tonight at Mountain Bar in Chinatown:
check THIS link for photos of the last Italians Do It Better party i went to...
as big of a fan as i am of Jamie Lidell, i missed his show at the El Rey last night since i've seen him before...
i chose instead to go to the Hollywood Bowl to see bands i love & have never seen live: The Natio
They opened for REM and all i gotta say is... REM is sooo GAY. there's absolutely nothing about REM that inspires me or excites me. watching them, i felt nothing. i never liked any of their songs anyway. so while they were on i wondered around & i met a few really cool people instead. it was great to be at the Hollywood Bowl though; the sound is so good. it's such a great venue, especially when you have a gold parking pass with valet & everything!!! The National was definitely worth seeing. and i'm glad i got to see Modest Mouse for the first time. last century at USC, all my friends were so into them & they've grown on me over the years. they're such a big West coast band. i'm a West coaster after all!
i only wish i could go see The Cure at the Bowl tomorrow. i saw them once back in the 80s, and then once at the Jimmy Kimmel show (haha) and then at Coachella. i remember my eyes welling up big time when they did "Boys Don't Cry."
anyhew, over lunch Charong took me to the loft of Miami's Joshua Levine who recently moved here from NYC:
we then went to go see his piece in JAIL:
back in Hollyweird before going to the Bowl:
