California Love
by Mark SealDid 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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