Sorry about the brief hiatus everyone. After Tammy’s departure, I decided to busy myself with bureaucratic and domestic type busy-work, in an attempt to ease the inevitable boredom and loneliness that trails the end of highly anticipated events. Now that a few productive days have gone by, it’s time to get back on the saddle.
I’ll focus on some of the more interesting things that happened and try not to get too mushy or overly-personal. For one thing, having a car made life much easier, and yet the experience of being an LA driver for one week really opened my eyes to just how enervating car-ownership can be. It made me relieved, in a small way, that it’s not something I have to deal with at the moment. You know what I’m talking about: “I’ve got to get in that lane in about 10 seconds or I’ll miss the exit! Oh, but this guy’s not letting me go! Holy crap, somebody’s merging in front of me! GYAAH!!” Days often felt long and full but then we realized we had only really done 2 or 3 things. We just spent so much time driving around or looking for parking!
In terms of local interests, we checked out the Santa Monica Farmers market (the wednesday one on 2nd and Arizona), which was very nice, went to the pier and walked along the beach. Ate some good food in Little Tokyo, Silver Lake, and in Arcadia/Alhambra where Tammy’s relatives live (I’m talking real Chinese restaurants, where you open up the menu and see duck beaks and other crazy stuff. Oh yeah, baby). We did quite a bit of karaoke, saw some jazz at LACMA, and also got to catch up with a good handful of college friends from Tammy’s department.
In terms of cultural interests, we visited the house and studio of Charles and Ray Eames. The tours are self guided and exterior only. The place is not that large, so it didn’t take long. It was a really pleasant experience, but semi creepy how the counter arrangements and furniture in the house are basically left unmoved since when the last one died. Still, the house itself is really neat looking and full of Eames furniture. And the area it’s in (around Santa Monica, off the Pacific Coast Highway), is quiet and secluded.
We visited many of the galleries in Culver City along Washington/La Cienega, but a good bunch of them were on vacation or in between shows. There are several big openings tomorrow night and next week (9/15) in that area. We took another trip back to the Museum of Jurassic Technology, also.
I’ve got some photos up on my flickr page, but Tammy camera saw most of that action, so if you are thirsting for documentation, you may be able to quench said thirst on her facebook page eventually.
