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songs, dazedand confused, cole hauser, might, jacob vargas, interpretations, rock, personal essay, randy harrison, amaru. tewpac, non fiction, photos, tupac change lyric, david steinberg, makaveli video, shakur, peter sarsgaard,
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more per square block than any place on earth. So nice to look rock/pop at, for a few minutes, or days..that little bit of the Golden Coast – But search for earth beneath your feet – and it seems that everything is covered by a glazed of plasticine, a sort of personality shellac. The beauty is real and it is artifica, and Beauty is more than skin deep – there’s a perfection of attitudes, of dialogue among those in-the-know in Santa Monica – Hipness goes rock/pop beyond the obviously superficial, and begins rock/pop to affect the deeper aspects of personality – as though everyone is reading from the same self-help books – self-realization for interminably beautiful and tv-witty and charming. I’m brought back to it, fast, by your review of the club at night, the gropers and the good-looking – And yet there was always that thing that you get in the West, that tug of swirling cosmic consciousness, that ‘all-is-one’ type of inspiration – It’s organic, I think, to the energy fomenting there – the uplift from the seismic rifts, spiralling toward heaven… Where movies are born… And it’s heady – but after awhile, it’s sullied by a dirtier reality of the West – The constant VROOOM of combusting engines – That 4 or 5
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