i’ve been missing the city lately….”but wait, nigel, don’t you live in the city?”….yes i do, but a)melrose does not count as part of the city, it’s a bubble unto itself, and b) L.A. just doesn’t have the “traffic” that say d.c or new york has. i’m talking general movement here, people up at all times. it’s true you can go down any street in l.a. at anytime and i can guarentee you won’t be alone for very long, always another ghost moving about, but it’s like some video game that keeps the background filled, no real sense that there’s life, that’s L.A. right there. nah, i miss the sounds of the city, it’s too quiet, too lifeless at night. not country enough to have wilderness sounds, not city enough to have cars and people scraping by. my apartment in d.c. was right below street level on a major avenue, and down the street from a hospital, there was always something going on, nothing out here, i miss it. in today’s internet, there’s gotta be an internet station where someone has set up a mic outside their window and is just broadcasting the city as it happens. if not, someone should do it, really.

anyway, since i have nothing furthur, here’s a list from a random prominent mixtape dj of 80 people born in the 80’s (meaning: younger than i) who are more rich, famous, known, or “important” than me: the only thing good to come out of the 80’s was the goonies