Meet me in the city

"... LA - even the best parts, maybe especially the best parts, like flowering trees and neon signs and different kinds of ethnic food and music - made you feel agitated and like you were never really getting what you needed. Maybe LA had some untapped resources and hidden treasures that would make me feel full and happy and that I didn't know about yet but I wasn't dying to find them just then."

This little bit is from a story called "Wolf," written by Francesca Lia Block. It's a modern interpretation of Little Red Riding Hood, and is a pretty decent YA short story. You can read it here, on page 4: Wolf.

I have no interest in the story behind the excerpt. I'm only interested in because it nicely sums up the way I feel as I approach my last month living in LA. There's not much to say other than that. LA and California will always have a special place in my heart (and on my arm), and maybe I'll look back one day and feel like I never gave it quite the chance it deserved, but I know it doesn't give me what I need right now and I'm not going to worry about what it may be able to hypothetically offer me.

I'm ready for the whirlwind that will be July. I'm ready for traveling and cleaning house and packing up and starting life. I mean really start it. I'm ready for it. I'm ready.

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This has been my favorite song for the past month or so, and is on its way to becoming one of my favorite songs ever. If you're a Black Keys fan you may have heard their cover of it, but it doesn't come close to this poor quality, one take acoustic version. I would consider selling my soul to be able to write and play something this intimate and expressive (not to mention the ability to play polyrhythms on guitar).

Junior Kimbrough - Meet Me In The City


"Meet me in the city
And see everything is so fine"