Love Lexa: love #3

Welcome to this week's list. Let's take a look at what we're loving.

1. Love the Self Realization Fellowship in Mt. Washington. While it's not as fancy and flashy as Pacific Palisades location, it's lovely and peaceful, with a stunning view of #dtla and a relaxing garden.

I especially loved this hibiscus.

2. Love that Good Girl Dinette in Highland Park is serving breakfast now.

Summer vegetables in cream with coddled egg. That's a lemongrass leaf poking it.

3. Love the new album by Phosphorescent. Is it really new? Not sure. Love the haunting vocals and echo-y slide guitar. It's music to play when you're hiking in the L.A. canyons, keeping your eyes out for coyotes and rattlesnakes--which I do a lot, now that I have a dog who is the size of a large, juicy and delicious raccoon.

4. Love this poster for A Band Called Death. I really wanted to check this out during its run at Cinefamily, but I can't do everything, people. Will definitely check it out when it comes round to streaming.

5. Love this photo of Heart. And their rendition of "Stairway to Heaven" at the Kennedy Center Honors. I get chills when I think of it--and I'm not exaggerating.

6. And I love these photos of baby sea lions rolling around in the sand for sun protection.

Photos via abcnews.com

7. Love Book Soup. Haven't been here in ages, so I swung by Sunday on the way to brunch. This place reminds me so much of being new to L.A. Back in 2000, I was so excited for the release of Mark Danielewski's House of Leaves, and went here to buy it. Also got a ticket for parking on a hill and not turning my wheels towards (or away from?) the curb. I still can't figure those signs out.

So it was only fitting that I picked up...

8. The Fifty Year Sword. Danielewski has performed this work as a show for the past couple of years at REDCAT on Halloween, where he "conducts" a choir of actors who all read the story. And I got the inside scoop that it won't be coming back this year, so I feel like I got to see something special.

9. Love the Velasalavay Panorama. Have you ever been here? It's an oddball, little place down in the neighborhood of USC, a theater nestled amid classic old L.A. Craftsmans. It houses a resident panorama--currently an Arctic-themed "Effulgence of the North."

I recently saw the visiting exhibit, Be Kind: A Visual History of Humane Education: 1880-1945, created by the National Museum of Animals and Society.