Los Angeles Thread #7: Busch Gardens

I like my friend's take in the original e-mail

"Might be at the Glass House in Pomona, which is where a lot of secret gigs have taken place, but that's nowhere near Silver Lake!"

He's also come up with the clever device of referring to the greater L.A. area as "Silver Lake."

ugh

christ i hope it's not @ spaceland, my street will be a madhouse

"Wake Up" will be a bullying command, and not just a song, to anybody trying living and trying to sleep nearby.

You need Twitter to stay on top of this... Looks like @scottrodger is the guy to follow.

Speaking of which, @TheScenestar will always be a hero for posting the exactly set times for almost all local shows.

Thanks for that info. You are, indeed, a current detective :-D

for the record, if anyone has a mid-week karaoke itch they need to scratch and happen to find themselves in the valley and are ok with gays, the silver rail on burbank blvd has a really terrific tuesday karaoke night. first time i've EVER seen "babooshka" on a song list!

in point of fact, that bar is pretty great overall. eager to try some of the other gay valley dives! (oxwood room, anyone?)

is oxwood the lesbian bar on oxnard? i lived near there for a while.

yep (and woodman, hence the name i guess)

looks like Silver Rail is about 2 miles from my Valley friend's house, so maybe in July!

Colonel Poo, his wife and I and others are planning a lunch FAP at the Waffle this Saturday at 11:30 if anyone would like to join us.

Meantime, how to make your own riff on Zankou Chicken garlic sauce, aka toum:

http://blogs.ocweekly.com/stickaforkinit/2011/02/zankous_garlic_sauce_clone.php

Go back to making bad Spider-man songs:

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0210-u2-malibu-20110210,0,4731017.story

For anyone interested in Arcade Fire tickets (I'm not, but I do like the puzzle - check the Scenestar link below) they're going on sale noon tomorrow at Origami Vinyl, Fingerprints in Long Beach, and at the El Rey theatre.

http://thescenestar.typepad.com/ss/2011/02/arcade-fire-details-revealed-at-900am.html (commenters are telling people to shut up about it, but here you go)

Today's daily deal from LA weekly is $10 for $20 at Amoeba: http://deals.voiceplaces.com/los-angeles/x/5454q25464/

I bought two of those, and one other one for a f(r)iend.

i might not be using my ticket to the swans show (march 2, the el rey). i work nights and i'm debating whether i'd rather sit in a boring office and make a few bucks or call in sick and get delightfully earfucked by michael gira.

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5132/5480108032_d754d1a214_o.jpg

Announcing the Grand Opening of the Truckit Fest at Union Station. This landmark location will be the new home to a monthly event featuring over 35 of LA's best Food Trucks, 200 local designers and artisans, Live Bands, DJ's and much more. Where: Union Station downtown Los Angeles. When: Sunday March 6th 11am -5pm.

http://www.truckitfest.com/

my stomach and i are curious, we are

Nice!

did they remember to GET THE PERMITS? (looking at you, santa monica parking lot.)

in other good news (for me), the LA bike plan passed city council unanimously!

about time!

there was a lot of resistance from the "horse people" at the meeting, it seems. why would they even give a shit?

Los Angeles crazy music fans: I suddenly have one extra ticket for the Wednesday (March 2) Swans show at the El Rey. Holler if you're interested. Looking for face value ($30) obo - no scalping here!

this wind is on some wizard of oz kansas twister ish! i thought i felt the house sway.

My boring-ass Monday night = listening to dried up palm fronds fall onto the roof. >THUNK<

My sister and I will be visiting your fair city in April. Is the Farmer's Daughter still a good place to stay? How about the Figueroa?

I'd selfishly suggest the Figueroa so we can all hang out by the pool again.

or the bonaventure so we can ride the glass elevators

if money is no object and you want to be on the west side:

http://www.centuryplaza.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/index.jsp

^^swank-ass midcentury modern

Westside is awesome!

Money is very much an object. What is the best place to stay where you can walk out the door and not have to get in a car?

there are buses pretty much everywhere. if you stay downtown, you'll be near the red, purple, blue, and gold line trains.

I think we're gonna stay at the Secret Garden. Kind of wanted to try something different, but it's a lot cheaper than any of the others.

Any of you Angelenos free to meet up? Will be there April 6 to 10. Also, any museum/gallery/etc. stuff we should know about?

Dang, I'll have to bow out -- normally that would be a free weekend but two good friends down here in OC are getting married and I'm already booked up. Have a great time in any event!

btw, what's the best/not-expensive way to get from LA to SF without flying or driving?

Bus or train being your choices...there seems to be a Greyhound web fare option at $42, where an initial Chinatown Bus search comes out at $55. Amtrak might actually work as well, though -- the Coast Starlight takes you from LA to Oakland with a bus connection into SF at $54, while a potentially quicker connection would the Pacific Surfliner to Santa Barbara with bus service from there to SF.

thx Ned

All things being equal and with an eye on various service alerts and trackwork being done, I'd suggest Amtrak -- if you did the last option (LA to SB) you'd pass through the actual surfside part of the route there; everything else after that is more inland, though going down the Salinas Valley is also a joy, and in all it's a part of California that fewer people see because they're usually using the 5 freeway in the Central Valley.

Should also say I've done all these routes before so I know I'm what talking about from experience! If the Megabus option still existed that would be the way to go but alas that barely lasted a year. Chinatown Bus options supposedly start at $29 but a quick check at pricing over the next two months kept turning up $55 as a baseline.

btw, what's the best/not-expensive way to get from LA to SF without flying or driving?

this might be not morbs-friendly but my experience w/ norcal to socal via craigslist rideshare has been pretty good. don't take greyhound, it takes forever.

As long as it's $70ish or under, a train is fine with me

What day or days for travel are you looking at?

haven't gotten that far...

...but if I have to stay at a WeHo or Hollywood hotel for 3-4 nights, any recs? Less than $120/night would be good, $95 would be better.

morbs the best western on franklin ave by the 101 freeway is a short walk to Hollywood and i think the prices are fairly reasonable. there's an above-average diner on the first floor as well. if you're as much of a fan of 'swingers' as i suspect you may be, there were several scenes filmed in that diner.

yeah, less than a 10 min walk to hollywood and vine metro stop

So I biked to work this morning for the first time. Ave 50 through school traffic, down to Southwest Museum, gold line to Chinatown. 5 minute ride down Spring. It was great!

Yipes, times ARE changing:

End of an era: Laemmle's Sunset 5, once the 2nd biggest arthouse in the U.S. is closing. Will be replaced by Sundance Cinemas.

at least an arthouse is replacing it, and it won't be another, i dunno, pinkberry...

wonder how the laemmle noho is coming along...

re the laemmle noho!

Greg: We are hoping to open before year end and have targeted December 21 as the first date for public screenings. We've got a lot to do between now and then to make this happen, but from top to bottom, our team is committed to hitting that date.

http://www.nohoartsdistrict.com/neighborhood-news/item/781-laemmle-theatre-opening-soon

oh, nice!

admrl i went to PINA on saturday, probably going to a few more screenings this week as well

i just noticed that there are two adjacent parallel avenues in encino named gloria avenue and gaynor avenue! i bet they've got really good block parties.

i once screengrabbed a google map of those streets and posted it here! it's close to the jackson compound.

Did Donna see this? Gonna be totally rad, I think....I'll def. try to make it.

Thursday, November 10 – 4 SUPER 8 FILMS BY LUTHER PRICE (ON FILM!) – 8 PM
A small collection of Luther Price’s legendary and controversial Super 8 films projected on their original format, including Sodom, Warm Broth, Clown, and Mr. Wonderful. In an article titled “Home Movies from Hell” in Bright Lights Film Journal, Gary Morris writes of Price: “He works in a disreputable format, appears in various guises in his own work from stylized, frozen-faced drag queen to naked performance artist to clown. Price’s film work has an oppressive intensity, envisioning an alienated world of often mindlessly repeated rituals and poses that entrap and suffocate his subjects ... Images of ruptured flesh and ghostly birthday parties are further ruptured and drained of life by Price’s torturous manipulations of the film, which can include chemical processing, filters, optical printing, re-photography, and even holes punched in the frame. What emerges is Price’s great subject — the breaches, breakdowns, and collapse of body, family, and society, and by extension all of life, in the face of unstoppable philosophical forces.”

Speaking of movie theaters being replaced, we went to see DRIVE at that One Colorado in Pasadena only to find that it is now one of these fucking places where you pay almost $30 for the privilege of being served a meal (which you pay for on top of the cover) and sitting in fancy seats while you watch the movie. And there we were at like noon thinking it was gonna be a cheap matinee. Fuck these places!

In other adam-related LA news, I finally went to the revolving bar atop the Bonaventure the other night. Is it bad that I thought it was kind of awesome? Downtown actually looks so beautiful from there.

I went to Perch recently and downtown looked p cool, I liked it, I was dressed like a hobo and no one cared

what is this Perch?

I got so drunk, it was a bad scene

perch is some rooftop bar on uh 5th and hill, fancy n expensive or w/e but I got like one drink just to check out the view, worth at least doing that imo, just checked right now and yeah yelp reviews are hilarious

i was planning on going to that screening! his stuff came highly recommended to me

pasadena is super-fancy! or the part i was in was anyway

it's not all fancy. I like Pasadena! But I have fancy tendencies

Yeah, Luther Price is great. And it is hard to see this stuff. Shame they are not showing "A" because that is dope

got a ticket to see the new bill morrison thing at AFI tonight also. i imagine i'll actually get in, unlike last night when i waited two hours to get into 'the artist' and then...didn't

...except i totally didn't because 'we need to talk about kevin' was p draining and i just wanted to go home, lol

admrl if you see a guy in a black-and-white baja at EPFC tonight, say hi!

bonaventure rooftop bar is fun (and lame, but mostly fun).

i haven't been to the "gold class cinemas" in pasadena yet; i was hoping it would be more like one of the pub theatres like they have in portland (2nd run movie, cheap beer, cheap pizza).

i envy you people who go out to stuff several nights a week. when did i get old and boring?

that said, my bday is nov 30 (a wednesday) and if anyone wants to grab a drink with me that night in the greater hollywood megalopolis, we can celebrate the bump in my health insurance price bracket. who's around?

i am down for JB(i)Rthday!

Have fun on the day! And we are planning Disneyland FAP for the following Sunday as well...

http://cdn.hmvdigital.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/008/998/0000899888_500.jpg

When the man police have identified as a "person of interest" in Los Angeles' spate of recent arson attacks was sitting in the back of a squad car early Monday morning, a small group of witnesses gave him "the finger"-- and he returned the gesture with a smile, one witness said.

"It was creepy," said Rick Savage, a music producer who saw the incident at the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue.

Savage said he was awake because he has been nervous about the string of arsons in recent days in his and other nearby neighborhoods. He said he had downloaded a police scanner application onto his iPad and went to the area at about 3:15 a.m. after hearing reports that authorities had tracked a person of interest in the case.

Los Angeles Thread #8: Strong and Prouty