TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCKView From Here 2- Rio
Finally, at 2 AM, a soul-shivering collective post-blackout soccer cheer went up over the stricken City of God as the lights came back. Shit. One more day.
But even before that apocalyptic blackout, things were already looking pretty surreal. And how not? I’ve been on the road almost constantly, surrounded by all kinds of people and activity, yanked away from the usual solitary writing routine that keeps me halfway sane practically the whole time since I wrapped up my latest LA visit in October.
While there I haunted the tombs of the dead and payed homage to the living, a day at a time, finally stumbling thru the Day of the Dead celebrations at the crowded, darkened Hollywood Forever Cemetery a few days prior to that ever-popular Satanic mass known as Halloween.
Just before that somewhat anti-climactic farewell to the Land of Broken Dreams, I spent a marvelous last week in Hollywood with my old warrior brother Johnny Depp and his lovely family at his surrealistically luxurious Hollywood Hills estate. In retrospect, sitting back here at last at my open-air office by the rolling waves of Copacabana, the whole LA venture was a good and productive time all around.
After a well-attended book signing and reading in Echo Park with the great Lydia Lunch, I had a chance to get caught up with old pals Shane MacGowan (who went horizontal half-way through his show with the hyper-energetic Pogues and didn’t get up till it was over) and Gibby Haynes who shivered the reptilian timbers of the horrible new Globalist New World Order pseudo-rock venue at the nightmarish Nokia Theater downtown with a classic Butthole Surfer’s set. After all that drama though, I guess it was pretty relaxing for me to just hang for a spell with Johnny after so many years off the radar.
What a fun-filled week that was, touring his flawlessly decorated new Hollywood compound by golf cart with a half-drunk Captain Jack at the wheel. Somehow we made it through the week intact, and are both hopefully somewhat the better for it.
At the end of the day, it was actually rather hard to tear myself away from such comfy accommodations in California. But I had some books to promote in NY and a house full of kittens and vultures and monkies to get back home to in Rio. See ya soon, Captain Jack! And thanks for the amazing hospitality!
JS
nori said,
November 20, 2009 at 7:02 pm
I’m glad to here you had a great time in L.A., Jonathan. Really, it made me happy to read that!
cheers
nori said,
November 20, 2009 at 7:05 pm
and your kittens are adorable! vultures and a monkey, see, I’d love to have pets like that.
Kelly said,
November 22, 2009 at 4:46 am
Groovy!
Christy said,
December 2, 2009 at 6:42 am
So glad you got to spend sometime with Johnny Glad to hear it. I am sure it has been awhile since you guys seen each other. Love your blogs keep them coming. Much Love to you. XOXOXOXO
karina_aka said,
December 2, 2009 at 10:10 am
WOOOOOOOOW!
Lu.moraes said,
December 2, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Coisa de fã, eu me senti muito+perto do Johnny.
golden flower said,
December 2, 2009 at 10:36 pm
So all those photos are pretty cool; Johnny looks good; but why did you have to kill me with the photo of the kittens???
golden flower said,
December 2, 2009 at 10:37 pm
They are just too f…….g cute!!