This diary entry is being posted a couple of days late because I didn't have much internet access over the last couple of days (it is Thursday now... this is Tuesday's diary entry)
We got into LA at 5:30PM last night, picked up our rad hire car and started our exciting week in LA. The hire car place was actually in Inglewood haha. It was really ghetto as. Crazy. Freeways overpasses in America are pretty crazy. Sean said traffic is pretty crazy as well. People are angry on the roads and the lanes are pretty thin supposedly. After a bit of a freeway drive we arrived at our hotel. It’s not very flash haha. It’s very basic. No wireless internet here like our Kansas hotel and no free breakfast either. We’ve gotta pay for our car parking as well. Gah. Oh well.
We spent most of the night just hanging out and getting settled in. Dudes lurked the internet a bit, I read some more of the Burning Fight book and we went and grabbed dinner at a Chinese restaurant down the road. I was keen to go for a bit more of a walk, but no one was keen and really, there’s nothing around us where we are. At least right now, LA seemed like a bit of a shithole. It’s was like 9:30PM and the place was literally empty. It doesn’t seem to have character like NY does. The area we’re staying in is fairly nice but it feels dead and anywhere that isn’t as nice, doesn’t feel cool… it just feels gross. Tuff days.
Tuesday morning started pretty easy. We all slept in, showered up, shaved etc. and then hopped in the car to go suss Hollywood. We parked next to Hollywood Blvd, Grant and I got pizza for brunch, we sussed the Kodak Theatre, looked at the star walk and sussed some dumb tourist stores. I got a couple of little things but as usual, most of it is shit. We ran into an Urban Outfitters and it was pretty rad. None of us bought any clothes but I got some books for family back home, some pretty cool little things, Grant got a Lomography camera and him and Sean also got a couple of cool books.
We spent the next while at the massive Amoeba records. Dudes got lots of vinyl and I felt like an idiot just buying CDs haha. I got a few Sunny Day Real Estate albums really cheap and a Drowningman album for like $3US. Good life.
We then headed down the street on our way back to the car where I ended up dragging us into a Museum about Psychiatry that for some naïve reason I thought wasn’t a propaganda machine. (An amazingly professional FREE presentation from a ‘non-profit organisation and there paying saying they heard about it from Scientology on the sign in list haha). Some of it made sense (like duh, eugenics sucks), but a lot of it was stupid propaganda and we decided to bail on it early.
We then went for a drive up the hills to get a rad view of the Hollywood sign. We got a photo near it and got some rad views of the city on our drive back down through the hills.
We then drove into West Hollywood to suss another record store. Sean found this amazing shoe store he wanted to go into, they had a fuckload of shoes. The nerds again went record shopping. I got another couple of Cds and a couple of old zines. One with a Jets to Brazil interview and another with Samiam. Good life. We then picked up dinner at a burger joint with heaps of vegie shit and then came home and we’ve been hanging out ever since. Good life.
We’re heading to the beaches tomorrow. Siked.
We got into LA at 5:30PM last night, picked up our rad hire car and started our exciting week in LA. The hire car place was actually in Inglewood haha. It was really ghetto as. Crazy. Freeways overpasses in America are pretty crazy. Sean said traffic is pretty crazy as well. People are angry on the roads and the lanes are pretty thin supposedly. After a bit of a freeway drive we arrived at our hotel. It’s not very flash haha. It’s very basic. No wireless internet here like our Kansas hotel and no free breakfast either. We’ve gotta pay for our car parking as well. Gah. Oh well.
We spent most of the night just hanging out and getting settled in. Dudes lurked the internet a bit, I read some more of the Burning Fight book and we went and grabbed dinner at a Chinese restaurant down the road. I was keen to go for a bit more of a walk, but no one was keen and really, there’s nothing around us where we are. At least right now, LA seemed like a bit of a shithole. It’s was like 9:30PM and the place was literally empty. It doesn’t seem to have character like NY does. The area we’re staying in is fairly nice but it feels dead and anywhere that isn’t as nice, doesn’t feel cool… it just feels gross. Tuff days.
Tuesday morning started pretty easy. We all slept in, showered up, shaved etc. and then hopped in the car to go suss Hollywood. We parked next to Hollywood Blvd, Grant and I got pizza for brunch, we sussed the Kodak Theatre, looked at the star walk and sussed some dumb tourist stores. I got a couple of little things but as usual, most of it is shit. We ran into an Urban Outfitters and it was pretty rad. None of us bought any clothes but I got some books for family back home, some pretty cool little things, Grant got a Lomography camera and him and Sean also got a couple of cool books.
We spent the next while at the massive Amoeba records. Dudes got lots of vinyl and I felt like an idiot just buying CDs haha. I got a few Sunny Day Real Estate albums really cheap and a Drowningman album for like $3US. Good life.
We then headed down the street on our way back to the car where I ended up dragging us into a Museum about Psychiatry that for some naïve reason I thought wasn’t a propaganda machine. (An amazingly professional FREE presentation from a ‘non-profit organisation and there paying saying they heard about it from Scientology on the sign in list haha). Some of it made sense (like duh, eugenics sucks), but a lot of it was stupid propaganda and we decided to bail on it early.
We then went for a drive up the hills to get a rad view of the Hollywood sign. We got a photo near it and got some rad views of the city on our drive back down through the hills.
We then drove into West Hollywood to suss another record store. Sean found this amazing shoe store he wanted to go into, they had a fuckload of shoes. The nerds again went record shopping. I got another couple of Cds and a couple of old zines. One with a Jets to Brazil interview and another with Samiam. Good life. We then picked up dinner at a burger joint with heaps of vegie shit and then came home and we’ve been hanging out ever since. Good life.
We’re heading to the beaches tomorrow. Siked.
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