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Byline alert: I have a short article in the new Rolling Stone on My Chemical Romance making their new album. They’re in the mixing-and-polishing stage now: I watched lead singer Gerard Way do some heavy-duty multi-tracking to sweeten the song “Trans Am” with backing vocals that he described as “1.2 seconds of Queen.” Once again, [...]
posted 16 November 2009 in Articles. no comments yet
Taken below a large billboard on Highland Avenue in Los Angeles.
posted 6 November 2009 in Photos. no comments yet
Taken last Saturday at the Day of the Dead festival in the Hollywood Forever cemetery. This is an altar to dead musicians: skeletal faces have been painted over the ones who are no longer with us.
posted 30 October 2009 in Photos. no comments yet
Taken two weeks ago, around the corner from my house, a short waddle from the puddle in the street where they had set up temporary residency.
posted 26 June 2009 in Photos. no comments yet
Taken last month, on an extended L.A. stroll.
posted 12 June 2009 in Photos. no comments yet
Sports fans are crazy everywhere. But since moving to Los Angeles a couple of years ago, I’ve noticed that Laker mania expresses itself in an unusual fashion: during the playoffs, Angelenos mount Lakers flags to their cars. I’ve never seen this in any other city, and other L.A. sports teams don’t seem to get the [...]
posted 5 June 2009 in Photos. no comments yet
An installation by Chris Burden just outside the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, photographed by me two weeks ago.
posted 22 May 2009 in Photos. no comments yet
As previously mentioned, I visited the auction-house exhibition of Michael Jackson’s possessions from Neverland last week. The auction itself had already been cancelled by Jackson at the last minute. Pick your theory as to why: (1) He got a last-minute cash infusion (2) He never intended to actually sell his stuff, but wanted to (a) [...]
posted 27 April 2009 in Photos, Tasty Bits. 1 comment
I spent the morning at the public exhibition of the contents of Michael Jackson’s Neverland ranch (for an auction that has since been cancelled–if it was ever intended to actually happen in the first place). The visit started off kitschy and entertaining, but by the end, the whole thing just seemed like the detritus of [...]
posted 24 April 2009 in Photos. no comments yet
Another L.A. photo; this one’s the front of an apartment building that caught my eye.
posted 27 March 2009 in Photos. no comments yet
