![]() ![]() But unlike Didion, who was an outsider to the rock and club scene, Babitz was an art and music insider - she had a fling with Morrison - and her writing reflected it. 17, was celebrated for writing about Los Angeles culture during roughly the same period. “It’s pretty synchronistic that you’re calling because I was just writing a little letter to the editor about Eve Babitz,” he says.īabitz, who died on Dec. Of her time living in Hollywood in her Franklin Avenue home, she writes: “I remember walking barefoot all day on the worn hardwood floors of that house and I remember ‘Do You Wanna Dance’ on the record player, ‘Do You Wanna Dance,’ and ‘Visions of Johanna’ and a song called ‘Midnight Confessions.'" Named for the Beatles' self-titled album, Didion’s essay, which she worked on for a decade and published in her 1979 book of the same name, rings with an imaginary soundtrack. “We tell ourselves stories in order to live,” Joan Didion famously wrote to open “The White Album,” her kaleidoscopic essay on Los Angeles in the late 1960s and early ’70s that effortlessly flows through topics including Jim Morrison, Sharon Tate, Huey Newton, Didion's stint in a psych ward, the Manson murders, living in a Franklin Avenue home in "a senseless-murder district" and that time "Roman Polanski accidentally spilled a glass of red wine" on her in Bel-Air. (Mark and Colleen Hayward / Getty Images) The Doors pose for their first album cover in 1967. ![]()
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