Weekend Update

So I had a relatively eventful weekend ... Friday night Rebecca and I went to watch my friend Ken DJ at Mandrake Bar, where he spun mostly indie rock and electronica, and threw in a couple Lily Allen tracks for me. Thanks, K.

Saturday, we checked out the new exhibit showing at MOCA's Geffen Contemporary, titled WACK: Art and the Feminist Revolution. I know, admittedly, very little about art, and sometimes have a hard time appreciating modern art, but there were definitely a few pieces that I really enjoyed, most notably one made almost entirely of panty hose. The context of the exhibit was definitely something I could relate to, not just because I happen to be a woman, but because I follow the media quite closely, and it's still frighteningly easy to see how women are villified every day (try catching a flattering clip of Hillary Clinton on Fox News). Rebecca also pointed out that she's happy these women, mostly in the 70s, were willing to take crazy naked pictures of themselves and do weird performance pieces involving their vaginas so that people like us, 35 years later, could think unhesitatingly about grad school and lives without kids.

After the museum, we crossed the street into the Japanese Village in Little Tokyo, where I had an awesome cream puff for 75 cents at a Japanese bakery. We then realized that the tournament game was on, and found a tiny Cuban restaurant with a TV, where I had an awesome cafe con leche while I indulged Rebecca's allegiance to UCLA.

When that was over with, we went to my personal favorite sushi place, Hamakawa, an authentic, no-frills Little Tokyo staple that has the thickest, freshest fish I've ever had.

On Sunday, I finally made the trek to the Santa Monica stairs, which I've driven by several times and never had the guts to try, although I did a lot of stair workouts at USC. It's basically a steep wooden staircase that extends up a cliff overlooking the beach, although that's hardly what you focus on while navigating them. I did eight reps of the staircase, and needless to say, it's pretty difficult to walk around today.


*Image courtesy of latimes.com