Excerpts from the Liner Notes of "From L.A. with Love"...
L.A. represents the culmination of global cross acculturation. The most beautiful results of the emerging culture are still surfacing. L.A.'s underground is the new beautiful. The genres are melting & the sound defines category.
Urban theorists have called L.A. "the postmodern metropolis" and "a laboratory for the future." In no place is this more evident than in the local music and art scenes. The multicultural landscape has made a canvas free for genre-bending music. Neighborhoods like Echo Park, Leimert Park and Lincoln Heights, brim with life. All over Southern California progressive music is the standard, from Long Beach to Topanga Canyon, there's a lot more going on in Tinsel Town then just Hollywood.
Hollywood is actually what makes it so easy for underground artists to slip below the radar in Southern California.
In these days of war, rising gas prices, inflation and gridlock, nothing is more healing than good music. The search for something more is driving L.A. musicians and artisans.
- Mike Sonksen AKA Mike the PoeT
Support the underground... From L.A. With Love . This album is incredible!
From: Rolling Stone interview with Vonnegut by DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
This is the end of the world
He quickly lights up. His wheezing ceases. I ask him whether he worries that cigarettes are killing him. "Oh, yes," he answers, in what is clearly a set-piece gag. "I've been smoking Pall Mall unfiltered cigarettes since I was twelve or fourteen. So I'm going to sue the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company, who manufactured them. And do you know why?" "Lung cancer?" I offer.
"No. No. Because I'm eighty-three years old. The lying bastards! On the package Brown & Williamson promised to kill me. Instead, their cigarettes didn't work. Now I'm forced to suffer leaders with names like Bush and Dick and, up until recently, 'Colon.'"....
Heidegger Loved Almonds: it involves an invisible banjo and a green harmonica.
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