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Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Nuts Berry And Accapalla At Beauty Bar Part 2

NUTS BERRY FARM ORANGE COUNTY!

What the Shit is this place all about. For some reason or another Jeff was a little freaked out by the rides and really insisted that we try to go to Disneyland that day. We actaully drove to the supermarket and tried to get discounts to Disneyland but unfortunately the power of Mickey was not within our reach.

Fortunately, however, Knotts Berry Farm, where Ian had really been talking up the whole week offers quite a deal on admission. If you bring a canned good to the ticket counter you get half off . So for basically 5 dollars more than a movie you get to run around an enchanted frontier/snoopy/zany log ride/coaster blast from the past in
Orange County, CA. It was awesome. Totally surreal. We walked in and immediately found the "saloon" There was a little show going on that re-created how Knotts Berry Farm was created.
Tim says I look like I'm gonna puke here. It was a great coaster. I felt like a total enthusiast that day from the Discovery Channel.


Curtis actually rode one coaster.




Doesn't get much gayer than that.

pumpkin
This Was the inside of the Calico Mine. I should have a video up soon of the guy who was our conductor. AKA Lamar Latrell. Alright Ya'll he would yell as we rounded the various destinations inside the Calico Mine!

Hopefully I never ride this drop thing again. I always wanted to do it at Cedar Point on the Demon Drop. This scarred the living Jesus out of me. Tim screamed like a girl, I just gazed into Orange County and click you hear the sound of steam hissing like a 7 train waiting to crush you to pieces. For some reason this is fun? Well, it actually was quite awesome. We took our shoes off and got pretty hippy'd out. I felt my balls reach my cheekbones within seconds. Thanks Ian!







From Highland Park to Pavillions!

I really miss Grocery Store Culture. This place Pavillions on Melrose and Vine is hilarious. It's open all night 24/7. You can cruise in there anytime. Do your contemplating. The Beer aisle is bigger than most Delis in New York. You can just grab a shopping cart and cruise. I'll miss you're ugly parking lot and handful of street people stumbling in and out of the crappy Starbucks in there.


It was a great night to be in LA. 1/24/07. Highland Park. People complain that you have to drive far to get to Highland Park in LA. I think it took me tops 16 minutes from Hollywood. That seems reasonable seeing as I am not going to leave my house in New York for the next 2 weeks until it rises above 37 degrees. Atleast snow here in NYC.
This party was great. I met Don from the Germs. Jeff and Curtis finally arrived. McCaffrey was there with her posse. We danced, DJ'd. Met a nice girl from Detroit. House parties are where its at. I'll be visiting soon.





This is Christy's cousin. He was dressed as Rusty from Vacation in a previous entry from Halloween.




Robin and Alisa



Electric Vehicle

I kinda miss bumper sticker culture. My mom had the classic. Life's a Beach on the back of her station wagon. That was cool. This guy is not cool. Even if he does like John Kerry!

Sardo's in Burbank

This was my first time in Burbank. This was my first time to Sardo's Thanks Sue for the tip. Sardo's was great. It was in a mini mall with a grocery store attached to it. Apparently, since its located so close to Warner Brothers, this is where many "industry hang out." I was psyched to be there. As was Robin, the bartender guy from the Beauty Bar who immediately called my name before I could get one hand in the door. "Dude, Ted, What's up." I was kinda like, who are you man. He was like, "were you wasted last night?" I'm just going through my head, like what the fuck just happened, who are you, why are you talking to me, and why are you being so buddy buddy like we're dudes or something. I don't know man. He was all. I was the bartender last night. Ohhhhh...meanwhile JD and Leah were sitting there in the booth behind watching me go through this hilarious interaction with a table of dudes with goatees. Whateves. people seemed psyched there. I was pumped. I had my songs picked out as well. I snaked on some of JD's leftovers and polished off about 4 Beam and Sodas. Dave Leite showed up and brought two really drunk girls with him. They were pretty hilarious. Like that dazed drunk look from girls. That look is so nuts. You don't see that shit in Williamsburg! Ha! Great night. I attempted dreadlock holiday. Note to self. Don't do that song ever again. Then I think I did. Simply Red, I'll keep holding on after my brothers advice. Don't do that song either. It really is all about being wasted when you do Karaoke. You sing better. You get into it. I think the best Karaoke was in Louisville, KY. I grabbed a payphone midway through Heart of rocknroll and pretended to call someone. Like New York, Cleveleand, shouting into the phone like it was the mic. That was true showmanship!



beauty bar la/JD's place

This was a great night in LA. A reunion with two friends of myn. Dave Leite and Katie Phillips. Dave and I went to Xavier together and endured many hours of hopeless Television Production classes with this god awful instructor David Smith who drewled just talking about his stupid emmy that nobody ever really saw anyways. For some reason he made us try to believe that re-creating the scenese from Titanic was a sure way of getting an A. Either that or we had to get gay on his ass. Which I'll just refrain from at this point. Remember when things were sacred. Not anymore. Thank you google. I'll never get that high paying job at NBC now. Anywhoo...Dave was there and all of the sudden many girls started showing up. It was like opposite of what used to happen at Xavier. I don't think I was smart enough to understand, first off, how to talk to woman in 1997, secondly if a woman entered my presence and even wanted to say hello I'd probably stand back and stare at her in awe. Note to self, don't make your kids live in small rural backwards town fifty miles away from your nearest well to do high school that doesn't invite girls in its classrooms as well. Ohh yeah...so dave and i hit it off. Its kinda funny, we both kinda picked up from where we last were in 1999. So girls started arriving, and then I noticed a twinkle flash within my eye. Was that Ms. Marie Antoinette sitting and giggling in the corner of thine Beauty Bar. Say it ain't so. Ms. Kirsten Dunst. I was tempted to say hello. But that would be normal and I'm not normal. So I carried on. She enjoyed my set as did Ms. Katie P. Sorry I won't mention your last name. Sorry we didn't get to hang out more! We hadn't seen eachother in about 11 years. Its like...woahhh! awesome!

The many wild shots of Hunter and Courtney. Hunter of course from the famed Yacht Rock.







Charlotte from the Like arrived late. They both had to do their homework. Little did they know the CD's they would burn did nothing but skip to their dismay. Shame Shame. Shame

Holy Shit. JD has the best F'n house in the world. It looks over Glendale and feels like a home and garden magazine circa 1973. I'm amazed you can live like this. We'll definitely be swapping soon! You have to climb like a 100 steps to get to their freekin house. But I made the first martini in their house. I feel proud and honorful!