February 2008
3 posts
The Art of Super-indulging →
“LAST NIGHT IN LA LA Land I thought it’d be OK to go out and get the goods. The goods of life. The fun shit. The delicious shit.”
Ertel knows how to keep it kingly.
January 2008
13 posts
“The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new...”
– Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
Cedd Moses and the 213 Empire →
Some info on Cole’s, the Doheny and more. I told you he’s everywhere.
Go buy the Akira soundtrack.
“For music—Puccini. For art—Bernini. For espresso—Pasquini.”
– The coffee cups at Cafe Metropol
“I’ve been in LA this week, and as horrible as it was staying on Sunset, I...”
– Dave Eggers
Tony V. Takes Hillary to King Taco →
Pretty fucking funny.
Theresa Duncan Updates 'Wit' Posthumously →
Deceased filmmaker and blogger Theresa Duncan created two blog entries before committing suicide that she scheduled to publish after her death. One went up around Halloween, another (her last) went up on New Year’s Eve.
The posts are, as usual, poetic, clever, arcane. It’s rather haunting to think that a person so close to taking her own life would also look so far ahead. And yet, on...
On Los Angeles
Tomorrow I start a great new job Downtown, which means I’ll be remaining in Los Angeles for the forseeable future. As it turns out, I’ll be thinking about LA more than ever at my new gig. Los Angles is an incredible city, a complicated one, and it’s often misunderstood. In many ways, everything you’ve heard about LA is true. Yes, there is traffic and smog. Yes, there are...