[00:01.70]May 2016
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[00:07.30]Los Angeles
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[00:11.01]Checked into the hotel Cecil yesterday
[00:13.60]I was given a key for a room on the fifteenth floor
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[00:17.64]And I checked into it
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[00:21.10]It surprised me as I had heard the higher floors were for
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[00:27.81]Residents only
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[00:31.56]As of May this year
[00:33.16]According to the guy at the desk anyhow
[00:35.29]It's actually the second and third floors so he told me
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[00:41.47]I had read that Richard Ramirez stayed on the fourteenth floor
[00:45.25]And of course
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[00:48.36]I asked about it
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[00:51.54]But the clerk said nobody knew the specifics on the room
[00:54.53]In which stayed and I said Ah shit
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[01:01.59]Fifteen was the very top floor
[01:03.69]Right under the water tanks where a body was supposedly found
[01:07.34]
[01:11.62]I took the room and immediately walked around the hallways
[01:14.83]And noticed fire escapes all throughout
[01:18.99]
[01:21.70]Building going from the bottom to the top had easy access to the roof
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[01:28.24]The fire escape
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[01:31.82]That was of course if a fire
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[01:38.19]You aren't afraid
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[01:41.65]The noise from the streets was so overbearing
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[01:44.81]That I asked for a room on the other side of the hall
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[01:51.91]They said they got a room on the fourteenth floor if I didn't mind
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[01:56.08]And I said no not at all
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[02:01.88]So I took it and I guess it was on
[02:04.04]What you call the courtyard side of the building
[02:06.86]
[02:11.93]But there was the loudest thud coming from somewhere keeping me up
[02:16.16]And after thud thud thud
[02:18.71]Much exploring
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[02:22.53]It was a elevator motor so all the other floors I went roaming
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[02:32.43]I found the lower the floor the quieter the motor
[02:39.90]
[02:42.27]They gave me a room on the fourth floor
[02:44.38]But I didn't take the room
[02:45.40]Without getting a photo of my fourteenth guest floor door
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[02:51.94]And I finally fell asleep
[02:53.80]And when I woke up I went for a little walk
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[02:59.40]That morning
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[03:11.39]I'm walking around LA
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[03:15.22]Walking around downtown LA
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[03:18.88]And the sun is shining today
[03:21.65]
[03:22.59]For pushing 50 I'm doing great
[03:25.38]
[03:26.51]I'm walking around LA
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[03:30.23]Walking around downtown LA
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[03:34.00]And the sun is shining today
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[03:37.71]For pushing 50 I'm feeling great
[03:40.60]
[03:41.49]Saw Richard Edson parking his bike
[03:44.04]Saw Richard Edson parking his bike
[03:46.94]I said I like your acting in Spike
[03:49.20]I said I like your acting in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing
[03:54.37]And Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise
[03:57.78]
[03:59.22]And your liner notes on the Sonic Youth reissue
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[04:04.27]Then I said hey it was very nice to meet you
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[04:08.90]An interesting thing to know in regards to the Cecil
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[04:18.25]There are two elevator doors in the lobby and two up above
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[04:24.59]On the mezzanine level
[04:25.79]
[04:28.32]But in the famous footage
[04:29.69]That you see of the girl
[04:31.00]There's definitely an elevator door on the guest room hallway
[04:36.11]
[04:38.36]'Cause when you step out of the door
[04:40.12]To go to your room you see the white comms
[04:42.24]That were right in front of her and the wooden panel
[04:45.07]That goes sideways
[04:46.34]
[04:48.32]The amount of the activity in the lobby
[04:50.05]And the elevators in that hotel was more than
[04:52.93]Any in all my years of world traveling
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[04:58.37]The amount of staff members and maids
[05:00.19]And maintenance workers roaming around
[05:02.15]That place was totally mind boggling
[05:06.63]
[05:08.54]At all times young
[05:09.48]Foreign tourists were lined up at the front desk
[05:11.89]As long as lines you'd see at a busy big city post office
[05:15.50]
[05:18.58]Would I say it'd be easy to snatch up a girl
[05:21.04]And drag her up onto the roof in a 700-room place like that
[05:25.18]F**k yes
[05:26.06]
[05:28.65]Would I say she could have been invited up
[05:31.00]There by a group of people to check out the view yes
[05:34.96]
[05:38.73]Would I say she could have been pulled into
[05:40.78]One of the multiple shared bathrooms and choked out
[05:43.73]Then dragged up
[05:45.05]And dumped into a shark tank
[05:46.45]F**k yes
[05:47.45]
[05:48.97]Would I say that she could have easily went up
[05:51.31]There all on her own and went for a swim yes
[05:56.08]
[05:57.90]Would I believe even more a kid pulled a prank
[06:00.83]And is sitting back on a love in the soap opera yes
[06:05.51]
[06:09.01]'Cause I see no evidence to support her death besides
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[06:15.44]Vague news reports
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[06:19.11]And one photo of what were allegedly her parents showing up
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[06:24.44]At the LAX airport
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[06:29.11]Talk of losses but no legal documents have
[06:32.91]I ever seen to support it
[06:35.07]
[06:39.22]No lawyers speaking on behalf of the alleged Lams
[06:42.53]And no friends who ever spoke on Elisa's behalf
[06:45.94]
[06:49.48]I asked a parking lot attendant who had been working there for ten years
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[06:59.78]When that girl was found dead up there in 2013 were you here
[07:04.09]
[07:09.04]She said ah I don't believe no girl up there ever even died
[07:14.52]
[07:18.42]I said me either but can I ask why you think that
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[07:23.92]If you don't mind
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[07:29.34]She said you know how a little thing is said
[07:31.69]And gets bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger
[07:34.92]And bigger and bigger and bigger
[07:36.75]And bigger and bigger and bigger
[07:38.82]And I said yes
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[07:40.56]And she said I think that's what happened next door
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[07:45.14]I was completely with her
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[07:50.00]Caroline picked me up and I told her everything that happened
[07:53.86]She said cool glad you got that out of your system
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[07:58.88]Now let's go check into a real hotel down the street
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[08:02.63]And get down to Manhattan Beach and say hi to Cameron
[08:06.37]
[08:19.03]We're driving the 1-10 gonna say hi to a friend
[08:25.39]
[08:26.42]Spend the day on his TV set and show some love and respect
[08:32.98]
[08:34.02]We're driving the 1-10 and we stop for Italian food
[08:41.91]And saying hi to Cameron
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[08:45.35]Thought that we're doing right and good
[08:48.01]
[08:49.25]We talked about Bowie at length and he introduced me to Luke Wilson
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[08:56.82]And he said he liked my bass playing in Stillwater
[09:01.90]And I said I liked you in Vacancy and Bottle Rocket
[09:06.96]And we talked about James Caan and The Godfather
[09:10.67]
[09:11.90]And Cat Stevens songs and Steve Miller
[09:15.42]
[09:16.91]He said man I hope we get to work together
[09:20.71]I said man that would be great
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[09:23.62]It was nice to meet you
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[09:27.12]We left the set and drove back downtown the Biltmore
[09:30.65]
[09:35.90]As I feel asleep the mystery of Elisa Lam was still on my mind
[09:39.77]Like what was I some f**king investigator
[09:42.57]
[09:46.09]And she was real and for whatever reason her body was found in that water
[09:53.96]
[09:56.82]I'm sorry for the parents and their poor young daughter
[10:04.23]
[10:06.34]I'm sorry for your loss this world can be a real
[10:09.85]
[10:12.82]Pile of shit
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[10:16.23]But I'm counting my blessed tonight baby
[10:18.90]'Cause we're both healthy and alive
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[10:22.51]So let's embrace it
[10:24.06]
[10:26.36]Went off to the studio in Sherman Oaks
[10:29.27]Laid down a few new tracks
[10:34.18]
[10:36.54]Took a break a Peruvian restaurant down the street and thought
[10:40.26]The ceviche was the best I ever had
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[10:46.41]I told Nathan it was time for me to get on my flight back to San
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[10:56.72]Francisco
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[10:59.09]But wow what a great weekend and
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[11:15.52]On the way to Long Beach today
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[11:19.48]We stopped along the way
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[11:23.04]To see her brother and say hey
[11:25.97]
[11:26.82]To his family and the kids spraying
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[11:30.69]Each other with hoses in the yard
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[11:34.41]And I thought about when I was young
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[11:38.21]And how the yard was so much fun
[11:40.77]
[11:41.98]Oh I thought about when I was young
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[11:45.73]At the Long Beach airport waiting for the flight to San Francisco
[11:51.47]
[11:53.18]Said I like this airport it's not too f**king big enough
[11:58.42]At the Long Beach airport
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[12:03.41]Waiting for a flight to San Francisco
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[12:08.34]I said Caroline thanks for coming down I love you
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[12:13.35]She said I had a good time and I love you too