113. NHS

i like free health care. it's a smart thing. and i love that NHS in UK is a big part of everyone: i just heard two songs in a row where they mentioned the NHS; nasty crew with take you out and houseboat by camera obscura. i would also take the opportunity to recommend the world to listen to the band ...

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Posted: 2005-03-17
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112. Last days in LA - a summary

last friday i decided to go to long beach, so i did. took the blue line down. took about 50 minutes. nice ride through compton watts and other "run down" areas. the thing is that those areas doesn't look worse than any other place in LA. in long beach i had my first wal-mart experience and i must say it was ...

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Posted: 2005-03-16
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111. LA movements

Posted: 2005-03-15
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110. san fran jackie

tonight i was out for the first time in SF and it was great. it was like a mixture between swedish metropolis, the bicycle courier bar on manhattan and some cheesy britpop club in london. after a pitcher of beer i found myself writing the word (and name) jackie on my fore arm and it's still there. i guess it had ...

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Posted: 2005-03-15
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109. san francisco

i am here! rode with a nice girl to SF last night around ten. arrived to oakland three in the morning where daniel picked me up and took me to his house in the mission district. i haven't been outside yet but i think i'm ready for it now. ps. i think i forgot my shoes in LA.

Posted: 2005-03-14
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108. winter

i miss it. and there is a big struggle inside. i want to go up cross country skiing with my family, but it's so soon and i don't know what to do! i want to stay here longer but i also know how much that ski trip means to me. fuck, it sucks having to choose! well maybe since i abandoned ...

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Posted: 2005-03-11
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107. santa monica crazy ride

for some reason i have been all empty when it comes to writing here. i don't know why, because i have been in a great mood, but ok, i'll give you an update: my dictaphone is the best that happened to me since "i don't know". it's so much fun and so much easier to use that than having to write ...

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Posted: 2005-03-11
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106. smog

imagine having a photograph in photoshop. create a new layer and fill it with white, change the opacity of that layer to maybe 70% or something and then you'll understand how it is here today. so much smog! i hate cars. just after i got up this morning i noticed that i had company. one of the windows in the kitchen ...

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Posted: 2005-03-08
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105. readings

there were some interesting stuff in todays LA times newspaper: an article about the "sideshow" scene in oakland. "with ...

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Posted: 2005-03-07
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104. dictaphone revival

yesterday after a great burrito breakfast at casa diaz with me, kaye and spencer, we hung out at rite aid for 30 minutes or so. i was so hyperactive! it felt like the 90s when i didn't drink alcohol but still was so full of weirdness, and i loved it. at rite aid i bought mini tapes for my dictaphone. they ...

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Posted: 2005-03-07
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103. weekend - again?

wow, usually during this trip i've never thought about it. the weekend. but i do now. this because i am working almost everyday. sitting in a booth in the public library stealing wifi and creating www graphics! it's fun and now i feel that i am worthty a weekdend break. yesterday me and andrew were talking about our (well actually, his) youth ...

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Posted: 2005-03-05
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101. LA is BIG

holy shit. i was just comparing stockholm and LA for my map project and i realised that ...

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100. watts

according to some people, the place (watts) i am going to this afternoon is a dangerous ghetto, so incase a get cought up in a riot and die or someting, i just wanted to tell you i love you all and that i'll give my powerbook to my parents. also, aprox every other day i see a movie set and ...

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Posted: 2005-03-03
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98. downtown thoughts and sights

LA is weird. i have said it before and i'll say it again, and again. one thing that struck my mind today was the question, 'why do LA have a downtown with skyscrapers?' i mean, there are no lack of space really, so why build skyscrapers when you can build a huge one story mall much cheaper? i guess it ...

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Posted: 2005-03-02
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97. the falafel story

before my office (the library) opened this morning i took a walk around downtown to kill some time. i ended up walking south on olive and on the corner of 7th an arab dude hands me a flyer, which is a flyer for his, or his friends, restaurant called café downtown. there were some arabic writing and a menu on ...

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Posted: 2005-03-02
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96. PHEW!

yesterday night when me and stacie were going down to OC to say good bye to molly (good bye!), i noticed that my wallet was gone. shit man. i called kaye and asked her to search the apartment but she couldn't find anything so i got super worried, until this morning when i went back to the library again. they had ...

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Posted: 2005-03-01
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95. snowboard, karaoke and tacos!

oh man, i was so excited. snowboarding in the u s of a! and it was so close too! 06.30 saturday morning todd came and picked up me and kaye. spencer and his eight year old newphew showed up too in another car, and one hour drive later we realised we were not the only ones who had decided to go ...

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Posted: 2005-03-01
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