California Love

by Mark Seal
Did you find time to go anywhere else? I would go to Crunch. It's a huge gym, but it's very centrally located, so a lot of actors go there. It's the kind of place you don't want to go work out at because you feel really self-conscious. I just don't particularly want to wear, like, some tight little spandex number when I know I'm going to run into 200 other actors, casting directors, directors, you know. I feel like a loser. It's in West Hollywood, in the same shopping center as the Laemmle's Sunset 5 theaters. I used to just walk up there. Everyone would look at me really strangely, because no one walks in L.A. Everyone thought I was a homeless person whenever I walked anywhere. When I first moved here, I hated driving so much that I wouldn't go to some places because I knew that I would have to park in a parking structure. I had very weird parking­-­structure intimidation. I hemorrhaged money paying for valet. Unnecessarily. I didn't get my license until the year before, so I just wasn't used to driving, and this idea of circling around with all these other cars in a really tight space and then trying to park without scratching another car and then remembering where your car is, I mean, it was so daunting. I would be starving, and I would want to go get something to eat or to go do an errand, and I just wouldn't go. I would be paralyzed in my apartment.





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ISSUE: Sep 1, 2006
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