Los Angeles Thread #10: Climb Mount Analog

Recommended on a friend's fb, haven't used any of them myself.

http://lifehacker.com/five-best-apartment-search-tools-1571103043

I live about a mile away from that oil pipeline rupture along San Fernando Road this morning and then later on my way to work the northbound side of the 5 was on fire.

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BntPKTOCQAA9FQY.jpg

Lol church on York's closed

i hope the jandek show gets moved somewhere else.

that's a shame, seemed like it could've been a nice space for certain things.

glad the posh isolation shows were moved tho, can't imagine those shows would have been as good in the church, had a great time at that last night. sexdrome + puce mary both killed it.

church on york i guess only had a few permits for shows while the owners were waiting for the process to complete, but they were holding shows all the time nonetheless and were selling alcohol w/o a permit.

Ha, well, at least I can say I saw one show there.

the venue had its problems beyond the management (punishingly uncomfortable pews) but it was a good space.

Yeah I liked it, and there weren't any pews for Loop, just open floor. Only thing I would have done if possible is more a/c but that's pretty much ANY venue except the Echoplex.

anyone going to liars at the fonda tonight?

very preliminarily pondering an LA-SD(-SF?) trip around July 3-13 if health permits, anything shakin' then? maybe Ned can drive me to an Angels game, j/k.

matmos at cinefamily july 2nd (with video screening by john wiese)!

yeah, there's always great stuff the night before I can leave NYC. :/

i know little of la and this thread, but i needed a place to put this:

http://vimeo.com/97726387

look for me (or hide) July 7 thru 12

also I'm willing to stay in a no-frills Hollywood dump again, but do you think i'd be bored downtown? (obv need to be near bus/train)

found a decent room abt 3 blocks from H'wood & Vine, so that's that.

X is playing at the Roxy? Will Exene get me in free if I bring a gun?

also I guess I should get my friend in the Valley to drive me to the Getty Villa one morning? Only got to Santa Monica and Venice at dusk last time, Malibu not at all.

can't say for sure, but this midnight horror at Cinefamily on the 11th might be appealing:

http://www.cinefamily.org/films/friday-night-frights/#friday-night-frights-the-changeling

What is the capacity of that place?

Also, I should go to both Getty branches, right?

cinefamily holds a couple hundred or so i think?

i haven't been to the getty villa, but the getty on the 405 is lovely.

The Villa is also nice, but visit before Europe reclaims all its plundered antiquities.

both nice, but if you have time for only one, see the 405.

also am i sposed to get only a martini at Musso & Franks, or a steak as well?

both iirc

and Cinefamily definitely holds a few hundred - if you get there early enough, though, you can get a sofa in the front, not just a regular seat

(a couple of times last year I was non-early enough to end up on a folding stool in the aisle)

Echo Park, 4th of July

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I hope all the "Los Angeles Apocalypse" stock photo collections get updated with that one.

sic, I dither on trusting an Austrlian re edible meats.

Taking the Coaster up this morning... what's with this 89 degrees shit?

I'm only going on information received (though plan to conduct my own research in Oct), but am bemused at this prejudice against a slow-roasted lamb leg or tender kangaroo loin!

i'm here and i have my 7-day TAP card.

what is the most underrated bus line that passes thru Hollywood?

also, Burgundy Room?

http://www.laweekly.com/squidink/2012/03/19/10-best-dive-bars-in-los-angeles

^truly a shoebox

the present-day Groundlings any good?

morbs, take the 218 through fairfax and up the canyon into studio city.

used to ride that to oil can harry's (rip)

Morbs! Wwwhhat are you doing herrrrre???

http://abigpicturewindow.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/bill-hader-fred-armisen-kristen-wiig-snl-the-californians1.png

what do I do in Studio City?

I was taken to both Getty Center and this weirdly camouflaged cemetery on Wilshire, in which Marilyn rests but WE MISSED BURT LANCASTER, WHAT?

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=8440

what do I do in Studio City?

people watch (yuppie moms, miley cyrus) on ventura blvd.

hey so guys, on friday night our own dr. morbius will be holding court at the bona vista lounge in the bonaventure hotel. come by around 7:30 and eat/drink/watch the sun set.

http://www.thebonaventure.com/bona-vista-lounge

Oh cool. I think I'll be there.

or just holding

the present-day Groundlings any good?

I didn’t go to Groundlings (or IO West) on my passes through Hollywood last year (saw big queues outside the Groundlings though), but looking at stuff this week: there’s Paul F Tompkins’ monthly Varietopia show at Largo on Saturday night, Reid Scott off of Veep appearing at a current-affairs-comedy-quiz-show at Meltdown, Wil Anderson & Dan Harmon & Sam Simmons & Moshe Kasher at a Prompter show at UCB, Marc Maron doing both rooms at the Store, and I would have gone to The Smartest Man In The World free at Bar Lubitsch on Tuesday night.

xpost -- Damn, if I weren't getting ready to head north for a week on Saturday morning I would be there, but I gotta use Friday night to pack, clean, etc. Best to everyone! Another time!

yeah sic, i essentially dont know any of those ppl

i do not pay $30 for comedy shows in this lifetime

The best comedy show in town is the free one at the Downtown Independent every Tuesday: http://sleepawaycampcomedy.com

UCB shows are $5

You wouldn't know anyone at the Groundlings either!

Moshe Kasher

is kinda great

ugh, got sort of sickish just these last 2 hours after huge lunch of sandabs and lamb kidneys at M&F -- probably not their fault -- but I can't have drinks tonight. Sorry!

no worries -- feel better!