To recap, this is the morning after drinking and partying in the Koreatown in LA, Chris Bae crashed in our room and I lost my socks. Chris got up around 8 and said his goodbyes and told us that we could stay at his that night and we should eventually make our way over to the University of Southern California (USC) campus. He departed and we got up and made our way out for some breakfast!
The Farmers Market on Third and Fairfax was the location we chose and we were well in the mood for some fish taco’s! The market is alright, a bit small and slightly limited, although I guess coming from Europe our version of farmers markets are much more impressive. Everything is fried! They will take something that is great fresh and stick it in the deep fat fryer, this disappointed me, I wanted some nice fresh fish taco’s besides LA is essentially a seaside city! Where is the fresh fish at?! Nevermind, a slight disappointment, but we found a brilliant hot sauce shop called Light My Fire (check them out http://www.hotsaucetogo.com/) .
Post farmers market we decided that what we needed was some beaches! So we made our way over to the iconic and famously obscure Venice Beach! Brilliantly white beaches, bright glaring sunshine, parking right by the water and all the maniacs and lunatics that you could ever want! I say lunatics and maniacs, but don’t get me wrong, there were also crack heads, stoners, tran-sexuals, homeless and police, a variable who’s who of social outcasts all gathered together as a family on a beach. That being said, it felt very safe and welcoming, everything there was unique, a realy hipsters paradise, locals mixed in with the strange all walking amongst the tourists. This is famously the location of the basketball scenes in American History X and White Men Cant Jump, also the place where Anthony Kiedis, front man of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, grew up. Now I have been here before but that was during the winter back in 2008 so there were not as many people out, this time was much better. A real atmosphere is what I sensed and community. Unfortunatly because we had donned our beach shorts we didn’t have a camera with us so there are no pictures for you amusement, but just know that we both enjoyed it. We got our Tan on and had lunch before heading off back into town to meet Chris Bae.
By now it was 3pm and we had made our way back across town and into the USC campus to meet Chris. Chris Bae if you have forgotten was my room mate last year when I studied abroad and oh how great it was to be back by his side. He is the President of a society on campus and he gave us the full tour with boundless amounts of information (which he tested us on at the end and apparently only Paolo was listening). Here are a few pictures to give you an idea.
After the tour from my friend Frommer Chris, we had to go back to his office while he finished up some work he was in the middle of. This gave Paolo and I the chance to chill out and get our Facebook on. We headed back to Chris’s and met his roommate and watched an hour long special of Family Guy. Then the topic of dinner came up, in the end it was decided that we should make our way over to a sushi happy hour that was going on at some random Japanese restaurant in Downtown with a very forgettable name. It was great though and it was $2 a dish, with the whole conveyor belt novelty thingy.
Now Chris is not of age yet but that’s okay because he was going to use my ID, after all we all look alike. Paolo, Chris and I headed over to Santa Monica where we met up with Mike Tran and Abe! This was going to turn into one of the best nights out we’ve had in the USA, so we started in Santa Monica and worked our way from where we had parked and bar crawled it all the way to the beach, stopping at every bar along the way buying rounds, then once arriving at the beach we worked our way back through another road. Fun and frolics and general stupidity was abound! Afterwards we decided as a collective that we should get some food, but not just any food, dirty Mexican street food somewhere back in Downtown, so we made our way over and I for some reason got out of the car before we got there so was slightly lost. Luckily I ran into my friend Baaby Susan who pointed me in the right direction saying she had just seen all the guys in a Mexican place around the corner so I made my way round. They were already sitting there munching away on some taco’s, they had already ordered for me and I sat down for some munch as well. They were crap! But apparently that is the point. It was a lot of fun this place, crappy food, crappy service, but buzzing with people who had just finished a night out. Abe bet Mike $20 drink a container of their super hot hot sauce, which he did! It was bad and you could see Mike’s pain, but that didn’t stop him from downing another one for an extra $5 that Abe offered up again. Mike walked away up $25 but it was definitely worth it to the rest of us to see him do it, I didn’t want to be Mike in the morning.
We headed back to Chris’s and crashed out on his airbed. What a brilliant night!
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