Los Angeles Thread #7: Busch Gardens

just checking in to say I'm still free for next weekend, so whatever you cats want to do.

cool. j0e & i are going to Brit gay film on Wed, then I'm seeing Sarah Silverman on Thurs. But if I do Sat matinee drinking, what do i do drunk at night?

continue drinking iirc

also morbs if you don't mind a 15-min walk we can hit up gold coast after the film if you like!

Just pace it out easily. I'll be away for a few days but will be checking in here and there as I can, so just keep the thread updated. I should be up there and free to do whatever comes up any time after 11 am or so.

http://www.attheecho.com/2011/07/07/friday-07-22-11-legendary-vocalist-jimmy-scott-echoplex/

that sounds good joe!

looks like Thurs will be combo of Nixon Lib & Sarah Silverman, insert joke here.

Outdoor movies are not my thing, but Evil Dead 2 is showing @ Hollywood Forever Cemetery next Sat night! Will have to consider.

they just played the entire trilogy at the egyptian but i missed it ;_;

if you get a good seat those cemetery screenings are fun as hell btw - bring lots of booze and a blanket and some snacks and that is a good way to spend a saturday evening

seat = vantage point

I should buy a beach towel or something, then.

And the Hammer Museum has this on TUES night:

http://www.laweekly.com/events/united-in-anger-a-history-of-act-up-1312748/

so I am here (I think that's the Capitol Records tower out the window)

And Car Wash is playing at the Hammer Museum tnite! That wd be a very disco move of me. The New Beverly has an ET/Close Encounters twinbill, but I am not spending 4+ hrs in atheater my first night.

hey, did anyone tell you to check out larry edmunds (film bookstore on hollywood, near musso and frank's)? cuz you should

oh, yes

Good lord, I feel like you've been in California forever . . . are you ever coming back?

possibly to see the Mets next Monday night

i'm in LA, starting wednesday! what's happening? (besides the 'carmageddon'?)

'ballad of genesis and lady jaye' at cinefamily on thurs (part of outfest iirc)

yeah, i will be at Sarah Silverman.

well, I am on the waitlist for an Upright Citz Brigade show at 11 (will head for Silver Lake if I don't get in). Motel A/C does not work. Had a couple drinks at Spotlight. Went in Amoeba long enough to price Kovacs box.

I have yet to catch a bus in this town.

forgot whether i mentioned it on this thread, but i'm moving this weekend. we get the keys on friday but the moving truck doesn't come until monday -- we'll be carrying things over there in the interim. so, i'm happy to block out a little time to drink somewhere over the hill, but if any of y'all feel like coming up to the studio city area, even better. i know some great sushi places.

fyi morbs norm macdonald's gonna be at the silverman thing

hmmmmmmmmmmmm

Surprisingly decent standup show @ UCB, esp this grizzled stoner named Colin Kinane (?) and this faux yo-yo king who did a few great slapstick bits. Was distracted by the sight of Dennis Franz in the 3rd row.

'ballad of genesis and lady jaye' at cinefamily on thurs (part of outfest iirc)

Went to the premiere of this on Saturday night. Worth it if you want to see home movies of Gen and Jaye, but not the documentary it could have been

This week in unintentionally funny FB updates:

why does everyone in california think they can charge so high for rent? we need help - anyone know of affordable living near malibu?

* kyle kinane

my big weekend celeb sighting: the ex-governator, driving a convertible through beverly hills. he didn't look happy.

I was looking at movie tickets for this weekend at "Rave" (in Westchester I guess?) and was wondering why all the seats were empty. I probably shouldn't even try it from downtown, right?

$4 carmageddon flights between burbank and long beach on saturday!

http://jetblue.com/

btw I think I will be available for FAP on Saturday -- around 2? -- if ppl want to do that. Open to Hollywood, downtown, Silver Lake, I dunno.

Sounds good -- just got back into town here and am catching up. Hollywood or downtown would be best for me, basically anywhere near a Red Line stop; 2 pm would be more than fine. Who's in?

Hollywood, downtown, or even the Valley, work best for me as well, but I'll do whatever to meet wherever.

i'm down for 2!

may i suggest the federal for daytime drinking? it's one block from the red line in north hollywood, and i presume the bar is also open during brunch hours. upstairs patio and many many many beers, as well.

sounds OK, THO 2:30 wd probably be more like it.

also, the Academy is showing Forbidden Planet on Sat night, but there are only standby tix!

http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2011/20110711.html

Federal Bar -- sounds good! get bent might even be able to swing by!

http://www.thefederalbar.com/

A couple of other friends of mine have indicated they're in as well so I'll reconfirm with them. I should be able to get there right around two or a little beforehand; the upstairs patio/beer plan sounds perfect.

i can probably do that! they have good gastropubby type food as well; bring an appetite.

Great!

The Federal is ideal for me, so another vote for that.

I saw Samantha Bee about a block from the Federal this week, too, so that's a stealth vote for that location as well

i've seen one of the UCB guys at the coffee bean across the street twice

Chandler Blvd: Where Comedy Goes to Laugh!

i saw adam scott walking past that coffee bean about a month ago.

does Carmageddon have its own thread? I am supposed to be taking guests to Disneyland tomorrow but I don't know...

gotta go to a wedding in pedro tomorrow

I'm downtown so I can just take the 110 but I don't really know what the spillover's gonna be like

Disneyland is nowhere near the shutdown area! Where are you starting from, anyway?

Highland Park.

Yes I know it's nowhere near, but I have no point of reference for how far back things are going to be jammed.

Let me put it this way -- you could take the Gold Line to Union Station then via Metrolink/Anaheim to Anaheim Station and a quick cab ride over and not have to worry about the freeways at all.

yes

getting off work early because of carmageddon!

It's Carmageddion Time!