i'm going to LA tomorrow

Forever Changes is a very LA record, see also West Coast gangsta rap.

I have also never been to LA.

nighttime activities with my traveling companions will probably not involve going out to bars b/c my li'l sis is only 20.

Drive the lengths of Wilshire and Sunset (switch to Hollywood between Gower and La Brea) Boulevards, consider Mulholland Drive, Silverlake Boulevard, and the PCH up to Malibu

Explore Venice on foot: the beach, canals, and houses by day, Abbot-Kinney at dusk (you could get coffee here with your sis at night)

Check out El Pueblo (and Union Station), and drive across the LA River into Boyle Heights.

for architecture, see Greene & Greene's Gamble House, Gehry's Disney Concert Hall (and Chiat/Day/Mojo building), the inside of the Bradbury Building. and there's lots of Wright, Schindler and Neutra as well.

for museums, visit the Norton Simon first, consider the Museum of the American West (formerly the Autry), and check out what's on at the Hammer

for nature, visit Griffith Park, Will Rogers State Park or Runyon Canyon

shopping - the Third Street Promenade and Santa Monica Fred Segal are nearby, but head to Hollywood and check out the stores on Melrose East of Fairfax, and on La Brea North of Wilshire

Take a studio tour at Warner Brothers or the Sony Pictures studio in Culver City (if you go down this way, take Motor Ave through Rancho Park). I don't think Paramount does tours anymore, but make sure to see the gates.

LA isn't the best walking city, but you can find urbanish foot-friendliness if you go for campuses - UCLA/Westwood Village, Exposition Park (with museums) by USC, and beautiful (but small) Cal-Tech

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Yes it is.

It is, everyone should go. Also check out the Center For Land User Information next door.

There's several thousand sushi places on 2nd St. in Little Tokyo downtown. Sushi Komasa is my favorite for price-per-freshness, but you can't go wrong with most of the places there.

center for land use interpretation, cough cough.

go to china/koreatown and see the galleries there, and see gasogin in beverly hills.

I R confused, what do you normally see them retailing for?

Since you're staying in Sta Monica, Chez Jay restaurant and bar is kind of fun. It was Chris Penn's hangout - r.i.p. - and has a warm, salty-dog feel that good for visitors.

Plenty!

Tonight:
- A midnight showing of Over The Edge at the Nuart.

Saturday:
- "Vacation: Dauphin Island" at the CLUI
- Double bill of The Passenger and Five Easy Pieces at the New Beverly.
- "Secret Gallery Secret Moonshine" at Machine Project at 8pm. Bootleg hooch at an art gallery!

Sunday:
- Going to the Hammer for the other part of "Masters Of American Comics" show (link upthread).

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How was LA? What did you end up doing?

wednesday: grammys. sony party. emi party. drank lots and lots of free champagne. got lost in the hollywood hills looking for kanye's houseparty.

thursday: hungover. sat around the standard hollywood. had lunch in the cafe there and saw stanford from sex & city and also this horrible fag i recognize from new york screaming into his cell phone about how fabulous his fashion show was but how "ghetto people" ruined his afterparty. dinner at gaucho (lots and lots and lots of meat). then back to standard hollywood where a friend of a friend was dj'ing. drooled on the friend of a friend's boyfriend. then went to some sushi bar strip mall that had karaoke in one room, and techno party in the other room with a stripper and a choreographed dance routine.

friday: walked along melrose ave shopping. bought a seersucker hat from marc jacobs. and a pair of cashmere socks. saw kelly and sharon osborne there. walked to fred segal. bought nothing. hated the sales staff there. went to vine bar. doorguy not so friendly. drooled on friend-of-friend's boyfriend again. traded him a drink for some drugs. tried to find an afterhours. why things stop at 2am?

saturday: hungover. watched basketball. went shopping at american rag. unimpressed. had an in-n-out burger. orgasmed. tried to go to the warehouse party, but couldn't convince anyone to drive me.

sunday: not hungover. went to church. changed my flight from monday to tuesday because a meeting came up. went to some karaoke thing at the dressing room. drooled on friend of a friend's boyfriend AND drooled on another friend of a friend who i remember finding really attractive from a tv commercial. not as cute as the verizon guy, or the taco bell "good to go" guy, the UPS brown guy, or the burger king guy who licks jessica alba's cardboard cutout though. people do karaoke so much better in LA. maybe because theyre all actors or musical theatre types. and some guy in the bathroom gave me free drugs. LA is so friendly

monday: hungover. meeting got cancelled. watched soap operas. had sushi at a place on santa monica and sweetzer called Yoshi's, or something like that. was really really really good. maybe not for LA, but its hard to find good sushi in NY.

tuesday: got 1 hour of sleep, and caught my 6am flight back home. tried to sleep on the plane, but there was a huge chinese tourgroup on the flight and they spent the entire time screaming in cantonese and farting.

so yeah, that was my trip to LA. did absolutely nothing of interest. just ate, shopped, drank, and drooled. kinda sad.

How was LA? What did you end up doing?

Wedn: ate at Real Food Daily (near our hotel in santa monica), saw michael richards there (how close to larry david can you possibly get? come on!), and elizabeth berkeley. weird.

Thurs: rode bikes around santa monica, venice, marina del rey, etc. drove around sunset boulevard.

Friday: went to the Getty. SO BOOTEEFUL. my mom insisted that we drive along Mulholland Drive, but she mistakenly had us begin going EAST from the PCH instead of from the 405, so we had a really scary cliff-side adventure on Mulholland HIGHWAY through the canyons.

Saturday: rode bikes again. bought stuff at american apparel. hung out at the airport with my sister.

Sunday: went to the airport at 5:30am. flight to phila cancelled due to snowstorm. took the airport shuttle to manhattan beach. i made a sand sculpture.

Monday: went to the airport at 5:30am. flight to phila on time!