10.18am - oatmeal w/ apple, walnuts and black sesame, at home
4.20pm - leftover Indian food and a fab LA weekly cover
It must be All Souls' Day or All Saints' Day today, since the Mexicans are celebrating their equivalent Dia de los Muertos. And this being LA, this is a big deal. The famous Hollywood Forever cemetery right behind Paramount Studios opens its gates for garish and exuberant celebrations, including the building of the traditional (and less traditional...) private altars right between the graves, Aztec dance performances, parades, live music, painting exhibits, food stalls and souvenir stalls selling all kinds of skull-and-bones paraphernalia.This is some eerie lighting right at the entrance of the cemetery - with Ritesh, Greg and Phinney.
Aztec dancing
a private altar
9.16pm - Was this the Aztec Lady of the Dead? And yes, that's my apple in front...
messages to the dead
an shrine to Frida
a shrine to Johnny Ramone, behind his actual grave! Yep, the man is buried right here..
10.27pm - a bean and cheese pupusa, while listening to some rancheras de Veracruz, still at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Ritesh's torta de carnitas with lots of chilies
inside the big Mausoleum
check out the urns behind the painting
the entrance to the big Mausoleum
costumes in the parade
Mexican skeleton on the right
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