LA ROCKS!

Gas driving to Hollywood: $15

Italian Panini’s with friends over dinner: $17

The Raveonettes tickets: $18.50

Pictures with The Raveonettes and Ryan Gosling: PRICELESS

I met up with Kirst & Jules tonight for The Raveonettes concert in Silver Lake/Echo Park (North Hollywood) and had a great time! It was a really fun evening. As we were walking to the restaruant I saw Sune and Sharon, the duo known as the Raveonettes! They were filming segments for a video of some kind. I waited in between takes and asked them for a photo and they were super nice! They then asked me if I was OK with being on their video and taped me getting a photo with them! LOL Too cool!

The normal photo... and the on video photo! LOL Thanks to Kirsten for being my official photographer!

We had a good dinner at a nearby Italian place and then got to the club. The opening bands sucked - the first one I nicknamed Red Hair Scratch and Vomit Face, as that's pretty much what they sounded like. The 2nd band was decent, but the mixing at the club sort of sucked.

Of course, we amused ourselves with my crazy Extendo-Arm and MySpace style photos.
JULES!
KIRST!

The Trifecta!JULES and KIRST!

Small place!
They put on a pretty good show even though the music sounded a little off at times - I blame the mixing in the back, though. Their vocals were fantastic.


So during one of the earlier bands I saw someone that looked super familiar.... it was Ryan Gosling! I waited till the end of the show as not to bother him/cause a mob scene, and asked him for a photo. He was super cool about it and friendly to everyone asking... Fun! Once again Kirsten provided Papparazzi service, and I must say she seems to have an unholy gift with the camera...
So, yeah, LA is pretty fun. :)

A great SoCal weekend

So I had a great weekend... relaxed Friday since work has been so crazy busy, then on Saturday I headed down to SD to hang with my peeps.... Happy Birthday C-Brei!!!

We went to On Broadway, which was a blast. It's a bank that was built in the 1920's in downtown SD, and converted into a club. George Acosta was spinning and it was a fun show! Lots of dancing. :)

L & C rockin' the dancefloor!
Me & C on the dancefloor.... SHHHH don't tell your husband, baby!Me & L on the dancefloor.... shhhh, don't tell your husband, hottie!
J, me, and A - guess who thought it was too loud? Audio geek! :D
Romance on the dancefloor.... GET A ROOM!
Busy club. Smokey air. Loud music. Hoochey gogo dancers; Priceless. Mastercard!
I told you they were hoochey.
"Like, my name is, like, Kandi, with a K and an I. I like water. ... water doesn't make you fat, does it? Tee-hee."
WAASSSSUPPP - or insert another less dated "HEY!" caption.
"She wants me."
Note: I swear, I did not take this picture. I think she's covering her mouth trying not to laugh - or throw up that water she just ate. Old habits....
Happy Birthday C-Brei (formerly C-Bo)!
The LA gang kicking it in SD....
My friend W! We used to work together back in SD, he moved to SF, I moved to LA, then we ended up being at the same club the same night... small world! :) Too funny.
So a great weekend, not much sleep, but lots of good times. I need a nap now.

Holla!

I Love Keane!

So Lily Allen on Monday was awesome. She put on a great show and D and I had a blast. Her voice was really great live, much better then I expected. She's got a great vocal range. Her songs are pretty funny. Check out her website.
I saw Keane a week before, they came up to play at The Wiltern, a great old theater in Hollywood. The acoustics are awesome there. The show was one of my favorites, they were incredible live and created amazing sounds with just the 3 of them.

On the way way there, stopped by Michael Jackson's favorite restaurant in all of LA:

LOL!! That's right, PARK IN REAR at YOUNG DONG. You know it, Mr. Jackson. LOLOL

The Wiltern was so pretty! I had to get tix off Craigslist due to missing the original sale date. LA is awesome because everyone plays there, but I swear every concert sells out in like 10 minutes.
Seats up in the mezzanine actually gave a great view.
Stars in the ceiling!
I don't know what's wrong with this photo. I don't know what I'm looking at. I don't know what expression this is. It's not like, overtly bad, but it's really just... ODD.
The blue lights starting out was really cool, with both of them on pianos. The keyboardist guy on the right was amazing, he was usually playing two at once and doing multiple sounds; there were no guitarists, he did everything. It sounded like an orchestra.
Lots of cool lights. They played most of the songs from their last album and many from their first one.
The lead singers vocals are incredible live, what a voice! He sounded as good as the album.
They really rocked the crowd, who was SUPER into them. Standing ovation for much of the concert.
The lead singer was brave enough to get down in the crowd twice and sing 'amongst the people', causing many freakouts. :)
The end. Sniff. They were AWESOME! Check them out!