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The voice of Garciela Perez on Steve Turres ‚Ayer Lo Vi Llorar‘, bolero rhythms with sitting on the couch, looking out of the window to the Hollywood Hills, single light spots of houses, the evening sky after sunset behind, the silhouette of palm trees…It is a permanent vacation. In a moment like that I could…

Yesterday my mother told me about the second largest Iranian city after Teheran – Los Angeles. I know about the second largest Mexican city – Los Angeles. I was not so curious about how my parents learn about obviously a significant population of Iranians in Los Angeles. It makes me more thinking about the diversity…

The hockey game on Saturday, last round of regular season, Montreal had to win one point to qualify for the playoffs, and they lost a spectacular game – 3:1, 3:5, 6:5… Reason to watch the game was the two swiss playing for Montreal and two friends, one from Montreal, the other one from Toronto. After…

Site visit on Friday – the new LACMA by Renzo Piano. I don’t like it. I remember when the project was presented, there was to compare an aerial view of Los Angeles with the LACMA and a aerial view of Florence, Italy with a area of the same size like the LACMA indicated which covered…

Visiting ACE Gallery, a series of portraits by Robert Wilson (VOOM Portraits). They are video recordings, although the models stayed motionless, only one was in clear action, all others only breathing, an eye shut, but basically quiet, like a photograph – with the main difference that the presentation medium was not paper but huge plasma…

We are too creative, according to the building department. The project related is an apartment house for low-/no-income homeless people in downtown.First: People are expecting a particular design representing ‚affordable‘, which means ’no design‘, because ‚design‘ means money, houses of the wealthy published in fancy magazines. There will be a public hearing soon (adjacent neighbors…

Somebody closed the lock of the entrance door to the building where I live with glue. I called the manager to find out if it’s only my key or a general problem. It’s not working since days. He said it will be fixed. That was yesterday. Nothing fixed so far. Sometimes it is still in…

My next door neighbor, an aspiring actor originally from Portugal (yes, Portugal), said hello telling me he heard some very nice opera music coming from my apartment lately…(he really liked it, it was not about ‚hey I can hear your noise please turn your stereo or TV down…‘).Picture is unrelated, but I keep think of…

…was actually residing on the harddisk of my notebook for quite a while. I wasn’t writing regularly, probably too lazy. There are always excuses, in the end, it’s a matter of discipline.Friday night was another evening at the Casablanca. The moroccan named mexican restaruant in venice, california. The menu shows africa with morocco indicated, and…

Nat Hentoff, Villige Voice 2/19/07. I am e-mail subscribed to Hentoff’s column, mostly about civil rights. Since 9/11 he consistently keeps track on stories, decisions around the handling of civil rights through politics, justice etc. I am very thankful to Mr. Bush I’ve learned all these lessons about freedom of speech, freedom of press, human…