ZZYZX

The early settlers dubbed California The Golden State, and The Land of Milk and Honey. Today there are the obvious ironies sprawl, spaghetti junctions and skid rowbut the place is not so easily distilled or visualized, either as a clichéd paradise or as its dem ise. Theres a strange kind of harmony when its all seen togetherthe sublime, the psychedelic, the self-destructive. Like all plac es, its unpredictable and contradictory, but to greater extremes. Cultures and histories coexist, the beautiful sits next to the ug ly, the redemp...[Read more]