Could You Try A Little Harder, LA?
Can’t think of all the proper ways to rag on this clip hard enough. But they should probably all start out with: Dear, Osama. We get it, now.
From Worker #3116:
when i was a kid i watched this movie at my dad’s house called Miracle Mile. the basic premise is that this guy answers a pay phone and it’s someone from a missile silo claiming that the US government is launching missiles at Los Angeles and then there is a gunshot. the guy who answered the phone (the hero) tries to find his girlfriend and his family and get out of town, just in case, but somehow he tells like one person what he heard and it spreads like wildfire and the city is in a panic and no one can get out. One of the final shots is of him on this roof, unable to escape LA, and everyone is wondering if it’s really going to happen or if it was some kind of horrible joke, and then from the rooftop they see these nuclear missiles approaching through the sky and it’s like FUUUUUUCK.
that movie really scared me and i actually had trouble sleeping at my dad’s house for years because i would imagine myself on a rooftop watching the end of the world.
but watching this video, or this video, makes Miracle Mile seem like a utopian dream, because clearly that place, or maybe just cisco adler, needs to be completely annihilated.
- Mott The Hoople :: “All The Young Dudes”
I don’t even know who the fuck those people were.
But I can say I’m ashamed. Ashamed that this is commonplace for LA.
everyone’s optimistic! and everyone’s invited! at christmas they all deck the balls.
Holee crap. “Hipsters” don’t really bug me in general and yet that clip made me suddenly hate Nylon, Testicula Soulpatch Adler, Lavender Diamond, the city of Los Angeles, Cory Kennedy, Rooney, Roscoe’s, and the word “dope.” All things I had no opinion about til five minutes ago. Bye familyyy!
“i was a kid who wanted to be a rapper, like everyone else at some point. so through that i started making beats.”
these guys sit in the control room and press play while they shake their heads and all of a sudden they’re producers. and every other guy in LA is some kind of producer. popozao!
Yeah that’s a bad showing for Lavender Diamond after having been hyped on the blogs for 4eva. Lesson is that if you’re up and coming lay low to keep the mystery alive.
Can we cut out this “hyped on the blogs” bullshit? It makes having a blog even more embarrassing when you’re blamed for what one “tastemaker” schmoe says.
Anyway, I’m going to be at a festival tomorrow where Lavender Diamond’s playing. I think I might get close enough to spit on her. Wish me luck.
There aren’t enough waffle fusion restaurants.
“We’re not a part of that Echo Lake/Silverlake too-cool-for-school scene.”
So Rooney isn’t even good enough to be part of the annoying hipster crowd?
My favorite part though was the dude asking Lavender to “holla at a brother” and her response? The whitest, spaciest “I will” as if she wasn’t even sure what the proper response should have been. Man, I almost illegally downloaded one of her albums yesterday. Thanks, Fiddler, for saving me some hard drive space.
would anyone in that clip pass the turing test?
they should never have let Lavender Diamond out of Herman’s Head.
wow, fuck l.a.
It truly is a magical place.
God Britney is so pissed at the world. I think I’m more entertained by her now than when she was at her peak. Can’t wait to hear the kids’ first words.
the kid crying in the backseat is what makes it. without that it’s just cussin’. but a cussin’ mother with a crying baby is a whole ‘nother can of cheese whiz.
whenever britney is onscreen my anti-virus program puts up a little warning box that says: Seriously, who farted? Cuz it schtanks in here!
There must have been a moment during that rant when she caught her own reflection in the sideview mirror and…
Naah, its Britney.
I’m simultaneously elated that the whole NY vs. LA debate has been quashed by that clip, and sorta devastated that I’ll never approach their level of retarded bliss. “I don’t want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light.”
I was totally freaked out by ‘Miracle Mile’ when I was a kid, too. Mare Winningham’s haircut still haunts my dreams.
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Cisco and Cory in one clip. This one has earned its place in the Canon.