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Beck Hansen Interviews Tom Waits Re: Draining the Lakes of Los Angeles

By Ryan - Wednesday July 08th 2009

bek1Fun new project over at Beck.com fresh from the inbox this morning (hat tip, Sung). Below, Beck and Tom discuss LA’s netherwaters:

BH: I was born in the McArthur park area.

TW: You remember when they drained McArthur Park, the lake?

BH: I do, yeah…

TW: They found unbelievable things: Cars, human bones, weaponry.

BH: They should have done an exhibit.

TW: I don’t know why they didn’t. I thought that’s why they drained it.

BH: I’d always heard that when they drained the Echo Park Lake they found an amateur submarine.

TW: Oh, my God.

BH: I don’t know if that was lore.

TW: You mean a homemade submarine?

BH: Yeah, I think it was older too, from the early days of “home submarine building.” I don’t know if that subculture still exists?

TW: That was the East Kids. (source)

Two guys just sort of shooting the shit, causal-like. They go on to further discuss the origins of Beverly Hills, Red Cars, lightning bolts, the quintessential “LA Song” and all kinds of interesting junk. Best go check it out yourself. (Photo: Beck @ Outside Lands 2008 by Sung)

» Tom Waits x Beck Hansen, Part 1 (Beck.com)




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4 Responses to “Beck Hansen Interviews Tom Waits Re: Draining the Lakes of Los Angeles”

  1. Posted by Will Campbell 7/8/09 at 4:00 pm # Reply

    Point of order/background/clarificationofTomWaitsnotknowing hey MacArthur Park Lake was drained during the second leg of Red Line construction extending it to Western Avenue from Alvarado. The subway goes under the lake and they didn’t want to risk a collapse of all that water’s weight while tunneling.

  2. Posted by Will Campbell 7/8/09 at 4:08 pm # Reply

    Point of order/background/clarificationofTomWaitsnotknowing:

    MacArthur Park Lake was drained during the second leg of Red Line construction extending it to Western Avenue from Alvarado. The subway goes pretty much directly under the lake and they didn’t want to risk a collapse of all that water’s weight while tunneling.

  3. Posted by Not Keeping Up 7/11/09 at 2:44 am # Reply

    Damn the article, I’m wondering whose hair Beck is wearing. Either he’s channeling Beyonce disguised as Mia Farrow or he’s emulating Chloë Sevigny on one of her pseudo-lesbian, tree hugger, Girl Scout leader, just straight up tacky days.

    Spill the tea, Beck. Which one is it?

  4. Posted by ...s 8/12/09 at 10:03 am # Reply

    Now Beck is reminiscing about classic southern california tv commercials with Will Ferrell http://beck.com/irrelevant_topics

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