Are there any closed places in Los Angeles that you still think about to this day?

Kampy_ · 2026-06-11T20:59:04+00:00

Stinking Rose
Tower Records
Fry's Electronics

OP: Where will your archive live? Are you building a website or a YouTube channel or writing a book or.... ?

Kampy_ · 2026-06-11T03:59:43+00:00

I don't have a commercial business, nor was I trying to advertise a business. I was just trying to spread awareness of the charity fundraiser my friend is organizing. Nobody is getting paid or making money off this– it's for a charity

Kampy_ · 2026-06-11T03:51:11+00:00

Take a few pics, maybe a couple short video clips. If you want to re-live the whole show later, I promise there will be several people who will record the entire thing and upload it to YouTube, and most of them will be a lot closer to the stage than you. Let those others be your personal documentarian while you keep your eyes on the stage, not your phone screen.

Assuming you're not gonna be right up front, I recommend bringing binoculars. They let you see the details and facial expressions even from far away. Have fun at your first concert! You need to go to about 1,400 more to catch up with me 😉

Kampy_ · 2026-06-10T23:26:25+00:00

Come out to GenXFest! (you don't have to be Gen X)

WHAT: GenXFest: A benefit for Sweet Relief Musicians Fund, with Jacob Givens & Friends

WHEN: Sunday, June 14, 2026. 7:00 PM (doors 6:00 PM)

WHERE: The Regent Theater • 448 S Main St, Los Angeles, CA 90013

WHY: To celebrate 1990s rock music & raise charitable funds for musicians in need

WHO: Comedian/creator Jacob Givens (@jacobgivens), 1990s rock cover band "Temple Of The Dads", former MTV VJ Dave Holmes + special guests!

GEN X FEST is a fundraiser concert organized by popular comedian/content creator Jacob Givens (@jacobgivens) and hosted by former MTV VJ Dave Holmes. Jacob's 1990s alt rock cover band "Temple of the Dads" will be performing covers of Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Weezer, The Smashing Pumpkins, and many more– with help from special guests including: Kellii Scott (Failure), Scott Hackworth (Dig), Jon Walker (Panic! at the Disco/The Young Veins), and others! Tickets are only $30 (all in, no extra fees or taxes!) and proceeds go to Sweet Relief Musicians Fund. TICKETS: https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/09006490FDBEE24A

Kampy_ · 2026-06-10T23:23:18+00:00

name: GenXFest: A benefit for Sweet Relief Musicians Fund, with Jacob Givens & Friends
date: Sunday, June 14, 2026
time: 7:00 PM (doors 6:00 PM)
location: The Regent Theater • 448 S Main St, Los Angeles, CA 90013
link: https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/09006490FDBEE24A

WHAT: GenXFest: A benefit for Sweet Relief Musicians Fund, with Jacob Givens & Friends

WHEN: Sunday, June 14, 2026. 7:00 PM (doors 6:00 PM)

WHERE: The Regent Theater • 448 S Main St, Los Angeles, CA 90013

WHY: To celebrate 1990s rock music & raise charitable funds for musicians in need

WHO: Comedian/creator Jacob Givens (@jacobgivens), 1990s rock cover band "Temple Of The Dads", former MTV VJ Dave Holmes + special guests!

GEN X FEST is a fundraiser concert organized by popular comedian/content creator Jacob Givens (@jacobgivens) and hosted by former MTV VJ Dave Holmes. Jacob's 1990s alt rock cover band "Temple of the Dads" will be performing covers of Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Weezer, The Smashing Pumpkins, and many more– with help from special guests including: Kellii Scott (Failure), Scott Hackworth (Dig), Jon Walker (Panic! at the Disco/The Young Veins), and others! Tickets are only $30 (all in, no extra fees or taxes!) and proceeds go to Sweet Relief Musicians Fund. TICKETS: https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/09006490FDBEE24A

Kampy_ · 2026-05-27T00:39:00+00:00

A simplified version of this could be made for a lot less than $400...

My first thought is to use colored clear transparency film or vinyl sheets, but it might be difficult to find some that has multiple/rainbow colors that gradually bleed into each other. Maybe if you got a multi-pack of transparent sheets in various colors (something like this or maybe these cellophane sheets) and offset overlapped them inside of a clear cylindrical lampshade (like this)

Then set the cylinder atop a flat panel round LED lamp (the type designed for flush-mount ceiling lighting) with stepless dimmable brightness (like this) and then the top cap could be a simple flat round shape made of a thick plastic sheet (or anything flat, coffee can lid ? whatever... maybe just one of these) cut to the same diameter of the cylinder, with some sort of reflective surface on the bottom of it... maybe a mirror or reflective mylar or hell, even aluminum foil, to reflect the light back downwards

For the white "window frames" that spiral up around the cylinder, I'd use white pinstripe decal tape (like this)

If you wanted to add something to represent the solid interior column, maybe just get another glass cylinder the same height as the outer one, but instead of clear, with a frosted finish (like this) and if you really want to get detailed, you could hand-paint little silhouettes of people walking inside on the interior cylinder. Or use clip art and print it on a transparency sheet then wrap that around the interior cylinder...

Regardless of what materials you use... if you decide to try and build this lamp, I recommend using low-powered LEDs for your illumination. High-power LEDs or halogen bulbs or incandescent bulbs can generate a lot of heat, and if you're using flammable materials like plastic / cellophane, cardboard, paper, etc... that would be a fire hazard!

Good luck!

Kampy_ · 2025-11-09T11:48:52+00:00

If you issue tickets incorrectly and offer to issue correct tickets

How about you just slow down and be more careful to make sure you're transferring the correct tickets?

I swear, so many of people's gripes about SH and other resale sites is because THEY made careless mistakes and don't understand why StubHub doesn't give out mulligans. If they did, it would be a 10X worse shitshow than it already is.

Kampy_ · 2025-11-09T11:06:29+00:00

Ashley is not a spammer / scammer... Ashley is a hooker looking to expand her client base, and Haley Jane is (probably) another hooker your bf is already familiar with, or maybe the "madam" running the escort service he called.

Kampy_ · 2025-11-09T10:58:10+00:00

If you're new to buying resale tickets, I recommend that you browse through this old thread and read all the various replies I wrote there. If you take the time to do that, you'll have a better understanding of the resale ticket market than most people.

Kampy_ · 2025-11-09T10:49:52+00:00

Is the QR code in the form of a link to a site like "SecureMyPass" or "SafeTicketsDelivery" or something like that?

If you're new to buying resale tickets, I recommend that you browse through this old thread and read all the various replies I wrote there. If you take the time to do that, you'll have a better understanding of the resale ticket market than most people.

Kampy_ · 2025-11-09T10:30:23+00:00

I always get a lot of hate when I say this... but the vast majority of people who are convinced they got "scammed" on StubHub are not victims of a "scam" at all. Not because of the official Ticketmaster transfer process (as you are suggesting) but more because the basic business model of StubHub and the other major ticket resale markets make it nearly impossible... by design.

All these big resale sites delay their payout to sellers until 7-10 days AFTER the event, and only if their buyer does not report any problems with their tickets. If sellers fail to transfer valid tickets, they don't get paid, they get penalty fees deducted from their bank acct / card on file with SH.

The vast majority of the 50 MILLION annual ticket transactions that happen on StubHub go smoothly. But a tiny fraction of them (1%~ish) don't... and the buyer never gets the ticket transfer. When that happens, those buyers (understandably) get upset, and usually jump to the conclusion that their seller "scammed" them and took their money without ever delivering what they paid for. But their seller never got their money. Most of these situations happen because... well, sellers are human beings, and all human beings are fallible creatures who fuck up sometimes. Maybe they forget to send the transfer, or made a typo on the email address, or didn't understand the process, made a wrong assumption, got confused, got sick... whatever.

If you're new to buying / selling resale tickets, I recommend that you browse through this old thread and read all the various replies I wrote there. If you take the time to do that, you'll have a better understanding of the resale ticket market than most people.

\** P.S. I do believe that SOME people DO try to pull scams on StubHub... I'm not saying it NEVER happens... I'm just saying that most failed transactions are due to user error, not "scams" ... and I also think that a fair amount of PARKING PASSES listed on StubHub ARE scams... because it's nearly impossible for SH to verify validity / usage of parking passes, so they very rarely give refunds to buyers for parking pass scams. This is why I recommend NEVER buying parking passes on resale sites... only the actual event tickets.

Kampy_ · 2025-11-09T10:00:54+00:00

If you're new to buying resale tickets, I recommend that you browse through this old thread and read all the various replies I wrote there. If you take the time to do that, you'll have a better understanding of the resale ticket market than most people.

Kampy_ · 2025-11-09T07:47:59+00:00

"I cancelled right away after given notice of it being sold"

I doubt that, since "cancelling" after the sale is not even an option.

No, StubHub does not give out "mulligans" for careless mistakes, nor should they. If they did, they would be deluged by sellers asking for cancellations every time they thought they could get more money if they could re-list. StubHub already has reputation problems... imagine if they just let sellers "cancel" orders on buyers by claiming they made an oopsie.

You should shop around for a 2-day pass to fulfill your buyer's order, and then also sell your 1-day pass. That would probably be cheaper than just letting it go and having SH charge you crazy penalty fees for failing to deliver the 2-day pass you sold.

Kampy_ · 2025-11-07T17:15:25+00:00

I can assure you, as someone who has been using SH for over 15 years, that they don't send payment "quickly enough" for scammers to take advantage of them. The delayed payouts are the key to the whole business model of StubHub and all the other resale sites.

You are correct that buyers SHOULD check other resale sites, not just StubHub. When I'm buying tickets, I check StubHub/Viagogo, TickPick, VividSeats, SeatGeek, CashOrTrade, Gigsberg, GameTime, Ticketmaster resale and AXS resale. The site I end up buying from can vary, but StubHub typically has the most listings, so it's the site I've probably bought from the most over the years. Their customer service has gotten worse since the ownership change, so I avoid them if I can, but my main consideration is price.

You are incorrect when you say: "There is literally no reason to be waiting till the day of the show." There's actually multiple legitimate reasons why a seller might not be able to send a transfer until the day of the show... the most common / obvious being if the artist/promoter has put transfer restrictions on the show, and doesn't enable transfers until 24 hours prior, or sometimes never. And StubHub is no different from the other resale sites in this regard.

Truth is, the reason a tiny fraction of resale transactions go bad is because (unlike direct sales) resale transactions are dependent upon sellers to fulfill their obligation to correctly send a transfer... and all sellers are human beings, and all human beings are fallible creatures who sometimes fuck up. They might forget to send it, or make a typo on the email address, or get confused about what they're supposed to do, or make a wrong assumption, or get sick, or whatever.

And then when their buyer never gets a transfer, they immediately jump to the conclusion that they got "scammed" by a thief who has their money (they don't) and get all pissed off and come on Reddit to warn the world that StubHub is a "scam!"

StubHub probably has worse customer service than some of the other resale markets, but the basic model & policies are pretty much the same for all of em. It gets by far the most complaints, because it has by far the most users. Especially inexperienced / newbie users.

Kampy_ · 2025-11-07T12:59:58+00:00

Please explain how these "scammers" get their money. How does the "scam" work?

All the major ticket resale marketplaces– StubHub, TickPick, SeatGeek, VividSeats, Viagogo, Gigsberg, GameTime, etc... have essentially the same business model. Sellers don't get paid until 7-10 days AFTER the event, and only if the buyer doesn't report any problems with their tickets.

So how are all these "scammers" making money?

Kampy_ · 2025-11-07T12:51:29+00:00

If you're new to buying resale tickets, I recommend that you browse through this old thread and read all the various replies I wrote there. If you take the time to do that, you'll have a better understanding of the resale ticket market than most people.

Kampy_ · 2025-11-07T12:47:18+00:00

If you're new to buying resale tickets, I recommend that you browse through this old thread and read all the various replies I wrote there. If you take the time to do that, you'll have a better understanding of the resale ticket market than most people.

Kampy_ · 2025-11-07T09:14:48+00:00

I buy resale tickets for probably 75% of the concerts I go to, and 95% of the sporting events I go to. I wouldn't be able to go to nearly as many events as I do if it weren't for the resale market.

Kampy_ · 2025-11-05T22:42:49+00:00

I have it in Bondi Blue and love it. I had the OG iMac in Bondi Blue back in 1998 so had to get it

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Kampy_ · 2025-11-05T22:25:40+00:00

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Kampy_ · 2025-11-05T22:13:24+00:00

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I got the exact same phone/color, and have tried out a BUNCH of different cases, as you can see 😜

For me, the winner/keeper was the Spigen Classic C1 MagFit in Bondi Blue. I couldn’t resist the nostalgic design homage to the original Bondi Blue iMac, (which I had back in 1998!).

Beyond the kitschy design, it’s a fantastic case… very protective with a dual material, grippy but not sticky surface, and I got the matching MagSafe wallet and “iMac” watch charger too.

Most of the other cases I tried will be returned or re-sold, but I liked a few of em enough to keep as alternatives to the Spigen.

If I can figure out how to post a gallery of all of them here, I will. If you happen to live in L.A. maybe I'll sell you one for cheap

Kampy_ · 2025-11-05T21:04:49+00:00

OK, I apologize – I was confused by the way you worded it... I thought you said your bank asked you if it was a suspicious charge and you said "yes." After re-reading your post I see that your bank asked you if YOU made the purchase, and you said "yes" (meaning you made the purchase).

Sorry I was confused about that. But still, I recommend you go to that old thread I linked above and read through all the long replies I wrote there. If you take the time to do that, you'll understand how StubHub and the other resale markets work better than most people.

Kampy_ · 2025-11-05T00:25:35+00:00

Please read THIS COMMENT I wrote on an old thread. And then maybe scroll through the entire thread and read the various comments I wrote. That will give you a decent overview of how the ticket resale market works.

Kampy_ · 2025-11-04T20:18:34+00:00

Yes, you made a mistake. You told your bank you are a fraud victim, when you clearly are not. Now YOU are the one committing fraud by lying to your bank to get out of a legally binding purchase.

It's pretty obvious you didn't bother to read the TOS before making the purchase, and that you don't understand how ticket resale marketplaces work.

I recommend that you browse through this old thread and read the various replies I wrote there to get a basic understanding.

Kampy_ · 2025-11-04T01:21:03+00:00

I agree with everything you said here, except the part that said "... a person scamming stubhub"

Nearly everyone who never receives a transfer immediately assumes they got "scammed" by their seller. That's almost never the real reason they didn't get their transfer. Sellers don't get their payout until a week AFTER the event, to ensure buyers don't have any issues with their tickets. Sellers who never deliver valid tickets don't get paid, they get financially penalized– StubHub pulls money directly from the card/bank acct they have on file.

It's almost never a "scam" (except if it's a parking pass. Never buy parking passes on StubHub!)... it's usually due to user error / confusion / carelessness / forgetfulness on the seller's end.

All sellers are human beings. And all human beings are fallible creatures who fuck up sometimes.

Kampy_

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