“I always wanted to go to the, Leave this city one day ... ". And there I was, Singing that song while crossing huge highways without being able, in the 80, as far as unreal for all Spaniards.
But my first image has to do with his famous Venice Beach. It was Saturday, We had just left our bags in our rented apartment on the same sand and we went to take a bath in its waters. And not, Venice Beach no es cool, nor is it a succession of sculptural bodies that skate; It is rather an urban beach, Full of thousands of families and surrounded by homeless.
We also climbed an afternoon to the terrace of our building at about 18 hours, as the Red Hot Chili Peppers did in the video of their "The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie"To contemplate that world of preachers, tattooists, Camels, bañistas, breakers, artists and insomens who threaten to fly their temple on their promenade.
Jobs, bañistas, breakers, artists and insomens who threaten to fly their temple on their promenade
I remember one afternoon go down to see the skate slopes where we saw such a yellow sunset that I always doubt when I saw the photos if I painted the background to marker or painted them. Venice is also a host house of new urban tribes, surferos y skaters, how does the movie tell Dogtown masters
THERE IS ANOTHER VANICE BEACH, That more cool, which is the one that gave name to the beach and is behind the back of the great sand. Abbot Kinney Street is in fact the best representative of those modern and avant -garde with its alternatively expensive boutiques and restaurants, Beyond the classic Beverly Hills or Rodeo Drive, to which the LOVE PSYCHEDELICO GRUPO dedicated This song that summarizes its atmosphere.
After Venice, In Los Angeles it is forced to go to Hollywood. The least tourist has more charm than the one in which stars are scattered on the ground. Mulholland Drive street is traveling slowly, Discounted curves of a mountain that shades a city whose dreams beat crows and light signs. No one portrayed that sordid universe of Hollywood better than David Lynch in his "Mulholland Drive”.
No one better portrayed that sordid universe of Hollywood than David Lynch in his "Mulholland Drive"
In the evening, In the Griffith Observatory, One contemplates off the sun after the famous Hollywood giant sign of which the legend tells that the neighbors pissed off by the arrival of tourists around their homes forced Google Maps to remove the path that leads to him.
As, the other side of town, The lights of an infinite city are turned on as straight matches. Everything dies without ceremonies after the statue of James Dean, icon of his Rebel without cause which was partly recorded on that sacred hill converted into a viewpoint of stars and hell.
Hollywood also stays with his Sunset Boulevard, that Sofia Coppola portray in her Somewhere. The Chateu Marmont hotel, Famous Refuge and the protagonist of the film, It remains in a curve in which spectra appear from old glories and corpses of those who died in the attempt.
It is not complicated to imagine prostitutes made up with coal pencil
Las altas palmeras torcidas de la avenida dan sombra a moteles baratos que se anuncian bajo viejos carteles mugrientos y en los que no es complicado imaginar prostitutas maquilladas a lápiz de carbón. There is one Song of singer -songwriter Javier Álvarez, of the same name as the street, that he tried to hum as we went through those sidewalks happily sad.
And then there is the center of Los Angeles and that Chinatown by Roman Polanski that smells like cigar and Gánster movie coffee, next to that wonder of film that was L.A. Confidential in which only the hats and gabardines deserved the Oscar more than the Titanic award.
Los Angeles Downtown is a succession of high buildings, grises, in which at night there are shadows that approach the windows to recognize that they are still alive. The luminous posters have more years than the city they are talking about and their vagrants are aligned on the sidewalks, near the cars, With the desire that they will finally be mistaken and of a blow they place them in another life that makes them a hole.
At night there are shadows that approach the windows to recognize that they are still alive
It is a disorder with rules that a shout disturbs occasionally. There is some small church that remembers that this city was Spanish and Mexican before they erased the accent of their first to. We had dinner in Chinatown, In a placita where we enjoy a delicious Vietnamese food, trying to remember what the first stanza of Where the Streets Have no Name whose video was recorded not far away, Between the East 7th Street ”y the South Main Street, Above the republic Liquor Store What is a Mexican restaurant today: Margarita´s Place.
From that famous recording of the music video another great film came to move to that center of Los Angeles Spectral: Million Dollar Hotel, The Wim Wenders, whose original idea came out of bono and whose soundtrack is one of the Irish u2.
That night, While we were returning home, After spending a day in this city without a soul, fun, irreverent and cruel, In the car sounded a song by the Eagles of Death Metal, “Wanna be in LA"While the city seemed to sleep.
Then, As a divine revelation the future became true and under a torrential rain we moved three years, until 2019, And we saw flames of the highest towers while our car began to float in the air next to the Geisha poster. Suddenly, Looking at us, We understood that we were there in the simple replicants more surrounded by Blade Runners. It smelled like street food and hydrogen from cars.
We continue the next morning our route through California ...
