LA Stories
Sometimes a video just ruins a song. I don't know when I first heard "Los Angeles" by Frank Black but I'm pretty sure it was when I lived in LA during the early 90s. Until this evening I had never seen the video.
Meh... so not what I had envisioned. It's like when a comic strip you've read for years becomes an animated cartoon and the characters get voices. Can you imagine what a mindfuck it would have been if Calvin & Hobbes had ever been made into a cartoon?
Speaking of LA, it surprises me that many of the DJs who were at KROQ when I lived there are still there. It just seems somehow wrong for a DJ on a rock station to hang around for decades. Yeah, rock has been mainstream for a very long time but still... there should be some rebellion. At least I was listening the day that "Loveline" original host, Jim "The Poorman" Trenton got fired from the station for sending a crowd of listeners to the house of one of the other DJs who had pranked him.
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Frank Black sang 'Los Angeles'
KROQ is a radio station in LA
The Poorman was a dj on KROQ
The Poorman was in the movie 'Heathers'
Christian Slater was in the movie 'Heathers'
Christian Slater was in the movie 'Pump Up The Volume'
Leonard Cohen sang 'Everybody Knows' in the movie
On the movie soundtrack, Leonard Cohen was replaced with a Concrete Blonde cover
Concrete Blonde played the 'On the Bricks' concert in Centennial Olympic Park
Centennial Olympic Park is the view out my window
Click to viewMeh... so not what I had envisioned. It's like when a comic strip you've read for years becomes an animated cartoon and the characters get voices. Can you imagine what a mindfuck it would have been if Calvin & Hobbes had ever been made into a cartoon?
Speaking of LA, it surprises me that many of the DJs who were at KROQ when I lived there are still there. It just seems somehow wrong for a DJ on a rock station to hang around for decades. Yeah, rock has been mainstream for a very long time but still... there should be some rebellion. At least I was listening the day that "Loveline" original host, Jim "The Poorman" Trenton got fired from the station for sending a crowd of listeners to the house of one of the other DJs who had pranked him.
----------- stream of consciousness --------------
Frank Black sang 'Los Angeles'
KROQ is a radio station in LA
The Poorman was a dj on KROQ
The Poorman was in the movie 'Heathers'
Christian Slater was in the movie 'Heathers'
Christian Slater was in the movie 'Pump Up The Volume'
Leonard Cohen sang 'Everybody Knows' in the movie
On the movie soundtrack, Leonard Cohen was replaced with a Concrete Blonde cover
Concrete Blonde played the 'On the Bricks' concert in Centennial Olympic Park
Centennial Olympic Park is the view out my window