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Lee Scratch Perry at the Pier

August 28, 2014 by popnea

I’ve seen Lee Scratch Perry before and I know he is a bit of a nutter, but I still wanted to check him out at the Santa Monica Pier.

Apparently he stopped smoking pot a while ago because he want to be healthy, now he just puts it in his soup and sprinkle it over his daily dose of vegetables.
He is pretty hilarious! Imagine your 80 year old grandpa trotting around on stage repeating words over music and then shout something out all of a sudden. It seemed like ha had a ton of fun up there and I couldn’t stop myself from giggling the whole time. Classic!

Back at FYF

August 24, 2014 by popnea

I was considering not even bother going to the festival today, but their social media pages were blowing up with angry fans saying they would not come back, so I figured it would be a lot less people and a much smoother day.

Got there at 2pm and just cruised through the front gate. So, why couldn’t it be this easy yesterday? Seemed unnecessary to piss so many fans off!

Today turned out to be exactly what I wanted yesterday to be, a lot of chilling in the grass listening to good music!

I’ll have to give it to the Fjällräven Kånken’s marketing department. They clearly did something right a few years ago as it is the bag of choice for the cool kids in Los Angeles. I giggle every time I see one (which was about every 5 minutes this weekend) and think of the brown one I had in pre-school.

Blood Orange amazing show at the main stage!

FYF Fest

August 23, 2014 by popnea

I went to FYF Fest in 2011 and thought it was pretty poorly organized but went again last year and it seemed like they had gotten their act together. They moved the festival this year so it was a lot closer to my place and only a few stops away on the metro. I was super excited.

The gates open at 2pm and I wanted to see Mariachi El Bronx at 2:30pm, but when we got there we were greeted by a huge line. We didn’t wanna wait in line so we found a bar and had a beer instead.

An hour later when we had finished out beer the line was even longer and I got pissed off. Everyone already had their wristbands so why did it have to take 3.5 hours to get people in through the gates? I missed a bunch of bands I wanted to see.

When we finally got inside it was super crowded and they had maxed out capacity for one of the indoor stages so even though we were at the festival we still couldn’t see or even hear the bands we actually came to see.

Nothing seemed to go right this time around so we were uninspired and headed back home before the sun set. Worst festival I have ever been to. You’d think that 11 years in the making they would have some clue, but apparently not. Huge bummer.

Cults at Santa Monica Pier

July 10, 2014 by popnea

Cults were playing the Twilight Series at the Santa Monica Pier, we had some beer in a photo booth before heading down to the concert.

We usually hang out down there at the beach, but the sound down there is awful, so we wanted to stay on the pier this time.

We were a little busy gossiping and kind of missed that Cults was already up on stage and doing their show. I guess I was a little disappointed I didn’t pay more attention. I saw them a bunch when they were promoting their debut album, but that was a couple of years ago so I wanted to see how they were holding up nowadays. Still had a ton of fun though!

Steve Martin at Hollywood Bowl

July 2, 2014 by popnea

It was such a blast last year when we went to see Steve Martin at the Bowl, so going back for his 4th of July Celebrations this year was a given!

It started with the National Anthem. I like to call it the Star Strangled Banner. I really should learn the lyrics to it, I’ve been in America long enough and I usually find it easy to learn lyrics to songs but there’s no good flow in this tune. I wish they would write out the lyrics “sing along style” for idiots like me.

Steve Martin was hilarious as always, and it ended with fireworks!

Robyn & Röyksopp at Hollywood Bowl

June 30, 2014 by popnea

The Hollywood Bowl season just started, first off on my list Robyn and Röyksopp.

If someone had told me 20 years ago I was going to see Robyn in concert, I would probably have had a good laugh. Not a huge fan. But I absolutely love Röyksopp and I knew it was gonna a big dance party, so I was excited!

The fun part with the Bowl is that you can bring your own food and alcoholic beverages. I stopped by Fresh & Easy on the way and had to buy this bag of… whatever it was… popcorn like snack, because of the typo in the ingredients list. I wonder which proofreader is gonna get in trouble! And yes, I am a bit of an ingredient freak and check the list of ingredients in most food I buy. This is why it takes me FOR EVER to go grocery shopping.

Everyone, look like you are having a good time!

As always, we got the cheap seats way up at the top. Could not wait to start dancing though!

In the middle of the show, as me and Leo were standing way back, behind the last row of seats (since there’s more space to goof and wave your arms around), two lovely people came up to us and asked if we wanted box seat tickets way in the front. We just had to promise that we would actually go up to the front and use them. Change our $17 tickets for some $111 tickets? Sure!

Our original seats were way up there by the trees! I like to think it was my moves and his boobs that made us score these tickets.

The Autry Museum

June 7, 2014 by popnea

I didn’t actually know this museum existed, turns out it was awesome!

They have some really cool stuff, and the topic is super interesting, I feel like they could’ve done a better job with the lighting and the display of the items though.
Mmm, this is supposed to be Michael Jackson;

Stuff from José Santos Sepúlveda, one of the first LA County Sheriff’s. I always wondered what Sepulveda came from.

I didn’t have a ton of time to spend at the museum, so I would like to go back and explore more!

Last First Friday

June 6, 2014 by popnea

It was the last First Friday of the season at the Natural History Museum tonight. It was an indoor-outdoor event this time.

I’ve seen the What Made LA exhibit before, but every time I go I discover something different. I’ve seen this big birds nest before and wondered what it was, but never actually looked it up. It turns out it was used as a food storage.