September 24, 2005
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So this week in LA has been pretty fun. I've been pretty psyched because lots of good shows are coming up including Franz Ferdinand, the New Pornographers, the Black Crowes, and Henry Rollins spoken word. I am particularly psyched cause I scored a single ticket for the Rolling Stones at the forum for March 2006. I usually can't get myself motivated enough to buy tickets right when they go on sale for these mega-concerts, but I recently decided that I had to see the Stones before one of them died. I still remember listening to that Hot Rocks cassette over and over again while I was making model airplanes in junior high and watching She-ra at the same time. So I woke up at 9:45 to get the tickets on the internet that went on sale at 10am. Unfortunately I needed to go to the bathroom later, and when I came back to the computer it was 10:01!!! When I got through, I couldn't get two tickets together. All I could get was one ticket!! The ticket was the most expensive I've ever paid to see a show, and it wasn't even a floor seat. It was so expensive, that even I was questioning if I should get it or not (to see the price, you can go to ticketmaster website yourself, it's too outrageous to actually spell it out here). Well I knew I had to bite the bullet and get the ticket because... it's the Stones!!!
Basquiat
So, my dream when Mixy quit her job was that we would spend our weekdays going to cool lunches, and going to museums and hikes and etc. etc. Well I'm pleased to report that things are going well. Monday we headed out for a great lunch at Langer's and then went to MOCA for a Basquiat retrospective. For those of you who aren't familiar with Basquiat, he was a pretty infamous artist from the 80's. He started out as a homeless runaway in NYC, then became a graffitti artist under the tagname SAMO. After that he expanded out to serious art, but with a graffitti style bent to it. He became really famous and hung with Andy Warhol and even dated Madonna for a time. There's a pretty cool movie about his life, where David Bowie plays the Andy Warhol character. The dude basically was a total druggy, and eventually OD'd at the age of 27 in 1988. However I have to say his work does kick ass. It takes elements of graffitti art, african art, and references black legends like jazz player and famous boxers. He didn't have any formal training but his compositional strength reminds me of Picasso, and his use of color reminds me of Matisse (His art of the insane qualities, remind me of Dubuffet). Check out the exhibit, it lasts til Oct 10th!!! Here's some of the works that I really liked from the exhibit.
Grillo
Notary
Six Crimee
In Italian, Horn Players
Pegasus (Mixygirl's favorite and owned by John McEnroe), Sugar Ray Robinson
Gold Griot
Mixygirl and I checked out a movie Thursday at The Grove after having awesome mexican food at Loteria in Farmer's Market. So I have to admit I was definitely a newcomer to enjoying Tim Burton's A Nightmare Before Christmas, but I got the DVD and have seen it many times this year and just think it's genius. Therefore I was really looking forward to his new stop-motion animated flick Corpse Bride. Alas, corpse bride doesn't have nearly as much imagination and fun as Nightmare. It's kind of a slightly interesting story, with characters that aren't fleshed out that well. The movie is also really really short. The visuals were still interesting, but the songs weren't as good. Overall still an enjoyable experience but definitely a disappointment from what I was expecting. I was hoping he was going to take this medium to the next level, but instead he took it two steps backward.
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