Chhom @ Outside Lands by Sung

WHO:
DENGUE FEVER (http://www.denguefevermusic.com) band members Zac Holtzman, Senon Williams and Chhom Nimol.

WHAT:
A bike ride photo and interview opportunity.

WHEN:
Friday, September 9
2:00 pm: Photo opp
2:30 pm: Short bike ride around MacArthur Park
3:00 pm: Lunch

DENGUE FEVER is playing a free show at Fingerprints at 7 p.m.

WHERE:
The back of Homeland Cultural Center at the graffiti wall, MacArthur Park (1321 E. Anaheim St.). Lunch immediately following at Grand Paradise Restaurant (1350 E. Anaheim St.).

WHY:
The band will take a whirl on Cambodia Town’s new cargo bike and commuter bikes to bring attention to Cambodia Town and the unadulterated fun of bicycling. The event is open to the public — who are invited to arrive via bicycle. Members of the media and the public are invited to dine at the restaurant via individual reservations or first come, first served.

Cambodia Town is one of four Bike-Friendly Business Districts (BFBDs) in Long Beach, intended to encourage merchants and their customers to choose bikes, not cars, for short trips. The districts each have cargo and commuter bikes for merchant errands and offer bicyclists discounts every Saturday through the new Bike Saturdays program, free bike repairs, bike valets at events, and more. The BFBD program is made possible by the Department of Health and Human Services through the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health and the City of Long Beach. For more information, please visit http://www.bikelongbeach.org and http://www.choosehealthla.com/move-healthy/biking

Thanksgiving Weekend
November 2009

I’d been really depressed, which was uncharacteristic. The problem had stemmed from a day job that was helping me to pay off some 14 months of domestic and international travel and, to be completely honest, a whole hell of a lot of dicking off. When it finally came time to pay the piper, I found myself with three viable job offers on the table – in a recession, no less, after having dicked off for a solid 14 months as previously mentioned. I share this not with the intention of boasting, mind you, but to relay the absolute fact that of those offers, I chose the wrong job and, as a result, I quickly became miserable. And for the first time in nearly a decade, I acknowledged that I was depressed. Months passed. Thanksgiving arrived. I discovered that while I had been traveling, a good friend had died. I’d left her voicemails after the fact, knowing nothing about her demise at the time. Life can be so unfair. But that Thanksgiving morning, Robin and I had volunteered at a food bank and then retired to various parties and friend’s feasts to drink our separate days away, and the morning of volunteering had lifted my spirits not inconsiderably. Thanksgiving passed.

I had fixed myself with a blind date to take place early the following Sunday, with a girl from some online dating site or another. I’m not exactly the coffee shop type when it comes to blind dates. That’s too damn easy, for starters, and furthermore, it can quickly make for a bad initial experience: boring conversations, the always-perked ears of curious patrons, unnatural steam blasts from the espresso machine, smooth jazz and coffee jitters. I had convinced this particular girl that we needed to experience the sun rising in Los Angeles, and among numerous idyllic geographic postulations within the county, offered the idea of the Korean Friendship Bell bluff in San Pedro as a viable location, speculating that due to the direction and location of the peninsula, we stood a passable chance of a sunrise over water.

»continue reading iPhotograph My Life: Ep. 1: San Pedro Korean Bell, Dawn, 2009

Long Beach residents rejoice: Fingerprints has fully moved from the shore to their new digs in the ambiguously-centered-around-First-and-Linden “Downtown Arts District” … and is now open for business, with great live shows lined up per usual. From Rand, in the inbox today:

With a crackle and a pop we dropped the needle on Sparklehorse’s debut album, Vivedixiesubmarinetransmissionplot this morning, and with that, we are calling this soft-opening official.

For those who’ve missed the last couple of emailers, we moved off of 2nd St this past weekend. It was a tough decision, but we feel pretty confident that once you see the new space it will all make sense. Our new address is 420 E. 4th St, in the Art’s District of Downtown Long Beach. For the old-timers, it’s the old Lyon’s Art Supply space.

We’ve been moving stuff out of the old place since Friday and it’s feeling really good in the new space. We quietly opened on Tuesday, after getting our final inspection. Our first sale was the debut record from the Blasters, and I seriously cannot think of any album we could have sold that would have made me happier.

»continue reading Fingerprints Records Opens In New Long Beach Locale

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