Banksy Buzz

LA's been all about BANKSY recently. See the Oscar's are Sunday, and senor Banksy and his movie "Exit Through the Gift Shop" are up for Best Documentary.

"Crayola Shooter" on the Urban Outfitter's in Westwood -
which I walk by everyday

So "Banksy" has been tagging tinseltown for the last week and a half or so.  Annnnd, of the seven new Banksy works that popped up this month (that I know of), 4 of them are on the very route I commute on - or were, two have already been removed.  Pretty pretty awesome.


Okay The LA Banksy tour recap in case you want to wander around LA and check them out:  There are 5 still up that I know of.  "Crayola shooter" is still up in Westwood, "Livin' the Dream" - the billboard on Sunset has been taken down, "Charlie Brown arsonist" - which was on an abondoned burned down buidling in West Hollywood, was stolen or removed or something, "Dog Wizz" is in Beverly Hills and is still up, and I haven't seen the other three, "Kite Caution," "Crayola House Foreclosure," and "This looks a bit like an elephant" but I think they're still up. Recap photo from here.

Okay, where are they: Just click on the map to go to the actual google map for more precise locations.

UPDATE: "Kite Caution" and "Crayola House Foreclosure" are no more...gone...removed by thieves or the owner or something.

FRIDAZE

Morning music mix on the 6:46

LA River - view from the train

BANG BANG nancy sinatra
PARADISE CIRCLE massive attack
SHADOW OF A DOUBT sonic youth
AMERIMACKA thievery corporation
LEMONADE cocorosie
UTOPIA goldfrapp
LET ME TAKE YOU OUT class actress
GLORY BOX portishead
ELEPHANT WOMAN blonde redhead
ONE STEP TOO FAR faithless
BREATHE télépopmusik
ENDLESS SPRING houses

IN A BEAUTIFUL PLACE... boards of canada

CLIMBING UP THE WALLS radiohead (zero 7 mix)


Turns out trip hop really does it for me when stuck on public transportation in the morning.

What does not so much do it for me?  All the germ ridden denizens of the jam packed metro 720.  Come on people, dracula cough.  I'm not joking buddy, into the elbow nook.  I have never so actively avoided touching my eyes and mouth before - still, it will be a miracle if I avoid the flu this year.  For the first time, I'm actually considering getting the flu vaccine.

See I found this little bad boy on the LA County Department of Public Health's communicable disease website; and that chart's from this week. So looks like the number of sickies on the bus is only going to get worse.  By the way, let me tell you, that website is a hypochondriacs worst nightmare.  People in LA are getting all kinds of diseases...Typhoid, Malaria, Dengue, Hep A-Z, West Nile, parasites galore, Kawasaki Syndrome - I thought that was a motorcycle, but 70 people got it last year.  Okay, those diseases are pretty pretty rare, we're talking 10 million people in Los Angeles, but still typhoid? Whoa.  I'm not even going to get into the STDs, those numbers are crazy.

Wow, sorry about that, I'm studying epidemiology right now. One last music video.  Love the song and the music video's weirdly fitting and cool too.  Oh, and you should know, it might actually be impossible to keep Zach Braff in his wallpaper patterned shirt out of your head when listening to this song, just go with it.  Thanks Britain for all your great work in this genre.