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When Iām in California, I have a rule: I donāt leave Bel Air, Beverly Hills or West Hollywood. To my friends in Silver Lake, I just canāt do it. Due to my self destructive nature, Iām automatically a Chateau Marmont guy at heart but I feel like when Iām at the Hotel Bel-Air, iām the closer to the person I was born to be. Iāve never felt more peace than salt water swimming, ordering 50$ chicken tenders at 2am, mindfulness breathing in my hot tub on my suiteās patio. The beautiful swans in the garden at the entrance. I donāt feel safe, and struggle with emotional dysregulation if Iām not at a 5 star hotel.
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every time I go to the BH I make a point to stop by the restroom in the lobby at the mayborne since itās so nice - who is saying no to artisanal soaps and cloth hand towels which you dispose of in a tasteful wooden laundry bin!
Nov 5, 2024
we are all anti air b&b but Iām boldly, violently also pro hotel. the housekeeping, restaurants, lobby bars, spas etcā¦ they could never make me hate you.
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I donāt think pop music has historically ever had a moment like her āGirl, So Confusingā remix verse. Itās not a joke. Itās a triumph for literature. Everyone remembers where they were the first time they heard it. This was a serious revolution and took us out of her usual fever dreaminess of controlled poetic syntax (which I love) , to just unmasked, raw, chaotic feminine brutality and I donāt think we appreciate the prose switch-up enough. I also have said āletās work it out on the remix?ā to many people Iāve fought with since the song dropped. Sometimes I even write a verse mimicking the song taking accountability of what Iāve done and I send it to who Iām in a conflict with, it actually helps! Iām obsessed with the new singles off her upcoming album Virgin and Iām already studying the cadence of epigrams like āMDMA in the back gardenā,. Iām someone who struggles with severe summer depression, which is taboo in the world of seasonal sadists but taking my discman for a walk by the ocean as āThe Pathā starts up on my (files purchased on ITunes!) burnt CD-R copy of āSolar Powerā is natureās SSRI. Suck on that, Saint Johnās Wort.
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I write in fragments, and Iām constantly jotting down ideas all day long and what has been great is turning a Blackberry Bold into an offline word processor. I use the built in software and export my writing into a .docx and then put it on my computer via USB. Then I plug my notes into Scrivener.Ā Ā Iām a huge nerd about collecting offline-writing tech (shout out to Freewrite!) and it makes the rush of putting together a novel which I call the āincubation processā, a lot for more chaotic and fun.Ā Ā I consider writing to be like a scavenger hunt with your own brain and I feel like if you see your mind as a search engine, you can pull up a lot of insane ideas by just trusting your inner web browser.Ā
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The reason I got a region free DVD player in my mid 20s was because I wanted to own a European copy of the Leonardo Dicaprio Gen X deep-cut/full of lore movie Donās Plum. If you can sometimes save the money, you spend on vaping, events, weed, alcohol, drugs or whatever to buy rare out of print DVDs (even bootlegs sometimes) that are locked to Japan, Australia, UK, whatever isnāt North American. Do it, youāll never regret it. The delayed gratification of waiting weeks for a DVD that is available to stream right now on some scary illegal link that has 300 pop ups to come in the mail may not make sense to a lot of people but I really appreciate the movie more, and having the association of the whole experience of having to track it down vs just getting it right now makes it so fun. I own a lot of rare TV series box sets from the 90s/2000s that never got released in North America, and are impossible to find online. Join me, you can live this lifestyle too!
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