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I feel so american and mainstream filling in this box, but i know it has to be done.............i'm 31, been in LA for seven years, (yet mentally checked out of LA 2005-ish), but home sweet hollyweird will always hold an overpriced, special place in my tell-all expose, i mean, uh, heart....I was born and bred in the suburbs of Boston, and still marvel at the polarity of the two worlds; moved here one year after college after meeting my would-be roomie via an on-line rental service, and moved in w/ her sight unseen two weeks later. I knew no one here, but felt i needed to be here to pursue writing and acting. it's only been seven years, perhaps i should think about pursuing those things...jk, i have had a deliciously unconventional experience in moving to the left coast, and love living in a place where even the most boring day is usually quite far from boring.To make money, i do extra work in tv/film and work as a nanny/personal assistant in malibu; it's depressing caring for kids who have more money in their bank accounts at any given time that i do, but i get over it -i love to read, day and night, lately about human behavior and the starting point of where we start to give in to our neuroses and truly start to see things as we are, not as they are; i love to observe groups of people, particlualry in LA, and try to learn as much as i can from the social circles and mazes i weave in and out of, sometimes voluntarily, sometimes not...it's funny and scary and highly entertaining, but also beneficial, as it is raw reality in its finest form. i think of myself now as contradictory as the city of LA itself - i am highly analytical and always in my head, yet inherently low-key, passive and easy-going to a fault. humor and knoweldge rule my life (and family, i'm half-italian, raised whole-italian) and try to be just as appreciative and aware of the good things that happen in my life as i am of the almost-good or straight up shitty things. i love that i live in a city that is known for it's warm weather as much as it is it's cold shoulder, i often tell my friends back home that this city is both the easiest and the toughest to live in; i also tell them not to believe most of what people say about LA, as it's usually bitter-trimmed bullshit (except for the LAPD, of course, that's all true, all day) and i've had way more good dayz here than not good, and for that i say salud...