Your L.A. stories + adventures beyond C4.

[iHu]

Here's a thread about adventures beyond the LACC and Celebration 4!

I know I had plenty, and most of you did too -- especially if you had a car. The sights, the city, the arts/culture, the beaches, the people, the high points and low points of La-La-Land -- what'd you think!?

Beyond spending hours and hours at C4, here's what I did in 4 short days:

1. La Brea Tar Pits / Page Museum -- nice way to see LA history dating back many thousands of years! Perfect "first stop" for any visitor.

2. LACMA (art museum)

3. Hollywood Hills/Sunset Blvd walkabout (OK maybe car-about, mostly).

4. Silver Lake / Echo Park / Los Feliz -- hungout with friends who live there in LA, we got hammered + went to Spaceland (a club like something you'd see in NYC's Greenwich Village or SF's Mission/SoMa districts) Saturday night to catch some indie rock bands and absorb LA's alternative scene. What a blast. What a hangover!

5. Explored and skateboarded every inch of Little Tokyo (where my hotel was), + skateboarded through all of downtown and the (very creepy) toy district several times.

6. Surfed the famous point at Malibu with a nice 4-foot south swell coming in. No crowd! Beautiful place by the sea. On the way there I drove down Sunset Blvd in Brentwood -- that town seems uber-opulent and eerily preserved in amber since the 1950s or something...and no one is visible outside in public there, at all.

7. Getty Center! Amazing views and art/architecture/gardens.

8. MOCA + MOCA @ Geffen Contemporary (art museums) and several smaller galleries.

9. Photographed parts of Griffith Park (charred beyond recognition by a huge fire) + Los Feliz Hills, where I photo'd Ennis House (another Frank Lloyd Wright structure).

10. Sometimes I would go get lost, just walk around a couple miles in a random pattern and see what turned up. Some of those unplanned moments were the best.

I was up from 9am to 3am every day of the trip and packed in the activities/sights beyond what I thought would be possible.



I'll be back, for sure.

[IrishJedi]

I have a friend who works for Warner Bros, so we spent the day on Wednesday walking around the backlot in Burbank. Saw many famous faces and cool things and met producer Joel Silver, who is nice but whose mother surely had to wash his mouth out with soap on a daily basis.

[Dustin]

I finally met the almighty "iHu"!

Good times in LA! Good times indeed!

[theropod]

Saw POTC-AWE at the ElCapitan. The theater was decorated top to bottom with POTC set pieces and costumed characters. The basement housed a movie prop display that put the CIV Lucasfilm archives to shame.

Skated the walk of fame.

Visited the Chinese Theater the day of the 30th Anniv.
(Skated over R2's wheel prints .)

Heckled a hooker from the top of the MR double decker bus. (Told her she had good business sense to be hanging out outside of an adult book store)

Got a jaywalking ticket outside the convention center. Then grabbed a stormtrooper to recreate the ticketing scene by issuing the citation to me while I dropped to my knees to beg forgiveness. Great photo op.

Had Amy Allen ask to get her picture with me.

Found out that Seth Green was looking for me to get a set of OBEY knock-off SW badges.

Got a sneer from Corey Feldman when he overheard me say "Who does he think he is; Pauly Shore?" when he cut to the front of all the autograph lines with his VIP pass.

Multiple TV interviews .

Was going to mountainboard somewhere but never got a chance.

-theropod

[Dustin]

I also met Theropod! Thanks for the stickers and badges bro! I gave out all those extras you gave me.

I saw a pic of your in the slave leia outfit, HILARIOUS!

[brand4D2]

Here's a thread about adventures beyond the LACC and Celebration 4!


4. Silver Lake / Echo Park / Los Feliz -- hungout with friends who live there in LA, we got hammered + went to Spaceland (a club like something you'd see in NYC's Greenwich Village or SF's Mission/SoMa districts) Saturday night to catch some indie rock bands and absorb LA's alternative scene. What a blast. What a hangover!
I'll be back, for sure.

so YOU were responsible for all the ruckuss in my neighborhood!

[Jediofgrace]

Who knew one could do so much on so little sleep? We arrived in LA on Wed, then we went to Hollywood to see the sights. That was great fun and we saw Jordin Sparks just as we happened to be looking around the Kodak Theater (for those too immersed in SW to know, she's the new American Idol. And yes, she's a she. We told my brother "look, Jordin Sparks!" and he couldn't find her because he was looking for a boy).

Thursday was Disneyland day. GREAT fun there.

Friday was all day convention.

Sat morning was spent at Santa Monica beach/pier, shoppng downtown LA, then back to the convention for Anthony Daniels auto because I couldn't get it the day before, and then the Carrie Fisher talk.

Sunday was a 6:15AM flight home. I'm still recooperating from all the fun.

[Miarama]

On one of the nights we drove down Sunset Boulevard. It must be a [censored] area because I spotted a clothing store called "Out of the Closet." Adjacent to the store was a building which looked just like a regular store, but in bright purple neon lettering "HIV TESTING" was displayed. Sort of like the neon "OPEN" signs that a lot of stores have on their windows.

I live in the Chicago burbs so those testing facilities are very discreet, usually in outpatient hospital settings.

[wvstarwarsfan]

On one of the nights we drove down Sunset Boulevard. It must be a [censored] area because I spotted a clothing store called "Out of the Closet." Adjacent to the store was a building which looked just like a regular store, but in bright purple neon lettering "HIV TESTING" was displayed. Sort of like the neon "OPEN" signs that a lot of stores have on their windows.

I live in the Chicago burbs so those testing facilities are very discreet, usually in outpatient hospital settings.

Its crap like this that should not be part of the discussions of this board. You couldnt find anything to post about your trip other then this??

[dxdave]

1) Spent 2 hours and 30 minutes speaking with former WCW wrestler "Screamin'" Norman Smiley at the airport waiting for my plane back to KC. What a great guy!!!

2) Watched a lady in the middle of the day use the outdoor area by the escalator to the subway to go number 2. Awesome.