Hooray for Hollywood - oddly Misty was embarrassed when I sang this on the Hollywood Strip.
I just got back from the city that never sleeps, L.A. What a city... what... a city. I must admit, I felt a bit like a county mouse when rubbing shoulders with all those industry big wigs. When I say industry, I am speaking of the garment industry- lots of textile production in L.A. and if you know people in that industry it is really easy to name drop in L.A.
Another smaller, lesser known industry in LA is the entertainment industry. Everywhere you go you see celebrities. Natlie Portman served me coffee at The Coffee Bean, she was there studying for a role where she will be a barista in a feature film. Christian Slater was my bathroom attendant... he was there, well because it was the only work he could get... hey ohhh. In a city of 10 million people, 9 million of which work in one of the two industries. In the Springs, I am kind of a big deal. I write a bog that is read by tens every day, not to mention, I am kind of a real up and comer in the liquid oxygen industry. But that means nothing in L.A., jack squat.
So alas, I found myself in public areas speaking on my cell phone loudly, even though no one was on the other end. I just wanted people to think that I was someone, so I would say things like "you listen to me Jack, you pull a stunt like that again and you'll never work in this town again..... yeah we can talk about it at the Lakers game.... Deniro's not going to be there is he, I don't want to have to listen to him right now." "Well you tell Spielberg I'm not going to placate to his ego, if he wants to direct it, its his, but I'm in charge. If he's not okay with that, well he'll never work in this town again." Or, "I don't care if he has to cancel his sons bar mitzvah, we're three weeks behind on production, he will be in tomorrow or he'll never work in this town again."
L.A. just has so much to offer. In the middle of the city they have the LaBrie tarpits, a tar pond, where tar just oozes up tar and methane. We also went to the Hollywood strip, and I just daydreamed about one day bringing our children there, so that they too could pose with the homeless people dressed up as super heroes. They even have a California Pizza Kitchen where they have pizza that instead of pizza sauce it's barbecue sauce. They call it a barbecue chicken pizza, only in L.A.... only in L.A.
It was a terrific trip. We met family members for the first time, reconnected with family that I have not seen in seven years and got to experience a sampling of L.A. However, what I am most excited about is, to one day bring our new family back there. For in the middle of L.A. is a little neighborhood called Little Ethiopia. It was really neat. This neighborhood was sprinkled with Ethiopian restaurants, shops and signs written in Amharric. A place where our kids, might be able to stay connected with their Ethiopian heritage.
I just got back from the city that never sleeps, L.A. What a city... what... a city. I must admit, I felt a bit like a county mouse when rubbing shoulders with all those industry big wigs. When I say industry, I am speaking of the garment industry- lots of textile production in L.A. and if you know people in that industry it is really easy to name drop in L.A.
Another smaller, lesser known industry in LA is the entertainment industry. Everywhere you go you see celebrities. Natlie Portman served me coffee at The Coffee Bean, she was there studying for a role where she will be a barista in a feature film. Christian Slater was my bathroom attendant... he was there, well because it was the only work he could get... hey ohhh. In a city of 10 million people, 9 million of which work in one of the two industries. In the Springs, I am kind of a big deal. I write a bog that is read by tens every day, not to mention, I am kind of a real up and comer in the liquid oxygen industry. But that means nothing in L.A., jack squat.
So alas, I found myself in public areas speaking on my cell phone loudly, even though no one was on the other end. I just wanted people to think that I was someone, so I would say things like "you listen to me Jack, you pull a stunt like that again and you'll never work in this town again..... yeah we can talk about it at the Lakers game.... Deniro's not going to be there is he, I don't want to have to listen to him right now." "Well you tell Spielberg I'm not going to placate to his ego, if he wants to direct it, its his, but I'm in charge. If he's not okay with that, well he'll never work in this town again." Or, "I don't care if he has to cancel his sons bar mitzvah, we're three weeks behind on production, he will be in tomorrow or he'll never work in this town again."
L.A. just has so much to offer. In the middle of the city they have the LaBrie tarpits, a tar pond, where tar just oozes up tar and methane. We also went to the Hollywood strip, and I just daydreamed about one day bringing our children there, so that they too could pose with the homeless people dressed up as super heroes. They even have a California Pizza Kitchen where they have pizza that instead of pizza sauce it's barbecue sauce. They call it a barbecue chicken pizza, only in L.A.... only in L.A.
It was a terrific trip. We met family members for the first time, reconnected with family that I have not seen in seven years and got to experience a sampling of L.A. However, what I am most excited about is, to one day bring our new family back there. For in the middle of L.A. is a little neighborhood called Little Ethiopia. It was really neat. This neighborhood was sprinkled with Ethiopian restaurants, shops and signs written in Amharric. A place where our kids, might be able to stay connected with their Ethiopian heritage.
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