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The Los Angeles Conundrum // Mike Davis’s “City of Quartz”

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After hearing and reading about it for over a decade, I finally decided to pick up City of Quartz -- the fascinating and sprawling examination of Los Angeles by historian and urban theorist Mike Davis. 

As a Los Angeles native and current resident, I couldn’t turn away from Davis’s seemingly revelatory discoveries and criticisms of the city I call home. 

Below are my favorite passages. 

"It became apparent to me that a people would never abandon their means of livelihood, good or bod, capitalistic or otherwise, until other methods were developed which would promise advantages at least as good as those by which they were living” -- Job Harriman, 1911

...it is all too easy to envision Los Angeles reproducing itself endlessly across the desert with assistance of pilfered water, cheap immigrant labor, Asian capital and desperate homebuyers willing to trade lifetimes on the freeway in exchange for $500,000 ‘dream homes’ in the middle of Death Valley.

We talked about the weather for a while, when I asked them what they thought about Los Angeles, a city without boundaries, which ate the desert, cut down the Joshua and the May Pole, and dreamt of becoming infinite. They had watched it in Sal Salvador, in endless dubbed reruns of I Love Lucy and Starsky and Hutch, a city where everyone was young and rich and drove new cards and saw themselves on television. After ten thousand daydreams like this, he had deserted the Salvadorean Army and hitchhiked two thousand and five hundred miles to to Tijuana. A year later he was standing at the corner of Alvarado and Seventh Streets in the MacArthur Park district near Downtown Los Angeles, along with all the rest of yearning, hard working Central America. No one like him was rich or drove a new car - except for the coke dealers - and the police were as mean as back home. More importantly no one like him was on television; they were all invisible. 

Los Angeles (and its alter-ego, Hollywood) becomes the literalized Mahagonny: city of seduction and defeat, the antipode of critical intelligence. 

...noir has nonetheless remained the popular, and despite its intended elitism, ‘populist’ anti-myth of Los Angeles. 

“Here is an artificial city which has been pumped up under forced draught, inflated like a balloon, stuffed with rural humanity like a goose with corn...endeavoring to eat up this rapid avalanche of anthropoids, the sunshine metropolis heaves and strains, sweats and becomes pop-eyed, like a young boa constrictor trying to swallow a goat It has never imparted an urban character to its incoming population for the simple reason that it has never had any urban character to impact. On the other hand, the place has retained the manners, culture, and general look of a huge country village.” -- Morrow Mayo

Los Angeles understands its past, instead, through a robust fiction called noir.

“From Mount Hollywood, Los Angeles looks rather nice, enveloped in a haze of changing colors. Actually, in spite of all of the healthful sunshine and ocean breezes, it is a bad place - full of odd, dying people, who were born old of tired pioneer parents, victims of America - full of curious wild and poisonous growths, decadent religious cults and fake science, and wild cat enterprises, which, with their aim for quick profit, are doomed to collapse and drag down multitudes of people . . . a jungle.” -- Louis Adamic 

“You can rot here without feelings it.” -- John Rechy

Sociologically, 1940s noir was more typically concerned with gangster underclasses and official corruption than with the pathology of the middle class. 

The result feels very much like the actual moral texture of the Reagan-Bush era: a superstition of corruption that fails any longer to outrage or even interest. 

Indeed for a while the more famous of the exiles could fancy themselves Hollywood sahibs: happy white people under the palm trees, feeding themselves on an economy run by invisible servants. 

‘in which the city is at once an endless text always promising meaning but ultimately only offering hints and signs of a possible and final reality . . . like a “printed circuit” - or a freeway.’ -- Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

They have become so integrally involved in the organizations of high culture, not because of old-fashioned philanthropy, but because ‘culture’ has become an important component of the land development process, as well as a crucial moment in the competition between elites and regional centers. 

... a ‘sympathetic ecology for architecture’ and excoriated the elitism of critics who failed to consult the actual desires o the masses. 

...L.A. artists are in a desperate state, fighting over scraps, without career opportunities, funds or housing’.

As a result Black and Chicano cultural avant gardes have either been decimated or forced to retreat from their community constituencies of the co-optative shelter of the universities and corporate arts establishment.

...while the Mission Revivalism of Lummis’s generation relied upon a fictional past, the World City hoopla of today thrives upon a fictional future. 

The city is a place where everything is possible, nothing is safe and durable enough to believe in, where constant synchronicity prevails, and the automatic ingenuity of capital ceaselessly throw up new forms and spectacles

...Régis Debray once put it, ‘revolutions revolutionize counter-revolutions’

...land development is still Souther California’s most lucrative large industry with annual profits as high as 50 percent 

...conservative, pro-developer majorities control the boards of supervisors in every Southern California county except Santa Barbara. 

The Times’s dilemma, in other words, almost precisely outlines the problem of ruling-class hegemony in a postmodern city of secessionist suburbs and burgeoning barrios. 

Like Downtown, Hollywood is becoming a colony of the world economy. 

‘Community’ in Los Angeles means homogeneity of race, class and, especially, home values. 

The master discourse here - exemplified by the West Hills secessionists - is homestead exclusivism, whether the immediate issues is apartment construction, commercial encroachment, school busing, crime, taxes or simply community designation.

Slow growth, in other words, is about homeowner control of land use and much more.

The starting point is to reconstruct the white-supremacist genealogy of its essential infrastructure: the homeowners’ association. 

Some homeowners’ associations are entirely voluntary coalescences of perceived common interest; many others are mandatory enrollments (pre organized by developers) of all residents of a track or planned unit development.

...overriding purpose was to ensure social and racial homogeneity.

‘The reasons for creating of moving to a . . . minimal city was not to signal something unique about one’s demand for public goods, but to insulate one’s property from the burden of supporting public services. 

...a hypocritical attempt by the rich to use ecology to detour Vietnam-era growth around their luxury enclaves. 

“Those immortal ballads, Home Sweet Home, My Old Kentucky Home, and The Little Gray Home in the West, were not written about apartments . . . they never sang songs about a pile of receipts.” -- Herbert Hoover

...’homeowner opposition to multi-family construction,’ steming from mobilizations of the early 1970s, that has constrained the supply of land for multi-family housing.

Cal Trans engineers have warned that without a quick fix of mass transit, ‘the system isn’t going to break down, it’s going to explode’. 

As Silver explained, ‘people don’t organize to fight for something, but they organize to fight against something’.

It is no surprising that poor people, especially renters, will choose jobs over environmental quality when the two are artificially counterposed. 

The ‘Second Civil War’ that began in the hot summers of the 1960s been institutionalize into the very structure of urban space. The old liberal paradigm of social control, attempting to balance repression with reform, has long been superseded by a rhetoric of social warfare that calculates the interests of the urban poor and the middle class as a zero-sum game.

Yet white middle class imagination, absent from any first hand knowledge of inner city conditions, magnifies the perceived threat through a demonological lens.

Although architectural critics are usually oblivious to how the built environment contributes to segregation, pariah groups - whether poor Latino families, young Black men, or elderly homeless white females -- read the meaning immediately. 

...and the middle-class demand for increased spatial and social insulation. 

...public architecture is America is literally being turned inside out, in the service of ‘security’ and profit. 

Moreover, with the post-liberal shift of government expenditure from welfare to repression, carceral structures have become the new frontier of public architecture. 

‘Can you imagine the mind fuck of being locked up in a Holiday Inn?’ -- Inmate at DTLA prison

But as long as the actual violence was more or less contained to the ghetto, the gang wars were also a voyeuristic titillation to white suburbanites devouring lurid imagery in their newspapers or on television.

In 1982, for example, following a rash of LAPD ‘chokehold’ killings of young Black men in custody, [Chief Gates] advanced the extraordinary theory that the deaths were the fault of the victims’ racial anatomy, not excessive police force: ‘We may be finding that in some Blacks when [the cartoid chokehold] is applied the veins or arteries do not open up as fast as they do normal [sic] people.’

He was alleged to be reaching suspiciously into his pants; more importantly, he was a ‘suspected gang member’ - a category that now seemed to justify abuse or even execution. 

...it seems probable that the first generation of Black street gangs emerged as a defensive response to white violence in the schools and streets during the 1940s.

...it is not surprising that Parker’s LAPD looked upon the ‘rehabilitation’ of gang youth in much the same was as the arms industry regarded peace-mongering or disarmament treaties. 

But too often Crippin’ came to represent an escalation of intra-ghetto violence to Clockwork Orange levels (murder as status symbol, and so on) that was unknown in the days of the Slausons and anathema to everything that the Panthers had stood for. 

At a time when economic opportunity was draining away from Southcentral Los Angeles, the Crips were becoming the power resource of last resort for thousands of abandoned youth.

“Gangs are never goin’ to die out. You all goin’ to get us jobs” -- 16-year old Grape Street Crip

Although terrorism is always portrayed precisely as inarticulate male-violence, authorities expend enormous energy to protect us from its ‘ravings’, even at the cost of censorship and restriction of free speech.

‘the fighting mood of the 1960s has been replaced by a sick apathy or angry frustration’.

As the Los Angeles economy in the 1970s was ‘unplugged’ from the American industrial heartland and rewired to East Asia, the non-Anglo workers have borne the brunt of adaptation and sacrifice. 

The Latino Eastside gangs, by contrast, are still trying to catch up. Dealing largely in homegrown drugs, like PCP, amphetamines and marijuana, with relatively low turnover values in a market consisting almost entirely of other poor teenagers, they are unable to accumulate the fineries or weaponry of the Crips. They have yet to effectively join the world market.

“Left to themselves and the principles of Adam Smith, the cosortia of Medellin investors would no more see themselves as criminals than did the Dutch or English venturers into the Indies trade (including opium), who organized their speculative cargoes in much the same way . . . the trade rightly resents being called a mafia. . . It is basically an ordinary business that has been criminalized - as Colombians see it - by a U.S. which cannot manage it’s own affairs.” -- Eric Hobsbawm

While their parents may still measure the quality of life by old-country standards, the iron rations of Tijuana or Ciudad Guatemala, their children’s self-image is shaped by the incessant stimuli of L.A. consumer culture. 

...the church unavoidably assumed a central role in Latinos’ search for power.

The real issue remained empowerment versus paternalism. 

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Jennifer Lawrence Is an 'Asshole' to Her Fans, According to Jennifer Lawrence

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Jennifer Lawrence fans beware: If you approach the actor for a selfie, you might get an earful.

In typically unaffected Jennifer Lawrence fashion, the Oscar-winning star said that she becomes “incredibly rude” in public when approached by people who recognize her.

“That’s kind of, like, my only way of defending myself,” she said in an interview with fellow actor Adam Sandler for Variety.

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“Once I enter a public place I become incredibly rude, I turn into a huge asshole,” said Lawrence, adding, “Like, see somebody walking towards my table, just go [no]. Or, like, ‘Can I have a selfie?’ and I’m like, ‘No.’ That’s my only defense.

Another Lawrence brushoff is telling people “it’s my day off...it’s Sunday, I’m not working today.”

Lawrence says she doesn't have it as bad as one of her best friends, the comedian Amy Schumer. “I take my dog to the park all the time, to Central Park. As soon as I meet her in the park, we’re fucked.”

Sandler, the industry veteran, said he has a politer way of shutting down pesky fans asking for pictures. “My new move has been, that works alright, when it’s an older guy, a guy my age, wanting to take a picture with me...They go, ‘Hey Adam, can I get a picture?’ I say, ‘You don’t want that, man.’ And the guy goes, ‘What?’ and I go, ‘You don’t want that.’ And he’s like, ‘Yeah, yeah, I don’t.’”

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For years Amma suggested we visit Sydney and Perth for the Gourmet Escape event in Margaret River (which is actually a 3 hour drive from Perth). It seemed like an ambitious trip and frankly, the long flight scared the hell out of me. 

Between Oprah’s Australian Special years ago and a postcard from Sydney I found amongst my dad’s old keepsake box, the timing seemed right.

This trip came at a great time. It gave us something to look forward to during & after the big move/home renovation of our place in Silver Lake. 

I was also a bit concerned traveling with a group. Tere & I are typically a travel duo but Rocky, Annie, Cat, Dave & Amma helped create one of the most memorable adventures of our lives.  

The Flight: Three movies and a benedryl

It wasn’t all that bad. Maybe it was the anticipation of exploring a new city. 

The oddest adjustment was landing in Sydney and the time difference was NINETEEN hours ahead of Los Angeles Time. Talk about time traveling. 

First impressions:

Sydney is clean and people seem pleasant. 

Armed with our Opal cards, courtesy of Raul & Enrique, we made our way to Circular Quay (key)- the center of the city. 

Kudos to the city planner for building the airport so close to the center of Sydney.  Day 1:

Though it may seem touristy, the hop on/hop off bus is the most expedient way to get to know a city. 

The Sydney Harbour is the cutest. I say that because it sort of reminds us the San Francisco Bay & San Diego harbor but on a smaller scale. 

After looping the entire city we stroll around the Royal Botanical garden, it’s there we get the best view of the Sydney Harbour Bridge & The Sydney Opera House. Both are breath taking and I got goosebumps seeing them in person. 

On our first night we also arranged for a dinner meet up with Rand’s aunt Andee and her much younger boyfriend at a Lebanese restaurant in Surry Hills near her home. We had a blast listening to how she came to live in Sydney.

Turns out her life played out like a movie. (Left L.A cause FBI was looking for her due to a questionable AFI Film Program....she fled to China with 2nd husband who had a breakdown after taking some hallucinogens...he was fired from teaching at the University, she dropped him off in Amsterdam and she wound up staying in Sydney after meeting up with a friend. At least that’s what I remembered). 

Surprisingly we weren’t jet lagged after dinner & soaking in the city. In fact we embarked on our own Pub Crawl after the Hop On Off bus driver pointed out a few favorite watering holes. The Waterloo (bartender showed us the shanghai tunnel) The Brewery Hotel and the Palisades rooftop bar

Day 2:

The Koala Crew is here! 

Tapas Lunch near The Marriott Hotel 

Walk in the Park, drinks overlooking the harbour, first night at the Wydam...Thai Food to tackle the cold I caught.

Day 3:

The Crew spends the day at Bondi Beach while I rest up at the hotel before we embark on planned events. 

Day 4:

Taronga Zoo- In search of the Kwaka

Meet up with Andee her local bar. We head to a Tapas bar with Live Flamenco. The gang loses their mind when they see her library.

Amma- “You knew Octavia Butler?”

Andee- “ Yes.” 

She provides us space cake which we indulge in later in the trip. 

Day 5:

The Sydney Bridge Climb with Rocky, Cat & Dave.

Pete is the best tour guide. It took an hour to prep and gear up for the climb.

Pics of Kate Blanchett, Katy Perry, Will Smith, Oprah in the same gear we put on got us psyched up. During our climb we started singing Bill Wither’s “Lovely Day”. I hope it reminds me of that day for the rest of my life. I’ll never forget that view of the harbor. 

Spontaneous Ferry Trip to Manly Beach.

The search for Sushi, Are those bats in the tree? they’re loud as hell. 

Free Magic show at 4 Pines Brewery.

Dave is addicted to Chocolate and we discover this at the shoppe near the dock.

Day 6:

Alas we meet Sydney Opera House!

News Flash, the exterior is not one singular piece but rather tiled pieces. 

Drinks at the Benelong, “The Merchant of Venice” Play.

Rocky, Cat & I eat one of Andee’s space cakes. At a bar across the street from the hotel we realize we’re on the moon! Amma chats with me about meditation. Stillness seems like a good idea. We had back to the hotel but not before Tere takes me on a small goose chase for a bottle of wine. No luck! 

At one point we make our way back to the hotel and we start discussing violating at cantaloupe...it’ll be sold as the Honey Do Me! Laughter ensues for a good 10 minutes. 

For most of the week we notice Dave paying attention to driving in the city. He’ll be taking the wheel (they drive on the left side and steering wheel is on the right side) when we get to Perth. Three hours in the dark. Even I was afraid for him. 

Day 7:

Cross country flight to Perth. It’s almost like L.A. to N.Y.

Did you know 80% of Australians live on the East Coast Side/Pacific Ocean Side? Neither did I. It’s no wonder the West Coast side of the country seems far more chill. 

We land near sunset and embark on a 3 hour drive to Margaret River. En route Dave almost hits a kangaroo. 

Day 8:

The private beach bbq with Curtis Stone at Castle Rock.

Rock Star parking was a sign of good things to come.  

The location, the staff and the food were all superb.

Getting the private cabana was the way to go. Curtis chilled with us in our private lounge and chat with us for a bit. On lookers sat envious and we loved it!

Day 9:

Bike Ride with Tere

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