everything that makes you wonder
One of those nights when there are more important things to do than sleep.
You should really watch this video. It’s beautiful. A friend put it on Facebook with the comment, “Haters gonna hate, but this is my town.”
I realized that I’ve written about quite a few of these lights before. The Santa Monica ferris wheel, the airplanes over LAX. Once, on another blog — in what feels like a different lifetime — I wrote about the lights of downtown:
There are these certain curves that I love on all of the Los Angeles freeways. There’s one on the 5 — one on the 10 — one on the 101. They’re the curves where you’re driving, driving, and then all of a sudden you sweep around a corner and there’s downtown Los Angeles: Skyscrapers frozen in electric exclamation points, a sparkling geometry on a pink-neon sky.
What was that line from The Perks of Being a Wallflower? — “Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder.”
Hello, blogland. How’ve you been?
I missed your magical writing
I will now crack myself up and think of you whenever sky scrapers resemble exclamation marks at night. Welcome back to blogland!