Los Angeles Thread #7: Busch Gardens

Happy 2011.

(thread title: http://laist.com/2009/07/18/laistory_busch_gardens_in_van_nuys.php)

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(ty jody)

And...gorgeous weather for the Tournament of Roses Parade, go figure.

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rejected JBR street names, san fernando valley edition!

zelzah zfitzgerald
barry goldwater canyon
van nuys without a face
metro panty line

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jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjbr, have you seen this yet?

hell yes.

zelzah zfitzgerald

a little zelzah down your pants

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rejected JBR street names, san fernando valley edition!

quadroparthenia
the chatsworth marmont
welcome to tujunga

so many amazing place names that i'm wracked with option anxiety.

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tarzana nicole smith

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reseda bag of dicks

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jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjbr, have you seen this yet?

hell yes.

minus this part, although it's about that 1973 hollywood teen groupie mag, so it does belong itt.

That it does:

http://star1973.com

the mission hills (uk)

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arleta horse to water, but you can't make him live in arleta

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pacoima troubles in my old kit bag

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i was trying to think of a pacoima one

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who knows what evil lurks on large lots zoned for horse ownership? the shadow hills.

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a little out of the sfv:

the nina, the pinta, the santa clarita

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(a lomita interject)

very nice

<3

Hahah, this guy:

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0113-lopez-20110113,0,1294355.column

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"Do you surf?" I asked, and I think this is where the relationship went south.

passed up the chance to eat at art's last night to have so-so thai a few doors down instead. doh!

art's is fun, but a little expensive -- you're paying for the studio city real estate.

hey, another school shooting, and this one involves a police officer! gun violence is awesome and not at all scary.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/01/los-angeles-unified-school-district-police-officer-shot-in-chest-el-camino-real-high-school.html

andre and i both work in this area.

this thread needs more late '70s l.a. grindhouse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3MOXwdkJp8

I have that on an 8-pack set I found at Best Buy. Haven't watched that one yet, but the first Babysitter one is pretty good.

Drive-In Cult Classics Vol 3

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/02/01/los-angeles-police-eliminate-rape-kit-backlog/

a job __ done!

villaraigosa With US attorney Andre Birotte to announce the arrests of approx 57 gang members this morning in a multi-agency operation

a job __ done!

Friend of mine says the Arcade Fire is doing a secret show this weekend, and he asked me to find out where it is, but I dunno, lol

ideas? concert detective halp.

yeah they announced that they found a venue for the show but haven't said what it is yet

basically, it's like, you can go if you check the internet at the right time

I like my friend's take in the original e-mail

"Might be at the Glass House in Pomona, which is where a lot of secret gigs have taken place, but that's nowhere near Silver Lake!"

He's also come up with the clever device of referring to the greater L.A. area as "Silver Lake."

ugh

christ i hope it's not @ spaceland, my street will be a madhouse

"Wake Up" will be a bullying command, and not just a song, to anybody trying living and trying to sleep nearby.

You need Twitter to stay on top of this... Looks like @scottrodger is the guy to follow.

Speaking of which, @TheScenestar will always be a hero for posting the exactly set times for almost all local shows.

Thanks for that info. You are, indeed, a current detective :-D

for the record, if anyone has a mid-week karaoke itch they need to scratch and happen to find themselves in the valley and are ok with gays, the silver rail on burbank blvd has a really terrific tuesday karaoke night. first time i've EVER seen "babooshka" on a song list!

in point of fact, that bar is pretty great overall. eager to try some of the other gay valley dives! (oxwood room, anyone?)

is oxwood the lesbian bar on oxnard? i lived near there for a while.

yep (and woodman, hence the name i guess)

looks like Silver Rail is about 2 miles from my Valley friend's house, so maybe in July!

Colonel Poo, his wife and I and others are planning a lunch FAP at the Waffle this Saturday at 11:30 if anyone would like to join us.

Meantime, how to make your own riff on Zankou Chicken garlic sauce, aka toum:

http://blogs.ocweekly.com/stickaforkinit/2011/02/zankous_garlic_sauce_clone.php

Go back to making bad Spider-man songs:

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0210-u2-malibu-20110210,0,4731017.story

For anyone interested in Arcade Fire tickets (I'm not, but I do like the puzzle - check the Scenestar link below) they're going on sale noon tomorrow at Origami Vinyl, Fingerprints in Long Beach, and at the El Rey theatre.

http://thescenestar.typepad.com/ss/2011/02/arcade-fire-details-revealed-at-900am.html (commenters are telling people to shut up about it, but here you go)

Today's daily deal from LA weekly is $10 for $20 at Amoeba: http://deals.voiceplaces.com/los-angeles/x/5454q25464/

I bought two of those, and one other one for a f(r)iend.

i might not be using my ticket to the swans show (march 2, the el rey). i work nights and i'm debating whether i'd rather sit in a boring office and make a few bucks or call in sick and get delightfully earfucked by michael gira.

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Announcing the Grand Opening of the Truckit Fest at Union Station. This landmark location will be the new home to a monthly event featuring over 35 of LA's best Food Trucks, 200 local designers and artisans, Live Bands, DJ's and much more. Where: Union Station downtown Los Angeles. When: Sunday March 6th 11am -5pm.

http://www.truckitfest.com/

my stomach and i are curious, we are

Nice!

did they remember to GET THE PERMITS? (looking at you, santa monica parking lot.)

in other good news (for me), the LA bike plan passed city council unanimously!

about time!

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

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...

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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.

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