Hi there, I'm just about to take a little side trip out of Hollywood and I'm still having a really super glitzy time. Today I was signed by three lovely ladies and I can now reveal a big surprise. When I left Tippi Hedren's big cat sanctuary I had a little addition in the Fed Ex box that's taking me all around the world. Tippi placed a copy of Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" (the movie for which she is so acclaimed as the iconic star) signed by the beautiful and gracious Tippi herself. Well, not to be outdone I have another [View Full Entry]

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Nach Franzoesisch Polynesien war L.A. ein absoluter Schock. Das war mir zwar vorher klar, dass es aber dann doch so schlimm werden wuerde, hatte ich nicht geahnt. L.A. ist wohl eine der grauesten und langweiligsten Staedte, in der ich jemals war. Hollywood habe ich jetzt auch nicht wahnsinnig spektakulaer gefunden. Die Stadt scheint einzig aus unterschiedlichen Grautoenen zu bestehen. Mein Hotel war anscheinend unter den Locals als teilweise Rotlichtmilieuhotel bekannt. Grossartig, dachte ich nur, und war jeden Abend brav zuhause, bevor es dunkel wurde und hab dann meine Tuer verschlossen und [View Full Entry]

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Hey Everyone! YES it’s the lonnnnggg awaited edition 3! Ok Tara seriously why did you take so long? WELL BECAUSE my friend, good things have been happening CAN YOU BELIEVE IT! HA well as Franklin D Roosevelt said "When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” Hmmm so I did...Persevere and the sun will shine...eventually (that was quoted by Tara Jade Ross). I love quotes... OK so let’s get started... JOBS I booked a Nintendo commercial which was filmed on “New York Street” at the FOX back lot! That was a lot of fun, [View Full Entry]

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I've been in LA for 4 days now and I haven't seen a single Blood,Crip, drive-by, car-jacking or any police brutality. I have seen a lot of wannabe actors and actresses with scary amounts of plastic surgery. After a nasty coach ride from Vegas, we arrived in around 8pm on Sunday night. I was too tired to do anything so just popped to the liquor store and burger place across the road for some beer and burger nastiness. Monday, we used the free tickets for Universal Studios I got from an internet points thing I've been saving for a couple of [View Full Entry]

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We only has 2 weeks in America and it was defiantly not enough time to see much at all. Though we began our journey at our much loved friends house - Jessica (without her we would have been lost!) We were lucky to stay with a local in down town LA, Hollywood. Of course we did the tourist attractions like Disney Land, Rodeo Drive, Hollywood-the famous walk of fame and saw the Hollywood sign in the Hills. But the best was catching up with our friend Jess and seeing where she was living. We were mesmerised by the houses on Rodeo [View Full Entry]

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First stop: LA Dodgy rating: 7/10 Crazy count: Over 20 with 4 noteworthy candidates Fun rating: 7/10 - Big box fun. After 11 hours, 4 films, and 3 bottles of wine, we finally touched down on the other side of the pond. Phew. During a somewhat violent bout of turbulence, both Cath and I had pretty much convinced ourselves we were going to crash and die (possibly a side effect of too much wine) so the fact we had managed to land safe and sound was a mammoth relief. Arrive alive. Check. We raced through customs with minimum fuss. No requests [View Full Entry]

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Wednesday 1st October to Wednesday 22nd October, 2008. Just a shade over four months in the United States and still no visitors. Flights booked as well as promises made but not one visitor to remind me first hand of all that I'd left behind. All that however was about to change and as I boarded the Jeep for my crack of dawn commute to El Segundo my thoughts turned to Roy Peter Wayman, aka Waymo, DJ legend extraordinaire (so he'd have you believe) and former Metal Pig partner in crime who was at that precise moment somewhere twenty thousand feet or [View Full Entry]

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HOLLYWOOD Monday 18th August - Wed 20th August And so here we were again, up at 4am packed, with sleeping kids to prise from their beds which they did with remarkably less fuss than we would have made. We were at Honolulu Airport at 5.50am and checked in with our American Airlines plane due to take off at 7.10am. This flight was hard work, mainly for Gav as both boys wanted to sit with him and didn’t sleep much. 5 hours later and we landed at LAX, 3 hours forward in time and suddenly it was 3.10pm - weird! LAX was [View Full Entry]

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WELL Hello Hello! How are you all? Well it’s that time again, for yet another exciting Hollywood update...and I warn you in advance...it could be quite lengthy... Well I guess I’ll get straight on into it. It’s been another 3 weeks, which probably has been the hardest 3 weeks of my life. It was literally one drama after another. My little 1990 Honda accord had a rough start...and an even worse finish. First week, it was towed...2nd week, it received 2 parking fines...3rd week, it was totalled. Two weeks ago I was in a pretty bad car accident. I totalled my [View Full Entry]

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It took a lot of courage, willpower and spirit; but we were determined to make it out of bed for the complimentary breakfast at the hotel. It was a battle of epic proportions, but all 3 of us were downstairs stuffing our faces with bagels before the 10am deadline. Equipped with the USA lonely planet, we decided to 'do' all that LA downtown had to offer in a single tourist orientated day. And boy did we manage it! We even had time to spend all our well earned cash in a out-of-town outlet mall later in the evening. We started with [View Full Entry]

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