Thursday 15 October 2009

MONDAY ON THE SUNSET STRIP


...Doesn't start at some gregarious Philippe Starck-designed, boutique hotel on the Strip. (Hotel equivalent of the Entourage opening credits.) But it does end there. The day starts with the other LA living large. Inspiring people. Much like Ooga Booga - the Family Bookstore on Fairfax, opposite Supreme, next to Huf and TurntableLab - is somewhere I've been wanting to pop by for a long time. We've done a few features together for Dazed and how circles cross, Sammy and David who run Family are good friends with my good friends. So a casual drop in to the gorgeously done up bookstore/gallery/music space turns into a two hour chat with Family dudes and Brother Reade about art, music and the fact that both David and Jimmy were up for a part in the new Mike Mills movie (more of which later). Some kids just stole parts of the signage so it only reads "AMIL" now. That pissed them off.



Where's next? Little Tokyo. For Cali-styled Sushi. Which like much of LA is tweaked to satisfy exuberance, but still dining with that background culture... Sushi in Little Tokyo was an experience, and starting with seared albacore nigri pepped with just a touch of ginger and spring onions was sublime. Rainbow Rolls though, these are Los Angeles. We want it all, considered / educated excess... So imagine super fresh California Rolls with crabmeat and cucumber, but topped with strips of sashimi - tuna, salmon, avocado, shrimp, yellowtail and eel, formed then sliced like your usual California Rolls. SO good. And having to walk through a movie shoot on the way to eat dinner? Darrrlin.



Jamie LA!

So a call from Marnie's favourite director Kalim Armstrong means a jet to the Sunset Strip and the aforementioned hotel... the swing in the hotel lobby was a touch.


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