I love mashups that give you a different perspective on living. We love Urban Cave Art and now there’s a new treat for your ears called — YouAreListening.to — where you sit and listen to the police sounds of the city set to a random soundtrack.
Wattstax is a musical documentary hosted by Richard Pryor that challenges you to propel your common morality back in time to test it against a known event for values conditioning. Who are you and what do you believe? Would your burn down your neighborhood to make a political point? How are you protected from the hangman’s noose?
Continue reading → Wattstax and Understanding the 1965 Watts Riot
In Nebraska, if you want a “black coffee” you order a “regular coffee.”
In New York, if you order a “regular coffee” you get a “coffee with milk and sugar.”
In Nebraska, if you want a “coffee with milk and sugar” you say, “I want a coffee with milk and sugar.”
In New York, if you want a “black coffee” you say, “I want a black coffee.”
This crisis in coffee culture affected a young Nebraska actress so much she left New York after a year and found success on a Los Angeles-based Soap Opera where she could order a “regular coffee” and get what she wanted.
[Update – June 17, 1998: I get weekly messages about this article from GO INSIDE Magazine readers who continue to confirm my experience with the Westwood Marquis Hotel & Gardens despite what, I am told, is the hotel’s occasional claim over the phone that the “UCLA suites” have been remodeled and that my article is “out of date.” However, other readers report that the hotel confesses the “UCLA suites” have “not yet been remodeled” when confronted with the experiences I report in this article when they attempt to make a room reservation. I recently called the hotel and posed as a prospective guest. Without identifying myself, I casually mentioned this article and I asked if the “UCLA suites” description was accurate? I was told that those rooms have “yet to be remodeled.” All I can say is “Buyer Beware!” since the veracity of the situation appears to spin on who answers the phone at the hotel’s reception desk. I’ll continue to update this article as necessary.]
Continue reading → Slumming at the Westwood Marquis Hotel and Gardens for $150 a Night
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