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My daughter’s been posting random overheard quotes on her Facebook status. I stole all of these from her. (Parenthesis contain my comments.)

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Nathaniel had his arm rested on my head. I told him to put his arm down because he smelled. He said “I know, I was seeing how long it took you to notice”

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Dad:”you’ll get sick of anyone stuck in a room 24/7, you could be stuck with Jesus and you’d get sick of him”

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Elijah “you ok dad?” dad “ya, just tired” elijah “just making sure, cause you were on the ground and that’s usually not a good sign”

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I had an interesting conversation with my dad just now, it went something like… Dad: “It’s so weird that dogs dream… but then again, it does make sense cause they have so much personality” Me:”Well Cats have personailty, do they dream?” Dad:”No, cats aren’t animals, they’re parasites and should all die.”

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Me-about to make cookies, Mom “if you need shortening, here it is” Nathaniel “I dont think she needs shortening” and pats my head

(Nathaniel is 6’2″, Cat is barely 5′.)

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I told my little brother that I’m too tired to pay attention to him talk and he said “can you not pay attention but I tell you anyways?” I love him so much. He accepts that I dont listen but talks to me anyways. No misunderstanding here

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Is it weird that my dad turned on the Tyra Show and complained he’s already seen this one?

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I have to keep my computer off, and I complained to my brother about how I wont be able to sleep tonight because there wont be any hum. He’s volunteereed to hum while I sleep and slowly get more obnoxious over the years. Then I wont be able to sleep without the obnoxious yelling.

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“knock knock. who’s there? rosa parks hahaha I’m on a school bus and I didn’t have to sit in the back” hhaha Apples to Apples with my family. My little brother rocks

(The cars we all set down were Rosa Parks, a school, bus, and knock knock jokes.)

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“mother from another mother in the living room” -Nathaniel

(My mom was visiting.)
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It’s a famous historical building in downtown L.A. A lot of movies, etc, have used it for filming–most notably, the movie Blade Runner. The lobby is open to the public.

I took Daniel there recently. He only likes modern design, all straight lines and no ornamentation, etc. But this lobby blew him away. When he told our son Nathaniel (who is studying architecture) about it later, Daniel said it almost made him cry, it was so amazing.

Here are some pics I’ve taken there:

It really is beautiful.

Last night we were watching some music videos from the on-demand music video channel on TV, and came across this Heart video that was filmed there:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPBY-B8pK1w

The awesomeness!

While Elijah and his dad were watching Power Rangers on TV.

Elijah: I think Buckethead is a fan of this show. He covered the theme song. I think he’s a fan of anything involving giant robots.

Daniel: (says something I can’t make out)

Elijah: He has an album called Giant Robot!

But that’s cuz he IS a giant robot.

…anything?

Taken with a cell phone. This is in Pershing Square, a park in downtown LA. If you’ve seen the movie The Soloist, this park is in it. So is Robert Downey Jr, who I could watch in anything. I actually sat through about 20 minutes of a movie I thought was completely lame because Robert Downey Jr was in it. My husband came in and asked what the movie was about. I said I wasn’t paying attention to that, I was just watching Robert Downey Jr.

I can’t remember what movie it was, but it had this scene in it I thought was funny. He’s in a hotel room with a woman’s dead body (don’t know how he got there) and he wraps her in a rug and dumps her out the window. Then he goes outside to where he dropped her and he’s in this spot:

Which is nowhere near a hotel.

Kind of like in Say Anything when John Cusack is driving around at night, they show him go from the U-District to Bellevue like they’re right around the corner from each other. Or in Sleepless in Seattle, when Meg Ryan follows Tom Hanks from Lake Union (he’s in his boat) to Alki (she’s in her car). Or whatever.

The manhole says "Shoveled in the 1920s and 1930s by workers paid a dollar a day – 5,000 miles of storm drain tunnels – The distance from LA to NY and back again – UNDER YOUR SOULS"

I’m in flip flops, my friend Kim is in sneakers. Taken with a lomo fisheye camera.

My 16 year old son Elijah: “Mom, why do you dress the way you do now as opposed to the way you dressed in the 80s?”

Me: “What do you mean?”

Elijah: “I mean, why do you dress so dorky?”

I guess I should get cool points for the fact that he doesn’t think I was a dork when I was a teenager.

He might be the only person in the world to hold that opinion.

I set the pinhole camera on the dashboard of my friend Kim’s car and opened the shutter for about 30 seconds, counting in my head. I think the blur you see towards the middle is from Kim changing the radio–or me opening/closing the shutter. Cool how we’re all distorted, huh?

Next I flipped the camera around and shot the freeway.

In the Fashion District of downtown L.A.

Taken in the subway in downtown Los Angeles, CA.