Archives for the month of: March, 2008

cecile is telling me the story of how her neighbor’s car got totaled:

cecile: trent are i were taking pics of my superman action figure on my porch and we saw this van going like 60 down cortland, turn onto washtenaw, totally out of control

cecile: then we hear a big crash

cecile: so we ran to the front

cecile: to see this teenager trying to drive away

cecile: she was stuck though

cecile: so she had to stay

kara: um…wait back up

kara: you were taking photos…of your superman action figure?

the awesome photo

update: more saul bass! a children’s book he illustrated.

the answer? they would be more awesome-er.

more saul bass title sequences including psycho, alien, the man with the golden arm, cape fear, and more.

via drawn!

donna

dire wolf skulls

sunday after i drove meghan home and we’d laid around a bit, lindsay and i were ready to go downtown again. it was hazy and a bit chilly and drizzly, but still probably a treat compared to chicago weather. we went to the page museum at the la brea tar pits, which was still awesome the second time around. i even squashed a penny! plus, we weren’t on a time crunch like last time, so i saw a whole other section of the museum and we walked around the atrium. i took photos this time too.

mastodons

afterwards we walked across wilshire to the craft and folk art museum. we saw some really cool exhibitions – one was about folklore from around the world, and had marionettes and puppets representing major characters and archetypes. we also saw a katagami (japanese cut paper) solo show by jennifer falck linssen and it was amazing. you can see some of her gorgeous work on her portfolio site, but i recommend seeing it in person at cafam – the show lasts until april 27.

maria made korean for dinner (delicious!) then we drove to sherman oaks for meghan’s birthday party. josh made some really good snacks – asparagus and roasted red pepper bruschetta, summer rolls and meghan’s favorite – yellow cake with chocolate frosting. ruchi brought dates stuffed with goat cheese and josh had plenty of good beers to choose from. we played some wii sports – pat barely beat mo at bowling and there were some insane volleys in tennis. boxing was more fun than i thought it would be, and also exhausting. i was also surprised by how much the spectators got into the matches. there was a lot of shouting, like “the face! jab him in the face!” or “go for the body shot!”

back at home, pat and i watched some awesome square one tv clips and read some REALLY good comics – mark millar’s new kick-ass and i started a new manga, mpd-psycho, which is just as disturbing as the cover made it out to be.

reflections purple flowers

today we had in-n-out for lunch then picked up frozen yogurt and drove to the getty. today was very warm and the sky was so blue and clear – a perfect day for the getty and it was just as beautiful as i remembered it (see photos from my first visit in december 2004) and we got there just before the sun started setting. the light was beautiful and i took a lot more photos.

waterfall right this way

after the getty we drove right to lax and dropped lindsay off – her plane should be taking off in just a few minutes. it was a really fun weekend and i can’t wait for her to visit again!

lindsay, photographer

updated 3/2

flowering tree

this weekend lindsay is in town! yesterday we drove down to venice to abbot kinney – ate at jin and walked around the shops. we went to the beach and walked around the boardwalk and meghan took us to this place with amazing mini donuts that they make for you right there. we saw muscle beach and uh…some giant adidas shoes? maybe a commercial was being shot? (photo to come here)

remember who you are

at night, we went to pat’s and met up with him, his friend from newport, her two friends and a bunch of pat’s la friends. we hung out for awhile at pat’s then we took cabs to bar marmont. the bar itself is really cool – very laid back and i had a really good gimlet. then we went to boulevard 3 for dancing and it was AWESOME. there was a guy on stilts who breathed fire, a big raised dance floor, hawaiian bbq in the courtyard and lots of fireplaces. i had some, uh – interesting – conversations with some people…why do i seem to attract the creepy middle-aged guys who are really hot for korean girls? i guess i’m too polite to tell them to fuck off? i mean, he was married and his quite beautiful wife was like, half passed-out about 10 feet away and i was CLEARLY there with pat, so i don’t know what he thought was going to come of his inappropriate drunken rambling.

lindsay, jefferson glen, asa
me, maria, meghan maria, lindsay, me

after pat and i extricated ourselves from that awkwardness, we found everyone else inside dancing and already about 3 drinks ahead of us. the dancing was great and we ended up closing the club and i would write more if i weren’t still exhausted and a bit hung over. the girls from newport were so much fun, and i got to know pat’s friend andrew better too. we went back to pat’s house and hung out some more with asa, jefferson and quinn, until clayton, saint he is, picked our drunk asses up so we could go back to burbank and pass out. it was a crazy awesome time and i can’t wait to do it again!