March 28, 2004
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Our Chilled-Out Weekend… On Saturday – we spent the entire day within our neighborhood, walking around Los Feliz and pottering about at home. Did some reading while Eddie worked on some music with his new synthesizer-vocoder.
Later, Keith and Nathan came over (now that we finally have a couch!) & we watched some Osaka-Pro wrestling & a three-volume DVD compilation of Toei’s Animated Opening/Closing Titles from the 60′s-70′s …. Makes you realize how many Speed Racer & Gatchman clones there were at the time with giant robots that all looked the same. There was even a blatant Astro Boy ripoff…
Today we checked out Munky King, a vinyl toys store in Chinatown. Very cool. So the prices are twice the amount one would pay in Hong Kong or Malaysia, but seeing that it’s even more expensive to order online and pay for shipping, we did not hesitate. What we picked up:
Evil Pinky mushroomy figures by Steven House
Biddies hip hop kubrick-style figures (example left)
Another itRangers/Stereotype figure
A nice surprise was when the guy in the store said he liked my ‘ML crew’ T-shirt and said he would buy it.
I was overcome with shyness & couldn’t bring myself to say I designed it. Or maybe it was because he didn’t know what ML was, and I didn’t feel like explaining… Since we were in the Downtown area, we decided to head over to Olvera Street. It’s still the same bustling touristy place, and we noticed that they sell lucha masks now! They didn’t two years ago.
We also learnt that next week is Blessing Of the Animals day in Olvera Street. Everyone brings their pets. Now if only we had a dog or cat!
