#angeles

An afternoon drive from Los Angeles will take you up into the high mountains, where eagles circle above the forests and the cold blue lakes, or out over the Mojave Desert, with its weird vegetation and immense vistas. Not very far away are Death Valley, and Yosemite, and Sequoia Forest with its giant trees which were growing long before the Parthenon was built; they are the oldest living things in the world. One should visit such places often, and be conscious, in the midst of the city, of their surrounding presence. For this is the real nature of California and the secret of its fascination; this untamed, undomesticated, aloof, prehistoric landscape which relentlessly reminds the traveller of his human condition and the circumstances of his tenure upon the earth. "You are perfectly welcome," it tells him, "during your short visit. Everything is at your disposal. Only, I must warn you, if things go wrong, don't blame me. I accept no responsibility. I am not part of your neurosis. Don't cry to me for safety. There is no home here. There is no security in your mansions or your fortresses, your family vaults or your banks or your double beds. Understand this fact, and you will be free. Accept it, and you will be happy. ↗

— Christopher Isherwood

#desert #empowerment #environment #freedom #happiness

People could say a lot of negative things about the apocalypse, but there was no arguing the air quality in Los Angeles had really improved. ↗

— Peter Clines

#apocalypse #los-angeles #smog #superheroes #zombies

I could hear everything, together with the hum of my hotel neon. I never felt sadder in my life. LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; New York gets godawful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#life

It is like sitting in a traffic jam on the San Diego Freeway with your windows rolled up and Portuguese music booming out of the surround-sound speakers while animals gnaw on your neck and diseased bill collectors hammer on your doors with golf clubs. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#music

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#california #despair #disappointment #failure #i

My current project is my band, Population 1. We are writing, rehearsing and playing in Los Angeles. ↗

— Nuno Bettencourt

#band #current #los #los angeles #playing

I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#angeles #been #blackwell #drum #drums

I been all around the world and I haven't found a city that I'd rather be from or rather come back to than Los Angeles. ↗

— Ice Cube

#around #back #been #city #come

Fortunately, I was still living in Los Angeles at the time. So I went out to World Gym and got a membership. ↗

— Warren Cuccurullo

#fortunately #got #gym #i #living

I saw a story in the Los Angeles Times that 40 percent of the viewers are men. It didn't really surprise me. ↗

— James Denton

#i #los #los angeles #me #men