walkin’

http://walklawithme.com/

Now I know it’s an art project and all, and it may produce some neat stuff. But it’s a ridiculously upper middle class conceit that walking in Los Angeles is special. It’s not special, it’s just painful.

I spent ten years in Los Angeles without a car, riding the buses and burning a lot of shoe leather. While I did learn many things, see sights, get a sense of the city at ground level etc. etc., mostly I just was dirty and tired mostly, late for everything, and often worried for my safety.

Lots of people walk all the time in Los Angeles. We call those people “people without bus money who need to get somewhere”.

But I bet this project does produce some interesting images.

band thing

your instructions:

  1. Bold the ones you’ve also seen and reply to this
  2. Take the ones from my list that you’ve also seen and post them in your LJ
  3. Add more until you get to 20.

  1. The Pixies
  2. Mike Watt
  3. Lydia Lunch
  4. Hüsker Dü
  5. 3 Mustaphas 3
  6. The Toy Dolls
  7. The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
  8. TMBG
  9. Booker T.
  10. Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
  11. Tones on Tail
  12. Tom Petty
  13. The Meat Puppets
  14. Los Lobos
  15. John Cale
  16. The Guarneri Quartet
  17. X
  18. Jonathan Richman
  19. Savage Republic
  20. Linda Rondstadt