Blog Entry Seven

In Pascoe’s story he uses L.A landscape as a sort of spiral of uncertainty and yet he gives us a feeling of reassurance of how the city can suck someone into it. With its dark alleys and irresistible persona. As Pascoe tells us of the change going through L.A, it seems he is trying to tell us that L.A is its own personality. But like most places, the city of angels has very demon like qualities. He says there are pockets. Pockets that represent evil and corruption, the temptation of the big city life often gets the best of us. Most places do have corruption, but the way L.A does it, it’s almost like an art, and evil art at that, but the personality it gives off thrives with the unjust. One thing that stood out to me in this short story was the way the author presents these two characters at the bar. It almost seems like I was listening to a discovery channel documentary, on how the male and female fight, sexual tension between them. And as usual it seems that the female character is a femme fatal. Always such horrible things to happen in these stories. This author used his setting to show us that when a guy likes a girl, not love and the women is sort of hot, he will do almost anything to sleep with her, even though the intension isn’t clearly stated. As we see in this short story, he didn’t really hesitate to go and help her with the action she committed. Over all the author did a very good job of showing that L.A is full of devious individuals.

                Pollack’s story to me at least it seems much more corrupt, and the explicit talking about the blowjobs was sort of but not really surprising. Considering the fact that noir is a quality of theses odd yet interesting stories. The author used this setting in way that it showed how California really behaved when the norms weren’t around. Another thing that caught my eye, as I said earlier was the sexuality, (as I am sure it did to everyone). Anyways, the use of the gambling was unique, although this sort of stuff is almost everywhere you go. But none the less L.A amplifies this. It is such an attractive thing when it comes to L.A. to me. The city of angels always knows how to have a good time.  The expensive cars makes for everything with the world like this, I am focusing on the cars because to me, it shows an explosion of self-image. Wouldn’t it be nice to roll up in a Cadillac, but I mean one of those really nice ones, the kind that, if you were really rich or a drug lord only then could you afford it. This type of behavior stands out in L.A because it was one of the first to do so. The streets of this place hold their own language. All in all the author did a nice job of telling us how the city of angels can be.