Los Angeles Thread #8: Strong and Prouty

palms is p horrible but this place is alright

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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