Brooklyn has always been My Hollywood
June 11, 2008
The liquor store off my subway stop on Bedford Avenue had this little creation in the window.
Now as much as I love being in L.A., I suppose a major reason I haven’t moved there is because Brooklyn has always been truer to my notion of a Personal Hollywood. What an honor it has been to be ‘World Famous in Williamsburg Brooklyn’ for so many years…or I should say in living in one of the only places where a great joy and pride is found from being ‘Internationally Unknown’ as a vital artist without anyone knowing what it is you exactly do. In a sense, we can revel in the privilege of a certain royal locality.
“You who have nothing have something that only the 1% could ever see” sings Chrissie Hynde as I write this. Yeah, that’s basically what I mean.
