»continue reading Foreign Born–New Video, Show Tonight at Spaceland

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Thursday, 12/31/2009
New Year’s Eve
Two shows–7:00 PM & 10:30 PM
Walt Disney Concert Hall
Tickets & Info
Win tickets to the 10:30 pm show!
[ENTER TO WIN]

Chelsea Girls
Last Night At The Foxy for ’09
w/ Vains of Jenna
& special guests
Dave Navarro (shirtless for sure)
Kip Winger (shirtless status TBD)
Brett Anderson (of The Donnas–not Suede–surely shirted)
Saturday, December 19
The Roxy
Info

»continue reading Ozomatli Tonight & Tomorrow @ Club Nokia–Win Tickets Now!

Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke is no tourist in the climate activism world — he’s defended fair trade, campaigned for Friends of the Earth, edited a climate change edition of the Observer, and sought to make Radiohead’s tours low carbon affairs. And now he’s come to Copenhagen, just hours before a possible agreement, determined to find reason for optimism — and perhaps set world leaders straight.

I spoke to the head Radiohead yesterday, shortly after he emerged from a meeting with the UK environment minister Ed Milliband, looking as harried and caveman-like than ever.

Article continues at Motherboard.tv.

Video clip below.

»continue reading Video: Thom Yorke at Copenhagen: Leaders Need to “Get Their Shit Together”

From the Losanjealous Legal Matters Desk, Owen Pallett has dropped the Final Fantasy handle, opting–smartly–to record and perform under his own name. The letter he sent to share the news is below.

Friends,

»continue reading Owen Pallett Drops Final Fantasy Handle

Got pinged with this headline on the AP wire boasting a “shut down” and hoped for something a whole hell of a lot more dramatic than the minor slight the clip shows. Still, I’ll take even the smallest of smacks against that sack Lieberman, over nothing at all.

»continue reading Franken “Shuts Down” Lieberman on Senate Floor‎ (Video)

Per doctor’s orders, following River’s recent tour bus accident, all the following Weezer gigs have been canceled:

12/7/2009 — Agganis Arena — Boston, MA
12/9/2009 — Patriot Center — Baltimore, MD
12/10/2009 — Susquehanna Center — Camden, NJ
1/9/2010 — Bill Graham Civic Auditorium — San Francisco, CA
1/11/2010 — UCI Bren Events Center — Irvine, CA
1/13/2010 — RIMAC Arena — La Jolla, CA
1/15/2010 — Dodge Theatre — Phoenix, AZ

Refunds will be given at point of purchase.

Put all that Purell shit away, and forget about washing your hands. It cannot stop the real cause of swine flu: a puckish pig who comes in the night, when you’re asleep and dreaming, and drips viscous liquid contagion onto your pillow, all the while balanced on a skull. Don’t believe it? You better, bub: it’s memorialized in mural form in Westlake at the corner of 7th and Bonnie Brae (yes, that’s the Langer’s parking lot), and we all know that public art tells no lies.

Breaking Sherman Oaks news from People.com:

Shia LaBeouf and his Golden Globe-nominated girlfriend, Brit Carey Mulligan, have been sightseeing in Los Angeles together … an eyewitness tells us, “Shia has been taking Carey to all of his favorite spots.” Among their stops: Lunch at Mexican restaurant Baja Fresh followed by a visit to Borders. “They are a very sweet couple,” the eyewitness says. “They browsed several books and would not let go of each other’s hands.” The two left with a “make your own volcano kit” and finished their afternoon with a movie at the Arclight before strolling home in the dark.

 
Baja Fresh, Borders, Arclight–sounds like a perfect day out on Ventura Blvd!

We’re sure you all you know this already, but just in case, as a PSA–tonight’s Guy Fieri Roadshow has bumped from Gibson Amphitheater to cozy confines of The Wiltern.

No word on what this might mean for purchasers of “Off Da Hook” or “Kulinary Krew” ticket packages, which were to include either a seat on stage or in the first few rows, respectively. Presumably, you will still receive the below items as part of your package:
 

- Tour Laminate
- A copy of Guy’s More Diners, Drive-ins and Dives: A Drop Top Culinary Cruise Through America’s Finest and Funkiest Joints
- 2 Squirt Bottles
- Pre-Show Meet and Greet

If for some reason you cannot make the show, Guy Fieri brand squirt bottles are available at the Food Network online store ($9.95/2-pack).

Maybe if we put this out there, someone will explain it to us. These wacky guys find urban potholes and stage wacky photos around them. This apparently leads to book deals and gallery exhibits.

Some purported explanatory text from the press release and their website still doesn’t help us wrap our heads around it:

After great success in Montréal and NYC, photographers Claudia Ficca and Davide Luciano are in Los Angeles this month transforming local potholes into art.

“POTHOLES” is a photography project featuring sixteen rural craters. Taking something typically looked upon as a negative and giving it a positive and humorous spin, the artists staged a series of guerrilla street-level photographs and transformed disruptive craters into objects of fancy.

In the new year, the artists will be city-hopping in search of the biggest and best potholes to shoot in excess of fifty new scenes for their upcoming book and future exhibitions.

Below is a photo of a man eating spaghetti and meatballs from a New York City pothole. We don’t blame you if you don’t click to take a look at it.

»continue reading We Don’t Get It: “POTHOLES” Comes to Los Angeles

For many people, Handel’s Messiah means Christmas. The Hallelujah chorus has come to evoke images of gingerbread cookies and sleigh bells, and it is a staple of any decent Christmas music collection. Yet a small number of people decorating their tree this year as they hum along to their favorite version will know that the Hallelujah Chorus does not stand on it’s own, but is rather one movement in a three-part oratorio that spans the life and death of Christ. In fact, to put it in laymen’s terms, Handel’s Messiah is Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ—the musical. The comparison can be extended, since both were criticized as sacrilegious exploitations of the story of Christ’s life for the sake of mere entertainment purposes.

If eighteenth century Londoners felt that performing Messiah in any place besides a church was inappropriate, that’s only because the Walt Disney Concert Hall had yet to be built. Tonight’s performance, the first of two back to back nights, demonstrated the high art and beauty that is the Messiah, not only by featuring some of the world’s leading vocal soloists and showcasing Quebec’s La Chapelle de Québec, but by adding an air of delightful authenticity with their inclusion of Les Violons du Roy, a string orchestra group that specializes in Baroque and Classic period music (depicted above, from a previous performance). While some concertgoers enjoy following along with their Messiah scores and other close their eyes to dampen all senses but aural, the visuals of Les Violons are too exciting to miss. The orchestra uses modern instruments, the use of period bow copies, organ, and a beautifully painted harpsichord that looks like a piece whisked out of the drawing room of one of Jane Austen’s lady friends.

»continue reading Handel’s Messiah, Walt Disney Concert Hall, December 15, 2009

Dear Tiger,
In reading the statements you have made, I can tell you are a stand up guy. Please remember only Jesus is perfect. You made a mistake and you admitted your infidelity.
I have made the same mistakes. Before I got married to my wife, I had a baby with another young lady, after I already had two by my girlfriend who is now my wife. We also had another baby which makes three for us and four for me. Two boys and two girls.
My wife is a much better wife than I am a husband. We still argue and disagree after being together 16 years. and I still cope with the fact that there are so many women out there and I choose to stay loyal to my wife.

Read the full letter at Ron’s Blog “Therapy”

Ron Artest of Los Angeles Lakers says he drank booze at halftime [ESPN]
Ron Artest Shows Up to ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ in His Underwear [NBA Funhouse]
Video: Ron Artest Cooked Thanksgiving Dinner with Jackie Johnson [Los-AnJealous]

»continue reading Mew, Henry Fonda Theater, December 14, 2009