we had one final day in LA and the next day i was sheduled to fly back to crappy london town. we didn't really have a plan for the final day and just went with the flow. i did a final bit of shopping and picked up a couple of things i needed to. we headed down to melrose and had lunch at the village idiot, which had a very london feel to it and could have been in shoreditch or clerkenwell instead of hollywood.
we then headed up towards the hollywood bowl as radiohead were playing and thought we would see if we could buy a ticket from a tout. when we got there the going rate was $600 for 2 tickets and to be honest, i don't like radiohead THAT much to drop 300 notes for a ticket. my friend did consider it as he likes them, after only becoming aware of them 18 months ago. i had seen nine inch nails on this trip already and so had seen a good concert already. i told my friend that he should get a ticket and see radiohead and that i would find a bar on sunset boulevard or melorose and wait for him there and meet him after the show. he thought about it for 2 seconds and as with the tijuana trip he decided not to do it. what a surprise.
around 9pm walked back through hollywood and on our way to the car i suggested we could go for a drink anyway somewhere on sunset or melrose, but my friend said he didn't feel like it and i figured i had spent 2 weeks with this no fun, unenthusiastic person and i decided to not try and convince him or press the point. besides i would have died of embaressment walking into the viper room with a guy in tight baby blue shorts and silly brown trainer/shoes. there are some weird freaky poeple in LA but he just looked ridiculous.
.......and that was it for my trip across america. it was wicked and i feel really lucky to have had the possibility to do it and i enjoyed it immensely even though i was travelling with a miserable git who showed no interest in anything apart from graceland. it was still good that he came along because i got to split the cost of the trip and i also made him do most of the driving, so it wasn't all bad that he came along.
its just that you go on trips with your friends in the hope that not only will you have a great time seeing all these new and wonderful places but also you will have a good laugh on the way in the times when you are driving 4 hours across olklahoma and there isn't that much to see. you hope that your trip will be even better than just seeing cities and that they will add something to the journey. he didn't. i am pretty sure i annoyed him with my complete disregard for mealtimes and staying up late in the evenings watching the olympics and my childlike fascination with everything and wanting to explore and walking everywhere, but thats what i went for.
it was an awesome trip and i have memories that i will carry with me forever and i met a few really nice people as well and i also saw my best friend in phoenix who i hadn't seen for what felt like forever. who knows how the future turns out, but i have a suspicion that i will return to southern california next year. i just have a feeling in my bones.
i didn't hear this next song whilst i was in the states but i heard it on the radio or on a tv programme here in london a couple of days after i got back. it just sounds like america to me.
jesse malin & bruce springsteen - broken radio
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