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I will be travelling to LA either later this year, or next year. Can anyone recommend any good hotels (nothing too expensive, but not tooooo cheap)? Also, can anyone recommend cool non-touristy things to do in LA or the surrounding areas? Thank you my lovely Nexian compadres. Peace Macre All things stated within this website by myself are expressly intended for entertainment purposes only.
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imo LA kinda sucks you could drive south and hit the beaches. or go clubbing if you are into that scene. as touristy as it is, you should hit up venice beach boardwalk. always entertaining. My wind instrument is the bong CHANGA IN THE BONGA! ๆจน
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analytical chemist
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Parshvik Chintan wrote:imo LA kinda sucks agreed "Nothing is true, everything is permitted." ~ hassan i sabbah "Experiments are the only means of attaining knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination." -Max Planck
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"No, seriously"
Posts: 7324 Joined: 18-Jan-2007 Last visit: 02-Nov-2024 Location: Orion Spur
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Every place can be a nice place if you know where to look, even LA. Once I was driving with my friend around LA and suddenly I saw a nice quiet road up into the hills, so we took that road and on that road we had a really nice view on Los Angeles, the Hollywood sign, the suburbs, downtown, etc. Turns out it was the famous Mulholland Drive used in several movies. Kind regards, The Traveler
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So you should go to Mulholland Drive Macre. After all, Traveler visited it, so it would be like your eyes meeting through time. And that would be neat. Every day I am thankful that I was introduced to psychedelic drugs.
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were off to see the jelly fox, he'll give us what we need.
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Head down to Venice beach to see alot of amazing artists, performers and skateboarders. 3rd street promenade in Santa Monica also has some cool talent and gathers a large crowd on the weekends. Check out INSOMNIAC if you want to go to some of the cooler shows and clubs in the area.
If you have a lot of free time and wanna go somewhere REALLY cool i recommend that ya drive down to Joshua Tree National Park. It's a great freeking park out in the desert and it is easy to spend a whole day there and have loads of fun. Only about 3-4 hours from basically anywhere in LA.
Theres also a lot of really cool beaches that have caves and such and aren't very crowded down the coast of Malibu.
Sadly in my opinion the best thing about LA is the weed haha.
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LA can be fun if you know where to look. If you like Rock and Roll visit the Rainbow Bar & Grill on the Sunset Strip, usually lots of rockers hang there and you have a good chance at meeting Lemmy from Motorhead if they are not on tour as that is his second home. He is a really nice guy btw. Griffith Observatory is a cool place to spend 1/2 a day or more, lots of cool sciency & astronomical things to look at an interact with (they have a Tesla Coil!) and the parking lot has a cool view of the Hollywood sign and some nice places to hike. The Hollywood Forever Cemetery is also a cool place to spend some time and search for and discover some of your favorite entertainment personalities who have passed into the great beyond. They have cool guided tours on the weekends and will show you around the grounds and the resting places of many names you will recognize. If you like dolphins and whales take a whale watch trip or hop over to Catalina island where there are lots of great places to hike or bike ride. The drive up the Malibu coast is also fun and scenic and you can stop at either Gladstones and/or Neptune's Net and grab a great seafood meal at a cool movie location (both have been featured in movies and TV.) There is also some nice hiking in the Topanga Canyon area and some really cool sandstone structures and caves in the Chatsworth area. Joshua Tree (mentioned above) is amazing and in the same general area is also Vasquez Rocks Park where they filmed Blazing Saddles, Star Trek, The Flintsones and tons of other movies and TV shows. Once you see a picture you will instantly recognize it if you watch movies and TV. Venice Beach is fun too and they recently opened a Freak Show on the boardwalk with lots of human oddity acts and sword swallowing, etc and seem to be really respectful of the "Freaks" they employ and of the history of the carnival shows and acts, they also have one of the largest displays of two headed animals in the world, so that is worth something I guess. Also, some Nexians live in and around the LA area, so perhaps give a shout out and hook up with some cool like minded people while you are visiting. Have fun and report back on your adventures. Let us declare nature to be legitimate. All plants should be declared legal, and all animals for that matter. The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous. โ Terence McKenna
All my posts are hypothetical and for educational/entertainment purposes, and are not an endorsement of said activities. SWIM (a fictional character based on other people) either obtained a license for said activity, did said activity where it is legal to do so, or as in most cases the activity is completely fictional.
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Definitely check out the Getty & LACMA. Sunset Beach and Malibu if you want some sun. As far as things to do... dates are important. Lots of good dancing in these parts. LA is a great place. Don't listen to the naysayers. ;-) "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." -A.Huxley
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benzyme wrote:Parshvik Chintan wrote:imo LA kinda sucks agreed Thirded. .well it's okay. Definatly go outside the city and see the mountains and stuff. ..If you can travel north. There is so much to see farther north in california..it would be a pitty to only see LA.. Long live the unwoke.
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Posts: 746 Joined: 30-Sep-2009 Last visit: 04-Apr-2024 Location: United Kingdom of Hyperspace
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Thank you all for your input, it is greatly appreciated. I know which hotel I'm staying in now, and I got a few plans. I will now be going mid 2014, which gives me plenty of budgeting and planning time. hixidom wrote:So you should go to Mulholland Drive Macre. After all, Traveler visited it, so it would be like your eyes meeting through time. And that would be neat. I already do this every day. I look through Trav's windows until I retreat back to my hideaway house-boat down the street. I watch him programme, in awe of his coding skills, and look through the glass as he tends to his cacti, dreaming of the day I'll say "Hello". Oh wait...did I say that out loud? I mean...errmm...yeah that would be cool Joking aside, I will be renting a car so I'm up for that. Peace Macre All things stated within this website by myself are expressly intended for entertainment purposes only.
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Booked it's cool because I asked my boss for two weeks off work, and he said no...take three weeks, and by the way I'm giving you a pay rise. I must be doing something right. So me and my girlfriend will be hitting up LA for three weeks later this year. My choice of hotel has changed though, because I was pushing the boat out with the Andaz West Hollywood, but three weeks is too much of a push for this hotel. I'm staying in a much cheaper hotel now, which is good in a way because we want to get out there and do things. I like the fact that some people love LA and some people...not so much. London is very much the same (in that respect). That's the thing I like about big cities, whether it's London, LA, Paris, Beijing...you get the good and the bad. Some people say "Oh man great place" other people say "No way man, hate it." I've traded in a uber-cool high end hotel for a more budget hotel, but I'll enjoy myself just as much. Peace Macre All things stated within this website by myself are expressly intended for entertainment purposes only.
All people in general, and users of this site are encouraged by myself, other members, and DMT-Nexus, to know and abide by the laws of the jurisdiction in which they are situated.
I, other members, and DMT-Nexus, do not condone or encourage the use, supply, or production of illegal drugs or controlled substances in any way whatsoever.
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Joshua Tree National Park โฆif you can rent a car (you kinda need a car in LA anyway) - about 1.5hrs outside if I remember correctly. Inside the city - lots of complete Lynch-esque insanity pretty much everywhere. I spent 2 weeks backpacking through there and while it is by no means my favorite city, it is unique. Kinda sad tooโฆ. tons and tons of lost souls, especially young girls that went out there to 'make it in the industry' and to put it kindly, didn't make it in the industry. Good side: Koreatown food, drive through the hills, some beaches are ok. I found ways to have a good time, despite the general ickiness โWhat goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant.โ - David Foster Wallace
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"L.A. is a nightmare place, man. You'll always meet this one guy out in L.A, you always โ this real smarmy guy. He always says this: "Yeah, I love calling back east January 1. 'What are all you doin'? Snowed in, huh? Bummer. Me? I'm out by the pool! Ha ha ha haaa!'" What a dick this guy is. It's why I used to love to call L.A. when I lived in New York: "What are y'all doin'? Talking to TV producers, huh? Bummer. Me? I'm reading a book! Yeah, we're thinkin' back East. Yeah, we're evolving. Is that the Big One I hear in the background? Bye, you lizard scum! Bye!" [whoosh] Ha ha ha ha! It's gone, it's gone, it's gone. It's gone. All the shitty shows are gone, all the idiots screamin' in the fuckin' wind are dead, I love it. Leaving nothing but a cool, beautiful serenity called โฆ Arizona Bay. Ha ha ha! That's right. When L.A. falls in the fuckin' ocean and is flushed away, all it will leave is Arizona Bay." -----The Immortal Bill Hicks Fear, belief, love phenomena that determined the course of our lives. These forces begin long before we are born and continue after we perish. We cross and recross our old paths like figure skaters; our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others. Past and present. And by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future. ---David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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The best gift you can give to another person is to be comfortable in your own skin, self acceptance , confidence . Leading by example . The best gift you can give yourself is becoming your true authentic self and finding happiness within yourself only the
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Not a huge fan of Los Angeles but ventura is really nice itโs about 1 hr away next county over going north on the 101 irs a beach community . Downtown and the pier and the the view from the cross. A few cute marinas also . Downtown ventura has some pretty cool bars as well live music and stuff and nice restaurants . Then trip up to ojai itโs a cute little town .
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The best gift you can give to another person is to be comfortable in your own skin, self acceptance , confidence . Leading by example . The best gift you can give yourself is becoming your true authentic self and finding happiness within yourself only the
Posts: 11 Joined: 07-Jan-2023 Last visit: 07-May-2024 Location: SoCal
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Not a huge fan of Los Angeles but ventura is really nice itโs about 1 hr away next county over going north on the 101 irs a beach community . Downtown and the pier and the the view from the cross. A few cute marinas also . Downtown ventura has some pretty cool bars as well live music and stuff and nice restaurants . Then trip up to ojai itโs a cute little town .
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Research & Development
Posts: 451 Joined: 12-Mar-2019 Last visit: 25-Oct-2024
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Nice double post bump of a 10 year old thread inquiring about destination recommendations lol. LA is WAY different now than it was in 2013. 🌳👨โ🔬🌳 - My A/B Hot Plate TEK - 🌳👨โ🔬🌳 🍜🍜🍜 - Don't Heat Your Naphtha, Heat Your Soup! - 🍜🍜🍜 โดโดโด - White Spice vs Yellow Spice - 🌟🌟🌟 "You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness." - Terence McKenna 🙌 "Dang, that's really impressive for a first extraction. Those xtals are nicely resolved." - Benzyme 🙌
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Yep. Much, much worse. Let us declare nature to be legitimate. All plants should be declared legal, and all animals for that matter. The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous. โ Terence McKenna
All my posts are hypothetical and for educational/entertainment purposes, and are not an endorsement of said activities. SWIM (a fictional character based on other people) either obtained a license for said activity, did said activity where it is legal to do so, or as in most cases the activity is completely fictional.
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Research & Development
Posts: 451 Joined: 12-Mar-2019 Last visit: 25-Oct-2024
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Same with my city of Baltimore, same with a lot of cities. 10 years ago I was visiting NYC 4-5 times a year. Haven't been back in a few years, not since COVID. No desire except to go get some tacos at the Chelsea Market. I wanna live in the woods... 🌳👨โ🔬🌳 - My A/B Hot Plate TEK - 🌳👨โ🔬🌳 🍜🍜🍜 - Don't Heat Your Naphtha, Heat Your Soup! - 🍜🍜🍜 โดโดโด - White Spice vs Yellow Spice - 🌟🌟🌟 "You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness." - Terence McKenna 🙌 "Dang, that's really impressive for a first extraction. Those xtals are nicely resolved." - Benzyme 🙌
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Wise words Toshido Let us declare nature to be legitimate. All plants should be declared legal, and all animals for that matter. The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous. โ Terence McKenna
All my posts are hypothetical and for educational/entertainment purposes, and are not an endorsement of said activities. SWIM (a fictional character based on other people) either obtained a license for said activity, did said activity where it is legal to do so, or as in most cases the activity is completely fictional.
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