Newbies To Los Angeles: LEND ME YOUR EARS!

In Los Angeles traffic there is plenty of time to think. People in this town are interesting lot. They are a massive blank tapestry of race, religion and just plain humanity. They consider people in this town to be laid back. More so than say…New York. But I consider that misinterpreted. The issue with New Yorkers, in my opinion, is that they wear their emotions on their sleeves. When they hate, they hate a lot. When they’re angry they express it. In L.A., not too many people do, but hold their emotions deep inside. I would say more people snap in this town than New York.

I think when people think of L.A. it is the hippie dippy beach dwellers. The Malibu brain dead surfers, or flaky Hollywood mutts. You’re not wrong, but the majority have converted this town into Tiajuana. The night in the San Fernando Valley is riddled with street vendors who operate at night to sidestep the law. In New York, it seems, as long as you accept those terms, everyone moves in the ecosystem. For the most part, the ecosystem attempts to morph into its community. There’s no planning in my neck of the woods. Simply live out the life and eventually become a big dump pile.

But I don’t mean to make it sound terrible. This was just such a stark contrast to the beauty of nature and trees. This phony landscape that permeates through L.A. is a bizarre hybrid. Everyone wants what they want, regardless of what was pre-existing. No one cares about history of this town, because they aren’t from this town. So they feel no remorse for blowing it up to smithereens. We’re not talking about a specific group here, since we’ve already sold THAT part of California/America to foreign interest. And then they turn and sell it back to us for triple the costs, downtown property is all about that, and odd that they would fight tooth and nail for some plot of swamp in Playa Del Rey they intended to make a studio there…killing off jobs, but are okay with selling art deco downtown hotels to foreign interests have them converted into million dollar and fleece the city to pay for it. Remember that scene in “Fight Club” where Tyler Durden sells the people back their own liposuction fat through soap. That is the ecosytem of Los Angeles.

But, the scenery is nice. And on a sleepy weekend, it’s nice to relax away from the push of humanity. I often think that whenever we get a car chase, that’s just nature pushing back. Someone cracked at some point (surprise it doesn’t happen more). And needs to let this city know. No one cares. Like the guy who threatened to jump from a freeway overpass a few months ago. Fuckface messed with traffic. I’m sure everyone who had to deal with this bumper to bumper would rather this asshole kill himself and be done with it, instead of wrecking everyone else’s commute. Not because of malice, but because he fucked with the ebb and flow of our daily grind.