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21:55 / 28.01.04

Hello and sorry for the delay in responding. Just gave notice at work and have been too busy floating a foot off the ground in sheer buoyant joy. I tried to get on the Hertzlion mailing list but don't seem to have succeeded. Sorry to be so dopey about it but have you got a link? I found the website alright, but it baffled me.

Lilly Nowhere Late

16:10 / 29.01.04

PM me your email and I shall see you get put on the list. I think its a bit exclusive sometimes...
Just for intrest, spoke to another LA friend last night and really got nostalgic about the Gabrielino Trail up by JPL. Do you ever get up that way for walking or whatnot?

22:57 / 05.02.04

Hm, the name doesn't sound familiar. I've been on hikes all over the city, but that one doesn't ring a bell. Where is the trailhead?

Also of interest to photography fans, there's a massive and excellent Diane Arbus show coming to the LA County Museum. A source in SF saw it there and recommends it highly.

Lilly Nowhere Late

06:28 / 06.02.04

Basically, if you drive up Fair Oaks (ave?) from Pasadena into Altadena, turn left into Altadena Drive and go to the end and park, then walk around the little barrier and down the hill you come out on a road which skirts JPL property. Keep going north and the road turns dirt and then trail. There is some crossing of streams involved and some very sort of civilized old fire roads and so forth. Its not rough hiking by any means but very beautiful. A lot of art/music groups do various events up there spring/summer/fall time. Worth a look.

01:15 / 07.02.04

That sounds really lovely, I'll check it out. Thanks again!

20:55 / 07.02.04

so i'm around here for a week or so... anything good going on?

Lilly Nowhere Late

22:43 / 07.02.04

Being there is good lover, get thee out and up on a mountainside and look around. And do not fail to take a drive to Joshua Tree at least. For fuck's sake, how do people go to a place like LA and not get it?

19:05 / 09.02.04

Mystery Gypt, what kinds of things do you like? I'll be happy to recommend bars, clubs, museums, restaurants, parks, etc. if you give me a sense of which varieties appeal to you.

22:39 / 11.02.04

here's a very barbelithian event featuring the work of amazing artist and TIME MACHINE DESIGNER Paul Laffoley... here's the email i got about it:

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Greetings,

I'm doing a performance with Paul Laffoley this weekend. Paul is a brilliant visionary artist featured in our first book, making a rare LA appearance. He's in town from Boston, and he is sporting his new Lion's claw prosthetic foot. After a bad fall two years ago, Paul's broken ankle got infected and worsened due to being a diabetic. Being a Leo, he turned lemons into lemonade and is now happily sporting an extraordinary Lion's leg from the knee down designed by special fx legend Stan Winston.

Its going to be an amazing evening of music and visuals. Paul's artwork and ideas are incredibly inspiring, and this is a very rare opportunity to download the knowledge straight from the source.

Hope to see you there.

best,
Steve

Here's all the details:

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Abakus 1.0 (luv counts)
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when: Sat 2.14 (7pm-3am)
where: Melrose Light Space (7600 Melrose Ave)
price: $10 with RSVP

Got that smarty-pants sweetheart you want to
impress? Get him or her all revved up with a
perfect evening of electro-valentine bliss, a
collision of art and projections with intelligent
downtempo and minimal techno. Boston-based
visionary artist Paul Laffoley makes a rare LA
appearance, kicking off the evening exploring
dimensionality, time travel, and other mind-
bending concepts with a three-hour slide show
over ambient soundscapes from DJ Sherlock,
supplemented by a real-time visual remix. The
music and visuals continue all night, featuring
delicious downtempo from Bluetech, moving minimal
techno from OMSK411, IDM and electro from
Terpsichore's own Sariah Storm, Trichome of the
ELM collective, and a special set from Daz
Quayle, creator of famed UK electro label SCSI.

22:44 / 11.02.04

just to clarify, re: people's (slightly condescending) posts above, i used to live in LA and come here all the time -- i wasn't looking for general tourism advice, but was wondering if barbelithians knew about some specific hot shit going down around now... anyway, hope everyone can make it out to this paul laffoley thing.

Lilly Nowhere Late

05:22 / 12.02.04

oooo, sorry, didn't mean to sound condecending at all. Was refering more to the people I come across in London and abroad who don't get LA. MG your profile says you are from there so I didn't figure you as a tourist. Anyhow, no insult intended!

19:12 / 15.02.04

Don't believe I said anything condescending. The shit of which I know is probably not hot enough to suit you. Sorry to have missed the Laffoley thing, haven't been online much. Yesterday was madness at any rate, very possibly my least favorite holiday.

16:42 / 22.02.04

oops... i moved back to nyc a while ago and now just come to visit many times throughout the year (until the girlfriend finishes grad school and we move back)... anyway -- the laffoley thing was amazing, he went on for 3.5 hours showing his work and explaining it, man the dude has stories. he's still an artist in residence for the next week in santa ana and anyone can go stop by and talk to him -- its the "grand central art center" in santa ana, 125 n broadway, and seriously, its cool for anyone to drop by...

00:02 / 23.02.04

Thanks for the tip, I think it's well worth the drive to go talk to the guy and get my books signed.

14:23 / 24.02.04

Thursday night, Feb 26, at 7pm at the Egyptian, a screening of Pedro Almodovar's Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, with Q&A afterward with the great Carmen Maura. You can also catch a peek at Antonio Banderas back when he was still cute, before Melanie Griffith, sunlamps, and hair grease turned him into some kind of horrible creature.

23:46 / 27.02.04

Carmen Maura was fantastic! I thought she was going to be crushed, the way we mobbed her after the Q&A. I have never seen so much raw charm emanate from somebody. I'm madly in love with her now if I wasn't before. She said she'd never do a film in America because it's too weird ('extrano y differente') here. The only possible exception is if it were a very small, low budget ('very poor, like a student') film. If however, she gets a script from Mexico, she doesn't even need to read it, she's there. Awesome.

The Spanish Film Festival (misleading name -- it is really a Spanish-language festival) is off to a great start. 'Suite Habana' was very interesting, told with very minimal dialogue and no narration, just a few titles. Made me cry at the end, I can't stand to see old people suffer.

Many more films over the next few weeks.

Also I am having a barbecue on March 6th. I'm inviting friends to walk up to LACMA to see the Diane Arbus show then walk back to my place for food, drink, merriment. It's an open invite, if any of you would like to attend you're welcome to do so.

22:50 / 01.03.04

Chantal Akerman in person at the UCLA film archive for her retrospective, this Tuesday at 7pm. She's an engaging speaker, this should be good.

15:29 / 08.03.04

My mistake, Chantal Akerman will be at UCLA tomorrow and at REDCAT on Friday.

The barbecue was lovely and the Diane Arbus show is well worth the $15 ($12 with student ID). Loads of photos and lots of books, journals, letters. Her accounts of her dreams are particularly interesting.

21:56 / 18.03.04

Loads more film festivals coming up, not that anybody cares.

21:26 / 13.04.04

http://www.hammer.ucla.edu/programs/22/

Free admission, what more do you want you cheap bastard.

23:36 / 15.04.04

Jim Jarmusch, Coffee & Cigarettes
Monday, 7:30 at the ArcLight (ouch, $14)
Discussion afterward with Jarmusch

09:25 / 16.04.04

Looks like it's just you and me, fred.

21:52 / 17.04.04

Oh my god! A response!

04:44 / 18.04.04

Are there not many Los Angeles people here?

05:52 / 19.04.04

Wait, who are you? I assumed you were somebody I knew already from 'the other board' leaving a message here since I don't read that one too often anymore. Is it possible that somebody else in Los Angeles reads Barbelith? This is alarming.

05:53 / 19.04.04

Alarming in a good way, don't get me wrong!

06:18 / 19.04.04

A mere cockroach--don't be alarmed.

15:42 / 19.04.04

A few years ago I visited Los Angeles and there was quite a gathering of angel-barbeloids - I think we had seven or eight (although a couple have since moved - I think True Art is back in San Fran after a stint in New York - and one or two others were just visiting brits like Kooky Mojo). I'm surprised that you guys can't find anyone to hang out with out there. THe Barbelith Transglobal Underground should definitely have an assemblage in the centre of the spectacle. Maybe I should move out there.

16:36 / 19.04.04

Come on by, we'll bleach you, tan you, and enroll you in Pilates. You'll look like a native in no time.

Actually, as much as I love living here, I don't think it's a great place to visit. It's not easy to navigate, public transportation barely exists though new trains are in service, and it's relatively bucolic compared to London or New York.

Having said that, if anybody ever does come by I'd be more than happy to offer my services as a sea-level sherpa.

17:23 / 19.04.04

hey fred thnx for all the updates on whats happening here.
unfortunately i always read the post too late, as I am not on barbelith that often lately...
i will hook up with you one of these days to check out one of the many interesting events you keep bringing to our attention...then we shall officially start the LA-Barb cell !
i cant do jarmush tonight although it sounds like something i shouldnt miss...

18:32 / 19.04.04

The Jarmusch show sold out already, I'm FURIOUS. Good thing I'm a pacifist or I'd be tempted to shove an ether-soaked rag in somebody's mouth and run fast with tickets.

23:18 / 12.05.04

And this thread comes full circle as the Mountain Goats come to Spaceland once again, on May 28th.

I wish there were two of me.

21:02 / 13.05.04

also Coffee & Cigarettes opens tomorrow night at the Monica

00:29 / 18.05.04

hey fred and anyone else in LA:

on 5/28 i wont make it to spaceland coz I'll be checking out Kenneth Anger at the Van Nuys OTO temple presenteing 2 of his films on the great beast AC. dont want to miss that.

on a different note, I am showing some metaphysickal art at a loft party in downtown LA on Sat may 22nd, there will be a string quartett performing on the roof, a virtuoso pianist, and a pretty well selected crowd....
if anybody is interested PM me and I'll give you further info
examples of my art you can see here

yes LA has a faint pulse

tourist tip:
you should check out the Masonic temple/museum (scottish rite) on wilshire blvd, its very cool.

05:12 / 21.05.04

an invitation! I'm in shock

your event sounds wonderful, I will PM you directly

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