L.A. '82 | Thomas J (with Eric Weinstein & Bret Easton Ellis)

In mid-2021, I made it about 25 minutes into this episode of 'The Portal' podcast before host Eric Weinstein and his guest, author Bret Easton Ellis began exploring this late-20th century sparkle-in-time.

So...this song - inspired by Weinstein's and Ellis' earnestness in discussing an extremely rare, even unmarked concept - attempts to commune with and augment what is extremely fertile ground for conversation.

Vernon Lee: " The Genius Loci, like all worthy divinities, is of the substance of our heart and mind, a spiritual reality. And as for visible embodiment, why that is the place itself, or the country; and the features and speech are the lie of the land, pitch of the streets, sound of bells or of weirs; above all, perhaps, that strangely impressive combination, noted by Virgil, of "rivers washing round old city walls."

Genius loci; notes on places - Vernon Lee (1907)
https://archive.org/details/geniuslocinoteso00leevrich/page/4/mode/2up

Song: "L.A. '82"
Artist: Thomas J
Album: Exit Us
©2023 Little George Ltd.

The Portal | Ep. 007 Bret Easton Ellis: The Dark Laureate of Generation X https://youtu.be/bkAWAJyX0fM?si=tSZ2Ma3kPznT_JCQ
Los Angeles Underground https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mougB1HCayA

Cruising California Highways in the 1980s, captured on 35mm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CBIu08QvwE