Hi All
Ok, I know I haven't posted anything in a looong time, but I'm breaking out of my self imposed exile. Just starting off with a little meetup at Lost Leaf bar. So come on down for a beer, a glass of wine, or just to hang out and toss around ideas for future meetups or whatever else

Hope to see you there

What else you gonna do on a Sunday night???

Come out and have fun while we listen to the Red Elvises! You will have fun, really.
Tickets are $10.00 and doors open at 8:00 p.m.

Check out the Red Elvises site.

The Red Elvises are a Russian-American band that performs rock & roll, surf, rockabilly, reggae, lounge and traditional Russian styles of music. They were founded in California in the mid 1990s and are based in Santa Monica.
The Red Elvises were founded in 1995 by Igor Yuzov and Oleg Bernov, two Russians living in Los Angeles, California. Igor and Oleg met during a Russian-American peace walk and subsequently played together in a Russian folk-rock band called Limpopo. The band’s third original member, guitarist Zhenya Kolykhanov (he later legally changed his last name to “Rock”), had also emigrated to U.S. and had been spending time playing in Texas. For the first few months Andrey Baranov was the band’s drummer, but within that year, the first American in the band, drummer Avi Sills from Austin, Texas, was added to the lineup. The four of them got their start playing on Santa Monica’s 3rd Street Promenade.
- There's also a pre show pizza & brews Meetup at La Grande Orange!

Come on out for dinner, drinks* & diatribe. Sure the election is over, but the economy is in the tank, and it's the holiday season - so there's plenty to vent about. Plus I'll have just crossed another year mark closer to becoming a curmudgeon, so I'm sure I'll have plenty of fuel for the conversation.

Pita J has a Mediterranean themed menu and many vegetarian friendly options.

www.pitajungle.com

Hope to see you there
paul

*beer & wine

Come out for some spicy (or mild) Thai food and some feisty (or just humorous) dialogue at Malee's Thai Bistro at Desert Ridge. I've heard great reviews for this place - so I'm sure the food and the conversation will be stimulating, stunning and divine.
This will (probably) be the last get together before the big election, so come out and express your hopes, your fears and get in your best Palin jokes before she traipses off into obscurity... awwwhhh =-(

or prances into The White House? =^O

Either way I'm sure we're on the cusp of a wild ride.

Hope to see you there!
paul

Vampire Weekend Concert

Who? Vampire Weekend

Where? Marquee Theater. Go here.

Check them out here

Vampire Weekend gained attention via a variety of blogs, such as Stereogum. The band is influenced by both African popular music and Western classical music, describing their genre of music as "Upper West Side Soweto," performing such songs as "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa," which references Congolese soukous music.

The members of the band met while attending Columbia University; they then self-produced their first album after graduation while concurrently working full-time jobs. Lead vocalist Ezra Koenig and drummer Chris Tomson first collaborated as members of the comedy-rap band "L'Homme Run."