My purple suede coat was featured in this colorful treasury “A Coat Of Every Color”, don’t you just love a colorful coat? Much better than a boring ole’ black one in my opinion! I personally have a red coat, green coat, blue coat, and black and white striped coat! I don’t even own a black one!

My favorite over-sized green purse was featured in this green themed treasury “Going Green”

My old briefcase with the umbrella/parasol holder is featured in this red themed treasury “Red and Friends”, this is probably the most unique item I’ve sold, I’ve never come across anything like it since finding it for myself years ago.

And finally, a treasury for boot lovers everywhere “My Feet Love Boots”  features my brown suede gogo boots with the wave inset.

As always you can get any of the items featured in treasuries at a discount, just visit the treasury links to find the 15% off code!  Don’t forget to visit The Frill Of It on Etsy and Facebook too!

When I first joined Klout I was surprised to see that I had been influential about Los Angeles (true), Music (true) and unicorns. Whaaaaaa!?!?! It seemed so random. I don’t even remember talking about them. I did have a pretty sweet business card with one on it for a while, but I hardly remember talking about it, it was one of those you have to have been given one to know kind of things. I was also kind of sad to see that Klout didn’t put social media or DTLA on there, those are usually the #1 things that people tell me I’m an expert in. Funny methodology there Klout but ok. . .

Perhaps because it’s so funny that it’s on there in the first place my friends have taken it upon themselves to give me “+K” in unicorns.  So today when the topic pages were debuted (to 5% of users only, and I’m one of them, neener neener neener!)

I of course went to see if I made it to the influential users list for that topic. No such luck.

Apparently unicorns are a very popular topic and I didn’t even make it to the top 10! Not only did I not make it into the top 10 but I’m not even listed as one of the people that received the most +K in that category.

Who knew unicorns were such a popular topic on social media!

Interestingly, there isn’t any popular content listed for unicorns, which leads me to believe that just like my own account that the other people listed as experts in this field aren’t talking about unicorns either.

This whole unicorns thing has really made me wonder about the accuracy of Klout and their scoring. I’m not complaining though, MetroMint sent me a case of their water to try through the Klout Perks program and I’m a fan for life now. Big fan of the Chocolate Mint water, and all of the other ones too actually! (Though I can’t recommend the GoodBerryMint one, blech!)

Anyway, it would be pretty hard to get into the top 10 for Los Angeles, Social Media, or Music, as most of those spots are filled with businesses related to those industries (LA Weekly, LA Times, Mashable, The Next Web, etc.) but dammit if Klout isn’t going to list me as an expert in DTLA then I want to be at the top of the unicorns list!

So if you’re on Klout and are feeling generous give me a +K or two. ;)

P.S. the business card:

Saturday went to lunch at the “Hideout” then headed to Fry’s were baby needed to get a new mouse. Fry’s kills us with all the candy and random crap you can buy in line for the registers, we resisted but I couldn’t resist all the gumball machines at the exit. There was one machine that had “bling” and hoping we would get a dollar sign on a chain we went for it and got a manly gold ring, boo!  I gave it baby and he put it on his pinky and then I tried again for the chain. I got the same ring! A sign we figured so they are our promise rings now :P

(We’re still trying to come up with a clever nickname for him on the blog, but baby will have to do for now)

Later that night I spotted this cutie on 6th street:

On Labor Day I spotted this cute couple walking up 5th, the were holding hands and laughing, they looked so happy I couldn’t resist documenting it!  <3!

Tuesday after an appoinment (remind me not to make appointments at 7am anymore!) I took a walk around Skid Row, it’s one of my favorite parts of Downtown, everyone is very nice and there is lots of cool stuff to see. A nice man hosing off the sidewalk told me to have a lovely day :)

I’m particularly fond of Wall Street in front of the LAPD Central Division, a lovely block of SRO’s that are well kept.  Especially pretty after dark when they light up their neon signs.  Drive by one day and you’ll see.  Totally safe too.

Spotted this on Maple:

I’ve never seen so many like that! Does anyone REALLY know what the shoe thing is about? Don’t tell me it’s drugs either because remember I was on Skid Row, no need to mark territory there!

Spotted these street art pieces on Main:

John Boehner:

Thursday I went to the launch party for Blendr, it’s a fun social networking app from the company who brought you Grindr. It’s very cool and is going to be huge, I’m proud to call one of the developers my dear friend :) Anyway, they had a whole “Blendr” themed party atop the London Hotel in West Hollywood,

everything was their signature turqoise blue and they even had a special “Blendr” cocktail. At the end we were treated to some tasty cupcakes, I made sure to grab a personalized one. Yum!

Discovered some new music this week, Donny Hathaway’s version of the Blood Sweat & Tears song “I love you more than you ever know”.

Which reminded me about this other cool version I found the other day by Aldo Venucci.

The original is one of my favorites, glad to know there is more great versions out there!

Lot of great tracks from DailyDigger, all heavy on the samples, and all super clean on the editing and production, but this one with the great break beats and harp sounds was my favorite.  Make sure to hear the rest of what he us, every track is good!
Shoulda Known by Daily Digger

One of the best tracks I’ve been sent, this song has some great chopping/sampling.  This one is enjoyed best with headphones.  Riddlore has lots of other great songs available on his account, I recommend the ones without the rapping over them.
Tell me morphine by riddlore

My friend Ervin from Root Down and a little break-dancing crew you may have heard of, Rock Steady Crew, shared this mix with me that he made as a promo for his “Low Key” event that he throws every Wednesday at Carbon Bar in Culver City. Plenty of throwbacks and classics in this one, it’s dope! Make sure to follow his blog as well, in addition to being a dancer and dj he is also a great photographer!
http://ervinarana.blogspot.com
Low Key (Promo Mix) by ErvinArana

I’ve never been a house head but in the last year I’ve been invited to some great after hours that played house and I’m really loving the great vibe and the wonderful people in that scene. I’m definitely a novice in this genre, but good music is good music and this mix I was sent is pretty great.  Not too bass-y, soulful.
BABY POWDER X by djlife

Let me know what you think about them all!

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I’ve been looking back at the things I’ve done (accomplished?) in the last few years and start to wish I had chosen a different path.  Red pill, blue pill.  But then I realize that had I not taken the road I chose to take (right or wrong?) I wouldn’t have ended up where I am today (and who knows where I would be if I had taken a different path?).  I realize that hard as it can be sometimes to be here, I really like where I am right now.  This is where I’m supposed to be, this is the starting point to my destination.