american dreams

i saw inception tonight at the americana shopping mecca in glendale, california.  the americana provides an experience;  a produced, artificial reality where all of your material fantasies are tangible and impossibly green.  it was a little perfect to exit a ficticious film about the subconscious mind into a sophisticated, well-planned gift shop eutopia.

the groomed and riche shopping centers of manufactured and irrigated southern california really do feel like a dream within a dream.