Tag Archive for 'LA'

Griffith Park Fire

Published
by
michael lee
on 9 May 2007
in current events and life
. 3 Comments

So, our hills are on fire. They’ve got it mostly contained now, but last night it was a very eerie sight - the newly reopened Griffith Park observatory, the zoo, the trails, all shut down because the entire hillside was lit up. I sat in traffic at the 134 / 5 interchange, parked on the overpass about a half-mile from the hill, and watched the fireline crawl over the crest of the park.

griffith park fire

Sophia and I are staying inside today, because the air here is thick with smoke - you can feel it when you breathe. And not in the good way. For those of you who aren’t nearby, we live about 3 miles from the fire.

map to fire

Mark Rothko

Published
by
michael lee
on 18 January 2007
in art and culture
. 4 Comments

I’m off to MOCA, to see the Mark Rothko Exhibit. Last weekend before it closes, if anyone’s interested.

mark rothko

Go LA Metro!

Published
by
michael lee
on 13 October 2006
in asides
. 2 Comments

Guess who has the best mass transit system in the US? We do! I feel like my favorite indie band just got signed to a major label. I was into metro before all you posers even knew what it was, man.

On Weather

Published
by
michael lee
on 23 July 2006
in current events and prayer
. 2 Comments

Kyrie Yeshua

This heat, and hail, and flood, and fire
Reminds us

We are tenuous and precarious beasts
Held in your hand
Sustained by your hand

And though we are removed
From famine, and pestilence, and fires

We are not so far removed

Sustain us by your hand
For we are tenuous and precarious beings

Jury Duty in LA

Published
by
michael lee
on 23 May 2006
in art and culture, audio and politics
. 10 Comments

I sacrificed 8 hours for Lady Justice today. I got up at 5:45, rode the metro to downtown LA, went through metal detectors and a body cavity search in order to sit in a cattle-car room with 200 other people, waiting to see if we got asked to serve on a jury.

There was a tense moment when the superviser announced that they were calling names for a 30 day, sequestered trial, and we all held our breathe praying that we didn’t get called. Beyond that, the day was pretty dull. I sat around until 3:30, at which point they sent us home, our duty served.

So, here’s why I love LA. I was sitting in a room with 200 randomly selected people, including

Dakin Matthews

Dakin Matthews

and

Bernadette Peters

Bernadette Peters

Also, I sat next to this guy:

brian joseph

Brian Joseph, and we argued about MIDI integration in Protools 7 vs. Logic 7. I love that you can plop down next to some random guy in LA, and there’s a pretty good chance that he will have a deeply passionate and well-reasoned opinion on which production software environment works best for a given project.