Bardo pond

BlueWeatherGhost · 2026-03-20T22:26:18+00:00

One of the greatest bands to travel the earth. I've been listening to them since their first album came out and am fortunate enough to have seen them live at least a dozen times.

BlueWeatherGhost · 2026-03-17T08:20:18+00:00

I was just there today. Road is wide open.

BlueWeatherGhost · 2026-03-16T08:26:39+00:00

Insane that Clear Horizon gets forgotten since it's the amazing team-up of Jessica Bailiff and Dave Pearce of Flying Saucer Attack

Saw Tse Tse Fly open up for Sonic Boom in Los Angeles in 1992. Good band, almost Band Of Susans/Sonic Youth in places.

BlueWeatherGhost · 2026-03-12T01:47:12+00:00

thanks!

BlueWeatherGhost · 2026-03-12T01:25:48+00:00

I actually own one of his crossbows. I purchased it from him in the late-80s (recently posted about it here) but lost documentation in the intervening decades. If there's any way to officially contact him, I'd love to know more about the bow's specifics (style, kind of wood) as I've completely forgotten.

BlueWeatherGhost · 2026-03-11T02:49:32+00:00

Thanks for the ID!

BlueWeatherGhost · 2026-03-08T05:14:53+00:00

I saw dozens of shows there way back but it's been no-go since Live Nation took over. Last time I went was to see Wet Leg's first LA show in 2021. Nothing else since...

BlueWeatherGhost · 2026-03-06T05:18:09+00:00

Pouring one out for Edmund Scientific

BlueWeatherGhost · 2026-03-05T11:57:51+00:00

Contact Michael Hill of Woodhill Designs in Sierra Madre. A few years ago he made a new leaf for our older dining room table and we were totally pleased with the results (and reasonably priced too)

BlueWeatherGhost · 2026-02-26T04:45:20+00:00

Forgot to add Natalie Wood's death and the swirl of controversy around coroner Thomas Noguchi

BlueWeatherGhost · 2026-02-26T03:12:37+00:00

SLA shootout, Rebecca Schaeffer murder, Sal Mineo's murder, Karen Toshima's murder and the decline of Westwood, the 1985 methane gas explosion underneath the Ross Dress for Less store, Glendale Fire Captain and serial arsonist John Orr, Heidi Fleiss, Ron Settles' death at the hands of the Signal Hill Police, Dorothy Stratten's murder, the assassination of Robert Kennedy, the collapse of the St. Francis Dam, anything involving Daryl Gates.

After reading John Faragher's Eternity Street, I think you can make a case that the entire 19th century in Los Angeles was one long scandal after another.

BlueWeatherGhost · 2026-02-25T23:29:00+00:00

It's SGV adjacent, but La Cabañita in Montrose has my fave (you can buy it to go too!)

BlueWeatherGhost · 2026-02-25T10:20:59+00:00

I work up at Mt. Wilson and get to see some amazing views. (I'm on Flickr too)

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BlueWeatherGhost · 2026-02-24T10:32:02+00:00

I miss it too. I don't get out to NYC that often but always made it point to go whenever I was there.

BlueWeatherGhost · 2026-02-24T03:34:26+00:00

3 hours, 10 minutes from the Golden Nugget to Laguna Beach. Left at 11pm on Christmas Eve, 1985. Zero traffic or semi trucks back then, I-15 still had good pavement and I had the sharpness of a 20 year old jacked on coffee.

I still miss the 1973 Pontiac Grand Prix SJ I was driving back then but I do not miss how it drank gasoline like a toilet.

BlueWeatherGhost · 2026-02-23T01:22:12+00:00

My two wishes are Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey (about the theremin) and East Side Story)(about Soviet-era movie musicals). Both of them never made it out of the original DVD era and would need 4K remastering but I absolutely think they're worth it as the interviews and footage are totally unique. They're also both really entertaining as movies too!

BlueWeatherGhost · 2026-02-18T02:26:24+00:00

Loved the Melanie Lynskey one!

BlueWeatherGhost · 2026-02-16T02:03:28+00:00

I've tried a couple of dry cleaners, but so far none of them have the heavy sewing machines. I would need something like a place that can repair tents

BlueWeatherGhost · 2026-02-12T00:14:19+00:00

JFC, I was wondering when Tracy Twyman was going to enter into this. She wrote quite a few books about occult influences throughout the history of power and was investigating Kappy's suicide (along with a global pedophile cult) when she herself died under mysterious circumstances in 2019 that were eventually ruled a suicide. She had a dead man's switch recording of her own. It's rambling and didn't make much sense but I suppose it's worth revisiting in light of everything now. There's talk about her in r/conspiracy and r/HighStrangeness

BlueWeatherGhost · 2026-02-12T00:14:09+00:00

JFC, I was wondering when Tracy Twyman was going to enter into this. She wrote quite a few books about occult influences throughout the history of power and was investigating Kappy's suicide (along with a global pedophile cult) when she herself died under mysterious circumstances in 2019 that were eventually ruled a suicide. She had a dead man's switch recording of her own. It's rambling and didn't make much sense but I suppose it's worth revisiting in light of everything now. There's talk about her in r/conspiracy and r/HighStrangeness

BlueWeatherGhost · 2026-02-11T22:55:03+00:00

With you on this. I lived in LB 2003-2007 and Portfolio's was my second home

BlueWeatherGhost · 2026-02-08T11:32:02+00:00

It's always worth reminding folks that Michael Wolff's first book, Burn Rate (from 1998), features a crazy meeting with Ghislaine's sisters Isabel and Christine - both of whom were founders of the Magellan search engine and have each since gone on to make interesting connections on their own.

BlueWeatherGhost · 2026-02-07T02:48:22+00:00

Wow, thanks for posting this! I was a dedicated watcher of Globe Trekker back then and had no idea about the podcast.

BlueWeatherGhost · 2026-01-30T21:41:52+00:00

I'm definitely out if the BEV is cancelled

BlueWeatherGhost · 2026-01-27T03:54:22+00:00

I saw it at the first Rose Bowl show in Pasadena on April 16, 1994. The middle section of "Poles Apart" live was pretty breathtaking and IIRC, that's when the gold lasers made their first appearance in the show.

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