a saturday in Los Angeles

[ateolf]

we woke up all early, once again not getting very much sleep and being tired all day, but it was still a rocker of one...we went to meet Nikole at the Chinese Theatre...a few notes on that place: Steven Segal has his foot/hand prints in it...if HE has one it can't be too hard for Pauly Shore or Carrot Top to get their deserved slabs of concrete in the giant tourist trap of the stars...and for Bruce Willis' he wrote "yippie kiyay" in the pavement...that's funny...Nikole first took us to that small record store i was talking about and then Amoeba...which ruled...my only complaint is that they KNOW what they have and can tend to overcharge on the used stuff...but it's huge and has a ton of cool stuff...i had to restrain myself more than the NY trip 'cuz i didn't have nearly as much money so i was more half-assed at looking through everything than i normally would've been (still, i spent over a hundred dollars counting both times we went there...) then we went to Rosco's House of Chicken and Waffles...dear lord that place is the godhead...and then we drove to UCLA...for Aphex Twin i was up towards the front and by the time he came on it was fucking packed...i was litterally up against ppl on all sides...but this had a few advantages...1) i was damned tired by this point, as well as having sore feet...and it was hot...a few times i felt like i was on the verge of blacking out/having a heat stroke or something...but at times i could shift my weight to the side so i'm semi-resting on the person standing up against me and take some weight off my feet...not totally leaning against them, a subtle shift, but it was still pretty sweet...2) w/ Richard D. James' groovin' beats some ppl couldn't resist the urge to dance...this including several girls standing next to me through various points throughout his set...towards the end i was standing behind this girl who started dancing w/ her ass right up in the area between my crotch and my waist...so i got a sort of pseudo-vertical lap dance...it was pretty cool, aided me in the not-passing-out effort...(in case you can't tell, i don't come into contact w/ girls very often...sue me...) afterwards we went to this Denny's...it being the evening that turned into St. Patrick's day, i got the coolest meal ever: the Shamrock Slam...i think Nikole found David and me odd for finding the word "slam" to be one of the funniest things ever...but it can't be helped...and "scram slam" c'mon! then back to the hostel w/ us...

Comments

[violetpeacock27.livejournal.com]

you are so cute...yeah i love being up front and leaning back on people...i always get way up front at shows....it's just easier that way.

[ateolf.livejournal.com]

yea, that's usually my goal...being in the back just sucks...i was able to get up front for Unwound though...

[ateolf.livejournal.com]

oh yea! but the main great thing about being up so close, aside from being so close to the rock, is being able to lean on the stage/barrier...that would've been especially nice for the 8 hours or so of rock on sunday...and trying to catch a few minutes of sitting between bands is really really difficult while everyone's packed so closely together...