It's Friday night, I'm in LA so what am I doing?
I'm watching Southend on cable of course!! What a country!
My week started strongly. An old University friend, who emigrated to New York some time ago contacts me on Facebook.
He's in LA for the weekend, meeting the Girlfriends parents. After a round of doing Meet the Parents, I met my old friend rather aptly in the British Pub over in Santa Monica.
Further, this meeting of two old dogged hard drinking Brits brought LA a 'nippy' shower.
Sitting in the pub, a waitress chirpy from Blackpool, Brits to our right and left and pissing it outside, for the first time in weeks, I'm back home!!
To stop this slide into jingo-ism, we head back for drinks in my friends swanky hotel on the beach.
This is what LA does best and even the sun makes an appearance on que.
The hotel bar has swimming pools, small perfect sized pools can be gazed upon from your cushioned tent. The tall LA girl cocktail waitress only too pleased to serve. In an outside booth, curtains drawn, LA people whisk trimmed dogs in and out. We can only guess what's going on in there.
Now in LA mode, we take a hotel Merc down to Venice for some serious chilling.
This is Camden by the sea, I'm thinking, as a skinny good looking kid holds up a sign to me on the beach, 'Money needed for weed'.
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A flurry of applictions to write for e-magazines has started to pay off. A magazine, hot celeb news, is willing to give me a go. 2 in fact.
One of them is right up my street, submit movie reviews, deadline Thursday.
First assignment from the other, to interview a young all girl band that are all over the media!
I point out to the Editor I've never done an interview before and my speculative letter was begging to do Movie and TV review.
Well the girl band are involved with TV, so it's a legit assignment, I get to it.
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I'm listening to their music, trawling the internet, my Editor wants JUICE, and I don't want to blow this!!
The day of the interview comes just as I'm moving into my new studio in Hollywood. It has no furniture. I balance dashing to the Futon Shop and K Mart for Futon and bedding to tapping away on my Blackberry, trying to hone down that killer question.
I run my questions over with my Ed, she's happy, call the girl band media guy were all set!
So it's now Friday, I've survived the interview and sipping a beer watching Fox football and feeling good about myself.
Just another week in LA.
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