I love having mysteries in my daily life, but I’m even happier when they get explained. Exit Through the Gift Shop provided me with a narrative for a lot of the mysterious street art and billboards I had been seeing during my first couple of years living in Los Angeles (although I’m still not certain how much of the movie was true). Similarly, I’ve long marveled at the house nearby me with nineteen replicas of Michelangelo’s David on the front yard (even posting some photos), and wondered who lives there. Much to my surprise, today’s Los Angeles Times answered all my questions, starting with the occupant: never-made-it singer Norwood Young, who’s moving out after a decade and a half. (Although Young’s website, which launches the video for an excellently insane confessional therapy ballad on its front page, either called “A Work in Progress” or “Getting Back to My Me,” opens up a whole new set of questions.)

posted 16 August 2011 in Links and tagged Los Angeles, Michelangelo, Norwood Young. 1 comment