#The movie “The 9”

[remembertheplunge]

Busy Bee Journal entries

Monday 3/13 2017   6:46pm Tea Cups 

Bob  took the “ The 9”  movie ticket!. I walked it down to the State Theater, but, the door was locked. On the way back to Brendan, I encountered  Bob—or, the altered Bob (he’s had a lot to drink). He was happy to get it.

There’s a blonde homeless guy next to Tresetie’s— I gave him a TJSK bag—asked if he wanted to see a movie. H had a lot of stuff “maybe after dark”. 

So, I bought him a ticket for the 7:30pm “Logan” movie.

He turned it down again, citing his tendency to revolt as the reason. I smelled alcohol on him

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Razors

Deodorant

Blister cream (DJ’s feet)

DJ—Last night: Slaveway  (Safeway Store) “I haven’t been in a grocery store in about 4 years.”

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“You have a body builder’s way of thinking--mind.” Angelo,my personal trainer said  yesterday re: I hit 3 gyms in one day N: 3/15/17 Wed. 9:12am

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____After a month out on the street—including thru February’s howling storms—

DJ sleeps in his pillow bed in “the spare bed room”

Listening to country music.

3/16/17Thursday

7:40pm

S0…texted DJ that I need the house back to myself.

He texted before “I do love you”.

I texted “I think that you are a great guy.”

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Bone crushing hard—it went so deep in 4 days

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Drove my “new” table home—round—a pattern antique 

He , too, helps the drug—homeless. He said his home is his sanctuary. He lives alone. Few visitors.

He said “don’t cut off the connection…” (from DJ)

He went to Chico State. (As did I) In Breaking Bad fashion, as a pharmacy student, he manufactured 100s of thousands of dollars in Meth. Got 10 years prison. he was the  guy that sold me the table.

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DJ doesn’t want to come in—“so depressed. “Not hungry”.

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Ouch-----

5:25pm I’m sitting out in front of my house.

Greg  sleeps.

He showed me Mother Mary in one  tree and a woman’s face in another. They were on Brigsmore Ave near Starbucks.

I met him at the gas station on 9th across from the Adult Book Store around noon.

Last night he slept on the cement. He hadn’t eaten in two days. 

I bought cigarettes for Mike. I drove to Salvation Army to meet him at 11am. He was a no show.

I went to Preservation Coffee where a friend asked “What’s this (TJSK) project about? You could be murdered."

Then I drove to the gas station and met Greg. 

He had blue paint on his fingers . He paints house numbers on curbs for a living.

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I just tried to wake him. He’s really softly asleep.

Now what?

We encountered Strawberry Sterling outside Hamburger Habit.

Greg offered to go to re- hab with Sterling. Later, Greg threw his last dollar at Sterling….

Sterling is way down. 

Heroin sick.

Bad skin disorder.

Greg asked if Sterling had seen Greg’s girl friend Brook. No. 

Greg’s hunting for her.

I told him that I hunt for Jim

And, of everyone’s hunt for Frantz in last night’s movie.

(Frantz: 2016 movie)

Greg asked several times why I appeared today. 

Greg “What does it mean?”

“What do you want?”

Me “nothing” 

He’s healing to be with. Warm feel to him

End of this part of the entries from my  Busy Bee journal2017 journal

Notes: 6/22/2024

In mid March 2017 I began an intense involvement with the homeless that lasted until the end of that year. This included passing out bags, usually bags I bought at Trader Joes. I called them Trader Joe Survival Kits (TJSK). The bags included food, socks and toiletries. 

”The 9” movie was a movie about the homeless in Modesto. It was terrible and I walked out of the State Theater in Modesto mid movie .

 I had given my lawyer friend Bob (not his real name) a ticket to see the movie.

The Brendan is a movie theater in Modesto. Tea Cup was a restaurant adjoining the theater. Treseties is a restaurant about a block away. The blonde homeless man that I met there was named Mike. He was a handsome muscular blonde musician. He practiced his music like I practice my law he would later tell me. When he turned the movie ticket, I gave it to DJ who I spotted charging his phone outside of Tea Cup. We saw “Logan “ together. I then offered let him stay at may house that night. He turned me down, but, I did take him to the house, about a mile away, to give him a coat. It was cold that night. The next day, I found DJ asleep on a downtown side walk. I asked him again if he wanted to stay in my house. This time he said yes. He stayed a few nights, but, my “homed” friends feared I would be hurt or killed, so, I asked him to leave.

But, the seed was planted and I would go on to have several other  homeless men spend a few nights or a few weeks with me at my house. Including DJ until the end of October 2017.. 

Greg  was one of them. He came from a good family in New York. He was married and had children. And, he had severe mental illness issues. He was a magic man who would show me images in murals he had painted around town and tell me why they were significant. With one of the murals , I had to view it by holding a mirror and studying the mural in the mirror as he explained it.

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He was searching for his x girl fried Brook. I was searching for my deceased partner Jim. And the characters in the movie Frantz were searching for him (his memory). He was a German soldier who had been  been killed by a French soldier in WWI. The soldier who killed him was  among those" searching for" Frantz. 

Breaking Bad was a TV show about a an all American family who get heavily involved in Meth production.

I'm giving these entries to you in a raw version. Pretty much as I wrote it. I think it better catches the feel of the experience than a polished version.

[neogohann]

[xxx-ang3l-w1th-a-sh0tgun-xxx]

i have come to the conclusion that i love animated robots

[goryhorroor]

“1950s horror movies contrast radically with their 1940s predecessors. understandably – they were reflecting a whole new world. audiences wanted stories that connected directly to their lives, to the ever-expanding technology in their homes and workplaces. they also wanted horror movies that played to their fears – stoked by politicians – of the shadows that lay beyond their immediate, personal experience of the shiny american dream (applies to some of these movies).”

[creepst-crypt]

LaLaLaLaLa

[rubbish78]

Hugh Jackman as Wolverine/Logan Howlett shirtless moments

[canonically47]

why is everyone forgiving the minecraft movie it still looks like shit dont tell me the meme got to you are you seriously going to see this cash grab bullshit in theatres because hehehoho steve yearned for the mines????? hello????????

[kesopan]

"I was really hoping to see you again before I left," he said, starting to rifle through his backpack. "but even if you don't want to see me, I've brought you a gift."

fanart of shen yuan's plastic guanyin keychain from @nyoomerr's fic, you don't need poltergeists for sidekicks :D

++ sulky bingge for the soul :3c

[natdafat]

Being deadly 60 serious, I would have preferred if the whole minecarft movie looked like those Top Gear edits

Would really give the idea of oh dam, these people are in minecraft. As well its just funny

[iamjackstylerdurden]

imagine being lawrence gordon. you spent 6 hours in a dirty bathroom with a dead guy and a twink. you then had to cut your foot off and shoot and abandon said twink (that you spent the last 6 hours falling in love with). you make it down the hallway when the (not) dead guy grabs you and said ‘you work for me now’ (does being an apprentice even pay?). the next day you go to your apartment, take a big sigh of relaxation and turn on the tv. and 9/11 is happening

[incognitopolls]

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[nickloonie]

so what if they had ghosts

[tera-artt]

"Gregory, what did you do?!😰"

[cherryb0mb-s]

Can't stop thinking about the idea of a queer person having an opposite sex awakening via a psychedelic induced hallucination of themselves through the perspective of Justin Bieber performing One Less Lonely Girl, and the One Less Lonely Girl that is brought on stage is that opposite sex person of interest dressed in the attire of a crazed fan...

I don't think I'll ever stop thinking about this tbh.

[goryhorroor]

horror sub-genres: psychological

[unrinconmas]