i do some of my best thinking at a coffee shop i used to have a handfull of shops i loved to visit back home one was the bourgeois pig located on franklin ave just north of hollywood bld inside was shaped like a T the area leading up the bar has couches and easy chairs on both side internet ports all over the coffee bar was just that, a bar further down a pool table to the right an arabic style room with appropriate attire couches on all sides drapery string down small cushions to sit on in the middle dim lit this placed is the shit ............................. toi tai is a bitchen tai food place on hollywood too rock and roll atmosphere great tai food open till four in the am great place to sober up at ............................. 3clubs is the club big daddy spins at twice a week micha and i used to escort his wife to the club we'd meet her at her coffee shop in glendora follow her to her house drop off her car she'd sit in back of micha's car frank sinatra on she would hit my cig occasionaly thats when i could tell her day was long she would take one maybe two hits it relaxed her always entering through the back of the club it was machine like walk up to dj booth give hugs to the posh shake hands with the bouncers with a pat on the shoulder free drinks all night, everynight 'hey can we hang with you guys?' 'no' i said no a lot it was a high then i'd get high two lines in a mens restroom in hollywood the one for the urinal and the other to the stall for a line i must have heard that snort a thousand fucking times then that pause they would leave i'd go in one bump off my key for each nostril thats better gin and tonic for me jack and coke for micha seven and seven for big daddy after hours at the bar this is where the underbelly of hollywood is pinkest ripe to slice open stacks of cash being counted drinks being emptied and filled real after hours shit random tv faces pack up the equipment and we are out micha and i are gone six am maybe? .............................. canter's is an eatery in the heart of the city open all the time its past is rich with color everyone who was someone up until ten or so years ago went there tabloids and shit you know still popular best place to get sober in the city i met ron jeremy there i have his autograph on my wall only 'big name' signature i have ever asked for ............................... i miss that town