Last month was a particularly crazy month for me when it came to seeing live music in and around town, and capping it off was The Dresden Dolls‘ performances last week at the RecCenter Studio in Echo Park (cut short due to a drive-by shooting!) and the Henry Fonda Theatre in Hollywood.

More photos from their intimate “warm-up show” last Thursday here and from the Henry Fonda here.

Happy New Year from the House of Davids at 3rd and Muirfield in Hancock Park.

Last year, the contributors to b.la rang in the New Year by posting photographs of ourselves and our loved ones from where we were celebrating the beginning of 2005.

I don’t know if anyone else is doing that this year, but I’m up in San Jose right now, and so here’s jozjozjoz raising the glass to you for a wonderful 2006! Happy New Year! (I just stayed in the hotel room, put on a comfy robe and poured myself a glass of wine to ring in the new year while watching the ball drop on Dick Clark’s Rockin’ New Year’s Eve… I’m going to sleep soon!)

I saw some awesome fireworks a few minutes ago and my neighbors and I are all partying up a storm – just thought I’d take a minute to wish all the authors and readers of b.la a healthy and happy new year.