Aug
29
Earlier this month I went to a party at the Standard Rooftop in Downtown L.A. for Shaun Reeves, Droog (who have recently launched their own record label, Culprit), Matías Aguayo (of Cómeme & Kompakt) and John Wander (of Roam Music). Music was great, met some new people as well. One of them is Yelva, and she does a fashion blog called Fashion Puttana. Another guy was James, or how I like to call him: T-bird James, and besides working at the Standard he is in the band Meho Plaza. Snapped some photos of these people with their tattoos or accessories.
Matías Aguayo spinning and singing as the sun begins to set
Matías’ whistle and awesome tattoo
The fabulous Yelva, showing off her Bowie cig-case
Close up shot of superhero Bowie
T-bird James with his T-bird Tattoo
Apr
08
At last, we got some dinner. We went to this hotel called U Hrnčiře that has a restaurant serving meat dishes and a large variety of vegetarian dishes. I read about it on WikiTravel, and I’m glad I had my meal here! I got some amazing soy goulash and potato pancakes. Both were quite spicy and very fresh looking and tasting. Petr ordered some pork but he ordered speaking (poor) czech and I don’t think the waiter understood. Actually when Petr ordered I could sense the waiter didn’t think he ordered an entree, and I told Petr but he said that no he got it. I got my food and then like 20 minutes pass and his pork hasn’t come yet, but he got his salad. I tell Petr to ask the waiter what’s up — but he’s being stubborn and not listening to me! Finally the waiter comes back again and he asks and yeah, there was never any pork ordered. So we waited another 20 minutes and it finally came. As soon as he finished we rushed out, hoping we’d catch a cab somewhere in this dead town that would take us to the train station to catch the next train (if we walked, we would have missed it). Luckily we found one!
Apr
08
From the cathedral we walked a few kilometers to the center of town in search of food. The cute pinkish buildings complimented the sky quite well. There weren’t many (any?) people around at all.
(Church of St. Barbara is to the right)
Apr
08
After the bone church I visited the Cathedral of Our Lady at Sedlec. Petr passed. Whenever I bought my ticket for the bone church I bought one that got admission to both places since it seemed cheap. It was okay I guess — I’m not much of a person for visiting cathedrals unless they are really extravagant. The Church of St. Barbara on the other end of town seemed much nicer from the outside and I would have rather visited that one than this, but it was getting late (like closing time) and at this point I didn’t even know where the other church was.
Apr
08
Took the train from Prague to Kutná Hora, with Petr. It was a short ride (about an hour). A very small town, not many people around at all. The main reason for coming to Kutná Hora was to visit the bone church or Sedlic Ossuary. Right after getting off the train we walked there (it’s pretty close to the train station). The chandelier was my favorite, can’t say I will ever see something like that again in my life.
Apr
07
I heard some Bach and Dvořák performed at the Rudolfinum’s Dvořák Hall. It was delightful. The hall was quite exquisite as well. This is my first classical music sort of concert. Funny how lots of people totally dress up really fancy like — I was wearing jeans and a hoodie. My roommate treated me as a thanks for computer help throughout the week. I have to admit that near the end of the performance I was kind of falling asleep … what can you do! But there were some moments that had my full attention as well. Long day… Oh yeah, they do encores at these types of concerts as well, in case you were wonderin’.
J. S. BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B flat major BWV 1051
J. S. BACH: Concerto in D major for three violins and orchestra BWV 1064
A. DVOŘÁK: Silent Woods for cello and orchestra op. 68
A. DVOŘÁK: String Quintet in G major op. 77 (arrangement)
Czech Chamber Orchestra
violin Jana Vlachová, Dana Vlachová, Maria Ericsson Vlach
cello Mikael Ericsson
rehearsed by Jana Vlachová
Apr
07
Various shots of Prague with the Vltava river.
Apr
07
Letna Park is marvelous. It’s high up and overlooks the city center. Most of the people hang out at the beer garden…. what else, what else… it’s just chill and kind of the daily place to hang out.
Apr
07
Wandered around Old Town, satiated my hunger with another plate of bulgar risotto from Lehká Hlava, enjoyed the sunshine in Letna Park, attended an art opening, walked along the water (kinda) and then winded down the evening with a classical music concert and some pasta (both treated to me by my roommate as a thanks for helping him with computer problems). A good day, I’d say!
Apr
07
Sooo I showed up to Blind Eye around 9:30pm on Sunday night and the bartender didn’t know anything about a DJ coming, but I explained to him my deal. Later on the owner was there for a second so it was all good. I managed to get three couchsurfers + three of their friends to come, so that’s six people that I brought– I feel good about that! Otherwise I guess at the best point of the night there were like 15-20 people in the bar. I got a maximum of 4 people dancing. Requests that I fulfilled: Blue Öyster Cult, The Clash, The Sex Pistols, Queen, Nirvana, and Led Zeppelin. Unfulfilled requests: System of a Down (never!), The Doors, Cream. The crowd generally had good taste. This girl gave me a shot of something that tasted like Goldschlagger. When I played the Ramones this guy came up to me and pointed to his Ramones shirt and was happy. I had a lot of fun and DJing made me happy. No pictures though…. just picture a mostly empty bar and me behind a DJ booth playing songs off my laptop and a cute bartender dude. Oh yeah at one point in the night these two cops came in and showed us all this picture of a man, apparently a murderer. They were looking for him. None of us had spotted this murderer. I have never witnessed police searching the streets for a murderer and showing a picture until now.
