Vacation pending

[pseydtonne]

I haven't posted in a while. Life has been busy.

The play went well. Lots of people enjoyed it and I enjoyed the socialization.

I mentioned that I'm flying to Arizona next week to visit an old friend. She's in grad school out in Tucson. Then I'm going to take a sleeper train to Los Angeles, rent a car and stare at that place for a few days.

I want to try some of the mundane things in LA:

1. The 2nd Street Tunnel, used in all the car commercials;
   
2. Phillipe's, home of the French dip sandwich;
   
3. Galco's Soda Pop Stop, the supermarket dedicated to soda;
   
4. The view from the hills;
   
5. 7th and Figueroa, the intersection that pretends to be New York City in lots of commercials;
   
6. Pico & Sepulveda, Doheney, Cahuenga, La Brea... tar pits!
   
7. Canter's Deli on Fairfax (thanks to an old bit by Mort Sahl about how the place never closes);
   
8. What happens when you walk around instead of driving;
   
9. Tommy's or Fat Burger (yes, I'm going to LA to ruin my health);

I would like to see how much I can sustain the myth of 1940s Los Angeles while I'm inside the place. My guess is 20 minutes.

Comments

[tenshikurai9.livejournal.com]

Please obtain high energy and coffee sodas for me! I'll pay you back up to $30 worth of product!

No Bawls, Antarctica, Goya, or Jolt!

If they're the store I think they are, they were on the food network and showed the camera a German import with a warning label about the high levels of caffeine.

If any of the product is an anti-energy drink, an anti-energy drink or two would be awesome.

BTW, Keith Knight visited LA and mentioned in the K Chronicles that people looked at him like he was crazy when they saw him walking-around.

[pseydtonne.livejournal.com]

Kid, I'm not DRIVING back to Boston from Los Angeles. I can't carry on any liquids greater than 75 ml, and I would expect anything underneath would explode from pressure changes. Sorry.

[tenshikurai9.livejournal.com]

I don't know which days you'll be over in LA, but here's all the Goth nights from DJ Xian Vox: http://www.xianvox.org/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF6HgpdaaCU

[tenshikurai9.livejournal.com]

http://slingshot.tao.ca/rclist.php has places listed in Tucson and LA. Maybe a place or two might be worth your time.

[tckma.livejournal.com]

Just letting you know that this entry was the driving force behind my choice to patronize Fatburger for lunch today.

[pseydtonne.livejournal.com]

Sweet!