hey...I'm a metros fan but unfortunately I had to move here, please help!

yo marl,
i feel you on the whole jersey stuff, but man pack up and get out...there's a sheetload of stuff to do, yea, but sooner or later there won't be sheet to do!
go somewhere else and look for new things to do!

personally, i'm trying to go to florida with the fams...fucq this scraping off the ice-warming up the car-traffic out the a$$ for some stupid a$$ mo'fo fender-bendering another a$$hole

give me palm trees, give me a white beach (even tho i'm hitched, some nice eye candy won't harm anyone!) and give me 70, 80, 90 degrees...

and get yourself a fooking satellite to watch our boys...

 

Do I hear someone who's homesick?

 

Welcome To Sunny Cal

Weather is great
Girls are great

Whats to hate

 

damn skippy we've got one of the best art house theaters in the country in "The OC".. i missed it, but freakin bruce campbell showed up for the west coast premiere of 'bubba hotep" last year. then there's the newport beach film festival going on now... in laguna they booted edwards and now show indie flicks on the weekend, film festivals and local filmaker openings; 7 degrees has a once a month indie movie night... come to think of it all this bitching about things being spread out... all of the above are within 5-15 minutes of each other and accessible via the bus.

in addition to laemmle throw in the arclight and the egyptian, UCLA and USC screenings.

about the only thing we don't have anymore is a decent drive in. man i miss those.

 

You need to move into the City, man. Or at least BART in once in a while. The SF INTL Film Festival is going on! The Castro is a great movie theater. One of the prettiest I've ever been to (includes all of LA).

But I do miss Friday Nights at the NuArt Theater (the Movie Geek is the manager!). I used to live .5 miles from there. Who says you can't walk in L.A.?

It's funny, one of my reasons for hating New York and New Jersey is the complete LACK of decent Mexican food. My sister-in-law ordered a burrito at one place and they basically gave her a calzone.

Oh, and Topper? Exactly where in your hard drive did you pull that picture from?

 

Oh, jeez, I just realized. . . this guy's in Corona?

Have fun in about 3 months. It will be 130 degrees and 2 hours from the beach.

 

I lived in the Inland Empire for several years (Corona is either in the IE or you can at least see it from there) and I was unhappy living in California. I've since moved to coastal Orange County and my whole outlook changed. When people speak fondly of California, the IE is generally not what they are envisioning.

 

Oh...I so love it when people (my sister included!) call it "The IE". I much prefer The 909...too bad that's getting spilt up. It must be 95 freaking degress out there already-yikes! I'll be heading over to the Westside right about now......

My favorite about living in LA: Getting a call aroud 4 pm.."Dude..wanna go check out the Jimmy Kimmel Show tonight?". Then, a few hours later, standing five feet from stage watching the Black Eyed Peas....

 

Two more reasons to love SoCal:

• In N Out
• Tommy's

 

Fatburger, dude. Fatburger is still my favorite chain.

Although, I still think the best hambuger is at the Apple Pan on Pico. Damn, that makes my mouth water.

 

Ah yes, Fatburger. There's one near my house. Mmm. Supposedly each store has different qualities. My coworker claimed that the one in San Clemente (now closed) had better-tasting burgers than others she had been too. Personally I can't tell the difference. Funny thing is I still have yet to try Tommy's.

Dude may live in Corona, but it could be worse: he could be living in Fontana or Colton.

 

AKA ... Fontucky.

 

while Corona isn't mecca by any stretch there are some nice parts. You need a toothless hooker for 5.00 with a "room by the hour" motel and can't drive to Hollywood. 6th street has it for you. If you go to South Corona it very nice upscale family communities. It is hot as hell out there. I used to work in Corona, in the bad part of town

 

For all my smack-talking, I actually had a nice time once in Corona. There's a nice farmer's market out there. A huge army of bikers had pulled in for lunch, so my friends and I ended up eating fresh corn on the cob talking to these people about their Harley's. Pretty cool stuff.

Plus a friend of mine tells me that, for a few years, that's where all the weird industrial bands would play when they came to SoCal.

And while we're on the "at least its not ____" I have to say, that at least it's not Perris. Ugh.

 

i'll take my local burger joint, jay's jayburger. especially good at 3 in the morning...

 

that's pretty much all my friends and i do. sit around and be fake and discuss plastic surgery.

 

Shhhhhhh...........I don't want my summer spot invaded by dumbass easteners.

 

Yo, Amy was Long Island. There is a difference, sort of.

 

I stand corrected..just couldn't come up with the name of any White Trash Jersey chick......

 

I'm a Metros fan also who recently moved to So Cal as well. I have lived in the Bay Area and in NYC and while the weather can be considered nice here, i definately would rather lived back in NYC or in the Bay Area any day of the week.

I have to agree with the two points made. I hate having to travel by car everywhere. I've actually taken public transportation here and its no fun. I did find an area of Long Beach to live in where I can actually walk to places so that is a bit of a relief.

Also about the women being fake, to a large degree I think he means appearance. People out here definately concentrate more on their looks and i think in large part I think that has to do with the way society is so decentralized and tied to the car. In other cities, you have so much more interaction on a daily basis with all the people around you by walking, taking the bus, train, etc. Here people are locked away in their cars, cursing in rush-hour traffic, their only other interaction with someone is a furtive glance through a windshield.

So for now I accept that LA for what it is LaLa land and all the good and bad that encompases and keep cursing stuck in the smog fumes on the 405 during rush hour.

 

FWIW: I understand how tough it is to convert from a good public transit system to an auto-dominated society. I am ex-Chicago, and was able to go weeks at a time there without getting into a car - a life style so alien to locals here that it is inconceivable to them.

When business moved me to LA 25+ years ago, I made a strategic choice which has left me in good stead - and I recommend it to any easterner relocated and having problems coping. If you approach traffic with the right perspective, it can't get you down. Except for sig alert disasters, the difference between being an aggressive driver (and protecting your turf) v. just staying in line and waiting is, at most, a 5 to 10 minute difference in arrival time over the course of an hour's drive. I decided early on that that 5-10 minutes was not worth getting an ulcer over. My mind goes into beta state and I grind along, and I get there when I get there. No big deal.

Once you get over that hump, this place is fascinating. It is polyglot, multicultural, with a history that nobody knows or talks about. You can explore it for a lifetime, and never really know all the nooks and crannies. Open yourself up to it, and the rewards are tremendous.

(And it doesn't hurt that it has the best soccer stadium in the U.S.)

 

Maybe I'm just testy 'cause I'm an LA historian, but give us some credit.

If you're ever looking for a book recommendation on LA history, come to me!

 

feel free to move your ass back to the bay area or nyc. go ahead, leave. i dare you...can't do it, can you?!

 

Actually, I have read a couple. I wasn't suggesting there is no history here. Quite the contrary. What I meant to say (and what I still believe) is that a huge portion of the LA populace is completely oblivious to it. More's the pity.

Anyway, what would you recommend as a good survey book for the interested amateur?