L.A. Day 1
With Marc's friend Andy getting married in
Camarillo, we took the opportunity to go a couple days early and visit Rob and
friends.
Clear Eye for the Straight
Guy
We got to Rob's place Thursday night and immediately remembered how we'd be paying him back for his hospitality. See, for a supercool top L.A. music producer, Rob's outer hipness is seriously lagging behind. While the plan for the long term is to do a full style makeover, the top priority for this short visit was picking him out some new glasses. He got his last pair 12 years ago, so it's definitely time for an upgrade. Here we are trying on over $10K worth of Cartiers...
... but in the end, Marc and I were strongly pulling for these Ann et Valentin's (spinoffs from one of our past favorite brands, Face a Face):
Afternoon <White Monkey> Tea
After a stressful morning of glasses-shopping, we met one of our favorites of Rob's friends, Kevin McCourt (unfortunately and ironically, Kevin's wife Susan couldn't join us since she was in Austin). We ate lunch at an awesome new-agey place that offered countless tea options including my favorite, Red Bush, and Marc and Kevin's pick, White Monkey. Here are Rob (note his out-of-date glasses) and Kevin, contemplating their tea options:
Universal Studios
Friday afternoon, we were in for a treat. Another favorite Rob-friend, Scott Gershin, is a sound supervisor for SounDelux, and invited us onto the Universal Lot to watch him mix the effects for the upcoming Vin Diesel movie, Chronicles of Riddick.. It was UNBELIEVABLE being on the set, seeing how much work goes into every single footstep, let alone fight scene, of a big budget movie like that. Look how many buttons there are to press (we can't show you what's on the big screen or we'll be sued for zillions of dollars)!
Eventually Marc and I figured out how to manipulate the hundreds of tracks through the 9 connected protools systems so they fired the 25 sound people under Scott and let us finish the movie:
Almost Famous
As if the day wasn't full enough of talented friends, we had dinner and hung out Friday evening with 14 year-old performing prodigy, Sebastian Mego (and his father Gus and puppy Tango). Rob has been working with Sebastian for about 2 years now and they are just a couple months away from presenting Sebastian's first album to some very eager record labels. He and his dad live in Rob's downstairs apartment and spend their days (when not home schooling) running from voice lesson to choreographer to recording session to everything else that turns an incredibly talented kid into a star. Marc and I heard some unfinished songs and know that soon, a lot more people will have heard of Sebastian. Here's Sebastian singing and dancing to his future hit R&B single, Hotty Hot:
Here he and Gus pose with the adorable Tango:
We got to Rob's place Thursday night and immediately remembered how we'd be paying him back for his hospitality. See, for a supercool top L.A. music producer, Rob's outer hipness is seriously lagging behind. While the plan for the long term is to do a full style makeover, the top priority for this short visit was picking him out some new glasses. He got his last pair 12 years ago, so it's definitely time for an upgrade. Here we are trying on over $10K worth of Cartiers...
... but in the end, Marc and I were strongly pulling for these Ann et Valentin's (spinoffs from one of our past favorite brands, Face a Face):
Afternoon <White Monkey> Tea
After a stressful morning of glasses-shopping, we met one of our favorites of Rob's friends, Kevin McCourt (unfortunately and ironically, Kevin's wife Susan couldn't join us since she was in Austin). We ate lunch at an awesome new-agey place that offered countless tea options including my favorite, Red Bush, and Marc and Kevin's pick, White Monkey. Here are Rob (note his out-of-date glasses) and Kevin, contemplating their tea options:
Universal Studios
Friday afternoon, we were in for a treat. Another favorite Rob-friend, Scott Gershin, is a sound supervisor for SounDelux, and invited us onto the Universal Lot to watch him mix the effects for the upcoming Vin Diesel movie, Chronicles of Riddick.. It was UNBELIEVABLE being on the set, seeing how much work goes into every single footstep, let alone fight scene, of a big budget movie like that. Look how many buttons there are to press (we can't show you what's on the big screen or we'll be sued for zillions of dollars)!
Eventually Marc and I figured out how to manipulate the hundreds of tracks through the 9 connected protools systems so they fired the 25 sound people under Scott and let us finish the movie:
Almost Famous
As if the day wasn't full enough of talented friends, we had dinner and hung out Friday evening with 14 year-old performing prodigy, Sebastian Mego (and his father Gus and puppy Tango). Rob has been working with Sebastian for about 2 years now and they are just a couple months away from presenting Sebastian's first album to some very eager record labels. He and his dad live in Rob's downstairs apartment and spend their days (when not home schooling) running from voice lesson to choreographer to recording session to everything else that turns an incredibly talented kid into a star. Marc and I heard some unfinished songs and know that soon, a lot more people will have heard of Sebastian. Here's Sebastian singing and dancing to his future hit R&B single, Hotty Hot:
Here he and Gus pose with the adorable Tango:
Posted: Fri - April 16, 2004 at 01:51 PM
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