I was a Hollywood Reject
Misadventures in La La Land
24 min readAug 8, 2022
I moved to Hollywood the day after I graduated college in the spring of 1997. Packed up my little white Honda Accord, the same one I’d been driving since high school, made the trek west from Tucson and arrived in LA guns blazing, ready to go.
First crash pad was the home of my college roommate Mike’s parents. Mike’s dad was an international film…