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* Leader of the Negro Problem. The pop band just released a new CD titled “Joys & Concerns.”
Free Art: Thursday evening, since MOCA is free, I like to take my 7-year-old daughter down there. It’s good to see modern art with her because she always has something funny to say about it, though also fairly insightful. Then we go get ice cream at Baskin-Robbins in Silver Lake. After I drop her off, my bass player, Heidi Rodewald, and I might go to the Coffee Table on Rowena Avenue, where they have great German chocolate cake.
Cafe Life: Fridays I’d start at Cafe Tropical on Sunset Boulevard, meet some friends and sit around and talk about how busy we are while lounging. If it gets on to lunchtime, I’ll go across the street to the walk-up stand at El 7 Mares and get a fish burrito. It’s fun to sit along Sunset Boulevard, inhale the fumes and have friends honk as they drive by.
Book Central: I hop on the Sunset bus and go to the Central Library, a sanctuary for me since I was in high school. I’ve learned more there than I ever did in school. I try to sit and read in a different spot every time.
Spinning in Space: I like to meet friends at the Bonaventure bar. Every bar should spin around like that. It’s funny, you go to a place to achieve the state of spinning, but when you get there, it’s already spinning. Then we’ll go to Spaceland and maybe I’ll beg my friend, the soundman there, to let me DJ between bands.
Hope-ful Breakfast: Saturday morning starts with breakfast with Heidi in Burbank at Tallyrand. Bob Hope eats there. That’s all I can say. In the afternoon I’ll take the kid to Malibu Beach or a park, and on the way back we’ll check out little bookstores because I like to patronize small places.
Multimedia Day: Sunday, Heidi and I go to Pasadena for a double bill at the Academy 6. We’ll bum around there, check out bookstores and Poobah’s Records. If we’re feeling really brave, we go to Clearman’s North Woods Inn in Rosemead. It’s so surreal. We’ll be bad and eat steak. And after that, there’s nothing you can do except collapse.