la-la-land

Once upon a time it seemed San Francisco artists visited Los Angeles only on condition they were tripping on LSD, or some other hallucinogen. How else to survive the concrete landscape and endless traffic, the airheads and flakes, the tinsel and hustle and sheer vapidity of a metropolis which considered la-la-land a compliment?

2016 September 26, Rory Carroll, “The boho-drain: bohemians say goodbye San Francisco, hello LA”, in The Guardian