Escape to Hollywood

I have migrated from the Valley to Los Feliz for the time being. Unfortunately the internet is not working in the place where I'm staying, so right now I'm posting from a Starbucks inside of a Vons right by the Children's Hospital. It's really strange to have a Starbucks inside of a grocery store, when there's plenty of room to build the cafe space separately. Now I have to sit by the entrance of the supermarket which is adjacent to the deli. The smell of the meat is really grossing me out and I think I'm def reaching my quota for how much time I can spend in a grocery store. So I'm going to make this quick.

First I want to thank Brett for the lovely previous post. Magnetic Fields = amazing and I think my love for Stephin Merritt would have biased my review of the show. Thanks so much Brett, can't wait for the next post.

Secondly, speaking of shows, last Sunday I saw Animal Collective's Deakin (Josh) perform at the Eagle Rock Center for the Arts. Who knew one existed? I saw the add in L.A. Weekly and I ditched a music video shoot I was working on early in order to meet up with Brett there. One Modelo tall-can and several Tecates (with lime none the less) later, we got to chat with Josh about his set and how it's like to play sans the rest of the Animal Collective zoo. He said he liked it alright. A second tall can and some more Tecate with lime later, someone started projecting Stan Brakhage's Wedlock House: An Intercourse in the background, and the set became exponentially better. It was just the right mix of spacey psychadelic electronic music with some upbeat tempos and crazy vocals. I totally dug it.

Cool people outside at the venue smoking.

   "I've never had Tecate with lime before either!"

Magic.

Aw, a total sweetheart.

I wasn't able to make Oddsac, the movie Animal Collective and danny Perez colaborated on, but I'm happy I got to go to a great show. Hopefully I'll see it some time soon, cuz I hear it was alright.

I don't have time right now to relate all of my thoughts about the last week and my temporary move of the valley, but there's a lot of things I want to say about living in a different side of the city. Here are some photos I've uploaded.

I took this photo at the location we filmed part of the music video I was working on last weekend. There's a few more interesting photos from that shoot, but those will come later.

These next photos are from a day I spent with Dylan, and his amazing dog Maverick, in the park located somewhere at the end of Balboa I believe. There's a lot of good hiking at that one, so I'm planning on going back as soon as I return to the Valley.

The grocery store music/store/noise is really getting to me, so I gotta get out of here. April will be full of surprises and adventures, so I'm excited for the next few posts. I'll be north of the boulevard again on Sunday for dinner with my fam, but I don't think I'll stick around very long. This part of the city is just so much better.

Yours truly.