{"id":2361,"date":"2014-08-08T13:23:48","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T20:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2361"},"modified":"2014-08-08T13:23:48","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T20:23:48","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s4e50-something-like-a-bohemia-with-william-e-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2361","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S4E50: Something Like a Bohemia with William E. Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2363\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/williamejones.jpg\" alt=\"williamejones\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/williamejones.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/williamejones-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Colin Marshall sits down in Los Feliz with artist, filmmaker, and writer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.williamejones.com\">William E. Jones<\/a>. They discuss what one learns by viewing a city through the prism of its gay porn; how Los Angeles gives away the least of itself in that form as in others; home he introduced Fred Halsted&#8217;s &#8220;gay porn masterpiece&#8221;\u00a0<em>L.A. Plays Itself<\/em> to\u00a0<em>Los Angeles Plays Itself<\/em> maker <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1061\">Thom Andersen<\/a>, and how the movie helped fund Chantal Akerman&#8217;s first projects; Selma Avenue, once the &#8220;hustler central&#8221; of Los Angeles; the city as he came to know it in the movies before he came to know it in real life; the Los Angeles tendency to identify with specific neighborhoods; how truly coming to know the city somehow requires both driving and not driving; what made he and Thom Andersen decide to make a &#8220;useful&#8221; book of their conversations; his examination of the nonsexual elements of the gay porn, and the other work that got him a reputation for a time as &#8220;the porn guy&#8221;; his resolution not to create around any obvious unifying concept; why Morrissey&#8217;s robust Latino fandom confounds people, and how it ties into Los Angeles&#8217; long strain of musical Anglophilia; the similarities between the industrial decay of northern England and the forlorn provinciality of Southern California suburbs; how city centers, to an extent excepting Los Angeles&#8217;, have fallen to &#8220;fabulous wealth and enormous corporate power&#8221;; the way places never turn out quite as intended here, and what it means for civic pride, the force that begins a city&#8217;s slide into decadence; what kind of a town Los Angeles has become for experimental film; the city&#8217;s ability, now at stake, to nurture &#8220;something like a bohemia,&#8221; which Glasgow has done where London hasn&#8217;t; and what traces of Fred Halsted&#8217;s Los Angeles survive today.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Download the interview\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/colinmarshall\/NCC_S4E50_William_E_Jones.output.mp3\">here as an MP3<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0or on\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #555555;\" href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/notebook-on-cities-culture\/id266539442\">iTunes<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Marshall sits down in Los Feliz with artist, filmmaker, and writer William E. 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