May 22, 2005

I Think I'll Swim

Nighttime in LA

My iPod is a dog that drools all over the carpet...

The kind of dog that afterwards gives you this sheepish sorry adorable look that you can't help but forgive it, even though you know you'll be on your hands and knees scrubbing the floor again the very next day.

I've been feeling' pretty run down recently, that tried hazy worn-out feeling. I don't know if it's the heat, the smog, or a combination of both. My friend I'm staying with is out a lot, and his ex-girlfriend took the cable-decoder, so it's been pretty quiet around the apartment. It's surprising when you're in a city surrounded by 10 million other people just how easy it is to feel alone.

So I thought listening to a couple of my favourite tracks on my iPod would cheer me up. However my iPod (in it's infinite wisdom) delivered an entirely different song to the one I requested with a sheepish "I know this isn't what you asked for, but will this do?" look on its face... (If the iPod can't find song you asked for it will skip to the next track, even though the previous song was the one you actually did want to hear)

Nighttime in LA

I've been looking out the window for a while now, watching the lives playing out the in windows across the courtyard as i dry the dishes, my iPod supplying the soundtrack...

The couple making-out in the upstairs apartment silhouetted against the curtains, the girl in the apartment below that spends all night every night on her computer when all other lights have gone out, and the guy that stands in a doorway and smokes a never-ending sea of cigarettes, while idly throwing the occasional remark into the conversation going on inside, all the while the city's ever-present low dull drone of air-conditioners and traffic in the distance continues.

I'm going down to Santa Monica to see a client tomorrow. Getting out of the valley will be nice, it's cooler down by the coast—I think I might even go for a swim :)

Posted by Matt at May 22, 2005 11:23 PM

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