Well, due to the cries of my numerous fans and endless supporters, howling out for a glimpse into what is the whirlwind party, celebration, and just pure awesomness that is my life, I’ve decided to once again start up my we blog, which can be located at http://myjonboy.blogspot.com/ for your convenience.
It’s been a while, what can I say. Travels have been made, time zones have been crossed, currencies have been exchanged, countries conquered, and home finally housing my broke-ass for two weeks before I started it all over again.
Now, I reside in Los Angeles (3712 Barham Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90068) for the next three months. I’m currently interning at New Line Cinema as the assistant to the assistant (Michael Kaczmarek) for Jeff Katz and Luke Ryan…which is fun because then I get two filters for work to flow through, promising I get only the worst of the worst. But so far it’s a great internship. I suppose I’m learning a lot, though I can’t actually say what it is I have learned. All that subliminal stuff you seem to spit out with the proper questions that even seem to surprise yourself when you realize you actually know what you’re talking about.
California is somewhat of what everyone says it is. “There’s palm trees here, palm trees” is how I generally like to describe it here, though I suppose I have a little more space here to embellish. Besides palm trees, California has, thus far, a very static climate, that being one of sunny and 65-70 every day. This is quite the drastic change from Rome’s chill and dampness and Michigan’s perpetual rain and depressing grey. However, despite how “envious” you may be of this weather, if I lived here I know I would be desperate for some kind of season and snow, because this is just too bland to live in for years.
California also has an absurd amount of traffic. Driving here is a joke and takes you at least a half hour to get anywhere. New Line is about 7.8 miles from my apt. according to google maps (google maps is the best, true that, double true) and it takes me anywhere from 25 minutes (in light traffic) to over an hour (medium-heavy traffic) to get home. My hours are 10-7 so I miss a lot of the really heavy traffic, thank goodness. Due to the ridiculous amount of people driving only themselves to work (carpooling is encouraged, but works about as well as encouraging a heroin addict to switch to being a hot air balloon operator instead) there is the everlasting smog that smothers L.A.’s scenery like buying a pair of tickets to see the Rolling Stones will do to your credit report next time it rolls around, beating it into the ground. Fortunatly, it’s been “pretty good” according to the locals since I’ve arrived, but it’s pretty disgusting.
One thing I get asked more so than most other questions is how do I like the beaches and what fun things have I done either on them or otherwise (cough, you know who you are, cough). I’ve only been to the beach once since I’ve been here. It’s actually quite far away (about 40 min to the closest) even though it’s probably only 12 miles away. So far, I’ve only been to Laguna and Huntington Beach, both in the same day. It was very nice despite the cold water and somewhat chilly weather for being at a beach (but hey, it’s January and I almost had a sunburn yesterday from sitting by the pool, so I’m not worried about it). Pictures are up at the photo website from the occasion, which I’ll link at the bottom. Went there with two out of my three roommates, who, btw, are pretty cool. We get along fairly well and should be an exciting semester.
Other than that, I havn’t really done anything exciting here besides the trip to Las Vegas with Frank before school started to go “work” at the Electronic Consumer Showcase…which consisted of simply walking through it in about 3 hours, seeing maybe 5% of what was there. Good stuff. By the way, for all of you gambling deficient, fear not anymore of the green felt and smooth talking dealer that awaits you as you sit down and pour your money into the great machine known as “the man” to many a risk taker for The Winn has solved all your problems. War, yes War, the game you used to play with your grandparents where the larger numbered card wins, has landed on their floor, waiting for you to make your bet. The most brainless way of gambling I’ve seen thus far, even more so than Keno. You simply sit there and watch the dealer either give you money, take your money, or play you in a tie. And that’s about it. It’s awesome and I recommend that everyone try it at least once, if anything to get in touch with the Chevy Chase in all of us (that would be a National Lampoons Vegas Vacation reference, btw).
One exciting thing I suppose I should mention is I’ll be working at The Grammys on February 8th escorting artists down the red carpet and backstage, so that should be fun. I’ll let you guys know how that goes in a while. But as for now, that’s all I’m going to waste your time with. Lemme know how everyone is doing, hope your breaks all went pretty good (if you had one) and that family and friends are well. Keepin it real in the city of angels…
Jon boy
P.S. photos can be viewed at http://www.flickr.com/photos/myjonboy/sets/
Thursday, January 26, 2006
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