Los Angeles Thread #8: Strong and Prouty

Welcome back, ILX!

cinefamily has an "alternative projections: experimental film in los angeles" series starting up. i may be interested in the wallace berman one next saturday afternoon...

http://www.cinefamily.org/films/alternative-projections-experimental-film-in-los-angeles-1945-1980/

they've had a bunch of these screening at the egyptian the last few months, i've been to most of them (including a version of that wallace berman screening that had a slightly different line-up), and they've been excellent

this thread is dedicated to the tru hunx of los angeles real estate:

http://www.strongandprouty.com/about-craig--whit.asp

details about la pyro's weird russian-german grifter mom

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0104-hollywood-arson-20120104,0,1021006.story

A website listing Dorothee Burkhart as administrator and the address she and her son shared on Sunset Boulevard says that a woman named "Annabelle" provides "soul-relaxation massage." The site's advertisements also note the masseuse's "curvaceous body shape."

oh my!

http://www.hollywoodtantramassage.com/hours--rates-directions-important-info.php

that looks like a legit location for a fap

If you're a fan of Barbara Hershey/Seagull, or seeing Fire Island in the late '60s, you should probably go to this (as I would, goddammit).

http://www.americancinemathequecalendar.com/content/last-summer-0

My favorite coming-of-age movie. I have a VHS I taped from a cable showing.

I first saw it on broadcast TV 30+ years ago, kinda cut to ribbons.

May copy has boobs, so I assume it's more whole. I had previously seen a broadcast version with that cut out.

"My copy," that is.

thanks for the heads up, dr m

thank you for my new screen name

can sing that to the Blue Danube waltz

ahh, the director did the play it as it lays movie too.

and The Swimmer!

btw John-Boy Walton is really enticing jailbait in Last Summer.

rowr!

i want to throw a cheese/charcuterie/hors d'oeuvres potluck party sometime in the near-ish future, and i want my laxors to come and bring awesome food and drink and celebrate like a mensch. would anybody be up for that?

Definitely up for that!

that would be a HELLZ YEAH

actually, instead of that, who wants to meet up for charcuterie/cheese type nibbles at a more central venue? like next weekend? ish?

this looks good and most cheeses (etc) are $5 each:

http://www.mignonla.com/menus/cheese-food

guys, I miss you

come back!

Cypress Hill, Tha Dogg Pound, The Egyptian Lover, Kid Frost, King T, Mellow Man Ace, Public Enemy, Sir Jinx are getting together to play a FREE show for a cause. "Occupy Skid Row" has been put together by Skid Row activist General Jeff and Chuck D going down on Sunday, Jan. 15 on Skid Row in Downtown Los Angeles from 1:30pm - 5:30pm according to AllHipHop.com.

I was about to say, Remy, return to the light.

Also I know there were vague plans for something this weekend but I'll have to bow out; my good friend Y has just come home from major heart surgery and Ms. S and I, being her nearest neighbors, are pitching in to help her and husband as we can.

the vague plans are so vague it's likely not gonna happen. it's so hard to get people together in one place in los angeles! especially with all these damn grownup responsibilities. i have such a love/hate relationship with this town.

I would've been hard pressed to do this weekend as well.

Putting in a new water heater this weekend, so I'm out for Saturday

washing my hair

i want to come back and visit. i love l a. my bf thinks it's all freeways and hollywood and wants to move to portland which is just not an actual city imo.

I would love to come back, but gf is in school here for 6+ years more, and I can't afford a vacatino right now. maybe this summer. i was really happy for the first four years i lived there; only the last one sucked

i want to come back and visit. i love l a. my bf thinks it's all freeways and hollywood and wants to move to portland which is just not an actual city imo.

i've had a couple friends from nyc come out here and visit me and i think they all had that same initial characterization of "ehh you have to drive all the time and LA ppl are super obnoxious." but i'm 95% certain everyone i've hosted here has had a really good time. (the trick = stuffing people with all the amazing food options here)

also it helps to remind them that people in nyc are pretty horrible in their own ways. (he says with love)

everybody's horrible everywhere.

I've only lived here for a few years but it doesn't really strike me as a city you should really visit

really

it's intimidating. you have to have good organizational and navigational skill. and not try to do the whole area at once -- pick a part of town and stay with it, save the stuff that's 20 miles away for another visit or another time.

i love love LOVE los angeles!!!! tbh i was totally prepared to hate it, but i was blown away by my first visit. probably helps that every time i visit, i am in the company of someone who lived there for almost 10 yrs and loves the shit out of it.

i'm a corny hipster fuck but to me northeast l.a. (and the upper hollywood/los feliz/franklin hills area just west of it) is some really great natural/architectural beauty and i'd take tourist friends there if i wanted l.a. to blow them away. the view from the gold line around mt. washington is like woah.

l.a. takes awhile to love, i know few people who came here and loved it right away (and most of them burned out on it kinda quickly.) i have a love/hate relationship w/it myself, maybe b/c i lived in nyc and chicago and miss them both.

i took 6 months to love it, but i never looked back. boston is great and all, but food is too expensive and there's not enough of it that's good.

the "car culture" part (along with the sheer sprawling size of the place) is the only real barrier to true love. it's not just a pain in the ass, it's cognitive dissonance -- i come from a really different place.

the traffic has gotten markedly worse since when i moved here in 1999(!), slowly but in a retrospectively alarming fashion.

Yeah it's easily reaching tipping points at many spots. At a certain point freeway expansion won't cut it and you'll either see people going "Okay, fine, mass transit for real" or sheer insanity on top of the already present cognitive dissonance. Speaking especially of OC here.

it used to be "oh nice i'm leaving work at 1 PM, no traffic" and now that's not the case. 1 HR from santa monica to silver lake. not to mention random horrible traffic jams on weeknights at 11 PM and almost constant jams on the freeways on weekend afternoons.

fuck 1am traffic jams

On the plus side, even with all these extra cars the air is much cleaner than it used to be.

my own experience is that i lived here for a month on an internship in 2009 (first time ever in LA) and then moved back 'permanently' last september. during that time in between, finishing up school in nyc and then moving back home for a spell, i honestly thought about one day moving back to LA rather often. and then i did! and i am mostly very glad i did. i still miss things about nyc (mostly my friends who are still there) but the idea of moving back there at this point seems totally unreal to me.

noooooooo

Just move out here, Stevie.

So! This is happening March 2:

http://www.attheecho.com/2011/12/07/friday-03-03-12-natural-history-museum-first-fridays-with-zola-jesus-natural-history-museum/

That also happens to be my birthday. Plots are being hatched.

zomg (more for EMA than ZJ admittedly but still)

this opens tonight:

http://theboxla.com/exhibitions/index.html

you may see me there.

i just came here to post about that! i may also swing by

there is also a six-mile route 66 walking tour tomorrow at 8am

https://www.facebook.com/events/343897635621838/

that LAFMS exhibit linked above is GREAT, go see if you are at all interested in weirdo '70s LA experimental weirdo culture

sounds cool

i loved the organ with the dildos threaded through the footpedals, sustaining a single chord endlessly.

also, there was a really tiny christmas-themed red toy piano -- like keychain-size -- that said "paino" on it. (i.e., "piano" in low-budget engrish.)

'weirdo '70s LA experimental weirdo culture'

lol drunk

we tried playing some of the instruments and then one of the musicians told us "you can't play the sculpture"

the view from the gold line around mt. washington is like woah.

This is my daily commute! It is beautiful, I bike it now.

so how about that dexter episode thats playing out in real life by the hollywood sign? lots of crazy ass murders going on as of late..

The guy killed by the guy randomly shooting at cars in Hollywood was a good friend of my co-worker. So crazy.

oh geez :/

Changing the subject...who has eaten somewhere good and interesting recently? I need a resto rec, can be anywhere from hole in the wall to swanky. I was running down the J Gold list but actually found it a bit limiting and overly familiar.

Im going to the gorbals tomorrow which I hope is good.. I can report back.

Scottish and Jewish food, yeah - it's like they knew I was coming.

How about any of these from J Gold - Akasha, Kiriko, Mayura?

i ate half a pig's head there (and the eye)

have you been to ramen jinya

I really liked the food at Palate, and actually thought it was kind of awesome that it was on Auto Row in Glendale. Pretty old, bourgie crowd though.

Speaking of which - we have this new-ish Italian place Maximiliano in Highland Park and it seems to attract the strangest people. I do see Marc Maron there a lot, though. It is Andre Guerrero (Oinkster) and the food is good, a little too homestyle at times but tasty. But the people are WEIRD.

xp-no, tell me

very good noodle place in studio city (two other locations too, one near wilshire and la brea and another on sawtelle by olympic.)

http://www.jinya-la.com/ramen/index.html

Cool, I put it on the ARList. I don't have a good noodle place.

it's by no means fancy but i liked mr. ramen in little tokyo when i ate there a few days ago. i don't eat out here as much as i'd like to.

i did go to animal after the new year tho, NOM

I wanna try Animal. Looks like I will be going Mayura. I tell you what I think about the food later,

I really liked the food at Palate, and actually thought it was kind of awesome that it was on Auto Row in Glendale. Pretty old, bourgie crowd though.

Seconding this. I've driven by the place enough times, so I finally check it out. Good food there.

Chimu in downtown is astonishingly good, but I heard that they're in the middle of moving to a better location?

It's moving? I thought it just closed. It was good. Delicious lomo saltado

Mo Chica in Mercado La Paloma is same people/similar menu.

Also Little Bear is new Guerrero gastropub downtown:
http://www.littlebearla.com/

it's by no means fancy but i liked mr. ramen in little tokyo when i ate there a few days ago. i don't eat out here as much as i'd like to.

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the only reason to go to mr ramen is if you dont want to wait 30 mins to get into daikokuya

oh ohhhhhhhhh it's on

What about Hungry Cat? It's expensive and fishy?

daikokuya is right next to mr ramen tho! its not diss, I eat at mr ramen once in a while

no diss

awwww

the best place I've eaten in southern california so far (this is prob not true but maybe is) is at magic wok in cerritos, ate there a few weeks ago and holy shit

I heard Cerritos has a substantial auto mall.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-medvclp5PDo/TYFOt-O4tEI/AAAAAAAAE24/ANTpi7W2qRQ/s400/DSCN5842.JPG

Haha

what is it from??

Hey is it really going to rain today/tomorrow? I am thinking about washing my car

http://www.mckare.info/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/its-go-time.jpg

simpsons, 100% chance of rain tomorrow, I stumbled into the la contempo art show opening yesterday man it was horrible man

whole lotta beautiful rich looking young women tho

was considering going there this weekend but it is far and a schlep

and if it's looking like rain then hell naw

jinya is good (not amazing, but solid). the studio city one has verrry long waits sometimes.

my offer still stands for a wine/cheese/nibbly things fap. preferably next month, when i'll have more money.

i did go to animal after the new year tho, NOM

nom is right. oxtail poutine ftw. my only complaint when i went there was that after the small plates we ordered an entree-ish piece of steak and it took forever to come out (and wasn't much meat for the price).

Mo Chica in Mercado La Paloma is same people/similar menu.

Head chef Zarate though isn't there - he's been busy with Picca over on the west side.

I heard Cerritos has a substantial auto mall.

Some really amazing Indian restaurants just next to Cerritos on Pioneer Blvd (technically in Artesia)

^^rajdhani is a very special place

the only reason to go to mr ramen is if you dont want to wait 30 mins to get into daikokuya

As an alternate, you can always go to Sanuki No Sato in Gardena and get the udon.

Still I'm vaguely pleased that Orochon Ramen is opening up a new location in Burbank just up the street from me. I'm a little suspicious about the whole stunt "super spicy" ramen.

jar that happened with us too (the meat entree thing)

jbr*

Still I'm vaguely pleased that Orochon Ramen is opening up a new location in Burbank just up the street from me. I'm a little suspicious about the whole stunt "super spicy" ramen.

― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Friday, January 20, 2012 7:33 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

It's pretty good ramen if you don't want to torture yourself. Buncha friends and a couple people around me all did the challenge last time I was there and ended up incapacitated or throwing up, coming back out of the restroom, and blear-eyed-ly shouting "it hurts more coming back up than going down"

anything happening this weekend that's free or really cheap?

There's a couple of free Pacific Standard Time events going on. I'm going to this on Sunday:
http://pacificstandardtimefestival.org/events/accidents-in-abstract-painting-by-richard-jackson/

Alt Proj looking good:

http://www.cinefamily.org/films/alternative-projections-experimental-film-in-los-angeles-1945-1980/

I can report that I found Mayura to be acceptable but unremarkable Indian food. I might go if it was closer and I had a craving, but driving to Culver City for that? No way.

Also, I finally saw Pina and it was good. I reckon I'd be a good German dancer. Also it was my first "twenty-first century" 3D movie! I enjoyed that.

Next week's Alt Proj looks great, actually. I might make that one if I can. I haven't seen a fair few of those films, but the Pat O'Neill, Fred Worden and David Wilson (pre-Jurassic Technology CalArts film) pieces are all straight fire.

i'm going to the one in like an hour

and i'm going to the andrea fraser PST performance on monday

Cool!

"Venice Pier" is great. I would love to see a print of that again but I am not going to make that show.

i am... staying in and watching it's garry shandling's show on dvd. it's not pst or cinefamily, but it's got a similar sense of the absurd.

admrl (or anyone else) do you know if any of those culver city galleries are by-appointment-only? planning on doing some gallery-hopping next weekend.

It depends on the gallery, I think. Most of them have open hours during the week and have appointments on the weekend. I admire your appetite for art and culture, I'm too fucking exhausted to make half of the stuff you do! What's the secret?

speaking of culver city, this is opening tonight:

http://ghebaly.com/exhibition-detail/3130

Donna (or anyone), did you make this? I was sorry to miss it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on9swfP7xqc

Oh while I am on this thread I have the following question.

When I am driving along the 110 thru Highland Park into South Pasadena, I can see people running and cycling along the bed of the Arroyo Seco. I wanna ride my bike down there, does anyone know how/where you get in???

Also - any good recs. bike routes in Northeast/Eastside LA would be most welcome.

Thanks!

http://www.arroyoseco.org/ArroyoSecoBikepath.htm

Looks sweet!
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-e_mCSicglH0/TtqQjl1rtlI/AAAAAAAAgX4/vbOy4xtpJPw/s912/IMAGE_ED289C3F-3440-4437-B8DD-6732F5F6F173.JPG

I'm going to try to make the Jackson plane crash too.

What's the secret?

not have anything better to do, basically

/ work 9-5 and not have any other kind of personal project to involve myself in. hoping this changes soon tho...

planning on visiting soon, maybe early March - friend just moved across. Will be back here with what-to-do questions soon once I've done my basic research...

I'm going to try to make the Jackson plane crash too.

a. and i most likely will be there. it'll be the first time we've gotten in the car this weekend!

some photos from that event (including cute dogs and a remote-control plane that a guy was flying around while the real plane was being fixed with duct tape).

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stockholm_cindy/sets/72157628991820401/with/6746774725/

Here's the whole flight as I saw it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2zzs2SkTBE

I was trying to follow it close up and lost it on the final run to the target, so I didn't see the finale and don't think I got it on video. Haven't looked at my footage yet.

:D

Some better photos: http://www.glendalenewspress.com/photos/tn-pas-0127-artplane-pg,0,2199499.photogallery?index=tn-pas-0127-artplane-pg-009

http://www.glendalenewspress.com/media/photo/2012-01/214476960-22192239.jpg

Metal Machine Music rears its head again in Long Beach.

http://www.csulb.edu/org/uam/

i forget whether i mentioned re:composition here -- i definitely posted about it on facebook.

LOS ANGELES (January 18, 2012) - Coming up next week, SCI-Arc hosts the Los Angeles showing of the Kaleidoscope of Pacific Standard Time (K-PST)’s RE:COMPOSITION, a two-city thematic program of four new performances dedicated to the liberating spirit of California-native John Cage, in honor of his centenary in 2012.

Conceived and produced by independent curator Julie Lazar, RE:COMPOSITION considers how current compositional practices are enabling artists in a variety of disciplines to re-conceive and reconstitute aspects of their art production.

RE:COMPOSITION will run in Los Angeles for two nights only, with the same program presented on Friday, Jan 27 and Saturday, Jan 28 from 8-10pm.

http://www.sciarc.edu/news.php?id=2046

that looks awesome but idk that i can make either night :(

A multi-performance mini-music fest in Eagle Rock this Sunday (part of PST).

http://www.sassas.org/welcomeinn/

oh dude, i'm sure i've given these guys free advertising before, but pita kitchen in sherman oaks makes me weep tears of joy.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/pita-kitchen-sherman-oaks

and we checked out the digital darkroom exhibit at the annenberg (in century city). some of it was great, some of it not so much. "photoshop" as a genre is still figuring itself out.

Hey, which hotel is this with the cobblestone driveway?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhkDdayA4iA&feature=player_embedded

Did you see Anthony Bourdain Layover Los Angeles? sort of interesting, even if he didn't go much East of Atwater or South of Koreatown.

good times in temecula. the balloon photos are from THIS MORNING.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stockholm_cindy/collections/72157629103882425/

after the ride, we took a party bus back to the site.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7016/6791498555_0b98dd6c19.jpg

so the zola jesus/EMA thing is in march but this week's first fridays at NHM features the soft moon and light asylum (haven't heard former, not crazy about latter) and a performance by julia holter (who i <3)

Saw Julia Holter at the Welcome Inn Time Machine thing in Eagle Rock yesterday. Playing a little Korg synth in a couple James Tenney pieces. Overall I liked the show, but there was a whole lotta nothing between the occasional somethings.

http://artinfo.com/news/story/758572/legendary-artist-mike-kelley-dead-at-58-an-apparent-suicide

r.i.p.

ummm...woah

what the fuck is up today

anything happening this weekend?

Fred Frith in Eagle Rock.

http://sassas.org/adhoc/

thanks! tickets acquired.

Next weekend, whoops. Went to the SASSAS site to see if any photos/video was posted for the earlier event, and saw it.

http://www.voiceplaces.com/modern-times-forever-los-angeles-1579285-e/

this is happening...

The Danish collective SUPERFLEX built a life-size McDonald's replica, then flooded it to foreshadow capitalism's doom for the 21-minute film it made in 2009. The collective's new exhibition, right across from LACMA at 1301 PE, has a much subtler feel than the McDonald's flood, with framed posters downstairs and tastefully designed black "safety" lamps hung upstairs. But the quiet, slow-moving film that plays out on an upstairs wall is actually fairly aggressive. Entitled Modern Times, Forever -- at 240 hours long, it's the longest film ever made, the collective claims -- it simulates the demolition of Stora Enso, a massive modernist office building in Helsinki. Originally, the film played for its 10-day duration on the street in front of its subject, so you could see modernism persisting and disintegrating at the same time. 6150 Wilshire Blvd.; through March 3. (323) 938-5822,

anything happening this weekend?

Big SF/LA Cacophony Society movie and retrospective going on in Santa Ana on Saturday: http://www.intothezonemovie.com/

haha this thread has gotta be the most hifalutin of all the city threads. we should be posting more about eating beer brats at the racetrack (burrrrrrrp).

This is happening this weekend, if we want to class it down:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/398651_2905109859534_1014135054_32867942_564266442_n.jpg

jezette marie looks strangely out of place.

(That's a biweekly wrestling showcase for a pro wrestling school, by the way)

My friend does music cues/announcing for them! I'm told it's fun. One of these days I will go to it, but Sun Valley.

Did you see Anthony Bourdain Layover Los Angeles? sort of interesting, even if he didn't go much East of Atwater or South of Koreatown.

I'm surprised when any show about LA goes that far east or south!

The Shield did.

I should say any lifestyle show...

i would like to spend more time in east LA

i went to leimert park last night for the first time!

i would like to spend more time in east LA

me too. my last trip out there was for gamelan music at cal state l.a. and tacos at guisados in boyle heights.

ansel adams photos from 1940 l.a.:

http://www.drkrm.com/ansel_adams.html

opening reception 2/18 (a saturday). anyone up for this + a drink at the golden gopher?

l.a. zine week:

http://lazineweek.wordpress.com/

I would like to spend more time in west LA. I had a surprisingly nice time in Culver City the other week.

rancho park > echo park

this place in CC is yum: http://www.grandcasinobakery.com/

West LA is rad! Why were you surprised that you had a nice time over here?

It's so strange and different over there. There are no trees but the streets are very clean. And very mediocre things are incredibly popular. I feel like I am on some weird vacation when I am there.

I don't know, man, it's just a different world. I'm pretty mystified by it, tbh.

I like visiting but I don't see how I could live there and not feel a great angst.

and maybe...guilt

and a kind of jealousy

and a sort of quiet, unresolved anger

the non wealthy parts of west la (including the neighborhood "west la") are very interesting to me in that the are so anonymous. if i wanted to disappear/run away that's where i'd move.

what's west la

it's a good question

I don't know man. I love living here. It's a little more spread out than East LA, but you've got some really good restaurants (especially Italian), easy access to lots of shopping and some really good movie theaters, a record store that I love (Record Surplus), plus closer to the ocean.

Also it's quiet, which I appreciate.

"i don't go west of fairfax" is the "i don't go above 14th street" of LA

There are some good movie theaters. The ocean, I don't know, how great is it really?

My neighborhood is damn quiet. Sitting by the screen door right now and all I hear is birdsong.

honestly tho the expo line extension means i am several times more likely to head over to west LA

Plus we have less hipsters. I guess the pest control is better over here.

those quieter parts are nice. beverly hills makes my skin crawl tho.

like I used to work in westchester, lived in lawndale and redondo for a bit, but like, what's west la

Beverly Hills is the worst, I will grant you.

Since the mid 1990s, Palms has seen an upturn in its fortunes, with the revival of Culver City's adjacent downtown adding new life to the area. The district's diversity, affordability, and central location have made it an appealing center for young professionals seeking alternatives to traffic-choked Westwood and Santa Monica, but still wanting to live in a diverse urban setting in a neighborhood relatively close to the beach.

West LA seems like all "hipsters" to me whenever I go, just that weird dayglo classically "LA" kind of hipster. But I don't go there enough to have much opinion. I go for movie theater or beach or to buy clothes. I would go more if I could ride metro, for sure.

I think of "I don't go west of Fairfax" as "I don't go South of Embankment".

I liked going to the Landmark in Culver City. It was cool to see so many teenagers at a movie about Pina Bausch.

my roommate used to live in palms, she was mostly eh about it

Remy used to live in Palms. jeff lower case jeff used to live in Culver City. I'd move West if I got a job over that way.

palms is p horrible but this place is alright

http://eatchego.com/wp-content/themes/chego/images/logo.png

chillax

A friend of mine lives in Manhattan Beach and surfs every day, he loves it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EazY2R6HHoo

ok see I thought I was confused but if you're including manhattan beach in west la then you are insane

I'm not calling it West LA but I do think of it is west, yes. I think of it as its own thing, really. It's not really near anywhere.

Also I was thinking about the ocean

I showed Google Earth of my street to a friend who lives in an East Coast city and she said "do you live in the suburbs?". I said "I'm about a 5-minute drive from downtown LA!". This is a funny place

there's a new roscoes around culver city btw

my one friend described my neighborhood as "the kind of place where i bet they shoot a lot of gay porn"

haha

aww you only have one friend =(

roscoes is so great

so glad I started eating meat again. I'm eating a sausage as I type this

my one AND ONLY friend

j/k i was talking to myself :(

roscoe's <333

we did a FAP at the hollywood roscoe's once, a few years ago. i went back the night of the tune-yards show last year -- the chicken was good, but the dish i ordered came with grits, which were terrible. note to self: stick with the chicken and waffles.

Has anyone itt eaten at Red Medicine? Spencer? =)

Syd Mead exhibition at Forest Lawn Glendale of all places

This is straight out of Snow Crash but goofy:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/02/musician-arune-kavaliauskaite-assault-charge.html

milton glaser exhibit at smmoa:

http://smmoa.org/index.php/exhibitions/details/255

(glaser's documentary made me smile in a big way. it may still be on streaming netflix.)

I've not been to Red Medicine yet.

I just remembered how we saw Peter Baynham that time at Amoeba and really regret not saying something to him. I mean, how many times would he get recognized in LA??

I'm guessing...none?

Might have felt like Coogan for a day.

Richard Bishop of the Sun City Girls playing a solo guitar set at the Museum of Jurassic Technology next month

tickets to 8:30 show: bought!

also, per my FB comment thread, the new medieval joint in DTLA should be our next FAP location:

http://excaliburrestaurant.com/

Oh man, I want to see Richard Bishop! Echo show with Michael Gira, too?

Vertov series starts at UCLA this weekend: http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/2012-02-11/kino-eye-revolutionary-cinema-dziga-vertov

dudes, i see a (post-excalibur) dumpling crawl in our future.

http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-critics-choice-20120209,0,6188057.story

I am all for this.

A reminder again about Zola Jesus/EMA at the Natural History Museum on my birthday in March...

duplings

dude from awesome tapes from africa blog is DJing in silverlake tonight and friday before moving to berlin - i'm going tonight:

https://www.facebook.com/#!/events/107539899369064/

you have the best life.

Grimble Grumble playing an in-store at Permanent Records this Saturday at 5pm (they're also playing Sunday at Part Time Punks' MBV thing)

lee ranaldo at the satellite on april 10th, tix $15. so excited that he's finally doing a "song" album!

look who's playing at vitello's later this month!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbYhbhTzV3A&feature=fvst

I thought it was John Travolta judging by the still.

Had my FAP ticket punched and everything

i tried which wich, the new sandwich chain with a location in studio city. the sandwich was good (i got turkey on wheat with hummus and oil & vinegar) but the layout of the store is maddening. not enough seating, hardly anywhere to stand while you're waiting to pick up your order. maybe other locations will be different.

need to spend more time on ventura someday

did anyone experience the car-horn symphony last week?

http://laist.com/2012/02/17/httpwwwlaimyourscom10202car-horn-sy.php

also maybe it's just me but i feel like i heard a lot more honking in nyc than i do here, even when i walk by high-traffic areas

need to spend more time on ventura someday

the ventura/laurel cyn intersection has become my second home. i'm there several times a week (come stalk me, we'll have lunch).

also maybe it's just me but i feel like i heard a lot more honking in nyc than i do here, even when i walk by high-traffic areas
― Prince Rebus (donna rouge), Friday, February 17, 2012 4:55 PM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

For sure people here honk way more for any stupid reason. It was pretty nerve racking to me when I first drove in NY

Like there will be a totall traffic jam where you are just not going to move and peope are honking like crazy just because. In LA people just sit there and stare at the car in front of them.

Yeah, that's because we've given up.

this is happening:

http://welcometolace.org/exhibitions/view/staalplaat-soundsystem/

LACE will host Dutch sound artist collective Staalplaat Soundsystem for a 10 day residency 20 Feb. – 1 March 2012. Within the current mood of worshipping the latest technology in media art, Staalplaat Soundsystem provides a breath of fresh air, reminding us of the 100-year tradition of noise-making machines, in which “mad” inventors and various kinds of artists operating in the margins of the art world meet. During their residency Staalplaat members Geert-Jan Hobijn and Carlo Crovato will construct a site specific, interactive sound installation that will also serve as the focal point for a participatory sound performance. They will also lead a two-day youth workshop, culminating in a concert.

Using “everyday electronic junk” scavenged from thrift stores and donations, Hobijn and Crovato will fashion new “sound machines” that will be controllable by the audience via smartphones. As the residency proceeds the artists will create and add more machines to an ever-growing installation in LACE’s main gallery space. In the final phase of the residency they will re-locate the installation to the storefront space and set it up so that LACE visitors and the general public can conduct the “orchestra” via their mobile phone both inside and outside from the Walk of Fame.

ABOUT STAALPLAAT SOUNDSYSTEM

Since its inception in 2000, Staalplaat Soundsystem has started creating a multitude of “machine installations” using all manner of consumer electronics, such as a dozen floor polishers (Sweet Sissy and the Ballroom Hiss), and Avantilator, a composition for one hundred electric office fans. At the heart of this work is a low-tech philosophy: to make installations appear simple, revealing rather than concealing how they are made.

Artists participating in the LACE residency include Staalplaat Soundsystem founder Geert-Jan Hobijn and Carlo Crovato. Staalplaat Soundsystem has been showing works at several international festivals, museums, galleries and events like Avanto (Helsinki), Sonar (Barcelona), 798 South Gate space (Beijing), DEAF (Rotterdam), Transmediale (Berlin), DOM (Moscow), Ars Electronica (Linz), Todaysart (Den Haag), MOCA Taipei, Museeum Weserburg (Bremen), Townhouse Gallery (Cairo), Steirischer Herbst ( Graz), ZKM (Karlsruhe), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Khoj International Artists (New Dehli), and Auditorium (Rome).

For more information on Staalplaat Soundsystem, visit staalplaat.org.

proper concert on feb 27 (a monday night).

I'm going to that wrestling show tomorrow. CULTURE.

date and i are going to see justin bond tonight (s/he's performing saturday and sunday as well)

On a gentler note to the LACE show, Machine Project is having an infantcore show Saturday.

What?

After our friend Sally brought her baby Otto to play Nate Page’s Storefront Plaza we realized that we had a perfect baby vivarium on our hands, and if we were going to invite a bunch of babies to crawl around for an afternoon, why not put them to work as variables in a algorithmic sound composition?

How does that work?

Scott Cazan has written some software for the occasion that uses a camera and a computer to track the movement of the babies and convert that information into different sounds.

http://machineproject.com/archive/events/2012/02/18/infantcore/

Babies Making Music to Make Babies To

Okay so, looks like my sweets and I will be doing a quick last minute trip up to Amoeba and the LA Zine Fest at the Last Bookstore this afternoon so maybe see folks there?

http://www.galleristny.com/files/2012/02/24hrmike.jpg

ooooh i would like to see that

The corridor in that image looks suspiciously like CalArts, but I guess it could be any hospital/government facility.

it does look somewhat calartian!

the clean and times new viking at the echo, you guys.

http://www.criticalmob.com/news/more/the_clean_announces_us_dates_with_times_new_viking

Will be out of town then, sadly.

tickets go on sale friday.

!

in other show news, thee oh sees are playing downtown in march

admrl u going to vanessa renwick @ MJT tomorrow perchance?

No, I saw her show last night at CalArts and I think she is showing the same movies. I liked some of her work (Britton, SD is great) but there was quite a lot that didn't click for me.

hey folks, I will be in your fair environs next week. Flying in on monday, out on thursday. anyone for a fap or wanna head with me to some ucb/nerdmelt comedy events?

I'm in for something... What part of town are you staying in?

Do y'all know any really great moving walkways in LA that are NOT at LAX?

Also here is something else we could potentially talk about:

http://blogs.laweekly.com/squidink/2012/02/top_10_sandwiches_in_la.php

I've had the Langer's and Philippe's sandwiches, both of which I enjoyed. I don't have much to add other than I probably should eat less sandwiches

i had a good south american-style banh mi from a food truck for lunch

that sounds nice. What truck? Sorry if that's too personal a question

i just...i just CAN'T

j/k it was this one http://roaminghunger.com/chasing-paradise

haven't really done the food truck thing in awhile but it was so so nice out today and i didn't bring lunch

That does look nice. Isn't it beautiful today? So beautiful. I made lunch at home, sat on porch and looked at mountains. Los Angeles!

i had so much fun in LA this past weekend that i'm thinking of coming back down in april. seattle-LA $200, hell yes.

I'll be in Lakeview, then Fullerton

I've had the Langer's and Philippe's sandwiches, both of which I enjoyed. I don't have much to add other than I probably should eat less sandwiches

i've had both of these plus the godmother (bay cities deli).

bay cities is great but always crowded and too far away
also joan's on third sandwiches are always A+ imo (good celebrity stalking place too)

this is my local. it's not quite an east coast style italian sub shop, but they do a good sandwich. very limited hours, sadly.

http://studiosub.com/menu.html

larchmont village wine shop has my fav sandwiches. basic straightforward stuff but done really well. also the gals who make the sandwiches are sweet.

my favorite higher-end sandwiches are at the artisan cheese gallery:

http://www.artisancheesegallery.com/our-menu

the pickles they serve with the panini are to die for.

studio sub was never open whenever i walked by

hat's the sandwich shop behind Intelligentsia in Silver Lake? Their sandwiches are pretty good I recall.

Can anyone ITT show me a great tamale?

Also - somewhere I can get good cornmeal pancakes.

Also - a bar that can reasonably be expected to be relatively quiet (no DJ, jukebox is fine so long as I can hear and get a seat/booth) on a weeknight around Downtown/Eastside. Tall order, I know!

A friend of mine recently took me to this place as she assumed it would be quiet and it was totally rammed:

http://www.yelp.com/biz/1642-beer-and-wine-los-angeles

It used to be a real dive when I lived in the neighborhood - my studio was just around the corner. Anyway, it would be great if there was any room. I reminded me of an SF-style bar, why don't we have more of those?

We went to Baco Mercat on Valentine's Day (completely unplanned, we were just walking by), and it is worth all the hype... Didn't get the sandwich, but the baco meatballs and the octopus salad were life-affirming.

My main local is http://www.mariosdeli.com/ but I like this place a lot too: http://www.mooresdeli.com/

Say Cheese in Silver Lake is sort of a mini Dean & Deluca and have great sandwiches: http://saycheeselosangeles.com/
Sweetsalt's BLT is tremendous too http://sweetsaltfood.com/

Can anyone ITT show me a great tamale?

http://www.yelp.com/biz/mamas-hot-tamales-cafe-los-angeles

You keep moving?

Sweet, thanks!!

I like Westlake, it's a great hood.

i ate at that sandwich shop behind intelligentsia once, it was good

thread making me realize my sandwich intake has dropped off considerably since moving here :/

I...*think* everyone on the thread who's a regular got a birthday invite so remind me if you didn't but as y'all know, we'll be at Lou on Vine a week from tonight. Reminds me, though -- we need a place to hang out at in the area before Lou opens at six, since they don't take reservations. Any recommendations?

Also, Roky Erickson is playing the El Rey on Thursday... think tickets are still available.

They are, I was just looking at them!...I really don't like the most recent record, but I have passed up many chances to see him...

Also, what I am truly excited about is The Raincoats playing at Echo(plex?) next month

Also, what I am truly excited about is The Raincoats playing at Echo(plex?) next month

Agreed. See you there too!

I'll b there

they killed it last time

those tickets for the clean @ the echo are on sale now; just got mine.

it doesn't say who's opening. i guess they couldn't get tnv for this date.

Buddy of mine got into the Louis CK secret show at the Improv last week. How'd he do that? Well he just showed up and paid the doorman $10. Got to meet Aziz Ansari and Elijah Wood afterwards.

smh

http://i43.tinypic.com/2wrksn7.jpg

we'll be at Lou on Vine a week from tonight. Reminds me, though -- we need a place to hang out at in the area before Lou opens at six, since they don't take reservations. Any recommendations?

my recommendation is to hang out in a different part of hollywood, because that stretch is a little desolate. either that or just drink at the bar until people arrive.

Dammit, all the podcasty shows I want to hit are sold out. Waiting in the airport for the flight down to Ontario now.

Hmm...

http://theheartofla.com/post/18445653672/umamicatessen

http://theheartofla.com/post/18445653672/umamicatessen

ned is heading straight for the section called "the cure"

Yes, I admit I thought about that.

I have to admit I don't get the love for umami burger?

i went there on saturday. the first time i ever went there the buns they gave us weren't fully un-thawed.

bastards

Hey guys who are Tearist and are they any good? They are playing with Possession at Cinefamily

Pseudo-confrontational a la Sleigh Bells only with electronics. The LA Weekly did a big story about them last year: http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2011/04/tearist_la_weekly_cover.php

Had a pretty good visit today, with the exception of having to pay a few hundred bucks to prevent my rental car from getting towed in front of Meltdown Comics. Hit up an In-n-Out burger, drove around Hollywood, stopped by an old friend from Ann Arbor's vintage guitar & record shop over in Chinatown, wandering thru the mercado by there, had french dip at Philippes, and took a lot of photos.

Getting caught in Disneyland exiting traffic w/in a 1/4 mile of my hotel was not fun, tho.

saw tearist on accident a while ago, sub-bjorky sleigh bells

yeah, disneyland is open for 24 hours during "leap day" (until 6 a.m. on thursday), so i imagine the traffic in anaheim is pretty insane right now.

Hotel is at Ball & Walnut, so it's teeth-pullingly so. Hope it filters out when I have to split for the airport in 8-ish hours.

Bell, rather.

Also - a bar that can reasonably be expected to be relatively quiet (no DJ, jukebox is fine so long as I can hear and get a seat/booth) on a weeknight around Downtown/Eastside. Tall order, I know!

― used to have a crush on Dawn from En Vogue (admrl), Friday, February 24, 2012 9:21 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

echo park but taix is kinda stodgy and this but I'm fine w/ it

loving these hand-drawn maps on huffpo:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/02/map-of-los-angeles_n_1305551.html

Oh I like Taix, it used to be my local! And it is great so long as band is not playing.

i'm glad taix is there; put it that way. it's such a mismatch for the neighborhood that its existence is almost a punk rock gesture.

Echo Park is definitely a weirder neighborhood than you think once you get past all the surface stuff/away from Sunset

Pulp playing April 19 at the Fox Theater in Pomona, tickets on sale March 30th...

http://thescenestar.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c7a7453ef01676370a068970b-800wi

would consider wild flag/EMA. (i'll be out of town for refused/death grips, sadly)

Enough of your young, cool bands, what about Keith Jarrett at the Disney Hall? I wanna go but it is mad expensive and that's just for the nosebleed seats (and I am afraid of heights)

Donna, did you see Possession?

not yet! might go on weds maybe

anyone else have that metta world peace poster staring them in the face every time they ride the subway? have the HOPE to seek WELLNESS professionals and promote your own RECOVERY? (or however it goes.)

i just see that romeo miller ad all the time

lol ned the joy formidable show got rescheduled to the mayan, the night before vnv plays there! you should just camp out for 24 hrs ;)

i see the "my thoughts are of... " aids project l.a. poster all the time.

the one with the guy 'shopped in front of the north hollywood metro station rotunda?

totally

3.9.12 RHONDAVOUS W/ KEVIN SAUNDERSON & DJ HARVEY

oh

"maybe i will actually go to rhonda this time!" - me, literally every month

i went once two years ago. i would drive down there for this but i can't. i'm pining i tell you.

imo the best ad campaign right now is the vid game controller turning into a happy turtle

after two years of making do with soul night at the jackelope (no diss on it, lots of good times). xp

i absolutely would've gone to the last one w/ optimo if i hadn't been flat broke. i'm in not-much-better shape this time around, but still, harvey...

Nooooooo

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/home_blog/2012/03/york-boulevard-highland-park-maximiliano-hpk.html

Lincoln Park is the new Highland Park. Get in on the ground floor!

Boyle Heights

I like where I live, but I am worried it is gonna become all douchey

Does anyone know a good bike RENTAL place in NELA/Pasadena?

From the Drive thread:

Angelenos or other, tell me about that concrete channel beloved of driving scenes in this and other movies. Is it just the course of the Los Angeles River? How come it's so empty of water? Can one normally drive along it? Would one need a lever action shotgun to blast through gates closing it off?

― ledge, Monday, March 12, 2012 10:28 AM (2 hours ago)

The 1914 flood caused $10 million in damages throughout the developing basin and brought a public outcry for action to address the recurrent flooding problems. The following year, the Los Angeles County Flood Control District was formed. Early flood control efforts included some channelization and the need for reservoirs. Taxpayers approved bond issues in 1917 and 1924 to build the initial major dams. However, taxpayers were not willing to provide enough funds for substantial infrastructure downstream of the dams. After two more destructive floods in the 1930s, Federal assistance was requested and the Army Corps of Engineers took a lead role in channelizing the River. Channelization began in 1938, and by 1960, the project was completed to form a fifty-one mile engineered waterway.

Before channelization of the River, flood control projects and utilization of the River as a source of water changed the system of streams, wetlands, and swamps of the natural lands. Channelization provided flood control for the increasingly developed region and a consistent path for the River course. Today, the banks of the River are almost fully lined along its entire length. Only three portions of the channel bottom remain unpaved: through the Sepulveda Flood Control Basin in the San Fernando Valley, near Griffith Park through Elysian Valley where ground water levels prevent it from being paved, and at the River estuary in Long Beach where the River empties into the Pacific Ocean.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyOKN3cSr8g

a long-term l.a. river revitalization project is underway:

http://www.lariver.org/

The Plan provides a 25- to 50-year blueprint for transforming the City's 32-mile stretch of the river into an "emerald necklace" of parks, walkways, and bike paths, as well as providing better connections to the neighboring communities, protecting wildlife, promoting the health of the river, and leveraging economic reinvestment.

They gotta call it the Low Line.

free sneak preview of damsels in distress on the 18th.

http://www.cinefamily.org/films/special-events-march-2012/#damsels-in-distress-free-sneak-preview-whit-stillman-in-person

OOOOoooo down for that.

already have tix for sir richard bishop that night

i biked by this last night and got to see the robot!

http://laist.com/2012/03/14/man_arrested_in_hollywood_for_bogus.php

Hey guys

Are you excited that we have our own super big and important Biennial now?

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2012/03/hammer-prize-new-biennial.html

Does anybody know any good restaurants in Tarzana that aren't too expensive or spicy?

i like coral tree cafe in encino (next neighborhood over). not too pricey.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/coral-tree-cafe-encino

special shoutout to bea's bakery in tarzana, which makes the best black & white cookies in town:

http://www.yelp.com/biz/beas-bakery-tarzana

aw, i know a couple folks in that biennial! exciting!

i know nothing about tarzana except that one of my coworkers is from there

tarzana is: (a) jews (b) people who aren't rich enough to live in encino

NYTimes discovers Long Beach.

http://travel.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/travel/36-hours-long-beach-calif.html

And of course, as a reference point:

As part of Long Beach’s push to become the most bike-centric city south of Portland, Ore...

LACMA's screening marclay's 'clock' this weekend, with free donuts across the street

(gonna try to hit it up at some point)

yuengling is here!

http://laist.com/2012/03/28/now_pouring_yuengling_lager_the_brickyard_pub.php

is that bar new? i never noticed it when i lived there. <3 yuengling but their website isn't doing a good job of making it look appetizing.

i think it is a new bar.

rip yellow aster mercantile company. when i lived in east hollywood, this was around the corner from me (jumbo's clown room was around the other corner).

http://la.racked.com/archives/2012/03/29/yellow_aster_mercantile_only_has_a_few_more_months_left.php

Finally had some Yuengling when I was out in NYC. Pretty good, yeah.

L.A. is a great big freeway.
Put a hundred down and buy a car.
In a week, maybe two, they'll make you a star
Weeks turn into years. How quck they pass
And all the stars that never were
Are parking cars and pumping gas

Weeks turn into years. How quck they pass

And all the stars that never were
Are parking cars and pumping gas

Yeah, poor Sergio, he just wanted to be a contract player at Paramount

that's my fav part of that song

It's a mix of the "songs that conjure Los Angeles" thread with Steve Erickson's top 100 LA songs plus highly subjective adamrl insertions:

http://open.spotify.com/user/tulselupero/playlist/3N6OmFlmQmrjPwRuwOMiR3

Feel free to contribute!

I don't have spotify

Also it reminded me how bomb this is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc7Lx3Jyetg

ohhhh poor ppp

pppp

All of these comps are so great too
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fj8pkcXBLB4/R6muZaerPJI/AAAAAAAAAMs/l0po2V7KGVk/s400/East+Side+Story+volume+%2312.jpg
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre000/e080/e08051pbej0.jpg
http://www.oldschoolcity.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/5e06319eda06f020e43594a9c230972d/f/i/file_1_18.jpg

It's a mix of the "songs that conjure Los Angeles" thread with Steve Erickson's top 100 LA songs plus highly subjective adamrl insertions:

http://open.spotify.com/user/tulselupero/playlist/3N6OmFlmQmrjPwRuwOMiR3

i may have just played "malibu" twice.

and i knewwww
love would tear you aparrrrt
and i knewwww
the darkest secret of your hearrrt

exploding art!

EXPLOSIONS: Head to The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA for the opening of Cai Guo-Qiang: Sky Ladder, the first West Coast solo exhibition of Guo-Qiang's work. It will feature his new works that include what Cai is best known for—outdoor explosions and gunpowder drawings. The exhibition will open with an outdoor explosion event "Mystery Circle: Explosion Event for The Museum of Contemporary Art" on the exterior wall of The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA (facing Temple Street) at 7:30 pm. The exhibit will run until July 30. Check out this entry on the MOCA blog to read more on the artist and the exhibit.

Anyone else going to Swervedriver tonight?

Anyone doing CycLAvia?

cicLAvia happens the day i fly back to LA :/

cicLAvia

I'm doin it, gotta my hands on a cyc tho

Rainy enough for ya?

smh

Coachella will be such a delight I'm sure!

LSD and rain are great as a team.

My Twitter feed just exploded with people going bananas about secret M83 show tonight in West Hollywood or somewhere up in the hills.

BTW, Charalambides, Michael from Bardo Pond, Barbara Manning, and a squad of Kiwi wizards are playing a Dead C-themed show all this weekend.

And everyone should go. I should go but alas I'll have to miss out!

i would like to go!

crazy helicopter activity around my area just now :/

anyone going to Jeff Mangum on Monday?

my roommate is

I don't really start threads, but there should maybe be a Defend the Indefensible for people who back into parking spaces.

I backed into my own driveway just now

You can of course do what you like in your own driveway. I'm talking about in crowded parking lots with people waiting.

I don't think we use "Defend The Indefensible" anymore, Spencer. Showing your age ;)

Meme-ories...

Haha

so i just learned about the existence of the doodah parade, which is next weekend. my impression is that this is basically socal's mermaid parade?

so i just learned about the existence of the doodah parade, which is next weekend. my impression is that this is basically socal's mermaid parade?

You are correct.

x-post
Dunnoh about the mermaid parade, but DooDah's been going since '78 or so. Basically a zany parade, that seems a little tamer than it used to be.

Festival of Books this weekend, don't sleeep!

12:10 pm Ricki Lake, author of “Never Say Never: Finding a Life That Fits”
1:20 pm Tori Spelling, author of “Celebratori: Unleashing Your Inner Party Planner to Entertain Friends and Family”
2:30 pm John Cusack discusses Relativity Media’s “The Raven,” interviewed by Mark Leyner

lol

10:30 am Nonfiction: The Speed of Thought (Panel 1081)
Reza Aslan
David Bellos
Daniel Kahneman Moderator: Elizabeth Taylor

4:15 pm Kareem Abdul Jabbar & Raymond Obstfeld, What Color is My World?

Blossom!!

3:40 pm Mayim Bialik, author of “Beyond the Sling: A Real-Life Guide to Raising Confident, Loving Children the
Attachment Parenting Way”

In all seriousness, these should be dope, plus TC Boyle on Saturday:

11:30 am History: City of Angels (Panel 2012)
Leo Braudy
John Buntin
Steven J. Ross
D.J. Waldie Moderator: Richard Rayner
1:00 pm Fiction: California Dreamin' (Panel 2013)
Steve Erickson
Hari Kunzru
Dana Spiotta Moderator: David L. Ulin

Solnit!

2:00 pm Nonfiction: We Built This City (Panel 2113)
Bill Boyarsky
Scott Martelle
Rebecca Solnit Moderator: Jon Thurber

http://ingridsnotes.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/festival_of_books1.jpg

I'll be there

Me too! see you

i'll be there in a helping-out capacity

awwwww, thanks

anytime! :)

tomorrow night is the walking the room podcast's 100th episode, live at meltdown comics with patton oswalt and other comedians:

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/235814

see you all at the book fest

1:00 pm “Read it and Weep” Episode of “My Little Pony:
Friendship is Magic” presented by The Hub TV Network
Q & A to follow with showrunner Meghan McCarthy and actor Tara Strong, voice of Twilight Sparkle, Interviewed by Dawn C. Chmielewski (Panel 2152)
Located in the Broccoli Theater
Screening

apparently on cinco de mayo, cinefamily will be showing this 1987 mexican (?) post-apocalyptic biker punk flick:

http://vimeo.com/40757095

Sounds like genius to me!

ned, have you ever come up for any of the cinefamily stuff? it's a hoot.

expo line opens on april 28th! free rides on opening weekend -- although i did the gold line extension's opening day a couple years ago and that was a clusterfuck. but still, rail service from downtown to culver city! and then eventually santa monica!

http://laist.com/2012/04/17/free_expo_line_rides_during_opening_weekend.php

so stoked for this! they already put up new metro maps on the red line trains

and the blue line trains!

has anyone been to tasty noodle house in san gabriel? the photos look pretty jaw-dropping.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/tasty-noodle-house-san-gabriel

Pretty sure I have been there, and it is good, but been so long I don't remember the exact dishes I tried. I went with the LA Asian Foodies Meetup group, which I recommend for finding restaurants. Most events are in the San Gabriel Valley, Little Tokyo, and Koreatown.

Liked seeing the different geographies in my Twitter stream light up as the tow truck chase went through Hollywood, and then Glendale

so, shows!

- anyone go to those dead c tribute shows?

- made mental note weeks ago to buy school of seven bells tickets, totally slipped my mind :/

- think bf and i are going to psychic friend on friday (will schwartz from imperial teen's new project) and next week i see demdike stare is at los globos...

- anyone go to those dead c tribute shows?

Yes! It was great. You should have gone. Etc.

Fave musical part was Barbara Manning channeling Neil Young's "Arc" guitar sound. Fave part was the Dunedin pub built from scratch specifically for the show. The pho place next door was also noteworthy.

- made mental note weeks ago to buy school of seven bells tickets, totally slipped my mind :/

This may have been my favorite show of the week.

http://local.twitpicproxy.com/web10/img/567504671-88e80e4e93b00edad48fbea76946f7e5.4f98dd58-scaled.gif

car wash

Abstract animation at LACMA tonight with Oskar Fischinger and others: http://lacma.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/oskar-fischinger-and-california-abstract-animation/

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-0505-mike-watt-20120505,0,3909090.story

Mike Watt on kayaking near Pedro and more

you guys feel like doing another karaoke night soon?

always!

a) should we do max or you wanna try somewhere else?

b) is may 19th good? that's a saturday.

next weekend would be better for me to serenade you all with my voice of death.

And that would be a vision.

I could not do karaoke, however! Earlier on the 19th I will be in town for the Will Sergeant exhibition:

https://www.facebook.com/events/256679044421079/

http://www.willsergeant.com/

As noted he's at the gallery both on the 18th and 19th; our OC bunch is doing the 19th one as it's better for our schedule.

I'll be at the opening on the 18th (works better for my schedule). It's a cool gallery, same place the Natty Brooker/SP3 art exhibition was a couple years ago.

so uh...anyone going to devo @ hollywood park tonight?

also wish me luck tomorrow:

http://www.crosswordsla.com/

so uh...anyone going to devo @ hollywood park tonight?

I'll be there.

Conflicting shows tonight though. I really want to go see Stan Ridgway out at Pappy & Harriets. I also want to see White Hills at the Echo and Devo too of course, but I have to go to LAX tonight and so Devo it is.

Also, the Arclight Hollywood is showing Barry Lyndon in the Cinerama Dome tonight, tomorrow and Tuesday. Thinking of going on Tuesday.

On Saturday, the Institute For Figuring is having an open house at their space in Chinatown: http://blogs.laweekly.com/arts/2012/05/institute_for_figuring_math_science.php

Anyone else going to BJM tomorrow?

i'm still down for karaoke -- it seemed like both this weekend (which vik was bullish on) and next were bad for people. would saturday the 26th be any good? or friday the 25th?

not actually going to DEVO (computer keeps wanting to change this to "deco") tonight

i saw MEN (jd samson's band, not THE men on sacred bones) at echoplex last night, they were fun

think last weekend of may would be better for me overall for karaoke

Bah, the word is out on fish taco comedy (I went to a couple of these are they're great!) http://blogs.laweekly.com/arts/2012/05/best_fish_taco_ensenada_comedy.php

This look it could be interesting

http://fordtheatres.org/en/events/details/id/352

yah

Just bought my ticket, it's the day after my birthday!

Should I like Daedelus? Never seemed very interesting to me. Also - Cloudland Canyon! Forgot about them

oooooh

daedelus is an institution, yeah you shld

ok!

I sort of think he's kind of gotten less interesting as time's gone on but I still like what he does moreso than most

btw more specific info on that krautrock thing

LINE UP:
Nite Jewel & Friends (featuring: Peanut Butter Wolf, Secret Circuit, Nedelle Torrisi from Cryptacize, and Cole M. G. N.) performing Kraftwerk’s “Computer World” in its entirety.

Carlos Niño & Friends (featuring: Dexter Story, Diana Booker, Gaby Hernandez, GB, and Surya Botofasina) covering Popol Vuh

Pharaohs & Friends (featuring Suzanne Kraft, Stellar Rahim, Ulrich Krieger, David Scott Stone, Cloudland Canyon, and Andres Renteria) performing an excerpt from Manuel Göttsching’s “E2 E4″

Dntel
ESP
Daedelus
Sun Araw
White Magic

Sorta weird!!

Oh well

Like, why do you need so many people to cover e2-e4?

an excerpt? if you're gonna do it, do it

haha yeah

free comedy festival on saturday:

https://www.facebook.com/events/311119512300949/

suuuuuuper pissed that one of my favorite gay bars is closing:

http://www.theeastsiderla.com/2012/05/the-music-stops-for-a-gay-silver-lake-piano-bar/

so i quote the "californians" SNL sketches pretty much once a day at this point

take the 10 to the 405 and let it dump you out up on mulholland where you BELONG

MUHRINA DAL RUH

They're just jealous I tell you.

lol @ the joke about getting your parking for the cancer doctor validated at the coffee bean

thanks for helping me put these sundrahd tomatoes in this cleh bawl

Semi-IT: watching Bill Hader break is one of the great joys of current-day SNL. (And, frankly, one of the most common ones!)

(that was supposed to be "Semi - OT," as in "Semi off-topic," not "Semi Integrated Technologies")

as mr. zulu nation mentioned, taking a left on griffith park blvd from hillhurst would not put you on the 5.

whaddyew DOIN ERE?!!?

the updated info on the krautrock nite is making it look p cool

hey, was in LA over the weekend. drank for three straight days. here's where we went

Jumbos Clown Room
Red Lion Biergarten
Phillipes French Dip
Some "Tiki" Bar that had no kitsch appeal but the best rum drinks, i cannot remember the name. completely non-descript building
Walked around Chinatown, i think (anyway it was around Phillipes). there was an open air market there, ended up having good Margaritas
Bought Jamesons at a CVS which cannot be done in Ohio

had a great time.

Fine choices all.

it was Tiki Ti with the good rum drinks

hah, i live right by jumbo's. and ned otm!

You did a hell of a job, brownie!

http://nofactzone.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/images/Nov_1_2010_Act-_C_5b-500x285.png

welp, show-wise i just bought tickets for xiu xiu (tomorrow @ CFAER) and the men (6/26 @ the smell)

just saw the olympic torch outside my office window!

or wait. it was A torch.

Adam, if you're still looking for a house, a pretty nice one popped up on LA.Curbed.com (look for baby blue bungalow). Just north of York near Ave 49.

http://www.redfin.com/CA/Los-Angeles/1428-Mount-Pleasant-St-90042/home/7081601

i think i saw lisa rinna at the coffee bean on ventura and coldwater.

great news for fans of golden state and texas barbecue and the old tar pit location on la brea:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/dailydish/2012/06/golden-state-teams-with-bludsos-takes-over-tar-pit-space-1.html

i mentioned this on facebook, but i'll mention it here too: i'm doing a small house party on saturday the 16th, just a "yay summertime" thing with drinks and tacos and music and a good mix of people. come by if you can!

stonesthrow have kind of been killin it with these shows @ mr t's

Holy crap, this: http://fyffest.com/

shoegaze festival!

http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2012/06/20/part-time-punks-shoegaze-festival-los-angeles/

Can anyone here show me an out of town day/overnight trip that is outside of all of the obvious Joshua Tree/San Diego/Santa Barbara - type places? Would prefer somewhere chill as I have been working flat out these last few months. We used to go up to Idyllwild and loved it up there, looking for something new. Camping is not really our thing but out of the way places are fine.

Tried Julian?

http://www.julianca.com/

Oak Glen - http://www.oakglen.net/ (apple season doesn't get started until Sept)
Lake Isabella - http://www.lakeisabella.net/

Hell, have you been to Sequoia National Park yet?

No, I haven't been to any of those, thanks!

william basinski in highland park!

http://www.facebook.com/events/362980613769385/

Any go-to places for tickets for big shows that do not charge Ticketmaster-size fees?

Man, in LA, that's like asking "hey, has anyone seen the Holy Grail?

This is going on Saturday: http://twentywonder.org/ - bonkers aggregation of people.

Going on next Saturday (21st): Music, art, etc. downtown, including Mike Watt and Saccharine Trust.

http://www.bloomfestla.com/

downtown Artwalk devolving into a cops vs Occupy L.A. near-riot right now at 5th and Spring, with Occupy deciding to step in after past Artwalks where people were busted for writing on the sidewalks in chalk. Which is stupid but this feels like an RIP artwalk event.

pics and footage are p insane

artwalk is p stupid imo

i'm stuck in my office building, everything is happening right out the front door.

occupy l.a. needs to reassess its priorities w/r/t what it wastes time protesting.

they're doing pushups in front of the cops

they're just working out

btw I was driving on like the 10W around like 4:45, and traffic on the 10E was stopped because 3 cup cars had blocked traffic. about 30 ft in front of the cop cars was an unmarked white van that was stopped. The cop cars had their doors open and like 5-6 cops were standing behind the doors like a barricade, all of them w/ their gun drawn, it was a p crazy thing for me to pass, I've seen some police shit but like, never a line of cops w/ guns out

my decidedly less exciting going-out-in-LA report tonight: there was an electrical outage near the crazy five-way intersection at sunset/hollywood/hillhurst/virgil earlier. i was gonna meet up with friends at el chavo but the power was out and they were only serving beer and shots because the freezer wasn't working (so no ice). power's back on now but the intersection's traffic lights are still just blinking red so it's a bit of a free-for-all around there atm

PLUS IT RAINED

EVERYTHING'S CRAZY

http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/797825/armageddon.jpg

i can't believe those Occupy dorks protested over chalk. They make it tough to take them seriously.

Fuck gentrification sometimes =(

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/dailydish/2012/06/king-eddy-saloon-sold-to-team-behin.html

if you're anywhere near sherman oaks, freakbeat records is having a sale.