Gold Panda, Beatnik Jr, and Kenneth Nahokulani Designs

a weekend full of friends, fashion, and music started on a rainy Thursday afternoon. I was late as usual, laying in my bed taking pictures out windows and thinking about words.

The rain washed away the event i was scheduled to model at on thursday night, but the beautiful and talented jewelery designer Kenneth Nahokulani, who i affectionately call "kenny" sent me a last min txt, telling me to come for dress rehearsal and red wine. i never say no to wine or dress up. who can?
Necklace designed by Kenneth Nahokulani
http://www.kikidesignsla.com

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friday i joined up with a crew i like to call " the casa boys," because they all live in my building, the casa, the melrose place of the modern age. We drank some wine and ventured out to the mint on pico in west la. the mint was having some indie hip-hop vs. indie rock battle. the black crystal wolf kids played, and covered lcd soundsystem and mgmt. i'd heard them before somewhere, perhaps playing a show with my friends in the band wires in the walls. it really is small small world of music and bands.
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when i think of Saturday, the word that come to mind is "grateful." I got to to see my wonderful friend's band beatnik jr. play at the boogie den in downtown la. the boggie den is one of those "you have to know about it and not be scared of east la to find it" type of places. parking there, between two tagged trees in a dirty ally was halarious and beautiful, kind of like everyone at the show.the grittyness of it all it might have scared my adorable girl friends, but made me smile. i love dirty, dancy, indie la. one inside my eyes filled with familiar faces, sounds and smells. the band tuning up, the pretty girls picking through the vintage clothes that where for sale by the pound, the smell of pbr spilling out of silly hands. its felt like home...


photos of the beatnik show at the boogie den. hear there music at beatnikjr.com

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then, as only the truly ambitious, will do, i decided to go out again on sunday night to check out a gold panda set at the trubador. i needed to dance myself clean.

that's all of now...i gotta get up early and go work on a music video tomorrow.
xoxo,
Tessa Face