Los Angeles Thread #7: Busch Gardens

This will be you:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/echoparkfilmcenter/5846997762/

hah! i am totally in one of those group shots, somewhere (from the paul sharits night back in june iirc)

Huh, I was there too!

ya'll goin to fyf

Nope, will be out of town

I will be dehydrated in your place

Also, barely any bands I care about

xp

^^ that, and other plans anyhow

admrl i bet we have been in the same place a bunch of times and NOT EVEN REALIZED IT

I'm sure we have! Did I see that you are going to school now or something? You have come a long way in such a short time! (sorry that reads as patronizing, but it isn't meant that way)

I do not see myself in Sharits picture, but I see quite a few people I know.

i went to school in nyc, came out here after getting job

i see a guy who looks like me in one of them but tbh a lot of guys there look like me because lolfilmnerd

KITTEN

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/08/cat-rescued-90-freeway-riverside.html

so *i* didn't feel that earthquake just now (although my coworker did? i was across the street getting coffee)

k so it was an earthquake, just thought I was imagining it

when? I was out around town, didn't feel a thing

half an hour ago

I was in library downtown

Are we gonna have a hurricane too now?

Felt it in Glendale (on the 2nd floor of office building) - just enough to go "hey, it's an earthquake"

felt nothing out in simi valley (first floor of office building), but was pretty wrapped up in something around that time.

phase two begins on the subway to the sea!

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/09/los-angeles-expo-line-phase-2-groundbreaking-construction.html

downtown to culver city in 30 minutes!? give me a break.

yes, for $1.50, with no traffic.

I would love to take that thing from SM to downtown on the weekend, but what's it going to take, an hour? for what is an easy 30 minute shot straight down the 10? I mean, I'm excited about it, just shocked by how slow it's going to be.

I would love to take that thing from SM to downtown on the weekend, but what's it going to take, an hour? for what is an easy 30 minute shot straight down the 10? I mean, I'm excited about it, just shocked by how slow it's going to be.

What private Stonecutters Secret Society superhighway tunnel are you taking where downtown to SM on the 10 takes 30 minutes? Summer traffic out that way feels like it's heavier than usual.

i had dinner tonight at california canteen, a place i've passed by a hundred times but never thought twice about until someone recommended it. the name is pretty banal, but the food's good -- frenchy mediterranean bistro stuff -- and the vibe is secluded and not "sceney." they passed my "roast chicken" test, so i'm satisfied.

http://californiacanteen.com/

the roast chicken test being that the baseline for the success of any french-inclined restaurant is how well they do at roast chicken.

if i go to the chick strand screening at REDCAT tonight, will i see admrl there??

What private Stonecutters Secret Society superhighway tunnel are you taking where downtown to SM on the 10 takes 30 minutes? Summer traffic out that way feels like it's heavier than usual.

― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, September 13, 2011 12:41 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark

also to continue talking about traffic they just fuckin made the 10 to 405 north interchange one lane

if i go to the chick strand screening at REDCAT tonight, will i see admrl there??

Kind of on the fence. Yeah, I'm SUPPOSED to be there and of course it looks great and such an opportunity will not come around again, I just don't know if I have the energy for REDCAT today. I think I'm gonna go home and watch Breaking Bad with my wife.

I'd like to ask a question about cars. I know there are a number of LA ILXors who don't drive - jody, Ned,...Donna? What are your experiences, good and bad? I am thinking of selling my car as we still have three years of large payments on it and I can save those plus insurance plus gas, oil change, etc. and pay down my delightful studeny loans instead. Plus I am getting a bike, and can also get to work via one bus which stops right at the end of my street and then one block from work.

Oh and we would still have one (paid off) car between us, but my wife would use that mostly to get to work.

i get along just fine without one. the only time it becomes something of an issue is if i'm out late enough that buses run less frequently and i end up waiting longer than i'd care to to get home. (and i mean, no one likes a crowded bus, but they're also inevitable.) fwiw i live and work very close to two red line metro stops (takes me half an hour door-to-door to get to work from my apt), and i do most of my hanging out in neighborhoods adjacent to the subway (i.e. silverlake, DT, los feliz) - if you're on the west side - i'm not totally sure where you are - the story is probably much different. my roommate, for one, really wanted to move out here because transit options are not so great in palms. i also have a bike - likewise with public transit, i am optimistic that the lot of cyclists will greatly improve over the next few years here.

I am in Highland Park between York and the Gold Line so I am pretty well served. Decent bike lanes too.

in terms of cost-benefit, a monthly metro pass is $75, which idk how it stacks up against current gas prices (my guess is: decently?)

yeah, it seems like east LA is benefiting the most from the new bike lane implementations, but i really, really wish they'd get to work on laying them down in hollywood

oh yeah, I spend more than that on gas, plus I think my work might have a commuter plan.

i feel that trying to see as much of the pacific standard time exhibitions as possible means i am going to be knowing the socal transit infrastructure verrrry intimately these next few months

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VrDEtpQGMs&feature=player_embedded

How was the show, Donna?

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_ls6ahvMvBQ1r3jzn9o1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJ6IHWSU3BX3X7X3Q&Expires=1317198915&Signature=wOCtglN1MPRy7kvjEGMGIru3Tgs%3D

it was great! i'd only seen one thing of hers before.

think i'm gonna go to the LACE opening tonight

What is that?

http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=260483970649966

And yeah, I wish I'd gone. I have seen most of Chick Strand's work (and was lucky to meet her very briefly). But man, I needed that rest.

xp oh ok

Looks fun!

Hi dere -- actually, Admrl, depending on what you'd want to sell for, my girlfriend might be interested in your car.

ok! Probably won't be selling until the end of the year but I will let you know. It is a 2008 2-door Toyota Yaris, well taken care of, 60000 miles at the moment, never needed repair or had an accident. Great mileage. blahblahblah