St.Etienne @Avalon @Hollywood/Vine

First evening in LA went to see St. Etienne playing at Avalon in Hollywood. Woo! It was a better concert than last time I saw them, in London. Not sure why. A slightly more intimate venue, perhaps so even though I was lazy and on the couches at the back of the auditorium, could still see pretty well. Also turns out Sasha was DJing there (in club attached to avalon?) that night too, but I only discovered that when I left the concert to discover block-long crowds of people queuing to get in.

On the way back, the bus stops had misinformation signs saying that the #20 MTA bus which used to be an all-nighter stopped running at 2220. It was 2250 when I (and Marcus who was with me) read the sign. grr. However a half-hours empirical measurement of the MTA service indicated that the sign was incorrected and so by 0030 the next day we had returned to West LA.

Good ole' crazy people on the bus - some dude was going on about the Laker's Game and did we see it? etc. He didn't really pick up on the fact that I didn't watch TV and also didn't live in the US. Oh well. He was friendly enough.