LIKE:
The Getty, for that so-far-out-of-human scale/American Royalty(Divinity?) boost.-No, really, only a dead gazillionaire could afford to put on tiny little, totally steep art shows in comparably intimate spaces, almost hands-on -although the Getty museum (citadel?) is technically outside the city limit.
The downtown abandoned after 8PM. So reminiscent of the 80's in Anycity USA.
Feeling like everyday is a russian roulette with an earthquake.
Here is what the city is to me in one pill: Riding the elevator in the Mondrian Hotel with Billy Idol who is carrying his own clothes back from the dry cleaner and has a black eye, while I eat the bagel with butter I got from the hotel restaurant that cost $10 before I head back down to the pool to lounge in the 8PM summer sunset as it turns green in the smog hanging over the five different downtowns.
DISLIKE:
The weather is okay if you hate variety and love having to wear sweaters at night.
When I'm there I just get the feeling I can't find anything real. I'm not in to pretension, and celebrities to me are like some kind of puppets in the white order's zoo. The only zones that work for me are the ethnic aberrations you can't discern from the image the place offers of an oceanic suburban sprawl when you're flying over.