Archive for the ‘LA owns me’ Category
The Feral Boy Who Lives in Griffith Park – Special Edition
In Books by Tim, Imagined Geography of Griffith Park, LA owns me on March 5, 2022 at 9:11 pm
CALLING LA FRIENDS! Where is this?
In LA owns me on December 10, 2016 at 12:03 am
The old Glendale airport?
— Source is CHAIN OF EVIDENCE, 1957.
Cafe at Los Feliz Golf Course, 1955
In Films!, LA owns me on December 6, 2016 at 9:14 pmNow “Eat.” From DIAL RED ZERO, 1955.
Ten Great Books I Read in 2016
In Books read, LA owns me on January 8, 2016 at 7:37 pmSome of these are brand new, some I just discovered, and two are re-reads. You’ll see a lot of California (I confess, I’m a fan) and a couple by friends (my friends write great books.) In no order…
Wolf in White Van – John Darnielle
Silver Screen Fiend: Learning about Life from an Addiction to Film – Patton Oswalt
Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream – H.W. Brands
Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley – Peter Guralnick
Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life and Lost – Paul Hendrickson
Water to Angels: William Mullholland, This Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles – Les Standiford
In The Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family in Berlin – Erik Larson
Perfidia – James Ellroy (not great, but it’s Ellroy, so what you gonna do?)
The re-reads are
Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West – Cormac McCarthy
Mildred Pierce – James M. Cain
LA River ’75
In LA owns me, LA River on October 15, 2013 at 9:29 pm
As seen from atop the Lincoln Height Jail, Avenue 19.
— from Psychic Killer, 1975
The Cornfields in “This Gun For Hire”
In Films!, LA owns me on January 20, 2013 at 11:12 pmThe men who worked LA’s railway hub down the hill from Broadway and right up next to Spring Ave called the place “The Cornfields.” There’s little physical evidence of the place now (a cool park on it’s way to becoming an awesome park) but there is this fantastic pen-ultimate action climax of the 1942 Alan Ladd/Veronica Lake film “This Gun For Hire.”
Solano Canyon NOIR!
In Films!, LA owns me on March 2, 2012 at 12:12 am
“Without Warning” joins “Crime Wave” in the pantheon of great LA location noirs of the early fifties.
Cornfields
In Briar's Dad, LA owns me on February 22, 2010 at 8:25 am
A few years ago, my stepfather turned me on to a meditation technique called Directed Imagery. When he needs a break, he takes many deep breathes and travels to a green island off the coast of Australia.
The Cornfields is where I go.
This improbable park near New Chinatown in Downtown LA has a fascinating past, many possible futures and a kicky web-page.
----------Tim Kirk---------- 