ich bin ein auslander

When I last spoke with Wendy (midnight here, around 9am there) she was packed and had to check out of her hotel in around 2 hours… she was also in possession (I believe) of a train ticket to Barcelona and an open-ended plane ticket to London, with vague ideas of blowing off Barcelona and heading to Paris. So, at least at the moment, I have absolutely no idea where she is. Knowing Wendy, she could be just about anywhere. I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if I get a message tomorrow from Australia.

Woke up a bit early today to finish packing for Coachella… took a bike ride, and had one of those great moments again… listening to the Police (you know, the band that was so great that Sting has been able to be a complete bunghole for the last 15 years and still be respected), on a beautiful sunny morning, riding my bike along the beach with probably a good 200 dolphins riding alongside me up the coast and I had only two thoughts running through my head… 1) at this very moment, at least, life is good… and 2) i’m one lucky muthafucker.

So it’s off to Indio and the Coachella experience… going to be moblogging at sumobox.com, reception and relative sobriety permitting, throughout the festival. Off to see the good, the bad and the funky….

long day today. getting ready to head off to coachella… the excitement is building. going to try to moblog but if memory serves reception is spotty at best… anyway, take a look throughout the weekend if you’re interested… and anything makes it through. cleaned up the phone mem card tonight, and found a great pic from when karl was visiting….

woke up ridiculously early (7am). cats scratching at the door and sitting on my head because they want food in or poo out. definately not ready for kids. so i stumbled to the door, let one out, heading to the kitchen to make coffee and put out the cat food. sat in bed and watched cnn and drank coffee for awhile… but it was still so friggin’ early. it still is. it’s only 9am.

so anyway, i decided i might as well go for a bike ride and get that out of the way. put the new fluke on so i’d wake up a bit more and get pumped, and headed out. it was sunny at first, but as i headed north of the santa monica pier, it got foggier and foggier…. so dense that i could really only see maybe 20 feet in any direction. that was friggin cool as shit. fluke wasn’t really working with the new surroundings, so i switched to the postal service, and biked my way through the cloud. it was quite possibly the coolest workout i’ve ever had. i ended up totally drenched…

simon is now blogging, albeit in his own unique way. God help us all.

Had lunch with a friend today… he just got a smoking new car. BMW M3. I’m not really much of a car guy - to be honest, i just ask that it be silver or black, and run consistently - but I must admit, it’s all that and a bag of chips. Ah, some day.

A little work and prep today, but i’m starting music after my gym run. Got some meetings to go to tomorrow, and theoretically a phone meeting but who knows. Getting really excited about coachella although i still haven’t secured the all important vip wristbands… and it’s looking like that may not happen. oh well, too good of a lineup this year to worry about it much. getting in to the place is going to blow, though.

i’ve given up on snappy titles. today was strangly work filled, with lots of phone calls and general stupidity. off to go meet some guy who’s staying at ej’s house while he’s on the road and hopefully have a few german beers. with my luck, he likes bud.