The Losanjealous Benevolent Society gathers a weekly list of strange happenings and fun events in LA–the more ridiculous, the better. Visit our events calendar for the full list. And if you’re organizing or know of an event you think belongs on the list, send us info at tips@losanjealous.com.
FRIDAY
Don’t Knock the Rock Festival @ REDCAT
A high-energy mix of film and music, the festival celebrates the rock ‘n’ roll roots of Hollywood with classic and brand-new rock films that contain quintessential music performances and vintage footage of important artists in their prime, plus live shows by fresh musical talents who embody the spirit of rock innovation. Through Sun 7/2.
Roger Corman presents The Big Sleep @ Skirball
In the 1950s and 60s Roger Corman blazed a pioneering trail as an independent producer and director, making low-budget films including the cult classic The Little Shop of Horrors. A Q&A will follow the screening.
SATURDAY
Donovan Crosby :: Kindertotenlieder @ sixspace
In her new acrylic-on-canvas paintings, Donovan Crosbyportrays Victorian-era children with flowers and explores what happens when the idealized version of each is juxtaposed with their underlining darker reality. Taking from the middle class moralism of this era and its concern for a systemization of culture, Crosby plays with the contradictions of the time (refinement, cultivation, and restraint vs. child labor, dangerous health conditions, and rampant prostitution) to weave her own poignant narrative through her haunting paintings. Through Sat 8/12.
Dr. Strangelove @ Hollywood Forever Cemetary
Cinespia is a film society created to bring together the community of film enthusiasts in Los Angeles. We are convinced that Angelenos are still enthusiastic about cinema’s great films, including those outside the normal repertory.
FIX / ESCAPE @ ADM Project
The Pandemonium Collective Presents “FIX / ESCAPE” a multiple medium examination of the vices and obsessions we use as a means of escape, where we escape to, and what those places might look like. Through Sat 7/22.
Night Vision @ MOCA
NIGHT VISION: MOCA After Dark presents 15 Saturdays of exciting programs including artmaking, screenings, groundbreaking DJs, live music, spoken word, guided tours, and a cash bar and light fare at Patinette Cafe during Robert Rauschenberg: Combines.
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Nil. I get more responses from my shoe.
It’s yet another instance of the same old story of the decline of the American Mom & Pop business: Mom & Pop come to California from Detroit, open up a successful shop in Beverly Hills, expanding to multiple locations across the country, dabble with a Las Vegas mega version, keep on adding more and more locations, bloating the brand, reaching a critical mass, until, finally, they hit a wall and the downward chart slope starts to really get steep as investors bail out. 
Arthur Lee’s Love is, for me, the all time Los Angeles rock band. At some point, I’ll go into why exactly Love is at the top of the class of our local bands (and, perhaps at the same time, why The Eagles are the absolute worst). But right now, the time calls for action and not amateur rock critic wanking and obsessive list making. 
PICK OF THE WEEK: Band of Horses @ Echo
Admitting to liking L.A.’s The Like is often qualified as a guilty pleasure, especially if one is A) over the age of 20, B) male, or C) male and over the age of 20. Sure we’ve heard all the old records and genres they’ve heard and reference: Brit-Pop, shoegaze, Pretenders, Lush, Throwing Muses, Radiohead, and so on. But they somehow they pull it all together and they look good doing it. What more do you want in a pop band?
My arrival at Tacos Mexico started with me finding easy parking. At first glance it looked like any other taqueria with the name Tacos Mexico… but no, this was the Tacos Mexico at Glendale and Alvarado. 
Dear Losanjealous,
The Spotlight. It sounded familiar but I couldn’t place it. I Googled it. I love Googling. I do. I love their hybrid maps. I spent a good hour on the phone with my dad once showing him how to use the hybrid function to find his childhood apartment located on the wrong side of the tracks in Portland. We found it. It’s still on the wrong side of the tracks.
Our city-streets, neighbours. I fly above. I take shit. Shit go down. People do-not like. But I take, anywa-y. I shit on streets daily. I shit on cars. Shit on people. Buildings. Schools. There is in fact no-thing I will not shit upon. We may never see eye-to-eye, you and I. Ever. My eye wee, at that. ‘Tis not important at end of day. We share city-streets. 
News has leaked that not one, but two premier artists in their respective fields of pop music and literature, both with Los Angeles-area ties, have new work headed our way, perhaps as early as this Winter. 
It has been said that victory in the World Cup is the highest honor known in football (or soccer to us Americans) and that the victors can lay claim to the title of best in the world. But with team USA’s reprehensible record of only one 3rd place ranking in 17 world cups it’s obvious that we’re the bottom feeders once again in this year’s tournament. So with no one to root on I pretty much lost interest in the 2006 games and, hell, soccer in general.
