Duke Fakir of the Four Tops accepting their Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award.
Teresa and I have an exciting weekend ahead of us. We’re thankful to have a couple of days to be together in Los Angeles. We’re also going to the Grammy Awards. It’s Teresa’s first time to go. It’s also Superchick’s first Grammy nomination. We have great anticipation for an exciting weekend.
We land in LA on Friday afternoon, get the rental car, and head straight for the Staples Center. We are picking up everyone’s Grammy tickets. We’re thinking this will be fifteen or twenty minutes, then we’ll get on with our day. Instead, we see a loooooong line that isn’t moving. Ultimately, we spend over two hours waiting in line to pick up the tickets. We then walk out to find it raining and us with no umbrella. No big deal. We get a little wet, but it’s still great to be here.
Teresa and I drive to the Sheraton Gateway Hotel, check in, then head to Santa Monica and Ocean Avenue Seafood for dinner. They have an oyster sampler that is very interesting. It features oysters from all over. It’s surprising the difference in the flavor of the different varieties. We are wiped out and head to the hotel to turn in for the night.
Saturday morning, we head back to Santa Monica and the Farmer’s Market. The colors and variety here are spectacular. It’s always interesting to see foods that you’ve never seen or even heard of before.
We land in LA on Friday afternoon, get the rental car, and head straight for the Staples Center. We are picking up everyone’s Grammy tickets. We’re thinking this will be fifteen or twenty minutes, then we’ll get on with our day. Instead, we see a loooooong line that isn’t moving. Ultimately, we spend over two hours waiting in line to pick up the tickets. We then walk out to find it raining and us with no umbrella. No big deal. We get a little wet, but it’s still great to be here.
Teresa and I drive to the Sheraton Gateway Hotel, check in, then head to Santa Monica and Ocean Avenue Seafood for dinner. They have an oyster sampler that is very interesting. It features oysters from all over. It’s surprising the difference in the flavor of the different varieties. We are wiped out and head to the hotel to turn in for the night.
Saturday morning, we head back to Santa Monica and the Farmer’s Market. The colors and variety here are spectacular. It’s always interesting to see foods that you’ve never seen or even heard of before.
We take a long walk along the beach line and grab lunch at Gates of India. The food is good. It is accompanied by a near constant, tense discussion between the husband and wife owners. We can’t understand what they’re saying, but neither one appears to be backing down.
Along the beach:
After taking Teresa to the hotel and making an airport run, it’s time to attend the Grammy nominees reception and Special Achievement Awards at Wilshire Ebell Theatre. This has always been a great event and tonight is no different. It’s so encouraging and uplifting to celebrate the lifetime work of so many great people – Brenda Lee, jazz pianist Hank Jones, the Four Tops, Leo Fender, A&R man George Avakian, Allen Toussaint, The Blind Boys of Alabama, and more. The show was followed by an incredible reception with great food and a chance to meet many of the people above, plus see many more friends.
Me with piano great Hank Jones, Dave with Grammy winner/actor Beau Bridges
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Is that multi-colored cauliflower??
Yes! There were various hybrids in different colors and shapes. We bought an unusual variety called Romanesco (www.flickr.com/photos/50298932@N00/87062184), brought it home, drizzled it with olive oil and roasted it. Delicious. Those are also orange, purple, white, and yellow carrots you see there.
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