Drinking With Mom

I hadn't posted one of my infamous lists in awhile and was all set to post one tonight, I even had a pretty good one in mind to do, but it'll keep. Today ended up just being too busy in it's own right not to post about. The morning started out kinda crappy. I was worried about one friend of mine and annoyed with another. I have one fairly good guy friend out here and he's been in NYC all week. He's supposed to be back in LA on Friday night, but apparently he's mad at me right now (for something I didn't do BTW if you're reading this) so my plans for the weekend took a hit. Maybe he'll get off his high horse and we'll still get a chance to spend some time together on Sunday. We'll see... So anyhoo, not a great morning, but the rest of the day ended up being just peachy (or should that be orangey now that I'm out of Georgia and back in Cali?). I went and got my hair cut (finally!) at the salon here. Let me tell you, it's true when they say everyone in this town is in "the business." The talk the whole time I was there was about box office grosses and what premieres are coming up in the next few weeks and who just signed new deals with new agents or new studios or whatever. It was great! I love this town. Jason Lee's girlfriend was sitting next to me. She was nice. They had gone to the "Lords of Dogtown" premiere the other night and she said she really liked it. That's good. I'm looking forward to that one. So after my haircut (which looks fabulous BTW - damn, I'm turning so fucking Hollywood already, aren't I?), mom and I drove up north of the city so she could see my new place. (Techincally I hadn't seen my new place either since I ended up taking the apartment above the one that I had originally planned to rent.) I'm glad I took the bigger studio. It's a funky space and very me. It also has a lot more room and a bunch of windows with a great view of the valley and mountains that are now my backyard. I can't wait to get my stuff and get moved in. So we hung out with my landlord Charlie for a bit and I pitched him the basic idea of the script I'm going to start working on this weekend. He said once I get a rough draft done he'll take a look at it and help me come up with a treatment and a ballpark budget and stuff. It was a produtive afternoon in that respect. I'm really psyched about this new story and should be able to crank out a draft pretty quick. After surveying my new abode, mom and I came back to the hotel and started drinking. Actually, she did most of the drinking. She started with champange in the hospitality room and then switched to margaritas when we went down to hang out by the pool. I had one pina colada. Let me tell you, drinking with my mom is an experience. I now know where I get my basically non-existant tolereance for alcohol. She was really funny. I finally had to cut her off. She then decided she wanted to go into Pasadena to shop and go to dinner. So we did. She was still pretty wired and we had a great time (and I got some awesome clothes out of the deal too). So all-in-all it turned out to be a good day. This may be my last post for a bit. I don't know when I'll have an internet connection again. It may be a week or so before I have a phone line. I should be able to check email from elsewhere but I don't think I'll have a chance to blog again until I have my own connection :( So in the meantime, everyone be happy and I'll catch ya' on the flip side...

"I've seen way too many Bond movies to know that you never reveal all the details of your plan, no matter how close you may think you are to winning." -- Jason Lee - "Dogma"