![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Goodbye to Hollywood
Sep. 16th, 2007 05:51 pmLast entry from Los Angeles, as I fly back to Germany this afternoon. If the plane crashes, I hope it will be on an island with mystical qualities. Otherwise, I've had a fabulous final day, admiring nature, then fannish tv locations and then having an outrageous "only in Hollywood" experience, about which more below. But in chronological order:
![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bitterbyrden and self went to visit Aqua Dulce in Vasquez County, site of many a cinematic and tv desert scene. It looked gorgeous. Behold:
( Desert Pictures )
On our way back to Los Angeles, we noticed there was a complete traffic jam on the other side of the 101. Not surprising, really, because some nutter had decided to transport a complete house on the freeway, and it got stuck under a bridge. I kid you not. Sadly, there is no photo, but I'm told it did make the LA news. Meanwhile, after our nature admiration it was time to geek out some more and visit another film location. This one from Six Feet Under. I give you the home of the Fisher family:
( Fisher and Sons )
Now the thing about this city is, everyone seems to know someone who knows someone. A friend ofbitterbyrden's happened to know someone who made it possible that we not only participated in an event called Cinespia, i.e. an outdoor showing of the movie The Exorcist in no less a location than the Hollywood Cemetary itself, but also let us in VIP style ahead of the queue so we could amply explore said cemetary before the masses were let in (who turned out to be about 3000 people in the end). When I first heard about this plan, I said yes at once but I thought bitterbyrden was kidding about the movie being shown in the actual cemetary, among all the Hollywood dead - surely movie festivals did not take place in cemetaries? She was, of course, completely sincere and serious. Here is photographic proof of an immensely memorable last evening:
( Ah, Hollywood! )
bitterbyrden and self went to visit Aqua Dulce in Vasquez County, site of many a cinematic and tv desert scene. It looked gorgeous. Behold: ( Desert Pictures )
On our way back to Los Angeles, we noticed there was a complete traffic jam on the other side of the 101. Not surprising, really, because some nutter had decided to transport a complete house on the freeway, and it got stuck under a bridge. I kid you not. Sadly, there is no photo, but I'm told it did make the LA news. Meanwhile, after our nature admiration it was time to geek out some more and visit another film location. This one from Six Feet Under. I give you the home of the Fisher family:
( Fisher and Sons )
Now the thing about this city is, everyone seems to know someone who knows someone. A friend of
bitterbyrden's happened to know someone who made it possible that we not only participated in an event called Cinespia, i.e. an outdoor showing of the movie The Exorcist in no less a location than the Hollywood Cemetary itself, but also let us in VIP style ahead of the queue so we could amply explore said cemetary before the masses were let in (who turned out to be about 3000 people in the end). When I first heard about this plan, I said yes at once but I thought bitterbyrden was kidding about the movie being shown in the actual cemetary, among all the Hollywood dead - surely movie festivals did not take place in cemetaries? She was, of course, completely sincere and serious. Here is photographic proof of an immensely memorable last evening:( Ah, Hollywood! )
