Saturday, November 10, 2012

I love LA, BUT...

It isn't news that I love LA. I will defend LA with my dying breaths. I will always get defensive when a New Yorker tries to bring down my lovely palm-infested town. But the reality is that I have fallen out of love with LA.

LA has always been my limbo, my vacation destination, my everything-goes-town, my party city, my artsy-fartsy-playground, but now LA is reality. Maybe I am placing the blame on LA, when the reality is that it is all about timing.

The timing is all wrong. I am trying to work out my future and life in a town where people are chasing big, silver dreams.

At this point in my relationship with LA, I have to say that I love LA, but I am not in love with it. I know this is a relationship that I have not put any real dedication in the last seven years. Now the time has come to fall back in love with the city that gave me courage and smarts to travel the world.

I hope that in the progression of this blog you and I can see me fall in love. 

From previous trips to Los Angeles, CA

Down the hill of the Aline Barnsdall Hollyhock House
Outside of MOCA pre-DTLA Artwalk
One of the downsides of LA: LA Traffic. DTLA skyline.
Hollywood Forever before Cinespia