La La Land: Part three
As street artist HUSH hits the loco land of LA for his first solo show Stateside, King Adz joins him to document the ride.
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'I drove all night...'
After a hard days yakka, HUSH wants to go out and see the city lights and so we get a few recommendations (Jones; The Coach and Horses; The Rainbow Rooms) and head off in our rented Chevvy down Santa Monica Blvd.
Driving, driving, driving. Each bar we visit is kinda full but with no real feeling. Everything's a little on the fake side. Nice and neat, but with nothing really going on (everyone is behaving themselves). HUSH makes a point of asking every waitress — all hired for their looks in LA — about where we should go next, where is the best spot, the best place to be... yada yada yada. And the mad thing is that nobody really seems to know where to go in their own city.
One girl who works in a bar on Sunset Blvd tells us that she doesn’t make enough money to go out, and has to commute to work from Malibu from 6pm to 2am each night, anyway. There is no public transport in LA. And it’s the biggest fucking place in the world, so cab fares are killer. It’s a bit like going from a bar in one town, say Oxford, to another in Birmingham...
The alcohol-free beers begin to make me shiver as I hold on to the HUSH rollercoaster. We spend the night stuck in a loop of bars and fools and fools and bars... I watch, I listen and I remember... and by midnight I'm driving home, and we get stuck in traffic on La Brea and soon I find out why: a big jumping club with people crowding the pavement trying to get in. People who are mostly girls wearing very little... I turn to HUSH to tell him that we've found the spot, when I realise he's fast asleep. And it's goodnight from him...
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