I had the guy who ran the bar we were playing at insist on giving him and his girlfriend free t-shirts. (Total scumbag).

I refused. It was ackward.

LA is, indeed, shit.

Dirty AND shiny.
Nothing is close, and everything is mid-construction. I dig it.

But I also love Oceanside, graffiti, inconveinience and the Pacific Ocean.
Not Crap.

I've never been, but I've been inundated with shite from there forever, so crap. With earthquake factor, hopefully, of a hundred million billion.

I went there expecting to hat eit...with tanned losers, smog, fake jumblies and fake people.

Instead, I got sunny beautiful weather, plam trees, outgoing friendly people, incredible food, the ocean, lots of cultural intersections and fake jumblies.

I really love my new titties.

Only been there once, briefly, and had fun, liked it fine. Good weather, good sushi, attractive people, and gorgeous murals on what seemed like every available surface.

everything that i love and hate about american culture. i like visiting but i could easily see myself getting sucked into the weird superficial vibe & acting in a regrettable fashion if i moved there. not crap wf7

Lived there for a summer two years ago. Resided in Koreatown (THE karaoke capital of the west coast) but worked, no joke, as a Charles In Charge style nanny in the hollywood hills. Mostly despised the place, but, like diamonds forming in rotting belly of a peat bog, there were some really cool unique things to be found there. The Museum of Jurassic Technology is one, the abundance of the world's best tacos is another, fruit for 1930's prices at the mexican grocery stores is a third.

Some of the areas around downtown LA are among the most truly frightening places I have ever seen. Have you ever heard of the "toy district"? I drove thru once, and I swear I have never seen a place that so closely resembled Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. Armies of what looked to be developmentally challenged overweight pedophiles, burning cars, shopping cart mountains.

Like all things there are exceptions, but generally, people from L.A. make me want to vomit.

Best thing about visiting LA is that they have really good places to eat breakfast. I love breakfast, and the breakfast scene up north here is shit.