Recommended Show of the Week: Animal Collective @ El Rey. When a band’s sound is unconventional they’re quickly tagged with the “experimental” label. The vast majority of times the experiment alluded to is a failure often involving a horrible laboratory explosion. Not so with Animal Collective–the band had a eureka moment with last year’s album, Sung Tongs, and continue their mastery with their latest release, Feels. The Collective bring their science to the El Rey on Tuesday.
Vintage slides of Disneyland are among my favorite finds – especially old slides of Tomorrowland. It’s the least photographed land in the Magic Kingdom – which leads me to the SLIDE-OF-THE-WEEK: THE NEW TOMORROWLAND, 1969.
Venice! Home of muscles and sea smells. Where the streets are so narrow you have to double-park your tricycle. A guy once came up to me and said “Hey man do you have stigmata?!” and I said “No, I just walked down an alley in Venice.” We both laughed.
City of Industry-based retailer Hot Topic is not-so-hot these days. Perhaps the kids are alright after all.
From 1976 to 1980, Miles Davis rarely left his house. He stopped playing his horn entirely. His life revolved solely around two addictions: sex and cocaine. My life has become a mirror of that of Davis’, provided you substitute a hacked version of a 13-year-old nintendo game for the copious sex and cocaine.
