Los Angeles Thread #11: Let's Save Vincente Minnelli's House

fuck

daily temps might be 100 or so

Good prep for Dubai 2032.

Cinefamily dudes resign over sexual misconduct allegations

http://laist.com/2017/08/22/cinefamily_founder_resigns.php

if you like movies and you live in L.A., you've probably gone there. heard shit about at least one of those guys for a long time, just the general creepy nature of women interacting with him. predictably, like a lot of "center of a culture" dudes with a fair amount of lazy charisma, he's got his share of defenders ready to pop off about "unfounded allegations."

An acquaintance of mine works there, I'm hoping he was not involved with this.

I've always been a bit uneasy w/at least one of those guys, personally.

they should play the game in Death Valley instead

Game 1 at Los Angeles' Dodger Stadium will likely set the record for the hottest temperature at a World Series game https://t.co/Gyr2V242Nr pic.twitter.com/i3ejRvRz4I

— CNN International (@cnni) October 24, 2017

Both teams are used to heat, unfortunately. It'd be funny if the Dodgers were playing the Nome Igloos.

the Astros play indoors!

that is, their 'retractable' roof is almost always closed

Ah, well they live there too, so they're used to doing other stuff in oppressive heat.

This could be good, I bought a ticket (Andy Warhol's Factory recreation).

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/foxes-magazine-lolipop-records-presents-andy-warhols-factory-lives-tickets-39803749085?invite=&err=29&referrer=&discount=&affiliate=&eventpassword=#loginbox

https://i.redd.it/42ezrbpj84201.jpg

http://beta.latimes.com/resizer/tJK-PdKdcEB7M9DvBc0bItY00j0=/1400x0/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-tronc.s3.amazonaws.com/public/JVQCHLPUL5EBBHUX2IFDO5XDQA.jpg

driving on the freeway i see signs that say

drive high
get a dui

It's like they think that everybody's going to spark up for the first time on Jan 1. I don't think they will. It's more likely that if people were prone to do it, they would have done it by now. Nobody's going to be "new," and I don't think that people who smoke are all of a sudden going to take to the roads in massively larger numbers than they already are. It'll just be no HS 11357 violations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pXLSjDkcEE

Cinefamily looks like it's coming back.

http://www.indiewire.com/2018/01/fairfax-theater-silent-movie-theatre-cinefamily-1201915500/

that's three months old, and at the time seemed likely that Dan was just transferring the title in the building, not imminently relaunching an organization

https://www.cinefamilyaccountability.org is posting all the documents

ah, he hadn't sent more emails after those first couple - ta

gonna be in LA in a couple weeks for a few days (Snail Mail concert, yay!). staying right around HiFi, anybody versed in Filipino food have any recs? thx!

there's a decent filipino kiosk in grand central market - http://sarisaristorela.com/ the buko pie is next level

i'll take decent! thx for that and for reminding me i need to go to GC

yeah everything there is great (except the bathrooms good lord)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym8yJBj4Qu8

los angeles, 2018 pic.twitter.com/WH1UTGbwUx

— Kyle McDonald (@kcimc) July 28, 2018

(i live here now btw)

Go away for two weeks and return to find an infestation of scooters being parked and used all over the area. Found one leaning against our neighbor’s house this morning. Had three parked on the grass along the curb the other day.

Drive through Westwood if you want to see true infestation. Haven't been near USC but I assume its just as bad.

Some scrap metal dudes tried to take one parked outside the other day. It looked like it was put out there for free.

if you think scooters are a danger to pedestrians and an eyesore and they clutter the built environment making getting around difficult for everyone other than people who use them then wait until you hear about cars.

i have been enjoying the LA podcast a lot! i now know more about local politics than i have in any town i've ever lived in. and they added alissa walker to the roster and are very good on transit as a result.

i get the LAT and the LASD and USC seem like not good institutitions?!

What the hell are these things

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Toe-Biting-Insects-Santa-Monica-Mountains-491576221.html

Honestly you startle most infants and they’ll also fart

obviously nobody here is a climate scientist but I feel like it used to rarely be humid in LA in the summer.. that's definitely not the case the last 2-3 years. am I off-base here?

it's been pretty humid for L.A. though obviously not midwest or deep south humid. also this summer and (iirc) last were not especially hot maybe? this has been very much a summer full of 84 degree high days (with that early July weekend heat wave excepted.)

i imagine it's been a really pleasant summer for the beach communities, Santa Monica seems to be enjoying lots of 78 degree days.

Otm on humidity

There’s also a sharp physical division between the beach cities and inland where there is a spike in temperature which I don’t remember there being in the past

I live in Studio City and work in Woodland Hills so it’s hot as fuck all the time

fwiw

Arclight will be showing some of the original Cinerama Movies for its 55th Anniversry, including HOW THE WEST WAS WON !! pic.twitter.com/m05HrqNOh5

— Peter Labuza (@labuzamovies) September 10, 2018

Is that actually any good

Some of it!

extremely bloody Civil War segment directed by Ford, feat. George Peppard and Russ Tamblyn

I have not seen the first two there, wd be most interested in Grand Prix.

fwiw How the West Was Won is the only film on the Arclight schedule that was filmed in Cinerama instead of just "presented" in Cinerama.

As a western fan I have to say I've never cared for it. Too aware of itself as a "stunt" and too thin.

Grand Prix seems like a much more exciting prospect. Glossy and slick, but at least a real movie.

"Holy Crap: LA’s First Ax-Throwing Bar Just Opened in a North Hollywood Warehouse"

I read about that earlier today and was like

😍

This absolutely should be the site of the next LA FAP before it's shut down for being uninsurable.