All this...

“…it’s the hardest city in the world to leave, too…”

Where my heart belongs…

back in 11 days.

This made me ridiculously happy.

awwww…

(via doctorfuckingwho)

I was at this show. I appreciate this song more now.

Perhaps I’ll turn this tumblr into a love letter to all the places I’ll miss sitting, reading, and drinking coffee in Los Angeles… Eh, but seriously, I’ll miss you delicious Susina.

Good morning, foggy Los Angeles

The best thing I’ve seen today.

Also, Craft Night at Akbar—Hell Yes.

One time I crocheted about five inches of an ugly scarf that will never be finished.

The Griffith Park bear is rad, too…

Champ.

(now show me Andrew Jackson as Barry Zuckerkorn?)

FROM the LA Times (April 24, 2011)

By Charlotte Stoudt, Special to the Los Angeles Times

I’m on the city’s surface streets, heading from downtown to Hollywood. Only a few cars share the road. I don’t bother to pull onto the 101. Because it’s not there.

No, this isn’t 3 a.m., or the apocalypse. It’s L.A. Noire, the latest interactive world from Rockstar Games.

In a dark suite at the Roosevelt Hotel, I’m test-driving this single-player detective thriller set in 1947 Los Angeles. Launching May 17, the graphic procedural takes place before Miranda rights and DNA testing. Before the city was slashed by 10-lane expressways. It’s a chance — albeit digitally — to experience the city as most of us never have.

And after years of work, including months of research in L.A., Rockstar and Australia-based Team Bondi, who jointly developed L.A. Noire, are set to unveil a digital Los Angeles so dense and cinematic it was the first video game to be accepted at the Tribeca Film Festival.

“Everyone’s talking about it. I know architects and historians dying to get their hands on it,” says Kim Cooper, a student of Los Angeles history and, with her husband Richard Schave, the proprietor of Esotouric, which offers noir-themed bus tours of Los Angeles and was asked by Rockstar to conduct a special tour for people brought in to Los Angeles to try out the game before its release.

Noir L.A. conjures a cast of characters ranging from Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe to Bugsy Siegel to Elizabeth Short ( a.k.a. the Black Dahlia). Cooper calls 1947 “a turnkey year, when Los Angeles gives way to the L.A. of today.” She should know — Cooper and Nathan Marsak curate a blog called the 1947project, a painstaking assemblage of period news stories, then and now photos, and urban reportage.

…the rest…

Sometimes I still feel this way, but less and less: 

“…but one of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened to anyone before.”

More and more I feel this way: 

“…and although it did occur to me to call the desk and ask that the air conditioner be turned off, I never called, because I did not know how much to tip whoever might come—was anyone ever so young? I am here to tell you that someone was.”

Finally, I want to always feel this way, but fear you can’t:

“ Nothing was irrevocable; everything was within reach. Just around every corner lay something curious and interesting, something I had never before seen or done or known about. I could go to a party and meet someone… I could make promises to myself and to other people and there would be all the time in the world to keep them. I could stay up all night and make mistakes, and none of them would count.”

Read the whole essay here: http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~zkurmus/html/didion.html

It’s from Slouching Towards Bethlehem, which I sometimes reread and love all the more.

mariafotodotcom:

Dramatic LA.

(via tumblangeles)

I love landing at LAX at night and at STL during the day.