Showing posts with label Zen Retreat vacation Hollywood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Zen Retreat vacation Hollywood. Show all posts

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Last days in Hollywood

This is my new friend Sunny Blueskies. He and I enjoyed the pace and leisure of our Hollywoods HILLS retreat. One of the best things in Los Angeles is the French Champagne at 35 aud a bottle. I enjoyed many bottles into the night this way.
On my last day in Los Angeles Sunny and I went to the worst organic restaurant. It was in Hollywood on Hollywood Blvd. The service was shit and so was the food but on our way back to the car I discovered these two celebrities. 



On Wednesday June 30 we went to the Hotel Cafe in Hollywood to check out Mateo. The Hotel
Cafe is a singer/Songwriter venue. The crowd is very mixed. Which LA is. I meet the crew who came up with Barack the vote campaign. Mateo is a kinda Ben Harper/ John Legend mix ( if they both were gay). Are they? His voice is cool and he has a quirky disposition. He sings a cover of Gnarls Barkley, "Crazy". He has a strong following among the 20 something cool kids, LA style of course. I expect this Mateo to be very big. During this gig we meet a friend of Vassy's called, Blah blah Blah. He is a fledging director. 
 After the gig Vassy and I went off with the Barack the vote crew  to a bar. Tres boring so Sydney So I order a glass of v bad champagne which I didn't drink. I was already very drunk. Blah Blah rang and came and picked us up and took us to this night  down in Echo Park called, Dub Club. It had a guy on stage smoking a spliff and two other people dropping beats. The music was wicked. However we arrived at 1:20 and the place was closing down so I quickly went to the bar and ordered another drink. I started to have a dance.

 and placed my drink down and it was stolen or taken by bar staff... AGGGGGGGHHHHHH $15.
Wednesday during the day I caught up with Kareem and Milan. Two really cool guys I met through Vassy.
We went to lunch on Melrose, I had Lobster ravoli and then up for a drive on Sunset drive.
 I had a complete view of all of Los Angeles.Very grand. These guys are super nice and single ladies...

I took a photo of these arses when I was popping into downtown LA to collect some bling.

Only in America.


Sunday, June 22, 2008

A day round the pool at Zen Retreat in the Hollywood Hills.


The view over the Hollywood hills from the pool of my fancy Hollywood hills pad.

My studio from the pool deck.

Well today I awoke at 1pm. My cellphone ( I am in America after all) kept ringing. My relatives. For someone with no family I seem to get a lot of phone calls from people I  vaguely remember from childhood. Upon waking up I cancel my last colonic appointment with Rysia. For details you'll have to email me.
Then I wondered upstairs to the pool where I joined Sunny and Oceania Blueskies for some rest
and relaxation LA style.

The afternoon was great French Champagne ( it's so cheap here), Sushi and cheese and olive tapenade. While we were enjoying the sun a pesky LAPD helicopter began to circle. This was particularly annoying when you are trying to look especially elegant drinking your french champagne and yelling at someone sitting 12 inches away.

As it turns out it was just another day in Hollywood with a gun man holding his girlfriend and baby at gun point while S.W.A.T.  attempt to use their fancy toys to blow him to pieces.

It was at this point that 3 hot boys arrived from Iceland. Ok they were Bi and badly dressed. Ok only one of them was hot.
But I'm on vacation after all and it is fun to add Icelandic people into the mix. They believe in elves, you know. And according to those three, there is absolutely nothing to do there but eat a hot dog from a place rated 10th in the world..?
The day was moving ahead swimmingly. When an angry German or Austrian or Swiss woman appeared and started telling us that she has booked the pool area for a goddess ritual to bring in the solstice. She then informed us that we were welcome to stay if we respected their religion and were very quiet. 
Ummmm. 
I guess no one told the "healer" about respecting her neighbors and not polluting the space with her mantras for overweight woman who do not know how to cum.

So I decided to go check out Seun Kuti and Egypt 80.
This is my new best friend Leo.