The Coffin Shop on Hollywood Boulevard
When I was first cutting my teeth on this whole creative writing thing (back before I knew writing was an art and not just an obsession I had), I was really into anthropomorphism. I didn’t know what that was back then either; I just liked writing stupid shit about lamps and goldfish and the Powerpuff Girls and whatever else struck me at the moment.
There are certain trends in my writing that i’ve moved away from. Stepping away from anthropomorphism isn’t one of them. If anything, it’s simply evolved and expanded past lamps and to places that I love. Sure maybe there are things in each song that also allude to a person, but in the fascinating words of Kamala Harris, “do you think you fell out of a coconut tree?” Although that quote has been boiled down to a meme and rightfully so, there is something to it. We are formed by the places we live, work, and play in. The places that we love do something to our psyches and helps define who we are, inside and out.
Coffin Shop is about chaos, love, ambition, and the inevitable blending of the three. We all know someone that is baffling, but we love them. Many of us know a place we love, even though that love may baffle others. I LOVE Hollywood Blvd. The lights, the noise, the dreams memorialized in stars and dying under costumed heads of street mascots. Hollywood Blvd. buzzes. I feel my mortality and ambition join everyone else’s on the boulevard. There’s something beautiful in its desperation, in its dirt. Hollywood, as shiny as it is nowadays, is the last vestige of the wild west.
Coffin Shop takes all those big feelings I have about Hollywood Blvd. and anyone who exists that embodies that energy, and condenses it into 2:04 that I hope you love, because I do. I hope next time you go to Hollywood, you think of the song. I hope that as you leave, or enter a cool, quiet place, that you come up gasping for air and laughing at the absurdity of it all.
Coffin Shop is available on all platforms, but Spotify is bey. Check out the map below the video and pop in your favorite spots in Hollywood to share with the crowd!
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