Los Angeles Thread #10: Climb Mount Analog

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

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/t1.0-9/10352147_10203850937254424_8342524981984837240_n.jpg

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!

^^^^*

Extended Organ performance tonight at the MOCA Geffen (free). They're doing free nights (6-10) every Saturday in July.

http://sites.moca.org/the-curve/2014/07/02/extended-organ/

We're doomed!

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-morrison-jones-20140716-column.html#page=1

http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=25559

mika vaino tonight!

*vainio ffs

magik markers + patty schemel's new band death valley girls at the echo:

http://www.theecho.com/event/531157-magik-markers-death-valley-los-angeles/

Echo Park Rising festival this weekend.

http://epr.la/

anyone going to jon hassell tonight?

Excuse my street team pr for a friend's movie:

August 14
7:30 p.m.
The Silent Movie Theater
611 N. Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Hosted by: Don’t Knock the Rock

Master documentarian Jeff Krulik will make his magnificent return to Los Angeles with his latest blockbuster, Led Zeppelin Played Here, which digs deep into the mystery of the classic rock group playing a micro-venue in Maryland. Did the band really play? Or is the tale just a hallucinogenic myth conjured up by pranksters?

Krulik will be in attendance and will participate in a post-screening Q&A session hosted by musican and actor Michael Des Barres.

tonight (Thursday)!

cool, i hope that went well!

would love to go to berserktown but i have too much work this weekend (and it's $45):

http://www.clublosglobos.com/event/612303-berserktown-festival-3-day-los-angeles/

Decent article on Frogtown and requisite issues that result from being the new hot neighborhood

http://www.laweekly.com/informer/2014/08/20/las-hottest-new-neighborhood-frogtown-doesnt-want-the-title?showFullText=true

I've been going to their annual art walk for a few years now, nice neighborhood.

Next Frogtown art walk is coming up on the 13th: http://www.frogtownarts.com

Also just learned that rent at my former house in Glendale just went up by 51%.

our rent just went up $45 (they can't gouge us tho, it's a rent control building).

speaking of rents going up

http://la.eater.com/2014/10/20/7015419/hollywood-cat-fiddle-closing-december-15

My sister and I are trying to decide whether to take the VIP Paramount studio tour (4 hours) or the regular tour (2 hours). Does anyone have any experience with either?

The regular tour was OK and long enough for me; not much emphasis on vintage stuff, obviously. I don't know what the VIP adds, but if it's to do with contemporary production, I wouldn't care.

Too bad about the Cat & Fiddle. Kim Gardner of The Creation was running it for a long time until he died in the early 2000s.