Soundtrack To A Moment

After walking all over North Central Los Angeles on Saturday from Venice Blvd to 3rd street, from Fairfax to Labrea and loving every bit of it, I realized how important the iPod is with regard to encouraging this walking, moving and dancing body. Speaking of dancing body, I enjoyed seeing this guy with his gigantic headphones on break a move on the corner of Farifax Blvd, it was as if he were reading my mind.

So on with the blog.... I discovered how far these two legs can go, and how it feels so good to get them going. But, when you're stuck out in the middle of nowhere because you've walked too far, it appears to be quite important to have certain songs as the backdrop to those thoughts, thoughts like 'how the hell did I get this far?' or 'I'm tired as hell' or even get a little deeper like the realization of how connected you are to everything around you, how all of sudden there are familiar faces, and everything seems a bit better in person as oppose to seeing it from inside a moving car.

So many decisions to make, walking in this city, but inside the customerless mattress store all the decisions become an exchange of words with the Nepalese Buddhist named Sage, as he gives me a tour on all the beds, and I jump right into them, like a trampoline, making sure the bounce is worth the price... he laughs a bit.... Later, I explored the boxing equipment store and I tried to ninja kick the thing that looks like a hanging bean bag, but the power kick kind of hurt my foot a little... It was interesting going inside the bakery and noticing how detailed they are, there was even a cake sculpted like a fish, and it looked like a fish, I wanted to taste it, just take a nice bite into it, but I didn't.. I enjoyed the walk through the Grove, it reminded me of how much LA itself can be like an amusement park, actually life can often be an amusement park, once you decide to really take a walk into it and take on all the mini adventures to come.

So if I could think of a soundtrack to a walking moment, hmmmmm, perhaps I would go with the songs below:

The XX - VCR (Matthew Dear remix)
http://hypem.com/#/track/1020711/The+XX+-+VCR+Matthew+Dear+remix+

The XX - Night Time (Danny G Pop Art Remixxx)
http://hypem.com/#/track/1020537/The+XX+Night+Time+Danny+G+Pop+Art+Remixxx+

Four Tet - Plastic People
http://hypem.com/#/track/1020517/Four+Tet+-+Plastic+People

I Blame Coco - Caesar ft. Robyn (Diplo Remix)
http://hypem.com/#/track/1020534/I+Blame+Coco+-+Caesar+ft+Robyn+Diplo+Remix+

Sufjan Stevens - Henney Buggy Band
http://hypem.com/#/track/1020622/Sufjan+Stevens+-+Henney+Buggy+Band

Fever Ray - Seven (The Twelves Remix)
http://hypem.com/#/track/1020647/Fever+Ray+-+Seven+The+Twelves+Remix+

Blockhead - Which One Of You Jerks Drank My Arnold Palmer
http://hypem.com/#/track/1020665/Blockhead+-+Which+One+Of+You+Jerks+Drank+My+Arnold+Palmer

Jan Turkenburg - In My Spaceship (Pilooski Remix)
http://hypem.com/#/track/1020658/Jan+Turkenburg+-+In+My+Spaceship+Pilooski+Remix+