there's going to be a duality anyplace you live- LA has that paradise, sunny, beautiful, poluted, third world, end of manifest destiny apocolypse thin going.
SF has that hippie, homegrown, organic, foggy, rough ocean, wrath of nature vibe Detroit is all industrial, downtrodden, harsh, working class, salt-of-the-earth, overcoming, uplifting you can flip it however you want it On Wed, 26 May 2004, Greg Earle wrote: > On Wed, 26 May 2004 02:45:59 +0100, James Bucknell wrote: > > I don't buy the geography argument. > > Neither do I. I live in LA, with one of the best climates in the world > (OK OK, minus the smog bit), and I'm rockin' tha D all the time here. > > (Aside: I was probably the biggest Joy Division fan in the States back > when they were extant, despite the fact that sometimes it doesn't > rain here for months on end. I considered them uplifting, not "doom > n' gloom".) > > People don't become House-heads in San Francisco because of the > change in climate from where they came from; it's because they're > always surrounded by a bunch of [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Hippies once they get > there ;) > > - Greg (whose [blonde] "Kill The Hippies" Punk roots are showing) > >
