L.A. Entertainment Column*

[Fern~Fern*]

Hey Fellows, I was just thinking that we don't have an Entertainment thread. Since LA is such an exciting city, there's a ton of things to do at low cost or no cost. Besides the regular venues like Laker Games, Universal Studios, Rose Parade and that out of the County Fuck Mouse from Disney. There's always something going on all over the city. So if you know where there's a free concert, Movie screenings, Red Carpet Events, wine tasting, Art Shows, or just local talent throwing a Gig in Hollyweird, Silverlake, Venice, or any other part of the city keep us informed (Elsongs). For example "JAY Z" had a free concert a couple of days ago on Hollywood Blvd. Most of us did not find out until the same day or right after the concert. So If you have an LA connection, share it with everyone here....

[future_trance011]

Freaking good idea Ferney!

There's so many places to go and things to do in the "GINORMOUS" LA Metro.. Afterall, We do live in the Entertainment Capital, so it only makes sense that we've got a thread sharing any knowledge we've got. This would even be helpful for future visitors and tourists planning on coming to LA.

I'm drawing a blank right now, must be from eating all that Turkey yesterday, yup Turkey does that to me...well its better than eating Tofurkey I guess:nuts: Hopefully, I can contribute something in the not-to-distant future. Until then, um soo where's El Songs? *Hint Hint@ El Songs*
:lol:

[Joey313]

MOVIE PREMIERE
"Pan’s Labyrinth"
Monday, December 18, 2006 - 6:30 p.m.
at the Egyptian Theatre
6712 Hollywood Blvd, in Hollywood

[Fern~Fern*]

^ Good info.... by the way aren't you like an aspiring actor if I'm not mistaken?

[Joey313]

^^yeah and a movie director

[Fern~Fern*]

So what have you done lately?

[Joey313]

what do you mean?:)

[Fern~Fern*]

what do you mean?:)


Actor: What movies have you acted on?
Director: What do you have on the works?

[Joey313]

oooo haha ^^
Well i was going to be in this one music video but i never went to an audition
also I made a movie and acted in it with a director but the movie is not edited its been like that for 2 years. The movie actually was just to learn how those kinds of things work . i was supposably going to edit it
but i need a program called Avid. I 'm still in highschool
so its not realy much. but now i actually dont want to be an actor
(but maybe a movie director )but a developer.

[Joey313]

George Lopez

will appear in live at

The Universal Amphitheatre
(now named "The Gibson Amphitheatre)
outside Universal Studios Hollywood


Thursday, Dec. 28, 2006

[godblessbotox]

this is moving along nicly... good work joey and ferny

[Joey313]

I dont know if anybody noticed or knew but today is the
:banana: :banana:
75th Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade
:dance:


Sunday, November 26, 2006 at 5pm
more info
http://gocalifornia.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ/Ya&sdn=gocalifornia&cdn=travel&tm=3&gps=116_4_1236_815&f=21&tt=14&bt=1&bts=0&zu=http%3A//www.hollywoodchamber.net/icons/parade.asp

this is last years
2005 hollywood christmas parade video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbIlC0gSfeY



is someone gona go??? if so take some pics
that would realy be cool
i cant i dont have a camera. you guys know what happen last
time lol

[klamedia]

Fuck. Missed it again!

[Fern~Fern*]

^ Last time I attended a hollywood X-Mas Parade I was 10 or so....

[archd1]

Joey and Ferney, we need links like these:

(From Laist)
Tonight in Rock in LA - Danzig, Joanna Newsom, Sugarcult

http://www.laist.com/attachments/tony/danzig.jpg

Danzig @ The Wiltern
Joanna Newsom @ Malibu Performing Arts Center
Sugarcult, The Pink Spiders, Damone @ House of Blues
Barenaked Ladies @ Gibson
Butch Walker @ The Hotel Cafe
DJ AM @ LAX
Sally Kellerman @ Genghis Cohen
The Handsome Family @ El Cid
Slow Signal Fade, The Ivy Walls @ Silverlake Lounge
Mike Stinson, Merle Jagger, Rancho Deluxe @ Safari Sam's
I Heart Robots, The Maze @ 14 Below
2 Headed Dog, Dana Gould @ Largo
The Tenderbox @ Spaceland
Fireball Johnson, Brad Hooks, Rock Paper Scissors, Black Comets @The Gig
Himself, June, High Life Kingz, Artistic Expression, Conjuring Evolution @ The Knitting Factory

[solongfullerton]

http://www.mainstreetsm.com/events.html

Xmas party this saturday on Main st in Santa Monica, free food and drink apparently.

[archd1]

Great Show!....

Inventing 'Scissorhands'
Matthew Bourne's onstage worlds don't spring up out of nowhere. Designer and co-conspirator Lez Brotherston has a big hand in it too

http://www.calendarlive.com/media/photo/2006-12/26796856.jpg

http://www.calendarlive.com/stage/cl-ca-brotherston10dec10,0,2516835.htmlstory?coll=cl-home-more-channels

[archd1]

GIANT, DTLA'S NEW YEAR'S EVE STREET PARTY IS BACK!
GIANT MAXIMUS
http://www.groovetickets.com/IMAGES/groove/logos/giantmaximus07.gif
http://giantclub.com/

[Fern~Fern*]

^ Hope it doesn't rain this year....

[savvysearch]

^ Hope it doesn't rain this year....

It doesn't matter if it rains. The celebration is now under giant tents. I wonder why they changed the name.

[svs]

Just to let the forum know about this site. It lists dozens of events and better still is a source for Major discounts to them. You have to sign up but after that they send updates to your computer by e-mail.

events@goldstarevents.com

[Fern~Fern*]

Is this one of your little secrets, svs?

[saiholmes]

http://www.newyears.com/?statelist=5&citylist=Los+Angeles
check this one.

[svs]

Is this one of your little secrets, svs?

I have lots of little secrets Ferney.

[future_trance011]

Don't know where to go for New Year's eve and want an alternative to Giant Maximus (formerly Giant Village)? Well you can party the night away with thousands this year (DEC 31st) at TAO (Together As One) at the LA Sports Arena...

"Lineup for TOGETHER AS ONE has been annoucned! Headlining exclusive sets by:
PAUL VAN DYK, DEEP DISH, MARCO V, CHRISTOPHER LAWRENCE, DANNY HOWELLS, STEVE ANGELLO, DJ REZA, BARRY WEAVER, DIESEL BOY, ED RUSH & OPTICAL!"

http://www.newyearsevela.com/

^^
If you're into D & B ( Drum & Bass), House, Trance, dance music....I don't see how you can go wrong with that line up...Paul Van Dyk? Marco V? C-Law (Christopher Lawerence)?Optical? DJ Reza and Danny Howells? daaaaayaamm :banana:

[Elsongs]

& OPTICAL!"

http://www.newyearsevela.com/

^^
If you're into D & B ( Drum & Bass), House, Trance, dance music....I don't see how you can go wrong with that line up...Paul Van Dyk? Marco V? C-Law (Christopher Lawerence)?Optical? DJ Reza and Danny Howells? daaaaayaamm :banana:

Wow, I was SO into D&B like 10 years ago...But I got burned out and was pissed the scene refused to evolve. This is what I used to do:
http://www.e-trinity.org

[redspork02]

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GUNS N' ROSES' WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE has topped a new poll to find the greatest song about Los Angeles. The 1987 hit beat NWA's STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON and THE EAGLES' NEW KID IN TOWN to claim the number one spot in Blender magazine's 25 Greatest Songs About LA. The top five is: 1. WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE - GUNS N' ROSES 2. STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON - NWA 3. NEW KID IN TOWN - EAGLES 4. FREE FALLIN' - TOM PETTY 5. MALIBU - COURTNEY LOVE. 11/12/2006 03:32

[Elsongs]

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GUNS N' ROSES' WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE has topped a new poll to find the greatest song about Los Angeles.


Too bad we won't be hearing it at Dodger Stadium anymore...

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Gagne Over.

[saiholmes]

Nearly bare Bruins will brave the chilly night
UCLA's Undie Run strips away some of the pressure of finals week -- and most of the normal student attire. Tonight's the night.
By Charles Proctor, Times Staff Writer
December 13, 2006
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UCLA senior Mike Valkosky plans to commemorate final exams tonight by dropping his pants.

But the 21-year-old sociology major faces a tough choice: Should he try a pair of boxers this year or stick with his trusty green Speedo?

Valkosky isn't the only student who's struggling with such questions. In what has become a tradition at the Westwood campus, thousands of students mark the Wednesday of exams week by running across campus in the dead of night clad in nothing but their underwear.

Turnout for the quarterly event, known as the Undie Run, has soared since theater-major Eric Whitehead first dashed solo in his underwear through the streets of Westwood west of the campus four years ago. Last June, more than 5,000 people followed in his footsteps, frolicking and flaunting in their most intimate apparel.

But the growth worries administrators and UCLA police, who see potential for property damage and injury as people from outside UCLA and even outside Los Angeles converge on campus to watch, snap pictures and shoot video. Some administrators and students speculate it's only a matter of time before the Undie Run gets too big for its britches and is shut down.

UCLA is not the only university with student traditions that involve partial or even full-on nudity. A student group at UC San Diego called "Students for a Sexier Campus" has an Undie Run that was inspired in part by the UCLA event. Students at the University of Florida host "The Great Underwear Dash." And UC Berkeley and Harvard, among others, have or had traditions involving students streaking during exams.

UCLA's Undie Run stands apart for its size, even though it has no formal leaders, except perhaps the runners at the head of the pack.

Word spreads via online social networking sites, e-mail and old-fashioned word of mouth. At midnight, students gather at the northernmost corner of Gayley and Landfair avenues. The half-mile route goes from Gayley through the courtyard of UCLA's De Neve residential suites and down the main campus thoroughfare, known as Bruin Walk. The event is not university-sanctioned, though it is monitored by administrators and UCLA police.

The bashful get away with a T-shirt and boxers, but many show up with far less. Men wear boxers, briefs or — for the very self-assured — thongs. Women wear all varieties of lingerie.

Some skip the underwear altogether. Instead, they don palm fronds, beer boxes or a strategically positioned party hat. "One dude," recalled history major Chase Norfleet, 23, wore "just a sock." Running shoes are optional but recommended.

Originally, the run wound through apartments in Westwood, but when more than 1,000 people showed up in 2004 and people reported students running over parked cars, the UCLA administration took serious notice.

In March, administrators steered the route away from the streets of Westwood and onto campus in the hopes of keeping students safe while allowing them the "college experience."

The change, said Bob Naples, vice chancellor of student and campus life, also was made to stave off police intervention. For now, students are asked to monitor themselves.

"If we reach the point where something happens or, God forbid, someone is injured or assaulted," Naples said, "I think the university and the police would have no qualms about stepping in and doing something to end it."

The new route is far from perfect. Some students who live in De Neve suites have complained about the noise. During the June Undie Run, students jumped into Shapiro fountain outside Powell library, causing about $25,000 worth of damage. Tonight, the fountain will be turned off.

The new route takes away the run's rebellious and spontaneous quality, some students say.

"When there are rules, it loses some of the Undie Run essence," said Zoe Brown, 21, an anthropology major from Novato.

Police and administrators are still concerned about the number of gawkers who come from off campus. Brown is considering not doing the run this year because of the people who show up with video equipment. "I could be on YouTube right now," she said.

Whitehead, now an actor and singer in New York, founded the Undie Run on a whim. At the time, he recalled, he was disgusted at what he thought was an overbearing police presence in Westwood during finals week. So he started walking the streets at night, singing a "short and distasteful" song.

When police didn't cite him, Whitehead "started wondering: How far can I take this? Then someone said, 'Well, why don't you just run around in your underwear?' And I thought: 'Why not?'

"So I dropped the shorts and started running."

Whitehead printed fliers and encouraged his roommates to join in as he coaxed the Undie Run to life. Crowds grew from a handful to the hundreds, and by the time Whitehead graduated, the run "was definitely its own beast."

Whitehead is proud that the tradition has taken off, but he believes it will probably shut down some day, given the life cycle of student traditions. "It's kind of an inevitability."

Until then, students like Valkosky embrace the tradition that Whitehead blazed in his boxers. Valkosky's done the Undie Run every quarter since he was a sophomore. Last year, he wore a bandanna and a green Speedo.

"I'm going to go into a career where I have to keep my clothes on," he said. "So I might as well do it now."

[saiholmes]

UCLA students mark finals with 'Undie Run'
By Charles Proctor, Times Staff Writer
11:23 AM PST, December 14, 2006
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In what has become a tradition at the Westwood campus, thousands of students marked exams week in the dead of night by running across campus clad in nothing but their underwear.

Turnout for the quarterly event, known as the Undie Run, has soared since theater major Eric Whitehead first dashed solo in his underwear through the streets of Westwood west of the campus four years ago. UCLA police estimated that as many as 4,000 people turned up last night, down from more than 5,000 who showed up last year to frolic and flaunt their most intimate apparel.

Administrators and UCLA police were on alert for potential property damage and injury as people from outside UCLA converged on the campus to watch, snap pictures and shoot video. Some administrators and students speculated that it was only a matter of time before the Undie Run gets too big for its britches and is shut down.

Last night, however, there were no reports of any serious problems, according to Nancy Greenstein, director of community services for the campus police.

UCLA is not the only university with student traditions that involve partial or even full-on nudity. A student group at UC San Diego called Students for a Sexier Campus has an Undie Run that was inspired in part by the UCLA event. Students at the University of Florida host The Great Underwear Dash. And UC Berkeley and Harvard, among others, have or had traditions involving students streaking during exams.

UCLA's Undie Run stands apart for its size, even though it has no formal leaders, except perhaps the runners at the head of the pack.

Word spread via online social networking sites, e-mail and old-fashioned word of mouth. At midnight, students gathered at Gayley and Landfair avenues. The half-mile route went from Gayley through the courtyard of UCLA's De Neve residential suites and down the main campus thoroughfare, known as Bruin Walk. The event is not university-sanctioned, though it is monitored by administrators and UCLA police.

The bashful got away with a T-shirt and boxers, but many showed up with far less. Men wore boxers, briefs or -- for the very self-assured -- thongs. Women wore all varieties of lingerie.

Some skipped the underwear altogether. Instead, palm fronds, beer boxes or a strategically positioned party hat are used in the event. "One dude," recalled history major Chase Norfleet, 23, wore "just a sock."

Originally, the run wound through apartments in Westwood, but when more than 1,000 people showed up in 2004 and people reported students running over parked cars, the UCLA administration took serious notice.

In March, administrators steered the route away from the streets of Westwood and onto campus in the hopes of keeping students safe while allowing them the "college experience."

The change, said Bob Naples, vice chancellor of student and campus life, also was made to stave off police intervention. For now, students are asked to monitor themselves.

"If we reach the point where something happens or, God forbid, someone is injured or assaulted," Naples said, "I think the university and the police would have no qualms about stepping in and doing something to end it."

The new route is far from perfect. Some students who live in De Neve suites have complained about the noise. During the June Undie Run, students jumped into Shapiro fountain outside Powell library, causing about $25,000 worth of damage. The fountain was turned off before the event.

The new route took away the run's rebellious and spontaneous quality, some students said.

"When there are rules, it loses some of the Undie Run essence," said Zoe Brown, 21, an anthropology major from Novato.

Police and administrators are still concerned about the number of gawkers who come from off campus. Brown was considering not doing the run this year because of the people who show up with video equipment. "I could be on YouTube right now," she said.

Whitehead, now an actor and singer in New York, founded the Undie Run on a whim. At the time, he recalled, he was disgusted at what he thought was an overbearing police presence in Westwood during finals week. So he started walking the streets at night, singing a "short and distasteful" song.

When police didn't cite him, Whitehead "started wondering: How far can I take this? Then someone said, 'Well, why don't you just run around in your underwear?' And I thought: Why not?

"So I dropped the shorts and started running."

Whitehead printed fliers and encouraged his roommates to join in as he coaxed the Undie Run to life. Crowds grew from a handful to the hundreds, and by the time Whitehead graduated, the run "was definitely its own beast."

Whitehead is proud that the tradition has taken off, but he believes it will probably be shut down some day, given the life cycle of student traditions. "It's kind of an inevitability."

Until then, students such as senior Mike Valkosky embraced the tradition that Whitehead blazed in his boxers. Valkosky's done the Undie Run every quarter since he was a sophomore. Last year, he wore a bandanna and a green Speedo.

"I'm going to go into a career where I have to keep my clothes on," said the 21-year-old sociology major before this year's run. "So I might as well do it now."

[Fern~Fern*]

^^ Where's all the SSC Bruins running in their G~strings????

[saiholmes]

Premieres: PM 9:30 Jan 7, 2007 NBC

"The Apprentice" moves to Southern California for season six of the unscripted series, leaving Manhattan for the first time in the history of the show. Trump will once again do the firing - and the hiring - as 18 enterprising candidates vie for the coveted title of "The Apprentice" and the career opportunity of a lifetime working for the legendary business tycoon.

Along with the new Southern California backdrop comes a whole new series of surprising twists and turns that will make this the liveliest and most challenging competition yet among candidates eager to become the next "Apprentice."

In a compelling social experiment of haves and have nots, contestants this season will have to earn the right to live like Trump. Each week, the contestants on the winning team will get to live in a luxurious mansion. But contestants on the losing team will have to sleep outside in tents in the back yard of the mansion with outdoor showers and port-a-potties, giving contestants more incentive than ever to win their tasks each week.

In another engaging new twist, the winning project manager each week will remain project manager until they lose, plus they will also sit in the boardroom and help advise Trump on who he should fire each week from their opposing team. Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. will return for several episodes, along with previous "Apprentice" winners, as boardroom advisors to their father.

"The Apprentice" is produced by Mark Burnett Productions in association with Trump Productions LLC. Mark Burnett, Donald Trump and Jay Bienstock are executive producers. Conrad Riggs, James Canniffe and Page Feldman are co-executive producers.

http://www.nbc.com/The_Apprentice_6/about.shtml

[klamedia]

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GUNS N' ROSES' WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE has topped a new poll to find the greatest song about Los Angeles. The 1987 hit beat NWA's STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON and THE EAGLES' NEW KID IN TOWN to claim the number one spot in Blender magazine's 25 Greatest Songs About LA. The top five is: 1. WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE - GUNS N' ROSES 2. STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON - NWA 3. NEW KID IN TOWN - EAGLES 4. FREE FALLIN' - TOM PETTY 5. MALIBU - COURTNEY LOVE. 11/12/2006 03:32

Malibu?? What about MacArthur Park?

[Fern~Fern*]

McArthur Park..... everyone duck it's a drive by!

[saiholmes]

Collectors' additions

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L.A.'s cultural life, as measured by the catalogs of its museums and libraries, got a bit richer this year. Here are some of the things to be thankful for.

By Christopher Reynolds, Times Staff Writer

CUE the "Addams Family" theme. Now lay out that old leather-bound Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo on a sturdy table, keep the Calydonian boar clear of the African elephant tusks, and step right this way to check out Charles Bukowski's crude scribbles.

Yes, from these attractions it may seem that the Ringling Bros. Library of Congress Aesthetic Pleasure Faire has come to town at last. But all of these wonders, along with reams of duller, more important scholarly items, have joined the collections of museums and libraries in greater Los Angeles this year.

The original score for the "Addams Family" theme? Composed 42 years ago by Vic Mizzy, who donated the original score to UCLA in May.

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo? That's the 19th century deal that added California to the United States. After two decades of searching for a first-edition copy, a USC librarian happily paid "four figures" for one this year.

The boar — actually, an oil painting of a boar, surrounded by hunters and nervous horses and painted by Peter Paul Rubens in about 1611 — now belongs to the Getty Museum, which bought it in April from a London dealer, price undisclosed. Rubens drew the image from an episode in Ovid's poetry, but the alarm in the animals' eyes seems immediate enough to provoke a PETA demonstration.

The tusks — real tusks, 8 feet long and 332 pounds together — were removed from their central African owner in 1897 and donated to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County last month by William Cherry, a dentist in the Lake Tahoe area.

As for the Bukowski scrawls, for now let's just say the stubbled bard of San Pedro never lived in a home as nice as the one now housing his papers.

Deals like these have made 2006 a lively year for donations and purchases throughout the region, curators and librarians say, but then, most years are. It's just that the rest of the world rarely notices.

Whether they are paintings, diaries, photographs, musical scores, old clothes or correspondence, most artifacts and archives land quietly, get swaddled in acid-free paper and alphabetically shelved, all without much public notice unless there's a big celebrity involved.

While you weren't looking, the Natural History Museum added not only the tusks but a rare 14.6-foot oarfish from Catalina, the "XX" armband from Charlie Chaplin's uniform in "The Great Dictator" (1940) and sundry mineral specimens from the mines of Bisbee, Ariz.

The Museum of Contemporary Art added more than 100 works, including half a dozen small Robert Motherwell ink-on-paper works, 13 Jennifer Bornstein prints and etchings, and Fred Tomaselli's "Hang Over," a contemporary work made with leaves, pills, acrylic and resin on a 7-by-10-foot wood panel.

The Hammer Museum added more than 100 sculptures, paintings, installations, photographs and drawings

The Norton Simon Museum added a pencil-and-ink portrait by Don Bachardy of, well, Norton Simon. (Simon died in 1993; this addition ties in with the museum's celebration of Simon's centennial in 2007.)

The Southwest Museum of the American Indian (now largely closed as its parent, the Autry National Center, shores up the bedraggled Southwest building and plans expansion in Griffith Park) added 37 Pomo baskets.

Reading the material

INDIVIDUALLY, Bisbee minerals and Pomo baskets may not inspire dancing in the streets. But a year's acquisitions, surveyed at once, can reveal plenty — not only about how culture endures, but about institutional ambitions.

For instance, the Getty — so mired in recriminations over its past deals that it has given four works back to Greece and offered 26 more to Italy — isn't buying so many ancient vases any more. And the Museum of the American West in Griffith Park, which was founded less than 20 years ago on the fortune and show-business artifacts of Gene Autry, hasn't been snapping up singing-cowboy memorabilia.

Instead, both institutions — the one with roots in Western civilization and the one with roots in western serialization — have lately turned to photography. Contemporary American photography in particular. In the last 12 months, in fact, both have bought works by living photographers John Divola and Jerry Uelsmann.

Of course, with the deepest pockets in all the museum world, the Getty could also afford the Rubens; a 14th century illustrated manuscript page by Pacino di Bonaguida; a 17th century Dutch drawing by Anthonie van Borssom; a 17th century painting by Spanish artist Juan de Valde's Leal; and a raft of further acquisitions by the Getty Research Institute.

At the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, director Michael Govan arrived in April and spent much of his first three months on the job trying to quietly raise money to buy five Gustav Klimt paintings that had been seized by the Nazis in the 1930s, held by Austria for decades, then restituted to the surviving family of owner Adele Bloch-Bauer. But while the paintings were on view at LACMA, the behind-the-scenes bidding leaped beyond the museum's means. In the end, the works were sold individually to out-of-town or anonymous buyers, together fetching more than $325 million.

Still, LACMA's registrar had 320 acquisitions to log, the list topped by Jacques-Louis David's oil portrait of Jean-Pierre Delahaye, painted in 1815. With the Ahmanson Foundation footing the bill, the museum bought the painting at auction in Paris for $2.7 million from Delahaye's descendants in June. It went on public display for the first time in October.

Among the museum's other additions: a Tiffany lamp (donated by Richard and Nancy Daly Riordan), a 17th century Buddhist priest's mantle from Japan and a 1926 Johan Hagemeyer photo of grain elevators.

Sometimes, however, acquisitions aren't a matter of curators chasing down long-sought treasures. Acquisitions are also a matter of what's for sale, what donors have to give and what new possibilities a museum or library is ready to embrace. The result, especially at university special collections libraries, is a soup-to-nuts repast of artifacts to feed hungry grad students for generations.

Apart from the "Addams Family" score and its ripe-for-analysis lyrics ("they're all together ooky"), UCLA's Charles E. Young Research Library department of special collections has taken on dozens of European Renaissance manuscripts; papers from painter R.B. Kitaj and writer Susan Sontag (who died in 2004); and some 1,500 documents, photos and scarves from modern dance pioneer Isadora Duncan (but not the scarf that fatally snapped her neck in a 1927 auto accident).

From Massachusetts neurosurgeon and pain-research pioneer William H. Sweet (who died in 2001), there's a set of gold-tipped operating instruments. From novelist and screenwriter Sidney Sheldon, who created the TV shows "I Dream of Jeannie, "The Patty Duke Show" and "Hart to Hart," there's a stack of manuscripts.

And speaking of screen work, the Mizzy contribution didn't stop with the family Addams. UCLA now also has Mizzy's scores for "Green Acres" and such films as "The Reluctant Astronaut," "The Ghost and Mister Chicken" and "The Shakiest Gun in the West." Somewhere, the late Don Knotts is smiling.

Not to be outdone, the special collections librarians at USC have acquired photos of the Hungarian uprising of 1956; correspondence of 20th century Chinese novelist Eileen Chang (a.k.a. Zhang Ai Ling); and the archives of composer Elmer Bernstein, whose five-decade career included scores for "The Great Escape," "The Magnificent Seven," "The Man With the Golden Arm," "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and "Animal House," among many others.

But the USC acquisition with the most political resonance may be its newly purchased first-edition copy of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. That war-ending 1848 document — signed under duress by Mexican leaders with U.S. troops occupying Mexico City — formalized American annexation of not only California but Nevada, Texas and Utah, along with parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming. For that territory, the U.S. paid about $18 million. For a first-edition copy of the document — one of just 17 known in American libraries — USC librarian for Iberian and Latin American studies Barbara Robinson was ready to pay up to $10,000.

"It's the document that establishes our border with Mexico," said Robinson, who began hunting for a copy for USC's Boeckmann collection almost immediately after her arrival at the university in 1985.

Alerted over the summer by a dealer to a copy coming up for auction, Robinson authorized the dealer to bid. He got it for less than Robinson's limit — she won't say exactly how much less — and today it rests under lock and key at USC, 55 pages, nearly mint condition, bound in leather and printed in English and Spanish.

"I think it's important for students who do a lot of online research to see what the actual documents look like, to see the artifacts themselves," Robinson said. "You see the paper, you see the print, and it transports you back to that time period."

As disparate as the additions at UCLA and USC may seem, however, the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino may have taken an even more diverse cargo aboard this year.

On one hand, there is the meticulous: the Huntington's new Burndy Library, 67,000 books on the history of science and technology over four centuries. Amassed by inventor and industrialist Bern Dibner, the collection was a gift, the library's largest single acquisition since magnate Henry Huntington founded the place in 1919.

Then there's the sublime — the Charles Bukowski papers, from the late hard-drinking, plain-spoken poet and novelist of "Barfly" fame. His widow, Linda Lee Bukowski, donated a trove of his resolutely unrarefied writings (one manuscript poem considers farts and foghorn blasts), which now rests more or less alongside the library's Gutenberg Bible and its rare editions of Shakespeare and Chaucer and papers from Jack London and Christopher Isherwood.

"This would tickle my husband," said Linda Lee Bukowski at the June announcement of the donation. "It would crack him up."

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^^ Where's all the SSC Bruins running in their G~strings????

They must have bet on UCLA against Florida State, Ferney.

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Get the drop on New Year’

Learning from last year's New Year's Eve soakings, event promoters are back, wiser and with bigger celebrations planned, from downtown L.A. to Orange County.

By Kevin Bronson, Times Staff Writer
December 28, 2006

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New Year's Eve offers the opportunity to look forward, to greet the future with a toast and a smile, to party for the possibilities.

But nobody could blame a trio of Southland event promoters — and some of their patrons — for looking over their shoulders at the ghost of New Year's past. One year ago Sunday, rain precipitated the eleventh-hour cancellation of two major celebrations, Giant Village in downtown Los Angeles and Gridlock LA at Paramount Studios in Hollywood, sending ticket-holders scrambling. Another, the inaugural OCNYE "Orange Drop" at the Orange County Fairgrounds, proceeded in citrus-y, pyrotechnic splendor even as its founder knew he was in for a financial bath.

"New Year's Eve can't be rescheduled," says Wayne Coyne, frontman of the psychedelic pop band the Flaming Lips, which were supposed to be one of the headliners last year at Giant Village. "People spend a lot of time and effort to be in a special place on New Year's Eve having their special year."

Indeed, with the echoes of what-if and oh-no still ringing, these events are back with bigger plans and better contingencies. Giant's street festival, called off the afternoon of Dec. 31 last year because of safety concerns, has been re-imagined as Giant Maximus, a three-ring dance-music circus in massive tents pitched in a downtown L.A. parking lot. Gridlock, canceled last year after the collapse of a stage on which the Pussycat Dolls were scheduled to perform, returns to the New York City-styled streets of the Paramount lot with the Killers as headliners — and the contingency that it can move to indoor soundstages in case of inclement weather. And OCNYE reemerges in Costa Mesa with a retooled promotional team, a deeper lineup anchored by Blondie and, organizers say, the kinks from its freshman year worked out.

With Giant Maximus sprouting a couple of blocks away from Staples Center, there are three major New Year's Eve events within a three-mile radius of downtown. The others? The dependable dance-music festival Together as One goes off at the Los Angeles Sports Arena, and the Flaming Lips join Gnarls Barkley and Cat Power for a concert at the USC Galen Center.

Sound like more fun than Dick Clark, Ryan Seacrest and Christina Aguilera on ABC? Carson Daly and Panic! at the Disco on NBC? MTV's parade of Fall Out Boy, Gwen Stefani, Lady Sovereign and Nas?

The forecast as of Wednesday calls for lows in the mid-40s on Sunday night, with a 10% chance of rain. If you're not one to celebrate on your couch, here's a rundown of major Southland events (and, please, party safely):

Together as One

If nothing else, the ninth annual installment of this bash from Go Ventures and Insomniac Events asserts the steadfast popularity of dance music. "The music is universal," says promoter and DJ Reza Gerani. "There are no racial barriers, no language barriers; it makes for a perfect celebration."

Thousands agree. Together as One attracted a crowd of 18,000 last year (Gerani expected 15,000, but Giant's cancellation gave him a late surge at the door), and more than 20,000 are expected this year. Big numbers? Gerani says more than 30,000 flocked to this year's edition of his Halloween blowout, Monster Massive, so you can forgive the hyperbole when he boasts: "We have the No. 1 DJ in the world at the No. 1 party in the world with the No. 1 promoter in the world."

The first of that troika is the least arguable. Together as One will be headlined by the 35-year-old titan of techno, Paul Van Dyk, with a supporting roster of DJs that includes Deep Dish, Marco V., Christopher Lawrence, Danny Howells and Steve Angello providing the Sports Arena's multiple dance areas with a mix of trance, house and drum-and-bass. The music will be augmented by a laser-light show, other visuals and what the promoter calls "the biggest indoor fireworks show we've ever done."

"The crowd we're going for are the real dance music people," Gerani says.

And isn't that the same crowd as Giant? His reply: "There's room for everybody."

Together as One, L.A. Sports Arena, 3939 S. Figueroa St., L.A. 7 p.m. $40 to $100. (323) 960-5155; www.newyearsevela.com.

OCNYE's Orange Drop

As he watched the rain last Dec. 31, promoter Rich Goodwin had the feeling he was going to get soaked. "A half an hour before the event, I thought to myself, 'I've got insurance; I could go hide right now and lose only half of what I might,' " he recalls. "But I saw everybody who had worked so hard setting up and the people lined up outside the gate and said, 'Let's roll with it.' "

Most attendees didn't feel as if they bought into a money-loser. There were the foibles you might associate with a first-time event: Staffing problems caused occasionally long beer lines, sight lines weren't always optimal and some in the crowd were caught unaware when the 10-second countdown began. Still, the event attracted almost 15,000, and special-effects guru Dennis Condon's pyrotechnics-loaded orange dropped as scripted, setting the Orange County Fairgrounds aglow.

The sophomore event, co-promoted by Folgner Entertainment (the Coach House and the Galaxy Theatre), figures to offer more bang for the buck: higher fireworks, a longer countdown, a more dramatic orange drop and, thanks to new permits, the sale of mixed drinks. Promoters are hoping for a crowd of 20,000.

The music lineup, spread over six stages, might read like the roster from a year-end countdown a decade or two ago, but talent buyer Roger LeBlanc says it largely fits "the kind of bands that the O.C. demographic wants to see."

Blondie will be on the main stage at midnight, preceded by the Violent Femmes and the English Beat. Soul Asylum, Everclear, Bret Michaels (of Poison), Thomas Dolby, Buckcherry and Berlin are among the others, with a side stage showcasing promising newcomers such as American Eyes, the Colour and the Randies.

"It's not a concert, it's a New Year's Eve party. We're trying to make that distinction," LeBlanc says. "These are the kind of bands people want to enjoy at a party."

OCNYE's 2007 Orange Drop, Orange County Fairgrounds, 88 Fair Drive, Costa Mesa. 6 p.m. $85 to $300. (714) 740-2000 (Ticketmaster); www.ocnye.com.

Giant Maximus

For Giant, the veteran promotions outfit behind some of L.A.'s most popular weekly club nights, the cancellation of last year's street festival because of safety concerns left a wound that still festers, with scattered complaints about no or slow-arriving refunds.

"There's a sting for me still," Giant director Dave Dean says. "We've done our best to refund the ticket-holders or offer them make-up packages."

Giant bounced back, establishing Giant Village as a summertime event and drawing 9,000 to Wilshire Boulevard in July. Now comes what Dean describes as a "crazy carnival circus meets Giant club night," staged in and around three massive tents in a seven-acre parking lot at 8th and Figueroa streets.

"It's impossible to do an outdoor event that's completely weatherproof," Dean says, stopping himself to interject, "Gosh, it sounds like we're doing this in Anchorage."

Hence, the tents.

The ringmasters of Giant Maximus' three-tent circus will be the heavyweight DJ talent for which the promoter is known. Sasha & John Digweed will team up for a six-hour set, with Ferry Corsten, Armin Van Buuren and Sander Kleinenberg also getting top billing. Circus performers will entertain throughout the midway, which includes a Ferris wheel; capacity is about 10,000.

The carnival atmosphere "is very tongue-in-cheek," says Dean, who plans to bring live bands back into the mix next year.

"Since there are no street closures, we have three days to set up. We can pay a lot more attention to detail."

Giant Maximus, 831 Francisco St. (8th at Figueroa), L.A. 8 p.m. $80 to $150. (323) 464-7373; www.giantclub.com.

Gridlock LA

Charles Lew makes no secret of his aspirations for his event at the Paramount Pictures Studio Lot. "We want to get this televised," he says. "We want this to be the event with the Dick Clark feel ... , to produce something synonymous with L.A."

There, the CEO of Hardball Productions might have his tongue in his cheek. After all, Gridlock will be staged in the area of the Paramount lot built out to look like New York City streets, so his headliner — popular Las Vegas rockers the Killers — will perform their headlining set at "Times Square."

The Killers? How did an event that was aborted in its inaugural attempt last year get the Killers?

"A lot of money," Lew says with a laugh.

Gridlock sold (and then refunded) 3,500 advance tickets last year, says Lew, who expects the Killers, combined with the celebrity cachet of countdown host Carmen Electra, to help the event reach its capacity of 6,000 this year. With five stages of entertainment and circus-like accouterments (including a Ferris wheel), there will be enough music to go around.

"My friends in Florida and on the East Coast would always ask me, 'What's going on New Year's Eve?' " says Lew, who moved to L.A. in 1997 and has been in the club and restaurant business since. "It was the same story every New Year's — it was never anything grandiose.

"There needs to be something so crazy that people everywhere will be talking about it."

Gridlock LA, Paramount Pictures Studio Lot, 5555 Melrose Ave, L.A. 9 p.m. $125 to $250. (323) 571-4000; www.gridlockla.com.

Flaming Lips at the Galen Center

As memorable as the costumed crazies of the Flaming Lips, Gnarls Barkley and their fans figure to make this night (See ), the concert is also notable because it punctuates the emergence of USC's new arena as a music venue.

"We're aggressively promoting it for concerts," USC spokeswoman Donna Heinel says. "We always knew it would be a multipurpose facility."

The Galen Center seats 10,258 for basketball; crowds for live music will be slightly smaller.

The Flaming Lips, Gnarls Barkley and Cat Power, USC Galen Center, 3400 S. Figueroa St., L.A. 8 p.m. $55. (213) 480-3232; www.goldenvoice.com; www.ticketmaster.com.

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Anyone attended the Rose Parade this morning? If so please post some pix*

[saiholmes]

Trojan bombardment: USC dominates Rose Bowl

Booty throws for four second-half touchdowns as the Trojans pull away.
By Ben Bolch, Times Staff Writer
3:00 PM PST, January 1, 2007

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Suddenly, a place that had held only heartache for USC the last two times it had played there turned into a bastion of smiles, hugs and high-fives.

The Trojans forced a pair of Michigan turnovers in the third quarter and turned back a Wolverines mini-rally with a pair of scoring strikes by quarterback John David Booty in the fourth en route to a 32-18 victory in the Rose Bowl on Monday in Pasadena.

Booty completed 27 of 45 passes for 391 yards and four touchdowns, two to Dwayne Jarrett in what might have been the junior receiver's final college game before turning pro. Jarrett caught 11 passes for a career-high 205 yards.

Booty and Jarrett hooked up on a decisive 62-yard touchdown pass that gave the Trojans a 25-11 lead with 11:18 remaining after Michigan had pulled to within eight points early in the fourth quarter. Jarrett caught the ball at about the Wolverines 30-yard line and scampered into the end zone down the left sideline.

"It seemed like every time he touched the ball tonight he was doing what he does best, and that's making plays," Booty said in a television interview afterward. Jarrett said he would "sit down and go over all the facts and make the best decision" with his family regarding his future. Booty said he had already lobbied Jarrett to stick around for his senior year.

"When they took us out of the game toward the end of the fourth quarter, I was already working him," Booty said. "I said, 'Hey, man, we need to do this one more time. Let's go next year.' After a performance like he had tonight it might be tough to persuade him to come back, but I'm definitely trying."

After a grind-it-out first half that ended with the score deadlocked at 3-3, the Trojans went to the air in the third quarter in hopes of erasing the memory of recent developments at the Rose Bowl. USC (11-2) had lost its previous two games in Pasadena, against Texas in the Bowl Championship Series national-title game last year and against UCLA in its regular-season finale last month.

"We just thought we had to come out and throw the ball," said Booty, who threw only 16 passes in the first half. "We thought we could make some plays down field on them, and that's what we came out and did."

The Trojans defense also came up big in the second half, with defensive end Brian Cushing forcing a fumble and fellow end Lawrence Jackson intercepting a pass to help transform a tight game into a one-sided affair.

"It really felt good to be on the attack on the defensive side of the ball," USC Coach Pete Carroll said in a television interview. "We got off to a great start, and it gave us a chance to get some momentum once the offense picked up."

But Michigan (11-2), seeking to avoid a third consecutive Rose Bowl defeat, made things interesting early in the fourth quarter. Quarterback Chad Henne completed six of six passes for 62 yards during a drive that culminated in an 11-yard touchdown pass to Adrian Arrington.

Running back Mike Hart, who had been bottled up all afternoon by the Trojans defense, ran in the two-point conversion to pull the Wolverines to within 19-11 with more than 13:25 remaining.

But Jarrett's second touchdown reception a little more than two minutes later extended the Trojans' cushion, and Booty's eight-yard touchdown pass to Steve Smith with 6:52 to go erased any remaining doubt. Smith caught seven passes for 108 yards.

Michigan receiver Steve Breaston hauled in a 41-yard touchdown pass with 1:09 left to set the final margin.

Booty's second scoring pass, a 22-yard connection with Jarrett, had given the Trojans a 16-3 lead with 5:17 left in the third quarter, and USC kicker Mario Danelo's 26-yard field goal--his second of the game from that distance--late in the third quarter extended the Trojans' advantage to 19-3. Cushing, who had three sacks and was selected the defensive MVP, set up the latter score when he knocked the ball away from Henne, with Jackson recovering.

Receiver Chris McFoy had given the Trojans a 10-3 advantage midway through the third quarter when he hauled in a two-yard touchdown pass from Booty. Jackson made the score possible by intercepting a Henne pass at the Wolverines 38-yard line.

The defenses ruled a first half in which the Trojans sacked Henne five times and the Wolverines thwarted a USC drive by forcing a fumble deep in Michigan territory.

USC drove inside the Michigan 25-yard line twice in the first half but came away with only Danelo's first 26-yard field goal late in the first quarter. The Trojans had a first down at the Wolverines 21 late in the second quarter, but Michigan linebacker Shawn Crable stripped the ball from Booty and defensive tackle Alan Branch recovered.

"We felt like we should have had about 21 points going into halftime," Booty said. "We were in the red zone several times."

Michigan couldn't establish its running game--Hart gained only 21 yards in nine carries in the first half--and Henne was constantly scrambling away from Trojans defenders in the Wolverines backfield. Henne completed eight of 12 passes for 85 yards in the opening 30 minutes.

The Wolverines gained only one first down on their first two possessions before driving inside the Trojans 30-yard line the third time they had the ball. On third down, Henne's pass hit USC free safety Mozique McCurtis in the back of the head for an incompletion, and the Wolverines were forced to settle for a 43-yard field goal by Garrett Rivas that tied the score at 3-3 early in the second quarter.

Carroll acknowledged that it was difficult to think about what could have been considering that the Trojans were a victory over UCLA away from playing Ohio State in the BCS championship game for the national title.

"It's a little disappointing because we can play with anybody and we knew that," Carroll said. "But to have an opportunity to play in this Rose Bowl that we cherish so much … it's just awesome."

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The many faces of Eve
Dance music shows off its power at big-crowd celebrations and at clubs as 2007 arrives.


By Kevin Bronson, Times Staff Writer

Buzz Bands Blog

Tony Denison had it right. The actor, who plays Det. Andy Flynn on "The Closer," greeted photographers on the red carpet at the Gridlock LA New Year's Eve celebration on Sunday night with arms outstretched and palms skyward, as if he were giving a blessing. "This is the international sign for 'I hope it doesn't rain,' " he said.

It didn't, unless you count the showers of confetti that fell on Southland revelers who rang in 2007 at celebrations that affirmed the drawing power of dance music, if not the perseverance of event promoters.

Gridlock LA, called off last year after the rain-related collapse of one of its stages, debuted on the Paramount Pictures Studio Lot with a crowd of about 5,000 that included a smattering of celebrities, some logistical hitches and a powerful, 45-minute set by the Killers. And one year after the controversial cancellation of its downtown Los Angeles street festival, dance music heavyweight promoter Giant rebounded with Giant Maximus, a three-tent orgy of electronica pitched in a downtown parking lot. Giant director Dave Dean put the crowd at 10,000.

As at those events, the in-with-the-new spirit prevailed everywhere. The OCNYE event attracted more than 15,000 for its nostalgia-drenched "Orange Drop" celebration at the Orange County Fairgrounds. Meanwhile, costumed crazies welcomed the Flaming Lips — part of the ill-fated bill last year at Giant — to a concert with Gnarls Barkley at the USC Galen Center.

And the Together as One festival flexed its muscles as a dance music franchise, drawing an estimated 20,000 to its ninth annual installment at the L.A. Sports Arena as dancers shimmied into the wee hours. Headliner Paul Van Dyk didn't start his set until 2:30 a.m., but the crowd showed no signs of flagging. Many patrons came from great distances to party.

Gabe Nosseir, 30, of Albuquerque, said he came to the event with 16 friends from his snowbound city and almost didn't make the show because of flight delays. He was prepared to drive. "Anytime you have this many great DJs, you have to go," he said.

Dance music fans echoed that sentiment from the tents of Giant to the techno-laden clubs of Hollywood, including the Vanguard and Avalon. DJs Mark Farina and Marques Wyatt rocked a predominantly young crowd at the Vanguard with house music, and Donald Glaude, Richard Vission and Eddie Halliwell dispensed the beats for hard-core fans at Avalon, where stunning visuals and graphics turned up the heat.

At Giant Maximus, co-headliners Sasha & John Digweed rang in the new year with a seamy remix of Justice vs. Simian's "We Are Your Friends," and that could have been the theme for the evening. Even after last year's disappointment, Giant inspired return business from patrons and performers alike.

"There's definitely a loyalty involved," DJ Ferry Corsten said. "I had six incredible residency months [at Giant nightclubs], and this event here is arguably the biggest dance thing on New Year's Eve. So it's a bold thing to do, and the way it's set up, it's really cool."

Pat Blackburn, 38, of Sacramento, and his fiancée, Cheryl Kuzma, were among those enjoying Giant's carnival atmosphere and sets by Armin Van Buuren and Sander Kleinenberg. "I went my first year to Giant in 2000, and [after] my fiancée and I moved to Sacramento we decided this is the one thing every year we have to come down for," Blackburn said.

Psychedelic popsters the Flaming Lips stimulated the same kind of passion. Fans dressed up creatively — as Santas, clowns, furry beasts and even as sushi — for a show that featured the headliner disembarking from a giant UFO to perform. Nico Nieto, a 23-year-old Arizona State University student dressed as a banana, traveled from Phoenix for the show. "It's the Flaming Lips and Gnarls Barkley; that should pretty much say it all," he said.

Same went for fans of the Killers, who were shoulder-to-shoulder (and then some) on the streets of Paramount's lot. "If it wasn't the Killers, we'd be at home on the couch," said Colin Smyth, 33, of L.A., who attended with girlfriend Ada Nei. "She just loves the Killers."

Less colorful, but no less a draw, was OCNYE. If you didn't know it was New Year's Eve, the scene otherwise looked like a typical July night at the Orange County Fair, only without the carnival rides and midway games. Families roamed between the venue's six stages and vendors sold souvenir photos, festive headgear and food.

The lineup of veteran live bands inspired more memories than energy. Russell and Janice Kester of Huntington Beach, en route to catch the Violent Femmes' set, remembered seeing OCNYE headliner Blondie years ago at the Forum, opening for the Police. "Debbie Harry came out in a full-on leather teddy," said Russell, 45.

No teddies at OCNYE, though. Harry, with an orange wig, black purse, sunglasses and leopard-print coat, led her band through a hit-laden set that included a homage to the late James Brown, when Harry slipped a few lines from "Sex Machine" into "Rapture."

If some of the performances seemed forced — notably the spoken-word intros by the English Beat's Dave Wakeling to some of his songs — other acts must have been buoyed by their apparent staying power. During Berlin's set, singer Terri Nunn was surrounded by a gaggle of female groupies as she slinked through a rousing take on Marilyn Manson's "The Dope Show."

At midnight, OCNYE's pyrotechnics-laden orange mysteriously stopped halfway through its drop but nonetheless bathed the fairgrounds in fireworks, confetti and laser light. Blondie then returned, with Harry sporting a lime-green wig and matching get-up.

Hours after OCNYE's crowd had filtered out the exits, some of Hollywood still raged. Together as One producer Reza Gerani, who also DJs the event, was hopping into a limousine shortly after 4 a.m. He was on his way to perform a 5 a.m. set at Avalon, where the party still throbbed and the bar was scheduled to reopen at 6.

"I'm going to play some music to wake people up," he said.

kevin.bronson@latimes.com

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All I can say was New Years Eve in LA was pretty awesome, especially with all the dance music festivals and concerts going on in Downtown LA, at the LA Sports Arena, and clubs in Hollywood. I can personally vouch that this years DJ line up at TAO (Together As One) was pretty awesome, the whole LA Sports Arena was packed from top to bottom and its no surprise this event had drawing power as I was able to meet and party with folks into the wee hours of the New year from as far away as Perth, Australia and Zurich, Switzerland. The DJ line up was top-notch with Paul Van Dyk, Deep Dish, Christopher Lawrence, Marco V, Danny Howells, DJ Reza, Dieselboy, J Magik, Evol Intent, Ed Rush & Optical, etc. But I've heard nothing but positive reviews at other New Year's celebrations in LA. Friends that went to Giant Maximus told me the Circus tents sucked but Dj Armin Van Buren and Sasha & John Digweed sets pretty much made up for it big time. I heard the Flaming Lips & Gnarls Barkely concert at the USC Galen Center was pretty awesome as well...anyway, its certainly a good thing to hear about for future LA area New Year's Eve celebrations.:banana: .

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Wow, I was SO into D&B like 10 years ago...But I got burned out and was pissed the scene refused to evolve. This is what I used to do:
http://www.e-trinity.org

Elsongs:

That's pretty cool that you used to belong to e-trinity. I've never personally heard their music, but I do remember years ago seeing a couple of pretty hot looking blonde chicks wearing t-shirts with the e:trinity logo at a restaurant in Santa Monica. Anyway, whatever endeavors you're pursuing now...good luck and keep the fight on in '07! :cheers:

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Man Trance sounds like you had a blast at the Sports Arena for New Years. Some broads I know from Santa Monica invited me to last years event. I actually turn them down to go hang out with my Chucky Ducky in Long Beach, you know fireworks and all. It was pretty dope but the drive out of LBC to the 405 was a bitch. I guess live and learn, right?

Anyhow, by any chance were you able snap some pix of the event, or were you extremely wasted* wink...wink.

[saiholmes]

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A dancer performs at Giant Maximus, which offered electronica and a carnival atmosphere in downtown Los Angeles. A spokesman put the crowd at 10,000. The Gridlock LA, Together as One and OCNYE events attracted thousands more.

[Fern~Fern*]

^^ Saiholmes, you attend the Giant for New Years?

[future_trance011]

Man Trance sounds like you had a blast at the Sports Arena for New Years. Some broads I know from Santa Monica invited me to last years event. I actually turn them down to go hang out with my Chucky Ducky in Long Beach, you know fireworks and all. It was pretty dope but the drive out of LBC to the 405 was a bitch. I guess live and learn, right?

Dude, you bet I had a blast! :lol: The DJ line up was unbelievable from the Together Arena to the Bass Rush Arena all the way outdoors at the adjoining Expo Gardens. You can feel the excitement even right out from the gate..when you arrive and park your car in the south side parking lot, you can already hear the bass pumping and feel your heart thumping out of your chest ,the adrenaline already coursing throughout your veins (it helps when you down two Red bulls I guess..LOL) as thousands of people are queing up ready in suprisingly, orderly fashion..saw a bunch of hardcore candy kids in clown gear in 5 inch pumps and some regular folks that were over dressed like they just came out of some fancy schmancy Beverly Hills Gala, also saw a group of old folks who were probably in their mid to late 50's....Dude, those are some hard-core, crazy mother F'kin music fans I tell ya..:lol: If you're that old and still partying with the younguns?..more power to you!! Hahaha..Met a couple that flew all the way from Perth, Australia just to party in LA..Also met a group of happy-go-lucky Swiss clubbers from Zurich, Switzerland who were in town for New Year's looking for a place to party in Santa Monica and ended up at TAO..How they ended up at TAO instead? Go figure! They joined us and we had a blast! Also I saw some very daring, super sexy and yet border-line insane chicks outside at the Expo Gardens (scantily clad in nothing but a bikini top and go-go shorts and platform shoes) dancing on top of one of the speakers..too wasted and thinking they were the Coyote Ugly Bar girls? I dunno..haha..but was I drooling? *cough cough* Err, when my GF wasn't looking of course :lol: But I just thought they were insane, considering it was kinda cold for LA that night..I guess they were just dressing that way so they can taunt the flu bug to bite them in the ass??:lol:

Anyhow, by any chance were you able snap some pix of the event, or were you extremely wasted* wink...wink.

I did bring a video camera, but they didn't let us bring that in but my GF's sister did bring a digital camera but it rain out of battery after only like 4 shots..what a freakin' bummer!!! We didn't even get to take pics inside with all the lasers, lightshows and fireworks going on. :nuts:

What do you mean extremely wasted? *cough cough* errr..I better plead the 5th!!! *wink wink* LOL

Anyhow, it sounds like you had a helluva good time in the LBC as well..ocean breezes, fireworks with the Chucky Ducky is allll gooood!! :cheers:

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Did any of you folks go to Pasadena to celebrate New Year's Eve? I heard there was a big crowd but it was pretty tamed compared to years past.

My cousin camped out for the Rose Parade with his gal pal on NYE and were harassed to death by a group of Michigan fans who said SC was "soft", and "are gonna get monkey-spanked by the Mighty Wolverines from the Mighty BIG TEN".:ohno: .LOL..what the hell were they smoking? My cousin did say most of the Michigan fans there were pretty classy and respected coach Pete Carroll and SC.. but the ones that talk crap? 32-18..'nuff said! :)

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^ Phattonez attend the Rose Parade better he was part of the parade. He was part of the Pasadena City College Marching Band....

[saiholmes]

^^ Saiholmes, you attend the Giant for New Years?

That one is from LA Times.

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Wednesday, January 3, 2007
The end for 'The O.C.'
Fox soap opera to call it quits after season ends.
By RICHARD CHANG
The Orange County Register

Say goodbye to Ryan, Seth and Summer. The sun has set on "The O.C."

The once popular teen soap opera has met its end after four seasons, Fox TV announced Wednesday. The final episode of the Newport Beach-based drama will air Feb. 22.

When it debuted in 2003, "The O.C." drew nearly 10 million viewers and had a dedicated following among the lucrative youth demographic. But ratings have dropped down to barely 4 million viewers this season.

"This feels like the best time to bring the show to a close," said Josh Schwartz, creator of the series, in a statement Wednesday. " 'The O.C.' season four finale will also be the series finale."

Fox spokesman Jason Clark said the show, which airs at 8 tonight, was not being canceled and that all episodes originally ordered would broadcast through Feb. 22.

"The O.C." brought national attention to Orange County, although it was not always positive. The nighttime soap portrayed Newport Beach residents as rich, spoiled teens drinking alcohol, doing drugs and experimenting in, ahem, other ways.

"With some residents, it was kind of love it or hate it," said Steve Rosansky, mayor of Newport Beach. … There are those who did not think it portrayed Newport Beach in a very flattering light."

However, the internationally broadcast show helped attract tourists from around the world.

"From an economic standpoint, I think it had a positive benefit to the city," Rosansky said.

The series ran into trouble after being rescheduled to Thursday nights, when it had to compete with juggernaut "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" and later "Grey's Anatomy." The death of main character Marissa, played by Mischa Barton, at the close of season three did not help matters either.

"Ever since Marissa died, I haven't been that hooked on it," said Kiana Sabla, 31, of Costa Mesa. Before then, she said, she watched every episode.

"The O.C." was a phenomenon, making Orange County hip in the national consciousness and inspiring shows such as MTV's "Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County" and Bravo's "The Real Housewives of Orange County," which starts its second season Jan. 16.

"On balance, it was probably a good thing," Rosanksy said. "I'm sure it will live on in reruns, people will still be coming to Newport Beach, and some of the positive economic impact will last for a while."

[Fern~Fern*]

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[saiholmes]

Beckham adds immense star quality to Galaxy
By Grahame L. Jones, Times Staff Writer
10:45 AM PST, January 11, 2007

David Beckham, perhaps the world's most widely recognized soccer player after Pele and Diego Maradona, today signed a five-year, $250-million contract to play for the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer.

Beckham, 31, rejected a two-year contract extension with Spanish power Real Madrid to come to the MLS. By doing so, he becomes the highest-profile and the highest-paid player ever to join the 11-year-old league.

The former Manchester United star and former England national team captain will complete his contract with Real Madrid on June 30 and will join the Galaxy in August, about halfway through the MLS season, which begins April 6.

"I am proud to have played for two of the biggest clubs in football and I look forward to the new challenge of growing the world's most popular game in a country that is as passionate about its sport as my own," Beckham said in Madrid.

Leading figures in the MLS were almost giddy at their coup. Beckham had been sought by top clubs throughout Europe, but few could have matched the size of the contract he has agreed to with MLS.

"David Beckham will have a greater impact on soccer in America than any athlete has ever had on a sport globally," said Tim Leiweke, president of AEG, which operates the Galaxy and two other MLS teams.

Don Garber, the league's commissioner, called Beckham "a global icon who will transcend the sport of soccer in America."

After spending all of his early career with Manchester United, Beckham was acquired by Real Madrid in 2003 for $41 million. He was one of a handful of star players known as the "Galacticos" that Real signed. Others included Ronaldo and Roberto Carlos of Brazil, Zinedine Zidane of France and Luis Figo of Portugal.

In his four seasons in Spain, however, Beckham failed to win any trophies with the club, and since the arrival of Italian coach Fabio Capello last fall, he has played only a handful of games for the nine-time European champion.

Beckham's unhappiness at being consigned to the bench, plus the sheer size of the MLS offer, led to his decision to move to the United States.

Also contributing was the fact that he was dropped from England's national team after the World Cup in Germany last summer, when England was eliminated in the quarterfinals. In all, Beckham played 94 games for England and captained the national team on 58 occasions.

On the Galaxy, he will join a team that made a few waves by signing U.S. standout Landon Donovan to a million-dollar-a-year contract two years ago, but that deal has been dwarfed by Beckham's signing today.

It also dwarfs a much earlier attempt to spur soccer growth in the U.S. — the signing of Pele by the New York Cosmos of the long-defunct North American Soccer League in 1975. Pele's contract was for "only" $5 million a year.

Beckham's fame worldwide may have eclipsed that of even Pele, however. He and his wife Victoria — formerly the singer Posh Spice of the Spice Girls — draw paparazzi like movie stars and are constantly the subject of tabloid gossip and entertainment columns worldwide.

The soccer star's celebrity status even led to his name being used in the movie "Bend It Like Beckham" — a reference to his pinpoint passing ability.

The league is counting on Beckham to not only boost its standing in the U.S. and worldwide but also to act as a magnet for other name players to join the MLS.

"He is a cultural icon," former U.S. World Cup player Alexi Lalas, now the Galaxy's president and general manager, told the Associated Press last year. "I think the people who don't know a tremendous amount about soccer know who Beckham is, whether it's the way he looks, who he's married to or what he's done in international soccer.

"The fact is, he transcends the sport."

The league is gambling that he can turn soccer into a mainstream sport in the U.S.

"I'm going out there to hopefully build a club and team that's got lots of potential," Beckham said. "I think that's what excites me."

[saiholmes]

Cape Cod on Mulholland
'Dreamgirls' producer Laurence Mark's Georgian Colonial home, with its East Coast vibe, is a far cry from the Modernist designs that define one of L.A.'s most iconic roads. That's just the way he like
By Janet Eastman, Times Staff Writer
January 18, 2007

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MULHOLLAND DRIVE, that rope of road winding through Hollywood and the Santa Monica Mountains, is famous for the cantilevered Modernist dwellings that hug the hills. For the last six decades, R.M. Schindler, Richard Neutra and other architects embracing the barebones International Style were drawn to this storied thoroughfare, so close to the stars. Here they built their glass houses, transparent and expansive — visions of the future delivered for the present.

But then one comes to a flat lot where a new Georgian Colonial house sits, as if teleported from Connecticut, gables and all.

Leave it to "Dreamgirls" producer Laurence Mark to reinterpret the Mulholland fantasy. He bought the one-acre property with an aging ranch-style house for around $1.6 million in 1999. He liked the address ("Mulholland is easy to remember"), the location ("It's as far away from civilization as you can get while still being practical") and the hint of the East Coast, where he grew up (the original house's exterior was Cape Cod blue).

At first he thought he would remodel it, but then he and Santa Monica interior designer Michael S. Smith — two traditionalists with an informal bent — hatched the idea to erect a new Connecticut-style house inspired by the one Katharine Hepburn lived in with her pet leopard in the 1938 comedy "Bringing Up Baby."

The home is easy to miss from the street. Only a small sign with an address, barely visible among the scrappy trees, signals the turn up a strip of asphalt to the ridge of a canyon. Pull up to the front of the house — gray brick with small-paned windows and wood shutters — and the buttoned-up facade gives no hint of the views behind it. Looking out at the protected slopes from his covered backyard porch, Mark boasts: "I see Mother Nature, not one of those stilt houses."

At the end of his workdays keeping budgets and production of his movies on track, Mark wants to escape Hollywood. He doesn't even want to see a palm tree. He retreats to what he calls his country home. "I'm not completely isolated but I feel that way here. It just gives me a feeling that I'm combining the best of California with the East Coast."

MULHOLLAND today is lined with new, maxed-out Mediterraneans and Moderns with front-to-back views, says architect Brad Clark, who designed Mark's house. "Left to our own devices, we'd be doing contemporary," he says of his Los Angeles firm, Kovac Architects. "Larry's house with a colonial New England look is unusual for us and for that area."

Homes along Mulholland have long been defined by the surrounding sawtooth topography. In the 1920s, developers pushed to have the hilltops paved and soon private lanes were springing from the two-lane road leading past overgrown shrubs to odd-sized lots. Small cottages came first, followed by Spanish-style mini-mansions, ranch-style houses and then soaring glass-and-steel pads.

"Mulholland Drive is mythic," says Kevin Starr, a USC professor of history and the author of a series of books on the California dream. "Drive up the hill. Come into this enchanted place, with hidden gardens, hidden homes. The people who live there can be in their Hollywood-style residences, overlooking their audience, consumers who are happily in tract homes watching their work on DVD. By just being up there, it tells them who they are in case they happen to forget that day."

Marlon Brando hid away for years in a compound here, thankful that his staff could drive down to fetch whatever he needed. Jack Nicholson still lives here. But few would know it. Privacy is created by gates and landscape, and in some canyons, down-sloping lots conceal caissoned cliff-hanging houses.

It was only natural that multilevel houses would be adopted in this unlevel land, says architect Ted Wells, who is on the advisory board of the Southern California chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians.

"The terrain doesn't lend itself to historically flat architectural styles like a Georgian Colonial," he says. "It wasn't a big leap to adopt Mediterranean styles on Mulholland Drive that were designed to step up Italian and Spanish hillsides. The Modern style worked on multilevels too. John Lautner designed his Chemosphere house off Mulholland to sit on a single column that raised the house so as not to disturb the sloping lot. Function and expense drove these solutions."

Blame director David Lynch's edgy movie "Mulholland Drive" if our image of twisted Mulholland does not embrace a house like Mark built with pitched roof and dormers, a style first popularized on the East Coast centuries ago by wealthy colonists.

"That would be a distinctive approach for a new home there," says social historian Starr after being told of Mark's house. "This just shows the power of architecture to suggest and create place, especially for someone who grew up in the East Coast. Your home tells the story you want to tell."

MARK'S 5,179-square-foot house with a two-car garage could have been larger.

The original ranch-style house was U-shaped, built around a front courtyard with a towering silk tree with greenish gray bark. Mark wanted to keep the flowering tree in the courtyard as well as preserve the large front and back yards.

As for the house itself, architect Clark says the lot size allowed for it to be triple the original footprint. Mark kept the same footprint but added a second story to one wing. "I don't want to have to use a megaphone to talk to friends in my home," jokes Mark, who moved into the house in 2002.

"If you saw Larry's house standing next to another house on that same street, without any walls around it, it might look out of place," Clark says. "But because it wraps around an entry courtyard and has a nice, human scale, it makes sense."

Step inside and the small entry with its rugged hardwood floor and painted panel walls seem designed for unloading winter coats — and Hollywood expectations of a movie producer's house. Across from the stair hall is a cozy dining room with blue-gray hand-blocked English wallpaper, an 18th century American mahogany table for eight and a white fireplace mantel seemingly plucked from "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir."

Most of the furnishings came from Mark's previous Hollywood Hills house. He says designer Smith usually deals with "royalty" — the English banking Rothschilds, media mogul Rupert Murdoch, director Steven Spielberg, supermodel Cindy Crawford and others who aren't concerned about cost. But Mark is. It's his profession.

"Once in a while Michael would have to announce the price of something and I would say, 'Oh, dear' or 'Oh, fine,' " says Mark, who adds that whether it's for his house or a movie, he'll say no unless he believes that something is absolutely worth the money.

Framed black-and-white photographs by Ansel Adams and Bruce Weber that Mark has collected for 20 years hang on walls in the entrance, living room and bedrooms. He splurged to have a darkroom installed near the laundry to develop his own photographs.

"It's a home hobby that also serves as a bit of a vacation from the hubbub of Hollywood," says Mark, who lives alone. "When you have a sense of calm about you it hopefully puts you in touch with the real world and keeps things in perspective."

Mark grew up in Manhattan's affluent Sutton Place, attended Connecticut boarding schools and earned a master's in film at New York University. He worked his way into publicity, marketing and production at the big studios, before heading his own production company since 1986. "Working Girl" was one of his first hits, followed by "Jerry Maguire," "As Good As It Gets" and "I, Robot."

Days before Mark accepted the Golden Globe Award for "Dreamgirls" as best motion picture (musical or comedy), he was hanging out in his living room, facing a white-painted mantel that bears none of the award statues he has collected over his career. (He keeps them at his production office.)

On this day, Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive" was playing over the vintage jukebox in the adjacent TV room. Near his side was his British harrier dog, named Rizzo after Stockard Channing's character in "Grease." In his book-lined home office overlooking the canyon, he was fielding calls to arrange an European tour for "Dreamgirls."

He says he prefers to watch award shows in his flop-down TV room with a dozen of his friends sitting on pillows on the floor, eating takeout Chinese. But it won't happen this year. The Producers Guild of America has nominated him for "Dreamgirls" and on Tuesday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will announce this year's Oscar nominees. "If that happens, I guess I'll have to go," he says, not trying to sound convincing.

Mark, an energetic man in his late 50s, walks the red carpet for his work, but when he's home, he slides in socks on unpolished hardwood floors. He has risen to the top of his spotlight-seeking profession, but uses Tinseltown's fabled route to psychically and architecturally disconnect from its clichés and trappings.

"When a dinner cancels," says Mark, "I'm happy to come home."

[saiholmes]

L.A. airports fly high with film shoots
TV and movie action at area facilities keeps hundreds of jobs in place and fills city coffers with sales tax revenue, study says.
By Tony Barboza, Times Staff Writer
January 22, 2007

The television drama "LAX" nearly ended up being shot in Dallas.

The short-lived NBC series, starring Heather Locklear and Blair Underwood as competing airport managers, was originally to be called "Hub" and take place at a fictional Southland airport. The show's pilot episode was shot at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.

But Los Angeles International Airport officials persuaded the series' producers to switch to the hometown facility for the 13-episode season, making it a part of local airport filming that has kept hundreds of jobs in the area and helped fill city coffers.

"We felt like they really ought to film that in Southern California," said Paul Haney, deputy executive director of airports and security for Los Angeles World Airports.

From the now-canceled "LAX" to movies like "The Terminal" and "Catch Me If You Can," film shoots at Los Angeles' airports generated $590 million in wages and other revenue for the L.A. region between 2002 and 2005, according to a study to be released today by the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp.

The report also credits airport filming with providing 4,800 full-time jobs that produced $280 million in wages and $1 million in city sales tax revenue. The study was based on a survey of the L.A. airport agency's filming permits at its four airports: LAX, Van Nuys, Palmdale and Ontario. The survey arrived at its results by amassing all direct and indirect business revenue in L.A. County associated with film production at those airports.

Agency officials called for the study after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, when airports nationwide stopped granting access to film crews for security reasons.

"We were under enormous internal pressure and pressure from the film industry to bring back film activity," Haney said. They soon did, in January 2002, and today's study was meant to examine the economic effects of the policy change. Researchers say it highlights the importance of making airports available to filmmakers and TV producers.

Filmmakers regularly seek out airports to shoot curbside, terminal and runway scenes, according to the study. But they also make use of sand dunes on LAX property and empty buildings under the airports' care. Portions of "The Terminal" were shot in 2003 in a giant hangar at the Palmdale facility, Haney said.

Television programs accounted for more than one-third of productions at the airports, according to the study, and feature films less than 10%. Some TV shows have spent several weeks at a time shooting on airport property, though relatively brief shoots of two or three days are the norm for movies, commercials and music videos.

Los Angeles airports are attractive to filmmakers because of their proximity to Hollywood's studios, production companies and actors, according to the study. Those factors give the area a "critical mass" that favors film production within Los Angeles.

"This validates the importance of the efforts we put in to support the film industry," Haney said. "LAX is the most-filmed airport in the world. Every single day of the year, somebody is shooting a commercial, a television program or a major motion picture at one of our airports."

But airports' accessibility to the entertainment industry, which officials call their "film-friendly" policy, is being challenged by other states and countries seeking the economic windfall film production brings. Filming that used to be done almost exclusively in California is now seeing competition from outside the state, where filmmakers enjoy government subsidies, tax credits and other incentives, the report said.

The study cites Britain, New Zealand and Canada as countries with newly developed post-production facilities and industry-friendly policies that are wooing films away from L.A.

"There are large and quite lucrative incentives for film producers to shoot their films elsewhere. For the most part, Los Angeles and California don't have that," said Gregory Freeman, vice president of the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp. and lead author of the study. "We largely compete by having a large infrastructure already in place."

Though filming at airport locations accounts for less than 1% of total production days in Los Angeles, the survey found, the availability of the facilities may have a ripple effect, leading crews to stay in Los Angeles for an entire project instead of opting for an out-of-state set.

"To the extent that we can keep even a part of the filming here, often the rest of the shoot will stay here," Freeman said. The study represents "a tremendous understatement of the overall positive impact that a film-friendly policy has on the L.A. economy," he added, stressing that the study considered only the impact of days shot on airport property.

Not everyone is thrilled with the prospect of more filming in and around the region's already busy airports.

When the Bruce Willis action move "Live Free or Die Hard" was being filmed next to LAX last fall, area residents, air cargo businesses and others raised concerns over the producers' intermittent closing of portions of the 105 Freeway and Imperial Highway. But the project went ahead, although with somewhat shortened shooting time.

[saiholmes]

Rage Against the Machine will reunite for Coachella
Red Hot Chili Peppers and Björk also top the bill for the three-day music festival.
By Geoff Boucher, Times Staff Writer
January 22, 2007

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Rage Against the Machine, the seminal L.A. band that made heavy music into political manifesto, will reunite after a seven-year lull for one show as the headliners at the 2007 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.

Sources say Rage, which played the main stage at the first Coachella in 1999, will be joined by other familiar faces for the eighth edition of the festival, which covers three days this year and begins April 27: Red Hot Chili Peppers, which headlined in 2003, are back, as is Björk, who topped the bill in 2002.

Organizers were mum this weekend and it was not clear which day Rage or the other acts were slotted to play; that announcement is expected in the next few days. Other acts expected in the eclectic lineup: Arcade Fire, Interpol, Willie Nelson, the Roots, Manu Chao, the Decemberists, Arctic Monkeys, Sonic Youth, Crowded House, Air, Tiësto and Kings of Leon.

Tickets go on sale Saturday, via Ticketmaster. Three-day passes will cost about $250 and there will be a limited number of single-day passes available.

The headliners are not novel, but they are potent. The Peppers are up for their first best album Grammy right now, and Björk remains a mesmerizing figure to fans of avant pop. But in Southern California rock circles, there is very little that could compete with the excitement of a Rage Against the Machine reunion. The quartet's hybrid of funk, rap, metal and leftist ideology was as subtle as a Molotov cocktail; in the 1990s, its aggro-anthems made it the only band that mattered to a fan base that included East L.A. protest kids as well as those in Hollywood punk circles, college dorms and mainstream rock festival mosh pits, where politics were secondary to the group's feral energy.

The band is vocalist Zack de la Rocha, guitarist Tom Morello, bassist Tim Commerford and drummer Brad Wilk. Their split came amid rumors of bad blood between De la Rocha and his mates, who went on to work with Chris Cornell in Audioslave. However, Morello and De la Rocha appeared together at a 2005 rally for the urban farmers of a South Los Angeles community garden.

[Fern~Fern*]

Rage is going to perform at Coachella Festival...... Need to make some plans.... I hope they get to play "People of the Sun".....
:dance: :dance:

Yeah people come up
Yeah, we better turn the bass up on this one
Check it, since 1516 minds attacked and overseen
Now crawl amidst the ruins of this empty dream
With their borders and boots on top of us
Pullin' knobs on the floor of their toxic metropolis
But how you gonna get what you need to get?
The gut eaters, blood drenched get offensive like Tet
The fifth sun sets get back reclaim
The spirit of Cuahtemoc alive an untamed
Now face the funk now blastin' out ya speaker
On the one Maya, Mexica
That vulture came to try and steal ya name
But now you got a gun, yeah this is for the people of the sun
It's comin' back around again!
This is for the people of the sun!
It's comin' back around again!
It's comin' back around again!
This is for the people of the sun!
It's comin' back around again!
Yeah, neva forget that the wip snapped ya back
Ya spine cracked for tobacco, oh I'm the Marlboro man
Our past blastin' on through the verses
Brigades of taxi cabs rollin' Broadway like hearses
Troops strippin' zoots, shots of red mist
Sailors blood on the deck, come sister resist
From the era of terror check this photo lens
Now the city of angels does the ethnic cleanse
Uh, heads bobbin' to that funk out ya speaker, on the one Maya, Mexica
That vulture came to try and steal ya name
But now you found a gun, you're history, this is for the people of the sun
It's comin' back around again!
This is for the people of the sun!
It's comin' back around again! Yeah!
It's comin' back around again!
This is for the people of the sun!
It's comin' back around again!
It's comin' back around again!
This is for the people of the sun!
It's comin' back around again!
It's comin' back around again!
This is for the people of the sun!
It's comin' back around!
Of the sun
:banana: :banana: :banana:

[solongfullerton]

Just another bomb track!

[Fern~Fern*]

[url]http://www.oscar.com/nominees/?

Does anyone have any favorites?

[Elsongs]

My band, Elson and the Soul Barkada, is playing in Downtown on February 25th!
We'll be playing at the Chinese New Year festival in Chinatown on a lot on Broadway and Cesar Chavez where a festival will be set up. I think we will be playing at around 5pm or so on the large Time Warner Stage. Expect some funk, soul and maybe a little tribute to James Brown.

www.myspace.com/elsongs
(http://www.myspace.com/elsongs)

[Fern~Fern*]

Right on, Chinese New Years.... Booze, Booze and more Booze!!!!

[Fern~Fern*]

Are Angelinos ready to Party......

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e124/fnee1901/Coachella.jpg

[godblessbotox]

a few of those names have peeked my interest. what is all that?

[Elsongs]

RATM has specifically chosen the 15th anniversary of the Riots to reunite...

[mongozx]

It's amazing how Coachella has come from insignificance to arguably the biggest, most important music festival in the country. Kudos to bands like Tool and Korn for their loyalty to this event.

And it's only fitting that one of the worlds best ever metal bands in RAGE AGAINST THE MUTHER FUCKING MACHINE chose to reunite here.

[Fern~Fern*]

More exciting things happening in the LA area. The Police will re~unite at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards on Feb 11, 2007. Isn't it great how they choose Los Angeles for their re~union...:banana:


http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e124/fnee1901/Thepolice.jpg

[godblessbotox]

yay! its getting closer!
http://www.chinatownla.com/Boar2007.jpg
-- Sat. , Feb. 24, 2007--
108th Annual
GOLDEN DRAGON PARADE
2:00pm - 5:00pm

Chinese New Year FESTIVAL
10:00am - 8:00pm
Free Admission

--Sun., Feb. 25, 2007--
Chinese New Year FESTIVAL
10:00am - 8:00pm
Free Admission

Chinatown Car Show
11:00am - 6:00pm
[ha, i wonder if chery will be there?]

http://www.lagoldendragonparade.com/

[Fern~Fern*]

My band, Elson and the Soul Barkada, is playing in Downtown on February 25th!
We'll be playing at the Chinese New Year festival in Chinatown on a lot on Broadway and Cesar Chavez where a festival will be set up. I think we will be playing at around 5pm or so on the large Time Warner Stage. Expect some funk, soul and maybe a little tribute to James Brown.

www.myspace.com/elsongs
(http://www.myspace.com/elsongs)



^ Elsong,
Hey forget to mention that I'm attending the festival with some buddies.... See ya There!!!!

PS I'm bringing a camcorder for everyone to view. I must hear you play and rate your performance....:lol:

[Fern~Fern*]

Highrise

(E. Trinidad)
June 1994

Come into my highrise, baby
See the city lights below
Above us is the floor of heaven
Below us, all the troubles we know
What can you see from this distance?
The world sprawled out below our eyes
Hold on to me, baby darling
Let's dream the dreams we'll realize

We go 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 stories high
If we aspire to reach higher
We can touch the sky
We go 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 stories high
If we aspire to reach higher
We can touch the, we can touch the sky

Come into my highrise, baby
Streets are just a grid of lines
To the west, Pacific Ocean
And the rest, The Grand Design

Come in to my highrise, baby
Problems look so small from here
I wish that we can stay forever
Only then would they disappear


©1994,1996,2003,2004 Elson Trinidad.
Published by Elsongs (ASCAP)
:dance: :dance:

[Elsongs]

^ Elsong,
Hey forget to mention that I'm attending the festival with some buddies.... See ya There!!!!

PS I'm bringing a camcorder for everyone to view. I must hear you play and rate your performance....:lol:

Sorry to report...

We cancelled the gig actually...Forgot to mention...the organizer had to cut the budget so they couldn't pay us and two other bands, plus we were booked for 2/25 which is Oscar night... we also heard the festival will be dead on Sunday (though it's pretty happening on Saturday), so we cancelled...

But there will be more coming up soon...

[Elsongs]

Highrise

(E. Trinidad)
June 1994

Come into my highrise, baby
See the city lights below
Above us is the floor of heaven
Below us, all the troubles we know
What can you see from this distance?
The world sprawled out below our eyes
Hold on to me, baby darling
Let's dream the dreams we'll realize

We go 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 stories high
If we aspire to reach higher
We can touch the sky
We go 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 stories high
If we aspire to reach higher
We can touch the, we can touch the sky

Come into my highrise, baby
Streets are just a grid of lines
To the west, Pacific Ocean
And the rest, The Grand Design

Come in to my highrise, baby
Problems look so small from here
I wish that we can stay forever
Only then would they disappear


©1994,1996,2003,2004 Elson Trinidad.
Published by Elsongs (ASCAP)
:dance: :dance:


Hahah you found that song... :lol:
Believe it or not it was inspired by the time I snuck into the top floor of the AON Center (back then the First Interstate Building) back in 1994. The offices had just moved to the Library Tower (First Interstate World Center) so they were EMPTY...And I got a free killer view of the city.

You can hear the song on my MySpace page: www.myspace.com/elsongs (http://www.myspace.com/elsongs)

[solongfullerton]

The Nissan Open is going on this weekend at the Riviera CC in Pacific Palisades/Brentwood. I'm not really interested in golf, but apparently its kind of a big deal.

[Fern~Fern*]

WHAT!!!!!!! you don't like Golf?

I was getting classes from my old neighbor back my Valley Hay Days.... Need to find another instructer any recommendations, SoLongFullertonBecauseItSucksOverther?

[svs]

You can hear the song on my MySpace page: www.myspace.com/elsongs (http://www.myspace.com/elsongs)

Son of a gun; you can actually play.

[klamedia]

It's amazing how Coachella has come from insignificance to arguably the biggest, most important music festival in the country. Kudos to bands like Tool and Korn for their loyalty to this event.

And it's only fitting that one of the worlds best ever metal bands in RAGE AGAINST THE MUTHER FUCKING MACHINE chose to reunite here.


Wouldn't really call them a "metal" band seeing that Zack raps (wannabe Chuck D. yet very good) and Tom Morello scratches albeit a guitar. If all was fair in the world they would be considered one of the best rap/metal acts in the world. It really is a merging of rap w/ metal underpinnings though rap could be over any kind of music and still be considered rap for rap is not a music. I mean the Fatboys rapped over the song "Wipeout" was that considered surf music? So wherever rap is the dominant vocal idiom it should always be called rap. I mean Run DMC had "King Of Rock" and "Walk This Way" way back in the mid-80's but were never considered rock. Yet Zack raps and never sings but his band is considered rock. So really Rage should be properly called one of the worlds best rap band.

[The Baz]

Laissez les bons temps rouler! Let the good times roll!

:cheers: :cheers:

Temple bar in Santa Monica has their annual Fat Tuesday party.

Big Fatty Fat Tuesday with Vida Vierra and Swing Brazil

Sixth annual incarnation promises to be another sellout year, with plenty of infectious grooves and hip-shaking moves.


Temple Bar (http://www.templebarlive.com/html_version/club_info.html)

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This coming weekend the LA Farmer's Market has MG events going on including a MG band and Zydeco music.

Saturday, February 25, 2006, and Sunday, February 26, 2006 at EB's on the West Patio

For great live music in Los Angeles, come to Farmers Market Bars. Located in the heart of the Los Angeles Farmers Market and next door to the Grove in Los Angeles. Relax with a beer or glass of wine while enjoying the best in Los Angeles live entertainment and people watching.
http://www.farmersmarketbars.com/live-music-mardigras.htm

If you know of any other Mardi Gras happenings please post them.

:cheers1: :cheers1:

[Elsongs]

My band has a show in Long Beach:

http://www.elsongs.com/images/promo/070414_maitaibar.jpg

Come on down April 14, so we can celebrate the USOC's selection of Los Angeles as the US bid city for the 2016 Olympics, right next to the site of the aquatic venues!

[Fern~Fern*]

:banana: I feel like shaking my ass @ Mai Tai!!!!

[PotatoGuy]

Are Angelinos ready to Party......

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I´d loooooove to go to all 3 days Coachella

[The Baz]

Happy St. Pat's day. LMU will have shuttles to Brennans all day (starting @ 5am).

:cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

[Fern~Fern*]

^^ Take some pix and share....

[The Baz]

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fountains colored green on campus



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About 9am in the morning at Brennan's Turtle Race Arena.

[Fern~Fern*]

^ Very cool refreshing fountain.... reminds of kool aid!

[godblessbotox]

...or toxic sludge

[Fern~Fern*]

Anyone planning attending this years Wango Tango???
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e124/fnee1901/WangoTango.jpg:dance: :dance:

[Fern~Fern*]

...or what about Weenie Roast???

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:dance: :dance:

[Fern~Fern*]

Happy Cinco Everyone.... :cheers:

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[Fern~Fern*]

Any Cypress Hill Fans out there.....:banana: They'll be In the LBC.....

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e124/fnee1901/ch.jpg

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