Friday, July 10, 2009

in the HASTINGS SHUFFLE

Just a visual image. 

A drunk guy with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth, in running shoes and shorts, was stretching out his quads like a runner against the wall of the Bourbon.... Ummm, warming up for the drunk guy Olympics? 

I'd pay to know what bizarre idea of health runs through that smart guy's head. 

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

in the HASTINGS SHUFFLE

They're shooting a movie down here today. I'm going to guess it's a new Dawn of the Dead part 666. Or at least what it should be.

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

in the HASTINGS SHUFFLE

I haven't posted for a couple days. There's just nothing funny about the downtown east side when it rains. It reminds me of that monologue in Taxi Driver. I can't repeat it. It's too much.  

Friday, July 3, 2009

in the HASTINGS SHUFFLE

If I was to say the police were crackin' down on Hastings, does anyone else visualize them (the police) smoking crack on Hastings? Or is it just me?... ps. they really are though, shaking people down I mean.

Thursday, July 2, 2009

nuclear

As I think I've mentioned with Iboga, you deal with dreams that show you extremes. The basic underlying theme with Iboga is that it tries to teach by showing. With this dream I can only imagine that it was trying to show me what it would look like if I put my energy and power into negative things. Its not literal though. It's not like it was predicting that I would be hanging out with the most powerful men in the Russian and eastern European Mafia's. Obviously.

The dream was incredibly intense and frightening. I was a liason between the two Mafia's who were both in the process of heavily arming themselves with Nuclear weapons. Now, if you can visualize this, they wore their Nuclear weapons on their bodies like light blue glowing armor. They looked like futuristic human transformers who were liable to go nuclear on the world at any moment just to prove that they held the ultimate power.

They weren't concerned or threatened by any governments. They were in the most extreme pissing contest. Both the leader of the Russian Mafia and the Mafia from some eastern European country that I can't remember, were only concerned with beating each other. Who had more nuclear power. Who could blow more of the world up. Who was crazier and wasn't afraid to do it. That's where I came in. I was there to entertain the head of the Russian Mafia (take him to parties, find him drugs and women etc.) while also being a messenger between the two Mafia's.

At one point in the negotiations, where they were positioning themselves to have one Mafia gain complete control over the other and it's armaments, things got really tense and they almost attacked the other... aka. go complete nuclear. I was given flashes of life from around the world that was about to be exterminated including ourselves. Not to mention that with cold, mean men, my charm doesn't go very far. I could see the contempt in their eyes when they saw fear or weakness in me. I quickly became a hardened negotiator and criminal. You see, nothing is done without a "favor" in this world, and they obviously had a lot of use for an unassuming young woman.

Somewhere during the negotiations I was suddenly on an airplane, transporting large quantities of drugs and nuclear jewelry. I had become a Mule. I had to wear the jewelry all over my body which I was incredibly frightened of at first, but then became accustomed to. I carried the drugs in my bags, and it was supposedly arranged so that I wouldn't be hassled in customs. I was terrified that it hadn't been arranged properly. Not only was I a walking nuclear bomb that could blow up half the European continent, but I had to be worried about being man-handled by customs in this state of being a major liability.

I remember going through customs in slow motion, and making it through as planned. What I wasn't expecting was the feeling of empowerment this gave me. I remember feeling elated in the dream because I had gotten away with it. On one level it was because I knew I then had leverage with the Mafia, but then on another level, it was because my brain was turning into one of a criminal.

Then the dream ended.

in the HASTINGS SHUFFLE

The party never ends down here. Ever. Only in the downtown east side do people wear Mardi Gras beads, 'cause they feel like celebrating, mid-day, while sitting on the pavement shirtless, with only the plethora of beads around their neck. I don't know this particular bearded man's name, but I sure wish I did. I now have a NEW hero.

in the HASTINGS SHUFFLE

"Hunt for an Heiress."

"Luchia Leise has spent years in poverty on Vancouver streets and in welfare hotels. Now she may be lone heir to a family fortune held in a German bank. But where is she?"

This is AMAZING! I love that my local ____ (fill in the blank) is richer than me. Now we just have to bet on how long it lasts (think about it, every jackass who reads the paper down here now knows she's a mark. Her money is fucked before she even has it. Thanks Vancouver Sun).