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It’s time to play catch up.
Not being able to go to The Price is Right kindof messed up our plans for Wednesday and Thursday. We ended up starting our morning at the Paley Center in downtown LA. We only had about an hour of time there and Alexandra and I (yes?) didn’t do too much but it was definitely worth the visit.
Essentially the Paley Center is big on television. They have a huge library of sorts filled with television shows from generations ago, as well as discussion panels, interviews, and other interesting tid bits about any show you can think of. Alexandra and I didn’t feel like watching an entire television episode, but the rest of the crew watched an assortment of awesome things including: Friends, Best of SNL, Captain Kangaroo (Hohle had a weird childhood), and sports (which featured Michael Jordan, flashback!).
While the crew was doing that, Alexandra and I were introduced to an artist called Al Hirschfeld. He is best known for hissimple, black and white caricatures of celebritites that look like this:
http://www.google.com/search?q=hirschfeld&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&oe=&rlz=1I7ADFA_en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1276&bih=595
His drawings were on display all around the Paley center and while Alexandra and I were looking at one of them a museum.. attendent (uh..? Yes) came over to us and asked if we were familiar with Hirschfeld. We had never seen him before and the attendent proceeded to tell us that he had an extremely close relationship with his daughter, and had hidden her name, Nina, in almost all of his drawings. Alexandra and I spent the better part of half an hour trying to find the Nina’s and it was actually kindof fun :P
After the Paley center (we spent the remainder of our time watching commercials from the 80’s and 90’s, weiiiird) we walked across the street to Baja Fresh for lunch which was delicious. Mmm.
Theeeeen we headed to music producer Edgar Struble’s recording studio. For a guy who was almost 60 years old he was pretty chill. He is most well known for his time spent working with Kenny Rodgers but he also makes the “bumper” and “walk on” music for big music award shows like the Country Music Awards and the American Music Awards. It was extremely interesting to hear about his experiences and how he writes his music (even if I didn’t completely understand it all).
I’d never really thought about it until Struble brought it up, but for people who have been in the industry for a long time (like him) things are totally different from how they used to be. We talk about digital taking over television and movies but it’s also overtaking the music industry as well. Struble can make entire songs on his computer, no real intruements required. He doesn’t even need to leave his desk. It’s pretty insane to think about. Everything is changing at such a rapid pace! Oh, technology.
The boys wanted to go see the Anaheim Angels play baseball, so we dropped them off at the game and the ladies (and Hohle, of course) headed to Amazon, a Brazilian bbq buffet. Yes, it was as weird as it sounds. We met Hohle’s wife, Gwen, and chowed down. The buffet itself was pretty mediocre but they brought out freshly cooked meat to our table throughout our meal and they had over 15 kinds to try. We got through about 5 before we had to call it quits, including two kinds of beef, lamb, sausage, and quail (which I avoided). They had these really delicious fried bananas and my half of the table ate about a billion of them. Mmmm.
We convinced Hohle to take us to downtown Disney again because we had heard the bar, House of Blues, had an awesome happy hour and the ladies wanted to party! So we did. It was funfunfun. -
