I went to LA last Saturday just for 1 night to meet up with Tara and see the last Tarmvred show. I think it's the longest trip I've driven alone. I wanted to do at least 1 fun thing during my otherwise boring spring break. I got into LA at about 5 and had a first hand encounter with thier traffic jams. I finally got to Paramount at about 6 and then found my way to CC's Roadhouse :) where the show was supposed to happen. I met up with Tara and her new hubby Maarten, who I haden't met yet. Tara was nice enough to introduce my shy self to Nicholas, Yann, Jonas, Phil/tronik, etc. I also got to stay with her and Maarten at their hotel!
Throughout the night I think I had 4 lagers, attempting to convert my personality a bit, but didn't work as well as planned. I really wanted to talk to Jonas, him being one of my favorite sonic artists, but couldn't bring myself to. We left CC's after the Tarmvred set, which was again awesome, and much different than the one I saw here in SF last week, and went over to this hotel right by LAX and just crashed.
Got up about 12:00pm the next day. Tara and Maarten returned their rental car, and I drove them around, we went to the LA Aquarium, much fun, got some good photos, got to pet some sharks/horshoecrabs/stingrays. Then we got food and I dropped them off for their flight at Long Beach Airport. I then hit the freeway and headed home. Got into Emeryville at about 10, it was dark and raining, this damn Lexus just about crashed into me! I was glad to be home, and super tired, crash time. One of the best 36 hours of my life! Thanks to everyone that made it possible.
