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About Me

Photo of the Moment:
Fries go great with Merlot

My Interests

Cameras. Concerts. Movies. Books. Black sweaters. Red shoes. Bunnies. Fake meat. Aquariums. Museums. Botanical gardens. Hawaii. Disneyland. Ketel One. Ghost towns. National parks and monuments. Roadtrips. Tourist Traps. Punctuation. Polka Dots. Maker's Mark. Wallets. Tote Bags. Solitude.

I'd like to meet:

This ginger haired boy from Holy F*ck

Music:

Art Brut. Beck. Belle and Sebastian. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. Blur. Boy Least Likely To. Calexico. Camera Obscura. Clinic. Devo. doves. eels. Feist. Flaming Lips. Ben Folds. Fountains of Wayne. Garbage. Gil Mantera's Party Dream. Grandaddy. International Noise Conspiracy. Idlewild. Keren Ann. Kings of Convenience. Ladytron. Man or Astro-man?. My Morning Jacket. Radiohead. Rapture. Raveonettes. Sigur Ros. Sleater-Kinney. South. Squirrel Nut Zippers. Stereo Total. Sugarplastic. Super Furry Animals. Travis. Walkmen. White Stripes. Rachael Yamagata. Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

Movies:

Woody Allen. Paul Thomas Anderson. Wes Anderson. Danny Boyle. Tim Burton. Joel and Ethan Coen. David Fincher. Christopher Guest. Jim Jarmusch. Doug Liman. Richard Linklater. Alexander Payne. Kevin Smith. Quentin Tarantino. John Waters. Terry Zwigoff.

Television:

Arrested Development. Coupling. Doctor Who. Extras. Family Guy. Flight of the Conchords. Freaks and Geeks. Futurama. Greg the Bunny. Lone Gunmen. My Name is Earl. The Office UK/USA. Pushing Daisies. Scrubs. Six Feet Under. Ugly Betty. Undeclared. Wonderfalls. Anything else that gets cancelled way too soon and ends up on DVD (usually from the FOX network).

Books:

Augusten Burroughs. Dave Eggers. Nick Hornby. Sandra Tsing Loh. Chuck Palahniuk. Tom Perotta. JK Rowling. David Sedaris. Sarah Vowell.

My Blog

Photos: Keren Ann @ El Rey Theatre (02/19/08)

Last night I was in good spirits, arriving to the venue in record time considering I don't live very close. As soon as I parked my car and phoned my friend I was there, I realized my worst night...
Posted by **Leslie** on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:14:00 PST

Photos: Super Furry Animals @ Echoplex (02/08/08)

I saw one of my most favorite bands ever last night at the Echoplex. Even though we didn't get the costumes, celery, and home videos this time around, the Super Furries still know how to enterta...
Posted by **Leslie** on Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:42:00 PST

Photos: Vampire Weekend @ Amoeba Records (02/04/08)

Caught one of the buzz bands of the moment, NYC's Vampire Weekend, at a free instore held at Amoeba Records. With their new album officially being in stores for less than a week and their upcomi...
Posted by **Leslie** on Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:31:00 PST

Photos: Trip to Tucson and Beyond (02/01/08 to 02/03/08)

A few days after I got back from Hawaii, I packed my suitcase again to head to the Arizona desert for my "actual" vacation. Indulged in totally cheesy tourist traps the entire time. Bliss!...
Posted by **Leslie** on Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:22:00 PST

Photos: Trip to Hawaii (01/24/08 to 01/28/08)

So, didn't do a whole heck of a lot while away in Hawaii. It was great to surprise my grandmother for her 90th birthday and make sure all her grandkids and great-grandkids were all in attendance...
Posted by **Leslie** on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:24:00 PST

Photos: Dan Deacon @ El Rey Theatre (01/15/08)

This seems like familiar territory for me: 24 hours ago I had no clue who Dan Deacon was. He looked... well... interesting... so, I thought I would at least be in for a fun show for the ni...
Posted by **Leslie** on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:21:00 PST

Photos: Kate Nash @ Amoeba Records (01/14/08)

After finding out the Kate Nash gig at the Troubadour sold out before I could snag myself a ticket, I made a resolution this year to get a responsible concert "buddy" who would sort these things out f...
Posted by **Leslie** on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:04:00 PST

Photos: Gram Rabbit / The Blood Arm @ Echo (12/31/07)

Now, coming into this show I didn't have real high hopes. Not because I didn't have faith behind Gram Rabbit or The Blood Arm (they are in fact excellent live performers, and again did not disap...
Posted by **Leslie** on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 09:29:00 PST

Photos: Joshua Tree Trip (11/30/07 to 12/02/07)

I was able to realize my New Year's Resolution and managed to get out of town at least once a month for 2007. Yay me! My final trip of the year brought me to a cold and windy good time at&...
Posted by **Leslie** on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 06:01:00 PST

Photos: Beck @ Echoplex (11/25/07)

Beck once more played a last minute gig in the Silverlake / Echo Park area, and once more I was blessed to attend. Beck may no longer be gracing fans with his dance moves, but at least we didn't...
Posted by **Leslie** on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:04:00 PST