LA is a difficult place to be if you don't drive. Public transport is virtually nonexistent and the interesting places are far apart and only easy to get between via a set of incredibly complex and confusing freeways. I should know. I just spent a week driving curious Japanese photographers around to book stores (if you are ever there you need to check out Ooga Booga) and clothes shops and giant signs on hillsides and all the photos I took are blurry because they were taken through the windscreen as I tried to keep the car on the road (on the opposite side of the road and the car I might mention). Anyway, how boring is real life? I just saw the trailer for Rockstar's new Midnight Club game, which comes out this October 10th, and it's beautiful. You can race, in your incredible car, other people in other incredible cars and do all the gangsta stuff you would do in LA if you actually had the balls. Now if they could just recreate some of the Mexican food I had there. I'd literally never have to leave my lounge room again.
Why the fuck are all the "Blog Entries" for Reyner Banham's Utopia made by foreigners or New Yorkers? I see more postings about the cultural Mecca of Toronto than I do of the great city of Los Angeles.
Posted by: Alfie | 02/08/2008 at 01:26