November 25, 2004

L.A., Gamelan & Halloween Pirates!

After years of threatening to do so, we finally moved to L.A. It was hard to leave but there's no turning back now. We said goodbye to our house in Santa Cruz in mid September, put our stuff in storage and that was that.

For the past two months, we have been staying with my mom and Tony in their amazing house so, as transitions go, life hasn't been so bad.

Every weeknight at 9, the four of us sit down to some wholesome family time with The Sopranos.

Gamelan!
We joined Gamelan Burat Wangi at CalArts- led by I Nyoman Wenten. After just 4 rehearsals, we played a gig with them at the Mingei International Museum in San Diego.

Halloween Pirates!
We were sad to miss out on the Santa Cruz Halloween but this year we participated in some theatrical debauchery that rivals Pacific Avenue. Megan Geer-Alsop and other assorted Topanga friends hired a double decker London bus and inspired 60 revelers to dress up as pirates and "gallavant" around L.A. We were out on the top deck in the open air and began by driving through Topanga, Santa Monica, and Venice. Celeste Lear hooked up a generator and a PA system that blasted music on both floors and the whole bus was decked out with pirate flags and skeletons- we were harassing people on the street- brandishing our swords at them and saying "arrrrrrrrrr!!!" Then something crazy happened. We were heading West on Lincoln Blvd and the driver turned onto the 10 freeway (AKA the tradewinds). This was totally insane. It was exhilirating and horryfying to hear the music bounce off the underside of overpasses that were only about 5 feet away from our heads. We finally ended up in downtown L.A. at a warehouse party. 60 drunk and swaggering pirates can turn a lot of heads.

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