rant · moment 8 of 18
Hometown Tours, Delusion as a Drug, and Wanting a House
from 161 - The Los Angeles Liars · #161
7 min
Tim mocks people who give boring hometown tours, riffs on Christine's real estate ambitions in Redondo, and argues that ambition/delusion is like a drug you need in small doses but can overdose on, landing on his own modest dream of just owning a house.
- Tim rips hometown tours where people point out where they drank in high school or saw their first boyfriend.
- His version of a hometown tour: places where he did coke at 13, his parents' marriage fell apart, and a Latin Kings member got his head hit with a 40.
- Taking a realtor's tour of Redondo Beach while she talks about estates she'll own, then asking to borrow 4 million dollars.
- Delusion is a drug—you need a little of it but you can overdose; Tim describes comics who mainlined delusion and now bomb in bars talking about Netflix.
- People get their dreams backwards, focusing on buying a house before succeeding at the actual work.
- Tim's current dream: just owning any house at all, beaten down so much that his best-case scenario is what other people see as failure.
- The problem with people who have zero delusion is they don't believe in anything and become married to their unfortunate circumstances.
- Going to Musso and Frank's steakhouse with a younger guy who wouldn't stop complaining about not growing up going to fancy places.
- Tim on people selling their poverty: if you're going to play the trash-bag angle, you have to be extremely attractive or just act like you've been to a steakhouse before.
Musso and Frank'sRedondo Beach