September, 20, 2005 archives

it’s raining. and thundering. and there’s lightning. in september in los angeles. crazy.

with the streets all wet, it’s like the city has been turned into one big movie shoot.

that i find rain noteworthy is another sign i’ve gone native.

the united state of electronica are playing at cinespace in hollywood tonight. you can check out some of their music on myspace.

they also played the knitting factory last night.

tonight’s show is actually part of the afterparty for another show.

• solicitation from america’s second harvest
• invitation to a cocktail reception at grace home furnishings where a portion of the benefits will go to the los angeles conservancy
• invitation to viva vibiana: the resurrection of a historic landmark, a conservancy event at st. vibiana’s cathedral in november — tickets start at $350/person

the different levels of sponsorship for the event at st. vibiana’s is kind of humorous in that it becomes more expensive per-person at each level. (but those different levels also include different perks other than additional admissions — presumably you can just buy a block of individual tickets, too.)

also, yesterday i got a newsletter from amnesty international.

• yoshimi battles the pink robots by the flaming lips
• i oughtta give you a shot in the head for making me live in this dump by shivaree

these are the two albums i was looking for, but did not find, at amoeba. cheap-cds.com to the rescue! (although now that i look closely, they would have been cheaper from amazon. silly me.)

blogging.la follows up on the old proposal for the city of los angeles to adopt open source and apply the money saved to hiring more police officers, and finds that the proposal appears to have gone off the rails. i wish i could say i was surprised.

but something that comes out in the report filed about current open source usage by the city is there are several departments using mysql, including the city ethics commission, and several others that think they could use it. cool.

don't try this at home: culinary catastrophes from the world’s greatest chefs edited by kimberly witherspoon and andrew friedman (reviewed here) sounds like a great book. one of the chefs to contribute a chapter is anthony bourdain, author of kitchen confidential.

speaking of kitchen confidential, i hope the show ends up better than the pilot. i really wanted to like it, but it just did not gel.

the moxie cinema is an independent movie theater that opened today in springfield, missouri. the best thing from this distance is that they blogged the whole experience of opening the theater. it’s a great story. more small businesses should do something similar.

dave wrote up his shopping foray at the downtown farmers market today. mine was much less exciting, because i couldn’t just buy food that would rot in my fridge while i was away. so i only bought a couple of things i needed for the next few days.

and some fresh roasted peanuts. if anyone was ever trying to get me to do something, bribing me with fresh roasted peanuts would probably render me powerless to resist. yummy.

sadly, there will only be one more downtown farmers market for me this year (on october 5).