Los Angeles Thread #7: Busch Gardens

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