I was standing outside for a quick selfie in front of the marquis before I rushed in late because I had had to go to the dispensary before the show began and the guy next to me says can I take a picture of you?
At first I said, No. But then I reconsidered, Why not? He’s offering.
And so I hand him my phone and he takes it from me, balancing his own and a drink in his hand with dexterous fingers, which gets me thinking that maybe this isn’t such a great idea to give this kid I don’t know my phone, here on a congested, and rapidly sunsetting Sunset Boulevard, but the kid looks like he’s got it under control and it feels right and yes, I do really want a picture of me with the marquis in the background and you can’t get that too well with the front camera.
So he takes one shot and I am convinced that he hasn’t got the marquis in the shot, and you can probably read it on my face, and he says do you want me to get the marquis in the shot, and I say, Yes please, that would be great.
Use the wide angle lens, I tell him, hit that button there that says 0.5. And he is like, Yeah, oh yeah, the wide angle lens is where it’s at, brother.
And so I say, Thanks man, and I take my phone back and start to walk away. See you inside the show, I say.
Yeah, he laughs, See you. I’ll be up on stage.
And that hits after a beat and I turn around and smile, and the two people with him start pointing and giggling. He’s the drummer! They’re laughing.
And so, apparently, I got my picture taken outside the Palladium by the drummer for LCD Soundsystem on the last night of their LA residency.