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In Lost Angeles [Mar. 19th, 2011|10:04 am]
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So I'm in Lost Angeles working on the Not Top Secret photo project with Fairuza Balk and things are going wonderfully. Fairuza's kind and energetic and professional and talented and everything you could really hope for. Things have been going very quickly and we've got good stuff. Yesterday we tromped into a Goodwill in West Hollywood and created a scene. It was sort of like someone threw fish food into a koi pond. I wonder what it must be like to carry around a pocket of gravity like that with you, so that you changes people's paths when you walk into a room. I would imagine it gets tedious, but Fairuza was gregarious and ... really just giddy. She talked to everyone, and seemed like a kid in a candy store. We spied the coolest awful green poofy dress which leapt out at both of us at the same time. She ducked into a changing booth and a little mob of curious people gathered around and when she came out it fit perfectly and people smiled and I smiled because I knew the universe was working diligently in our favor.

"Shall we put that in a bag?" someone asked.

"No way," she said, "we're wearing it out."




Clickenzee to Embiggen


And we shot along the street in a gigantic lime green prom dress that swirled and swooshed and crinkled. And people in their LA way looked sideways as they walked past and tried to figure out what we were doing, because here you just assume everyone's a movie star - no one in a giant green dress is ever on their way to the prom here because it's weird and magic here. And sometime's the magic is awful and oppressive and sometimes it's not.

"I don't live in LA, in my head," Fairuza says, "I live in my house." And everything seemed suddenly real and it all made sense

And people in Lost Angeles are eating radiation pills with their latte's and half a world away the Earth has cracked apart and people are fighting governments for their lives and things swirl out of control. And in a world where we're all so much closer to the things that go wrong there's a green dress that someone wore to a prom and hopefully they had a good time, because it's the sort of dress people are supposed to have a good time in.


Do something good today.

You can visit Fairuza's website and get a copy of her really amazing new song Stormwinds or you can follow her on twitter. She's on Facebook too.





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[User Picture]From: [info]ms_violet
2011-03-19 05:14 pm (UTC)

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Ding dang it, I love that dress. and that photo is, of course, awesome.
[User Picture]From: [info]wolfsilveroak
2011-03-19 05:34 pm (UTC)

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She's an awesome person and a great actress.

Our good deed was getting the BiL, SiL and niece out of their house and over here for dinner and good company. They found out about 1.5 weeks ago that their 5 yr old cat, Sinman, has cancer (lesion on spleen was removed, came back from tests as malignant, then they found spots on nearly all organs. Gave him anywhere from weeks to months.)and he apparently has taken a downward turn today.
[User Picture]From: [info]gotham_bound
2011-03-19 05:37 pm (UTC)

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I imagine it's just artistic license but I keep wondering why you're calling my city "Lost Angeles." I guess it is Spanglish, the primary language, but it continually trips and snags in my head.


Anyhow, on the off chance you're still around next weekend, come see the cabaret I'm stage managing in Santa Monica. It'll be weird and fun. We like weird and fun, right?
From: (Anonymous)
2011-03-19 05:58 pm (UTC)

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It feels like a city of lost angels to me, these beautiful things flitting about, noise and power and desperate hope. Lost just sounded right. I'm sure I'm not the first person to think it. But it seems true.
[User Picture]From: [info]gotham_bound
2011-03-19 06:11 pm (UTC)

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Not at all the first. Though when people go the "lost" route they call it "Lost Angels" not "Lost Angeles" which keeps a consistency of language. And I rarely get to ask people why they chose to go with it.


It's whole long...thing with me, having lived in Los Angeles or her shadow for my whole life. Most of the time when people address that ephemeral state you were talking about, they're talking about Hollywood. The Los Angeles that I know is some where between the noir town of Raymond Chandler and Walter Mosley and the extensive patchwork of lower middle class neighborhoods filled with families just trying to get by.
[User Picture]From: [info]tsarina
2011-03-19 05:46 pm (UTC)

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I really liked this post. It felt good to read.
[User Picture]From: [info]kuroshii
2011-03-19 06:41 pm (UTC)

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Wow. Change it to a bright fuchsia-pink, and you will have my actual prom dress. I plead the 80s!

Miss Balk sounds like such a cool person. Please tell her your internet friends say hi. :)

Edited at 2011-03-19 07:25 pm (UTC)
[User Picture]From: [info]girfan
2011-03-19 07:04 pm (UTC)

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Love the photo! Glad to hear that she is as cool as she seemed to be.
[User Picture]From: [info]crossbonesdj
2011-03-19 07:13 pm (UTC)

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One of my favorite movies of all time is Gas Food Lodging. I also love the book it's based upon. I am so glad to see that the light I saw in that film is still glowing bright.
[User Picture]From: [info]kambriel
2011-03-19 07:43 pm (UTC)

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Each and every one of those pigeons is precisely perfect in their own individual way :)
From: [info]ex_maehymn
2011-03-19 08:32 pm (UTC)

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Love it! Totally awesome. It's fabulous when 'the universe works diligently in your favor.'
[User Picture]From: [info]solstice_lilac
2011-03-19 09:07 pm (UTC)

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Kyle, I LOVE THIS SO MUCH. Thank you.
[User Picture]From: [info]morbid_curious
2011-03-20 12:35 am (UTC)

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I like Fairuza. And all the more for things like this than what she's famous for.
From: (Anonymous)
2011-03-20 02:04 am (UTC)

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Great, i found what i 've been lookin for
[User Picture]From: [info]russtycat
2011-03-20 09:11 am (UTC)

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Beautiful photo of her.

I have lived in the shadow of LA most of my life. Now my husband and our family live about two hours away. Whenever I venture into the city it feels magical and sad at the same time. It's definitely a city of lost souls looking for a place to belong. But also a city of hope and wonder. I'm glad you had a good experience and people didn't act like the inappropriate douchebags that they can be when they see a "famous" person sometimes.
[User Picture]From: [info]anivyl
2011-03-20 11:40 am (UTC)

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ah fairuza, she was most amazing to watch over and over again in that teenage witch movie.... such great amazingness!
[User Picture]From: [info]petitbout
2011-03-20 12:44 pm (UTC)

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You are just made of fabulous aren't you!?!

Is that a hamsa she is wearing?
[User Picture]From: [info]trillian_stars
2011-03-20 02:02 pm (UTC)

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You changed the photo on us! I love this one even more!
[User Picture]From: [info]kuroshii
2011-03-20 09:37 pm (UTC)

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i like this one better as a portrait of fairuza, but i think i like the other one better as an artistic photo by itself. the poufy of the dress shines through, and the pigeons add character.
[User Picture]From: [info]faustian_wish
2011-03-21 01:35 pm (UTC)

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My memory is spotty, but wasn't Fairuza Balk one of of the top ten women you would like to photograph? If so, go you, for another dream achieved!

I wonder what it must be like to carry around a pocket of gravity like that with you, so that you changes people's paths when you walk into a room.

It's also possible to have the same effect when not gregarious. Some people walk into a room and it's as if a giant sink hole is pulling everyone down, toward the center of the earth.

This was such a good read and exactly what I needed this morning.
[User Picture]From: [info]karmalingoist3
2011-03-21 02:17 pm (UTC)

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On Saturday while my government was dropping bombs on a country halfway around the world me, and three friends got together and spent four hours laughing and bonding while we did a photoshoot for the Atlanta showing of "Leaving Dakota". It went so well we're now planning on doing it again to do a whole series inspired by the story we found in the shoot.

Thank you for being such an inspiration for art begetting art
[User Picture]From: [info]kenickeh
2011-03-22 02:45 pm (UTC)

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Love this photo of her.