Johnny Case in Wonderland . . . hopelessly adrift in popular culture

“We moved to Los Angeles because we made the decision that we had to move into the city with the most substance in the United States, cultural substance. New York is more on the receiving end, it’s more on the consuming end. But Los Angeles, this is the place where things get done. This is the place, if you look beyond the glitz and glamor of Hollywood, where you find all the writers, all the photographers, all the musicians, all the mathematicians…what I’m telling you is just the banalaties of the future. In 15 years, everybody will say the same thing.”