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RE: [bomp] led astray...
couldn't have said it better Dom, I'm from Palm Springs area and we had the
same fookin problems, + alot of SD crossover, moving from one place back and
forth. I live in san francisco now and have for 7 years now and I love it.
I'll buy you a beer when your next in town my friend! We haven't met but
judging from your posts we could get a buzz and have fun rocking out to the
Knights Of The New Crusade sometime!
Nick
>From: ItsBoss9@aol.com
>Reply-To: bomp@xnet2.com
>To: bomp@router.xnet2.com
>Subject: [bomp] led astray...
>Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 12:11:59 EDT
>
>
>...I DID TRY PRETTY HARD
>TO MAKE A GO OF THINGS IN SAN DIEGO BUT....
>
>Yeh, somehow I got caught up in the belief that it was a swingin' place, I
>mean, some good bands came out of there during the early '80s and UGLY
>THINGS is
>brilliant but... well, when you've lived in a real city, and then move to
>this place where its like 85% right wing facists everywhere you go, and
>then a
>gaggle of frustrated "artists" who are so beaten down by local Repubican
>attitudes, the place is really impossible to work creatively from. That
>frustration
>turns the artists into vindictive assholes... that's why the best people
>who
>grew up there always split. God, did I hate the Pink Panther and shit like
>that!
>
>I moved because L.A. was pretty stinko during the late '80s, but guess
>what?
>It rebounded within a year or so, after the whole Guns 'n' Roses thing went
>away...(I was beginning to think Metal would never let go of its
>"stranglehold"
>on town...) There's been tons of brilliant stuff out of L.A. since Big
>Sandy
>& the Fly-Rite Trio got the ball rolling again at Blue Saloon in 1990,
>followed by the whole Exoticon thing, the Silver Lake stuff and tons of
>alternatives
>to the Valley metalhead take-over of the '80s. They're still here (mostly
>around the Rainbow), but the options in L.A. outweigh the bullshit now.
>
>It's very hard for someone who lives outside of San Diego to understand
>what
>the social problems are once you get there. All you see is nice beaches
>and
>some music and you think "hmm, this is nice" but once you get there, it's
>like,
>a huge, overcrowded place with a small-town redneck mentality... without
>the
>benefits of a major city. People on the scene went to a total of 5 High
>Schools, and everyone "on the scene" still acts like they are still in High
>School....that's how they identify with each other ("oh, did you go to
>South" or
>whatever). It was funny when I got a post from you and you referred to it
>as
>"Dirt Town" because that was the first thing everyone said to each other in
>San
>Diego... "what's the dirt?" In a major city, you have lots of other things
>to
>foucus on, but in a boring place like San Diego, they've got nothing better
>to
>do than look for crap on each other.
>
>My family being from New York, and me growing up in L.A., and especially
>with
>the Hollywood environment of the past during my childhood and teens (I
>shunned High School events), it made absolutely no sense for me to be in a
>place
>like San Diego that treats liberals as outsiders to be dismissed out of
>hand.
>Plus, the diversions there were extremely limited, from my previous life
>experience.
>
>Also, a big problem with San Diego, if someone is an achiever, on a
>Hollywood/New York media center level, people in San Diego seem to really
>resent that,
>because it's this really provincial town that hates the media centers...
>just
>like San Francisco, but without the clubs, music scene or intelligent
>perception of social issues that San Francisco has... just provincial
>inferiority/superiority complexes everywhere. San Francisco is still a fun
>place to live,
>though, with tons of cool things to do. With your roots in Boston, again,
>this
>is a high-profile, international city with a significant history that
>matters
>in the world... like New York, Hollywood, San Francisco... San Diego will
>never
>have this kind of significance... in fact, it wasn't that much different
>from
>Omaha, Nebraska (I lived there for 2 years), except for the fact that San
>Diego had the Pacific Ocean... but the people were just as stupid as Omaha
>(outside of the UGLY THINGS staff, of course, with Mike Stax being one of
>my very
>best friends...and not a part of any of these problems, as he is from
>England).
>
>Lisa, Julie... these people were kuks. Lisa married a doctor (of course)
>in
>Philly (not quite the midwest, but, you know, slipped into
>Stepford-wife-ism... seemingly a lifetime goal) and Julie ended up going
>out with this total
>racist for a long time.... totally unacceptable, sub-human shit. Twice
>(1978 and
>1986) I found out that a girl I was dating hated blacks or something, and
>both
>times, they were dumped immediately. So that's what I mean, can't stand
>that
>San Diego environment where racism is acceptable. Hell, my pop grew up in
>Harlem and was off the boat from Italy durng the '20s.
>
>Domenic Priore
>
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