Anyone from LA?

[pianowolfi]

what?!  pianowolfi - you should know by now that i don't even own a pole -excepting the radon vent pipe in the basement. 

Yep as cmg already pointed out, I am completely innocent.  roflmao 

[pianowolfi]

  I'm going to get Martha to answer this question for you.  She'll be posting soon on my behalf (screenname: "dirtydigits."  Just PM her.)

You made my evening cmg.  I haven't had so much fun on ps since weeks lol. BUT: Where is Martha??? I can't find her. LOL 

[ada]

where will you be?

Beverly Hills, I'll be in Beverly Hills. Hahahahaha. I must be a star 

Downtown is the arts quarter, right? Sounds more interesting. Where is that in relation to me?

[jre58591]

downtown is east of beverly hills. it isnt too far away.

[ada]

Cool, tks

edit: see ya in a coupla days 

[jre58591]

alright, enjoy your stay. and yes, the area around the walt disney concerthall, the colburn music school (where i go to school), and the dorothy chandler pavilion is where all the arts are. do go see a performance of something while youre there, if you can.

[ada]

Have said farewell to LA, had a ball. Hung out in Santa Monica mainly, highlights the Getty Museum and a Fathers Office hamburger (OMG truly the best thing I have ever tasted in my life, and here in the land of McDonalds).

For a visitor LA isn't so much about discovering a new place as it is about experiencing something strangely familiar. For example: you come from the other side of the world and you know the Beverly Hills postcode. People speak like they do on TV shows. A trip to the hills is imbued with an enduring sense of deja vu.

Santa Monica Beach has a sort of charm, but for an Australian it is unfathomable that anyone would put a toilet block and a concrete footpath in the middle of a beach 

And why, on a crisp sunny morning, was no one swimming?

I think your cafes are very quaint with their ketchup and mustard and waiters in neat white bow ties and aprons. But something as simple as ordering a coffee was fraught with misunderstanding.
Why is all coffee served in cardboard cups? And why did no one warn me that Americans do not know the meaning of "flat white"? And why does all your money look that same?

Most enduring image: the pimped-up stretch limo parked alongside a homeless man holding up a sign saying "family killed by ninjas, need mone for karate lessons".

Overall, I  loved Santa Monica and felt quite at home. Met lots of cool, friendly people. No creationists, no war mongerers, not even that many fat people. I take back anything nasty I have previously said about Americans 

This is perhaps my last post, as my travels now take me to a remote island in French Polynesia, which is apparently bereft of anything even resembling a piano  but life must go on.

Onwards.

ada

[pianistimo]

just when you were getting warmed up to america - you go to french polynesia?  what's happening there?  is this a business trip?  i mean, they pay and you play?  i've seen ads like this for shopping.  'spend $500. on us - we want to know what you buy.'

[stephanie-piano]

Expect to see lots of traffic, high gas prices, and a lot of weird people.

I can say that because that's where I live...

RnB

hey, there's not THAT many weird people




.... unless ur talking bout me




but i'll only be in LA this summer 

[ahinton]

Beverly Hills, I'll be in Beverly Hills. Hahahahaha. I must be a star 

What do you mean "must be"? Surely almost everyone here knows that you are! One that lights up those great big skies over A'straaalia, as in...

Best,

Alistair

[ahinton]

Have said farewell to LA, had a ball. Hung out in Santa Monica mainly, highlights the Getty Museum and a Fathers Office hamburger (OMG truly the best thing I have ever tasted in my life, and here in the land of McDonalds).

The "best" thing? REALLY???

Santa Monica Beach has a sort of charm, but for an Australian it is unfathomable that anyone would put a toilet block and a concrete footpath in the middle of a beach 

Only for an Australian, you reckon?!...

And why, on a crisp sunny morning, was no one swimming?

Probably because most of them were watching TV.

And why did no one warn me that Americans do not know the meaning of "flat white"?

I think that you'll find that some do, but as I don;t want to get into racist commentary, I'll desist from further comment on that one...

And why does all your money look that same?

Because it is; it takes the Bank of England to have the wit to replace the composer Edward Elgar with the economist Adam Smith on the UK £20 note at the very time of the 150th anniversary of the former...

I take back anything nasty I have previously said about Americans 

I assume that you now have sufficient spare time on your hands to do this...(!!)

This is perhaps my last post, as my travels now take me to a remote island in French Polynesia, which is apparently bereft of anything even resembling a piano

Not last of all, I hope. Also, I presume that your pianoless sojourn in French Polynesia is for the purposes of a survival test; what's the betting that, when you return to your native land, you'll want to spend hours and hours doing nothing but practising?!...

Glad you had a good time in that stretch limo of a town, though - and thanks for telling us about it.

Best,

Alistair