May 8th, 2010
California is a Dry Husk.
California is a dry husk. Avoid it. New orleans is an oyster for the taking. It helps if you have some money, but California is a shit baking in the desert with a little sugar on top. Only a sucker of mass insane proportions would try to squeeze that crispy lemon again. Forget it.
-James T. Martin
Sam, does this bit of weirdness (or wisdom) mean than you might not go to Cali after all?
I’m still on the California path, steadfast and true.
Good luck, and I’ve been reading a ton of stuff about the LA lifestyle circa 1980 - James Robert Baker, to be exact.
He wrote some unbelievable books from the inside, which only makes me even MORE paranoid about checking out LA LA land for a visit one day, because if it was that insane then…
what’s the name of the James Robert Baker book? Sounds interesting.
I would love to give you my copy of “Adrenaline” but I’m struggling to turn it into a screenplay.
It’s IMPOSSIBLE to make this into a film without the excessive violence, gay sex, gay bashing, hetero killing and just a general insane 1980’s California party party killspree sexual mind-bend-and-fuck.
I loved it.
He wrote it under the name of “James Dillinger” and his view of Cali is seriously fucked up, but God I loved it because it’s plausible that he knew about quite a bit of the people and things and places involved.
I’m gonna visit it one day, but after reading this? It may be over 20 years old but by God he was right about one thing - Hollywood is soul-sucking… look at Lindsay.