last nite on the way to the organic food market, i spotted this wee space, nestled in between an off-license and a pub. I crossed the road to get a closer look, as its entrancing neon sign and warm glowing interior dotted with oil painting portraiture piqued my interest. turns out it's the coolest film shop i've ever seen, called 'today is boring'. This place is a cinematic nocturnal emission, with 2,500 independent and foreign titles. plus their website is really cool. i would have gotten a membership but they're moving to bloody dalston in 2 weeks because the rent in Shoreditch climbs 10% every year and they can't afford it anymore. The only reason we can live here is that we live above a bar and must get some sort of ease on rent from the noise. Well, that and the sound proofing is hardly the sturdiest -- I can hear my roommates turn over, and I hear julien's alarm go off before he even does. LA must have awesome independent video shops like this one, no? each day, each moment has become a psychological trans-Atlantic battle between los angeles & london. "well surely LA doesn't have this"; "but surely people in LA wouldn't be treated like this"; "surely the sun would come out at least ONE day a week in LA..."
what to do.
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pontificating about knees... i can only imagine
since my whole goal in life right now is to somehow get EU residency SOMEWHERE and an EU passport from SOMEWHERE, and the UK seems like the easiest, i would say you should stick in out in the UK for as long as possible--only five years and you can apply for that passport! then, passport in hand you can move anywhere you want--including L.A.
but, that's just how i am viewing the world now. i know you love L.A. and have tons of friends there. it just seems like there would be less adventure.
Congrats on your masters!
And I used to feel that way about London too. The thing is though the moment I left I discovered, that for all the cool "things" London had (The little farm behind Bricklane, beyond retro, women's pond on the Heath, all the clubs, delicious restaurants, beautiful markets, wonderous bookstores, the sprawling parks...) the only thing I really missed (apart from my friends), was the Natural History Museum.
I know that's a personal preference and all, but London is a little like the Oz; it's full of strange, and sometimes wonderful places and events, but in the end, there's no place like home, and London ain't it.
"...each moment has become a psychological trans-Atlantic battle between los angeles & london"
and then it becomes between NYC and SF, and then LA and SF and then LA and NYC and on and on and on....i battle with it every day. I remember after i first left the UK and came back to CA, i couldn't believe there was a world existing beyond London...and then i found NYC.
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