In a message dated 9/5/01 8:48:16 PM,
DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net writes:
<< Or is there something about California that
made/makes it a good setting? The transient, no one is a
native, population? The anyone can reinvent themselves, just
like they do in the moving pictures mindset? The wide-open,
wild west nature of the city? The corruption, as seen in the
water and public transportation manipulations? Or is it the
physical aspect? >>
All of the above, my friends. Wasn't it Chandler who said the
country's on a slant and all the loose marbles roll down this
way? If someone comes to reinvent themself, that implies they
weren't too happy with who they were to start with, so you
got a city filled with newly arrived, dysfunctional people.
Nobody walks, we're all in cars, alienated from one another
by 4 tons of metal, baking in slow moving traffic, breathing
bad air. It's shallow and expensive. The women are beautiful
but unattainable. The place makes you want things. It all
seems right there within your grasp, but someone keeps
raising the bar. The most successful people are generally the
biggest assholes. The network of freeways with convenient on
and offramps make this the bank robbery capital of the world.
There's another freeway chase on tv every single day.
Basically it's about the fact that people come here to chase
their dreams. Dreams die hard. But when they do, people
snap.
John Lau
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