Los Angeles Trip Part II

So after having cream sodas and red ice teas with Ariel in silverlake at Intelligentsia we finally had to head over to Adam's to prepare for the interview/audition with ABC. We headed over there quickly and it felt good to have talked to Ariel about birthright Israel. We waited outside Adam's house and he came out looking like dapper dan in a dope ass suitjacket.

"Man you look like you're trying to 1up us!"

"Well I gotta look better then you guys."

Then we darted over to the disney/abc building after driving through a bunch of hollywood sets, colombia records, elektra records, warner brothers studios.
We finally got to the right building holding up the sign ABC.
They guy at the toll booth took all of our ids in order to confirm that we had an appointment. Noah, Trevor, and Mason gave him their driver's licenses and I gave him my school id. Everyone got a kick out of that. As we entered the premisis of the ABC buildings we noticed that the overhang of the main office building was being held up by the seven dwarves. In addition to the dwarves, the elevator to the parking garage had a huge mickey mouse wizard hat on it.
We entered the meeting with a great deal of nervousness due to the fact that the man who was interviewing us was fairly intimidating and had a strong personality. The music directors from the licensing department were awesome though. The meeting in short went fairly well. We played our asses off (swagger) when at the 2/3 mark of the meeting the emmy winning boss asked us to play. We were awkward in the first half, but towards the 2nd half of the interview we started warming up to them and we had a few good laughs and the left the audition with a feeling of strength.

A Recent Los Angeles Trip

On sunday at 2pm we met up at the practice space packed up two guitars, a tamborine, a shaker, and a couple bags and began our long journey to los angeles. It took us a long time because we made a couple stops (In-N-Out Burger and Santa Barbara hellz yeah). Noah's a vegetarian so it sucked for him when we bought juice burgers, but he said he was content eating snacky chip things that you'd buy at the average gas station. So we rolled into Los Angeles after a grueling 6 1/2 hour drive and we met up with Adam at his apartment in Silverlake. He gave us the itinerary for the next day. So after receiving all the information and seeing our manager in the most casual clothes we'd ever seen him in we decided to get to our hotel finally and drop all of our shit off. We snuck in through our Motel 6 off of hollywood without them knowing that we had been stuffing 4 people into one room (via the underground parking garage). After we dropped our stuff off we grabbed some food at this local pizza place (the pizzas were huge and i ended up getting a gyros). After walking down hollywood for a while Mason and the rest of us ran into a funny situation.

He saw some friends of ours who we knew were visiting in La driving down Hollywood blvd. We called them and met up with them in their green volvo. It was shocking. After wasting an hr with our lunatic friends Mason and I eventually got back to the hotel in one piece and we all crashed at about 12. I was so nervous about our audition with ABC TELEVISION the next day that i barely slept at all that night. The next morning we rolled out of bed at 8:30 and got our beautiful faces on for the meeting with ABC and breakfast with Adam. We went to this spot that we'd been twice before the last trip. It was a sweet burger joint in Los Feliz (where the real culture is) called fred 62.
Adam, Mason, and I got this thing called Strawberry Berret.
It was waffles covers in delicious strawberries and whipped cream. Yum!
After that we killed some time with Adam and drove down to some wonderful stores in Echo Park. We passed Sunset Lodge which was the recording studio that we recorded our new -EP- at. The first store in Echo Park we went to was filled with all this old style stuff. They had 3D glasses, dinosaur eggs, old posters, flint, gold pens, soap, funny shit idk. It was intriguing. The girl that worked there (Noah and I came to the conclusion) was super beautiful and that he should've gotten her phone number. After that store we went to a pawn shop that had a gnarly buzz in door where trevor got a really sweet drum symbol for way cheaper then it was worth. There were some gnarly cholos walking in there who looked like they had stolen the shit they were about to sell to the seedy pawn shop. Then we went to American Vintage across the street where Noah bought this rad black members only jacket. He is officially ready for the disco. After that we met up with our producer of the new -ep- at this cool coffee shop and talked about music and the world.

I'm going to have to talk about the ABC interview in the next blogpost.
Anyway goodnight everyone.
Love,
-jordy

day 1

we just got to los angeles after a really fast 5 hr drive (not for us but it seemed quicker then the last few times we've been here). we checked into our hotel and finally gave adam the managerial contract. it has been so long since he sent it to us, so that is a big accomplishment to finally have confirmed that we have ADAM LEVIN @ adult supervision (hahahah) as our manager. He is a good bro. for sure. We're staying at a Super 8 in Hollywood. it has no internet, so we had to walk to a coffee shop on Hollywood Blvd. to do that. It's called SABOR Y CULTURA. The man has an afro. He's a good man. yes we are wifi"in it up. all kinds. trevor our is in santa barbara with SAM visiting his cousin and dj. Tonight is the show in silverlake and we are kinda groggy but we will do fine. Mason informed me that the bands we're playing with are really prog and played at pergolesi once this month. We are about to go get food at some diner with adam and my dad. Hope all is well in santa cruz. later,

-jordy + mason