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Someone once said that they needed to put their words on paper just to let them escape their mind.
I am not famous. In every respect, I'm an average young professional from Oregon who is currently living in Austin, Texas. But sometimes an average person witnesses too much insanity to keep it locked inside. After the last few years of being told to write a blog or a biography about my life in LA, I finally conceded to set these stories, MY stories, free.
Thus begins my journey of writing an entirely true and deeply revealing collection of short stories based on my 6.5 years of living and partying in Los Angeles. Think of Carrie Bradshaw's book in Sex and the City...only this actually happened.
A glimpse:
"At first, living in Los Angeles could only be compared to constantly having a Martini buzz. I was 24, lived walking distance from Venice Beach and worked on Santa Monica's 3rd St Promenade as an architectural designer. With a sister working in the beauty industry netting me free designer makeup in the thousands of dollars, and a roommate working in a Fashion District showroom netting me thousands of dollars of designer clothing sample sizes, I knew I had made it.
My friends and I sipped cocktails at Viceroy, snuck into the Roosevelt pool parties, were extras in a music video, and dined at Beso and Geisha House regularly.As far as we were concerned, we were famous. We looked good, we went everywhere the rich and famous went, the weather stayed faithfully at 75 degrees year-round and we thought we were having the time of our lives.
Then came the promoters. Promoters for all the hottest clubs scout the young girls everywhere in LA. They promise easy access to and free bottle service at all of the swankiest spots in the city.The same clubs you see on the news or in the tabloids with this or that celebrity spotted there. Usually we just spotted the celebs at the clubs at the table next to ours. It was like a hazy dream of a movie where you are witnessing a top-secret, sexy world that most will never see. But even the best dream can become a nightmare..."
The ups and downs, the glamour and violence, all the celebrities, meeting Jenny McCarthy, hanging out at Zach Braff's Hollywood Hills mansion (and his shoe collection...), running into (literally) Suge Knight, the secret parties, attending the American Music Awards, the constant filming, the paparazzi, the Playboy mansion, cocktails in Malibu, the rich, the fake, the poor, the dangerous...all are embedded in me forever. And all are part of the architectural designer I have become but also part of the reason I left Los Angeles. After all, was it not Kostoff who said, "Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity"?
My goal is that every single young person with aspirations of LA glam, or anyone with the regret of a glamorous life missed, to understand the truth in that lifestyle.
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