Maybe this is projection, summer heat and exhaustion talking but LA seems somehow lower energy and higher dissipation than any other major city. Like the idea of “city” strolled to the SW corner of the continent and kinda just loosened its belt and sank exhausted into a recliner
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Went to Hollywood yesterday. The Walk of Fame is — and there’s no polite way to put it — incredibly tawdry. My wife told me it’s basically something you buy with PR dollars, not a great earned honor. It’s basically a big brother to Vegas, with better distribution for products.
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@bldgblog essay@kneelingbus shared yesterday hits the nail on the head wrt my immediate impressions.http://www.bldgblog.com/2007/10/greater-los-angeles/amp/?__twitter_impression=true …Show this thread -
In many ways it feels like my head was meant to be in this space though I’m the opposite of sensate. I’m probably 100% ideational. Still, this landscape feels like the right backdrop for a lot of my thinking.
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Example: Divergentism, is a very LA type idea. People retreating from each other in an expanding social universe where they gradually lose the ability to connect.https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/12/01/can-you-hear-me-now/ …
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“No true Angelino”?
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Harmonizes with my impressions (I’ve been here as a resident for 3 days, but as a visitor have spent perhaps 10-12 days across 5-6 trips over 15 years... so not entirely a cold intro for me)https://twitter.com/neurovagrant/status/1145876730042675200?s=21 …
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I thought of getting more active on Instagram as a way to process LA as creative input, but I’m probably not sensate enough for that. It’ll have to be words. Whether twitter threads or an LA diary blogchain remains to be seen.
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I’ll close with initial sense of pros/cons: Pros: La dolce vita, most authentic (ironically) embodiment of postmodern human condition where authenticity is a not-even-wrong idea in funhouse mirror palace of simulation Cons: high powder-keg potential due to deep-rooted denialism
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