rant · moment 13 of 24
New Orleans, Fame, and Squandered Youth
from 165 - Please Come Kill Us · #165
3 min
Tim and Ray discuss whether they're too old to move to New Orleans, its distinct culture of full commitment versus New York and LA's phoniness, and lament wasting their youth getting fat and drunk on Long Island instead of traveling.
- Tim regrets squandering his youth at 22, getting hammered on Long Island instead of traveling or living in New Orleans.
- He couldn't even get a TV show made about his misspent time.
- New Orleans requires total commitment—you have to resign yourself to disconnecting from larger society or the charms get old.
- People in New Orleans have no concept of time and barely know what day it is.
- Tim argues New Orleans probably comes closest to matching its own literary idea of itself, unlike New York or LA which are fragmented.
- You go all-in to New Orleans or don't go at all—you can't be half in, half out.
- No famous stars seem to come out of New Orleans itself, just from the area.
- It's a place where you live an artistic life getting hammered all the time.
- So there's nowhere we're gonna be happy anyway.