Ryan and I had plans to go to the Museum of Natural History at 2pm and watch a folk music artist play. We left the apartment to grab some much needed nourishment. First Ryan tried to take me to an infamous diner downtown. There was a line out the door when we arrived. We decided to peek in and check out the place. The second the greasy smell of a griddle from a place that claims to have been open 24 hours every day for the past 20 years, hit my hung over olfactories, it was time to turn around. You could literally reach up and grab a handful of Crisco out of the air.
My gut was craving noodles, so Ryan took me to an incredible Ramon place. It was absolutely delicious, and the best part was I kept it all down. Hooray!
Next stop was the Natural History Museum across from USC. Ryan promised me that the dude preforming had a puppet that he whipped out for one of his songs. You can imagine how totally stoked I was.
Unfortunately there was no puppet this time around. You can imagine how totally bummed out I was.
It was bizarre watching two folk musicians do a concert surrounded by dioramas of stuffed animals. I felt like I was in an episode of Flight of the Concords. This dude was not digging the show as much as we were:
After the set, we wondered around the museum for a while. There was a fantastic exhibit full of spiders and weird bugs. They looked like something out of an 80's science fiction movie. My camera was starting to die at this point, so the picture is a little blurry. But it's still creepy, even out of focus.
I couldn't wrap my mind around the fact that somewhere on this planet, these creatures are crawling around. If I saw one of these little guys in my apartment, I'ld drop 2 tons of bricks in my pants.
For some reason adjacent to the bug exhibit, this was playing to a small empty room.
It begs the question, if a Gelfling falls in the woods and no one is there, does it make a sound?
I've heard of having a monkey on your back, but this is ridiculous...anyone...hello?
I still wonder what the hell was in this cart.
We came upon a closed door in the museum. Being full hearty young lads we ventured in finding this:
I'm just glad we made out out of there alive.
We left the Museum and on the way home Ryan asked if I wanted to see the house from Six Feet Under. I said:
That night Ryan had a date, which was fine because I had to head down to Beverly Hills anyway. I was attending the film festival premiere of my friend Cynthia's short film entitled Trifles. Her short was great, however it was part of a shorts program and her piece was last. There were 5 reasons why I stopped going to shorts programs at film festivals before hers. Luckily Cynthia's started right before I was about to claw my eyes out. She was far and away one of the best performances of the night. Bravo Cynthia, you done good!!!
Apparently at midnight everything in Beverly Hills closes up, probably because they're all pussies there. We had no place to go to have food and catch up. F you Beverly Hills. I drove back to Ryan's pad and watched Whatever It Takes again.
Almost done...
4 comments:
I wish their performance had been just like this
That bug looks like a vinegar rue, which we have here in Texas. I've actually seen one in the wild here.
I can't believe that Hiro Nakamura was sleeping at the folk music performance.
BTW what does a camera's battery going dead have to do with focus. I think it was operator error.
I couldn't take any more pictures of the bug because the camera died, and unfortunately the only one I snapped was out of focus.
Plus that's a Red African Blurry Beetle, so the picture is actually in focus. It gets blurry as a defense mechanism to make it's predator thinks it's getting bad eyesight. Then instead of attacking, the predator turns around to make an appointment at the ophthalmologist.
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