oh hey B, i hope you don't mind

I just bought the little girl poster for our living room:

It's the new Shepard Fairey posters (if you've been living under a rock- same artist who did the Obama poster now placed in the Smithsonian ) for this weekend's May Day marches $45 @ cimarrones.org.

All The purpose of these images and prints are to gain awareness and action to help change and improve immigration policy and perceptions. All the proceeds from these prints will go towards creating materials for the May Day marches on MAY 1st and donations for immigration reform organizations.

Yeah, you probably can pick one up at the marches - I thought it best not to risk it.
Also let's be honest; I'm lazy.

Away We Go pre-screening + panel to support 826LA

AWAY WE GO pre-screening and panel discussion

Featuring a panel discussion with:
Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, Director Sam Mendes, John Krasinski  (The Office), Maya Rudolph (SNL and did you know original member of The Rentals?), Alexi Murdoch, Catherine O'Hara

Thursday, May 7, 2009  - 8:00 p.m. (doors open at 7:30)
Vista Theater (in Los Feliz) 4473 Sunset Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90027
VIP After-Party at Malo - 4326 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90029

$35 tickets include screening and panel discussion
$150 VIP tickets include screening, panel discussion, and VIP after-party

All proceeds will support 826LA's free writing and tutoring programs for Los Angeles youth.

Movie Preview here



See you there!

rock on little gnomey

on the front gate of a house in los feliz.

Sonos - I Want You Back

I find myself strangely drawn into this acapella version of The Jackson 5's "I want you back" by local group SONOS


Sonos "I Want You Back (Jackson 5) from Sonosings on Vimeo.

Sonos is a young all-vocal group formed from the best of Southern California's thriving college a cappella community. The collective -- comprised of Jessica Freedman, Katharine Anne Hoye, Rachel Bearer, Ben McLain, Paul Peglar and Christopher Given Harrison -- reinvent a 21st century songbook with bold reinterpretations of indie artists - Rufus Wainwright, Fleet Foxes, the bird and the bee, Imogen Heap, Lewis Taylor, Magnet, Bjork -- and their sound is captivating press, radio and film in the US.

SONOS plays a free show this Saturday at the Silver Lake location of HOME (a pretty good restaurant/bar)

10:00 PM at Home
2500 Riverside Dr, Silverlake, California 90039
FREE and All AGES

2 signs that you're in a serious relationship.

1) We went 50/50 on a joint Costco membership.
2) We have no real reason/need to shop at Costco but it's hard to control yourself when you do get in and we ended up 50/50 on a new camera and 4 lbs of frozen edamame. Saturday was spent testing the camera:

Going backwards, caught the tail end of the sunset at the Griffith Observatory


Looking towards Downtown Los Angeles







On our walk to an early dinner at Fred 62







Sneaking a picture at the restaurant  


Walking up Vermont back to our apartment

Perrypalooza Rock 'n Roll Blowout at The Mirage

Just saw this come through some of the bacn I get: Very cool, very short notice and very expensive @ $110 +tax per person

PERRYPALOOZA - APRIL 11 - AT THE MIRAGE
Perry Farrell's Golden Birthday Bash
Join the founder of Lollapalooza and his celebrity friends for a rock 'n' roll blowout!
Saturday, April 11th  -  Doors open at 9 p.m.

All-Star Performance 10 p.m. // at BARE pool
Perry Farrell
DAVE NAVARRO // Jane's Addiction,
ERIC AVERY // Jane's Addiction, 
STEPHEN PERKINS // Jane's Addiction

MARTYN LENOBLE // Porno for Pyros
PETER DISTEFANO // Porno for Pyros

SLASH // Velvet Revolver
BILLY IDOL
TOM MORELLO // Rage Against the Machine
MATT SORUM // The Cult


BILLY MORRISON // The Cult
DONOVAN LEITCH JR.

MARK MCGRATH, ETTY FARRELL, SEN DOG // Cypress Hill, BOBO // Cypress Hill, MICKEY AVALON, JULIETTE LEWIS, and many more of Perry's pals

(If the Mirage wants to give me comp tix + room for my free plug, I'd be cool with that.)

Things I'm doing to myself

...to get out of the house this week.

May i bitch for a second? Ok I'm a little tired seeing all the semi sober college kids taking up parking in my hood, eating at Mexico City (which sucks - why is it always busy? yuck). /bitch


Monday - tonight:  I got a haircut. like you care.

Tuesday: Deep Sea Diver @ Silverlake Lounge
$8 :: 21+   9PM  Set Time: Midnight

I'm excited to buy myself a honest to goodness DSD shirt + poster + buttons + the new EP.

The headliner is the Secret 6 led by James Killington, of the long defunct (not counting the short lived circa 2003 remade line-up) The Killingtons. Seriously go hunt down some of their old stuff.   

Wednesday:  Beatnick Bonanza @ El Cid featuring Chissum Worthington and the legendary (well sort of) Beatnik Bandits Poetry Experiment.

STARTING OFF THE NIGHT IS THE INIMITABLE CHISSUM WORTHINGTON. CHISSUMING HIS WAY INTO YOUR HEARTS AND THE DEEPEST COCKLES OF YOUR SOUL.


THEN ITS TIME FOR: THE BEATNIK BANDITS POETRY EXPERIMENT.


WHAT IS THE BEATNIK BANDITS POETRY EXPERIMENT?

WELL I'LL TELL YOU.


THE BBPE IS A TRIO OF IMPROV MUSICIANS PLAYING WITH SPOKEN WORD PERFORMERS. THE TWO CAMPS HAVE NEVER MET BEFORE IN THIS ARENA.THERE IS NO REHEARSAL. THERE IS NO PRE-PLANNING.
THIS IS FULL BLOWN "CREATIVITY IN ACTION"(thank you STEVE MARTIN)

IT IS AN "EXPERIMENT" AND IT IS NOT TO BE MISSED.


YOUR BEATNIK BANDITS ARE AS FOLLOWS:  JON RYGGY-SKINS, FLACO A.K.A.
KEVIN JONES-BASS, ANDRE' TUSQUES-GUITAR

YOUR POETS ARE:  JIM BRAY - TIFFANY LETTIERI - MATT SMITH - and if i'm feeling beat enough... ROB Z

IT ALL GOES DOWN NEXT WED. APRIL 8TH @ EL CID.

4212 W. SUNSET BLVD.  LA,CA 90029  (323)668-0318

9:30PM AND THE WHOLE SHOW IS FREE!!!

hockey cheer, my ass

B (a MSU alum and former MSU Drumline member) and I are watching the Final Four game between MSU and UConn when the camera cuts over to the student cheer section dancing in unison.

Me: Why are they line dancing?

B: What they're doing is called the "hockey cheer."

Me: I say it's called line dancing.

B: It's not line dancing!

Me: Is it related to hockey games?

B: Yes.

Me: Okay, do Canadians do it at basketball games?

B: ...No.

Me: Then it's line dancing!