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Hey, so I'm for real going to LA this time, barring any more death threats and bankrupcies. I'm getting my JetBlue flight and would like to know how to get from Burbank Airport to Standard Hotel Downtown. I don't have a car, kinda because my drivers license expired 4 years ago. I think some Metroline train or something goes to Union Station? Is that far from Standard Hotel? Oh No. Am I going to have to take buses all over town?

Also, anything fun going on Feb 8 - Feb 14? And want to hang out? I'm staying at the Standard one night, then staying with a friend in west hollywood the rest of the time. I think. He doesn't know yet though.

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 21:02 (twenty years ago)

or is it better to fly to long beach.

or better to pay extra $20 to fly song airlines to lax?

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 21:05 (twenty years ago)

Well, LAX gets you on the Metro line via connections at least.

Might be up for something on the tenth or eleventh, depending!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 21:07 (twenty years ago)

Although yes, Burbank Airport is a direct stop, so take that:

http://www.metrolinktrains.com/?play_at=map

Ventura County line

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 21:09 (twenty years ago)

Although I see it's also called the Bob Hope Airport now. Hm.

MTA map for connections from Union Station:

http://www.mta.net/riding_metro/riders_guide/rail_info.htm

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 21:10 (twenty years ago)

...looking at all that, if you wanted to stick to light rail, your best stop is Hollywood/Highland on the Red Line and then bus/cab from there, though it's much more direct to go from Burbank over the Hollywood Hills -- light rail takes you in a big loop, essentially.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 21:14 (twenty years ago)

maybe i'll hitchhike.

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 21:16 (twenty years ago)

does the hotel not have a shuttle?

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 21:17 (twenty years ago)

A-Ha. Just bought my ticket. So it looks like for real hopefully this time I'll be in LA. My first time in California!! Where's Spencer?

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 21:18 (twenty years ago)

would like to know how to get from Burbank Airport to Standard Hotel Downtown.

Metrolink from Burbank Airport to Union Station. Red Line from Union Station to 7th St./Metro Center stop. Foot power from there to 6th and Flower where the hotel is.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 21:19 (twenty years ago)

Stranger has occured.

Long Beach Airport doesn't have a direct connection to the Blue Line. LAX at least would give you the Green/Blue/Red Line option, but Hollywood/Highland is still the closest stop to the hotel. And yeah, does the hotel have a shuttle or not? Spencer will be aware of your visit, I'm sure.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 21:19 (twenty years ago)

Wait, Elvis, 6th and Flower? According to this:

http://www.standardhotel.com/standard_downtownla_spa.html

...the hotel is at Sweetzer and Sunset.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 21:20 (twenty years ago)

Oh wait, total brainlock on my part -- I was confusing the two locations. Elvis is right, follow his directions.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 21:22 (twenty years ago)

is this a stereototal reference?? i luv francoise cactus

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 21:29 (twenty years ago)

yes! yes it is. i love stereo total. i was going to make a doveshack reference and call it "summertime in the LBC" but its wintertime and im going to burbank instead. oh well. now that i have that taken care of, time to look for fun fun party things to do. or sightseeing, maybe. and some business meetings. wed feb8 and thu feb9 already are taken care of for nighttime.

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 21:31 (twenty years ago)

some of what's around you

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 21:32 (twenty years ago)

please present a full explanation of these crazy pod 'waterbeds' after you experience them:

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Images-g32655-d249696-b1181975S-Waterbeds-The_Standard_Downtown_LA-Los_Angeles_California.jpg

http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviewImages-g32655-d249696-rb0-The_Standard_Downtown_LA-Los_Angeles_California.html

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 21:32 (twenty years ago)

this hotel rocks! well, the roof/pool sure seems to:

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Images-g32655-d249696-b1181977S-Lounge-The_Standard_Downtown_LA-Los_Angeles_California.jpg

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 21:34 (twenty years ago)

I definitely want to go to Sushi Gen in downtown, per gygax's recommendation. And I might be able to swing a comp'ed meal at Koi, is it any good?

I want to go to the Chateau Marmont and also I kinda want to go to Disneyland!!

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 21:35 (twenty years ago)

Well, Disneyland is a bit out of your way! Easy enough to take the train down to Anaheim Station, at least.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 21:36 (twenty years ago)

re disneyland: look up in the bathrooms and hold yr bag behind when standing in line.

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 21:37 (twenty years ago)

if you take the metro to Vermont & Sunset, then walk a ways, you can visit Hollyhock House

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 21:59 (twenty years ago)

im going to rent "where the day takes you" and try to see all the movie locations!

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 22:39 (twenty years ago)

the #10 Big Blue Bus will take you to Santa Monica (as well as some downtown/civic center attractions that are also walkable from your hotel - the music center, MOCA, Olvera St, the library).

From Santa Monica, you could catch Big Blue Buses to Venice, Marina del Rey, Westwood/UCLA, Beverly Hills, Culver City/Palms, and Pacific Palisades.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 22:54 (twenty years ago)

And I might be able to swing a comp'ed meal at Koi, is it any good?

The food? Not really. If you want to celebrity-gawk, go on a Monday night.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 22:57 (twenty years ago)

Where can I see comedy mystery man Spencer Chow?

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 22:58 (twenty years ago)

Long Beach Airport doesn't have a direct connection to the Blue Line.

It does if you take Long Beach Transit #111 from the airport to the downtown Long Beach transit mall.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 23:01 (twenty years ago)

Ah, clarity. I shall keep that in mind!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 23:05 (twenty years ago)

maybe i'll go to SF for 2 days though. like on southwest. i havent bought my return ticket yet, so maybe i can fly one way to SF, then one way back to nyc on jetblue.

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 23:11 (twenty years ago)

SF's alright, I suppose.

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 23:12 (twenty years ago)

If you like sailing in yachts stitched together from peasants' faces.

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 23:13 (twenty years ago)

i do!

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 23:13 (twenty years ago)

Oakland is also like that but with good, cheap food and secrets.

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 23:14 (twenty years ago)

i'd go to hear the whistle go wooooooo

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 23:21 (twenty years ago)

these people will take you to Disneyland (if you get yourself to the westside early am for them to pick you up), but LA is Disneyland enough itself, afaic

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 23:38 (twenty years ago)

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 23:38 (twenty years ago)

Disneyland is cute

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 23:39 (twenty years ago)

$130 to go to disneyland!!!!!!

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 23:46 (twenty years ago)

i love disneyland! they have a bar there now it makes it better! it sucks with more than 2 people though

― howell huser (chaki), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 23:54 (twenty years ago)

this may be slightly out of date, but it gives you points of interest and connecting bus lines at the various metro stops.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 23:57 (twenty years ago)

Phil, I'm sure you know this.. but basically: you can fit the entire island of Manhattan *and* the city/county of San Francisco as an overlay over Los Angeles, and you'd only cover the Santa Monica/Westwood/Century City part.. that's about 10% (if even that) of Greater Los Angeles.

― Dom iNut (donut), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 00:01 (twenty years ago)

but L.A. makes up for that with girth, baby.

― Dom iNut (donut), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 00:02 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I didn't know it was THAT big. Hm, I hope im saying that a lot next month. i heard california is chock full of rice queens.

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 00:08 (twenty years ago)

This site is a general guide to getting around.

the Hollywood DASH Bus gets you from Hollywood/Highland to WeHo.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 00:26 (twenty years ago)

wow, thanks for all your help!

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 00:29 (twenty years ago)

Map of downtown (and exposition park) bus routes

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 00:29 (twenty years ago)

the DASH Ho/WeHo also gets you within striking distance of Spencer's favorite coffee shop and links you up with the DASH Fairfax, which gets you to Melrose (and La Brea) shopping and the LACMA and Peterson

the DASH Hollywood-Wilshire route runs between the Hollywood and Vine and Wilshire and Western (near the Wiltern) metro steps, and takes you past the Paramount Studios gates (wonderful, but they'll shoo you away after a picture or two) and within walking distance of Amoeba

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 00:52 (twenty years ago)

riding the Metro Wilshire bus end to end would provide a pretty good overview of LA outside of Hollywood and South-Central

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 01:05 (twenty years ago)

(Pdf)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 01:06 (twenty years ago)

you must really really like public transit

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 01:07 (twenty years ago)

gabbneb knows everything about every major city in the country.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 01:22 (twenty years ago)

I'm not making fun of him, just so no one takes it wrongly, I actually find it totally fascinating!

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 01:28 (twenty years ago)

(except Chicago and SF and a lot of others I've never been to) (these are also potentially useful for me someday, though my favorite thing to do in LA is drive)

you can catch the 761from Westwood up to the Getty, which isn't worth going out of your way for as a museum (unlike the Norton Simon), but is interesting architecturally and has great views

(i'll stop now)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 01:30 (twenty years ago)

gabbneb scared the fuck out of me on the Little Rock thread.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 01:30 (twenty years ago)

part of me wants to be this guy

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 02:25 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...

Which one is better. The Standard Downtown or the West Hollywood? I stayed at the Hollywood one last time, and liked it, but the Downtown one is a little cheaper and I heard is a little less douche'y? I'm coming again in the end of August, right before Magic/Project/Pool in Vegas.

― phil-two (phil-two), Sunday, 9 July 2006 19:15 (twenty years ago)

downtown is likely less douchey but you know skim milk vs. whole milk

it's still milk

― Arial Pink (account), Sunday, 9 July 2006 19:46 (twenty years ago)

otm. stay at the farmer's daughter! they have the best vending machines.

― Cor-Ray (chaki), Sunday, 9 July 2006 19:51 (twenty years ago)

oh, the farmers daughter looks pretty cool. may try that one.

― phil-two (phil-two), Sunday, 9 July 2006 20:03 (twenty years ago)

ts: the griddle vs the pantry

― grandfathered in (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 9 July 2006 22:15 (twenty years ago)

ts: the griddle vs the pantry

Answer: Nick's in the trainyard

― Fsck Washing Ong's Hat (Chris Barrus), Monday, 10 July 2006 02:35 (twenty years ago)

can you LA geeks break this down for me -- exactly what falls within the jurisdiction of the city of los angeles, meaning all those unincorporated "cities" and towns that are annexed by LA? it's a little hard to tell what's part of LA and what's just its own town within LA county. (obv i'm not talking about places like pasadena that have their own self-supporting infrastructure and municipal elections.)

― grandfathered in (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 10 July 2006 22:59 (twenty years ago)

http://www.laalmanac.com/LA/lamap2.htm

― Arial Pink (account), Monday, 10 July 2006 23:15 (twenty years ago)

There has been at least one or two threads on that very topic.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Monday, 10 July 2006 23:36 (twenty years ago)

Thanks Ned ;)

― Arial Pink (account), Monday, 10 July 2006 23:37 (twenty years ago)

That's a pretty good map for the sub-regions within LA City. Here's a list of the unincorporated areas in LA County that fall under county jurisdiction.

― Fsck Washing Ong's Hat (Chris Barrus), Monday, 10 July 2006 23:39 (twenty years ago)

i'd stay downtown, but then again i hate the whole weho/strip scene. fuck that noize!

― gear (gear), Monday, 10 July 2006 23:44 (twenty years ago)

i had the same question(about Altadena, my 'unincorporated L.A.' hometown just north of Pasadena) and that almanac comes this close to answering but doesn't. Are we in limbo? I know Altadena is not self-supporting but we don't get to vote in either Pasadena or L.A. municipal elections. Upside: the ticket-happy Pasadena police rarely venture here and L.A. County sheriffs don't give a shit about traffic infractions. CHP has a station here but only a handful of cars.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Monday, 10 July 2006 23:47 (twenty years ago)

wiki helps, thanks xxpost

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Monday, 10 July 2006 23:49 (twenty years ago)

I know Altadena is not self-supporting but we don't get to vote in either Pasadena or L.A. municipal elections.

this is sort of why i posted my question -- i'm curious about who gets to vote in LA city elections.

― grandfathered in (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 10 July 2006 23:50 (twenty years ago)

WE LOVE IT!

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 10 July 2006 23:55 (twenty years ago)

(sorry)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 10 July 2006 23:55 (twenty years ago)

after the quintron/miss pussycat show last night (best show i've seen in years) i gave a buddy a ride home to glendale. on the way back to los feliz with my gf i get pulled over by a couple of glendale cops. okay so i had four beers over the course of the evening and i'm feeling it a little bit. but just a minor buzz. so the cop has me get out of the car and makes me back up away from it with my hands on my head, asking me if i've ever been arrested. he frisks me and sits me down on the curb. does the same to the gf and then he tosses my car. he searches it inside and out and at one point even pulls this piece from a barbel out of my trunk and asks, "what's this?", all suspicious-like and i said it was from a barbel and he asks, "why is it in your trunk?" and i replied, "it must have been left in there while i was moving."
so he comes over, spits out some of the dip he's got in his mouth, tells me to get the car registered in california, and lets us go.
i thought i was fucked for sure, though, i could very well have failed a breathalyzer.
lesson: i'll never have more than one drink if i'm driving!
lesson 2: bored glendale cops are assholes

― gear (gear), Monday, 10 July 2006 23:56 (twenty years ago)

NILBOG the GOBLIN tribute band TONIGHT at IL CORRAL i HIGHLY SUGGEST Y'ALL SEE THEM

― Cor-Ray (chaki), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 00:08 (twenty years ago)

CHP has a station here but only a handful of cars

I spend far too much of my time driving aimlessly around Altadena (home to my vet, who's child I'm putting through college thanks to sick critters) and don't ever recall having seen a CHP car - do they ever leave their yard?

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 19:20 (twenty years ago)

fuck, all of a sudden I really want to go to LA

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 19:26 (twenty years ago)

lesson 2: bored glendale cops are assholes

I just finished reading this book:

http://www.fire-police-ems.com/books/bf7360.jpg

which talks about Glendale cops, firefighters, and occasional civic corruption. It's one of the all-time great LA true-crime stories.

― Fsck Washing Ong's Hat (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 19:34 (twenty years ago)

one of the all-time great LA true-crime stories

What're some of the others? (I'm thinking I need to expand my reading horizons.)

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 19:40 (twenty years ago)

James Elroy's Black Dahlia?

The Pasadena police and CHP have no jurisdiction in Altadena, just the LA county sherrifs.

And Jody, are you driving here? If so you need a Thomas guide, which will also show which areas are LA city, unincorporated, or some other city.

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 20:05 (twenty years ago)

Ms. Laura, you're back!

Thanks Ned ;)

Hey!

Meantime, oh those wacky developers.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 21:16 (twenty years ago)

YO LA PEOPLES ILL BE ROCKIN DODGER STADIUM TOMORROW FOR THE VANS WARPED TOUR IN WHATEVER TENT THEY WANT ME TO PLAY COME SAY HI

― Moonwalkbjrain (chaki), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 21:35 (twenty years ago)

Also in the pipeline are overhauls of the Columbia Square broadcast center, the Old Spaghetti Factory restaurant and, as previously reported, the Hollywood Palladium.

This isn't nearly as bad as it could be… I don't think… the whole stretch of Hollywood/Sunset between Western and Vine is just crappy auto places, Dennys, Home Depot, isn't it?

― Damn, Atreyu! (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 21:42 (twenty years ago)

I'm not entirely minding myself, but I'm wondering what the point of trying to save the Old Spaghetti Factory is. Just evict 'em and get someone GOOD in there and then I'll care.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 21:45 (twenty years ago)

What're some of the others? (I'm thinking I need to expand my reading horizons.)

Off the top of my head...

Jack Webb "The Badge"
Joseph Wambaugh "Fire Lover"
Vincent Bugliosi "Helter Skelter"
John Gilmore "Severed" (still, my preferred book about the Black Dahlia)
James Ellroy "My Dark Places"
Kenneth Anger "Hollywood Babylon"
Joseph Wambaugh "The Onion Field"

― Fsck Washing Ong's Hat (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 21:46 (twenty years ago)

ITS TIME FOR THE PALADIUM TO DIE

― Moonwalkbjrain (chaki), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 21:50 (twenty years ago)

and fucking magic mountain im sick of that place

― Moonwalkbjrain (chaki), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 21:57 (twenty years ago)

magic mountain's in deep financial shit, isn't it?

― Damn, Atreyu! (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 21:59 (twenty years ago)

yah they wanna take it down. i say go for it.

― Moonwalkbjrain (chaki), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 22:00 (twenty years ago)

Man, that would be great. I'd happily see it trashed.

That said, I do enjoy the fact that the one time I was there I ended up floating over a performance of DJ Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 22:08 (twenty years ago)

i saw weird al there! also KISS MEETS THE PHANTOM OF THE PARK was filmed there!

― Moonwalkbjrain (chaki), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 22:12 (twenty years ago)

Also this book http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/imageDB.cgi?isbn=0810950022

― Fsck Washing Ong's Hat (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 22:12 (twenty years ago)

that book is creepy as shit; my friend's got it on his coffee-table. goes good with biscotti.

― Damn, Atreyu! (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 22:16 (twenty years ago)

i saw weird al there! also KISS MEETS THE PHANTOM OF THE PARK was filmed there!
-- Moonwalkbjrain (chaki.tim...), Today 4:12 PM. (chaki)

ALSO: Spinal Tap. The Jazz-Blues Odyssey (pre-puppetshow) scene.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 22:18 (twenty years ago)

I saw Bo Diddley and Paul Revere and the Raiders at Magic Mountain!

On the crime tip, check out 1947 project which examines that year WRT crime in LA. They're now doing 1907 on another site linked from that one. (And one of the "they" is Kim Cooper, who wrote the 33 1/3 book on Neutral Milk Hotel).

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 22:19 (twenty years ago)

i saw John Secada...at Disneyland. SAVE YOUR PITY!

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 22:27 (twenty years ago)

I saw Sinbad driving on the freeway once.

― Syd Barrett RIPE (account), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 22:29 (twenty years ago)

I saw Dennis Haysbert in line at the movies

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 22:31 (twenty years ago)

This movie was also filmed at Magic Mountain

http://www.laserdisken.dk/billeder/forsidealm/40491.jpg

The best part of the movie is that the climax takes during a Sparks show at the park.

― Fsck Washing Ong's Hat (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 22:31 (twenty years ago)

And for hotels downtown, try the Figueroa Hotel, a "rancho California meets Moroccan fantasy" experience.

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 22:32 (twenty years ago)

The best part of the movie is that the climax takes during a Sparks show at the park.

And Sparks have been embarrassed about it ever since, bless them. (It's kinda cool if only because it documents one of the rarest incarnations of the band, with Sal Maida and all.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 22:35 (twenty years ago)

Anyway, clearly the upshot of all this talk is to have a FAP at Roscoe's.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 22:36 (twenty years ago)

grits come in gallons

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 22:39 (twenty years ago)

but what the hell

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 22:40 (twenty years ago)

Figueroa has a really nice rooftop bar. Vic and Ned and Arthur and I were gonna go once, but a Clippers game intervened and downtown was a clusterfuck.

― Damn, Atreyu! (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 22:41 (twenty years ago)

I'm fine with the Figueroa bar! Anywhere!

Besides, we have to plot the Vegas trip.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 22:43 (twenty years ago)

And Jody, are you driving here? If so you need a Thomas guide, which will also show which areas are LA city, unincorporated, or some other city.

not driving, but i do have a thomas guide (i don't tend to use it unless i'm going somewhere i'm really unfamiliar with).

― celebrity mole: hawaii (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 00:13 (twenty years ago)

i'm going to the CHA CHA LOUNGE tonight

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 00:15 (twenty years ago)

hey, you know who lives near there?

― celebrity mole: hawaii (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 00:16 (twenty years ago)

JBRobblin?

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 00:33 (twenty years ago)

yup!

― celebrity mole: hawaii (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 00:37 (twenty years ago)

a friend is having a birthday thing there, after numerous stops at other locales along the way. i'm only having one beer, after the adventure i noted upthread

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 00:39 (twenty years ago)

http://www.djfl.de/entertainment/djfl/1095/109847b2.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 00:44 (twenty years ago)

thats the dresden room not the cha cha lounge.

― Moonwalkbjrain (chaki), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 00:45 (twenty years ago)

And Sparks have been embarrassed about it ever since, bless them

somewhat unrelated... miller brewing just bought sparks for 215 MILLION CASH....

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 00:50 (twenty years ago)

Ms. Laura, you're back!

Oh, I was always here, Ned, at least in spirit :) What've I missed?

Off the top of my head...

Thanks Mr. Barrus. Looks like I need to go to Vroman's this evening whilst I'm out getting groceries. *sigh* Such a depressing thought. Especially as I was there on Sunday.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 01:40 (twenty years ago)

What've I missed?

The brilliance that is us. Perhaps.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 03:46 (twenty years ago)

What've I missed?

The brilliance that is us. Perhaps.

Damn. And here I was thinking about filling that void with chocolate, cigarettes, and raunchy sex.

Good thing I returned.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 03:54 (twenty years ago)

Amazing!

So yes, FAP soonish. Next Saturday, maybe?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 04:31 (twenty years ago)

http://www.lacausa.org/

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 04:33 (twenty years ago)

mslaura, are you the one who broke your bf's penis while riding it? for some reason, thats what i relate your name to.

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 04:52 (twenty years ago)

So yes, FAP soonish. Next Saturday, maybe?

Very possibly maybe.

I've two critters that might be dying, though, and so I may need to stay home and be with them. But with luck they'll be spunky and chipper by then and I'll be able to contribute witticisms and other horrid things to a conversation.

mslaura, are you the one who broke your bf's penis while riding it? for some reason, thats what i relate your name to.

*sigh* Yep. That's me.

You know, thanks to my revealing that horrid experience to the ILX community, I will NEVER find a lover here.

And it wasn't broke, per-se. More like kind of really bent for the long-term.

I wonder what he's doing these days.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 05:26 (twenty years ago)

there's a joke to be made here about him avoiding passing open windows, but i'm too tired to make it.

― celebrity mole: hawaii (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 05:36 (twenty years ago)

I just wanted to say:

"LACCA OOSSA!"

Thank you.

― San Diva Gyna (and a Masala DOsaNUT on the side) (donut), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 05:40 (twenty years ago)

LACCA OO, LACCA SA, LACCA-LAC OOSSA...

― manu naus (Robert T), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 06:33 (twenty years ago)

lacma pupusa

― celebrity mole: hawaii (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 06:36 (twenty years ago)

i didn't go to the bar : /

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 07:12 (twenty years ago)

WELL

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 11:24 (twenty years ago)

maybe I'll go to this?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 13 July 2006 04:08 (twenty years ago)

but when will the Griffith reopen?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 13 July 2006 04:12 (twenty years ago)

Did someone say FAP at Roscoe's?

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 13 July 2006 19:48 (twenty years ago)

oh, and I saw Batman at Urth Caffe/Melrose.

Am I caught up now?

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 13 July 2006 19:49 (twenty years ago)

x-post -- It is a potentiality, certainly. Or maybe seeing Krrish in the Valley or...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 July 2006 19:49 (twenty years ago)

Maybe we can all listen to KCRW and drink boba tea.

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Thursday, 13 July 2006 20:21 (twenty years ago)

How would that be different from any other day in the Big Notherethere?

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 13 July 2006 22:54 (twenty years ago)

this is on saturday:

Mobmov-Hollywood presents "Petey Wheatstraw: The Devil's Son-in-Law"
Saturday, Jul 15th at 8:00PM
Los Angeles, CA
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MobMov Hollywood presents, in partnership with the Steve Allen Theater...

"PETEY WHEATSTRAW:
The Devil's Son-in-Law"

Presented simultaneously in the parking lot as a drive-in, and in the theater. Followed by live in person appearance and Q&A with Rudy Ray Moore, a.k.a. DOLEMITE!

Petey Wheatstraw (Rudy Ray Moore) is a candidate to become the devil's son-in-law. The storyline is a scaffolding on which Rudy Ray Moore's standup humor can be unfolded. Beginning life as the afterbirth to a watermelon, the young Wheatstraw becomes a martial artist, but is unable to best the evil comedy team of Leroy and Skillet, who also indulge in wholesale murder. Satan restores the comedians' victims to life, and charges Petey with the task of marrying his clock-stoppingly ugly daughter to giving him a grandchild. When Petey attempts to default on the deal, he is pursued by the devil's henchmen.
Info: http://www.imdb.com/title/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078078/

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Parking Lot at The Steve Allen Theater
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The Steve Allen Theater is located at the Center for Inquiry - West,
4773 Hollywood Blvd,
Hollywood, CA 90027

Enter the parking lot off of Berendo St., just north of Hollywood Blvd.

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The Steve Allen Theater will be charging an admission of $10 per person. Advance tickets are available at href="http://www.tix.com/Event.asp?Event=62428

Gates open at 8:00pm, the movie starts around 9pm.

Remember - It's a real drive-in movie experience. You can sit in your car, or feel free to bring blankets, chairs and portable radios to sit outside. YOU NEED A RADIO TO HEAR THE DRIVE-IN SOUND!

Spaces are limited so be sure to arrive early. Once the lot is full, no more cars will be admitted. The movie will also be screening inside the theater.

Rudy Ray Moore's appearance is tentative due to recent health problems.

― celebrity mole: hawaii (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 13 July 2006 23:29 (twenty years ago)

not the greatest movie, so if you go be drunk. Human Tornado on the bigscreen: beyond roffles

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Friday, 14 July 2006 00:24 (twenty years ago)

im playing at the viper room on sunday doods!

― Moonwalkbjrain (chaki), Friday, 14 July 2006 01:54 (twenty years ago)

Which alas I had to miss. :-/

Hmm...so what are folks doing Saturday? I'm planning on an Amoeba run and would be up for at least lunch. Possibly I can hang around later as well if we wanted to do drinks and dinner as well or instead, but my plans are still coalescing a bit.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 02:00 (twenty years ago)

can we go to roscoe's?

― celebrity mole: hawaii (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 02:03 (twenty years ago)

We will make Tremendoid go by hook or by crook.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 02:18 (twenty years ago)

be back from pvd, but broke as shit... so roscoe's is no go, unless they accept foodstamps printed on a playskool print'n'press.

― Damn, Atreyu! (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 02:44 (twenty years ago)

Ah, we'll work something out, sir.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 02:46 (twenty years ago)

remy, you bought my lunch last time -- i owe you one!

― celebrity mole: hawaii (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 02:49 (twenty years ago)

right on.*

*(as i post this from my RI woodland hideaway there are honest-to-goodness deer prancing the fuck around immediately outside my ground-floor window. i could hock a loogey and hit one if i wanted. but deer are damned scary when there are ten of them distanced by only a thin screen. also, they're already breathing heavily and i think they might feel randy.)

― Damn, Atreyu! (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 02:59 (twenty years ago)

Deer lust, a suspect thing.

Anyway, three for lunch or dinner or whatever. Afternoon drinks on either side, depending, seems key.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 03:00 (twenty years ago)

yeah we're having some mint julep type weather in this bitch. Let's go! I don't think I have plans, a Vegas trip is falling through as we speak.
glowing from a PAGEANT OF THE MASTERS weekend in Ned's neck of the woods(we stayed around the corner from you at the Westin off Bristol! the pageant/hotel stay was a semi-surprise birthday present from the folks so I wasn't sweating the details, I wish I'd known we were gonna be that close, it didn't really click until I saw "the Lab"(we went the wrong way at first). Pageant is magnificent actually, even with bad seats, and there's an absolutely ungodly display of K-12 art talent in one corner of the surrounding exhibit. With my mom in tow we spent more time at the South Coast plaza the next day, naturally.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 04:10 (twenty years ago)

Anyway, three for lunch or dinner or whatever.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth...

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 04:17 (twenty years ago)

Dude, Roger, you're in. You just need to say! ;-) And tremendoid too, his visit to me and not saying hi notwithstanding. ;-) So five, then, WITH ROOM FOR MORE. Dammit.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 05:36 (twenty years ago)

Will be in LA Friday night through early Monday, nothing really planned besides visiting MI and the obligatory Amoeba stop.

― ALLAH FROG (Mingus Dew), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 05:46 (twenty years ago)

How handy, seeing as I was doing Amoeba as well etc. Shoot me off yer phone number. (In fact, EVERYONE shoot me off your phone number -- except JBR's and Remy's, I definitely have those. Alas, I keep misplacing Tremendoid's. :-/ )

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 05:49 (twenty years ago)

glowing from a PAGEANT OF THE MASTERS weekend in Ned's neck of the woods

If you had looked across Laguna Canyon Rd. from the Pageant and then up at the first row of houses, you probably would have seen me in my backyard.

― Fsck Washing Ong's Hat (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 07:11 (twenty years ago)

Dude, Roger, you're in. You just need to say! ;-)

I keed, I keed... but I do like a waffle. Remy can't duck me forever!

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:53 (twenty years ago)

Good Mr. Vic has indicated he's in as well. So as of right now, very tentative plan:

Pre-lunch -- Amoeba if anyone wants to join me (and of course you do, surely)

Lunch -- Roscoe's

Afterwards -- sweet drunkery somewhere that serves good mint juleps or the equivalent. Figueroa bar is fine by me but the idea needs to be where can we comfortably relax and chat in mid-afternoon weather in LA in the open air while shaded and on top of a building or the like. For instance. ;-)

Dinner perhaps. Play it by ear.

Rah.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 00:14 (twenty years ago)

I'm not ducking, just ineptly reclusive. See you this weekend?

― Damn, Atreyu! (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 00:42 (twenty years ago)

Darn, I think I'm going to be out of town most of the day on Saturday. I might be able to make it to the Figueroa Bar later, though.

I'd love to see Krrish in the Valley. Maybe Sunday afternoon?

― Arthurgh! A Music War (Arthur), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 03:13 (twenty years ago)

I should finish up at MI around 2 pm on Saturday, or maybe a little later, so up for whatever from there on out. Shoot me back your mobile, Ned?

― ALLAH FROG (Mingus Dew), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 08:33 (twenty years ago)

I have heard of these cell phones. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 11:41 (twenty years ago)

Anyway, Saturday plans pretty well drawn together so if anyone else wants in, please say...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 21 July 2006 03:16 (twenty years ago)

That was a VERY good day all around! Cheers to Remy, JBR, tremendoid, rogermexico, Vic and ALLAH FROG. Late lunch at Roscoe's, drinks and much good chat at the Figueroa into the early evening.

Next up will probably be Sunset Junction stuff, assuming that Arthur will be spinning at Akbar...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 23 July 2006 04:51 (twenty years ago)

Absolute pleasure meeting everyone, and much abashed that I had to bow out early. Nothing better on a sweltering summer day than waffles and drinks...

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Monday, 24 July 2006 20:32 (twenty years ago)

same here, always a pleasure. high adventure on(or near) the Figueroa rooftop! oh if the walls could talk they would have surely forgotten all about us by now. but seriously folks...

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Monday, 24 July 2006 21:18 (twenty years ago)

The pool on the other hand, a different story. (And you know, thanks again to everyone who bought a round, I believe I was totally slack on that front! Will make it up to y'all.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 July 2006 21:20 (twenty years ago)

ah yes, the gossip. My dossiers have grown quite fat and happy this weekend.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Monday, 24 July 2006 21:29 (twenty years ago)

YOU GUYS MAKE LA SEEM LIKE 1906

― Supercalifragilisticexpiala Brosius (chaki), Monday, 24 July 2006 21:46 (twenty years ago)

Not enough monocles.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 July 2006 21:47 (twenty years ago)

why just the other day i saw basil rathbone near his estate on los feliz blvd.

― gear (gear), Monday, 24 July 2006 21:49 (twenty years ago)

We then played cricket and pondered tiffin.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 July 2006 21:50 (twenty years ago)

is it true that if you take Cahuenga up into the hills the vibe starts to feel old(er) hollywood?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 24 July 2006 21:54 (twenty years ago)

― Supercalifragilisticexpiala Brosius (chaki), Monday, 24 July 2006 21:57 (twenty years ago)

Ned's Barry White voice was unexpected! Good times meeting and hanging out with everyone, wish I coulda been there for the early part of the day as well.

― ALLAH FROG (Mingus Dew), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 02:35 (twenty years ago)

Ned's Barry White voice was unexpected!

Hehehe, that's a new comparison...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 03:07 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

A friend is moving to Glendale for a while. How is it? I don't really know the LA area that well

― Tommy Woodry (tommywoodry), Sunday, 17 September 2006 16:52 (twenty years ago)

WHITE

― chaki (chaki), Sunday, 17 September 2006 20:52 (twenty years ago)

The City
(Hidalgo/Perez)

Come on lets go out tonight
out into the neon light
Sidwalk shining from the rain
from First and Hill to Sixth and Main

Two lovers kissing by the door
There's yelling from the second floor

Come on let's go get high
go out into the neon night
Hit every spot along the way
from Paramount to Cudahy

A man is calling out a name
A rose wrapped up in cellophane

Come on let's fall down tonight
shoot out all the neon lights
There's people dancing real slow
the music plays till the rooster crows

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 18 September 2006 01:19 (twenty years ago)

And Armenian (x-post)

― nickn (nickn), Monday, 18 September 2006 04:22 (twenty years ago)

http://www.goldenvoice.com/images/artists/antigone_rising_160.jpg

Antigone Rising @ The El Rey October 16

Who's in?

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 16:01 (twenty years ago)

Antigone Rising @ The El Rey October 16

They actually play shows? I thought they were limited to Starbucks ads and cameos on VH-1 "I Love [whatever]" specials

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 16:05 (twenty years ago)

I think it's like when JT LeRoy does a reading

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 16:06 (twenty years ago)

A friend is moving to Glendale for a while. How is it? I don't really know the LA area that well

Large Armenian community. The Brand Ave. area downtown is being redeveloped as fast as the planners can go, so there's quite a bit of short-term chaos, but in a couple years it might be pretty great. I'm looking for a place in Glendale at the moment... My neighborhood of choice is Montrose which is up in the hills above downtown.

The downside to Glendale is that none of the MTA subway trains run there. There's a Metrolink stop at the very bottom of town.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 16:09 (twenty years ago)

brand books & bookfellows are a pair of good places to dig for used books.

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 16:15 (twenty years ago)

is Descanso Gardens in Montrose? (and is it anything special?)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 16:31 (twenty years ago)

They actually play shows?

It does seem too good to be true, doesn't it?

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 16:42 (twenty years ago)

is Descanso Gardens in Montrose?

No. It's in La Canada/Flintridge (Montrose is nearby)

(and is it anything special?)

Depends if you're into flowers or not.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:46 (twenty years ago)

Music Exchange was a good CD store there, but last time I looked for it I couldn't find a trace.

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:21 (twenty years ago)

The downside to Glendale is that none of the MTA subway trains run there

really good bus service though, between the MTA buses and the glendale beeline or whatever it's called.

― any cop (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:44 (twenty years ago)

And the 180/780 goes straight into Hollywood, and runs all night (180 only). From Pasadena it's quicker than taking the gold line to Union Station and then the red line to Hollywood.

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:43 (twenty years ago)

six years pass...

my login name (the one in parentheses) may come from this thread.

― pass-ag caglia (get bent), Monday, 15 July 2013 07:47 (thirteen years ago)

There's a Warren Zevon song in this thread somewhere.

― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 15 July 2013 11:08 (thirteen years ago)

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