i'm back from an extended west coast trip, accompanied by Boy Genius (fresh off campaigning for Obama in vegas)
it was an odd one...
went to check out the LA lab heads DJ at the Room (cool place!)
hit the tradeshow circuit (NAMM, agenda, asr), seeing Stevie Wonder at Namm was probably the highlight...
went boarding at mini-mountain Mt. High with LA manager Dave (some punk stole his board)
went to visit my cousin at UCSD (prolly the most boring school on earth, the west coast Carnegie Melon?)
went to a Korean-Catholic students meeting, held hands, sung hymns and almost lost my shit (actually did loose my shit)
got stoned and watched Cloverfield (terrible idea)
and finally,
we had our belated TTL LA X-Mas Dinner...

we went to an all-you-can-eat Korean BBQ. this place is mad... it's under a tent, holds a couple hundred people, and it's 17.99 a head...

when the meat first comes, you become a caveman and loose 75% of your brain functions...

west coast hipster alert! staccato aka gina + louisahhhh...

the new guard aka the ttl boy band... ben, jake, kyle, and boy genius (damn, we're starting to look the same)

the old guard... jemz gettin his eat-on and staring at the asian gangsters at the table next to us (boy genius: "should i give them a pound?" me: "no")

last but not least, holding it down: david "sleepy eyes" yoshitomi

also went to go check out my Hoyas play St. Johns at MSG...
it was probably the most pathetic Big East conference game I've ever seen...
check out the scoreboard...