I cannot revisit that place so soon, cos some of thd thoughts were quite dark, related to conversations had in Bmore related to redlining, disinvestment, food desertification.
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Yeah I dunno. I thought a little was fine, but it was mega space cake time in totally the wrong place.
I leave for texas on Saturday!
Went into downtown LA yesterday, to visit the public library where Bukowski found some solace and also discovered John Fante.
Really beautiful building, did a nice job of retaining some nice old features alongside functional design for the readers.
Then went to a really nice book shop called the last bookstore. I picked up Daniel deronda by George Eliot for 3 dollars.
Lunch was at Grand Central market. They had tamales!
From there onto Hollywood boulevard, which was closed off a bit cos they are getting ready for thd Oscars. They had the red carpet down and some plastic sheeting over the top.
From there through Le Brea to Santa Monica pier. The highlight for me was the tunnel waffle and the Zoltar machine from "Big".
And finally masala dosas and lamb biryani for dinner.
Exhausting day but I got a good sense of the city, including being stuck in traffic.
LA feels completely different to the east coast or England.
The only places I would compare it to are Mexico City, perhaps an Indian city like Bombay or Bangalore.
Roads as far as you can see, people everywhere, everything huge, flat housing, perceptible level of smog haze, planes flying by. Incredible stuff.
Really beautiful building, did a nice job of retaining some nice old features alongside functional design for the readers.
Then went to a really nice book shop called the last bookstore. I picked up Daniel deronda by George Eliot for 3 dollars.
Lunch was at Grand Central market. They had tamales!
From there onto Hollywood boulevard, which was closed off a bit cos they are getting ready for thd Oscars. They had the red carpet down and some plastic sheeting over the top.
From there through Le Brea to Santa Monica pier. The highlight for me was the tunnel waffle and the Zoltar machine from "Big".
And finally masala dosas and lamb biryani for dinner.
Exhausting day but I got a good sense of the city, including being stuck in traffic.
LA feels completely different to the east coast or England.
The only places I would compare it to are Mexico City, perhaps an Indian city like Bombay or Bangalore.
Roads as far as you can see, people everywhere, everything huge, flat housing, perceptible level of smog haze, planes flying by. Incredible stuff.
william_kent
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i was hoping for some snaps of "skid row" and an unscripted encounter with Daisy, the "healer", on Venice Beach
Interview with Daisy the Venice Healer
Interview with Daisy the Venice Healer
IdleRich
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Went into downtown LA yesterday, to visit the public library where Bukowski found some solace and also discovered John Fante.
Really beautiful building, did a nice job of retaining some nice old features alongside functional design for the readers.
Really beautiful
Really?
Been raining most of the time I've been here. The Los angelinos get really worried about the rain, they don't drive and cancel all their plans. Like when it's what we fall mizzle in England.
Sadly did not manage to go to a single sports bar.
But inshallah ill be getting the beers in this eve in texas.
Was too scared to take my phone out 8n Hollywood. But there's some sights. Never made it to skid row. You spend a lot of time stuck in traffic.
I mean, it's just my perception based upon visiting 2 cities so far, but Baltimore is very much designed in the style of England.
The houses are pretty conventional and eg my cousins house has exactly the same layout as mine, albeit much bigger.
Whereas my impression of LA is that you have way more bungalows, flat roofing, this general "stucco" style.
And huge roads. To the extent they dominate everything.
The other thing that makes me think of mexico is that there are Spanish translations of a lot of signs eg this in the salvation army thrift store
And alot of the waitresses/parking people are Spanish.
Also the Pacific ocean presence. I went to laguna beach yesterday and this feels nowt like the east coast (but I've only been to NYC and florida and both were years ago)
