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leftoverking says "one foot on the accelerator and the other on 'fast'..." too true man. that's how i wound up at the other end of this state. i don't mind wheel in the sky, but growing up in the sf area did kind of kill it for me with the excessive airplay. still, a cool song. production doesn't get any slicker. whenever i think of journey i am reminded of a mentally ill lady up in these parts who drove an amc pacer, with a home-made sticker on the back window that read: "STEVE PERRY #1." all made out of those four inch tall gold parallelogram letters from a hardware store made for your mailbox. she was delusional, and claimed to be carrying steve perry's love child. glad you didn't get hit man.

Permalink posted 08/26/2007
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Jonh Ingham says You gotta consider that you may not see it as a burning bush or hear it as a coyote...that's the trouble with the mystic stuff...it might look like a couple of hubcaps rolling up the hill.

Permalink posted 08/27/2007
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CrashPryor says @Disney: I don't listen to 'em like gangbuster, either...but some bands have those one off tunes that stick... @leftover: thanks, brah...I'm weighing my options but as it stands...I gotta fight the good fight...right here in "Flossed" Angeles.... @Ingham: everywhere, signs!... mom said the same thing...verbatim...she too pointed to the fact that I turned around in time to see all that and the Bad Brains tunes on my iPod was between tracks (so I could hear the noise and turn around)...and she too noted the hubcaps, for some reason...ok, now I need a swig of "happy juice"...hahahaaa...

Permalink posted 08/27/2007
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steve simon says i know that intersection well, thank god ur safe, stay that way. get a car please, no biking there....that is the sign from god, no biking! this piece is great, really!

Permalink posted 08/27/2007
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chucky says If it *were* a sign I'd take it as a good one anyway. He didn't hit you right? :)

Permalink posted 08/27/2007
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CrashPryor says @steve: you might be onto something there, cochise...but, some things in the works that might make that buying/ leasing a hoopty out of the question...glad you vibed on the piece...get thee to Virginia's mountain country... @charles: hmmm, never thought of that...I think I was weirded out by the crazy way he just plowed through that red signal...and that I turned around to see it all...

Permalink posted 08/29/2007
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wassonii says Glad you are at least able to write about it. I tend to trust Mom's intuition. Regarding the circumstances leading up to any event which gives pause in such a fashion, "much virtue in if."

Permalink posted 08/29/2007
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atman says still thinkin' about you man.

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