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discount inn

from memento posted in movies by chewing_the_scenery

In Memento, Leonard was double-booked at the Discount Inn, since the clerk knew he wasn't going to remember it anyway. The scenes were filmed at the Travel Inn on the corner of Foothill and Hillhaven Ave in Tujunga, California.

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griffith observatory

from rebel without a cause, the rocketeer, transformers posted in movies by donkeyoti

There is a bust of James Dean located outside the Griffith Park Observatory.

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alley from “novocaine for the soul”

from eels, mark romanek posted in music by nevereatshreddedwheat

The black and white music video for Eels hit single "Novocaine for the Soul", directed by Mark Romanek in 1996, shows the band levitating while they play in an alley behind the Family Pants clothing store in Los Angeles.

Lead singer Mark Everett's father 'was Hugh Everett, a physicist who pioneered the concept that quantum fluctuations create splits in reality, resulting in a Level II multiverse containing parallel universes which account for every quantum possibility...' or at least that's what I read in the comments for the video on youtube.

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corner of glendale and edenhurst

from x, spike jonze posted in music by nevereatshreddedwheat

One of Spike Jonze's earliest music videos for the song "Country at War" by the LA punk rock band X features them performing outside on the corner of Glendale Boulevard and Edenhurst in Los Angeles, California in front of what is now a thrift store.

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los angeles marriott downtown

from fatboy slim, spike jonze posted in music by nevereatshreddedwheat

The Fatboy Slim video for "Weapon of Choice," featuring a then 57 year old Christopher Walken dancing and flying around a hotel lobby, was filmed at the Downtown Los Angeles Marriott on South Figueroa Street. The video, directed by Spike Jonze, won six MTV video music awards in 2001 including Best Choreography and Best Direction.

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