steve in hollywood

As I mentioned before, a ton of people live in Los Angeles. Most of the state’s population is down here in LA or San Diego, really. I’ve been to San Jose and San Francisco, up near the middle of the state, but not really anywhere else. It is about a 6 hour drive from LA to the Bay Area. What is in between SF and LA? Not much. Mostly Bakersfield, and a lot of desert. This brings me to the fan mail segment.

Fan Mail Tuesday ?

Somehow I convinced myself that Monday was a holiday because I had a day off from my computer job. See, most actors out here in L.A.  have to work crappy part-time jobs to make it. The following is a typical conversation here:

Person 1: “What do you do?”

Person 2: “I’m an actor.”

Person 1: “Oh? What restaurant do you work at?”

I had a job that was perfect for me to pursue acting - teaching computer classes online. Unfortunately, that school lost their accreditation so I had to go pick up computer contracts. I’m trying to do that and keep days open to do acting, it is quite a juggle. So here’s the question for this week:

Steve,
I’ve been to Santa Monica a few times and have actually enjoyed myself.  After discussing my trip at home, I’ve been told by California natives ‘Northerners’ that Santa Monica is actually LA.  (I guess it is?)  Many of these ‘Northerners’ argue that there are actually TWO Californias…  Everything from LA and south is considered LA and north of Santa Barbara is considered California.  What do you think? -Sharon

I think that I would rather be in bed right now, Sharon. But that’s not the issue. Santa Monica is actually on my cool map I showed you before, and yes it is considered part of LA.

The Old Map I Made of LA

 Remember that Sheryl Crow song?

This ain’t no disco
It ain’t no country club either
This is LA! 

And then there’s something, something Santa Monica boulevard. Anyway, so yes, there are two Californias. It basically works like this: Southern is the cool, older brother that gets all the chicks, and Northern is the geeky younger brother that is jealous and sits at home on Friday nights. Really, down here in SC, we don’t really think about the north at all. We just do our thing and have fun. North is somewhere… far away.

In the North, they just sit there and stew about how cool we are and how they hate us and how we get all the Hollywood babes. Plus there’s like some other differences like the weather and San Francisco has some kind of bridge, but that’s not what’s important. The lesson you need to take away from this is that Los Angeles is slick and awesome, and there’s some people who don’t live in Southern California but they don’t count. In fact, you should pity them.

Remember kids, to send me a Fan Mail question this is the address:

steveinhollywoodblog -AT- yahoo.com

Thank you.

Tai Chi

Today I am blogging from the library in Monterey Park, CA. I am teaching a class to the city employees today on Outlook 2007. When I got here at seven fifteen in the morning, these crazy people were outside doing Martian exercises.

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