Northern California kind of sucks, getting naked at Disneyland and the Oscars, a dismal attempt at soccer with Blonde Redhead, some other sports-related failures, weird ass supplements, Mads Mikkelsen, smoking and drinking and chewing tobacco and generally being an idiot, worst college experience ever, a couple of great Los Angeles movies, and a dearly missed Irish bar. Stuff mentioned: Leonard Bernstein (music), Betty Comden and Adolph Green (lyrics) "New York, New York" (1944), On the Town (1949), New York, New York (1977), Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal, and Pierre Norman "You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me (1930), Another Round (2020), Scarlet Pleasure "What A Life" (2020), Riders of Justice (2020), Wild at Heart (1990), Jim Morrison and The Doors "A Feast of Friends" (1978), Tomaso Albinoni's "Adagio in G Minor" (1708, perhaps), In Country (1989), Protomartyr "Polacrilex Kid" (2023), Protomartyr Formal Growth in the Desert (2023), Protomartyr "A Private Understanding" (2017), Protomartyr Relatives in Descent (2017), From Hollywood to Deadwood (1988), The Late Show (1977), and Married...with Children (1987-1997).