Well after a couple of sweltering days in congested and Gold Coast built-up hotel-style ridden Cancun, it was goodbye to Craig and hello LA! In my time in LA I've been called Sir, Dude and Bro. I've seen lots of loud people and have upped my donut consumption in order to more properly assimilate into the culture. They'll make me an LA copper if I keep this up!
Arriving in LA was weird. My major understanding of LA comes from owning too much old-school west-coast hip-hop. Ice-T, Ice Cube, NWA etc have given me a great education in LA street names. I was on a city tour today and I was just hoping the guy would take us down through South Central so I could see what that area looks like. One example of the real tour was comments from the tour leader like "See that tunnel we are driving past now? That's the tunnel where in the movie Independence Day, they blew up 300 cars!". I could have been just as happy if the guy had taken us down to South Central and said "Ok, we are now going to follow the original route driven by Evil E as described by Ice-T in his classic song 'Let's Peel Their Caps Back'". But it wasn't to be. We did get to see lots of interesting stuff un-rap-related though.
We drove past Santa Monica beach which was the home of Baywatch. The driver, after announcing this then hit play on the cassette deck and we got to hear the whole Baywatch theme song. Way corny! We drove up into the Hollywood hills, Beverly Hills, Belle Aire etc and saw what obscene amounts of money can get you in the way of a house these days. Impressive. We went to Hollywood Boulevard and saw the stars on the sidewalk with famous people's names. I couldn't find my name anywhere! We got dropped off at Rodeo Drive and that was boring. I hate shopping. I could walk around the more expensive end of Collins Street and look at stores with stuff I can't afford and don't want so for me to be dumped out of a bus in front of the most expensive stores in California is a waste. Longest 20 mins of my life waiting for the bus to pick us up! :)
San Francisco is tomorrow. For those who don't like or don't know their west coast rap, I hope the above wasn't too confusing. :)
7 comments:
Can you make your living taking homie tourists around to indulge in rap lyrics? Surely Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer will work for you.
I assume you'll become a 1970s gay man tomorrow.
bad luck getting the theme from baywatch.
when i was there, i got everclear
i am still living with your goat... :)
do the right thing, spike lee style, whilst in San Francisco Pedro.
barefoot and let ya dreads hang out.
hehe. I had Santa Monica by Everclear in my head today! And the goat line is great!
As for dreads, there are plenty to go around in these parts but sadly they are not attached to me. Oh man, there is a girl in the hostel today from Brisbane who has dreads with bells in them! You can tell when she enters the room! I like it!
the bells in the dreads are actually there to give the local budgies ample warning before they are snatched up in the feline like mouth of that young lass. what's the bet her name is moggy, or something of that ilk.
Have you found yourself hankering for a bit of cuttlefish Pedro?
where you at cuttlefishboy?
Hi, It has been very interesting to follow your trip. Gives us something to talk about at AP. I see you are off to San Fran. Just beware the Moonies. Otherwise you will find yourself on some farm way the hell off the road hoeing pumpkin plants. Robert
Post a Comment