April 4, 2004
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Our guests are high-energy tourists. There is so much to see and Peter and Georgia want to see it all. So far:
- Day 1: Breakfast at Fred 62 with celebrity sighting no. 1 – Ben Lee; Universal Studios Tour; dinner at Musso & Franks
- Day 2: Hollywood Tour of Stars’ Homes with celebrity sighting no. 2 – Janet Jackson (outside Kodak theatre); Santa Monica 3rd Street Promenade & pier; Sunset Strip; Pinks Hot Dogs; drinks at Tiki-Ti.
- Day 3: Breakfast at the Coffee Table Cafe (Silverlake); “Hollywood Sign” sighting; Lake Hollywood; Mulholland Drive; Shopping on Melrose Ave for 3 hours; dinner at Cha Cha Cha.
3 days has felt like a week! They still haven’t been to the WB Lot, Venice Beach, Getty Centre, Downtown LA, and Pasadena…
scenic lookout from Mulholland DriveSo maybe not much blogging these next couple of days.
We also have heaps of design homework as things speed up on our Jive Turkey development project. Peter and Georgia leave next week, and not long after, on April 15th Eddie and I are flying back to Sydney for about a month (to take care of visa issues and catch up with friends & families). There’s so much that we have to accomplish in the next two weeks.
Recommendations from xangans:
Jared Chapman’s blog (thanks, Jared)
Luke Chueh has a show in Sawtelle. (thanks, melymel22)
Currently watching/playing:
Space Patrol DVD compilation. Eddie says he used to love this series as a kid.
Ruta 100 – $2 Latin music comp. from the Blue Demon store. It’s pretty good.* UPDATE – many apologies.. I had the wrong URL for Space Patrol earlier. This is the correct link now.
Comments (6)
Oooh fun! Tell me how you chose the places to visit.. I have someone coming in from NY that I am supposed to entertain…
Well, Time Out/Lonely Planet Los Angeles helps. Also check out LA Weekly. And of course, we take our guests to all the cool places that our L.A. friends have taken us.
I was wondering about that first Space Patrol link you put up since I didn’t think that Eddie was old enough to have watched it as a kiddie (neither was I, btw…=^).I’d never heard of the puppet version. Obviously trying to give Gerry Anderson a run for his money!
Yeah, this was a TOTAL “lets do Thunderbirds…in SPACE” type thing.
The puppets were supposedly a mixture of Earthings, venusians and Martians and were really creepy. There was a demented Martian parrot called ‘The Gabbler’ and the whole thing disturbed me profoundly, when I was seven years old.
I also think they had about a tenth of Gerry’s budget to produce it…
Eddie
i’m so glad you posted this link, i only have vague memories of this show and was never sure what it was called. it used to freak me out.
Hey RAB, I’m glad to hear I wasn’t the only child freaked out by this!
I think it was the creepy facial design of the humanoid alien characters that was the most upsetting, and the murky black and white low res film quality gave it a quirky edge.
It had none of the reassuring qualities of ‘Thunderbirds’!
Eddie