Things that suck about Los Angeles: A List

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the people

Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Saturday, 3 May 2008 18:16 (seventeen years ago)

car culture

jhøshea, Saturday, 3 May 2008 18:18 (seventeen years ago)

No Williamsburg hipsters.

libcrypt, Saturday, 3 May 2008 18:19 (seventeen years ago)

smog

max, Saturday, 3 May 2008 18:19 (seventeen years ago)

actors

jhøshea, Saturday, 3 May 2008 18:20 (seventeen years ago)

agents

Other, Saturday, 3 May 2008 18:20 (seventeen years ago)

the people

-- Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Saturday, May 3, 2008 11:16 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

RONG

remy bean, Saturday, 3 May 2008 18:25 (seventeen years ago)

Not enough people on banana bikes w/toy radios in LA, remy.

libcrypt, Saturday, 3 May 2008 18:42 (seventeen years ago)

too much silicon

Zeno, Saturday, 3 May 2008 18:44 (seventeen years ago)

to be fair a lot of the people here really, really suck

omar little, Saturday, 3 May 2008 18:45 (seventeen years ago)

- lack of decent public transportation from one side of the city to the other
- hollywood/the strip are completely insufferable after 9pm on the weekends
- all the best bars need to be driven to
- the suburbs like to dump their homeless people on skid row in downtown, courtesy of the cops

omar little, Saturday, 3 May 2008 18:50 (seventeen years ago)

^ to all those points from Omar. Especially the first in that list.

Ned Raggett, Saturday, 3 May 2008 18:51 (seventeen years ago)

driving to bars is my number 1 complaint

max, Saturday, 3 May 2008 18:55 (seventeen years ago)

driving back from them is mine

remy bean, Saturday, 3 May 2008 18:57 (seventeen years ago)

- amoeba has killed or marginalized every other record store in a twenty mile radius imo
- d-bag councilman garcetti apparently wants to fill hollywood with skyscrapers
- most people involved in that writers strike was totally self-righteous in the worst possible way
- the dj scene here seems to revolve around has-been actors, steve aoki, or random kcrw bores

omar little, Saturday, 3 May 2008 18:58 (seventeen years ago)

was = were

omar little, Saturday, 3 May 2008 18:58 (seventeen years ago)

wow, i think you're eight for eight

remy bean, Saturday, 3 May 2008 19:00 (seventeen years ago)

rain is almost always a natural and civic disaster

Mackro Mackro, Saturday, 3 May 2008 19:03 (seventeen years ago)

do kcrw djs actually dj outside of kcrw and the hollywood bowl?

freewheel, Saturday, 3 May 2008 19:04 (seventeen years ago)

NIMBY-ass residents in the hills who care more about the value of their houses than clearing the adjacent brush that could prevent another 5-10 year major fire disaster for the other 90% who have to evacuate or loss all their shit -- also applicable to other ecological disasters.

Mackro Mackro, Saturday, 3 May 2008 19:05 (seventeen years ago)

freewheel - yes, sometimes they DJ corporate parties at posh venus too.

Mackro Mackro, Saturday, 3 May 2008 19:06 (seventeen years ago)

- villaraigosa is starting to worry me a little
- la weekly is bullshit
- eventually it will probably take herculean efforts to prevent all the cool neighborhoods from turning into miniature versions of the grove

xxpost those kcrw dudes always dj at clubs, especially on the west side it seems. hollywood is for aoki, masterson, samantha ronson, et al

omar little, Saturday, 3 May 2008 19:07 (seventeen years ago)

- the airports
- downey and torrance
- mutually contradictory parking restrictions in hollywood (e.g. NO PARKING M-F 8AM-8PM, EXCEPT T-SU 12-4, NO PARKING 6PM – MIDNIGHT EXCEPT P OR J)

remy bean, Saturday, 3 May 2008 19:07 (seventeen years ago)

those new kcrw ads i see on buses and at bus stops are really, really awful. "look at all these boring attractive people who also like this shitty ben watt remix!"

omar little, Saturday, 3 May 2008 19:08 (seventeen years ago)

- annual brushfires
- nearly getting smeared by dude in a ferrari every time i try to cross the street
- bad gyms

remy bean, Saturday, 3 May 2008 19:09 (seventeen years ago)

dutton's bookstore closing
mcmansions & teardowns of classic 50s and 60s style houses
conversations about movie business
traffic

i know the last two are cliches but...

m coleman, Saturday, 3 May 2008 19:10 (seventeen years ago)

driving back from them is mine

-- remy bean, Saturday, May 3, 2008 11:57 AM

yes, miracle i never got dui *jinxes self*

gershy, Saturday, 3 May 2008 19:10 (seventeen years ago)

Don't hate on LAX, it's actually pretty convenient compared to a lot of other airports. Hate on Akbar instead.

Other, Saturday, 3 May 2008 19:10 (seventeen years ago)

i have had some bad experiences there, yes.

remy bean, Saturday, 3 May 2008 19:11 (seventeen years ago)

??

gershy, Saturday, 3 May 2008 19:12 (seventeen years ago)

dui avoidance is what side streets were made for around here

omar little, Saturday, 3 May 2008 19:12 (seventeen years ago)

Arthur manfully fended-off an especially aggressive assault on my virgin bung by a drunk partyboi.

remy bean, Saturday, 3 May 2008 19:13 (seventeen years ago)

valet parking

carne asada, Saturday, 3 May 2008 19:14 (seventeen years ago)

ah, i only go there when it's kinda empty
xposts

gershy, Saturday, 3 May 2008 19:16 (seventeen years ago)

- the crowd at The Standard in West Hollywood
- L'Orangerie closed
- huell's favorite colombian jugeria in hollywood got eeked out by highrise developments
- trendy restaurants with one word names (dumb shit like 'shellac' and 'revere')

remy bean, Saturday, 3 May 2008 19:16 (seventeen years ago)

- no good italian restaurants/pizza/sandwiches

max, Saturday, 3 May 2008 19:16 (seventeen years ago)

dui avoidance is what side streets were made for around here

i actually felt better doing my DUIing on the freeway

carne asada, Saturday, 3 May 2008 19:18 (seventeen years ago)

bay cities in santa monica is good for sandwiches but fuck a santa monica

gershy, Saturday, 3 May 2008 19:19 (seventeen years ago)

- santa monica

max, Saturday, 3 May 2008 19:20 (seventeen years ago)

carne otm, freeways are the best for that actually

omar little, Saturday, 3 May 2008 19:21 (seventeen years ago)

- villaraigosa is starting to worry me a little

I really dislike that man. He's such a douche

van smack, Saturday, 3 May 2008 19:26 (seventeen years ago)

http://somemorre.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/wow.jpg

gershy, Saturday, 3 May 2008 19:30 (seventeen years ago)

hes speaking at my graduation

max, Saturday, 3 May 2008 19:35 (seventeen years ago)

westwood village as of recent years. (is it still a wasteland?)

Mackro Mackro, Saturday, 3 May 2008 19:35 (seventeen years ago)

The Jon and Ken radio show.

van smack, Saturday, 3 May 2008 19:37 (seventeen years ago)

Garcetti >>>> Villaraigosa

Sunset Standard >>>> Downtown Standard

carry on

rogermexico., Saturday, 3 May 2008 23:12 (seventeen years ago)

i've only spent a weekend in LA and the one thing that sucked and made everything else suck was that the girl we were supposed to stay with us "flaked" and never answer her phone so we had to stay in a seedy motel and eat at denny's the whole time.

i hear flakiness is a thing out there.

bell_labs, Saturday, 3 May 2008 23:15 (seventeen years ago)

Rollin Heights Ballas.

Noodle Vague, Saturday, 3 May 2008 23:16 (seventeen years ago)

i hear flakiness is a thing martial art out there.

rogermexico., Saturday, 3 May 2008 23:18 (seventeen years ago)

the girl we were supposed to stay with us "flaked" and never answer her phone

left her phone in the trunk, huh

max, Saturday, 3 May 2008 23:29 (seventeen years ago)

I mean seriously!!!

bloody Health and Safety (admrl), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:10 (fifteen years ago)

Well yeah.

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:11 (fifteen years ago)

the traffic

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:13 (fifteen years ago)

christmas

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:13 (fifteen years ago)

visitors

bloody Health and Safety (admrl), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:14 (fifteen years ago)

silverlake

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:14 (fifteen years ago)

coffee

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:14 (fifteen years ago)

haha

bloody Health and Safety (admrl), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:14 (fifteen years ago)

La Mill

bloody Health and Safety (admrl), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:14 (fifteen years ago)

the police

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:14 (fifteen years ago)

or is it LA Mill? anyway whatev

bloody Health and Safety (admrl), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:15 (fifteen years ago)

the airport

bloody Health and Safety (admrl), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:15 (fifteen years ago)

body parts

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:15 (fifteen years ago)

movie shoots downtown on weekend
fake cops doing security on movie shoots downtown on weekend

bloody Health and Safety (admrl), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:16 (fifteen years ago)

art

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:16 (fifteen years ago)

music

bloody Health and Safety (admrl), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:16 (fifteen years ago)

the 105 on ramp near lax floods when it rains and has been for years what the fuck

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:17 (fifteen years ago)

too many people who don't seem to have/need a job

bloody Health and Safety (admrl), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:17 (fifteen years ago)

the 110, the 2, the 134, the 101, the 710, the 10, the 5, the 170

bloody Health and Safety (admrl), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:18 (fifteen years ago)

the 210 rools tho

bloody Health and Safety (admrl), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:18 (fifteen years ago)

food trucks

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:18 (fifteen years ago)

no

bloody Health and Safety (admrl), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:18 (fifteen years ago)

wrong thread

bloody Health and Safety (admrl), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:19 (fifteen years ago)

threads about la

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:19 (fifteen years ago)

the weather this summer

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:20 (fifteen years ago)

that i'm not there any more

Bougre de crème d'emplâtre à la graisse de hérisson (remy bean), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:21 (fifteen years ago)

blogs

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:21 (fifteen years ago)

dogs

bloody Health and Safety (admrl), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:22 (fifteen years ago)

Things that suck about Los Angeles: A List

:-D

buzza, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:24 (fifteen years ago)

I went to lacma in the afternoon last week when it was empty and security guards followed me everywhere

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:25 (fifteen years ago)

beyond baroque: gigantic waste of decent space

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:34 (fifteen years ago)

LAMI
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jeff, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 22:12 (fifteen years ago)

hahaaaa

bloody Health and Safety (admrl), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 22:17 (fifteen years ago)

I'm never sure whether things are La (as in Spanish La) or L.A. at times

bloody Health and Safety (admrl), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 22:18 (fifteen years ago)

i live about one block away from there, lol

scott speedman is there every time i've gone in, it's kinda weird tbh.

('_') (omar little), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 22:20 (fifteen years ago)

lax is one of my least hated airports adam

caek, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 22:23 (fifteen years ago)

for real, caek?

once a remy bean always a (remy bean), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 22:24 (fifteen years ago)

there are some amazingly bad coffee joints around town, esp on the east side.

('_') (omar little), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 22:25 (fifteen years ago)

lax is not as bad as any british airport, it's true

bloody Health and Safety (admrl), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 22:25 (fifteen years ago)

front page jamaican grille near lax is fuckin great

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 22:26 (fifteen years ago)

when I worked next to lax I used to eat there almost every day

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 22:27 (fifteen years ago)

lax is not a place i would go to dine or look forward to a significant delay, but all those little terminals with like 20 gates are totally painless and efficient in my experience (except the big intl. terminal, that's a bit heathrow)

caek, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 22:31 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, dude. LAX is FAR from high on the list of things to hate about LA.

too many people who don't seem to have/need a job

Good CHRIST, I hate these people. Thankfully, I don't know too many of them, and the ones I do know are actually pretty nice folk, if a little skewed on the concepts of "work night" and "strapped for cash."

I think I hate the passive aggressive "you should just BE out of my way"-ness that a whole ton of people here seem to have. Hard to explain. Related is the seemingly EXTREME offense folk take when you ask them to move. HEY!!! I'm WALKING here!!!!!

I hate the lack of an NFL team. There. I said it.

I hate how expensive it is. Fuck, I pay a LOT to live here.

Sauvignon Blanc Mange (B.L.A.M.), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 23:28 (fifteen years ago)

People who endlessly complain about LA but still live here

The only OTM thing on this thread. Most of the other stuff is awesome.

wk, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 23:54 (fifteen years ago)

i live about one block away from there, lol

haha me too O_o

see dude at 7-11 all the time

jeff, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 00:24 (fifteen years ago)

I hate that 7-11. The only good thing on that stretch of SL blvd is my dentist

bloody Health and Safety (admrl), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 00:27 (fifteen years ago)

People who endlessly complain about LA but still live here

l.a. is full of whiners!

that's so percussion (get bent), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 00:29 (fifteen years ago)

LAX is the worst, the worst TSA in the fucking country. Awful, awful, awful. Esp Bradley Terminal... instant 60 mins.

Fartbritz Sootzveti (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 00:42 (fifteen years ago)

the fucking country

bloody Health and Safety (admrl), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 01:46 (fifteen years ago)

"- la weekly is bullshit"

bloody Health and Safety (admrl), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 01:47 (fifteen years ago)


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