Re: Some questions and observations...

Gene Woo (pariah1980@yahoo.com)
Mon, 27 Dec 1999 20:30:35 -0800 (PST) 

babylon and eden? lol yes, i got the babylon
impression of NYU as well. Funny you should mention
San Louis Obisbo since that is only 45 minutes away
from here. I'm going there tonight for a small rave.
farmer's market is every thursday,but personally
speaking as someone who's lived her over 17 years,
it's pretty redundant week after week, but something
cool to do when bored. Yes, california is nice, but
what I found interesting about New York is the power
of the pedestrians(if you jaywalk in L.A. you'll get
run over and left for dead), the great metro subway
system, the simplistic avenues and numbered streets,
the absence of fast food joints in favor of dehlis and
restaraunts, etc.. I think the greatest culture shock
I recieved when visiting new york was when my friend
that lived in New York all his life told me how
excited he was when he mowed a lawn for the first time
in Michigan I think. So New York doesn't have the
beauty of nature, but I love the mad chaotic crowds
walking everywhere, angelika film theatre, etc... I
probably couldn't see myself living there, but I can
definately see myself going to school there for a few
years.:)

--- AntiUtopia@aol.com wrote:
> Yep, I loved the one with the actor that burned all
> the scripts they sent him 
> ... :)  Or threw them off the balcony.  
> 
> Oh, Gene...yeah, I wanted to respond to your last
> NYC post too.  I was 
> tempted to match CA (or even just LA) with NYC item
> for item...but that would 
> be missing the point.  What NYC Doesn't have that CA
> does?  It doesn't have 
> huge green mountains right on the ocean.  It doesn't
> have San Luis Obispo -- 
> there's a chain of seven volcanoes that march right
> into the ocean too, you 
> can see them as you're driving through the
> vineyards.  It doesn't have the 
> farmer's market SLO has every...what, Saturday
> night?...where the whole town 
> shows up.  It doesn't have the Pacific Coast
> highway, the cliffs -- the 
> beaches, where you can catch late afternoon waves in
> the summer with perfect 
> tubes and a glassy lip.  Mmm.  
> 
> The point is that comparing the two is like
> comparing Eden with Babylon.  
> This does, of course, imply some moral judgment, but
> that's not the direction 
> I'm taking it.  Think in terms of the most beautiful
> garden in the world vs. 
> the greatest city in the world -- choosing one over
> the other is like 
> choosing between, well, dinner and breakfast.  Whole
> Different Ball Game.
> 
> Jim   
> 

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