»continue reading The Flaming Lips @ The Petco Park Parking Lot, San Diego, 8/25/07

Last weekend I paid a visit to Chinito in Boyle Heights. After a brief, cerveza-fueled respite from the heat in his kitchen, we embarked upon a culinary and cultural mini-tour of sorts in the neighborhood with but one destination in mind: THE BUSIEST TACO TRUCK IN TOWN™. Read all about it after the jump…
»continue reading The Busiest Taco Truck in Town

»continue reading M.I.A. @ Echoplex, 7/30/07

You can get Thai Food anywhere in LA, but Palms Thai is the only place where you can watch Thai Elvis perform while eating your Pad See Ew Noodles. I recently sat down with Kevee Thongprecha a.k.a Thai Elvis for a Q&A after his nightly performance at Palms Thai.

Losanjealous: How long have you been singing at The Palms?

Thai Elvis: Six years. But I’ve been singing since 1957. I used to sing when I was in Bangkok.

LA: Did you do shows over there?

TE: Yes. I used to go back every ten years to do shows in August. It was always sold out. But I haven’t been back since 1991.

LA:What was the biggest audience you ever had?

TE: Silver Dollar, Las Vegas 1978.

LA: How many people were there?
»continue reading Five Minutes With Thai Elvis

THE GROVE (Losanjealous):: One of our hundred-dozen field reporters sends in these topical, in-the-moment photos of the overabundance of noontime fools denizens currently serving time outside the Grove Apple Store as they anxiously await the six o’clock hour this iDay.

[WARNING: COMPLETELY SFW PHOTOS AFTER THE JUMP...]

»continue reading Grove To Self: Today’s iPhone Clusterfuck Goal In Full-On OutFuckingPerform Status

Via StonesThrow:

For the week of June 10 to June 16, DJ/Stones Throw Records founder Peanut Butter Wolf will be spinning 7 different genres of music in 7 different clubs over the course of 7 consecutive nights, all in Los Angeles.

…This 7-day tour will be a vinyl-only affair, with no record played twice.

I reminded myself about the Peanut Butter Wolf vs. LA event with an email. June 10th came out of nowhere and I had told myself I was going to shoot PB Wolf every night of the week for fun. Besides needing sufficient sleep for my day job, the biggest problem was money. After two back-to-back vacations and a couple substantial investments, I was living very light. $60 a week light. And we’re talking about going out every night in LA, which means parking, show charges, gas, maybe a brewski. Even in a best-case scenario, the odds were that I would go bust by Friday night. Here’s what happened.

Sunday, June 10th
Day 1

The first night was at Crane’s Tavern. I left around 9:00pm and street parking added another twenty minutes to my commute. I was hoping I didn’t miss the start of PB Wolf’s set, so I was relieved when I saw Diplo and Hollatronix spinning.
»continue reading Peanut Butter Wolf vs LA vs $60

8:58 p.m. – Dane Cook makes Paris-goes-to-jail joke.

8:59 p.m.– Flip over to HBO to wait for The Sopranos.
 
 
 

Thursday, May 24: Chanson

The line up for “A Night of Russian Chanson” at the Disney Concert Hall at first seemed a little awkward: Saul Williams, DeVotchKa, and Petra Haden, all sharing the same stage for the same general genre - spoken word intensity mashed with gypsy hysterics… However, with the delicious acoustics of the hall, each brought their own unique flavor to the night of Russian Chanson. »continue reading Shadow of Stalin: Two Nights at Disney Hall

Concerned citizens are up in arms about superstar yogurt stand Pinkberry. Led by local resident Bryan Williams, they’ve filed a lawsuit demanding the chain disclose its ingredients and/or stop calling itself frozen yogurt.

What’s actually in the powder? Citizens postulate! Submit your own guesses below.

• Chalk
• Chalk-like substance
• Some sort of Chalky something-or-other
• A Chalky countenance
• Nicotine
• Asteroid particles
• Bisquick
• Salt
• Some kind of healthy shit
• Cocaine
• Fred Ward’s Doormat Detritus
• Pet Dander
• Blogger Dander
• Failed Gary Coleman Get Cash Now! scripts
• Ground-up 14th Annual Daytime Emmy Statues (1987)
• The Remains Of The Day

Which Italian is the better stallion–local eatery Vito’s Pizza or diminutive actor Danny DeVito? A question plaguing scholars for ages. Until now. Until Losanjudgment.

»continue reading Losanjudgment: Vito’s Pizza vs. Danny DeVito

Set to take it’s rightful spot on your bookshelf, next to your Strunk & Whites and Funk & Wagnalls’s, comes the indispensable new reference guide to be penned by two authors, Hoffman & Rudoren’s COMEDY BY THE NUMBERS©. Published by McSweeney’s, this book catalogs almost 170 universal archetypes of Comedy. Each numbered entry includes examples, often illustrated, demonstrating appropriate usage so that you may check your own comedic usages. The book is sure to become an essential manual for homemakers, script puncher-uppers, eccentric know-it-alls of all ages and many others. Rather than “review” the book which would require actually “reading” said book, I conducted a hard-hitting Q&A with the authors. The frequently hilarious results are “cut and pasted” below.

If you wish to skip the Q&A portion and go straight to purchase the book, you may do so by clicking here.
»continue reading “Farts and Dwarfs–Does That Answer Your Question?” A Q&A with the Authors of Comedy By The Numbers

Like a Phoenix he rises suddenly, staring agelessly at San Vicente and La Brea.

I am Shack!
Attention, Traffic!
Attention, Los Angeles!
Attention…World!
Especially Attention, Out-Of-Control SUVs:
Fuck You! For I am Shack! And
This Be Mine Place In The World!
To This, I Am Resigned!
To This, I Am Committed!

Parris Patton never learned to play the piano. But it wouldn’t befit the artist to just take lessons and be done with it. No sir. To work through his aggression, Parris found it necessary to freeze an antique piano inside of a 13-ton block of ice, spend an entire day and evening hacking away at it with a number of sharp metal implements, and aimed to send it off to piano heaven by setting the traumatized instrument ablaze, appropriately dubbing the project “Because I Can’t Be Beethoven.”

Naturally, witnessing such a ridiculous and completely unnecessary endeavor seemed a good way to spend my Saturday night.
»continue reading “Because I Can’t Be Beethoven” @ Dangerous Curve

Situated just off the Virgil/Silverlake/Temple/Beverly mindfuck, has wisely chosen a reversed, all-caps bold on its brown façade. Specifically, they’ve opted for Lithos Black for the English speakers. You may recall Lithos, designed by the inimitable Carol Twombly (yes that Carol Twombly…Myriad, anyone?) for Adobe in 1989, as being the system font widely misunderstood (and misused) as Something Junglish throughout the 1990s.

Lithos = Jungle Safari? This is simply not the case, font lovers. The font is as Greek as they come. So why is it considered a jungle font? Blame Universal Studios’ Jurassic Park vessel, if you want to start pointing fingers. This is Lithos. And this is Neuland, a very similar typeface with very similar Grecian overtones. The 1993 marketing blitz for Jurassic Park plastered the movie’s name in Neuland onto every possible item that wasn’t nailed down, if you’ll recall, and the aftermath of said brand pummelling found poor Lithos lumped in with the Neuland crowd, for good. For all its noble beginnings Lithos was, frankly, too damned similar to Neuland to be discerned as a separate face by the layman.
»continue reading Fontwatch: Coffee Garden (Symbols) Sanjang: A Lithos Discussion (In Brief)