Los Angeles, California

Oh, this has happened many times now. ;-) However, still a good idea. Next brace of shows for me will not be LA per se, though -- Stereolab in Costa Mesa, the Church in San Diego, A Perfect Circle in Long Beach. Next LA/Hollywood show is Sparks in early April.

total raver hell!

(I am able to work now since the show got out at 9:30 PM)

I love Numbers. MMMHMHMMM I want to hug and kissssss them.

I will.

Coachwhips (SF)
400 Blows
Other Voices (member of The Minibosses from Phoenix, AZ)
The Mae Shi
Dynasty Handbag (SF)

I'm guessing that I won't see you here then, eh, gygax?

I just saw Low at Spaceland.

Lame o...

i would rather siphon an oil tanker worth of rotten eggs and stale vomit into my stomach.

I didn't think you meant it until I read that the vomit would be stale.

Stars were great last night, btw.

Not music-related, but pretty devastating news: https://www.thewrap.com/arclight-and-pacific-theaters-close-permanently/

arrrgh no!

Most of the theaters are likely to survive, but who knows what the management/format will be.

going to LA next week. what's good there? art, music, food, dancing, bikes, plants? i'm seeing some friends so they'll have a bunch of things for us to do, too, but i wanna take full advantage of that big city life a little. where can i dance to house or techno? where should i ride a bike?

piplotti rist show at the moca geffen is super awesome. gang of four is playing the roxy! judas priest is playing the shrine!

Guisado's for tacos in echo park IMO

In the arts district i enjoyed angel city brewery

In downtown, the last bookstore, and grand central market, and the blade runner building

the ballona creek bike path is really nice, goes from culver city to the beach at marina del rey

seconding the rist show at moca, super pleasurable experience

For the bike path - is it possible to rent a bike around the start of it and return it somewhere by Marina del rey?

not sure! have only ever used my own bike on that path. you could probably rent a metro bike in culver and then dock it in MDR when you’re done

yeah you can rent a bike at pretty much any of the separate beach areas all the way down the path, manhattan, redondo, venice etc

Cool. And return them elsewhere from where you rented?

depends on if they have multiple locations, sorry I misread your initial question, I'm not positive on that one. You might need a friend with a car an a bike rack.

I too am going to LA in like 2 weeks!

is there any good weird folky/outsidery/oddball stuff a la Museum of Jurassic Technology and the Watts Towers?

i too am going to LA in like 2 weeks

The Last Bookstore is fantastic

The Egyptian was a nice place to see a movie

Is Amoeba still open downtown? Maybe they just moved. Anyway, that’s a must

There was a dynamite Italian place right across the street from where Ameoba was located at that point - can’t remember the name but will look it up

“Fabioulus Cucina” (which I probably misspelled but Google that)

is there any good weird folky/outsidery/oddball stuff a la Museum of Jurassic Technology and the Watts Towers?

― Stevie D(eux)

Velaslavasay Panorama.

Best thing I've seen in LA. If you email them a couple of days in advance, they'll give you a private tour. They have a little garden with some plants too.

Amoebas in Hollywood. It did recently new move to a new location there.

(I also wouldn’t personally recommend Fabiolus. If you want Italian restaurant recs specifically, I have a few)

Next door to the museum of Jurassic technology is the very excellent center for land use interpretation which displays documentation of human incursions on the landscape from land art to engineering projects. Literally next door

In the Culver city area there is the Wende museum devoted to cold war history in an artful rather than didactic way.

On the palisade above the beach in Santa Monica there is a fun camera obscura inside a senior center. May be closed due to covid.

The Griffith park observatory has some very Jurassic like aspects from its excellent architecture to the long walkway lined with space themed costume jewelry.

The Lifes exhibit as the Hammer museum has some Jurassic qualities in it's effort to appeal to all sensory modalities and weird assortment of stuff.
The dioramas and the bird room at the museum of natural history.

If I think of more I'll pop in again

yeah the panorama is worth checking out, have been to some cool screenings/readings there. also the garden of oz in the hollywood hills (if it’s open?)

The Fern Dell to Griffith Observatory hike is a real pleasure on a nice day (if you can handle the uphill grade).

okay, just purchased tickets to:

the broad incl the kusama infinity room
pipilotti rist show at moca geffen
academy museum
velaslavasay panorama
museum of jurassic technology

watts towers seem v closed rn and idk if it's worth the trek just to look at them from outside the fence :(

also gonna do the following:

silver lake/los feliz: tiki-ti, soap plant/wacko, skylight books
dtla: grand central market, maybe guisados?, the last bookstore, westin bonaventure hotel

is it worth doing or trying to do the big fashion district in dtla?
are there any other weird must-see things i must see?

Guisados is a must

The Bradbury Bldg. downtown is fun, if you're a Blade Runner fan (think someone mentioned it above)

Stevie your itinerary is very close to my own in 2019. Have fun! Where are you staying?

Stevie, you should go to Hollywood Forever cemetery -- i think there's a rad dude that does funny tours of it?

A rad girl that does funny tours: https://www.cemeterytour.com

Oh I thought abt going to that cemetery!!

I am staying in Koreatown right off the purple line and I am definitely going to a spa at some point

I’d also recommend the Santa Monica pier at sunset. Touristy but really pretty. Maybe some LA people know some better spots on the coast

i love LA so much, honestly probably my favorite city in the US

had such a good time there last week. i wanna move there so bad, $$$$$$ tho. if i had the cash i wouldn't think twice

marcos tell me what to do!!!!

black american portraits at LACMA is SO impressive. definitely check it out. LACMA is under construction but the exhibit is open
we ate korean food in some mall restaurant in koreatown, so fucking good
went on a bike ride up the beach from venice to will rogers beach -- "ginger rogers" is the gay beach! maps gave me the heads up on the gay thread. i felt so free on that bike it was amazing
walked up to little ethiopia, so many restaurants
ucla botanical gardens were dope as fuck, meant to go to huntington garden too but LACMA took its spot that afternoon
went to Trulee Hall's exhibit from LA Nomadic Division, https://nomadicdivision.org/exhibition/trulee-hall/, hilarious and fun tbh, i think it may be done now though
biking around in general, the main streets are a little terrifying but cutting through all these residential streets LA is fucking beautiful tbh

i wanted to go out dancing but didn't, the trip was part work for me and w/ jet lag i was so beat.

it was only a few days, i wanna go back more and more and more

oh that's pretty much my dream lineup, lacma, koreatown and ginger rogers. that black american portraits exhibit was at the top of our list for the trip we didn't take last december. la is the best city in the us it's true. keep dreaming of going back for a vacay but skint lately, maybe it'll happen soon though.

i do The Punk Rock Graveyard Tour at Hollywood Forever! It's less Renee Adoré and more Rozz Willams (you won't see any music people that made music after 1944 on the other tour)

https://www.instagram.com/punkrockgraveyardtour

I took a spectacular hike a couple weeks ago in Los Leones Canyon.

biking around in general, the main streets are a little terrifying but cutting through all these residential streets LA is fucking beautiful tbh

oh yeah, this time of year is probably perfect weather. i skated residential streets from echo park to amoeba and parts of it are like not even being in the middle of LA.
I had a super Bibimbap in K-town once, too. Forget the name, but was a VERY large restaurant

damn I didn't even schedule LACMA but maybe I'll go after the Academy Museum depending on how tired I am/if there's tix available

academy museum is such bullshit but the terrace is nice

maybe but I wanna see the Miyazaki exhibit

The Miyazaki exhibit is interesting / worth the price of admission if you're into his stuff. I agree the museum itself is... not good. The whole thing needs to be reconceptualized or something.

it’s hit or miss and tbh i was underwhelmed by the Miyazaki exhibit. the sci-fi montage rotunda room was my favorite part

So I have a ticket into the former Bob Hope airport and am sposed to be there for a week one month from now…but I am of course wondering if I should cancel in light of BA2… I guess if someone would care to talk about their recent experiences traveling to LA and whether the mask compliance is good there, whether you felt OK about outside vs. inside socializing …it seems like a lot of ILxors went there recently, according to this thread…

Cases are indeed rising a bit, but not as high as (say) SF at the moment (or especially parts of the East Coast, as I understand). Of course who knows what things will look like in a month.

Mask "compliance," as in wearing? (they're not required most places indoors in LA County anymore), is moderate to low I guess, depending on the area/neighborhood. If cases increased significantly, I have no doubt the county would quickly re-impose the ordinance, as that's how they roll.