LA Playlist

Blogging from 35,000 feet. How did we ever live without this? 


I'm on my way to LA for some good times with good people. And the soundtrack to that needs to be some good tunes, obviously. So here's the special LAMIX that I made for the trip...


1. Stand Back (Live version) - Fleetwood Mac
2. Regulators - Warren G and Nate Dogg
3. Relax - Frankie Goes to Hollywood
4. Ooh La La - Goldfrapp
5. 22nd Century - Kelis
6. You Know How We Do It - Ice Cube
7. Its My Life - Talk Talk
8. Nothing On You - B.O.B.
9. Set Adrift on Memory Bliss - P.M. Dawn
10. Work - Gang Starr
11. Freak Like Me - Adina Howard
12. Nuthin But a G Thang - Dr. Dre


and to top it all off:

I Need These

Skunk Dunks available 4/20/10, courtesy of Dave's Quality Meat

The Supreme Book, @ Supreme

Both drop tomorrow at 11.

Summertime blues...and greens and reds

In honor of today's summerlike weather in NYC, I give honor to those fabrics that I live in during the hot months:

MADRAS

GINGHAM

SEERSUCKER

CHAMBRAY

all at Jcrew.com

The smell of Coppertone Continuous Spray always brings me back...

This Show Sucks

photo courtesy of LAtimes.com

I moved to the LES in 2003 after college and lived there (and in the East Village) for 6 years. Though my living space may have moved on, my heart is still there. So naturally when a show from HBO comes along that purports to be about late-20-somethings trying to make it in NYC while living in the LES I'm hyped. What a mistake that turned out to be.

The characters are supposed to represent some kind of NYC "cool" but are completely uncool. Never mind the plot of starting a clothing line which is gone about in a completely unrealistic way. Ben and Cam are one-dimensional, uninteresting and vanilla. Some of the subplots and supporting characters have promise but are victims of the show's overall direction, and aren't given the chance to develop.

Not only are the characters inauthentic, the New York represented by the show seems completely superficial. Whereas NYC was the "fifth character" in Sex and The City, it feels like an empty backdrop here. For a show that's supposedly representative of the downtown spirit, there is a distinct absence of legitimiacy.

This isn't NYC. I hope HBO drops this hot turd of a show to make room for more Bored To Death. Better luck next time.