Los Angeles Thread #8: Strong and Prouty

Mecca Normal at Human Resources in Chinatown on October 13: http://humanresourcesla.com/news/2012/10/4/saturday-october-13th-mecca-normal-reads-and-performs-wemily.html

heh, i won ariel pink tickets from amoeba for tomorrow night at the fonda. anyone going?

wish I filled gas before today

Yah, I'm going out to Joshua Tree this weekend and stupidly forgot to tank up.

wait is LA out of gas now or something, what's up

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/california-gasoline-price-increases-8-cents-overnight-approach-highest-point-this-year/2012/10/04/f1d501d8-0e5d-11e2-ba6c-07bd866eb71a_story.html

yeesh

hi l.a. folks, can i bother you for a couple recs for my v. quick trip to your city comprising tomorrow and saturday?

interested in excellent mexican places, and any places that are fun and low-key for wine or cocktails. staying in studio city. also any interesting events or things happening during daytime. thanking u!

the best mexican in studio city is loteria. for cocktails you might wanna check out bow and truss in north hollywood -- they're a spanish restaurant with an interesting beverage program.

i had a couple of nice cocktails at this good asian fusion spot called (lol) take a bao, on ventura blvd. great draft beers too. not too pricey iirc. haven't been but i've heard good to great things about black market liquor bar, also on ventura blvd. both are just east of laurel canyon.

mexican: there's a location of loteria grill in studio city. very good. i haven't been in ten years but i thought mexicali was ok. for old school, check out casa vega in sherman oaks. been there since the '50s, good times can be had there (if not "great" food.)

get bent otm re: bow and truss too!

bow and truss must've opened recently (e.g. after i left noho), huh?

cad will you have a car? or be near metro/bus?

bow & truss is pretty recent, yeah. past year or so.

bow and truss has the chillest patio in town imo. i ended up there after a short stop at that pool hall/beer bar a couple doors down (the brickyard, i think? sucks.)

if you're in studio city, find a good sushi spot. some of the best sushi in town can be found around there.

for sushi, i like katsu-ya (the original location on ventura), kiwami, and ahi (a little further down towards coldwater canyon).

check out ramen jinya also.

wow b&t looks real nice, def gonna have to go there sometime

seconding katsu-ya

b&t fap?

wow thanks you guys.

i am renting a car but with barely 2 days i don't want to go nuts driving around.

(basically it was super cheap to rent one with my lol corporate discount and it meant i didn't have to inconvenience friends who would otherwise pick me up)

happy to help. i've lived in studio city and north hollywood for the past 3-ish years.

fried smelt @ B&T was the one thing to avoid, or at least it was the time i went.

there's a coupla tiki places in noho too if yr so inclined, prolly not that low-key on weekends tho

anyone been to the supposedly haunted bar in sherman oaks?

which haunted bar? don't think so. most of my bar-hopping has been over the hill.

Thirding Katsu-ya. Also check out Coley's Jamaican on Magnolia - http://www.coleyscuisine.com

on that front, i've heard great things about sattdown.

sattdown is yum

re: that bar - the chimneysweep lounge on woodman

The Chimneysweep in Sherman Oaks, which was opened in 1960, isn't themed, but like the Firefox, it has gold-veined mirrors and lots of wood paneling. It also has ghosts, says bartender Millie Bunch, who has been serving up sweetness and double whiskeys to an adoring crowd for 20 years.

"They sit in the corner," Bunch told the Enabler over an amply poured glass of Glenlivet. "They have uniforms on. I don't know what war they were in, but they want to be here."

so thanks again everyone, katsu-ya totally ruled.

great! hope the wait wasn't too long.

nah they said at least 40 mins but it was more like 25.

i'll have some time to kill tomorrow by the americana/glendale galleria. what's a good place for a cheap lunch or coffee? (i know about the in-n-out.)

i'll have some time to kill tomorrow by the americana/glendale galleria. what's a good place for a cheap lunch or coffee? (i know about the in-n-out.)

Best coffee in Glendale is at the newly opened C+ (and it's 24hours too!): http://www.yelp.com/biz/c-plus-glendale

Max's Filipino is terrific: http://www.maxschicken.com

i ended up grabbing a pretty decent and surprisingly inexpensive caprese panini at deluca's in the americana. there's a korean snack bar there too; maybe i'll try it out next time.

there's a korean snack bar there too;

Ahn-Joo. It's good, but they charge about a buck or two more than you feel like they should be charging. Price of convenience.

Holy crap, LA people – Enslaved, Earthless, Astra, Scott Kelly, AND White Hills November 10 at the Roxy for FREE. Viking metal, two different styles of epic psych rock, epic space prog, and a dude from Neurosis doing solo acoustic stuff. Going to be an AMAZING show. http://www.scionav.com/event/463/Enslaved,-White-Hills,-Scott-Kelly,-Earthless,-Astra# …

From Mount Analog's (Highland Park) mailing list:

Wreckless Eric and Amy Rigby in-store!!!

This Sunday October 21 from 4-6pm come to Mount Analog for a free Wreckless Eric and Amy Rigby in-store performance! Free drinks, fun, and a DJ set by Jimi Hey. YES!

For those of us scared away by psych metal...

It's not psych metal! It's psych rock! Heavy psych, but the only remotely scary band on that lineup is Enslaved, and they are pretty proggy.

Stoners. Or something.

The site listed them all as metal! Not really scared, just probably not my thing.

Huh. So it does. If you can't trust a music website run by a car company, what can you trust?

I know, right?!!!

we're going to the faust thing at calarts after all -- i will keep an open mind about the calarts orchestra playing sunnO))), even though it's pretty lol.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-cecil-taylor-redcat-postponed-20121018,0,6154313.story

the big gay ice cream truck is doing a pop-up in l.a. this week. it's outside the sherman oaks guitar center tonight, with kogi.

On related ice cream truck news, I heard Koolhaus is opening a bricks and mortar store in Pasadena.

awesome! i'm a fan.