Being in California Julien researches a bit about polish communities in the Golden State: Renata is polish and lives in San Francisco. She does a lot of things and has a couple of videos online. This time she takes us to her favorite polish store to tell us all about Joseph's polish sausage.
12/23/2006
12/10/2006
4 wheels to Texas
Julien has to hand back the Datsun to Johannes and therefore found himself another car. See it here on the left. This is an original '76 BMW 2002 and will - if the mechanic is positive - be the drive to Texas. Let's see about that... for some reason, when starting up blue smoke comes out of the exhaust pipe, just for a minute until the engine is warmed up. I mean, it drives well but the smoke thing is still quite scary.
12/07/2006
Oris Street
Cruising through Compton in the search of a new car Julien found Oris Street (what a surprise!) and shot a couple of photographs of its diverse views with nostalgic thoughts of good old friend Oris who is probably just serving some shots of Zoladkowa to Nick.
12/04/2006
WARSAW weekend vs. L.A. weekend
WARSAW WEEKEND ...or ujaz vodski in Ujazdowski
Well. The weekends. Nick went with basque friend and co-resident Inaki to an opening on Friday at Hotel Europejski. Kind of socialist styled big hotel, where there was sort of an exhibition and party in the basement. Lots of people, also people we had already met before, and lots lots lots of free Zoladkowa. That was the deal.... the story could already stop here... well, Nick had some shots, more or less probably about one bottle, mixed with sprite (nice new combination)... there were lots of familiar faces around as already said... Joanna, Sarmen, Alicija, Warsaw artists Oskar Dawicki and Agata Bogacka, our "chief-sheriff" Marianna Dobkowska and some more... afterwards we went on to Kafe Kulturalna, where suprisingly a huge party was going on (5 more beers). And then Nick and Inaki went for some "Warsaw kebab" (actually a mix of turkish and pakistani styled food) which was very good... reached bed at 5am. The headache next day was a bit too much, so Saturday was more about staying at home. Today we went for the Rembrandt exhibition in the kind of national museum that looks like a post classicist bunker from outside. Nick bought 2 old polish punk cds. PROLETARYAT and DEZERTER. Now in one hour Nick has his meeting with Patryk for the poster design. ...that was Warsaw weekend no.2.
Next week there is some more openings to come and Nick will leave to Berlin to meet good old friend commander Megerle. Zajebiscie!
LOS ANGELES WEEKEND not over yet
The week-end started Thursday with a free 25th-issue-of-some-cool-magazine party where the booze was not free at all - $10 for a Vodka-Tonic! The DJs were really good though so it was worth a dance. Unfortunately the doorman at the VIP area didn't like our faces and wouldn't let us in (there is always a VIP area in this city and you better look like you're important to get in). We did end up sneaking in via the back staircase just to realize that they were closing the bar. It was 1.30am by then and half an hour later the crowded dancefloor got swiped empty by some really big guys: "Move to the doors. We're closing". This is America, not Poland. Friday, Julien went to see Scorsese's new blockbuster The Departed starring the whole Hollywood crowd. Gangsters, police, lot's of blood and stuff, quite intense.
Last night, Saturday, openings in Culver City on LaCienega: Blum&Poe showed a consistent Dave Muller show. M&C showed Paul Pfeiffer, very nice. These are basically the only two shows worth a visit down there. Lightbox Gallery had some groupshow curated by Nick McCarthy of Franz Ferdinand (wooohooo!) with some horrible paintings, lame videos and conceptual bullshit, black lines on white canvas depicting the lines of a pinball game - I thought it was shit, but anyways. They had an aftershow party in the gallerist's nice house in Venice Beach right by the ocean with tons of good food (barbecue) and enough drinks that would help the stiff guests loosen up after a while. Today, Sunday, a drive downtown to meet Johannes's landlord is scheduled. He will fix my car (the brakelights don't work, no handbrake, and the exhaust pipe slowly falls off). Czesc!
Over now - Los Angeles finishes its week-end. 3:33am. Mackey Apartments. Cochran Ave. >Dead End.
The car is kinda fixed: Grant, Johannes's landlord, will get the missing parts by tomorrow. He used to be professional Mercedes Benz mechanic and is now taking care of UPS trucks. We went to his place (far east) this afternoon - he's just putting together a beautiful 70's Chevrolet Chevelle - really nice. Afterwards we had some nice Tacos at 24h-Taco on Soto/Whitey. Now, a few hours later, just had another big Taco at another 24h-Taco place on Vermont/Santa Monica. I am sick, really sick. Lots of Vodka Tonic with Johannes on some Silverlake party @ Akbar where Sean DeLear invited us. Jeppe from JuniorSenior DJ-ed, dance party, not too many people but fun and stiff drinks at the bar. Need rest now. Czesc again!
Well. The weekends. Nick went with basque friend and co-resident Inaki to an opening on Friday at Hotel Europejski. Kind of socialist styled big hotel, where there was sort of an exhibition and party in the basement. Lots of people, also people we had already met before, and lots lots lots of free Zoladkowa. That was the deal.... the story could already stop here... well, Nick had some shots, more or less probably about one bottle, mixed with sprite (nice new combination)... there were lots of familiar faces around as already said... Joanna, Sarmen, Alicija, Warsaw artists Oskar Dawicki and Agata Bogacka, our "chief-sheriff" Marianna Dobkowska and some more... afterwards we went on to Kafe Kulturalna, where suprisingly a huge party was going on (5 more beers). And then Nick and Inaki went for some "Warsaw kebab" (actually a mix of turkish and pakistani styled food) which was very good... reached bed at 5am. The headache next day was a bit too much, so Saturday was more about staying at home. Today we went for the Rembrandt exhibition in the kind of national museum that looks like a post classicist bunker from outside. Nick bought 2 old polish punk cds. PROLETARYAT and DEZERTER. Now in one hour Nick has his meeting with Patryk for the poster design. ...that was Warsaw weekend no.2.
Next week there is some more openings to come and Nick will leave to Berlin to meet good old friend commander Megerle. Zajebiscie!
LOS ANGELES WEEKEND not over yet
The week-end started Thursday with a free 25th-issue-of-some-cool-magazine party where the booze was not free at all - $10 for a Vodka-Tonic! The DJs were really good though so it was worth a dance. Unfortunately the doorman at the VIP area didn't like our faces and wouldn't let us in (there is always a VIP area in this city and you better look like you're important to get in). We did end up sneaking in via the back staircase just to realize that they were closing the bar. It was 1.30am by then and half an hour later the crowded dancefloor got swiped empty by some really big guys: "Move to the doors. We're closing". This is America, not Poland. Friday, Julien went to see Scorsese's new blockbuster The Departed starring the whole Hollywood crowd. Gangsters, police, lot's of blood and stuff, quite intense.
Last night, Saturday, openings in Culver City on LaCienega: Blum&Poe showed a consistent Dave Muller show. M&C showed Paul Pfeiffer, very nice. These are basically the only two shows worth a visit down there. Lightbox Gallery had some groupshow curated by Nick McCarthy of Franz Ferdinand (wooohooo!) with some horrible paintings, lame videos and conceptual bullshit, black lines on white canvas depicting the lines of a pinball game - I thought it was shit, but anyways. They had an aftershow party in the gallerist's nice house in Venice Beach right by the ocean with tons of good food (barbecue) and enough drinks that would help the stiff guests loosen up after a while. Today, Sunday, a drive downtown to meet Johannes's landlord is scheduled. He will fix my car (the brakelights don't work, no handbrake, and the exhaust pipe slowly falls off). Czesc!
Over now - Los Angeles finishes its week-end. 3:33am. Mackey Apartments. Cochran Ave. >Dead End.
The car is kinda fixed: Grant, Johannes's landlord, will get the missing parts by tomorrow. He used to be professional Mercedes Benz mechanic and is now taking care of UPS trucks. We went to his place (far east) this afternoon - he's just putting together a beautiful 70's Chevrolet Chevelle - really nice. Afterwards we had some nice Tacos at 24h-Taco on Soto/Whitey. Now, a few hours later, just had another big Taco at another 24h-Taco place on Vermont/Santa Monica. I am sick, really sick. Lots of Vodka Tonic with Johannes on some Silverlake party @ Akbar where Sean DeLear invited us. Jeppe from JuniorSenior DJ-ed, dance party, not too many people but fun and stiff drinks at the bar. Need rest now. Czesc again!
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