Archive for February, 2009
Steven Arvanites Workshop
The Steven Arvanites Career Development Workshop was AWESOME. He had each of us work on our 1 week, 1 month, 6 month and career goals. It's nice to put it down on paper. Of course, I do this all the time, but I think those in attendance really got a lot out of the exercise. For those who missed it, maybe we can bring him back again. It was [...]
Steven Arvanites
I just interviewed Steven Arvanites. What a firecracker of a dude. He has that awesome NYC energy and the writing chops and experience to back it up. We had nearly 50 people in attendance at the Guild meeting, and his Q&A was very well received. I learned a lot. Excited for tomorrow's workshop.
Day 8 – LA
I fly back to Seattle today. The rent-a-car folks have no inkling that the car was covered in shit. Thank goodness.
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Day 7 – LA
I spend most of the morning and early afternoon driving around with a realtor, in the pouring-ass rain, checking out some amazing places to rent and buy. Prices are really coming down out here. Mostly hung out in Santa Monica, Brentwood, Westwood, and Century City. Still in love with SaMo, as they call it. I get dropped off at uncle's house, [...]
Day 6 – LA
Not much planned today. Took Laura to the Burbank airport after a coffee in Studio City. Miss the puppy. Today is my recording session for Pilar Alessandra's On The Page Podcast, near my uncle's house in Sherman Oaks. I stop off at Ralph's, next door to On The Page, and bring up some Heinekens for Pilar, Matt, and I to drink. I forgot that [...]
Day 5 – LA
Lunch with my cousin and his cousins, who are basically my cousins. Tried to order falafel at a Greek restaurant. They didn't have it. Weird. We drive down to Manhattan Beach to check out Kevin Chang's new digs, half a block from the beach. Lucky dude. As we came over the hill, the sunshine made the beach glow and sparkle. This made Laura's eyes [...]
Day 4 – LA (More rain, more pain)
Started off the day with a casual sit down with Matt Skiena over at Village Roadshow (on the WB lot). Because of the rain, he had a million cancellations, but knew that Laura and I would show. We're from Seattle. Off to Silverlake + Los Feliz (anglicized pron. is FEE-LEZ). Everyone says its cool. I knew it would be similar to Seattle, so [...]
Day 3 – LA (in the rain + City of Beverly Hills Parking Viol.)
OK, so the headline makes it sound like we had shit day in LA, but we had a really fun, awesome day. We were blamed all day for bringing the insane rain to the southland. Met up with good friend/mentor/teacher/awesome dude/past Guild guest, Blake Snyder over in Beverly Hills. Had quick but awesome chat about living and writing in LA, new [...]
Day 2 – LA Trip
We spent the whole day in Santa Monica/Venice today with our friend Jeff. Ate down at The Fig Tree (yummy) in Venice and just took in the local color as they say. We walked along the beach in the middle of winter and it was 80 degrees. Woohoo. Sunshine feels good. Had our first pinkberry, got razzed by some local coffee snobs for soy milk in [...]
