A full day of work. First to UCLA and the TV archive side - won't bore you with the details - it'll be in my report! Then to the Paley Media Center - brilliant - 140,000 TV and radio titles available for public access withing five minutes. $10 for twop hours - great stuff and it'll all be digitised by next year. Paid my ten bucks and watch an episode of Rawhide from 1958 - Clint Eastwood very young! And it was actually good..held up well. Then a bit of an English rock program, Old Grey Whistle Test (they have everything!) from 1972 - David Bowie at his most exotic - and let's be honest - most beautiful...thoroughly enjoyable.
Now, more general thoughts.....
Drivers - and people generally very polite.
Even the street people - of which a large number - one introduced himself to me this evening - a good looking black guy - with "Excuse me Sir, as you have probably guessed I am a residentially challenged person, but I can be very engaging - can I sing for you?" ! We had quite a chat (I asked him not to sing!) and gave him a buck - weird!
Had lunch in traditional burger joint - sat at the counter - and yep, a bloke sits beside me and we have quite a natter - turns out he was a lawyer - typical!
Super cheap junk food everywhere.
Coffee crap.
This bsuiness of adding the tax to everything drives you mad - and fills your pockets with useless coins.
Complete lack of any civic pride - no obvious town planning - crap and mansions intertwine, rubbish everywhere, boarded up places, locks and chains and lots of evidence of police - disturbing.
The number of police, security guys on the metro platforms - about four on each.
Hardly any white people under 50 using the metro and if you ask any middle class white person about it they have no idea.
I ahve to show id (yes, really) to buy a can of beer in the supermarket - apparently it's the law (not my youthful appearance!)
TV News as everyone says - absolutely nothing outside of US
Weird and complicated street rules - no parking between midnight and 6.00am without permit; no parking Tuesday 10.00-1.00pm (garbage); no smoking inside a vehicle when a minor is with you (love that!)
That'll do for now..... be greetings from Memphis soon...
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