8th August 2008

8th August 2008

~The entrancing effects of Hollywood~

Los Angeles is a place where you can find beauty on every corner and trouble behind every turn. A place where people come to graft their titles into the sidewalk and stomp on the names of the famed. I’ve fallen in love with the city of angels many times and as I sit here on Venice Beach, escaping my creative duties for the morning, I reflect upon an incident this week that gave me a new ingredient to my own personal Hollywood.

Julie was a friend of a friend of a friend. One of those that no one seems to know particularly well but one whose atmosphere everyone seems to enjoy. Ruby hair with streaks of gold and SoCal blue eyes to be sure, an energy about her instantly led me to surmise that she was a transplant out west living fast trying to make it on the silver screen. I was half incorrect. We were out drinking Irish whiskey at The Rainbow, our