2012-08-04, 10:07 PM
Just got back from Los angeles, amazing trip, 3 days only though. We went because my sister got an offer from a talent agency, rather she found one and they decided to give her a shot. I was of course skeptical, but I haven't actually been to L/A before, anytime I go to california it's near SanFran, So I decided to come.
Upon arriving I was really..worried, we were at the outskirts of korea town and the hotel showed it. It wasn't high quality but as the trip continued we learned why it was such a popular hotel. For the locals it was the Ramadan(sp?) which is like walking distance to the metro, and most of the top tourist spots. We walked to a restaurant and it was going towards korean town. My girlfriends asian though so I think that made things a lot less risky. Not to stereotype, as korean=/=chinese, clearly but it does give you some camouflage haha. Even at the restaurant I felt like I was overhearing a conversation of mafia wives, the lady was straight up saying "You grew up the dirt you'll be nothing but dirt you smuck". Plus there was some guy on the corner just carving his nail with a box cutter. Aka, I wasn't really feeling like this trip would be that great. My girlfriend essentially told me to shut up and keep an open mind (although no where near that verbatim but that was the underlining point). Also didn't have high hopes for this Talent Agency after seeing the stuff.
Next day rolls around and we eat at denny's, closer in the actual city, and it was actually nice. We broke up in groups, dad and sister went to the agency me and gf went around and explored. We ended up getting a wee bit lossed, though nothing too serious. My dad was at boggart(sp not sure) street, so we ended up walking 5 blocks in the mexican ghetto. STILL ALIVE. Anyway we go to this talent agency and it's huge. Like, a sushi bar, gift shop, 50 floors, it was goddamn nice. They even shot a few "portfolio" pictures for Brad pitt. So I was thoroughly impressed, they were proffesional and knew their sh`it. My sister got really buddy buddy with her make up artist and found out she dated some of the high end producers who had their hands in a lot of pixar films. So this looks extremely promising.
We ended up walking in hollywood, ya know typical tourists, taking pictures of the stars on the sidewalk. So we decide to do the whole tour package with the wax museum, guiness and another one I can't remember. Nothing that great but kept the day going. Then as we're walking down to go do the hard rock cafe, there's frekin will ferral and amanda bynes, doing a premier. My girlfriend got some really good shots, so did my sister so I'll upload those laters. OH and to go on side tangent, we flew on the SAME SECTION AS JOE JONAS. We didn't even recognize him until he took off his fedora! Not only that but while in chicago we sat next to the midget from project X. I wasn't ENTIRELY sure, I didn't want to stereotype, but we overheard his conversations about movies and sh`it and for certain was him.
Anyway after that we went to hardrock cafe, and it was gorgeous, our waiter was hilarious and we got a live performance from this indie band Looner Which to be honest was really good and has potential. THey just have to find that one explosive song. Look through their stuff it's catchy.
We also visited some club's like the Roxy, and The Key. The latter one was a club my dad actually performed in with David Lee Roth, although it was just one song they were impressed. So they let my dad in after answering a few questions only he would know about the club like 30 years ago. Fortunately one of them was a veteran manager of the club and got his hand in with the new management, so he could verify his story. We also saw miley cyrus at a local bar but we couldn't get anywhere near her lol. So we all went home and prepared for our VIP passes for universal.
Universal studios was phenomenal. If you decide to go absolutely take the VIp tickets, they are like $300 each but you get every penny out of it. We got to stand on the set of Parenthood, go through the entire set of Desperate housewives, road every ride in the themepark, and saw the best stunt show in the world, in a f`ucking day. We also got to go through the prop center, which had like the wolfman prob, the original Rapters from jurassic park, and so many other things. We also stood at the townsquare where back to the future was flimed, front row not even a 5 minute wait time on rides that people with the pass directly below VIP had to wait minimum an hour and a half. We also got to eat at this gorgeous restaurant, with a view over the entire valley, we could even see warner brothers.
By the way the simpsons ride was the best, transformers was good..but it was too much cinema, you didn't get really involved like you did in the simpsons. Home now and already miss the VIP treatment qq
Upon arriving I was really..worried, we were at the outskirts of korea town and the hotel showed it. It wasn't high quality but as the trip continued we learned why it was such a popular hotel. For the locals it was the Ramadan(sp?) which is like walking distance to the metro, and most of the top tourist spots. We walked to a restaurant and it was going towards korean town. My girlfriends asian though so I think that made things a lot less risky. Not to stereotype, as korean=/=chinese, clearly but it does give you some camouflage haha. Even at the restaurant I felt like I was overhearing a conversation of mafia wives, the lady was straight up saying "You grew up the dirt you'll be nothing but dirt you smuck". Plus there was some guy on the corner just carving his nail with a box cutter. Aka, I wasn't really feeling like this trip would be that great. My girlfriend essentially told me to shut up and keep an open mind (although no where near that verbatim but that was the underlining point). Also didn't have high hopes for this Talent Agency after seeing the stuff.
Next day rolls around and we eat at denny's, closer in the actual city, and it was actually nice. We broke up in groups, dad and sister went to the agency me and gf went around and explored. We ended up getting a wee bit lossed, though nothing too serious. My dad was at boggart(sp not sure) street, so we ended up walking 5 blocks in the mexican ghetto. STILL ALIVE. Anyway we go to this talent agency and it's huge. Like, a sushi bar, gift shop, 50 floors, it was goddamn nice. They even shot a few "portfolio" pictures for Brad pitt. So I was thoroughly impressed, they were proffesional and knew their sh`it. My sister got really buddy buddy with her make up artist and found out she dated some of the high end producers who had their hands in a lot of pixar films. So this looks extremely promising.
We ended up walking in hollywood, ya know typical tourists, taking pictures of the stars on the sidewalk. So we decide to do the whole tour package with the wax museum, guiness and another one I can't remember. Nothing that great but kept the day going. Then as we're walking down to go do the hard rock cafe, there's frekin will ferral and amanda bynes, doing a premier. My girlfriend got some really good shots, so did my sister so I'll upload those laters. OH and to go on side tangent, we flew on the SAME SECTION AS JOE JONAS. We didn't even recognize him until he took off his fedora! Not only that but while in chicago we sat next to the midget from project X. I wasn't ENTIRELY sure, I didn't want to stereotype, but we overheard his conversations about movies and sh`it and for certain was him.
Anyway after that we went to hardrock cafe, and it was gorgeous, our waiter was hilarious and we got a live performance from this indie band Looner Which to be honest was really good and has potential. THey just have to find that one explosive song. Look through their stuff it's catchy.
We also visited some club's like the Roxy, and The Key. The latter one was a club my dad actually performed in with David Lee Roth, although it was just one song they were impressed. So they let my dad in after answering a few questions only he would know about the club like 30 years ago. Fortunately one of them was a veteran manager of the club and got his hand in with the new management, so he could verify his story. We also saw miley cyrus at a local bar but we couldn't get anywhere near her lol. So we all went home and prepared for our VIP passes for universal.
Universal studios was phenomenal. If you decide to go absolutely take the VIp tickets, they are like $300 each but you get every penny out of it. We got to stand on the set of Parenthood, go through the entire set of Desperate housewives, road every ride in the themepark, and saw the best stunt show in the world, in a f`ucking day. We also got to go through the prop center, which had like the wolfman prob, the original Rapters from jurassic park, and so many other things. We also stood at the townsquare where back to the future was flimed, front row not even a 5 minute wait time on rides that people with the pass directly below VIP had to wait minimum an hour and a half. We also got to eat at this gorgeous restaurant, with a view over the entire valley, we could even see warner brothers.
By the way the simpsons ride was the best, transformers was good..but it was too much cinema, you didn't get really involved like you did in the simpsons. Home now and already miss the VIP treatment qq