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In this scath ing and  s  ubversive so
cial comedy, life in po st riot Lo s Angeles is dis s ec
ted under the sard o nic eye o f John Boyz, 
an unemployed thirty n othing flounderer on Venice Bea 
ch who is tr yin g to figure out what to do with

his life. John can&#39  ;t be bo thered with a 
pa
th y , but n o matter ho
w much 
 h e wan ts to hel p people, he   is too immob i
lized to do   anything usef u  l.  Hau nted by chronic insomnia and impending sense of doo
m,  al l he can do is watch, and John is an avid observer . Throu g h
his voyeuristic binoculars, he struggles to  mak e sense   of all t he alienation and disaffection he sees in his neighborhood. In 
his journal he meticulous ly chro 
nicles the mundane do wn   to steadfast march  of ants  acr


oss  his kitchen count er. John i
s desperat ely try
ing to keep  on e meaningless day fr om blending into next. He compulsively wat che
s homemade vi deos o
f LA r  iots lo oking for a c
lue. But e  verywhere around 
him the city's social fabric is coming apart at the seams, and now  it is John B
o ys & #39;s  own threadb
are ...