There was also this one guy who read the sales pitch in the style of a Baptist preacher with dramatic music and everything...for two completely different companies. I hope someone interviews that guy someday; he's probably a legend in a very specific niche circle.

"Your house could be filled with POTATO CHIPS and we wouldn't break one!" Actual line from an ad for a window installation service.

For the sake of completeness, here are the ones from that equally janky game with the cool gay easter egg: www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-hY...

Thirty years later and the real commercials on KROQ/KDAY/KIIS/KTWV are still *exactly like this.* It very much feels like the personal injury law/personal loans/auto insurance ecosystem in California is basically unregulated.

The restaurant here in the terminal playing Daughtry and 3 Doors Down back to back is a special level of hell.

*This* is the federal architecture style we need to retvrn to.

Asbestos is good for you.

I think that’s part of why I’ve fallen so much in love with the San Gabriel Valley and Inland Empire; they’re places where the simulacrum of Los Angeles beamed into our eyeballs and eardrums for the past hundred-odd years isn’t so overwhelming like in most other places.

I think the only prominent structure in this entire city I *don’t* relate to through pop culture is that trio of unfinished condo towers with all the graffiti on them.

While we were going down Hope Street by the Westin Bonaventure I literally went “Oh hey it’s that street that’s in every single car commercial!”

These are not questions I find myself asking when I’m on an anime pilgrimage.

…and now here’s me doing the same thing to Los Angeles itself, saying stuff like “Marcellus ain’t GOT no friendly places in the Valley!“ while driving through Burbank and Toluca Lake. And how much of that did LA invite on itself because everything is set and filmed here?

Like OK Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction could only have been made in a time where the perceived end of history and advent of mass media means we primary relate to the world via past and present pop culture…

1) In which I realize half the reason Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction feel like they’re deeply LA movies is all the funk/soul/surf rock on their soundtracks.

2) In which I‘m suddenly unsure how many layers of postmodernism I’m running on when a main reference point for LA Stuff is Tarantino films.