left on a kitchen table: a magazine which introduces Santa Cruz to the new students. as a glance through it i find out that Hitchcock lived just around the corner, in Scott’s Valey, for a good number of years. that the infamous house in Psycho stood not far from here. that the story for Birds was based on a real story that took place in a Californian village a bit up north. how the uncanny character of this place can be very inspiring…