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Thursday, September 16, 2004

Hollywood

You know, I really like living in Hollywood. I've been a nomad all my life, never living anywhere more than three years, and no matter how interesting that can be, the fact remains that you spend your life as an outsider. You make friends everywhere, but you're always the "New Friend" among the group that has been friends since grade school. But of all the places I've been, Hollywood is different. It is the only place where as an outsider, you can still belong. Part of it is that being an LA person has no bearing on whether you grew up here - an true LA person is someone who came from somewhere else, and didn't quite fit there, and came west to find somewhere they belong. And so, after an entire life of not belonging, I found a place where, after only a few months, I did belong.
What is even better is that in Hollywood, there is no one style, no choice between preppy or punk, goth or jock, everything is too big and varied here to have any such labels, so you make your own self without reference to labels, and really find out who that is. Here you can be a conservative with purple hair, or a rebel that can wear polo shirts, or anything in between, and still belong, not because you're different, but because you're you.
And beyond that, is that mosaic of different/crazy/strange/interesting people you see and meet here every day. If you've been reading my blog, you already know about Tim in the closet, but there's also the homeless nudist who thinks she's an archangel that comes here to crash occasionally, my friend Newbie, who was a guy from Indiana who wanted to make a movie, and was so determined to make it happen that he talked a state government into building him a studio for free, convinced investors, and is now shooting it with a fairly star-studded cast, Trish, the model who used to rob banks, all the homeless people that just have amazing stories to tell, whether true or not, and more others than I could ever list or count. There's just no other place like it. Rich or poor, you could never have a life this interesting anywhere else.

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