April 1, 2003
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Today Michael Diaz asked us if there were any places we wanted to go to in LA or California. Sander had suggested a trip to Las Vegas….
After a visit to Booksoup tonight, (we bought Insight Guides: California and L.A. Bizarro) I am starting to wonder if two months will be enough!
- Downtown LA
- Tijuana - this is a definite!
- Roadtrip to San Francisco
- Eddie wants to check out Santa Barbara and the
- Santa Monica Mountains
- Anaheim. It’s about time we made it to Disneyland!
- Palm Springs. Christopher mentioned a Tiki-themed motel…
- Tiki Ti tiki bar (drink menu)
- The Madonna Inn. It’s so kitsch I gotta go there! Take the room tour!
- Cartoon Color Company to stock up on animation supplies for Fwak!
- And there will be more….
Last night we had dinner at Toi (punk rock Thai restaurant) on Sunset Blvd, then saw Spun. For a drug movie, I thought it was everything a drug movie usually is and it was entertaining in a drug-movie sort of way. Fast, trashy, gruesome, and ultimately TRAGIC. I think this review pretty much sums it up.
Once the pizzazz of quick cuts and graphic novel touches has washed over the normal tell-tale signs of substance abuse by all the characters, you’re left with another drug movie that feels as if it’s trying too hard to be Trainspotting, without the spiffy production design.
…Because you can read between the lines, or simply take it all at face value and come out realizing that Spun isn’t taking itself any more seriously than the characters within take their own lives. Expect much rapid eye movement and automatically raised eyebrows.
Eddie: “Looked great but spent two hours waiting for something to happen.”
Short note to Sandra (if you are reading this): ~ We enjoyed hanging out with you guys last night and seeing the movie.
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… At Mel’s Drive-In on Sunset. It never ceases to amaze us how yellow American cheese is. We picked #201 “Rock-a-Hula-Baby” by Elvis, but the jukebox played something else awfully-croony.
Comments (4)
Planning an SF trip April 25-27?
http://www.comic-con.org/Pages/WCWhatsNew.html
Dunno if you’re interested in comics and comic art, but there’s other stuff you might find interesting.
Whoa, I thought you already had planned the usual Disneyland, Magic Mountain, Universal Studios type stuff. LA Dodgers or Anaheim Angels baseball game, Westwood, Mann’s/Grauman’s Chinese Theater, Santa Monica Pier, Tonight Show with Jay Leno TV show taping… gotta have a Tommy (not Tommie, not Tomy) double-chili cheeseburger before you leave. Johnny’s Pastrami, Tito’s Tacos, King’s Hawaiian, In N Out Burger, California Pizza Kitchen… man, I’m getting hungry now.
Oh u also gotta check out Pink’s on La Brea Ave and Melrose! Yummy scrummy chili fries and loads of different kinds of hotdogs!
Two months is not really enough to do all those things! *ITA with the post above!*
Lived there for 10 years and still havent checked out everything! ¬_¬ *lol*
The Comic-con definitely! thanks! We were going to come back for San Diego later in the year.
There is tonnes of ground to cover but we really only have a couple of weekends to do everything in unfortunately. Have to work during the week! Am very much looking forward to the roadtrips out of town – all that crazy American roadside stuff
Hey anjuliet – Yes!!! We’ve driven by PINKS many times and that’s definitely on my mental list!