Fun and weirdness

Thursday brought Jen and I to an outstanding free concert in Santa Monica. Santa Monica Pier has hosted live music every Thursday night this summer. This week's three bands: AciDa from Argentina, providing trip-hop in a good Massive Attack type of way, Sidestepper, contributing drum 'n' bass to the night, and Los Amigos Invisibles. I remember my invisible funky friends from a tour in, like, 1998 when they opened for Soul Coughing (RIP). A few years later, Los Amigos are just as good as the not-so-subtly lewd funk as they were back then, but now sing in English a little too. I'm still scared of what some of the Spanish lyrics on their first album might be going on about.

Now, contrast that fun with the segment this morning on the local ABC morning show. A cosmetic surgeon debuted a new chemical that works like collagen but doesn't need replacement injections as often by injecting two happy female volunteers in the face on live television.

LA still makes my brain hurt, but at least there's some good with the bad.