Backup of my old LiveJournal blog
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17 Oct 2006The shoreline Highway 1 along the Pacific ocean, from Monterey down to Los Angeles, really is as beautiful as everyone said it would be. Cliffs and beaches, the ocean itself. Great, really. But sometimes it pays off to look at the other side of the road. I find myself doing a double take, driving into the […]
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16 Oct 2006Santa Monica downtown, Monday afternoon. Everyone is 17-25 and on their way from the beach, on their way to a party. Don’t people work here? More Starbucks-per-square-inch than in Manhattan, and that’s saying alot. Movie theaters and pizza parlors, city-provided free WiFi and street musicians everywhere. So far, LA is living up to it’s party-town […]
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16 Oct 2006As they say, the big difference lies in the little details. Take street signs, for instance. Oh, they have the usual iconograms here in the US, the strangely universal octogonal and capitalized STOP sign, the intuitive No Right Turn and the ever-popular Road Work sign heralding another highway slowdown. But in the US more often […]
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14 Oct 2006I think the moment I realized that I was in a very, very fucked-up place was when I lifted up my head and saw a half-size replica of the Eiffel Tower – that’s over 200 meters, for those of you who haven’t googled it up yet. 200 meters of steel and concrete, costing probably dozens […]
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13 Oct 2006Of the past 72 hours, I have slept for about 3. So a more detailed accounting shall await. In the mean time, I give you The Dresden Dolls in concert: (click for bigger image)
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12 Oct 2006It is easy to put a finger on 1995/6 as the beginning of the end for the glory days of the arcade. When Sony released the Playstation, it took video games out of the kids’ hands and into mainstream culture. In a few years you could find Playstations in bars alongside pinball machines, and rappers playing […]
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12 Oct 2006Jukeboxes are fun. Whether they’re the old spinning-45’s getting-stuck-until-The-Fonz-hits them Wurlitzers or the more modern CD based ones, they give you a feeling of participation. Especially if the bar isn’t too full and several people work the jukebox in turn, responding to the other’s selections. And the coolest bits? When the jukebox is entirely digital […]
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