REALLY IN A MOVIE

... today HOLLYWOOD came to HERMOSA ... they invaded a couple of streets with people, trucks, lamps, technicians ... in order to shoot some scene of a movie in the coffee shop on the strand ...... not sure what movie was this ... they shoot a lot of them here around ... one month ago a friend of mine told me she saw JOHNNY DEPP dressed like a pirate in REDONDO BEACH (just south of HERMOSA) ... apparently they were shooting the 3rd episode of the PIRATE OF THE CARIBBEAN ... I wasn't that lucky ... but I didn't really check who was in the coffee shop ... who knows ... possibly they were shooting an other part of PULP FICTION ... and inside JULES and VINCENT ... were telling a new espisode of the WALK THE EARTH speech ... :O

FREE HUGS

Not sure if you have already seen it or not ... in case you haven't seen it yet ... stop whatever you are doing for 3 minutes and watch this video ...

... I would love to have the guts of this guy ... today was not a good day for me ... but definitely this video ... this guy ... Juan Mann ... this song ... made my day ... and something more than that ... I surely cried when I watched it today ... A BIG HUG TO EVERYBODY ... XA

HERMOSA SUNSET

... not sure if you know it ... but ... HERMOSA in spanish means BEAUTIFUL ... and probably there is a reason why they called this city HERMOSA BEACH ... here today's sunset on the beach ... really wonderful ... I particularly love the first picture where you can see the last tip of the sun disappearing over the horizon ...... I love to live here ... I really love it ... it makes me feel that miracles can really happen ... I think beauty is really the greatest muse ...

SEPTEMBER 26

... I don't know exactly what is it ... but there is a definitely a connection between me and this date ... 3 of the people that I like the most on this planet have their birthday on this day ... 2 of them live far away from me ... so I couldn't really celebrate with them ... but at least I had the chance to celebrate with the 3rd one ... YANN ... yep ... yesterday was YANN's birthday ... here some pictures of the dinner last nite ... the baloons are, of course, Leif's creation ...... after the dinner Cristina, Justin, Yann and I went to drink more ... but that part of the nite is too much even for this blog ... let's put it like this ... I got really wasted ... but ... I got really really lucky to meet on my way 2 guardian angels that helped me to stay away from troubles bigger than me ... thanks to them ... even if I don't even know their names and I can't even remeber their faces ... thanks ... and this is a lesson for me as well ... help people in trouble is really the best thing you can do in your life ... :o

GUNS N ROSES CONCERT

... INLAND INVASION ... this was the name of the concert I went on Saturday ... in the desert just east of LA ... we didn't really have a GPS ... but Elvis as map holder did work out pretty well ... ... we got there in time ... I went with LEIF and YANN ... and it was just great ... great music ... almost 12 hours of very good live music ... from 2PM until 2AM ... the best were there ... Guns N Roses ... Alice in Chains ... Muse ... Papa Roach ... Avenged Sevenfold ... Rise Against ... Atreyu ... Buckberry ... 30 Seconds to Mars ... honestly I didn't know all the bands ... I went because I wanted to listen to the GNR in concert ... coming back to Southern California after 14 years ... and I have to tell you that ... the concert was worth every penny I spent ... just because of the GNR ... they played just great ... and AXLROSE ... has such an incredible voice ... and he did put so much energy in the show ... definitely ... something worthwhile ... especially for an old GNR fun like me ... honestly .... I was expecting some b*llshit from the GNR ... like not showing up ... or getting on the stage drunk ... or playing only a couple of songs and that's it ... after all Axl Rose is well know to be the biggest d*ck of the rock n roll history ... but you know what ... it didn't happen ... probabbly he got to the point where he can't mess up anymore with his funs ... probably he needs to be sure that people will buy the new already dealyed twice new album ... CHINESE DEMOCRACY ... and at the end ... the GNR did a 2 hours concerts ... great music ... great songs ... and the last one was my favorite ... PARADISE CITY ... such a classic for a concert ... but all of them were just great ... AXL did made also some small speach ... he call everybody ... motherf*ckers downloaders ... kind of funny ... like my brother told me ... there is really nobody who downloads GNR music anymore ... it is now more than 10 years that they don't make any new song ... no need to download anything ... good point ... :D ... unfortunately no digital camera were allowed inside the outdoor theatre ... so we had to get a disposable camera ... here is when we found out about it ... not nice ... we got the dsposable camera ... we took pictures ... and now I can't find it anymore ... :o ... we had fun anyways ... and of course also no alcohol was allowed inside ... I mean ... you had to buy it inside ... if u wanted to consume it inside ... so we ... like anybody else ... made sure to get confortably tipsy before entering the park ...... and we go completely wasted inside ... but the beer didn't change anything ... the concert was really great ... and if you have the chance ... don't miss the next GNR concert ... definitely ... the best!

ATLANTA TRAFFIC and HUMOR

... the ATLANTA commuting traffic jam yesterday definitely kicked my *ss ... there was a huge traffic jam in downtown ... and I missed my flight ... 2nd time that it happens in 8 years ... since I start traveling .. ooopppsss ... working ... this is ATALNTA downtown ...... seen by my car seat ... but this gave me a chance to take a good picture of a piece of the 1996 ATALNTA SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES ... the OLYMPIC TORCH ... looks a kind of cheap to me ... but I guess it is a piece of the city architecture...... the nicest thing of the almost 5 hours flight from Atlanta to LA was definitely the flight attendant humour ... he started with ... "LA weather at the moment is 25F and there is a heavy snow storm over the city" ... it coninued with ... "Ladies and gentlemen ... we will be late, because the technicians have found a flat tire, and they are going to inflate it for us now" ... when I start complaining about the delay he came to me and told ... "Sir, you should be happy ... you won't find any traffic on the 405 when you will land ..." ... definitely ... a type of humor that I like ... at the end I got into my bed at almost 2AM LA TIME this morning ... definitely a long day ...

PICTURES FROM THE SKY

... today I decided to threat myself ... I had to fly from LA to ATLANTA ... and instad of the usual RED EYES ... I flew during the day ... the sky was clear ... and these are two pictures I took ... first one is LA ... you can recognize the SOUTH BAY (i.e. South part of the SANTA MONICA BAY) ... you can also recognize ... very tiny the REDONDO BEACH HARBOR ... PALOS VERDES and ... LONG BEACH ....... this is ATLANTA ... and here you can easily recognize the skyscrapers of the downtown area ...... I have to admit it ... I love flying ... and I love to take pictures from the airplanes window ... and probably the favorite picture that i took today ... is this one ... wonderful small white clouds ...

LIKE IN A MOVIE

... probably it is just naive or weird ... but sometimes I feel like living in a movie set ... this is especially true here in LA ... incredible city ... with incredible things to see ... and do ... for example ... look at the car that I saw last Sunday in HOLLYWOOD ... I think it just came out from a movie set ...

... and definitely travelling is one of the reasons why I am feeling like in a movie sometimes ... it is becaue I am travelling so much ... travelling is definitely giving me the opportunity to see ... taste ... enjoy things that otherwise I would have seen only in TV or in a movie theatre or read in a book ... and living them ... makes me feel good ... yes ... in a way makes me feel like in a movie ... a very special movie ... I was thinking about it on Sunday ... when I saw this car ... yes ... I was thinking about this ... probably it is just weird ... or probably not ... but ... isn't our life like amovie ... a very special movie .... and the coolest thing about this movie is that ... we can decide how good ... interesting ... exciting it can be ... is just up to each of us ... isn't that cool!?! I think it is ... :D

I WANT A TATOO

... the only reason why yesterday I didn't had a tatoo done ... is because I understood ... this is what happens when you don't pay for your tatoo ...... and I was not sure if I had enough money on my credit card ... and you know ... you don't really want to take any extra risk with these guys ...... I guess you are wondering where the hell I ended up yesterday ... right!? ... OK ... I read about it on an Italian paper on internet ... the article was about a WORLD WIDE FAMOUS TATOO CONVENTION in US ... of course ... the first thing that I though has been ... mmmm ... it must be in LA ... adnd in fact it was ... more precisely it was in HOLLYWOOD ... I was in one of the coolest convention I have even been ... the tatoo and body art convention ... INKSLINGERS BALL ... that every year is held in HOLLYWOOD, CA ... really a cool one ... one of the most interesting things I have ever seen in years ... at the begin I felt a kind of strange ... I wasn't sure if I could take pisctures or not ... but after few minutes ... I understood that, of course, it is all abou showing off your tatoo ... this is for example the line that I found going to the restroom ... pretty unique ... I would say ...... the tatoo that these guys were having were really incredible pieces of art ... the one that I like the most were probably the wings of this girl ... beatiful back and beatiful idea ... and beatiful begin ... of course the work is not done yet ... she will need some more sessions ... and some good color to finish it ... and these are the colors they were selling yesterday at the convention ......but I am pretty sure that the work will be just great ... here some of the incredible works I was lucky enough to see yesterday ... really amazing ... starting from one of my favorite character ... Don Quixote ...
... here a guy ... who is warning everybody ... not to trust anybody ... probably a little bit paranoic ... but you know ... this is a free country ...... OK ... the next three ... were a little bit too much in my opinion ... but again ... I guess their owners just love them ... look how they like to show them ...... and of course ... because this was a convention ... we had plenty of artists ... lot of people got their tatoo done there ... this guy had 4 artists working on his back ... really a show in the show ...... I am telling you ... it was really an incredible experience ... I have never seen anything like this ... I was really super excited ... and at the end I was pretty sure I wanted a tatoo ... when I mentioned it to LEIF ... he reminded me we had to go to Justin's BBQ ... but definitely ... I am going to have one soon ... I was thinking something like a quote that I love ... that it is meaninful to me ... about traveling ... I don't know exactly what ... I have to think about it ... but not too much ... overwhise I will never do it ... :D