I didn't think it would be this way either

Moving here, I never though Los Angeles would be so normal. With all of the media attention this little town gets I thought some things would be so different, so celebrity filled and you couldn't walk down the street in BH or the Hollywood area without an ocean of photographers.

The things about L.A. that are played up so much in the media and is so underwhelming are things like ...

Robertson, Where all of young Hollywood shops and the site of The Ivy-Is actually only 3 blocks long. Just this little blip on the radar of Los Angeles.

The Kodak Theater- The sight of The Oscars, is inside of a shopping mall. Yes, it is true. You have to pass Nine West in your Manolos and Versace to get to your seat. You could possibly stop for some Could Stone if you get there too early and want to avoid Isaac Mizrahy's uncomfortable questions and bad touches.



Walk of fame- The stars of the acting greats are flanked by stars for the not so acting greats and former Laker Cheerleaders, turned singers, turned... The site of the Chinese Theater is also the sight for panhandlers dressed in costumes.

Anyway, this is not to deter you from ever coming here. There are many things about Los Angeles that I love. I just know that it is a shock to find out that the mighty wizard is just a man pulling switches behind a curtain.

WTF is Mandy.com

Overlooking a friends shoulder while he was on the internet, I jabbed him in the ribs and asked him:

"What's mandy.com ?" Wink wink. Me thinking it was a porn site or a webcam that followed a girl named "Mandy" around doing very naughty things.

"You don't know what Mandy.com is?" He replied in that are you stupid? tone, I have grown to hate. "It is for actors."

I am not an actor so I am not sure if you can know what it is if you are not an actor. I write this post to the many of you who are coming out to Los Angeles to act or work in the film industry and do not know what Mandy.com is. Basically....

Looking to build your acting resume and don't have an agent and aren't a SAG member? Go to Mandy.com
Have a finished film and are looking for distributors? Go to Mandy.com
Have you given up on being a director and need to liquidate your camera, light kit, etc.? Go to Mandy.com
Want to read scripts for fun at an up and coming production company? go to Mandy.com

So that is Mandy.com, I hope it helps.

Bus Blog-2

I am outside waiting for the 10 after a dentist appointment. I haven't gone for a few years, although it is not the bus' fault, an intense scaling (scraping with that small, metal hook) with no topical anesthetic doesn't help waiting for the 10 any more pleasant. What I don't realize as well is that my dentist sent me out into the world with blood in the corners of my mouth and my teeth lined with blood. yay, thanks a lot. Not only do I look pissed, I look like a goth vampire girl too.

I don't feel well, it is hot and I am on my way back to work. I am not able to tell at this point when the next bus will come, but at this point in the day, according to the schedule it should be every ten minutes. After 20 minutes (not exaggerating, I have a trusty cell phone) at an unsheltered spot, I take the only bus that comes, even though it doesn't go as far as I need it to go, but at least where it is going, it has shade.

Did I mention that my ipod battery is dead? I try in vain to start David Bowie's, Space Oddity over and over again with no luck. It is 40 minutes later and I finally catch a bus that will take my all the way to La Brea. If any of you know the area, where I go to the denist on Larchmont is not all that far from La Brea, I could have walked and made it in less time than waiting for what I will try to remember to call the FUCKING 10 throughout the rest on my posts.

Thankfully, the 212 and the 333 came without incident, but if any of you MTA people find my blog, you need a 733, because there are way to many people who need to get from Downtown to Santa Monica. It is like a clown car.

Blog I heart-Pop Candy

Come on admit it you do like a bit of celeb. gossip every once in a while. Sometimes we just can't help it. I have my moments, I am afraid. If I were to have been asked to write about the Britney performance about the VMAs I would have wrote:

"Britney, after being inspired by the popularity of the YouTube short of the Fillipino prisoners performance of Thiller decides to borrow the choreography for her VMA opener Gimme More, unbeknownst to her fellow dancers."

But no one asked me.

Like some of you I am sick of the Brangelina, which young dumb socialite is in rehab, how lonely Jennifer Aniston is etc., etc.,

It is kind of hard to help though, I am living in Los Angeles and although I hear it is not the gossip capital of the world, (London is I guess, is there any one who can confirm?) you really get inundated with celeb. gossip. The nightly news is 12 minutes world news, local news, weather and sports and about 10 minutes dedicated to celebrity "news" after the news on at least two national channels is a double header of two gossip shows. (ET, Access Hollywood, the Insider)

It really is too much and to be honest that is not the Hollywood information I want. I want to know what shows are being cancelled, if Jon Favreau's Dinner for Five is ever going to release other seasons on DVD, who is going to be on the next season of heroes. You can find all of this information and more on Pop Candy

Pop Candy is a great, smart, insightful blog that is completely addictive. It is, in my opinion, the best entertainment blog out on the web, a complete walk down a child of the '80's memory lane and convinces me often of what I should tune into t.v., movie and music wise.

Go now and read!!