"We are all equal before a wave." - Laird Hamilton
Laird Hamilton
Cal Surf's pioneer and son of surfing legend Bill Hamilton, Laird was the first to complete a 360-degree loop on a surfboard. And Laird just launched Wonderwall, a surf and skate line exclusively for Steve & Barry's.
There's nothing more Californian than Los Angeles in the 1960's. Dennis Hopper is one of my favorite photographers, because it's like looking at silent film pictures. He captured a time when west coast Bohemian culture mingled with starlets on Sunset Boulevard and Hollywood Hills. Only in California.
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The Graduate - directed by Mike Nichols
"Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me." Imagine a world if those words were never born. The Graduate took you throughout the California coasts from the North, Central and South. And it says so much about people in Pasadena.
Less Than Zero - directed by Marek Kanievska
(book written by Brett Easton Ellis)
L.A. in the 1980's before Aaron Spelling got to it, Brett Easton Ellis lived in and wrote about it in Less Than Zero. The novel and the film was in no ode to John Hughes or his generation, but as a hard hitting drama for the young crowd that got the "scene." Plus Jamie Gertz dancing is supreme.
She & Him on Conan O'Brien (joined by friends from Yo La Tengo)
She & Him is Zooey Deschanel and M.Ward, both California grown and their debut album Volume One is written as a love letter to the musicians that inspired them. It's perfect top-down Santa Ana winds riding down the PCH music. They're currently my favorite duet and I can't stop listening to "Why Do You Let Me Stay Here."
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