A: I use a lot of different names: Sees The Stars, Jolie Blond, A#1, Chollo Jook, White Rhino, Crusty, Ironweed, stuff like that.
Q: What do you do for a living?
A: I am a part-time beer humper at a gas station.
Q: And that pays the bills?
A: Some of them.
Q: How do you eat?
A: I get stuff from various food banks and soup kitchens.
Q: Where do you live?
A: In a crack motel in El Camino Village,
south of Los Angeles.
Q: How do you pay rent?
A: I have an insane movie extra roommate who
chips in and then there's the V.A. and the D.O.D.
Q: The Veterans Administration helps you?
A: As little as they can.
Q: Where did you live before the crack motel?
A: In my car under a bridge.
Q: And before that?
A: In a Russian dog house.
Q: A Russian dog house?
A: His name was Cesar. He was a Napolean Mastiff.
Q: And before that?
A: On the floor of a 10x10 office above
The Beverly Connection parking lot.
Q: And before that?
A: In various parks and parking lots.
Q: You weren't working?
A: No, I was working. I worked as a gypsy cabby driving call girls. Most interesting job I've had since I moved to California from Texas.
Q: What'd you do in Texas?
A: I was a B-52 aircraft mechanic.
Q: You couldn't find any B-52 work in Los Angeles?
A: No. They stopped making them.
Q: What other work have you done in Los Angeles?
A: I rode the back of a garbage truck once. Lotsa day labor stuff.
Q: What are your future goals? Where do you see yourself
five years from now?
A: Riding a boxcar on a freight train to Santa Fe.
Q: Would you be willing to accept menial labor?
A: It's ALL menial to me.
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