hey! if anyone still reads this !

i'll be forever grateful if you'll help me out.....since i got back to LA i've been doing nothing really except trying to find a steady job and failing miserably by getting jobs that last 2 weeks or 2 months, and jobs that advertise themselves as assistant positions and then randomly morph into internships -- ( Read more... )

we're booked at the Roxy on Sunset!  i'm going to the club tomorrow during lunch break to get the presale tickets and sign my soul away to the devil -- part of me wishes i was already 21 so i could be debaucherous after the show with the rest of the band, but oh well.  it's going to be fun.  if any of you are interested, it's $8 if you buy from me ( Read more... )

call me a sucker, ok, but i'm so excited that the 7-11 on Venice and Sepulveda has been turned into a Kwik-E-Mart for the rest of the month until the Simpsons Movie opens on the 27th...Amir and i plan to stop by next week and buy Buzz Cola and Krusty-O's and pink sprinkled donuts....i just saw that they sold Radioactive Man comics too but they're ( Read more... )

i was looking for videos of Interpol playing PDA, or anyone playing PDA for that matter, because my homework  assignment for next Saturday is to learn the drum part in its entirety and be able to play against the recording.  so i started looking around YouTube to see exactly how it's done and i came across this video which is really really painful ( Read more... )

i miss the days when teen movies featured Semisonic and Smashmouth songs and they used dumb words like "rufus" and "crunched" and everyone was being deceitful until the very end!  and there were annoying popular guys who weren't all that attractive really.  i think Mean Girls might be the only good teen movie of the decade so far.  can you think of ( Read more... )

OK SPEAKING OF NOT GETTING TO SEE PEOPLE YOU WANTED TO SEE:

last night at Albert Hammond Jr, which was amazing, but i'll get to that later, i kept looking through the crowd for a famous person (i never see celebrities in LA, not counting industry events.  the biggest star i think i've seen was Kirsten Dunst at the Rilo show 2 years ago, and Tom ( Read more... )

the next issue of the L Magazine, after the one this Wednesday, is the New Yorkers Photo Issue.  the senior designer put out a call for submissions last month to all contributing photographers.  basically the only criteria was that the pictures had to be taken of people in New York.  i submitted 3 just on a whim like 2 days before the deadline.  i ( Read more... )

this makes me really sad -- i'll have to go out there again before June 30th, and not wait until another show at the Echo..

clever?  too obvious?  long overdue?

EDIT:  the animals weren't evacuated from the zoo but some of the staff left.  if you want to read about the fire click here

in case any of you LA people haven't heard yet because you're in Europe or NorCal or anything, there is a massive massive brush fire in the Hollywood Hills/Griffith Park because it was in the high 80s/low 90s today with low ( Read more... )