KEY POINTS:
Friday night drinks? Meet me at:
El Compadre, home of the flaming marguerita, or Malo, home to 150 different tequilas.
Where I'll be wearing my new:
Sombrero.
And this weekend I'm planning on:
Watching Arsenal play Liverpool on the Fox soccer channel and catching some radical indie flick at the AFI Film Festival.
But first I'll need to refuel at my favourite cafe:
Urth Caffe on Melrose which is very, very cool and very organic.
Saturday evening. If my dreams came true there would be a gig by:
The Knife, the new sensation from Sweden, playing a sold-out show at the El Rey.
But if there's nothing else doing I'll probably just:
Sleep after a work week from hell.
On my stereo/headphones right now is:
New Ozomatli (which is unreleased as yet), Goldfrapp, Tim Finn's Imaginary Kingdom, Sarah Brightman's Diva and Porcelain and the Tramps.
The books I can't put down are:
The New Pearl Harbour: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11.
The TV show I take the phone off the hook for:
Studio 60, the brand new soap/drama by Aaron Sorkin of West Wing fame. It's TV for intelligent people which is a rarity.
The movie I've been dying to see:
The latest Tartan Asia extreme release Triad Election or Shutter. If you haven't seen Park Chan Wook's Old Boy, you haven't lived.
A non-cooking Monday night means takeaways from:
Zankous Falafel Chicken on Hollywood Blvd.
Or a splash-out Wednesday night restaurant would be:
Ago Restaurant on Melrose, a West Hollywood hang-out owned by Robert De Niro, Ridley Scott and Harvey Weinstein.
* Bruce Kirkland is home for the NZ Music Industry Commission's Warrant of Fitness seminars on Nov 22-25. He is founder of Tsunami Entertainment.\
