Earlier this month, a guitar once stolen from Lennon in the 1960s sold for $2.4m at the auction house, and a Beatles drum head went for $2.1m, fetching some of the highest prices ever for rock'n'roll memorabilia.
Condominium sales are also unusually brisk, fetching some of the highest prices in years, as the large real estate investors who have characterized the area slowly give way to a stream of individual owners looking for a place to settle down.
The CNL towers have both fetched some of downtown's highest rent rates, with an average of more than $30 per square foot, according to JLL's Office Skyline Report from June.
While that's a good use of old office buildings, in downtown Santa Monica a 1929 office building, without parking on-site, was rehabbed a few years ago and now fetches some of the highest rents in the region -- $6 per month per square foot.
When Mr. Blonde interrupts his torture of the cop to fetch some gasoline from the trunk of his car, he is followed by a Steadicam, and, as the sound of Stealers Wheel's "Stuck in the Middle with You" retreats on the soundtrack, it is replaced by the soporific sounds of suburban L.A. going about its midmorning business: birds, children playing.
"Fetch some email," said the Lord of Darkness.
I could totally see two things happening – iTunes 8 and Apple TV offering video "rental" – 99 cents seems about right – and, and this is far fetched, some sort of little program they can put into another device to grab your iTunes content on multiple systems a la Netflix.
He also ordered an aide to fetch him some of the drugged cigarettes he had been using for the last year.
He fetched some photographs showing the windows of his restaurant blown out after a bomb attack on a nearby police post.
The representation of the US fetched some objections on the website.
