Los Angeles Thread #8: Strong and Prouty

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)