Chiseled Digits - I Found My Motor City

Buzzing by Hollywood on the 101,
the chiseled digits of new construction, billboards on buildings, cranes reaching for the stars in the glow of the neo neon blazing atop hotels that are hip hot again...my lego transformer. I roll on towards the next icon, venus hanging, winking. i'm singing along to the dancing dot, six speaker surround sound - it's my personal mix. I found my motor city.

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Hollywood Bling

Veering down Vine Past Capital Records and Patron's Rock N' Roll neon sign Hollywood Bling

The Genesis for I Found My Motor City

Photo: 428 Crapo Street, Flint, Michigan, 1924. The house my father was born in and the house where I spent much of my childhood. That's my Dad and his mother, whom I called Bonna, on the front porch. The house is still there across from the Flint Public Library and Planetarium. I'm from Flint, Michigan. Yup, that Flint, the Flint of Michael Moore. I've often marveled that I had the gumption to escape the tentacles of an old world model - if you live in a company town, you get a job, a good job with benefits, you go to work, keep your head down and out of trouble and make sure you mind what the neighbors think... Only 40 minutes from Detroit, the other Motor City , Flint is the hometown of another iconoclast, Sandra Bernhard. It's no wonder I've often felt a bit like a rebel, with the AFL/CIO and Teamsters unions calling the shots and bands like the MC5 Kick'n Out The Jams. But I've morphed into an Angeleno, embracing this city with open arms...

Seraphin Seductress - I Found My Motor City

The city was cloaked in a grey shroud, creating a blank canvas, a green screen - the perfect foil for the metal monsters and seraphin sculptures that masquerade as hotel marquees in Hollywood. Seducing us, wrapping us in an aura of an era gone by and come again. I found my Motor City.

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