One Album Wonders When I discover a brilliant band with a huge catalog, my excitement is mixed with annoyance because suddenly I find myself having to take the time to expose myself to hours and hours of new music and, if I like it, more money than I have on acquiring said music. How … Continue reading One Album Wonders
Author: Eric Brightwell
Eric Brightwell is an essayist, rambler, explorer, cartographer, and guerrilla gardener. He lives in Los Angeles, not because he was born here, but because he chose to... for all of the things for which its famous: its verticality, its mass transit, its diversity, its schools, its liminal spaces, its architecture, its wildlife, its museums, its night markets, its cinemas, its theaters, its enclaves, its restaurants, its bars, its libraries, &c
California Fool’s Gold — Exploring Anaheim’s Little Arabia
Anaheim is a city widely recognized for being the home of Disneyland, one of the best-known and most visited tourist attractions in the world. The sprawling city, by area the second largest in Orange County, is also home to many other less-visited places, such as Little Arabia, a locally-beloved and highly visible concentration of Arab … Continue reading California Fool’s Gold — Exploring Anaheim’s Little Arabia
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Gorillasploitation – Giant Gorilla Movies
Gorillasploitation - Giant Gorilla Movies Gorillasploitation -- movies with rampaging psycho killer (and occasionally gentle) giant gorillas. Collect them all!
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Where Fools Fear to Tread — A Philadelphia Snapshot
GROUND TOUR OF THE NORTHEAST AND QUEBEC - PHILADELPHIA The author in Philadelphia (image courtesy Una Zipagan) I recently visited Philadelphia for the first time as a stop on a sort of Grand Tour of the Northeast and Quebec, which I undertook following my sister's graduation from Princeton. To date, the only states that I haven't visited in … Continue reading Where Fools Fear to Tread — A Philadelphia Snapshot
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Nobody Drives in LA — Southern California’s Restaurant Bound Rail Cars
With bicycles, buses, ferries, planes, sidewalks, subways, taxis, and trains at Angelenos’ disposal, why would any sane person choose car dependency? Nobody Drives in LA celebrates sense and sensibility in transportation. Formosa Cafe interior | Photo: Steve & Michelle Gerdes/Flickr/Creative Commons TRAINS KEPT A-ROLLING Years before the rise of the freeways, the Southland's framework was … Continue reading Nobody Drives in LA — Southern California’s Restaurant Bound Rail Cars
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Suspense – Radio’s outstanding theater of thrills
AND NOW, A TALE WELL CALCULATED TO KEEP YOU IN SUSPENSE On 17 June 1942, the anthology Suspense debuted on CBS Radio. The long-running series, which anticipated television programs like Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone, concluded in 1962, an occasion now usually cited as signalling the end of radio's Golden Age. The formula … Continue reading Suspense – Radio’s outstanding theater of thrills
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A map and a snapshot of Los Angeles
Yesterday I finished painting a large map of Los Angeles County. Today I added a brief guide to the 21 Kingdoms. A map and snapshot of Los Angeles
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COME IN! S, M, L, XLA — A new exhibit at the A D Museum opens this Thursday
COME IN! S, M, L, XLA -- A new exhibit at the A D Museum opens this Thursday A cool new exhibit opens at the A+D museum this Thursday... and I helped 🙂
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Tea for all — 10 June is Iced Tea Day
Today is Iced Tea Day. As far as I know, there's no "Hot Tea Day" so here are my musings on all tea with some tea related films to get you into the holidays spirit. Tea for all -- 10 June is Iced Tea Day
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Hippies and Hooligans — Great Madchester covers of 60s tunes
Hippies and Hooligans -- Great Madchester covers of 60s tunes 1988 -- the Second Summer of Love. 1989 -- the end of South African apartheid and the cold war. Love was all around and if it wasn't enough to make one euphoric there was ecstasy and Madchester to the rescue. What were baggies but hip-hop-and-house-hip hippies-cum-hooligans-cum-hippies again? In case we needed further proof, the baggies made the connection … Continue reading Hippies and Hooligans — Great Madchester covers of 60s tunes
Eric Brightwell 