Sunday, April 15, 2007

First Trip to LA - seemingly vibeless at first

I rented a car from San fran to meet my friends Andrea, SB, and Raji in LA for Thanksgiving, some shows, and more eating. I've never been to LA! Andrea and SB just moved out there and they're so terribly missed! Also I was there to record the sounds of feral cows that supposedly run free in Santa Monica park--skinny and elusive cows that escaped from a farm. I wanted to take the beautiful coastal drive but I only had time off from work to take the shorter way which was Rt. 5. I still found it beautiful though not exactly interesting. In bumpertobumper holiday traffic I found myself video taping things like tumbleweeds set to whatever songs happened to be on the local radio station. Landscape karaoke.

Rt. 5 Tumbleweed set to some Mexican song.


rare open road no traffic set to another Mexican song.


farm thingee in motion set to BellBivDevoe's Do Me Baby.


Thanksgiving was wonderful and thanks for Andrea's mom's cooking. yum! Then hiking it all off in Santa Monica National Park in search of feral cows and George Clooney.
Wow, looking out over it, LA still has a strong old fashioned movietown feel.

no feral cows were sighted or recorded, but...


We did encounter George Clooney's sexy gate guarded by two harmless looking mutt dogs.


Raji left her underwear there for him. Well no, but apparently someone did.


Raji, inspired by underwear left for George, buys a Starmap.

We drove around in Andrea's Hybrid Prius with a GPS tracker that talked. Her name is Karen. LA seems sprawly but really great...we saw the amazing Magritte Exhibit at the LACMA and the tarpits with great sounds of the earth passing gas. How does one meet another person though with everyone in cars 98% of the time? I think these next pictures are in Laurel Canyons...bugalows and such.


SB's friend Emma's place.


Where rich movie makers meet to greet each other and pick up their fat checks.


watch out for humps in LA.

Sooo much expensive real estate with manicured lawns...so what are the kids up to in this town? Lets go to the Il Corral on Heliotrope "an experimental all-ages artspace devoted to the periphery, where you can be free to enjoy the strangest,newest or most familiar experiences and artists"http://www.ilcorral.net/




ohmy, apparently blackface by white boys. And one guy dressed up like a real estate salesman. ok I guess it must be the cultural backlash i was looking for. The music was not great that night though and we got told we were weird for giggling over a very graphic erotic massage book from the sixties where the male model looked just liked Jesus. What a super video store nearby!! cult faves i didnt know existed.


I wish I had more pics from LA but I was too busy exploring and eating everything.
excellent excellent Magritte show.

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