day 4: second day in los angeles

we woke up this morning and went down to that same cafe to eat. we would be doing some shooting for a website called white canvas, who i don't think are up and running yet. they picked us up and took us to griffith where we hiked up into the hills and played around. when i say 'they' i mean 'three people'. they were very nice but maybe a little too nice. they kept trying to be helpful and kept asking things and seeing if we were okay. i felt like a celebrity, it was uncomfortable. the hills were somewhat burned up because of some fire a number of months ago. we climbed up a hill and played music in a tree. then we did a faery reading for each other under these gnarled tree branches. after this it was nearly 1 pm and we had another compromise. so we finished and they took us back to silver lake. i fell asleep and when i woke up we were lost. finally we got to the house and paul, the manager of danielle's label, was waiting at the house. paul was super nice and very funny. he is a stylist by day and runs the label on the side. it is called manimal vinyl. he took us to a radio station. we would be playing some music on indie 103 and voices voices would be joining us. we showed up and moved all our gear in. it took us a little bit to set up. we played and it was good and fine. after this we all went to a english pub called cat and fiddle. by this time, my friend maranatha was supposed to come pick me up. she got lost for a little bit. she finally got there and i was very happy to see her. she taught english in prague with me. we left for her house in riverside and then i decided i hated los angeles. it took us an hour and a half to get there. traffic was terrible. even at night. having a car is the worst. we got to riverside and had dinner with some of her friends. there i met an aaron roche who turned out to be a very good musician. i listened to some of his music later and really liked it. we left and that night i fell asleep on the floor of maranatha's bedroom.