I had no expectations going into this Friday. I had resigned myself to maybe a dinner out and some tivo. But then I came across a blurb on the LAist about this Surf & Skate auction at Bergamot Station -- the first in the Venice Art Walk & Auctions series. Interesting, I thought. We would definitely be the square-est people there, assuming there were people there, which there might not be, and that would just be awk. And it could definitely get weird; I mean, it's an art thing, and it involves Venice. But. Imagine the people watching. Maybe Tree Man will show up. So much potential there....
So we went. And it was awesome.
The show and auction took place at Track 16, one of the galleries at Bergamot Station (the largest group of art galleries on the West Side). All the displayed boards were designed and created by local artists, and most of them were really reasonably priced (many of them went for around $100-200). They also had a 50's-style diner car inside the gallery for all your PBR-drinking needs, and a DJ playing weird electronica. Totally set the scene.
After perusing all the people art, and having a drink in the diner car, we took a food-truck break. (Obviously there were food trucks. Did you really expect that guy in the cheetah-skull jean jacket to eat food off of a real plate?) We went with the Lobsta Truck because Brian had read a rave review on Urban Daddy, and let me just tell you, YOU NEED TO FIND THIS TRUCK NOW. Seriously. It's worth creating a Twitter account just to track the whereabouts of this truck so that you, too, can experience the sweet, sweet buttery joy of the Lobsta Truck lobster roll. We went back and gave them a giant tip after we finished our roll because it was just that good.
And then when the auction ended, we went home and drank wine along with Anthony Bourdain while he drunkenly stumbled through some other third-world country, as he does.
How's that for date night?
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