Yes, I admit I thought about that.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 04:31 (twelve years ago) link
I have to admit I don't get the love for umami burger?
― love, light, and walkabout-thinking (admrl), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
i went there on saturday. the first time i ever went there the buns they gave us weren't fully un-thawed.
― althea and (donna rouge), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
bastards
― love, light, and walkabout-thinking (admrl), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Thursday, 1 March 2012 07:03 (twelve years ago) link
saw tearist on accident a while ago, sub-bjorky sleigh bells
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 1 March 2012 07:05 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― high on fiber (get bent), Thursday, 1 March 2012 08:03 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Thursday, 1 March 2012 08:09 (twelve years ago) link
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
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 2 March 2012 22:32 (twelve years ago) link
loving these hand-drawn maps on huffpo:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/02/map-of-los-angeles_n_1305551.html
― althea and (donna rouge), Saturday, 3 March 2012 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
Oh I like Taix, it used to be my local! And it is great so long as band is not playing.
― My mouth was wiard shut! (admrl), Saturday, 3 March 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― mykonos: the hands of feta (get bent), Saturday, 3 March 2012 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
Echo Park is definitely a weirder neighborhood than you think once you get past all the surface stuff/away from Sunset
― My mouth was wiard shut! (admrl), Saturday, 3 March 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
Pulp playing April 19 at the Fox Theater in Pomona, tickets on sale March 30th...
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 5 March 2012 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
http://thescenestar.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c7a7453ef01676370a068970b-800wi
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 00:16 (twelve years ago) link
would consider wild flag/EMA. (i'll be out of town for refused/death grips, sadly)
― althea and (donna rouge), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 00:40 (twelve years ago) link
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)
― Luomas (admrl), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 00:52 (twelve years ago) link
Donna, did you see Possession?
not yet! might go on weds maybe
― althea and (donna rouge), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 02:38 (twelve years ago) link
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.)
― mykonos: the hands of feta (get bent), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 04:16 (twelve years ago) link
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 ;)
― althea and (donna rouge), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 05:00 (twelve years ago) link
i see the "my thoughts are of... " aids project l.a. poster all the time.
― mykonos: the hands of feta (get bent), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 05:20 (twelve years ago) link
the one with the guy 'shopped in front of the north hollywood metro station rotunda?
― althea and (donna rouge), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 05:29 (twelve years ago) link
totally
― mykonos: the hands of feta (get bent), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 05:31 (twelve years ago) link
3.9.12 RHONDAVOUS W/ KEVIN SAUNDERSON & DJ HARVEY
― Your Ample Girth Does Intimidate (Matt P), Thursday, 8 March 2012 22:49 (twelve years ago) link
oh
― Luomas (admrl), Thursday, 8 March 2012 22:50 (twelve years ago) link
"maybe i will actually go to rhonda this time!" - me, literally every month
― althea and (donna rouge), Thursday, 8 March 2012 22:50 (twelve years ago) link
i went once two years ago. i would drive down there for this but i can't. i'm pining i tell you.
― Your Ample Girth Does Intimidate (Matt P), Thursday, 8 March 2012 22:55 (twelve years ago) link
imo the best ad campaign right now is the vid game controller turning into a happy turtle
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 8 March 2012 22:58 (twelve years ago) link
after two years of making do with soul night at the jackelope (no diss on it, lots of good times). xp
― Your Ample Girth Does Intimidate (Matt P), Thursday, 8 March 2012 22:58 (twelve years ago) link
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...
― althea and (donna rouge), Thursday, 8 March 2012 22:58 (twelve years ago) link
Nooooooo
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/home_blog/2012/03/york-boulevard-highland-park-maximiliano-hpk.html
― Luomas (admrl), Saturday, 10 March 2012 06:33 (twelve years ago) link
Lincoln Park is the new Highland Park. Get in on the ground floor!
― nickn, Saturday, 10 March 2012 06:50 (twelve years ago) link
Boyle Heights
― Luomas (admrl), Saturday, 10 March 2012 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
I like where I live, but I am worried it is gonna become all douchey
― Luomas (admrl), Saturday, 10 March 2012 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
Does anyone know a good bike RENTAL place in NELA/Pasadena?
― Luomas (admrl), Sunday, 11 March 2012 18:51 (twelve years ago) link
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)
― ledge, Monday, March 12, 2012 10:28 AM (2 hours ago)
― "marvellously inoffensive" (Eazy), Monday, 12 March 2012 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― buzza, Monday, 12 March 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyOKN3cSr8g
― buzza, Monday, 12 March 2012 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― love this song! :) especially his hair (get bent), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 00:26 (twelve years ago) link
They gotta call it the Low Line.
― "marvellously inoffensive" (Eazy), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 02:45 (twelve years ago) link
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
― love this song! :) especially his hair (get bent), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
OOOOoooo down for that.
― Cunga, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 21:50 (twelve years ago) link
already have tix for sir richard bishop that night
― althea and (donna rouge), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 21:51 (twelve years ago) link
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
― althea and (donna rouge), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
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
― killa amc (admrl), Friday, 16 March 2012 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
Does anybody know any good restaurants in Tarzana that aren't too expensive or spicy?
― NWOBHamster (J3ff T.), Friday, 16 March 2012 20:34 (twelve years ago) link