Status Updates From The White Album

yearn for the control over water

my fascination, but now she makes me think there is. Somehow the entire experience of living in California, especially now that I have lived both in the South and North of California, was summed up in this strange treatise on water. About craving control over what you have no control over. She somehow made it sound in the same way that people desperately yearn for control over the certainty of death, Californians

Holy Water- how is it that she can make such a dull subject as water treatment and control have so much life? Somehow I think she was able to explain to me in a way why I am so drawn to water. Living in California, especially Los Angeles, is such an enigma because you live in the constant presence of this vastness of water, yet water is also a scarcity. I never thought there was any kind of psychological reason for

ooh I really like her. The essay on James Pike was short but very impactful. I like how she deduced that he could be summed up by the word American more than anything else. This essay led me to believe that a lot about what I personally don't respect about American protestantism came from the 60s and this very unique mindset that's so egocentric. It was a fascinating case study and now I want to research him

The White Album, I think it's very telling and intelligent. Obviously it's a Beatles reference to their unnamed (and best imo) album released under The Beatles. Just like that album was a raw reflection of the band and colloquially came to be referred under this title, this was a raw reflection of a decade of her life that didn't need its own title because it was just her, her white album

suppose sources are biased because I really only hear from artists in this period but it seemed like everyone in the art, especially music, scene was connected and knew each other. She sat in while the Doors were recording and loosely knew Sharon Tate before she was murdered. She was fascinated in murder trials and seemed just so singularly herself the way the story was told. I also really love the title,

that really can't be pretended. I have a feeling I'm really going to like her. It was very interesting how unlike a lot of female authors (including Sylvia) she has a very distinct personhood, and she wrote as if she was completely her own person living her own life with very minimal mention of her husband and kids. She also just seems to have lived such a fascinating life being an author in this period. I mean I

feels like a golden age in today's age of influencers, but 60s LA was true true LA. Just aside from the writing itself, the stories taking place in all these places that I have a visual personal connection to just made it seem even more special. Her introspection and perspective was so familiar to me in a way I've only felt in Lana del Rey and Sylvia Plath. A kind of feminine melancholy due to intellectual awareness

I just finished the first (and longest) essay, the titular White Album and wow that was absolutely brilliant. I have a personal fascination with LA in the 40s-70s but especially the 60s, and I felt like this played right into my lane. I have such a deep connection to my city, especially when I hear stories from my parents and their friends about the old times and entertainment connections from the 90s which still...