Photos by Rae Threat

Last night I left my house early and started the night out right.  Tried to see Icy Lytes but wires crossed and that just did not happen.   Headed east to the 100 pieces for $100 bucks @ Sugar Salon where my honey and a few other trusted friends suggest I go get my hair cut.

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I’m assuming that the show will be up for a month or more.  Green Truck was also there my favorite healthy savior of the Mothertrucker Veggie Burger during random events including a Brian Lichtenberg show back during fashion week here in LA and also caught them during my friend’s Dressy Bessy show @ the Troubadour.

After that I needed someone to do Echoplex with for Eon Mckai’s party in conjunction with Miss Kitty’s 7 year anniversary.  I ended up going with my friend Martin where later Eon told me he was twittersaulted so we actually never got to give hi fives.  That’s okay…we actually hi fived earlier that week.  I didn’t put the array of faces together til afterwords but I’m pretty sure I saw (stared) at a twitter friend (crush)  as well as  my one of my favorites photographers/performers Austin Young.  All photos by Rae Threat.

More from the photo series HERE

It’s 18 minutes or so past midnight here in LA so it’s officially #followfriday in the land of Twitter a day where you can suggest to your lovely “followers” who you think they should keep track of.  For this week I’ve suggested:

• @myopenbar_la :

Although they did once send me to the Cha Cha for $3 Bloody Marys on a Sunday and they were closed I’ve forgiven them because I realized it was Super Bowl Sunday and nothing is normal in America on that day.  With that aside they essentially tell you where you can go drink for free which is a plus and a half…occasionally they’ll throw in places that have food too it seems.  NICE

• @newbeverly :

New Beverly is the twitter of just that…the New Beverly movie theater here in LA.  Since befriendly their lovely (and quite interactive/reactive) twitter I don’t have to resort to checking back to my calender for evening plans…instead I am actually reminded of them.

• @themoment :

Home of “The Moment” the New York Times fashion mag I patiently waited to come out twice a year in my teens living in NJ.  Now I can get up to the moment commentary live post shows & also unique blogs about fashion with an original and personal voice.  They have also been on Twitter for awhile and have a nice momentum & an experienced commentator or perhaps knowledgable intern running their twitter!

I suggested a few more but honestly I’m too tired to write about them right now…so now:

WHO SHOULD I FOLLOW?

Last time I saw DJ Frane we were at the Beat Swap Meet kickin back at the bar while I lied about how much I spent buying records (I said I spent less).  This Wednesday he’ll be putting some some serious vinyl (yea I said it…VINYL) onto the magical turntables (he makes them magical) and taking us into a serious 5 hour eclectic journey where we’ve never been before (I guarantee this).  It’ll be a land of fewer parenthesis (I swear) and more exclamation points.  Here’s a couple

• !  FREE
• ! $3 Margaritas,
• ! A patio & 2 bars

It all goes down the 3rd Wednesday of every month @ Barragan’s in Echo Park

BARRAGANS
1538 W Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026
(213) 250-4256

Read a review of his most recent release Electric Garden of Delights @ Prefix Mag .

P.S.  On a sort of random & separate note you should follow @PrefixMag on Twitter…let them know I sent ya!

Last Friday while LA got it’s rain on and I laid in bed with a case of just being a woman my friend’s new store launched a Cheap Monday/WKND pop up shop in the Choose Chinatown space (in where else, Chinatown). When I first moved to LA the cats at Welcome Hunters were the first people approached and said the words “Do you want a DJ?” I hesitated using this question in this town for many reasons a few being I didn’t come to LA to be just a DJ and get into some magical invisible and constantly rotating scene. I wanted a life with good food, movies & cuddling. Lately which I’ve been doing lots of (and yes, another added reason why Friday night probably didn’t see me).  Either way I saw their flyer for the night they were doing at the Mountain Bar a year or so ago and we ended up connecting and they liked what I played and for about 6 months straight I was djing their parties along with the cats from Lion’s Den.

Last weekend the friends n shopowners Lion’s Den & Welcome Hunters came together to host & create the Cheap Monday & WKND concept store for the next two seasons…

CHOOSE CHINATOWN

441 Gin Ling Way, Los Angeles, CA, 90012
(213) 613-9200
Wed-Sun 12-7pm

Here’s two other first hand accounts of the opening night experience from Paper Mag & RackedLA