Los Angeles Thread #8: Strong and Prouty

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All of these comps are so great too
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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.

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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!