Rumpel-Sleepless in L.A.

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  • worldwidese
    Senior Member
    • Dec 2000
    • 510

    Rumpel-Sleepless in L.A.

    He's just back from OZ and is paying $500 monthly for a couch in a place with a germophobe woman. Can anyone come up with something better, so he can get settled?
  • martin ewen
    Senior Member
    • Dec 2000
    • 1887

    #2
    Get settled?

    WTF does LA offer him? It's the keening venal center of the universe full of people with 5 minutes worth of material instead of personalities where two thirds of the population live in hope waiting for a phone to ring. It's a reptile brain of a city.

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    • davidkaye
      Senior Member
      • Jul 2005
      • 131

      #3
      Originally posted by martin ewen
      Get settled?

      WTF does LA offer him? It's the keening venal center of the universe full of people with 5 minutes worth of material instead of personalities where two thirds of the population live in hope waiting for a phone to ring. It's a reptile brain of a city.
      But how do you REALLY feel, Martin? That said, I didn't find LA particularly compelling as a performer or as audience. It seems that most of those guys have, as you said, 5 minutes worth of material. They only want to perform until they get discovered by some talent agent for some dumb cable show somewhere.

      I think the only way to survive LA is to *not* be in the business. Become a plumber or cabinet maker, surfer or curbside orange seller, but for God's sake don't become a performer.

      Andy Warhol said that people would become famous for 15 minutes. He overshot that a bit. Today, with the advent of reality shows, jackass shows, and YouTube, it's more like 15 seconds of fame: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_minutes_of_fame

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      • gav
        Senior Member
        • Apr 2003
        • 916

        #4
        Why can't rumple speak for himself any more ?

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