Now I know my friends Joe and Milk will both bitch to me about this posting but come on guys, you are both from over here and you know that most of this is true. Admit it once and for all. If you do, I won’t ever bitch about it again.
So we don’t have to talk about this anymore, REASONS I HATE LA:
1. the new MTV show Twenty Four Seven.
2. the old MTV show Laguna Beach.
3. traffic (not the movie)
4. cause when people say there is great weather, nature and the beach, that also applies to Orlando Florida! And you wouldn’t live there!
5. during CMJ I ran into someone from LA who is the music ‘industry’, he manages a major star, and when I mentioned all the bands I was seeing, he looks at me blankly, as if to say, he doesn’t know who or what I am talking about and then says, ‘hey you going to the show we are sponsoring later?’ I say,’who’s playing? ‘ he says… ‘I don’t remember.’ ugh.
6. Brett Ratner
7. all the culture it has
8. it keeps stealing all my friends
9. A city that perpetuates this.
10. Doing research about LA, I found this little diddy: Famous songs about LA include:
* “Born in East LAâ€
* “I Love LAâ€
11. cause driving in a car is not supposed to be an excursion when you live in a city.
12. cause for all the nature, weather and beach it has, people barely take advantage of it.
13. cause 2am is not an acceptable time to stop drinking.
14. you are not what you own.
15. cause a friend of mine told me, way before Swingers came out, that he went to a party and a girl went up and asked him “What kind of car do you drive?”
16. Rampant materialism and waste.
17. casting (see this one bothers me a lot since I work in casting and I can always tell what shows have been cast in LA. I mean look at a show like LOST or HEROES, both shows I love but I think the cast is SO LA. Don’t you think?)
18. cause only in LA could they throw out a decent politician and replace him with Awnold.
(to make this fair) REASONS I HATE NYC:
1. Shitty weather
2. Materialism and elitism (yes i see the irony here)
3. Almost no nature anywhere
4. it’s dirty here
5. my friends from LA don’t live here
6. film work is not as predominant as LA.
7. we are not the porn central of the US
Once again, let me say, the opinions expressed in this posting are of just one person and most of them are sweeping generalizations. Not to mention, they were written by a sour old man who has never been loved by his parents.
Feel free to add your own in the comments section.
