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Got a parking ticket last night. Our first of 2009. Over the years, we've amassed thousands of dollars of these things. A scrapbook of concert ticket stubs hold just as many memories as the parking violation tickets scotch-taped right next to them. It's the price to pay when one goes out a lot, we suppose. And although it doesn't bother us as much as it used to, we've always wondered if the money we're "donating" to the city (this time $55) actually goes into making less parking spaces. You think those "Permit Parking Only" signs and red-painted curbs just fall off trees? All we know is that if the city continues to make it less possible to park cars near clubs, galleries, and theaters, it's going to make people less inclined to leave their houses. Just ask anyone who's been to the new Largo.
L.A. Film Forum and L.A. Record present Avant-Garde Silent Film series every Wednesday of January beginning with tonight's screening of Tom Verlaine and Jimmy Rip: Music For Experimental Film at the Silent Movie Theatre.
Also tonight is the debut of the new weekly No Culture with resident DJs Guns N Bombs and Goddollars at the Echo.
It's Matt Gangi's birthday on Thursday and he's celebrating with friends Daedelus, Blank Blue, and The Gaslamp Killer at Spaceland. That's a great lineup.
Also, for those interested, Lenka tapes an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel tomorrow. Get free tickets here.
In other news: The Hip Hop 101 Music & Arts Festival is 2/21 at the L.A. Sports Arena with Ludacris, Common, Mix Master Mike, Janelle Monae, and others... Rockville, CA premieres 3/17 on thewb.com, says Variety... So that's where they're all going...
Videos you've probably already seen but we're posting them anyway...