Wassup For The Weekend • 10/27/2006

[DudeAsInCool]

Happy pre-Halloween everyone. I imagine some of you will be costuming it up--or mabe purchasing one. All I can see is work ahead of me for the weekend :(

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[slum_goddess]

doing nothing tonight but watching the Simpson 3x (one old one on at 18,00 and usually two new ones on a few hours later) and then watching a few films. tomorrow i'm off to London to meet up w/friends and have the dude who did the band's hair and stuff for the first 'Woke Up This Morning' vid, spike mine out professionally.

then on to Lost Vagueness and Night of the Vaguely Dead:

This all-wrong all-nighter promises to be swamped with freaks and zombies. We have special effect make-up artists on hand to wound, cut open fingers, sew heads up and drip blood from death defying wounds. Meanwhile, in The Changing Room, our style-watching witches will bring outfits back from the grave and help guests to put the "dead" back into "drop-dead gorgeous"

The Invisible Circus will be operating the Freak Boutique and for those not acquainted with true nastiness, The Hate Booth will be open all night for masochistic thrill seekers.

oooh, a Hate Booth. already phoned the venue and our two favorite assholes, blair and bush, will be amongst the objects of hate so i can take my aggressions out on them, lol

Throughout the night, guests will be entertained and alarmed by a host of terrifying performers and wake-the dead-or-die-trying bands. Liver tossing and pumpkin passing will be de rigueur and The Casino, where guests can try their hand at blackjack and roulette, will be rewarding heavygamblers with revolting prizes.

best part of all, ALABAMA 3 is headlining, which is the only reason i'm going since i'm not gonna wear a costume or anything like that, going as myself but only more so. :)

[method77]

too much work to do this weekend

[Shawn]

Taking the kids to see my parents so I can help with cattle weaning.

[KiwiCoromandel]

it`s a beautiful sunny weekend down here...(at the moment anyway..the weather could change at any time)....the painters are here re-painting our house and builders are going crazy in our back yard....of course i am nowhere near any of this work-type activity....i`m looking at it all out of my office window..... :) :)

[Warflower]

It's supposed to rain all weekend here...I'm not complaining. :happy: I like the rain.

Costume party tomorrow in Broad Channel...will post pics next week :)

Sunday - recouperating.

[moodyblue]

Work a hockey game today (and yesterday) at Toyota. Maybe get together with my man before work today....

Off on Sunday!

Today I am going to watch a Most Haunted Live marathon, it runs today thru tuesday.

Edited October 29, 2006 by moodyblue

[Potato]

That's from Friday. We went to this bar in Dinkytown and danced our little costumed butts off. It was a good time til I lost a friend when the bar closed, stole some random person's plastic sword and threatened the last guy I saw my friend with ("YOU'RE THE LAST PERSON I SAW HER WITH! IF SHE'S HURT, I WILL HURT YOU! IF I CAN'T FIND HER, I'M COMING AFTER YOU!")

Last night was pretty random. Ended up up at this little bar in Uptown kind of celebrating one girl's 21st. One drink there, and I'm good for the night (a toxic mixture of 151 and various other rums will do that). No pictures, but we saw Mario and Luigi. :D

Today..... hopefully going to see the new guy I'm seeing. First I should probably try to look alive. Friday night I only got about 4 hours of sleep before I woke up completely restless. Last night I got about five, and now I'm REALLY tired but REALLY restless. I think I'm going to watch the Charlie Brown Christmas Special. Or Halloween. That's more appropriate anyways.

[KiwiCoromandel]

choice pic mate.... :)

[DudeAsInCool]

I went to a neighborhood get together the other day and ran in to a realator and historical homes expert and decided to give her a call. What resulted was a fascinating tour in to some of the undiscovered historical gems in my own backyard, south of Hancock Park. The area is becoming gentrified, and there are a number of homes designed by famous architects which have either fallen by the wayside, or were ignored because they were no longer in the right side of town. In some cases, churches have bought giant mansions (and I mean unbelievable) for tax purposes, and then let them sit, basically abandoned. Went to Sugar Hill where all the black movie stars used to live, including Marvin Gaye's former house. It was an unbelievable eye opener. I was interested in a particular area as prices ($800,000-$1.8m) will bring you a house that would cost $2m-$5m in Hancock Park (not that Im ready to buy...yet lol) But the first house I was shown was still pricey (see PDF) no matter where it sits. I was particularly impressed with Lafayette Park--if I come in to bucks that would be an ideal place--I will have to take pictures--imagine what Hollywood homes looked like during its glory days and you will get the idea :)

Country Club Park is a generally upscale district of Art Deco bungalows and apartment buildings. It was developed from the 1910s onward as a whites-only neighborhood, but now has significant populations of blacks (particularly in Lafayette Square), Asians (near Koreatown), and Latinos (throughout the district but especially in Mid-City), making it one of the city's most diverse areas. Some of the district's more affluent neighborhoods are quasi-gated communities, with access from the major thoroughfares barred by wrought iron fences. In general, Country Club Park serves as a buffer or transition zone between the wealthier neighborhoods to the north and west and the poorer areas of South Los Angeles. In 2004, Los Angeles magazine ranked Lafayette Square as one of its "Ten Most Overlooked Neighborhoods in Los Angeles," bringing greater attention to a part of the city rarely visited by Westsiders and suburbanites.

Lafayette Square

The community of 236 homes is bordered by Crenshaw, Venice, Washington and West boulevards. Although founded in 1913 by developer George Crenshaw, it is named after the French marquis who fought alongside Colonists in the American Revolution. For a large house on a comparatively modest budget, Lafayette Square may be the answer. The average home size is 3,600 square feet, with many as large as 5,000 to 6,000 square feet. Most of the properties have period details: Juliet balconies, mahogany staircases and libraries, sitting rooms, stained glass windows, triple crown molding, soaring ceilings -- even four-car garages. Architecturally, there's something for all tastes: Tudor, Craftsman, Victorian, Mediterranean, Norman and Prairie. Although in the middle of Los Angeles, the tree-lined streets are as quiet as the suburbs due to wrought-iron gates, which have enclosed the neighborhood and eliminated cut-through commuter traffic since the early 1990s. The only way into the neighborhood by car is St. Charles Place, a welcoming broad street with a landscaped center strip. The result is an urban oasis where children ride bicycles and play outside. Former owners include WC Fields and Fatty Arbuckle.

House036.pdf

[slum_goddess]

great photo, Potato. :)

i'm still recuperating from Night of the Vaguely Dead and seeing Alabama 3, the little heart shaped pill et al. was a top night especially afterwards when Rock Freebase (at extreme right) came back to Chris's flat w/us and we all talked for about six hours. *proud* lol

[Shawn]

That's from Friday. We went to this bar in Dinkytown and danced our little costumed butts off. It was a good time til I lost a friend when the bar closed, stole some random person's plastic sword and threatened the last guy I saw my friend with ("YOU'RE THE LAST PERSON I SAW HER WITH! IF SHE'S HURT, I WILL HURT YOU! IF I CAN'T FIND HER, I'M COMING AFTER YOU!")

*cough*

J/K - at your age I had to pick and choose my bars carefully because I was banned from many.