From Darius Degher:
The video is a little gift to my fellow Leucadians and features still photos of Leucadia sights. The song is on my Coyote Cantos CD, which was just nominated for a San Diego Music Award.
The video is a little gift to my fellow Leucadians and features still photos of Leucadia sights. The song is on my Coyote Cantos CD, which was just nominated for a San Diego Music Award.
Dead flowers, trees, bushes. No sidewalks, street lights. That's the Leucadia we know and love. Thank you COE for maintaining this eyesore for 26 years and more into the future. Long live KLCC.
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ReplyDeleteLoved it! And 3:08 it depends where you look. I saw awesome trees flower and bushes as well as Kevin Doyle's cool sidewalk stamp. The plastic bus chairs are ridiculous but forever part of our history now immortalized in this song. Tough. More improvements are coming. But not perfection or generica. Gotta love every step of the way though.
Check out Darius and the Magnets from the 80's.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdvBO25Zju0
This was filmed at the Aldrich castle on the bluff in old Encintas before it was razed for condos....
Wish I had taken pics back then. The entire place was 2 storys of poured concrete with Gothic shaped picture windows. There were several rooms, but you had to go through the open air center patio to get from one to the other. The kitchen and livingroom had colorful ceramic tiles on the countertops and around the fireplace. It all decayed from neglect and vandalism. Partiers fell to their death over the sheer cliff more than once.
In the garage there were still the forms the architect used to mold the various Gothic window shapes. Would have been a cool place to preserve, enhance, enjoy, but that was then and this is now and what Pacific View is for.
Thanks, Fred! Yeah, the Castle was a great place. Glad we got to shoot the video there, and that somebody remembered it.
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Alittle slow for my liking... but to each his own.
ReplyDeleteIt kindof got me depressed. Same feeling I have when I see Lword.
Mellow, and a sweet tribute. Thanks for sharing this, WCV! And thanks to the artist for creating this medley of visions and melody of memories. Leucadia is funky, and iconic. I'm grateful to live here.
ReplyDeleteYou know the old axiom: "Music can soothe the savage beast." I found the clip to be uplifting, and refreshing.
Maybe you could exercise to it and clear your head.
ReplyDelete3:08, 8:51, 6:03 :
ReplyDelete".....what a drag it us to see (read) you". BD
Good going Darius...i love our little town.
Viva KLCC!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI love the weeds, train dust, fast old highway, crack whores, and dying trees..... Future looks good!
Keep up the good workKLCC
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DeleteYou blame the KLCC for weeds,train dust,dying trees,no sidewalks ect. yet these are all things the city and NCTD are responsible for regardless of a 101 renovation.This is no accident in my opinion so that the money weenies could get an RDA.They didn't so the punishment phase is still in progress.Perhaps you would like the area scraped and replaced with clean little faux Tuscany mini-malls.
The Cabezon
KLCC is the death of Leucadia.
DeleteI thought this was very sad - basically this person is coming home to die after having lead a full and wonderful life.
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If he's dying, an impersonator is rocking Leucadia Art Walk.
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Operative word, Sculpin: HOME
ReplyDeleteThat says a lot
"I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was. A vast wasteland." - Steve Martin.
ReplyDeleteRumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
ReplyDeleteSculpin: Why "Coming home to die"? How about, Coming home to live?
Darius
Thanks, Darius, for sharing your lovely music, local scenes, and endearing sentiments, here.
DeleteHi Darius,
DeleteI would think "coming home to live" would be more up tempo. I think the line "nothing left to see" or "nowhere else to go" had something to do with it. I'd have to hear it again but I recall a few transitions to minor as well. Did you write this song about yourself? I'm sorry but I'm not familiar with your work. Anyway, that's how I heard it.
- The Sculpin
Lynn,
DeleteHow many times are you going to say the same thing?
Yawn.... about everything you write.
Your song is terrific. The low hanging fruit on this blog don't know shit about music, but they like the sound of their voices.
ReplyDeleteNone of them got nominated for anything, so good on you.
Even within compliments the insults keep coming. This is getting sooooo tedious and droll.
Delete-The Sculpin