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she replied, “take Fountain.”

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while driving home up La Brea from my dentist this morning I passed by my favorite corner junk yard

and i saw what appeared to be the the sign from Lemmy’s favorite bar, The Rainbow

so i did a u-turn, took a picture, and put it on my social media and then drove north by northwest to the Sunset Strip to investigate!

and Lo, the Rainbow sign is perfectly in tack. So what gives?

According to Joaquin Reyna-Donaldson, co-owner of Echo Park’s Little Joy Cocktails, the sign for sale is a Hollywood prop!

Joaquin says, “that’s from shitty film Rock of Ages. not the real bar. i looked into it.”

and looking at the very beginning of this scene (to the left), yep there it is

crisis averted

the Egyptian was actually built before Grauman’s Chinese in 1922 and it was such a hit they decided to build the Chinese a few blocks away in 1927

Geoff Boucher formerly of Hero Complex now works at Entertainment Weekly, and one thing he’s great at is doing special movie deals

yesterday was Star Wars Day so he arranged for a sweet 35mm print to be shown at the Egyptian

we sat next to Princess Leia in the balcony

she introduced us to this nice Jedi jentleman

speaking of Jedi’s, because its Hollywood, Luke Skywalker showed up and told us everything

the ceiling of the Egyptian reminded me of Jabba the Hut’s trap door, but you know, on a ceiling

we had a great time. thanks Chris for getting the tix and Geoff Boucher for doing these cool film deals.

oh and George Lucas for changing things up a little after American Graffiti.

at the hollywood palladium, in LA

and why does even montebello, qc get them for two nights but we only get them for one night,

#thanksobama

i was like hmmmm i have a busy day ahead of me

first i have to follow up on Maria Menudos to make sure everythings ok with her

she said, but it’s supposed to be 90 degrees and its only May 2!

i said, i know i know, but i also have to check in on eric garcetti who’s running for mayor in an unusual way

she was all, sure, but they have these rafts that come with thong-clad girls who will ride with you

i said what? she was all yeah. the girls are free but the pictures cost $200.

i said but then i have to get a few new baseball caps cuz the ones i currently have are really bad luck

and moxie was all, on thursdays they crank the pool up to 99 degrees because they dont have a hot tub

and i was all but they just opened a top shop at the grove!

and she was all you handsome stud, with that new beard you just need some chopper one shades and a smile

but i was thinking about seeing the Iron Man Marathon and then the midnight screening of Iron Man 3

and Mox was like, in fact i hear the hilarious, adorable, and famous tastemakers Alie ‘n Georgia might be there

she added, in fact isnt that them waving from those choice seats pool side on the 50 yard line?

i was all yeah but i havent seen The Croods yet and my gf Emma Stone is getting pissed

so i went to the Croods (it was good) but THANK YOU FOR INVITING ME MOXIE!!!!! MAYBE NEXT TIME!

had lunch with a famous LA Times journalist at the redwood bar, then scooted over to hollywood and highland

because glenda and her pal raymond were in town to buy lightsaber shaped e-cigarette pipe deals

then had thai with the beautiful elaine cha at heartbreak thai which now sports some new Groenings

but the biggest part of my day wasnt waiting to get the phone number of this nice young lady dressed as something

nor was it how joyful i was at how many people tweeted my anti cyclavia post

nor was it eating all you can eat wings at hooters with said glenda and raymond

no, it was finally getting past episode 5 in Candy Crush thanks to patience, patience and really good luck.

its now 5:44am so maybe i should call it a day.

g’day!

it was fun.

i love the Roxy tons, and who has anything bad to say about the Sunset Strip?

a bunch of lowriders were there.

they had munchies and people wearing cool tshirts

cheech and chong were nice to everyone and still funny as hell

everything was weed related even the food truck

which i assumed so i wore my green pumas

even the (free) drink menu was stoney – including the wristband

it was nice to see Lou Adler there, owner of the Roxy, longtime producer of Cheech & Chong. but he ran back to the Laker game.

but not before snapping some pics with the boys.

Ron Jeremy was there so i asked him about the LA Times story that said only 2 XXX movies have been (legally) shot in LA since the controversial “Condoms Only on Porn Sets” ordinance.

The Hedgehog says he doesnt smoke weed. And strangely during the movie I smelled less weed in the Roxy than I’ve ever smelled in there for anything. ironic, dontcha think?

however if what they mean by “entering this area” is “walking down hollywood blvd.”

then no, sorry charlie, i havent agreed to squat.

#CantWaitToSueYou

Here are a few segments from the interview conducted by Jim Walsh, of Minnesota’s City Pages

Time:  I understand you’re in the Middle East?

Tommy Stinson: Yeah, Abu Dhabi.

What are you doing there?

I have no f—ing clue. We have a show here.

It’s hard to imagine Guns N’ Roses in Abu Dhabi. How are you received there?

Surprisingly well, actually. We played here five years ago and we did good. We played in front of something like 35,000 people. It was part of the F1 series that was going. We do good. It’s weird. Every time I think we’re going to the weirdest place possible, we end up going somewhere even weirder. We’re going to Beirut. There’s a civil war happening, I think. Our gig is already hotly protested. I’m looking forward to it not really at all.

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Every time you or Paul mentions in an interview that you might get the Replacements back together, your fans go nuts. Do you really think it will happen?

I think if we think we’re having fun and it made sense and the music we were making was fun, we would do it. If it became too much of a nightmare, we wouldn’t. We want to enjoy ourselves, make some people happy, do our bit — not make a nightmare. Paul has more at stake, as he has more real feelings about it. He’s more reticent. He’s a singer. He doesn’t want to go out and compete with his 25-year old self. He’s 50. But if he could go out and have fun without the pressures and personal demons of competing with himself, I think he would.

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Is that the craziest thing you guys ever did?

God, no.

What was?

One time, Paul and I had a cab driver drive us backwards all the way to this bar Small’s, which was on Gower and Melrose. He actually did it! All the way. Three miles. We told him we’d give him an extra hundred bucks if he would do it, and he and went in reverse the whole way.