Guess my stomach starts blaming on me for too much dinning out. I didn’t mean to hurt it. But it is so much fun of hanging out with friends that I couldn’t resist to party around.  New residents here might complain about the territory of LA is too big for people to get together. The distance actually set people far away from each other, physically and mentally. Indeed, 50 miles daily driving sounds reasonable in this city. And I bet most of the Los Angelenos have never seen how the subway runs like. Driving becomes the basic skill for living. But what makes me wonder is the aggressiveness on the road. Every time I drive back to the town, I sense some sort of bizarre energy flowing on the freeway. It is actually not a good energy that I can tell. Maniac drivers are everywhere. And it is been a few times I heard that car accidents happen to my friends recently.

There was an interesting thought I got from Professor Greg Otto: because of this physical distance embedded , LA people’s social life becomes adjustable.  To be socialize if you need to be exposed. Vice verse, to be a solitary without worrying about being interrupted by anyone else. That is very true. Hiding somewhere alone and have fun by yourself might be the easiest thing to do in LA. Something relevant is that LA could be the best habitat for architects for whom adjustable social life is indispensable. It does remind me Neil’s latest exhibition, ‘the artless drawings’ in the mid-Wilshire. Most of these breathtaking drawings were done after he moved to LA which is a perfect place for independent thinker. However, I can’t help to wonder, what if he has taken the advantage of the other side of the city… Anyway, just a thought.