Los Angeles -Day Off
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Wake up on the bus around 9am. We're in the parking lot behind the hotel. Have some breakfast on the bus. Get a call from a friend who is working in a studio down the street. He's off today and comes by and picks me up for lunch. We hit some Thai at
Chan Dara. Good stuff... We also hit the Border's for some books and
Amoeba Music for CD's. Then it's off to a couple of guitar stores. Basically just doing the roadie hang (minus the strip club). He drops me back at the hotel around 3pm and I'm off walking with Jerry and Brad around 4pm back to the same music stores. No one buys anything, just killin' time. We grab dinner at
Mel's Drive-In, a diner made famous by George Lucas'
"American Graffiti". Although this is not the location from the movie. Back to the hotel for blogging and Olympics.
After the Olympics I switch to HBO and catch part of the American Undercover's
"Dealing Dogs". It's a documentary on that exposes the abuses that took place at one of America's most notorious Class B dealers (a dealer that sells dogs for research). It was hard to watch, but informative. The undercover investigation was headed by
Last Chance For Animals, a group that acts somewhat like the
Humane Society of the United States. Check out these organizations.