yesterday i flew from berlin to london to l.a.
yesterday i flew from berlin to london to l.a.
the best part of the trip was flying over greenland. greenland, from the air, looks like afghanistan, but with a lot more snow. and probably a less thriving opium trade, i'm guessing.
now i'm in l.a, staying at a hotel from the 20's that has hosted everyone from frank sinatra to marilyn monroe and iggy pop.
i love l.a. i know not everyone loves l.a, but for some reason i really love l.a. i love that although it has some pretty and affluent parts it's for the most part always kind of sleazy, at least in hollywood. well, almost everywhere, actually. even pretty and gentrified venice and los feliz and silverlake are still fairly sleazy once you look close enough.
new york, on the other hand, has lost a lot of it's sleaze. sleaze has been priced out of manhattan, for better or worse (i tend to come down on the 'worse' side). i mean, there will always be vice and degeneracy in nyc. but vice and degeneracy are different from sleaze. vice and degeneracy tend to be lucrative and/or costly, whereas sleaze just tends to stumble along in its own relative squallor. vice is a ceo smoking crack with a hooker in $3,000 a night hotel suite. degeneracy is executives having drug fueled sex in a bathroom after spending $500 on cocktails. sleaze is a 48 year old drag queen eating runny eggs in a diner on sunset. new york has plenty of vice and degeneracy, but a decided lack of indigenous, home-grown sleaze in 2009. then again, 'lack of sleaze' is a relative term. new york is still one of the sleazier places on the planet, especially when compared to just about every other city in the western world.
i'm sure if proust lived in the lower east side he'd have something remarkably trenchant to say about the drag queens slowly leaving for browner pastures. maybe they've moved to l.a and san francisco. that would make sense. except i don't know if they'd be able to drive very well in 6" heels.
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Thanks for sharing your story. Yes, it should be a great experience to see the ice packed Greenland beneath you. And like you, I'm also obsessed about L.A. Waiting for more from you. | Bristol airport parking |
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Thanks for sharing
Thanks for sharing your travel experience. And the view of snowy Greenland from air make me dreamy. I can bet my life for a glance of such kind of beauty.
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Forget NYC & LA...
When are you coming to Stockholm??? Now I'll admit, Stockholm is not sleazy at all, it's clean, beautiful and green. In fact, it's so nice and safe that most would call it boring.
So please...come and bring us some sleaze Moby. ;) We need it! Seriously, I *heart* U...I adore all that your music evokes. You would probably play the Globen arena...it's cute no? Like a huge golfball!
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Snälla, kom och spela dina fina låtar för mig...Jag älskar dig Moby!
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LES
Well, the Lower East Side has a bit of sleaze compared to other NYC neighborhoods, and is also very much an industrial area, and not very pretty to look at, like, say, SoHo. Teany is located in a relatively sleaze-free zone, but not by much. But I still love it- I tried one of your exotic mixed drinks while I was there and it was fabulous.
Speaking of...
removed since i posted twice in error - oops.
Speaking of...
you were speaking of nice songs that go missing... what about this one, j-mo:
jeff buckley singing hallelujah... a beautiful and powerful rendition that is moving in a heart breaking kind of way...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AratTMGrHaQ
too bad he's not with us anymore...
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I'm convinced!
My next vacation will be in California.
I want that photo, on the
Hollywood Hills, with the Hollywood sign-
to reminisce a short-lived memory.
- I'm near the big apple.
New York City is different. It's like you enter a new planet as you travel from place to place.
You still can't get that anywhere else.
Not even in the rest of the U.S.
As for the extravangantly gay drag queens of New York,
I don't know where they've gone to..
:D
A crazy world at the other side of the ocean
That's all very interesting to me what you are telling. I really like to see NY and of course other parts of America (and the world) sometime. It's fantastic that everybody has his/her own lifestyle and differences. I think when I get over the ocean someday. (The plan is next year :p) I think I will see lots of things that I'm not used to. Or maybe the media has inflated it all, but I little doubt that. Can you maybe be my guide, Moby? :-)
Do *you* ever visit Disney Land when *you* go to L.A. Love?
I'm just wondering, since I'm such a Disney fanatic myself, smiles.
Oh, well I now live in Florida, home of Disney World, but it is so far from Fort Myers and I have only ever went that way once and didn't actually go to Disney World, just Disney Town near it. I plan on bringing little Brayden there on a less hot weekend this year. Smiles. He will love it, as I have always loved it.
We visit the Walt Disney store at the mall everytime we go. We lvoe that too, smiles.
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When Grace and I came back to NYC last Autumn I spent the first three days wondering where the hell NYC went and hated it. It was like it lost it's edge (and some dirt and some panhandlers and...) and became a Stepford City.
And then on the fourth day...the new version grew on me. You've been right there so I suppose it's a more gradual, less noticable shift. I waited 15 years too long to revisit. Ooops.
By the way, all of the drag queens are over here in downtown Minneapolis now. The Gay 90's is just a few blocks from me downtown and has the best drag shows ever. I am less of a woman next to them....
We were watching old Kojak
We were watching old Kojak episodes recently (love that Netflix on demand) & I was explaining to my teens how nyc used to be. The Lieutenant moves with ease through a sleazy world, "who loves ya baby?"