Ive started this trend recentlly where on friday nights I make no plans and then call someone up randomly and then stumble around town and have a great time. 2 weeks ago was when I met up with friends I dont see that often but who live in my neighborhood at happy hour, that unfortunately proved to be disastorous on saturday and quite frankly until monday, no joke.

Last night I called my friend jessica and we walked over to the Stone Rose bar at that hotel on beverly and la cienega. Used to be called the hotel sofitel, but now i Have no idea what its called. Anyway, we got a drink, just caught up, she's a tv drama director and is about to start filming an episode of a hit fox show. Then she was going to a BBQ in los feliz and i wasn't feeling very los feliz-y so my friend Kristin called me and said her and berna were at the bev hills penisula hotel bar and i should come and meet them for a drink. so jessica dropped me off. I was going to walk, but hey, free ride. So we hung out, caught up and then berna dropped me home later that night. It was such a great fun wine drinking night!! I haven't seen kristin in forevs, she's pretty convinced her pilot is going to get picked up to series for ABC so thats awesome cause I have a job writing on that if it does, she'll know in a few weeks, i think by aug. 15th. Do not worry i am not getting my hopes up, mostly because I have lost all hope, whatever, it happens.

This afternoon i'm going to see Mama mia. The movie. My friend karen is having a bday party at the movies like we're 12 or something and so this is the one she wants to see. I'll go since I love colin firth (mark darcy!) and of course james bond, who BTW should not be in a movie that involves him singing and dancing, he's james bond for heavens sake! You dont see sean connery doing that. I have the major hots for james bond, always have! in the book Casino Royale (james bond movies are all based on novels) anyway, one chapter opens up with the sentence, "and james bond lit his 80th cigarette of the day..." Yeah, that's sexy! I mean, sure when he has emphesema and is all gross and wrinking because of smoking damage, no that's not sexy, but that's not how i see james bond now.

Anyway, off to the gym! gotta get in my workout before movie and dinner.

gael garcia bernal

earlier this week, I was driving up robertson and right before I hit melrose I saw Gael Garcia Bernal standing outside some store. It could not have been later than 9:30am. Oh how I wanted to pull over and kidnap him, HE'S RIDICULOUSLY GORGEOUS!!!!





I HAD TO PUT 2 PICTURES UP BECAUSE HE'S JUST SO FUN TO LOOK AT!!!!

Speaking of fun to look at, I saw someone the other day that is not fun to look at, namely tori spelling and her husband dean. They were eating dinner last weekend at Katsuya sushi where I was with Christie, my best friend from college who was down here on bizness. We're obsessed with that place and eat there every time she's in town.

anyway tori and dean were there with some other peeps. No papparazzi there, but the next night the paps were all outside of the Ivy b/c of nicollette sheridan, i'm like is she even a relevant celeb.... enough to have about 10 paps across the street?? I would vote no, but apparently these paps know something I dont.

inspiration can come at the most bizarre times

last night i drove down to the OC to see my cousin who is a senior in college down there and her dad who was in town from seattle to help out at some church thing. Oh, FYI they're fundamentalist Christians, but I try not to hold that against them. anyway, we had dinner with my cousin and her dad (who is married to my first cousin MO) and then we went out for Fro yo at this most awesome place down in huntington beach called America's cup. make a special trip there, it does not disappoint. Afterwards we went back to Hillary's boyfriend's place and her dad fell asleep on the couch and then i offered to give him a ride back to his RV (oh yes an RV he drove down from seattle to do some church work) which was parked at the church. I swear I dont come from trailer trash, i swear! It was actually a pretty suite ride.

Anyway, he and i ended up hanging out in his RV until like 1230am just talking about life. He's almost 50, has 3 kids (2 in college). He has known me since I was 12 and I just think the world of him, so anyway, we just talked and I told him what's been going on in my life and how SONY is trying to break my spirit (jokes on you sony, my spirit was broken long ago by MTV) about how Sony decided 4 days before going to network with my pitch i just spent 3 months writing that we weren't going out with the pitch after all and they wanted me to do an entirely new idea.... and have it ready to pitch in a few weeks... yeah, it's so great being abused by a major studio and having no recourse since I'm a younger writer. Oh and the head of the studio called me up and was like "this is how development works," like this is my first time at the rodeo or something?!?! it was so patronizing. I'VE BEEN DEVELOPING FOR 3 YEARS, HAVE PITCHED TO EVERY MAJOR NETWORK TWICE AND SOLD A SHOW TO MTV LAST YEAR!!!!!


i hate when people talk down to me. Hello, i know what development is like! I could give more great gossip about this story but can't on the interwebs.

but back to the story. anyway, my cousin's husband gave me great advice, and I talked to him about what he is going through and it was a really cool moment in our relationship. I mean he has literally seen me grow up! Families are so interesting. What's cool about him and his fmaily is they're really open and honest about what they're going through, I'm not sure how many other people they share this with, so i consider it a great honor.


yesterday morning, i had to get some follow up dental work. My dentist told me he wasn't going to use anestheisia, and for some insane reason I agreeed. NEVER AGAIN. I was in so much pain, my heart was racing, it was a nightmare. Sure it was over in like 20 mins, but IT WAS HELL!!

last friday night i went out for happy hour with Kate and a few others. Happy hour lasted many happy hours and then ended up causing many unhappy hours the following day. I don't drink much anymore, so i drank way more than I should've. also I hadn't eaten all day so it was the perfect storm of drunken disaster. I think I even smoked pot which is strange seeing as I never do that and at the beginning of the night kept saying no thanks but by the end of the night i turned into bob fucking marley!!! WTF?

so the rest of the weeeknd and even parts of monday were totally useless. Got my ass to the gym yesterday to help myself recover and then hit the movies last night. saw wall-e. thought it was good, but not as great as apparently everyone else did. Tonight I'm going to see the new batman movie, my friend is having a special screening over at warner bros, so i got a few peeps together to check it out. other than that, nothing new to report. Oh i pitched at Warner bros last week but got DENIED!! they apparently didn't like any of our ideas (they brought in 3 different writers to pitch on this idea)

whatever, moving on.

sorry about the disappearance.

the stuff on the professional front that I thought was happening isn't now... oh well, i'm so used to be rejected and disappointed. this industry is so fucking brutal, i would not recommend it for the faint at heart. Anyway, my friend who is the head writer on a show called me and said he's considering a few people for a job that just opened up on his writing staff, and i was one of the peeps, and that was 2 weeks ago and he never returned my calls after that. It's like dating, sometimes people just disappear. he's done this before though, he offered me a freelance script on his show and then instead gave it to mallory from family ties and i had to read her quote in the post that said "it's crazy that i did this cause i've never written a script before!"

today i had to go to the dentist to fix a cracked tooth and replace a leaky filling, total fucking nightmare. I still can't feel my left half of my face. anyway, my dentist employees a full time massuese who massages your feet while you're getting your head drilled.... gotta love beverly hills!