. - well, in the past, from raymond chandler, and - well, in the past, from raymond chandler, and charles bukowski, and all those charles bukowski, and all those los angeles wasn't the sunny eagles. sunny eagles. - [evan] beach boys, right? - nothing to do with that, it was all the dark side and (chuckling) we found it. - well, for a lot of people, at that moment who did what you came to do pretty quickly, the choice was not la but it was new york. - [john] right. so, distinguish between the two for me. why did you not make your way to new york, but instead made your way to la, what was it? (sighing) you made the affirmative case for la. was it something about new york you didn't like? - the weather. - it was just a weather issue? - totally. - good, i like the fact that it was mundane. - yeah. - that's good. - i'm very simple in many ways. no, i was just sick of the east coast. from second grade through college i lived in baltimore. and it's like they're ghosts. - [evan] gets old after a while. - and it's all closed in, and it's all. - and it's all closed in, and it's all. the west is ope