Maybe it’s Hillary Clinton’s cyborgian persistence, or maybe it’s just my compulsive cultural consumption of the “90210″ DVDs– but wouldn’t it be rad if we could just go back to the 90’s? Everything was so uncomplicated! Cell phones were for millionaires and coke addicts, we were not yet tethered to the realms of Myspace and Facebook, and Bush Jr. was still just a recovering alcoholic that no one gave a second thought. We were never asked to choose between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD, and gas prices were cheap enough for even slacker Gregg Araki characters to go on extended road trips.
Everyone just rollerbladed around the streets of San Francisco in pastel shirts and cut-off shorts, listening to cassette tapes on their Walkmans and quipping “Don’t have a cow, man.” When they were forced to work, it mainly consisted of serving up burgers at The Peach Pit or dancing in record stores with Liv Tyler and Renée Zellweger. They traded zines, watched the skies for UFOs, and played Sega Genesis. But, alas, there are no time machines to allow us to return to that idyllic golden age. I feel like Jeff Lynne, tragically trapped in the future!
Anyway, I must apologize for my absence. I’ve had a busy month, working more frequently at Mean Magazine, and also doing some still photography for a friend’s independent gay horror film. Here are 21 pictures: some taken from my car while inching through traffic on the west side of L.A., and some taken in a dry state park that has been used in a million movies, out near the cold desert of Palmdale.
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I like this one best of the blanky shots. Something about the dip between us acting as the same form of the rocks out back. The presence of terminator in Los Angeles has become quite alarming…
oh my goodness is that finally some photos from graham again?
nice to see your work come back.
re: 90’s. everything cool about it was definitely great, but it’s definitely had its sucky moments too like every oher decade. they were good times, but i dont miss them. this decade isnt so bad, anyway, it feels like a huge process… absolutely less manageable and more than a little weirder, but i’m excited at what’ll come from it in the next one.
lame aside but i have to: i saw TWBB! twice! it was fantastic! why was everyone confused about the last 20 minutes?! it’s the best run i’ve seen in a movie in YEARS.
ADVENTURE!
what you say about the 90s is like, every feeling i’ve had for the last 2 years. Life seemed more fun and fulfilling or something.
Also: I love the photos of the back of the guy’s head and the padding. I kind of want it on my wall or something…