ScreenwriterGuy.com

It’s raining this morning. Los Angeles is hilarious in the rain. The local news will run teasers all day.  ”What’s with all this rain, and WHEN will it finally END?  Details at 11!” (To mock evenly, Seattle is the same way about snow.) People change their plans.  ”I know we were supposed to do lunch [...]

This is the last of my three-day trio of posts on life in Los Angeles.  I decided to reach out to Los Angeles-based bloggers to ask two simple questions.  Here are their responses: What is the worst things about living in L.A.?” “Worst thing is that people in Los Angeles relate to each other based [...]

Yesterday I posted about whether it makes sense to move to L.A.  Ready to pack your bags?  Keep in mind it’s easy to have the wrong preconception of what life in L.A. is like, given that every movie you’ve ever seen set here announces its location with the same three establishing shots: the Hollywood sign, [...]

I love L.A.! I hate L.A.! If that seems like a contradiction to you, you don’t live here. Today is my five-year Los Angiversary.  To mark the occasion, I thought I’d help any aspiring entertainment artists out there struggling with the perennial question: Should you move to Los Angeles? The simple answer (admit it, you [...]

Establishing a daily rhythm is difficult for me because, as a tutor, I work swing shift hours.  In my ideal world, one wakes up, gets one’s work done, then enjoys the rest of the day once the work is done.  A childhood of farm chores will do that to a person. So in my ideal [...]

I’m going to a place that is not like L.A.

On the TV show Futurama, the main character Fry often eats a product called “Bachelor Chow.” One assumes this is a play on Dog Chow. While this is, of course, a joke, and one somewhat pejorative of the bachelor lifestyle, I can’t help see the allure. A housemate and I have commented many times that [...]

When you think L.A., you think sunshine, right?  After all, in every movie you’ve ever seen, when the protagonists go to L.A., there will be three establishing shots: the Hollywood sign, a girl in a bikini, and a palm tree.  All of Los Angeles is located at the beach, or maybe in a convertible. In [...]

In Los Angeles there exists a division: “Industry” and “Not.” Industry people tend to hang with their own sort, as do non-industry people, although the motivations of the two groups are different. The reason industry types want to meet other industry types is because they expect those people can help them somehow. And the reason [...]

Just experienced my first L.A. tremor. (My housemates said there was one a few weeks ago, but I didn’t feel it.) This one was really minor, evidently a 4.5 centered 30 miles away. I’ve experienced much bigger, once in Las Vegas and once in Seattle. Still, there’s something really creepy about it every time, with [...]

Nothing is ever on time in L.A. Nothing. Ever. I don’t mean the way theater always starts 5-10 minutes late, or the way sometimes your friend’s watch is running slow. We’re talking any time you try to get 3 or more people together, it’s guaranteed that one of those people will be at least a [...]

I had a burrito for lunch today. At the next table, two businessmen discussed their preferences in bottled water.  One insisted that spring water contains too much sodium.  They were having a sincere discussion about brands of WATER that are bad for you.