#L.A.

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Cassandra Peterson AKA Elvira at the MTV music video awards, Los Angeles, September 7 1988 ⋆ ౨ৎ ˚ ˖ ࣪ Photographed by Michael Grecco and Barry King

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Here is the other video of Patrick drumming to New Found Glory

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Louise Huebner - Magic Sleep - Springbok - 1972

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Smilin' Jack, the Union Oil jack-o’-lantern in the Wilmington neighborhood of Los Angeles, 1952. While painting the 3.3-million gallon tank, workers noticed the lead-based orange primer they used had a very pumpkin-like hue. So they followed through on the Halloween vibe, and a paint job became a local tradition.

(USC Libraries)

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Robert Frank, Los Angeles, 1955-1956

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Francois Sagat for Bruce LaBruce's L.A. ZOMBIE (2010).

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Whisky a Go Go, located on the Sunset Strip, June 20 1975 ୨ৎ Photographed by Robert Landau

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As promised, it's My Peak Challenge photoshoot day in L.A., guys! I'll be getting info from my source later today, so stay tuned!

Refresher for anyone who missed my original post on the info I posted a few days ago. And an update below. Check it out. 👇

So, my source let me know today that there are around 15 MPC members participating, it's an all day photoshoot in Los Angeles, she doesn't know the location(s) yet, and all cell phones were taken until the end of the photoshoot. Waiting to find out if Sam Heughan will be there. But, as many of you have noted, he was posting online last night NOT on UK time anymore. Some speculate he could be back in New York for interviews, but since there is this MPC photoshoot confirmed today, many think he's in L.A. for it. Since I have this insider source, we will know FOR SURE later today.

Stay tuned...

PS. It's going to be a perfect L.A. Fall day in the high 70's today with lots of sunshine. Rain expected on Wednesday though. Sign that Sam is here? He always brings the Scottish rain hahaha.

Anyhoo, excited about today! ❤️

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Day Twenty-four: Best Picture Taken From a Concert

30 Day Band Challenge

It is not the best picture from any concert. And it's probably not the best picture from any GNR show either. But I love this picture because it was taken at the L.A. Street Scene Festival - in the city where this band came together. You can see every member in the shot, as well as the huge audience surrounded by buildings. You're seeing what they saw that night - you're on the stage with them in this photo. I particularly love the very bright, almost blinding light at the top of the picture. It just seems so appropriate. Like, these guys are going to be huge. These guys are going to be huge stars. Look at them. Watch this. Like a foreshadowing of what's to come. Rock and roll history. (I also love seeing all the big hair and the guy's outfits. If you didn't know where this photo was taken, you would definitely catch the time period.)

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Adam, magazine, V. 14, N. 2, Knight Pub., February 1970

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Carl Dobsky, "Birds of Paradise", 2016, oil on linen. B. 1972, American figurative painter currently living and working in the Los Angeles area. "Carl Dobsky’s ‘Birds of Paradise,’ from 2016, an apocalyptic, fall-of-Rome style painting of wealthy revelers at a hilltop pool party. They drink and take selfies while L.A. burns in the background." ―  Sharon Mizota, "LA Times"

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Wedding day

We're headed back to the west coast Wednesday to see the kids, eat an In-N-Out burger (animal style, of course) and help celebrate the marriage of Lord Huron guitarist Tom Renaud (LH's final bachelor) to Emily Murray.

We figured that since we witnessed the engagement - during sound-check, on the stage at Red Rocks on May 31, 2023 - it seemed only proper that we follow through.

The photo shows the big moment as a beaming guitarist/vocalist Brandon Walters looks on. Immediately afterward the LH crew served flutes of champagne to all present.

The relationship between LH's front man and Tom goes a lot deeper than LH How deep …? Sharon recently got a request from Tom's mom, Pat Rush, asking if we happened to have a photo of Tom and Benjamin together in nursery school.

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AVENGING ANGEL (1985)

Director: Robert Vincent O'Neil Cinematography: Peter Lyons Collister

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The Hollywood Sign

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duff and axl performing at the santa monica civic auditorium, L.A., august 30, 1986. photo credit: marc canter