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It\u2019s not hard to find love in the Canyon. At least for Josh Tillman. It\u2019s the same temperature all year \u2018round, but during fire season, our pretentious, selfish, but somehow loveable residents are a little more cautious chucking their cigarettes out of their car windows. When I was 10 years old, I ran into Josh Tillman (Father John Misty), next to the Mulholland Tennis Club. He looked like he was starving, wearing a dri-fit shirt and short shorts, long greasy hair and unshaven. I paid him no mind. My buddies and I used to climb up to the giant radio tower directly parallel to \u201cThe Club\u201d, which towered over Los Angeles. We could see deep into the valley to the purple mountains and to the grey haze that wafted over downtown and the water tower on the hill. Canyon-dwellers often converge at the Canyon Country Store, a family-owned sandwich-making, coffee-selling, 70s love affair. You\u2019ll see some freaks there from time to time. This store is where Josh met his wife Emma, and thus was born \u201cI Love You, Honeybear\u201d, A seminal singer-songwriter, folk album of the 2010\u2019s which has a deep love and passion for the city of LA written all over it. It wasn\u2019t until later in my life that I discovered Father John Misty\u2019s incredible music and potent lyricism. I think back to the time where my friends and I looked over LA from that abandoned radio tower next to The Club, it was a dystopian, almost blade-runner-esque view that gave me perspective. That everyone else\u2019s life was as nuanced as mine. And that through all those everlasting roads that stretched through the landscape, the tiny, bright, dancing lights of the city, and the rolling green and yellow hills, there was some middle-aged hipster making some really cool stuff in one of those thousands of houses. Love penetrates the Canyon, it\u2019s been that way since the 60s. — Wyatt Sardy<\/p>\n\n\n\n