Dude, who even knows.
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in los angeles theres all these armenians which you don't think about then you move here and see more armenians than you did at any other time. seen a lot of armenian girls on hinge and most of them are hot. tried the snacks at the armenian grocery store and they were weird and I didn't like them. well.
Oh yeah I lived in Little Armenia at first. Which was also kinda Thai Town? anyway the real “Little Armenia” now is Glendale.
Had an East Coast Armenian college friend in town and he went touristing in all the Armenian stores and the music shop guy apparently pegged him as just some hipster slumming for cultural authenticity because guy was surprised when the classmate paid with a credit card with an -ian name.
Seen any good chandeliers?
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Most commercials are filmed in the “thirty-mile zone” (that’s what TMZ was named for!) around LA outside of which unions require bonus pay, which means that for most car commercials I know not only where they are but how much the actual location does not remotely fit the aesthetic they’re evoking
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In retrospect the one halfway real job I’ve had being the kinda entry-level business side of Hollywood role you do to build connections only I didn’t leave with any connections, just a sense of how power structures work behind the scenes that I’ve been chewing over for 20 years, was really on the nose.
(In that this formative experience was somehow in line with the person I went on to become)
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Oh my god, those gay thrift stores in LA were part of the zombie nonprofit slumlord empire that was taking over city low-income housing policy?
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Silversun Pickups – Lazy Eye (2007)
The part of LA where I lived in the late 2000s was a really rich vein of just-breaking-through-“indie” music but then Daft Punk did that Coachella set and everyone sold their guitars and bought turntables.
This was the song coming out of there you’re most likely to recognize, “Silversun Pickups” was actually a reference to a liquor store at the cross of Sunset and Silver Lake.
Like, I kind of felt like a dilettante, but in retrospect going to Spaceland or The Echo at least once a week I was more exposed to that stuff than 99.9% of America.
Great Northern, The Like, and Giant Drag are the real standouts I remember. I saw The Submarines for a monthly Spaceland residency once and came back again the next week but they ended up about properly rated.
The monthly residencies were pretty much as big as you could get there, play once a week as a showcase for A&R reps or – really growing key at that point – people who might put it in commercials or CW shows (which for music somehow went through your publisher?)
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Silversun Pickups – Lazy Eye (2007)
The part of LA where I lived in the late 2000s was a really rich vein of just-breaking-through-“indie” music but then Daft Punk did that Coachella set and everyone sold their guitars and bought turntables.
This was the song coming out of there you’re most likely to recognize, “Silversun Pickups” was actually a reference to a liquor store at the cross of Sunset and Silver Lake.
Like, I kind of felt like a dilettante, but in retrospect going to Spaceland or The Echo at least once a week I was more exposed to that stuff than 99.9% of America.
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Hm, when I say LA and early Portland parts of my life are starting to become mixed up in memory really that’s late LA after I started going to the dojo. Earlier stuff I can remember by thinking directly about the time but like, people or bars I knew then won’t populate general “people (or bars) I’ve known” memory lists
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Lot of parts around this neighborhood look like parts of my hometown, and I’d gotten used to that, but the other day found a part that looked like I remembered from my time in LA, and that threw me.
(It had been built around the same time, and the house architecture, cinderblock store architecture, early mass-automotive collector streets and the earthmoving capacities for what steepness of slope you could go straight up were all the same)
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Really if you were trying to politically subdivide LA when I was there you could do worse than doing it by catchment areas of malls. (I was Glendale Galleria. Americana was… not a staple mall.)
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1979
me: huh wow, I know exactly what the rest of that LA courtyard apartment looks like, the whole scene is a little eerily familiar really
also me: that’s because that was only 26 years before you moved to LA, 18 years ago.
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