Reply #70: hollywood i last saw was january 2000 [View All]

has it really cleaned up so drastically? and the clubs i saw were total velvet rope boring sleaze fest. but then i was visiting for a san d ucsd rave at the time and was hangin' with an old roomie. no time to hit every joint, but the vibe was seriously a downer.

being a club hound myself and loving a good gritty place i thought it wouldn't be so bad as all my old college buds from so cal were saying. i dig soma, tenderloin, hunter's point, west oakland (actually oakland in general), etc. because they have actually good places to party, a fantastic vibe (serious partiers, who are usually friendly and always cool), and/or some of the most interesting movements in music and subculture going on. never got that from hollywood. but then there's that unfriendly vibe i got from l.a. i can see why a lot of the better intimates take it out to the desert.

unless i missed everything that hollywood had to offer (and it seems like we were there at the same time) it seems we have radically different tastes.