Los Angeles Thread #6: Bury My Heart At Forest Lawn

Thread #5 is a year old.

Let's celebrate by stealing its cake.

And speaking of caek, the FAP/dinner/etc. in his honor down here the other night = A+

hi caek, sorry i missed you.

btw if anyone's in town on jan. 31st (and doesn't need to be at or watch the grammys), a housewarming party is in the works for that afternoon/evening.

i made the grammy remark because lol music industry friends.

hi guys! thanks for taking me on a hot date in O.C.! it was great to get out of a motel room and not stress about astronomy for a night. good people.

it was a lot of fun! wonderful to meet everybody and head down there.

It was cool meeting everyone.

I'm ambivalent about meeting everyone.

TiGeorges Chicken (brilliantly great Haitian restaurant in Los Angeles) is having an earthquake relief fund raiser tonight.

Rainy enough for ya?

Short swim home tonight after Golden Globes viewing. It seems like the rain hasn't *really* cut loose yet.

Getting drenched down here now. Heaviest I've seen it in a long time.

haha, escaped in the nick of time. apparently palomar is like the apocalypse.

Hmmm. Tornado warnings now.

The clouds are moving REALLY fast in the Valley right now. Pretty neat.

Also, the sun is breaking through and I would like a rainbow please, god.

Yeah OC's getting the thick of today's storm right now -- looking pretty dark and miserable out there, but it's supposed to drop off in a couple of hours.

Commenters on latimes.com article about the tornado "warning" are dissecting the papers apparently poor word choice.

I guess 'watch' is when conditions are ripe for a tornado but there isnt one. A warning implies there is one on the ground already.

yes

as someone who grew up in rural IL i can tell you that this tornado warning in l.a. is like "stormwatch 2010" for a lengthy drizzle. a watch means the storm conditions are leaving open the possibility of a tornado, and a warning is gonna be accompanied by a siren and heading for the basement (which i did a few times.) watch out for wall clouds and the sky turning a weird greenish gray color, basically.

And its in OC anyway so fuck it (sorry Ned)

http://www.crazyauntpurl.com/images/blog/jan0408-tv-stormwatch.jpg

And rainbow received. Well-done, god.

http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs162.snc3/18976_259959078445_501188445_3256664_3988889_n.jpg

http://quartzcity.net/ilx/lastorm_20100119.png

nice sunshowers today around 3-4pm.

the rain has been pretty manageable considering it's the STORM OF TEH CENTURY and all.

Some light hail in Santa Monica just now.

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Leno's getting edgy, I see.

http://www.mydesert.com/article/20100119/NEWS01/1190306/Goat+smashes+through+doors+of+strip+club

Once Barack Obama fixes the economy and I can find a job in L.A., I am so leaving the IE.

http://www.pe.com/localnews/menifee/stories/PE_News_Local_W_sdictionary22.414bdf0.html

http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_W_dictionary23.466f8d4.html

smh

For anyone up for the trek -- Mark Hosler of Negativland is presenting at UC Irvine next Thursday:

http://www.humanities.uci.edu/fvc/schedW10_02_illegal_art.html

double rainbows!!
http://www.vuthy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/1-rainbow.jpg

Leaving work today

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2788/4345123448_d580a13da0.jpg

Immediately went home and listened to FSA, Roy Montgomery, Scenic, etc.

Yes the sky's been all kinds of mixed-messages Biblical lately.

Randy Newman is not very good at playing live music.

And I LOVED every minute of his show at UCLA Royce Hall on Friday. It reminded me of get bent so I thought I'd say hello.

It is just so impossibly beautiful out today; sunny and windy but warm and so clear. I took a long walk at lunch and just marveled at it.

seems like we've had more than our share of clear skies since autumn, i've been taking a 'series' of sunset/pre-sunset snapshots from my office building and i guess there's enough smog for those infamously beautiful l.a. sunsets but not enough to make the basin as dingy as usual

or maybe the sunset is always beautiful go figure. never watched them over such a long period of time tbh

It is just so impossibly beautiful out today; sunny and windy but warm and so clear. I took a long walk at lunch and just marveled at it.

Same here -- just gorgeous. Should have taken some photos!

Also, this is the best ever LA thread title.

thanks, i like it too!

Paul McCartney at the Hollywood Bowl March 30 tickets going on sale through Ticketbastard tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. for Amex/fanclub. Code PMFAN.

http://tinyurl.com/yknb5xy

This week from Wednesday to Friday, Los Angeles burger trucks Grill 'Em All and Baby's Badass Burgers (warning: automatically plays music) will be competing on the Travel Channel's Food Wars. Wednesday will feature Grill 'Em All, Thursday will feature Baby's Badass Burgers, and Friday will feature both. If you're a fan of these trucks, here's the schedule for where and when they're taping to show your support (contact fanfoodcast✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧ for the latest news):

Wednesday, March 3: Grill 'Em All
Century Media Records, 2323 W El Segundo Blvd, Hawthorne CA 90250 (map)
Tentative time: 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Thursday, March 4: Baby's Badass Burgers
5700 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles CA 90036 (map)
Tentative time: 11 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Friday, March 5: Both Trucks
Location TBD: Email fanfoodcast✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧ to stay updated
Tentative time: 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.

i've tried (and liked) grill 'em all, so that's who i'm rooting for.

going to this on wednesday...

3/10 @ 8:00pm & 10:15pm
Blast Phemy! 2:
Text Of Light (feat. Lee Ranaldo) & Parallel
Join Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo, collaborating live with saxophonist Ulrich Krieger and guitarist Alan Licht, as he goes to the blasphemous extreme with live scores to the films of Stan Brakhage and other mid-century American cinema avant-gardists. According to Licht, Text of Light "does not perform soundtracks to the films of Stan Brakhage. Rather, it uses the films as a further element for improvisation, almost as (another) performer. While Brakhage intended for these films to be screened silently as films...(here) they are juxtaposed with the music, in a kind of real-time performance, mixed-media collage." But the evening doesn't stop there! The night also includes a screening of Parallel, an animation tour-de-force by mediamaker Huckleberry Lain, featuring music by Argentinean-born, L.A.-based electronic duo Languis.

http://cinefamily.org/calendar/events.html#blast2

Ned Sublette, author of Cuba and Its Music, has this upcoming event (cut and pasted from his e-mail):

March 11-13, Los Angeles: UCLA "Ports of Call -- Cultures of Exchange"
conference. My talk is this Saturday (the 13th) at noon. I'll get to talk
about my longtime favorite subject, the dancing girls of Cádiz, in the
context of postmamboist Braudelianism. Conference schedule at
http://s1.webstarts.com/portsofcall/uploads/Ports_of_Call--Program2_copy.pdf
Looking forward to hanging in L.A. a bit -- it's been a long time.

hey angelenos.

is there an easy way to get from santa monica to hollywood and back on public transport? i can't figure this shit out for the life of me.

It's been a while but there's a MTA wilshire express bus, the 720 I think. Transfer to a bus going north? Use google maps, should give you the exact schedule, route etc.

Actually, the 704 goes pretty direct:
http://maps.google.com/maps?sourceid=chrome&q=santa%20monica%20to%20hollywood&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wl

This link is better:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=santa+monica&daddr=hollywood&hl=en&geocode=FX4YBwIdyffv-CkZAJHCzqTCgDGr9SP_tQoXtA;FaZMCAIdKXry-CnDJp8uML_CgDHQqR9wNsa6PQ&mra=ls&dirflg=r&ttype=dep&date=03/19/10&time=3:51pm&noexp=0&noal=0&sort=&sll=34.056825,-118.370045&sspn=0.238358,0.445976&ie=UTF8&z=13&start=0

ugh, nevermind, don't know how to work computer anymore

:-/

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef0147e075f537970b-800wi

since 2007, there have been 571 homicides within a four mile radius of the blue spot at center

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/12/15-year-old-boy-arrested-in-fatal-stabbing.html

"getting people out of poverty" is the answer to just about every social problem, and the people who have the power to do this just bought more corporate jets and olympic swimming pools. the people who live in that circle are pretty fucked.

Though at least one of those former people with power and money has had a slight return to reality:

http://www.ktla.com/search/ktla-exclusive-robert-rizzo-community-service,0,6808317.story

Huh. So the gun taking from the suicide victim in the Chasen thing might actually BE the gun:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/12/ronni-chasen-slaying-gun-found-at-hollywood-hotel-appears-to-match-one-that-killed-publicist.html

Anyone interested in buying from me two tix for Jonathan Richman tonight at a 50% discount? I cannae go =(

Vincent Kartheiser luvs LA public transit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Io1CGSJvfU&feature=player_embedded

don't bump this thread unless you want my ticket

really because I was going to come in and talk about how much I love the Walk of Fame and the Sunset Strip

oh

go on

is anyone gonna join me for vaginal davis at moca in january?

yeh maybe

i have tickets for the 8pm show.

http://www.moca.org/audio/blog/?page_id=1217

also in jan: "ann magnuson presents: a david bowie tribute"

http://events.la.com/los-angeles-ca/events/show/155653585-ann-magnuson-presents-a-david-bowie-tribute

Could be fun, that...

Anyone seeing Low next Wednesday?

Which I will repeat. (As the show is tomorrow night.)

Meantime, hmm. Kinda like those letters, actually, but a Pan Pacific Amphitheatre-styled replacement could be cool!

is anyone gonna join me for vaginal davis at moca in january?

I am working on this performance, btw. So I will be there...just probably busy!

Also everyone should join Machine Project. They are offering some cool niche memberships now!

http://machineproject.com/join/niche-memberships

Was hoping to see Low as well, Ned, but it just didn't come together this week. How was it?

Spectacular, unsurprisingly. "Monkey"/"Silver Rider" to start, a slew of new songs from the next album, most of their Christmas songs, encore of "Dinosaur Act," "Murderer" and "Last Snowstorm of the Year."

http://www.goes.noaa.gov/GIFS/WCWV.JPG

I'm headed East!

stay away from the river!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QDEbj3ve8Ds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QDEbj3ve8Ds

i was wondering what all the ruckus was yesterday...

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=7856892

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- It was a close call for three homeless men Tuesday morning when they ended up swimming for their lives in the Los Angeles River.

The incident happened at Glendale Boulevard in Atwater Village.

Firefighters said the river's water level was rising and it quickly reached the men's encampment, so they tried to swim across.

That's when the men ran into trouble. The river was about 18 inches deep and was moving very rapidly.

Someone spotted the men struggling in the water and called 911.

By the time paramedics arrived, the men had managed to get out, but they were in immediate need of attention because they were all suffering from hypothermia.

"Just a few minutes in the water, hypothermia will set in and then you lose the dexterity with your hands and then it's difficult to even pull yourself out," said Battalion Chief Craig Yoder of the Los Angeles City Fire Department.

Firefighters warned people not to get too close to the river. They said the banks are extremely slippery and it's very easy to fall in.

"Now is not the time to go out and do recreation in any of those areas nor is it authorized, and it's against the law at this point," said Battalion Chief Jack Wise.

http://youarelisteningtolosangeles.com/

Can anyone recommend a good sushi restaurant? I'm doing a two day training thing in a hotel by LAX and want to drive out somewhere nice for dinner.

i've heard good things about sugarfish in marina del rey:

http://www.sugarfishsushi.com/

No LA thread? Anyway, re: school closings, the superintendent said it was an "electronic threat" potentially targeting multiple schools, but no specific schools, so I guess they're searching every single school for suspicious stuff? Based on ... an email? Better safe than sorry, but that's a pretty low bar for something that disrupts hundreds of thousands of people. Has any major city ever shut down its entire school system before, based on a non-specific threat?

i thought it was odd but i sense it's something more than a kid calling it in because he doesn't want to take a test, i imagine there's something to it that makes them think it's more credible.

640,000 kids affected, plus parents and caretakers.

And yeah, "credible" is a tough word to parse, but a voicemail reportedly left for a school board member?

An electronic threat? Whassat?

Voicemail, reportedly.

I thought it was referring to some sort of cyberattack, duh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O77v7lVKgNU

I guess the threat came from overseas (or at least an IP address in Frankfurt). Also, reportedly the NYC schools got the same threat and determined it a hoax.

New York City officials said in a news conference late Tuesday morning they received the same threat as the Los Angeles schools but deemed it a hoax.

Mayor Bill de Blasio called the threat "so generic, so outlandish" that they concluded it was not credible, citing word choices and capitalization used in the email.

Police commissioner William Bratton said it would be a "huge disservice to our nation" to shut down New York City schools based on the threat, which he said was sent to school districts across the country.

saw some kids in the elevator joining their mom in an impromptu take your kids to work day

jeez louise, is this all it takes to nearly shut down a city?

i feel like the very same people who go around decrying "terrorism" constantly are the same people who make certain that as an asymmetrical tactic it's completely effective.

I'm going to change my VPN to Frankfurt and email every school in the nation to warn them that if they keep wasting our time with the PARCC test, "bad things might happen."

I can't recall a single instance of a bomb threat turning out to involve an actual bomb

haven't been keeping up but puzzled why they didn't immediately involve the fbi or a force far more skilled than the los angeles police department.

from what I can tell they didn't even involve the LAPD. u_u

is this the most recent thread? i'm moving to this town in june!

oh shit. welcome. bring shorts. dont bring lots of jackets.

good 2 know

U can still rock sweaters tho

and laugh at the people who spent money on expensive winter wear and put all of it on at once during the one week a year its actually cold

It was unusually cooler this winter

Heard its gonna be a scorcher this summer tho