Hollywood is one of many enigmas of Los Angeles. It's kind of a place, but it kind of isn't. It's not a city anyway, (even though West Hollywood is). Yet everyone knows about Hollywood, and has high expectations. Sadly, the image of Hollywood fed to people here and abroad is a complete farce: it's associated with famous people, glamor. That's a lie--a lie I say! All the famouses live in Brentwood/other fancy places where you can never find them except when you least expect it and are biting into a chocolate croissant and realize you're sitting next to that dude who was on "Felicity."
Whenever someone visits me and demands to see this "Hollywood" everyone's been talking about, I give a little depressed sigh. Mostly, it's a wasteland of flashy establishments, music venues, comedy spots. There's nothing of worth to really "see." It's not like "show me Echo Park!," which is a neighborhood that actually has a heart and soul. Character. Hollywood is little more than a long stretch of glammed-up strip malls. How people actually live in the area, I don't know. But apparently they like 24-hour traffic noise and ladies with little dogs in their purses. Or maybe they're all made of wax and put in apartment windows just to fool tourists.
Whenever someone visits me and demands to see this "Hollywood" everyone's been talking about, I give a little depressed sigh. Mostly, it's a wasteland of flashy establishments, music venues, comedy spots. There's nothing of worth to really "see." It's not like "show me Echo Park!," which is a neighborhood that actually has a heart and soul. Character. Hollywood is little more than a long stretch of glammed-up strip malls. How people actually live in the area, I don't know. But apparently they like 24-hour traffic noise and ladies with little dogs in their purses. Or maybe they're all made of wax and put in apartment windows just to fool tourists.
Anyway, I found this mathematical equation which I think captures the truth of Hollywood quite succinctly:
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