What do you do and where?

[stray]

I could use LA. Better than this shithole at least. At least the people there aren't nosy or easily perturbed.

[Sky]

Hah. LA is fucking devil spawn. You'd have to start at high six figures to make it worth it imo.

I've lived in a number of big cities, and LA is the only one I put on the shun list.

Maynard said it best (with apologies for lyrics):


I think that song sums up LA perfectly.

[stray]

Ironically, he's just as much of a freak, if not moreso.


What I'm saying though is, living among freaks is better than living among squares. I don't like having to explain myself, just because I may go slightly off course.

Yeah, dealing with a bunch of obsessed actors is frustrating (been there, done that too). I know LA ain't pretty. What's worse there though is all of the fashion freaks who move there. Everyone's making a handbag or something. Also, many of them seem to have read the "Secret". That can be irritating too.


[edit] Heh. No offense to anyone who likes the Secret btw. I mean, it's not Scientology at least. I can be positive, but too much of it is kind of weird and unnatural, if you ask me.

Then again, I'm the one trying to claim he's a Bluesman. Maybe I'm really that fucked. Maybe I should be reading the Secret.

On a sidenote, I think the subject might not be that bad of a derail for this thread. 

[Margalis]

I live in Redondo Beach, so far I have not met a single wannabe actor or screenwriter.

[Selby]

I live in Redondo Beach, so far I have not met a single wannabe actor or screenwriter.

Exactly, not everyone who lives in California is trying to make it as an actor or a musician.  Not anymore than anywhere else in the country.  TV and the media sure like to give that impression though.  I live here because I like the weather and was offered a nice job to enable me to enjoy this weather.

I don't really like LA, but most of that is because it's just... so... damn... big...  It has areas that are fine and fun, but so much of it is just suburbs after suburbs all looking the same.

[Endie]

Hah. LA is fucking devil spawn. You'd have to start at high six figures to make it worth it imo.

I've lived in a number of big cities, and LA is the only one I put on the shun list.

Maynard said it best (with apologies for lyrics):


I think that song sums up LA perfectly.

Hells yeah.  And for those unlucky enough not to know the song, and to appreciate the venom he puts into it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6cmNWDv8to

[Grimwell]

I loathed LA the first time I was out here. Now I can tolerate it. I don't know if it's because I'm older, or if the city changed.. or maybe the zodiac decrees it... but it's less annoying. Still overly expensive.

At least I have Selby to harass though. :)

[Nebu]

I can some up my personal experience in LA with two lines:

LA as a musician in the 80's = AWESOME.

LA as anyone else = not so awesome. 

[Sky]

Eh, LA was not a great place for a metal band in the late 80s. Frisco, however was 

[Nebu]

Eh, LA was not a great place for a metal band in the late 80s. Frisco, however was 

Ah, Frisco.  I wasn't in a metal band.  I wish that I had been... you guys had more fun. 

[Sky]

I do not remember. 

[Oban]

I like Beverly Hills and the Santa Monica Mountains areas of Greater LA.  The rest of LA just scares me.

[Ingmar]

Argh don't call it Frisco 

I don't think I ever answered this post.

34 years old, work in San Jose as an IT guy (Microsoft Exchange is my main thing) but my degree is in music.

[Sky]

San Fran always made me think of a Catholic Fran Drescher.

[Yegolev]

[stray]

Are you intentionally using the shittiest pic of him you can find? 

[Signe]

Who is it and what's all over his head?

[Yegolev]

No, I just did not want to spend a lot of time on a lame joke.  Today I found out that what I am doing and where will stay the same for a while longer, so maybe I could try to find a better picture... but no.

[stray]

Who is it and what's all over his head?

It's Lou Gossett Jr. from Enemy Mine.

[Signe]

I just looked up Enemy Mine and that is SO not Lou Gossett Jr from that film.  Unfortunately, it didn't help me find out who that is up there.  It sort of looks like Paul Newman around the eyes but I don't think it is him.

[Yegolev]

It is Newman and that is salad dressing.

[stray]

It's Chappy from Iron Eagle.

[Signe]

It's not and I'm not looking up any more of the stuff you say.

[Lantyssa]

Alien Nation.  I forget the detective's name.  Followed him, his family, and his human partner whose name I believe was Matt.

[sigil]

Sam Francisco

They got a little loopy naming all the aliens at immigration and started fucking around with goofy names

[Signe]

Thanks!  I looked it up.  I've never seen that show.  I didn't know about the film, either, and the original was played by Mandy Patinkin.  I just love him.

[stray]

Sorry for screwing with you. I'm surprised you didn't figure it out though. 

[Signe]

I still don't get what I didn't get before but it's okay.  Being confused builds character. 

[Lantyssa]

I tell myself that everyday.  I've got a lot of... character.

[stray]

I still don't get what I didn't get before but it's okay.  Being confused builds character. 

I don't even get why I even messed with you. Umm.. weird train of thought maybe. Enemy Mine was made around the time that Alien Nation was. Err.. It was also about "racial issues". Also, the Alien played by Lou Gossett Jr. was bald like the Alien Nation dude. The similarities end there. I was just looking for an excuse to mention Lou Gossett Jr.

[Signe]

I like Lou Gossett, Jr.  I don't know why and I don't remember what I've ever seen him in, but I like his look.  He used to be pretty much coked out, didn't he?  I also just realised that he seems to look like Montel Williams, who I don't like but I don't know why since I haven't seen his show.  Anyway, your trains of thought aren't as weird as my complete and utter lack of what seems to be common knowledge.  Maybe that's why we get along so well!

[Sky]

Lou Gosset Jr sucks. He's not cool like Morgan Freeman in Half-Life.

[Signe]

I like Morgan Freeman and I've actually seen him in films, though not Half-Life.

[Yegolev]

Well, you don't really see him since he's the main character.

[tommh]

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