Mulholland

That chunk of Mulholland I take to get down to the Valley is one hell of a road. Winding like a serpent hugging those Santa Monica mountains, it's definitely worth the view of the Valley. It's never static (well, except for the unrelenting L.A. smog, mmm) and maybe that's why I like it so much.

It's like if whoever's up there used the backdrop of the Valley as a canvas and flexed their inner Manet, splashing intense hues of blood reds and golden yellows and terracotta oranges. Or sometimes they might scrub a soft powdered blue and then dab puffs of white clouds, as lightly as possible, onto the canvas--letting us lie on our backs and ponder the Rorschach test in the sky.

Driving down today, whoever's up there probably had an emotionally draining day (sure wasn't alone) so when I turned onto Mulholland to descend into the Valley , I saw a landscape of warm and faded oranges and yellows strewn on an ambiguous mess of grey clouds.

I woke up at 1 PM today, so I already missed out on a ton of summer daylight. With the regret of already wasting that time in the back of my head, I got a nice dose of reality and realized my summer efficiency was at the pace of a dead snail's and that it's already mid-July. I felt..crappy, for lack of a better (and more eloquent, there does that make it up?) word.

So I was vibing in the car with with that incredible summer breeze in my face on my (brandspankinnew) purple iPod Nano as it was on shuffle and I swear that thing reads minds. I hear: "And I just can't keep living this way/So starting today, I'm breaking out of this cage/I'm standing up, Imma face my demons/I'm manning up, Imma hold my ground/I've had enough, now I'm so fed up/Time to put my life back together right now". Sure gave me a much needed flash of inspiration to not sulk around and be a little emo kid during vacation. I swear, that Eminem guy changed my life since I first heard him as a 10 year old.

But to get outta my head now...

I wish I stopped and took a picture of Mulholland today, but I guess I'll just share some random sunset picture I have.


Desert Sunset by =Sunny-McAzn

Goodnight world.