I was hitting a wall with how much more tax preparation I could handle, and the accounting gods throw me a curveball and send me on an financial statement audit in Hollywood. This job has gone on the last two weeks and I absolutely love it.
I just can't help but feel more at home around here in Hollywood & Los Feliz than in Marina del Rey. I can't stand living in a part of town so settled, so comfortable, so overly content and without any social interaction or youth. When I'm consistently going to bed on time and having little else to do but videogames (as great as Nintendo Wii is don't get me wrong) obviously something isn't right. I want something to tempt me to stay up too late, I demand a sense of community and things consistently going on. I expect to be able to go out and socialize and see some live entertainment or concerts without having to drive and sit in traffic over an hour at this point in my life, and that is what this audit has opened my eyes to.
I've had something to do almost every single day after work on this audit. Whether it is a screening of RocknRolla @ the WB's on-lot theatre, Comedy Death Ray at Upright Citizen's Brigade, or just chilling out to some legit decaf coffee while in a daze of shoegaze at the Bourgeois Pig or maybe downing a bottle of cheap Shiraz with good company at Fred 62... oh wait there's more I could go on and on.
Why would I just whine and not change something in my life and just move? Stupid knee injury and the ongoing physical therapy kept me entrapped where I didn't want to be... but I'm over that and able to run and play sports again or whatever else.
Ideal place for me to live in LA, disregarding how bad my commute could be, would be Franklin Village or Los Feliz. Its somewhat affordable and seems to be completely lacking in young yuppie MBA types like me - I just don't identify with my own kind. Most all my friends work in entertainment and outside of the awesome CPA firm I work out, I'd rather spend my free time with people not in my line of work.
Friday, October 17, 2008
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Now What?
I finally exhausted that massive pile of tickets for concerts. It was a long, exhausting, and satisfying ride and although I was showing up to many concerts completely out of energy, the experience was far more than worth it.
9-22-08 Raconteurs, Greek Theatre
I loved the Greek, the feeling of being out in the middle of the wilderness even though you're right by Los Feliz and not far from LA. Being surrounded by trees and showing up to a concert right as the sun is setting made me nostalgic for all those bowl concerts. Every seat is pretty decent and the sound was just perfect. I also loved making the long walk up the hill to the venue all the way from Los Feliz Blvd.
As for the show, the Raconteurs were very entertaining. Jack White is a freaking giant. Between the wilderness-feeling setting of the Greek and the Raconteurs heartlandish songs, I felt so far from home and I was loving it.
10-2-08 My Bloody Valentine, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
The venue in itself just screamed that it was something out of the late 50's that would begrudingly continue to exist and stubbornly refuse to age well. It has quite a history to it and some legendary concerts have existed there, but my god does it look old. But hey at least it was very close to home. The shoegaze that was about to take place transcended this old place anyway.
The security at the doors was very insistant in making sure everyone had a pair of free earplugs. I thought it was a nice gesture but later on I'd learn why they did this.
I was very excited to see Spacemen 3 open up. I'd seen Spiritualized perform before Nick Cave several weeks ago, which is nearly the same band. I was not expecting to hear Transparent Radiation, I absolutely love that song and its spacey, simplistic, distorted riffs and I hadn't given it a listen in years.
When My Bloody Valentine hit the stage they blew us all away with I Only Said from Loveless, with the volume cranked waaaay up and a great light show and massive art-house projection to accompany the music. It was quite an amazing spectacle, everyone's seats were shaking from the sound nearly the entire time, and the massive crowd on the floor below just stood below in a tranquil stupor, entranced by the distortion pedals and effects switches and peaceful dissonance being thrown their way.
The huge projector really added to the whole experience, it was a great finishing touch on this masterpiece of a concert. When they finally were wrapping up their set, there was a 15 to 20 minute pause before the finale where the audience was just blasted with a tsunami of sound. I'd read some reports that it hit nearly 128 decibels, it sounded like several jetfighters ready to take off. Without the earplugs so insistently handed out on the way in, I wonder if this really could have been the end of my concertgoing and music listening?
The entire time, the huge screen in the front was playing some beautiful projection that made this whole thing seem like the journey beyond the infinite from 2001: A Space Odyssey, and by the time we reached the end the band just played about 30 seconds more of the end of the song as if nothing happened.
9-22-08 Raconteurs, Greek Theatre
I loved the Greek, the feeling of being out in the middle of the wilderness even though you're right by Los Feliz and not far from LA. Being surrounded by trees and showing up to a concert right as the sun is setting made me nostalgic for all those bowl concerts. Every seat is pretty decent and the sound was just perfect. I also loved making the long walk up the hill to the venue all the way from Los Feliz Blvd. As for the show, the Raconteurs were very entertaining. Jack White is a freaking giant. Between the wilderness-feeling setting of the Greek and the Raconteurs heartlandish songs, I felt so far from home and I was loving it.
10-2-08 My Bloody Valentine, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
The venue in itself just screamed that it was something out of the late 50's that would begrudingly continue to exist and stubbornly refuse to age well. It has quite a history to it and some legendary concerts have existed there, but my god does it look old. But hey at least it was very close to home. The shoegaze that was about to take place transcended this old place anyway.
The security at the doors was very insistant in making sure everyone had a pair of free earplugs. I thought it was a nice gesture but later on I'd learn why they did this.
I was very excited to see Spacemen 3 open up. I'd seen Spiritualized perform before Nick Cave several weeks ago, which is nearly the same band. I was not expecting to hear Transparent Radiation, I absolutely love that song and its spacey, simplistic, distorted riffs and I hadn't given it a listen in years.
When My Bloody Valentine hit the stage they blew us all away with I Only Said from Loveless, with the volume cranked waaaay up and a great light show and massive art-house projection to accompany the music. It was quite an amazing spectacle, everyone's seats were shaking from the sound nearly the entire time, and the massive crowd on the floor below just stood below in a tranquil stupor, entranced by the distortion pedals and effects switches and peaceful dissonance being thrown their way.
The huge projector really added to the whole experience, it was a great finishing touch on this masterpiece of a concert. When they finally were wrapping up their set, there was a 15 to 20 minute pause before the finale where the audience was just blasted with a tsunami of sound. I'd read some reports that it hit nearly 128 decibels, it sounded like several jetfighters ready to take off. Without the earplugs so insistently handed out on the way in, I wonder if this really could have been the end of my concertgoing and music listening?
The entire time, the huge screen in the front was playing some beautiful projection that made this whole thing seem like the journey beyond the infinite from 2001: A Space Odyssey, and by the time we reached the end the band just played about 30 seconds more of the end of the song as if nothing happened.
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