I regret ever being a serial LA - holidayer.
All those times my dad would ask me to go to london instead, i would go to LA.
Oh the terrible choices i would make in life.
All for what? terrible people and absolute fakeness. anxiety over what to wear to go to ivy on south robertson. I also hate how slow the buses are there. The buses there are ghetto too. And they never come often.
The best part is all the boutiques in LA only have smaller sized dresses so I have a hard time finding clothes. A sales lady always manages to help me find something "slimming" from the back. I was once at a resturant and the waitress asked me, "DO YOU WANT CARBS WITH THAT?" I also hate that there is always traffic EVERYWHERE AND ANYWHERE.
In retrospect, I wish i went to london more often instead of LA.
YUCK.
I hate to admit it. For every bad thing about LA there is a good thing. The west coast beaches are amazing. Santa monica pier, malibu beaches, and disneyland are my favourite pastimes. Uni studios was always fun too. Sometimes I would go up and go to magic mountain with friends and stay at hotels in orange county. California hotels always had pools. POOLS! that was the best. ethopian food on LA brea is to die for.
So then I grew up a bit, discovered punk rock and made friends in punk rock. They were good...for stuff and access to some of the coolest stories that I can amuse london punks with now. But they've heard it all- and they have all my leftovers.
I don't really talk to anyone from LA anymore. There are still a few good apples in LA but mostly anyone I have ever known/been friends with was a two faced person. everything is completely plastic! I always feel fat in LA. half the friends i had i had to be "dressed properly" to go to certain places or else... i would end up feeling like shit.
Here's the lowdown. Public transport is shit, people are shit, having a car and burning petrol on the traffic-infested motorways is shit, the people at gigs are shit, the way people treat you at venues when you are not on the guest list is shit, the fact that i cannot find clothes in my size is shit (most la boutiques carry sizes 0-8- I'm a ten), i can go on for hours why i think LA is shit. Oh yeah, THERE IS NO CENTRE OF CULTURE AT ALL.
Maybe I just don't like the never-ending sprawl of the city. The way its set up..I mean LA has a lot of things new york does not have, like amazing beaches and cool amusement parks, in and out, amoeba, pinks, natives. New York beaches, sorry to brand new, but i don't kill for the atlantic. I kill for the pacific in the wintertime. But LA has a lot of the same things New york has, like good music venues, museums, food, fashion, etc.
There are times where I am etching to go to a good place for good weather, amoeba, and in and out. Everytime I end up in LA, I always wish I went to San Francisco. The reason I never go to SF as often as I wish is because I don't have a bunch of "friends" there. In fact, I have no friends there which kinda rules. It's the city where I can keep a level of anonymitity- go places in and around hip hotspots without anyone going, Hey, i know you or your so and so's friend.
The simple reason I end up in LA is its a cheap vacation, I never have to worry about accomodation.
Then One day about two years ago, I decided this was getting all too stale.
that I didn't enjoy much of LA anymore.
Anything I ever did Felt like it was overdone ten times over. to the point where venice beach did not amuse me anymore.
Maybe one day I will go to LA again, but it won't be for a very long time. I haven't been there in two years, which is something I am proud of.
Or maybe I will go and not tell anyone I'm there. I'm notorious for that. I can't even track how many times I flew off to LA or SF and not told anyone about it. It's almost my trademark.
Here are the worthy things to see in LA:
1. natural history museum in expo park
2. LACMA
3. The getty
4. Amoeba
5. Eat ethiopian on La brea.
6. Listen to KROQ/INDIE 103/KCRW
7. Disneyland/uni studios
8. pinks hot dogs.
9. in and out.
10. santa monica beaches, malibu beaches.
AND PLEASE DO THIS WITH A CAR.
BUt san francisco is a much better city. more worth anyones time than L.A.
London has become my new LA. (my new serial vacation spot).
If anyone needs any La/Sf/nyc info do not hestitate to contact me.
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