Los Angeles Thread #8: Strong and Prouty

Meme-ories...

Haha

so i just learned about the existence of the doodah parade, which is next weekend. my impression is that this is basically socal's mermaid parade?

so i just learned about the existence of the doodah parade, which is next weekend. my impression is that this is basically socal's mermaid parade?

You are correct.

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Dunnoh about the mermaid parade, but DooDah's been going since '78 or so. Basically a zany parade, that seems a little tamer than it used to be.

Festival of Books this weekend, don't sleeep!

12:10 pm Ricki Lake, author of “Never Say Never: Finding a Life That Fits”
1:20 pm Tori Spelling, author of “Celebratori: Unleashing Your Inner Party Planner to Entertain Friends and Family”
2:30 pm John Cusack discusses Relativity Media’s “The Raven,” interviewed by Mark Leyner

lol

10:30 am Nonfiction: The Speed of Thought (Panel 1081)
Reza Aslan
David Bellos
Daniel Kahneman Moderator: Elizabeth Taylor

4:15 pm Kareem Abdul Jabbar & Raymond Obstfeld, What Color is My World?

Blossom!!

3:40 pm Mayim Bialik, author of “Beyond the Sling: A Real-Life Guide to Raising Confident, Loving Children the
Attachment Parenting Way”

In all seriousness, these should be dope, plus TC Boyle on Saturday:

11:30 am History: City of Angels (Panel 2012)
Leo Braudy
John Buntin
Steven J. Ross
D.J. Waldie Moderator: Richard Rayner
1:00 pm Fiction: California Dreamin' (Panel 2013)
Steve Erickson
Hari Kunzru
Dana Spiotta Moderator: David L. Ulin

Solnit!

2:00 pm Nonfiction: We Built This City (Panel 2113)
Bill Boyarsky
Scott Martelle
Rebecca Solnit Moderator: Jon Thurber

http://ingridsnotes.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/festival_of_books1.jpg

I'll be there

Me too! see you

i'll be there in a helping-out capacity

awwwww, thanks

anytime! :)

tomorrow night is the walking the room podcast's 100th episode, live at meltdown comics with patton oswalt and other comedians:

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/235814

see you all at the book fest

1:00 pm “Read it and Weep” Episode of “My Little Pony:
Friendship is Magic” presented by The Hub TV Network
Q & A to follow with showrunner Meghan McCarthy and actor Tara Strong, voice of Twilight Sparkle, Interviewed by Dawn C. Chmielewski (Panel 2152)
Located in the Broccoli Theater
Screening

apparently on cinco de mayo, cinefamily will be showing this 1987 mexican (?) post-apocalyptic biker punk flick:

http://vimeo.com/40757095

Sounds like genius to me!

ned, have you ever come up for any of the cinefamily stuff? it's a hoot.

expo line opens on april 28th! free rides on opening weekend -- although i did the gold line extension's opening day a couple years ago and that was a clusterfuck. but still, rail service from downtown to culver city! and then eventually santa monica!

http://laist.com/2012/04/17/free_expo_line_rides_during_opening_weekend.php

so stoked for this! they already put up new metro maps on the red line trains

and the blue line trains!

has anyone been to tasty noodle house in san gabriel? the photos look pretty jaw-dropping.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/tasty-noodle-house-san-gabriel

Pretty sure I have been there, and it is good, but been so long I don't remember the exact dishes I tried. I went with the LA Asian Foodies Meetup group, which I recommend for finding restaurants. Most events are in the San Gabriel Valley, Little Tokyo, and Koreatown.

Liked seeing the different geographies in my Twitter stream light up as the tow truck chase went through Hollywood, and then Glendale

so, shows!

- anyone go to those dead c tribute shows?

- made mental note weeks ago to buy school of seven bells tickets, totally slipped my mind :/

- think bf and i are going to psychic friend on friday (will schwartz from imperial teen's new project) and next week i see demdike stare is at los globos...

- anyone go to those dead c tribute shows?

Yes! It was great. You should have gone. Etc.

Fave musical part was Barbara Manning channeling Neil Young's "Arc" guitar sound. Fave part was the Dunedin pub built from scratch specifically for the show. The pho place next door was also noteworthy.

- made mental note weeks ago to buy school of seven bells tickets, totally slipped my mind :/

This may have been my favorite show of the week.

http://local.twitpicproxy.com/web10/img/567504671-88e80e4e93b00edad48fbea76946f7e5.4f98dd58-scaled.gif

car wash

Abstract animation at LACMA tonight with Oskar Fischinger and others: http://lacma.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/oskar-fischinger-and-california-abstract-animation/

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-0505-mike-watt-20120505,0,3909090.story

Mike Watt on kayaking near Pedro and more

you guys feel like doing another karaoke night soon?

always!

a) should we do max or you wanna try somewhere else?

b) is may 19th good? that's a saturday.

next weekend would be better for me to serenade you all with my voice of death.

And that would be a vision.

I could not do karaoke, however! Earlier on the 19th I will be in town for the Will Sergeant exhibition:

https://www.facebook.com/events/256679044421079/

http://www.willsergeant.com/

As noted he's at the gallery both on the 18th and 19th; our OC bunch is doing the 19th one as it's better for our schedule.

I'll be at the opening on the 18th (works better for my schedule). It's a cool gallery, same place the Natty Brooker/SP3 art exhibition was a couple years ago.

so uh...anyone going to devo @ hollywood park tonight?

also wish me luck tomorrow:

http://www.crosswordsla.com/

so uh...anyone going to devo @ hollywood park tonight?

I'll be there.

Conflicting shows tonight though. I really want to go see Stan Ridgway out at Pappy & Harriets. I also want to see White Hills at the Echo and Devo too of course, but I have to go to LAX tonight and so Devo it is.

Also, the Arclight Hollywood is showing Barry Lyndon in the Cinerama Dome tonight, tomorrow and Tuesday. Thinking of going on Tuesday.

On Saturday, the Institute For Figuring is having an open house at their space in Chinatown: http://blogs.laweekly.com/arts/2012/05/institute_for_figuring_math_science.php

Anyone else going to BJM tomorrow?

i'm still down for karaoke -- it seemed like both this weekend (which vik was bullish on) and next were bad for people. would saturday the 26th be any good? or friday the 25th?

not actually going to DEVO (computer keeps wanting to change this to "deco") tonight

i saw MEN (jd samson's band, not THE men on sacred bones) at echoplex last night, they were fun

think last weekend of may would be better for me overall for karaoke

Bah, the word is out on fish taco comedy (I went to a couple of these are they're great!) http://blogs.laweekly.com/arts/2012/05/best_fish_taco_ensenada_comedy.php

This look it could be interesting

http://fordtheatres.org/en/events/details/id/352

yah