Sign in or register
for additional privileges

Asian Migration and Global Cities

Anne Cong-Huyen, Jonathan Young Banfill, Katherine Herrera, Samantha Ching, Natalie Yip, Thania Lucero, Randy Mai, Candice Lau, Authors

You appear to be using an older verion of Internet Explorer. For the best experience please upgrade your IE version or switch to a another web browser.

L.A. Songs: Desperados Under the Eaves




This is the L.A. song that I have been listening to most recently, imaging Warren sitting in the Hollywood Hawaiian Motel, drinking all the "salty margaritas in L.A." It captures some of the doom and gloom of being in Paradise, the emotional landscape of cheap Hollywood, and the crazy environmental balance of living in L.A. that Mike Davis described so well in Ecology of Fear. There is something so vivid, and humorous from Zevon's cynical drunk narration, about the lines: "and if California slides into the ocean/like the mystics and statistics say it will/I predict this motel will be standing, until I pay my bill". 

It is where you hope you never end up in L.A., but at the same time makes you want a salty margarita and to sit back and watch L.A. slide into the ocean. 

"Look away down Gower Avenue"
Comment on this page
 

Discussion of "L.A. Songs: Desperados Under the Eaves"

Add your voice to this discussion.

Checking your signed in status ...

Previous page on path L.A. Songs, page 3 of 5 Next page on path

Related:  Beijing: A Global City?DTLABeijingLine 13: Experiencing MigrationsBeijing Subway VisualizationExpat MigrationSeeing Foreign Bands in BeijingBeijing: First Ring RoadLos Angeles: Futures798Tian'anmenFahaisiBeijing to SeattleBeijing MonumentsL.A. Songs: Sunshine, Santa Monica, and Sheryl CrowBeijing: Asian Migrants and LaborersBeijing: Recycling VillageNorth Korean RestaurantYoudu 幽都Beijing: Reading the City (Culture)Beijing: YonghegongEducational MigrantsMulholland DriveBlade RunnerBeijing PhotosBeijing: BookwormBeijing SkyTsinghuaLong Live Shougang SteelAppendix: Towards a Reading of Los AngelesBeijing: Reading the City (Official Texts)Beijing Death CloudBeijing TourismPinguoyuanBeijing DoorsBeijing: Chang'an JieVirtual Dubai: Spec Ops: The LineBeijing: GulouWudaokouBeijing Music SceneL.A. Songs: It Was a Good DayWelcome to the Northern CapitalBeijing SkylineL.A. Songs: HappyBeijing Simulacra720 RapidMigrant Children in the Rubble南锣鼓巷Round the clock giddinessL.A. Songs: Funtimes in BabylonWhat's Beef? Featurette - Jesse Proudfoot on Mike Davis' "City of Quartz"Los Angeles: Reading the CityBeijing: FuturesRural to Urban MigrationSkylinesBeijing GhostsHappyBeijing LiteratureLine I: Orientations & PlacesWangjing: Korean MigrationTaijian BowuguanBeyond the Black DahliaBeijing: PastLos Angeles: Light and DarkBeijing FilmTimeout BeijingSanlitun