Haven’t blogged in a while because of work and whatnot.  Also they’re finally fixing the hole in our ceiling.  Saw a couple fantastic DVD’s recently.  The first one is called Rize.  It’s about a South Central LA dance movement called Krumping, started by a ghetto birthday clown called “Tommy the Clown”.  It’s a really interesting and beautifully shot documentary.  The movie works on so many levels.  On oneside the dance movement was a way to channel negative energy into positive expression.  On the otherhand the movement then splinters off into several differnent dance type “gangs” which is discouraging to see.  Check it out, it’s really good.  Alsok Mixy and I caught the Sex Pistols documentary released in 2000 called The Filth and the Fury.  Their hoax documentary released in the 70′s called the Great Rock and Roll Swindle was a pretty lame movie centered around the alleged Svengali Malcolm McLaren.  This version gves us a real interesting and in depth look at the rise and fall of the Sex Pistols in the late 70′s.  It includes some pretty sad footage of Sid Vicious strung out a la Sid and Nancy, and some touching footage of John Lydon crying when reminiscing about Sid.  If you don’t own it, I suggest you buy a copy of Never Mind the Bollocks, the one and only Sex Pistols album, and check out this film.

     Mixygirl put up an interesting review about Sona, the restaurant we went to for my birthday.  The food there is incredible.  It’s the only fusion place where I think they actually use every flavor conceivable to make each dish, as opposed to one dish being the asian fusion dish, one dish the mexican fusion dish etc etc.  Also, I loved their presentation.  Each dish looked like it could be a painting by Joan Miro.  You can read Mixy’s review by clicking this link.

Vandit Saves the Day

     It’s been a while since I posted.  I had a few very good meals in honor of my 32nd birthday.  (1-wife @Sona, 2-friends @Ocean Ave, 3-family @888).  The past two weeks in the ER have been just crazy.  Between closed primary doctors’ offiices, the flu season, and sick old people in the winter, the volume of patients has just been ridiculous.  Christmas Eve was 240 patients!!!  New Years was almost a big disaster.  Jober, Mixy, Elaa, and I were planning to go to the Giant Village event downtown.  It promised to be awesome, featuring 6 city blocks closed down for the event, and acts such as Digweed, Crystal Method, Flaming Lips, and the Black Eyed Peas.  Unforunately the event got cancelled at the last minute!!!  No joke, 20,000 peoples’ New year’s eve plans were simultaneously squashed at 4:30 pm that day.  Apparently the promoter cancelled it b/c of possible rain.  The fire marshall said if anything happened such as people suddenly rioting in sudden rainfall, they hadn’t prepared enough covered areas, so they would be responsible if anyone died, or any damage was done etc.   The stupid thing is that it stopped raining at 4pm, and didn’t rain one more drop the entire night!!! 

     Fortunately we scrambled and at the last minute were able to get tickets for Together as One at the LA Sports arena.  This event was a  lot more rave-like in atmosphere (lots of weird costumes and people entranced by glow-sticks).  Paul Van Dyke was the headliner.  He was pretty good but at first we couldn’t recognize him.  Mark Farina was also spinning for a long time outside.  Jober ended up going to Spundae instead.  It was still a good time.  Probably not as good as Giant would’ve been, but it was still fun nonetheless.  Happy New Years, CP subscribers/readers!!!