Hollywood > West LA

I was hitting a wall with how much more tax preparation I could handle, and the accounting gods throw me a curveball and send me on an financial statement audit in Hollywood. This job has gone on the last two weeks and I absolutely love it.

I just can't help but feel more at home around here in Hollywood & Los Feliz than in Marina del Rey. I can't stand living in a part of town so settled, so comfortable, so overly content and without any social interaction or youth. When I'm consistently going to bed on time and having little else to do but videogames (as great as Nintendo Wii is don't get me wrong) obviously something isn't right. I want something to tempt me to stay up too late, I demand a sense of community and things consistently going on. I expect to be able to go out and socialize and see some live entertainment or concerts without having to drive and sit in traffic over an hour at this point in my life, and that is what this audit has opened my eyes to.

I've had something to do almost every single day after work on this audit. Whether it is a screening of RocknRolla @ the WB's on-lot theatre, Comedy Death Ray at Upright Citizen's Brigade, or just chilling out to some legit decaf coffee while in a daze of shoegaze at the Bourgeois Pig or maybe downing a bottle of cheap Shiraz with good company at Fred 62... oh wait there's more I could go on and on.

Why would I just whine and not change something in my life and just move? Stupid knee injury and the ongoing physical therapy kept me entrapped where I didn't want to be... but I'm over that and able to run and play sports again or whatever else.

Ideal place for me to live in LA, disregarding how bad my commute could be, would be Franklin Village or Los Feliz. Its somewhat affordable and seems to be completely lacking in young yuppie MBA types like me - I just don't identify with my own kind. Most all my friends work in entertainment and outside of the awesome CPA firm I work out, I'd rather spend my free time with people not in my line of work.