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October 29th 2008

Published: October 30th 2008

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DougRattray

Hollywood

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 years. I had a great time and got to fulfil my lifetime ambition and go on the Jaws ride - which turns out to be not a ride at all, but part of the 45 minute studio tour you get. It was spoilt a bit because they where filming desperate housewife's at the time so they had to keep stopping the tour. If you get the chance to go, I'd recommend the tour, the Simpsons ride, Waterworld show, the Mummy roller coaster and the
haunted house. If you don't have much time, give the Backdraft show
and the

The Banana Bugalow

on 2 floors?

special effects show a miss.

On Tuesday we got a bus down to Santa Monica beach, where I am convinced is where The Lost Boys was filmed… turns out it was at Santa Cruz which is about 6 hours north of here. The beach was really well kept and to too busy, but I guess on a Tuesday in late October isn't exactly high Tourist season. We walked the mile or so north to Venice Beach which is a mix of cool little indie stores, artists, people hastling you to go on tours and the old hippies who have taken entirely too much acid and completely lost there mind, they are harmless enough but it's hard not to laugh at them.

Yesterday was a quiet one. I'd been given a ticket for a preview screening of Role Models, for that evening by the guy in the bunk beneath mine. Spent the day hanging around Hollywood Boulevard and Sunset Boulevard. We also did the tourist thing and went to the Chinese theatre where all the handprints are.

I'm catching the shuttle back up to San Francisco for a couple of nights now. I've got a tour of Alcatraz