Los Angeles
 

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post up.

represent.

I'll be spending a couple months in LA starting the 11th.

i don't want to spoil my fascination with LA by actually going there.

Be careful don't get shot up homie.

I'm Original, Lil' G.

Aren't you from the hills dawg?

I visited for the first time last month.
WHAT A FUCKING SHITHOLE!
12 million people living in the desert.... brilliant!

HAHA, where did you go?

I'll be in OC sometime near the end of the month to visit my grandmother's grave. I owe her a pack of Lucky Strikes.

I owe you a beer. let's have a Beergate, Bradders!

Garbage Grove, yo'.

i like la for some strange reason, its not the sort of place i normally would but i do.

Same shit man.

I was all over the place...
Downtown, Buena Park, Anaheim, Santa Monica, Long Beach, Santa Ana, Laguana Beach, Fullerton, Lakewood

You couldn't pay me to move to SoCal. I laughed out loud when the weather people came on the TV standing in front of a shot of mostly smog, and this is in March mind you... I couldn't imagine June or July. And the water tasted like a pool. Ree-fuckin-dick-u-lous

See that was your problem you went to downtown L.A. no one ever goes there. Unless you work in City Hall. Oh it get's worse, and we also only drink bottled water.

LA must be one of the biggest waste of resources in the country. Sick.

something like 90% of the money available for the upkeep of the streets, road surface etc get spent in Beverley Hills/Bel Air where no one is allowed to go anyway unless you live there.

Garden Grove? Fucking A.

Like Rome.. Jerusalem.. Mecca all the Holy Cities of the the world, LA is a fucking living sewer collecting the residual garbage of the entire world like the Great Garbage Patch in the pacific current..

but it remains a holy city none-the-less, this city produces a metaphysical energy of success, which attracts all kinds of seekers, be it of God(s) or money.

the OC? thats not fucking LA in the slightest.. shit crossing into the OC for me is like entering a foreign country. True LA folks simply can't relate to the OC and we stay out.



seriously. You can't even imagine until you live here..

I'll be going to Orange County only because my grandmother is buried there.

my family is all, like, north, in the valley, oh my gawd.

ps: mr. dangerous, do you want a giant Peter Tosh poster?

Fake LA folks sure have fucked over Orange County well enough. It wasn't until they came down to visit their producers living in Laguna Beach that it became "the" OC.

Seriously, I didn't figure that was the name of where I live until my New York friend told me.

i thought this thread was going to be about the album or the earthquake.

LA in my mind (having never been there) is just like the X album, but with fake tits all over

i just imagine the streets are littered with pornography, and wanna-be actresses work in all the restaurants. and david lynch is somewhere.

The valley? That is funny come in visit me in the valley dawg.

yeah, I'll be about five minutes from Magic Mountain.

not sure how long I'll be staying, but a few months for sure.

those actually do liter the streets of Downtown, Hollywood and even South Central...

the thing with Los Angeles is its enormous and diverse.

On the South Bay you get some some blander, "American dream" upper middle class to rich folks living in stereotypical LA style houses, pure class, no mcmansions to speak of. as you go north you enter the west-side, first you pass through the Cosby districts of Inglewood and Westchester/South Santa Monica.. These folks followed the Northstar via the underground railroad to move it on up.. (creep a bit east from there and your in lynwood/athens/watts and well, that shit is pretty ghetto and segregated black neighborhood)

Stay northbound and you enter the westside, this is the stereotype from the mid-90s movies about LA.. fashionable, trendo, tacky, wealthy, sheltered, vegan, trophy ethnic enclaves, etc etc This is unfortunately what a lot of people across the country think of when they imagine los angeles, and these are a minority by far in this town..

Keep north further still and you enter the Valley, similar to the westside though not quite as cliche and bleh..

No cut a right and go east. Back through Hollyweird (perfect description) and Silverlake (a weird westside style area, its cool though, it has an San Francisco vibe) now you cross into territory more familiar to me.. the Eastside..

the Eastside is chicanos.. its hispanic immigrants from 30 countries.. its ghetto poor with some cool middle class, no body rich. This is what I think of as typical los angelese. Cruise south bound and you go through all the LA neighborhoods.. East LA, Commerce, Vernon, South Gate, Florence, etc etc.. Now you can go south to the beach in Long Beach (which is actually the cooler place in LA now, Long Beach is where its happening, music, art, culture, its great). These are the burbs here on the South/East side. But a lot of southsiders are bringing that mexican gang drama from the eastside to the burbs and its just as dramatic even in bland cities like Downey. In Norwalk, (norwhack)/Pico Riveria, Santa Fe Springs, etc etc, these are a mix of burbs and ghettos. LA is weird like that. One street can be upper middle class, a lovely neighorbood, and just walk up TWO streets and people are getting shot in the street... its crazy like that sometimes..

yes yes, but do you want a Peter Tosh poster? Ima toss it if not.

I got plenty myself so no more room :(

but I'm sure somebody'll take it.. is it the Legalize It cover? You need to upgrade to the Mystic Man cover riding the Unicycle or at least Wanted Dread or Alive..

if you don't find a taker be an activist and post it on the street, especially somehwhere conspicuous and preferably that already says post no bills.

Where I'll be.

Whittier and Lorena.

its not that there is a universal risk of getting shot, its not the old west.. its that on blocks across the eastside and south central there is a lot of heavily concentrated gang violence. The key word here is gang, if your not involved, there is not much risk to you. Most people honestly don't notice or are oblivious to this violence because it doesn't necessarily hit them.

in South Central, in 96th street people get shot weekly, it can actually be a bit nerve wracking sometimes like Baghdad for folks. But on 99th it looks like Inglewood Cosby show.. it is literally a trip. In Artesia on the south eastside, on Olive Street it is quiet folks, families, poor but relatively nice, two streets over on Apricot Street people get shot twice a month at least, similar to South Central...

another example, whittier is a relatively middle class, mom and pop side of town. nice houses, some money.. and yet my friends little brother got shot in the back of the head execution style in whittier..

shit happens.

if your not affiliated or involved, there is not much for you to worry about.

well.. yeah. but you shouldn't do that anyway.. drugs are bad.

it's Legalize It, but it's not so much a poster as it is a GIANT fucking poster (4x8).

I'm not an activist and if I were, I'd hang it up.

the only reason I haven't thrown it away yet is because the Bauhaus rolls up nicely inside.

I'm sorry.. you put italics. Around the eastside folks use a similar expression to describe smoking meth, which is enormously popular these days, might explain a lot of the violence.

You might want to check out Wacko, a weirdly cool shop in L.A.

interestingly NO. fucking shit there is practically NOWHERE to take a piss across this entire damned county. I have to piss on the street so often it is ridiculous. All the homeless and drug addicts and prostitutes ruin it for us relatively normal folks!

this was a thread designed to promote interim social activity for floatingslowly.

you people ruined it with smog, urine and guns.

perfect.

what are you talking about, smog.. urine.. guns.. that sounds about like all the social activity Los Angeles has to offer, what more could you possibly want?

upcoming:

April 14 Mad Professor@ the DUB Club (Echoplex on Sunset in Echo Park)
April 21 Michael Rose @ DUB Club

the Getty Villa has an interesting exhibit running I wanted to get reservations for, it is free but you need an RSVP/Invite.

Also a Renoir exhibit running at the LA County Museum of Art I believe..

Long Beach always has something running if you just cruise 4th street.. samething with Silverlake down Sunset..

I won't be there soon enough for Mad Professor, but that'd be awesome.

perhaps I forgot to mention, I'm moving to Los Angeles.

good times for all ahead.

holla at your boy.