Listening to the DEVICS today. A Los Angeles-based band who's relocated to Italy. Husband and wife. Who interestingly enough both lived in Hawaii. Sara Lov was kidnapped by her father and taken to Hawaii's neo-Bohemian new age community and then later to Israel. Dustin O'Halloran was seperated from his mother due to illness and was taken to live with his estranged father on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. Real interesting to me. They both knew they wanted to be musicians at a young age. They eventually made their way to Santa Monica College, met, clicked and now together they make musical magic. The Devics.

Yesterday it rained. A steady calming rain. That when watched through windows makes one think of hot soup and holding the one you love.

Last night I went to the memorial service for playwright John Belluso. John was an amazingly talented and important playwright who championed the voice of the disabled. He died suddenly a few weeks ago in NYC while workshopping one of his new plays. John was born with Engleman-Camurdrie Syndrome, a non-fatal bone disorder that limits muscle strength. A great man and artist and I was happy to have known him. He was 36.

Apparently, John once said when he died and went to heaven that he wanted to slide in there, with a piece of chocolate in one hand and a martini in the other, screaming " Whew! What a ride!"

Until next time,

Keith