Downtown Los Angeles, 1862
Downtown Los Angeles, intersection of Main, Spring, and Temple streets, 1863
MacArthur Park, 1887
MacArthur Park, 1892
Hollywood, 1900
Hollywood, corner of Highland and Franklin, 1903
Hollywood, Highland Avenue north of Hollywood Boulevard, 1906
Hollywood, Cahuenga Pass, 1878
Beachwood Canyon, 1900
Hollywood Blvd. at Sunset Blvd., 1904
Sunset Blvd. c. Normandie, 1900
Site of future Melrose Avenue, looking north, 1876
Santa Monica Boulevard near the future La Brea Avenue, 1900
Santa Monica Boulevard at Western Avenue, 1906
Western Avenue south of Sunset, 1906
Western Avenue just north of Santa Monica Boulevard, 1896
Western Avenue north of Pico, 1895
Western Avenue at Washington Blvd., 1900
East Hollywood, 1905
Los Feliz, view from the future Barnsdall Park, 1890
Los Feliz, Los Feliz Blvd. at Griffith Park Blvd., 1910
The Los Feliz River, now Los Feliz Blvd. at Hillhurst Ave., 1884
Griffith Park, 1900
Griffith Park, 1902
Silverlake, 1907
Echo Park, Sunset Blvd. and Glendale Avenue, 1904
Echo Park Lake, 1892
The Los Angeles River, near downtown, 1900
The Los Angeles River, near Glendale, 1889
Beverly Hills, Sunset Boulevard and Crescent Drive, 1911
Bel Air, 1907
Coldwater Canyon, 1910
Benedict Canyon, 1890
The La Brea Tar Pits, 1911
Future site of LACMA, 1902
Culver City, 1903
Santa Monica, 1898
Santa Monica, 1895
Santa Monica, 1887
Santa Monica Canyon, 1885
Malibu, future Pacific Coast Highway, 1905
Compton, 1903
The San Fernando Valley, 1875
The San Fernando Valley, 1900
North Hollywood, 1909
Glendale, Verdugo Blvd. and Clifton Place, 1904
Lincoln Heights, Hancock Street, 1900
Highland Park, 1894
Pasadena, Colorado Blvd., 1895
Pasadena, Colorado Boulevard at Marengo Avenue, 1890
Pasadena, southwest corner of East California Blvd. and South Wilson Ave, 1905
Altadena, 1907
Angeles National Forest, San Gabriel Mountains, 1893
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p.s. Hey. ** Tuesday ** Bitter69uk, Hi, man! Holy shit, you wrote that review? I usually include the author's name when I take writings from IMDb, and I don't know why I didn't that time. Nice thoughts, man, obviously. Very cool. ** David Ehrenstein, Glad you liked it, sir. I read 'Film: The Front Line' way back when, so good! I think my copy's in LA. It seems possible that I might get to meet Philippe Garrel some day through my friendship and dealings with Christophe Honore, we'll see. The main thing I want to do is ask him is about everything he's willing to tell me about working with my hero Pierre Clementi. Yeah, there are those who had great dealings with Allen, and there are others like me who didn't. Oh, well. Everyone, re: the Philippe Garrel Day of the other day, Mr. Ehrenstein has shared a link to the Nico documentary 'Nico/Icon' if you haven't seen it and would like to. It's there in full right here. ** Sypha, Yeah, I hears the blizzard tiptoed over NYC on the way to semi-whomping you guys up there. Right, you still have two brothers left to hang with. And a getaway spot if you need it to boot. ** Tosh Berman, Hi, Tosh! Garrel is def. worth investigating. Very singular. Thanks a lot about the post and my efforts. Yeah, it's just about a full-time job making this place. Weird that I do it anyway, ha ha. Very, very interesting background and insight into the Morrison and McClure and ... whoa, your dad almost designed the 'Strange Days' cover? That's wild. It would have given him this very particular kind of fame, or maybe just bigger name-recognition at the time, and maybe a 'hip' reputation that could have been a hampering as it was spotlighting, I guess, for better and/or worse? That's fascinating. I especially like McClure's 'lion' poems, and especially when I heard/saw him read them. ** Magick mike, Hi, Mike. Yeah, I'm with you about Garrel, obviously, and about the Ash Ra Temple soundtrack too. Would be cool if you recovered that essay-writing urge, obviously, for sure. I saw your book cover on FB yesterday. It looks great! Man, that's so exciting! (And you'll hear from me via email soon.) ** Steevee, Hi, Steve. Yeah, I saw about the blizzard being a bust. The hype on that thing was psychotic. ** Kier, Ha ha. Here's a horrible one, sorry: Hi, Makierooni! Whoa. I don't know why it was traumatic. I guess probably because I had always thought that sheep's bodies were just really fat and that the wool was a thin layer, so watching them get sheared was kind of like watching them get killed or something? Those ink drawings are really, really great! Everyone, do what's best for you and go look at some fantastic new ink drawings by the mighty Kier here. Your Tuesday sounds pretty A-okay, cool. I don't know if I can remember mine, let me try. Uh, I think, wow, uh ... Did I write the blurb I was ordered to write for Zac's and my film that day? I think so. And the producers were okay with it. Now I have to write a longer description for them today, which I hate doing, and ugh. I think I must have just worked on this and that otherwise. I don't remember at all, so it must have been a pretty so-so day. I'll tell you about yesterday when I get to you again down below. ** Cal Graves, I couldn't agree with you more about non-narrative. Very high five. I need to have a day when I send more emails than I ever have in my life. I have about a 1000 unanswered emails at this point. No, I don't know much about dream books, but, in the semi-unlikely event that a certain d.l. of this place who's a big expert on dreams sees this and decides to weigh in, I'll ... Bernard, can/will you recommend 'a book that's based-off or inspired by dreams, or a dream diary type deal that isnt total, utter shit' to our pal Cal Graves? Good answer. I think I'd do the first part of your answer too. That new question's super easy. French. I live in France, and I barely know French, and I revere French literature, and I barely know French, so, yeah, French. Second choice would probably be Japanese. You? ** _Black_Acrylic, Disneyland was big fun. I'll tell Kier/you about it below. You might be right about the more effective decision, yeah. I get it. ** Chilly Jay Chill, Hi, Jeff. Cool, glad you dug it. Yeah, I was shocked at how much Garrel was on youtube. I like the ones you like. I of course really like the two featuring Pierre Clementi. I haven't seen 'Jealousy', no. Missed it. Really want to see it, of course. At the moment, our film is 1 hr 31 minutes in length. It'll probably be pretty close to that length when we completely finish the edit. ** Damien Ark, It's weird how the loss of mental shit sucks, but, yeah. It can be juicy and pull up interesting stuff, though, if it's a semi-loss. Ha ha, thanks for biting my book, and thank you for immortalizing yourself doing it. Cool. I'm not really reading right now. Too busy. I'm going to start again today, but, unfortunately, I don't think anything that I'm going to read is an actual book yet. They're all mss. and impending books. What did you lasso on Amazon? ** Misanthrope, Hi. Huh, interesting, I quite agree with you about Morrison. How did that happen, ha ha? Okay, that's a crazy story there, George. Good crazy. Good crazy in the telling anyway. Not that I wish I had been you. My crazy stories are all drug stories. I'm saving them for the memoir I will never write. ** Kiddiepunk, Kidster! Let's talk. We finally rode Ratatouille yesterday! And it was good! And the line was only 20 minutes long! ** Hiero, Hi, Hiero! Welcome to the insides of this place, and thank you very much for entering! Wow, cool, thank you for the link! I'll go watch that as soon as I finish up here. Let me share it. Everyone, kindly Hiero came in here yesterday to say hi and to share something really cool. Here is the trailer for 'Stella da Falla', which should be very cool to watch for all kinds of reasons including the fact that, at 1:53, you will see Hiero himself sitting on Philippe Garrrel's Rolls Royce in 1969/1970. Go to it. It's here. ** Wednesday ** David Ehrenstein, Hi, D. Ted Berrigan, yes! Awesome about the link, thanks! Everyone, courtesy of Mr. E, Ted Berrigan can heard talking as Andy Warhol shoots his portrait on the day of Mr, Ehrenstein's famous interview of Warhol at the Silver Factory right here, here being a generally great post on this very blog made by Mr. Ehrenstein, so use that link for a bunch of reasons. Boon! ** Thomas Moronic, Hi, T. Berrigan's great. His book 'The Sonnets' is one of the great books of American poetry ever, I think. ** Brendan, Hi, B. Cool, let me see if a local English bookstore allows me to cohabit our tiny book club. I'll find out as soon as I'm able! ** Steevee, Hi. Two reviews, cool. Everyone, a double-whammy of Steevee-based goodness for you today. I.e., here's his review of Abderrahmane Sissako’s much discussed film 'Timbuktu', and here's his review of Aleksei German’s slightly less discussed film 'Hard to Be a God'. ** Kier, I like denigrate. That's a goodie and so apropos by virtue of my attempts not to denigrate too much, ha ha. Sorry about your bad mood-inflected day. But I'm glad you liked 'Mr. Turner''cos that really ups the ante of my wanting to see it. My day: Disneyland Paris. It was chilly-ish, and it rained off and on, but that wasn't bad, and it kept the crowds small, so we were able to ride rides without the usual hour wait per ride. Let's see. Here's what we rode, maybe in order, if I can remember right: Ratatouille*, Twilight Zone Tower of Terror*, Crush's Coaster*, Rock 'n' Roller Coaster starring Aerosmith, Phantom Manor*, Big Thunder Mountain, Sleeping Beauty's Castle, Peter Pan's Flight, Star Tours, Pirates of the Caribbean, Les Voyages de Pinocchio, Blanche-Neige et les Sept Nains, Buzz Lightyear Laser Blast, and we tried to ride Big Thunder Mountain again, but it broke down so we got kicked out. We also saw a parade and watched the park-closing multi-media plus fireworks extravaganza Disney Dreams*. And we ate some bad food. I've starred the things I liked the best. It was big fun, and we had a blast. Yep. Then we came home, and, of course, parted ways, and then I don't know what they did, and I didn't do much of anything. Hooray! How was Thursday? ** Chris Goode, Mr. G! Always a superb and even, yes, sir, a sublime pleasure to get to see you via your wordage's beck and call followed by my attempt to use words both enthusiastically and with respect accordingly, or something similar to that. Right, about the Cage interview. Oh, you should use it. Is that not a no brainer? Maybe it isn't. I think you should. Well, wow, okay, under my hat ... meaning a cryptic response in this most public of spots. I'm thrilled to my very marrow, man! For you, and, naturally, for my little place in that, funding-wise. Yes! Superb, my man! October 7th is such a good day to premiere! I guess because of its proximity to Halloween! Am I overly lifting the hat that you asked me to wear tightly right now? Shit. Eight years? Holy, shit, maybe, wow. Dude, so incredibly great, and, yeah, let's talk whenever you want to talk as much you want to talk! Is my liking 'Topsy Turvy' really weird? I did have this weirdness inside me when I typed that, so I guess you're right. Yeah, weird. Your dad and I have so much in common, it's spooky, ha ha. Big love to you and to yours, top drawer maestro! ** Hyemin kim, Hi! That's great that you're writing something about Joe Brainard! I'm a massive fan of the so-called '2nd generation New York School poets'. I read them voraciously at a tender-ish age, and I think I owe a whole lot to them as a writer. Berrigan took me a while to love, I don't know why, but then one day I got it. I think it was 'The Sonnets', which I still think is one of great American poetry collections, But, yeah, he's tough in a certain way, I can definitely see that. It's nice to see you! ** Okay. We're caught up. Today I give you these photos I found here and there and everywhere of the L.A. area before it grew up. They really fascinate me, probably because I grew up there and lived there for most of my life. But maybe the magic of them translates to non-L.A. folks too? I suppose I'm kind of counting on that. See you tomorrow.