Sunday, December 28 2003
This is (part of) San Francisco!!!!
How beautiful is this place? That’s one of the views from the Golden Gate Bridge looking at the East Bay Bridge and Coit Tower. I wanted to share a picture of it, because it really is a pretty city. I went picture crazy when my sister was here and took lots of pretty photos of San Francisco, so if you want to see them you can.
I am nostalgic because it looks as if I will be ‘moving on’ for a while. I have some exciting opportunities over the next few months, and I will probably leave San Francisco in the next three weeks. I don’t want to say anymore until I have plans “set in stone” but something is about to change. I am waiting another week or so to “make it official.” Oh, in case you haven’t noticed I am “quote” happy tonight. How annoying is that?
On another note: I just watched Waking Life for the first and second times today. (Yes, I had heard about it a few years back, and yes everyone told me to watch it, and yes I wanted to see it, but I still only saw it Sunday). I hope you all see it. It made me think a lot, even though I tend to do that anyway. And it reminded me of a sign that I saw on Morton St. in the West Village just after Sept. 11th. Someone had spray painted the wall of the corner store with the words YOU ARE ALIVE. And I remember thinking I won’t take life for granted. I will remember to live. And sometimes when I need to, when I feel like I am going through the motions, I think about that sign. Waking Life was like another sign. As sappy as that sounds the movie says a lot of things:
“It’s always our decison who we are.”
“Life is yours to create.”
“When you’re born you’re handed a box of crayons. It doesn’t matter if it’s an 8 pack or 16, it’s how you use the colors…”
This is nothing. You have to see this movie…
and ask yourself…
Did you remember to live today?
Posted in seX matters by jamye on 12/28/2003 - 11:33pm
Tell Me You Love Me
January 1st, 2004 at 11:49 am
The Attraction to Tower?
Some might say that San Francisco is a city that worships the cock, and there is no finer example outside of the Castro than Coit Tower. Since you’re new around these parts, here’s the low down: Lily Hitchcock Coit was a bit of a hell raiser. Not only did she drink in bars and smoke with the boys, something unheard of for a society woman in the1860’s, but had a penchant for firemen. She would chase fires and eventually became the official mascot of a volunteer fire company. When she died in 1929, she left money to the City for a beautification project and Coit Tower was erected in her memory. Some say that it was designed to resemble a fire hydrant, though I’m told that the architect who conceived of the monument wanted to built a “simple fluted shaft”.
Enjoy the City and Happy New Year’s.
ps. Nice to meet you this evening, Boo Peep.