in ashland, with jorge, in a restaurant. talking about business stuff. there's an alternate business entity we've set up/been using for distributing random equipment. jorge'd buy stuff from distributers and this person we were working with you do the deliveries. it wasn't lush, though. we're talking about it and now that lush is turning into an actual thing we're not comfortable with using the alternate entity. the actual distribution thing is ok, though.
the person we're working with runs a big store that we're subletting/whatever part of the space for to set up a lush record store. we've ordered a bunch of initial stuff and are setting up the space. we go there (brad is there too) to check it out. it's awesome. the original store is huge, and we have this big section in the middle that we're setting up. we're going to sell music stuff (records, cds) and i'm talking to jorge and brad (and elise too i think?) about also setting up a big section with equipment too (synths and such). i think that it would be really cool to have all the stuff all set up and stuff so that people could come in and actually have stuff make noise, or get a demonstration of how it all actually works together.
i'm very excited.
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i'm in northern cali visiting dad. elise and brad are with me. we show up and at the top of the hill there's this crazy thing circle thing of stone towers/pillars, mantle things going across them, and funky sculpture not-quite-gargoyle but nifty thingies on them sticking out. it's not quite finished.. not all of the towers are in place, but it's very cool. i'm most impressed. the course of the driveway is altered to go through it sorta..
i'm walking around with brad (elise is further down the hill?) telling him how crazy it is that dad's building all this funky stuff, that he's not usually into stuff like this. run into another big thing sorta like the one before, but much bigger. people are actually working on it right then.. it's square, and whole sections of the walls are prefabricated and being stood upright. more greek-looking.
we look around and there are probably a dozen guys working, moving stuff or dirt around and such. bewildered.
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in a record store with somebody. wearing socks. floor is slippery (hardwood). looking through cds. i find a cd of underworld songs remixed by skinny puppy. something else. look in another bin and find something else i get excited about, get sidetracked and don't finish the first bin. i walk back to the first bin. what i think is some remix cd of sneaker pimps is playing [isn't actually, music i remember is a house record nando plays], i'm sorta dancing back over the first bin, bump into a girl i think i sorta remember from high school. stand there for a second, nathan sees me and mistakes me from adam (guetz!?) for a second. says hi, realizes its me, says hi again.
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going to a movie with a bunch of people. some old ex is there. she's uncomfortable for some reason. we're taking separate cars, she ends up with me and someone else.
show up at the theatre. there're some guys doing tricked out stuff to acura's (tinted windows, decals, something like that) in the parking lot. i tell the guy to do it to mine (most of it, at least) while we're in the movie. apparently we're too late or something, though. we stand around and smoke a cigarette and then go back to the car. the guys are leaving too, can't do it. something else.
