Hey all! We are out of LA, but wish you all a Happy 4th!
Tah-tah!

        

Bad jokes aside, the po-po are looking for a flasher that's been exposing himself all over Thousand Oaks.
It's been going on for 2 years now, and as if flashing couldn't be any creepier...he hides in trees!

Don't people in LA carry enough pepper spray/hot lattes/sharp edged cell phones to where they could just take this weirdo down on their own?

If you help the po-po catch him, there's $1000 bucks in it for you...and you can live out all of your Dog the Bounty Hunter fantasies while doing so!


Not a picture of the actual flasher.

And as for the flasher, we feel it is our civic duty as a blogger to address him with this open letter:

Dear Flasher,

Seriously, dude, what's the thrill?
People see your junk.
Ok. We got it.
But that's it?
You just want people to see your junk?

There's a little thing out there called the internet, dear sir, and on it you may expose yourself to millions of people...all from the comfort of your own home. Why, just imagine-No more scraped knees shimming naked up trees! No more being hunted by the police. In fact, you might even make a buck or two at it.

So, seriously...Stop with the tree jumping out of and flashing.
No one's impressed and frankly after 2 years, it's gotten a little old.
Try mixing it up...maybe jump out of trees fully clothed?

Sincerely,

One Ms. PL of the LA Good Times

  Editors Note: Do you notice there are never any female flashers? That's because if a lady was exposing herself publicly, no one would complain...they'd just throw beads at her...or offer to buy her a drink. We call blatant sexism!

        

So maybe you need a weekend to just sort through alot of emotions.
So maybe you made a decision that has cut through you like a cold knife into butter.

Sometimes you can drown your sorrows in a tall, dirty martini. But for the times when you just can't drown them away, you just need to marinate in them a little.  To aid in the marinating of emotions, there are plenty of movies being revived for the weekend.

Case of the Mean Reds? Breakfast at Tiffany's showing at the Angel City Drive In on Saturday.


Emotional Marinating either begins or ends this way.

Exhausted by the man who knew too little? Take a Break and watch The Man Who Knew too Much on Saturday at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

Want to zone out and watch people punch each other alot? Fists of Fury is a good bet at the New Beverly Cinema tonight and Saturday.

Maybe watching people fall in love and then one of them dies at the end is your cup of tea. Love Story is playing on Sunday at the Egyptian Theatre.

Happy Marinating!

        

What....the....hell?

We've reported many a free donut and cupcake, but free taco's?!

The magic happens this Thursday, June 26th!

That's right-American's favourite fast food chain with an X rated double meaning is asking you to bring in a receipt for gas and then they'll give you 2 free tacos...which in turn...will most likely also give you gas.

See how things come around full circle?

Don't believe us/it's too good to be true/you have trust issues?

Hear it from Jacks Foam Mouth Here!


Jack will knife a bitch!

        

Now you can experience Russian culture without ever leaving LA and worrying about being kidnapped and traded for blue jeans and Beatles cds*!

This Sunday, the 29th, join West Hollywood and their 15% Russian populous for traditional Russian food, art, music and entertainment!

Russian Festival
8am-6pm
Plummer Park
7377 Santa Monica Blvd.
WeHo, CA 90069

*We kid, we kid! We know many a person of Russian decent and they are terrifyingly lovely!

        

The Quiet.

Brendan Ryan's clear and soulful vocals, reminiscent of old school Mavericks, helps the painfully profound and real lyrics go down...in the most delightful way, of course!

We kind of can't pick a favourite song as they're all pretty delicious ear candy, but we thought we'd give a special shout out to It Would be Funny and Change Your Mind, both tunes destined to become backdrops for scene's in tv shows with pretty-people-with-problems-who-give-long-speeches-about-things-that-usually-work-themselves-out in-the-end-anyway*.

What's up?!


The Quiet: They have nothing to say...because they sing it.

They'll be opening for Meiko, who sounds the way swinging on a porch swing feels.
She's the angelic voiced waitress turned indie folk heroine.

Special shout out to Piano Song and Reasons to Love You, fav tracks that we've dedicated in our heads to many a boyfriend and non-committal-crushes-that-break-your-heart-every-time-your-hands-graze-each-others**.



*You know who you are...Grey's Anatomy!

**You know who you are...heartbreaking, non-committal crushes!

        

Out of all the non-musical instruments you could have picked to play, you had to pick the air guitar.

And for what?

Because you were tired of listening to your ugly neighbors loud sex noises*?
Because you wanted to pay homage to the many excellent adventures had by Bill and Ted?

Or maybe because you knew you were destined for non-musical greatness!



Los Angeles welcomes the US Air Guitar Contest to The Troubadour this Thursday, the 26th.
Tickets are fifteen non-air dollars.

Don't be jealous that you missed the window to enter-It's still a great occasion to get hussied up and be a slutty air guitar groupie. 

Excellent!

*We know we sure are!

        

We've heard of Nubian princesses and lesbian seagulls, but a lesbian princess?
Ok.
We'll try anything once...or twice.

        

We, and our short attention span, love movie trailers!
On this long summer day, here are a few upcoming films for your trailer viewing enjoyment.


How to Lose Friends and Alienate People

We love Simon Pegg and we love funny. This movie has both. It's win-win.



He's Just Not that Into You

Uh-oh. A hilarious anti-romantic comedy...Hmmm...
But we may learn life lessons from this one, so bring it on!



The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons

We love F. Scott Fitzgerald tales and it looks very Tim Burtony.
Brad Pitt plays a man that is born old and grows young. We'll probably cry all over our popcorn at this one.



Kicking It

It's kind of like that documentary about old people singing, except there's no old people and noone is singing...It's homeless people that form a soccer team.  David Beckham, watch your ass, these homeless people are hungry...to win.

        

We visited Jian Korean BBQ with visions of long-rumored robots and colorful, seizure inducing Pachinko machines in our head.

First of all, there were robots.
Second of all, they were robot statues.
This is something you need to know.

Onto the Pachinko machines!
The bad news is that they are not not playable and are strictly ornamental.
The good news is that they could probably still induce seizures if you stared long enough!



All robot statues and non-playable pachinko games aside, Jian is a good looking restaurant with a good looking, cooler than thou (but helpful) staff.  Unlike traditional Korean BBQ restaurants, they boast smokeless grills.  This is extremely cool and helpful unless you are a bad Korean bbq cook like myself and companion and let things just start to burn.

Visit Jian! The food is good, the beers are cold and the place is purdy!
Also, with gas prices at almost $5 a gallon, it sure beats the hell out of commuting to K-town...unless you live closer to K-town than WeHo, obviously.

Jian Korean BBQ
8256 Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90048
323.655.6556

        

Elbow.
Yes, both as in the macaroni and as in the thing that links your forearm to your...other part of your arm.

Elbow is also a band!
These Brits have stolen our heart with the song One Day Like This.
But before you think they're just rougher looking version of Coldplay, listen to the grittier Grounds for Divorce.


Dear Coldplay, We love you but these guys could definitely kick your ass.

        

EDITORS WARNING: This event (and blog) is definitely not for the delicate in nature nor the virgined of eared!

Swear Along Scarface

It is what it fucking is!

Get your god damn $12 ticket.
Go to the fucking movie.
Swear your fucking ass off along with every other fucking other cock sucker in the audience.


Say hello to his little friend...and then swear some more.

It's happening this Friday at the Ford Amphitheater as part of the LA Film Festival, and we must say, The The LA Film Festival has grown some fucking cajones.

We suggest you go on a first date...or take your conservative grandmother.
Either way, everyone fucking wins... a fucking smack in the face!

        

Jeff Goldblum...he will sing to you!

As previously reported, the man that brought you riveting performances in films such as Jurassic Park, The Fly and  Earth Girls are Easy, has been belting out his stylistic  sounds at the  Aqua Lounge in Bev Hills.

If you didn't catch the last performance, there's another one tonight!
Email partysearchla@gmail.com for a complimentary RSVP.

        

Hey gang,

Now you can combine the fun of pretending you're too innocent to know how sexual it looks when you deep throat a popsicle with all of the memory erasing hijinks of booze!

That's right! Bar Nineteen-12 has announced their menu of cocktails on a stick.  Flavors include watermelon, apple and sour cherry.


Yes, this could be you!

It's a great occasion to put on your trendiest rich-kids-that-think-they-have-problems-even-though-it's-usually-just-something-lame television character attire and frolic with the pretty set!

Profound Knowledge Drop of the Day: Did you know that chicks licking popsicles was the reason why the Gong Show was canceled in the 1970s? It's true...and we have footage!


via videosift.com

        

Before Disney made kung fu into a cartoonish, laughing matter, some people back in the 70s made it into a cartoonish, laughing matter.

Enter, DISCO GODFATHER, being screened at the Silent Movie Theatre on June 21st as part of the Disco Fever Dreams series!



It's almost as if Dave Chappell traveled back to the 1970s and made a hilarious movie about an ex-cop turned disco dancing kung-fu fighter just for our viewing horror pleasure in 2008.

For realz!

There's also alot of references to "putting your weight on it" and "getting funky" as well as scenes of people snorting a disheveled pile of coke off the ground.  This movie will leave you exclaiming "Gee, I wish my godfather was like the disco godfather!" and your friends saying "Fagidaboudit, fool!".

Buy your $10 ticket HERE.

        

A long time ago in England, we were sick and forced to spend days smushed in a tiny bedroom with our internet boyfriend whilst his parents downed pints and occasionally sauntered in to ask if we were "all right".

We were down and out, brothers and sisters!
(Insert approving murmurs and head nods here)

After hours of not-so-covert eye rolling and dodging sexual advances craftily disguised as "cures for colds", our internet boyfriend realized how bored/disappointed we were with him and popped in the Spaced dvds.

That's right, brothers and sisters-I said, Spaced dvds!

Can I get an Ahmen?!
(insert high spirited ahmen here)


Editors Note: Just like Jesus, they are actually judging you.

It was Spaced that saved me from the internet boyfriends lecherous advances towards sins of the flesh!
It was their outrageous hilarity and pleasantly inappropriate humour that cured me of that cold!
Spaced loves all their little children, brothers and sisters!

Can I get an Ahmen?!
(insert ahmen of more zealous proportions here)


His hilarious hotness, the almighty creator of Spaced, Edgar Wright.

No more shall we have to track down Spaced on UK Ebay and then hack our dvd players to play their foreign region code, for Spaced is finally being released in the United States!

(insert hand clapping and body shaking here)

Next Tuesday, the 24th, Edgar Wright, the almighty creator of Spaced, Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, will be appearing at the LA Film Festival!  Moderated by South Parks Matt Stone, Edgar will screen episodes and talk with the audience about the show and it's US release. 

Tickets are only $12, but get them ASAP as they're selling out faster than an indie band showcased in a car commercial!  We're more excited than a convulsing, bra-less Beatles fan in the 1960s!


Online Videos by Veoh.com

        

Bar 107, home of gong show karaoke, announces a yard sale for charity on June 29th.

Their flyer has a monkey on it.
They're offering $2 Mimosa's and Bloody Mary's for the occasion.
All proceeds go to charity.

Nuff' said.
Now go buy their crap!

        

SUMMER CAMP! SUMMER CAMP!

It's the day we've anxiously been anticipating since...well, last summer!

The Little Radio Summer Camp will officially be in swing next Saturday, June 14th.
The only catch is that this year, you have to purchase your passes in advance.
They're only $15 a day and it's inclusive of fun, sun, games, bands and booze!



Find out more about Little Radio here.

And what' is Day Camp?
Here is a (not so good) haiku we wrote to explain:

Sun and Booze
Bands in the Sun.
A Slip N' Slide Yellow and Wet.

Hanging out
Outside Downtown.
The Hipster & Indie Delight.



Little Radio
1218 Long Beach Ave.
LA, CA

        

It's official!

We've been spoiled lately with all of the free ice cream and free cupcake give-a-ways, so it was bound to happen...

Free Krispy Kreme Donuts!

Tomorrow, Friday the 6th, you can amble on into Krispy Kreme and demand a free donut.

Find your nearest location HERE.

        

Wowzers!

It seems there is a never ending supply of outdoor movie screenings in LA!

In our last blarticle, we shared the Hollywood Forever graveyard movies with you.
We were super excited to see that they'll be showing our most favourite movie ever on the 14th, the screwball comedy classic, My Man Godfrey!

Unfortunately, we shall be otherwise engaged.



The W Hotels Backyard Bar is offering a Sunday Screening Series, featuring a loungey backdrop in which you can mingle with cocktails while watching movie's such as this weeks Juno or nest month's Annie Hall.  The June schedule is as follows:

June
Sunday, 8th - Juno
Sunday, 15th - Jumper
Sunday, 22nd - City Slickers
Sunday, 29th - 27 Dresses

Full Schedule Here! RSVP's are required to rsvpwlaevents@whotels.com

And finally, for any of you valster's that are too lazy smart about gas prices to drive towards the Westside or Downtown, Woodland Hills gears up for there summertime Movies In the Park series, beginning in July!

        

We recently had the fun idea of proposing a double blind date idea to our lovely, albeit incognizantly* narcissistic, friend.

Oh how they sniffed at the very idea and gave us a verbal pat on the head!

"Where would you ever find a double blind date at?" he scoffed. "We already know most of each others friends and all the rest simply aren't single!"

We simply dug the toe of our shoe into the dirt and stared downwards in an "aw, shucks" manner, not knowing how to respond...until now!


This is probably exactly what a double blind date looks like...but hopefully possibly with more nakedness!

THAT'S RIGHT!

CRAZY BLIND DATE, bitches!

You can go as a single or on a double!

This is sort of scary and exciting all at the same time...Kind of like your first date rape experience*!

*Editors Note: We are very excited for our very first use of the word incognizantly.

*We kid! We kid! Date rape is not an exciting experience at all! Don't do it, kids!

        

History is in the making, people!
People are making history!

Normally we don't post political stuff, but you've gotta admit that witnessing the first non-white presidential candidate is pretty exciting!

Obama beat Hilary out for the Democratic electoral vote today, but there are talks of her joining him as candidate for Vice President.



If Obama/Clinton ran, their campaign song could be Ebony and Ivory.

We like it!

And now, for something else you'll really enjoy...

        

From the country that brought you priceless treasures such as used schoolgirl panties and Hello Kitty vibrators comes Royal-T: a tiny Anime Kingdom nestled in unsuspecting Culver City!

The tea.
The weird art.
The costume funness.
The many clever items to purchase.



Koreatown must be really jealous!
You know you love it.

Royal-T
8910 Washington Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232
310.559.6300

        

Avalon spices up your Wednesday with a bikini fashion show, booze and a live performance by Indie darlings, MGMT.

The sleazy goodness starts tomorrow at 8 with the bikini parade and a DJ set by Steve Aoki, followed by art and the MGMT performance.  Booze ain't included, but your $30 entry fee will go towards benefiting the Surfrider Foundation*.



*We know. We were thinking the same exact thing! The Surfrider Foundation probably just gives money to beach bums so they can have cool buzzes and tasty waves! But no, actually, the foundation aides in cleaning beaches and polluted water...dude.

        

This is a repost/reminder, people.

Knuckle heads/skeptics: This is not a hoax. It's real. 
Check it out on the California DMV website.
***


The adventures of texting while you swerve and drunk dialing while you drive are almost at an end!

A NEW LAW for Californians will be in effect as of July 1, 2008 that bans texting and using cell phones while you drive...unless you have an ear piece.

This is great news! Not only will it decrease traffic accidents, but you can join the ranks of people like me who like to talk and sing alone to themselves in the car. Everyone will be forced to think you're just being animated on your hands-free cellular device.

Genius!

        

Extra extra! It's appears as if Rainbow Bright has opened her first bar in LA and named it after a stripper!

HOORAY! Color sprinkles for everyone!

Coco De Ville opened a few weeks ago and has fast become a celebuhaunt.
Not that it means you won't get in, of course...It just means that you'll have to look extra good doing it.

 

Hang at the lounge, lean over the DJ booth, cough on the smoking patio and shoot dirty looks at the lucky bitches hanging in the swing-chairs.  CDV is now open on Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays.

HOORAY! Color sprinkles and $14 cocktails for everyone!

STK
755 N. LA Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90069
310.659.7363 

        

That's right.
The man who dazzled you in films such as Jurassic Park, The Fly and Earth Girls are Easy will be dazzling you with his amazing vocal stylings at the Aqua Lounge this Wednesday.

What's even more dazzling is that it's free!

Email jeffsviplist@mindspring.com or else...you may not get in.
And then you will be sad.
And then Jeff Goldblum will haunt your dreams...which may not actually be a bad thing.

        

Hey.
Do you remember that episode of The Office where Michael takes everyone on a "Booze Cruise", but it's supposed to teach them something about working as a team and then hilarity, engagements and bitter sweet awkwardness ensued?

Yeah?

Well now the organization that is Professionals in the City give you the change to re-enact many of the awkward moments with next Wednesdays booze cruise!



It's in Marina del Rey.
It's 2 hours starting at 5:30.
It's only $25.

If your all beachy and hail from Newport Beach, there'll be another opportunity to hob and do other thing's with knob's on June 12th.

        

A while back, we wrote THIS blarticle, praising the concept that is Point Break Live.

Since then, their old venue, Charlie O's, was figuratively and somewhat literally, plyboarded up.
I guess you could say...The air got dirty and the sex got clean.

Or not.

Ahem.
Enter...Point Break Live--Reborn at The Dragonfly in Hollywood!

That's right!
You can now enjoy their interactive show every Friday and Saturday starting at 8pm.
Tickets are only $20, but the thrill of some guy from the audience reading through Keanu's lines will haunt you for a lifetime.


Editors Note: Ignore the address on this. See correct address below...dude.

So get your tics.
Get them now. 
Because as Bodhi once stumbled through the line, "Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true."

The Dragonfly
6510 Santa Monica Blvd.
Hollywood, Bitches!

        

This Wednesday you can be one of the first to engage in "heavy petting" on the new Santa Monica Ferris Wheel!

That's right-Wednesday, the 28th, the new wheel debut's with a lighting ceremony at 8:30pm, to be
followed by:

1. Free rides (on the ferris wheel)!
2. Free popcorn!
3. Free cotton candy!
4. Free (duh) fireworks!
   
5. Free live music!
6. Free slaps, courtesy of your unsuspecting make out/riding partner on the ferris wheel!
   

All the free stuff happens until midnight, when said heavy petters and loaders of free stuff will have their asses whimsically kicked off of the pier.

Hooray/Ohhhh Ahhhhh!

        

Ok, regardless of our last post, this one is actually much more innocent!

Girls Drawin' Girls is an art show that features ladies with T&A-*ahem, that is to say-talent and ambition!
Anywho, they're having a kick off show at The Hive Gallery on June 7th!

Needless to say, this is an event for even those t-shirt wearing bro's who swig beers and claim to "not like art".

We proclaim this event to be "sneaky art good times"!




Editor's Note: Special thanks to one Ms. Natasha Pressler for bringing this "good time" to our attention. 
Ms. Pressler is an artist featured in this show and who has also recently received tremendous acclaim for rocking 80s proms!

        

Question: Who doesn't like soft porn from the 1970's?

Go on.
Raise your hand.
No, actually...raise both of your hands.
That's right. That's what we thought.
Now go get a kleenex, you dirty perv!

The New Beverly Cinema, infamous for their dirt cheap concessions and screenings of classic films, brings us a "B" double feature on May 27th of Cheerleader's Wild Weekend and Escape from Women's Prison.

What says Early Father's Day gift more then treating your pops to pre-enhancement era boobies on the big screen*?!



*Can also be substituted with "What says Creative First Date more then taking your unsuspecting sweetie out for some vintage, soft core porn?"

        

We approve this poolside event!

Even with wretched 60 degree weather taken into account, we can get behind grub on the cheap anytime!

The Avalon hotel's poolside bar, Blue on Blue, hosts a happy hour 4-7pm with a MENU featuring $6 tapas and $8 beverages.

No grumbling allowed! That is grub on the cheap for the 90210!

        

Attention Villager's of Larchmont,

No longer shall you have to toil to receive magic cakes that come in cups!

Crumbs Bake Shop is set to open in your hood on May 29th.
Alas, there will be 1000 Free Cupcakes given away starting at 8am!

Therefore, you may commence with woops and murmur's of begrudging rejoicement!

Crumbs Bake Shop
216 N. Larchmont Blvd.
LA, CA
323.464.8400

 

        

Cranes Tavern, the cozy Hollywood establishment, is throwing a once a month Speakeasy themed night with...Fifty Cent Beers!

We don't know what we're more excited about-the promise of getting to wag our finger back and forth to old time music, or dropping fifty cent beers down the old hatch like we're putting out a fire. Hmmmmm...

Kick off your Memorial Day weekend right-this Friday marks the first night!

        

As much as we love our purple tree lined street, we hate the fact that said purple tree's syrup drips onto our car!

And as much as we get a giggle over listening in on our neighbors conversations, we don't get so giggly when they're at 4 am and littered with words like "statutory" and "fecal".

So what about your hood rocks yo' socks and what about it makes you more disappointed then a poor kid on Christmas?

Now you can passive aggressively warn others about your neighbors at Rotton Neighbor, review your apartment building at Apartment Ratings, or write a review about your overall neighborhood experience at Street Adviser.

The internet.
It's power, people.
Use it wisely!

        

Don't forget that the Grand SUMO tournament is coming up June 7th and 8th!

We're gonna file this under "helluva" good times!

Just FYI-This is the first professional Sumo match being held in LA since 1981. 
Now we've only attended non-professional Sumo tournaments in LA, so we can only imagine how much cooler the professional will be!



That's right.
There's nothing like watching 2 huge men push at each other with all their weight to make you feel more cultured and svelte...even if you are gorging your face with sushi and beer the whole time!

Tickets start at only $35-get em' fast!

        

Wowzers, these promoters are genius!

This has something for everyone:
Ladies get to dress to the 9's and work it, gay men get to quip out sassy comments about said ladies apparel and straight men get laid because they know they're going to an event with an 8 to 2 girl/guy ratio!

        

Ah, Memorial Day Weekend!
It a sneaky little bitch and unfortunately, most of us forget about it until the week i