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Welcome 2 America | 21 Nite Stand | Plus Special Guests | Los Angeles Forum
The next 3 nights: Thursday May 5 | Friday May 6 | Saturday May 7

To enter, first make sure you Like Losanjealous on the Facebook, if you haven’t already:

Then, leave a comment below with which special guest(s) you want to see get up and jam with the Purple One. Go nuts. The most “interesting” answers will win. (NB: You don’t have to enter your real full name when you comment, just a real email address, which only we will see.)

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HEADS UP
The Songs of Patsy Cline @ Disney Hall
Saturday, May 7 @ 8pm

Featuring:
The Living Sisters (Inara George, Becky Stark, Eleni Mandell, and Alex Lilly)
Zooey Deschanel, special guest
John Doe, special guest
Shirley Manson, special guest
John C. Reilly, special guest (!?)
Charlie Wadhams, special guest

Tickets and info

TO ENTER FOR TICKETS: Simply tweet @losanjealous (#PatsyClineTix) which artist you’d like to see cover what Patsy Cline song, this weekend. Winners will be chosen by a panel of three celebrity hilarious judges, and notified via direct message. Crazy! Good luck!

DF is known for many things. Winning “Most Pungent” seven years running. That famous picture of me flipping off a unicorn while a Tyrannosaurus Rex elbows me in the crotch. Finishing my Nobel Prize acceptance speech despite barfing three times. But DF is emphatically NOT known for his calm, judicious sense of self-control. Au the contraire, he has been known to engage in … shall we say … untoward episodes of uncontrolled indulgence. To wit:

August, 1968: an innocent, straight-laced adolescent DF agrees to take a single puff of a marijuana cigarette proffered by a hirsute amigo. Next thing I recall is waking up three years and several hundred acid trips later, face-down in the middle of Golden Gate Park, long hippie hair corralled by a beaded headband, bearing Jerry Garcia’s love child.

September, 1979: a few months into my new, responsible job and life as a pencil-sharpener salesman, a colleague offers me a beer at a calm post-work happy hour on a Wednesday night. I chug the beer, then with the seal broken, chug seventeen additional beers, then chug countless shots of Rumplemints, and finally awake from the ensuing blackout period several days later in an Ensenada gutter, wearing only mascara and a “Huggies” diaper that really left nothing to the imagination. The really weird part is that upon getting back to work, my colleague told me that the beer he’d given me was non-alcoholic.

May, 1985: Sizzler comes out with their “All you can eat salad bar” campaign. DF, against the advice of his lawyer, parole officer, and psychologist, visits a San Dimas Sizzler during this promotion, and after eating all the food in the salad bar, proceeds to the kitchen, where he ingests several dozen frozen skirt steaks and drinks a tureen of ranch dressing before an elderly gentleman brings an end to the madness by whacking DF on the head repeatedly with his prosthesis. And you know what? I woke up from the ensuing coma still hungry as hell.

So yeah, DF and self-restraint don’t really belong in the same sentence. But after my misspent youth (and early adulthood, and most of middle age), I’ve learned a lesson: stay away from temptation! And that’s why I’m shit-scared right now, because temptation has come and found me with not one, not two, but THREE awesome-balls banked-track derby events this weekend in the greater SoCal area.

Believe it, rollerfans! This Saturday night, May 7, will witness the earth-shattering debut of the banked-track incarnation of the OC Roller Girls on their brand-new track, as the Orange Whip square off with the Traffic Jammers down at the Anaheim Convention Center Arena. And if you’re averse to traveling below the Orange Curtain that night, you’re still in luck, because the LA Derby Dolls will be in action at Hi-Fi’s Doll Factory on Sat eve as well, when the Varsity Brawlers, fresh off their big upset of the three-time-defending-champ Tough Cookies, will take on that perennial threat from way down south, the San Diego Derby Dolls’ banked track specialists, the Swarm.

And whichever banked track action you opt for on Saturday, you’ll still be able to engorge yourself with more derby the very next day, as an adorably named but undeniably fierce Babydoll Brawl will go down at the Doll Fac on Sunday, May 8. And yes, that’s Mom’s day, but what better way to celebrate the nice lady whose vagina expelled you to see some of the finest up-and-coming skaters LADD has to offer? Take note: the BDB is an all-ages event, so feel free to bring the kiddies. And due to the family atmo, there will be no booze served, which is really for the best for DF given aforementioned proclivities.

Lord knows this troika of derby fantasticness may well be the death of DF and his poor overstressed sense of self-control, but hey—if you gotta die, death by derby is a pretty sweet way to go. Get your tixes for OCRG here and LADD here, and DF’ll see you at the track, young’uns.

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The full name of this joint is Ricos Marisco El Rey del Maz. No kidding. How’s a gringo s’pose to remember that?

The crowning of Mexicali Tacos as LATacos.com 2011 champ begs the question: what if you do not like carne asada? What if your parents always took you on vacations in La Paz and all you want is a single fried fish taco, without trekking up to Hollywood-adjacent? What if you’re a fashion blogger in… God forbid… Alhambra? With a hankering for fish tacos?

The answer is clear: Ricos Tacos, in East Los Angeles.

Chances are, it’ll be open. In fact, it’s almost always open. There are no trick hours. This truck doesn’t have a twitter account, it doesn’t have blogger groupies. What it does have, is the underbellies of East LA passing through, collecting your Sangria bottle, your hecho en Mexico Coca Cola, just as you finish.

Is the fish as delicate as those at Best Fish Tacos Enseneda? Probably not. Is it as expertly fried as Ricky’s? Probably not. What you get are 2 fish filets, gently fried to the shade of Fish-O-Filet, for $3. Wrapped in the rather large corn tortilla, the fried filets, topped with rather thin crema and cabbage, present a hand-to-mouth challenge; hence Team Ricos provides forks. And if you’re lucky, you can find the napkin box to complete the eating process. Most locals ask for “con chile”, but the chile hot sauce is (again) rather thin, and presents minimal burn, so don’t go “sin” on it. Other popular choices are the cocteles, and the gigantuan paper plateful of various marisco on tostada.

There’s hardly a place to properly eat these floppy plates of seafood, even if you’re not Mimi Sheraton. Thankfully, the El Super supermarket’s parking lot is merely steps away, as is the equally fabulous Cemitas Tepeaca.

Ricos Tacos (Marisco El Rel del Maz)
(by El Super)
430 N Indiana St
Los Angeles, CA 9006

– SinoSoul.com

Prince Coachella ’08 – Brian

Seven down. 14 to go.

I caught Prince last Saturday. Were I not headed to New Orleans Jazzfest this coming weekend, I would return again in a heartbeat. Peerless Tiny Elvis up there destroying the Forum on the nightly, different set each night, crazy jams, awesome lighting, great vibe and different special guests sitting in each night. What in hell are you waiting for! Did I mention $25 through ticketmaster with NO added fees, not even $2.50 “ticketfast print it now” cash cow. $25 flat! What? If you’re able to fill in the blanks for the various missing special guest slots below, please do so.

Shows To Date:

Thursday, April 14 2011
(setlist) (Sheila E)

Thursday, April 21 2011
(setlist) (Faith Evans, Missy Elliot, Sheila E)

Friday, April 22 2011
(setlist) (Alicia Keys, Sheila E)

Saturday, April 23 2011
(setlist) (Chaka Khan, Larry Graham, Sheila E)

Thursday, April 28 2011
(setlist) (Cassandra Wilson, Sheila E)

Friday, April 29 2011
(setlist) (Sheila E)

Saturday, April 30 2011
(setlist) (Gwen Stefani, Nikka Costa, Sheila E)

Thursday, May 5 2011
(Tix on sale now!)

Friday, May 6 2011
(Tix on sale now!)

Saturday, May 7 2011
(Tix on sale now!)

***Spoiler Alert***
One of next weekend’s RUMORED guests after the jump.
»continue reading Prince at the Forum Welcome 2 America 21-Night Stand: Set Lists to Date, Special Guests, More Shows On Sale Today (5/2)

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