Hey, Ruby and Leeza! How are you guys doing? You may be the only two people reading this blog, and you know what? That's enough for me! You guys were pretty much my two favorite Homer kids anyway, so everyone else can go suck eggs.
So, I've now been in Los Angeles for over a week, and I've been looking around for work. It's pretty much like everyone said it would be; almost impossible to get work if you don't already have a track record doing the job HERE, or a buddy who can hook you up. So I've decided that I'm going to need to make my own luck here, and find some way to pay the bills in the meantime. I'll let ya know how that goes.
So anyway, I've got a few firsts to report on from the past week;
FIRST PROJECT
I found this guy on craigslist named Michael Shu. He's making a short involving a Yakuza gun battle, which I'm going to be working on as a Production Assistant. That basically means I'll be standing around holding a boom or whatever, but it'll be a good opportunity to get a look at how things run on a properly organzied shoot. Also, Shu seems like a really cool guy and I can probably learn a lot from him, as he specializes in the areas of filmmaking I don't know as much about. You can check out the trailer for his award-winning short "War of the Wolves" at this link:
CLICK HERE FOR "WAR OF THE WOLVES" TRAILER!!!!
FIRST PERSONALITY CHANGE
I'm starting to realize that everyone here has a lot of bravado, so I'm thinking I may need to become a little cocky. I guess you guys are used to that, though. Ha ha! Here's an example: I've been wearing this year's DDF shirt around, and I've gotten some complements on it. At first I was all "Oh, yeah, one of the students on the DDF team I coached designed it, it's really neat, huh?" and the lady smiled patronizingly at me and said something like "isn't that nice." So the next time I got a complement on it I loftily informed the person complementing me that it was a "Kelsey Waldorf original" and the person just sort of nodded.
FIRST HOLLYWOOD CELEB SIGHTING
I was at this old-school Hollywood bar called "The Dresden Room" with some friends and we saw Adrian Grenier from "Entourage". I was excited that my first celebrity sighting was a celebrity who plays a bigger celebrity on TV, and he was there with his real-life entourage instead of his pretend Entourage from the show. It was all wonderfully recursive. The best part; Adrian Grenier called my buddy Rudy a dork. I wasn't at the table at the time, but apparently he identified Rudy as a dork then claimed that he was the "OD", or Original Dork. This resulted in several members of our party discussing what a jerk he was for the rest of the night, but it just seemed to me like a doofy, half-drunk guy blabbing at a bar and getting judged way too harshly for it since he was a TV actor. But whatever.
Well, that's all for this week. I'll get that virtual drive up eventually, but I can't promise it'll be soon. I'm having a really good time, I had forgotten what it was like to live in a place where I had friends. I mean, you guys were all my friends, but not the call-up-and-hang-out-whenever type of friends, you know? All my best buddies are here, and it's awesome living amongst them!
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Hey, it's fun to read all about your LA experiences. We're excited for the Anchorage debate tourney next weekend... and to stay with your fam!
Take care!
Hey, thanks Kathy! You don't suck eggs, by the way. I was talking about everyone who isn't reading. Have fun at my parents' house. If my mom starts getting out old photo albums of me, DON'T LOOK AT THEM!!!
Aww.. I guess I should start leaving comments. I've got Life Outside Homer on my Google Reader, so I'm always up do date but never on the actual site.
You're adventures are very interesting to read about. LA sounds like a very silly place. I'm looking forward to your next update, especially about your experience in a yakuza battle. (Will there be a schoolgirl boss with a machine gun? Those are the best kinds of yakuza fights.)
Good luck!
I was trying to explain to the director that we needed a schoolgirl machinegun boss, but he had a different vision for the project.
I read your blog paul :)
Hey Paul
Sound like life in the fast lane is treating you well. I could not wait to leave LA when I lived there but then there is no accountig for taste!
Keep on writtin'
Man, so we totally watched you on Jay Leno. You said you would never want to live in LA, because you wanted to live in Alaska your whole life. What a load of baloney.
Ha ha ha, yeah, I still feel that way, but LA is just too necessary to ignore right now. Gotta make tha donuts!
And yeah, Janet, I keep thinking about what Doug was telling me about LA; how it's really awesome at first, but after a while it's only fun if you have a lot of money, and how messed up the traffic situation. All of that seems to be very true. So far, I'm loving it, but it'll probably start to suck a lot in 2-3 years if I don't have substantially more money than I do right now. Say hi to the fam for me!
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