r/silverlake

People please, I say this as a dog owner pick up after your dogs! This morning I saw a man with his dog off leash, he was not even keeping an eye on his dog. As his back was turned the dog pooped in the meadow & the owner immediately put his leash back on & walked out of the meadow 🤦🏽‍♀️ I was so excited when I found out dogs were finally allowed (on leash) in the meadow. However, if dog owners are going to act like this we really don’t deserve to be in that space. I also just saw a post yesterday of another dog biting a toddler & leaving without giving the parents any vaccine information about his dog. Do better folks.

My roommate and I have either severe food poisoning or cyclospora from the sweetgreen in silver lake. It is the only thing we both had of our recent food and we have been absolutely ravaged. Warning bc I would not wish this on my worst enemy.

I just took my kids to the sunset triangle Plaza event today and there were eight razor blades at the petting zoo that all these little toddlers could step on and the only employee I could find were a couple security guards who didn’t want to touch the razor blades to throw them away (which I get). There was also broken glass and bottles of booze right there at the petting zoo.

How did the person in charge not clean this area before setting up this event? Also, the petting zoo was pretty inhumane. The sheep and goats had no room to walk and there were two ducks and two chickens shoved inside of a crate that was the size for a small dog or a cat. This was very bizarre and I will definitely not be taking my kids to this again.

If you know anyone involved in this event, please lovingly pass this information along to them. I don’t think they meant to do any harm, but this was just a really badly organized event and a kid could’ve gotten hurt.

Update: I just spoke to a guy at Jewish Silver Lake and his stance was that it wasn’t their responsibility to clean the park and that it’s just like that. I told him they were the ones that put a children’s petting zoo there so they should have checked it. And he just said it should be the city’s responsibility. Wow!! I agree that the city should keep that park cleaner, but I also think if you’re choosing to host an event in a dirty park, you are responsible.

Passed by the now closed Heavy Handed (used to be All Day Baby) and there were some 70s Swingers Diner Americana Heart signs on the front saying Silverlake. Could we be getting a Swingers? 🤔

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Female in her 20s, Just moved to Silverlake after graduation and would love to make friends in the area. Any tips? Or anybody want to hang out?

Today at 3:45pm

An oral history of the Silversun Pickups’ era-defining indie rock classic “Lazy Eye.”

Twenty years ago, the indie-rock band Silversun Pickups released Carnavas, a debut album that went gold and rocketed the band out of the Silver Lake music scene they anchored. Fueled by lead single “Lazy Eye,” the band’s mix of ‘90s-style distortion-driven guitar rock and the simultaneously whispery and powerful vocals of frontman Brian Aubert, the band became a staple of pre-streaming FM radio stations across the country.

A catalyst for the album’s success was a music video for “Lazy Eye,” directed by longtime friend of the band, Suzie Vlček. An MTV2 fixture on its release, the video has since amassed 67 million views on YouTube over the two decades, dwarfing the view count of other seminal music videos from fellow KROQ / Indie 103.1 contemporaries like The Shins or Death Cab for Cutie.

The video, inspired by the 1970s film A Swedish Love Story, evoked the universal teenage feeling that a crush is a matter of life or death. Inside a packed bar filled almost exclusively with underage attendees, a teenage boy and girl trade furtive glances as the band plays a song about waiting for a life-altering moment. But it also captured a bygone era of Silver Lake, when cheap rents brought a symbiotic mix of working-class L.A. — Latino families, musicians, artists, and the LGBTQ community — to the hillside community east of Hollywood.

Read for free at https://lamaterial.com/p/silversun-pickups-lazy-eye-video