Los Angeles Thread #7: Busch Gardens

the Ufomammut of Calabasas

the Reverend Horton Heat of Simi Valley

the guess who of porter ranch

the mama cass of mission hills

the electric prunes of sun valley

the zounds of azusa

?uestion Mark and the Mysterions OF MONTEBELLO

The Libertines of Tustin

the grass roots of baldwin park

The Ten City of City of Industry.

The Dungeon Family of San Marino

The Last Poets of Altadena

The France Gall of Palms

the wombats of westchester

oh wait, is mercado la paloma where that really good peruvian place is?

yeah donna

but you know

they have a new place now at Grand Central Mark you can try - CHIMU

right opposite angel's flight, check it out. Ask for the lomo saltado and a barley drink

The Eagles of Eagle Rock

The Pasadenas of Pasadena

The Arcadia of Arcadia

x-posts

The Dickies

right next to la cita? uh oh

yeah next to la cita. LOVE that place

i took lex there when he visited LA! <3 their micheladas

and the taqueria next door has real good potato tacos

LEX in LA CITA hahahaa

he liked it! mustache mondays, yo

anyway bike thing sounds cool but saturday is also opera. but that's at 9am and is six hours long, so hmmm

what opera, a re you cultured or something

siegfried

and i'm going to another one tonight

so, yes *peers at you through monocle*

what the fuck

The Montrose of Montrose...

unfortunately chimu shuttered a few days back, homie. my neighbor bro'd down w/the chef and did a photoshoot with him and kept trying to get me to go but i've been busy. too late now, i guess. but he's partnering with some dude at a new place in echo park soon.

he liked it! mustache mondays, yo

anyway bike thing sounds cool but saturday is also opera. but that's at 9am and is six hours long, so hmmm

OMG you took lex to MM? Did he totally love it?? Wd pay like a million dollars to go to MM with you plus a lex.

I'm still bummed I couldn't meet up with Lex there a few weeks back! Another time.

That is HORRIBLE about Chimu

One of the waitresses was really cute

http://la.eater.com/archives/2011/08/22/picca_team_to_open_mochica_on_7_downtown_this_fall.php

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