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One of the coolest things about living in downtown Los Angeles is that even people who've lived here for years think it's an adventure to explore it. Whenever we're looking for excitement we just go outside and wander through alleys or into lofts for lease pretending to buy or strange, rustic, woodland-themed cafeterias or famous old buildings or movie theaters or Irish basement pubs or drugstores called Million Dollar RX. There's something about a leisurely roam around an old, saturated downtown with your friends that feels pretty spectacular, especially at night.

Photo taken by Kelly on his 26th birthday, a night to remember

Everywhere I go there's something I've never seen before, and it's moving fast. There's really no shortage of new diversions. There are beautiful old cars and buildings everywhere, odd objects left on the sidewalk or in the middle of the street to wonder about, and signs announcing upcoming filming locations that tell you what Hollywood is getting up to these days. There are all kinds of people, all kinds of dogs and cats and hand-painted signs and warehouses and taco trucks. All kinds of colors.

I sleep in a bed that's over 5 feet off the ground and I wear lotion with 55spf every day. I wake up most mornings to the intercom ramblings of a mysteriously productive pallet wood yard that is our neighbor to the south, and trains rolling along the tracks that border our lot to the west. It's hard to stop moving in a place like this.

Some accomplishments:
1) Met and befriended Real Life Guard Dog
2) Was awarded free garlic bread at Toddy G's, famed local pizzeria

Also, we shot a movie in a day last weekend. Martin Morse directed it, it's called Sports Short, and it's super awesome. By 10:31pm we were gathering around the table Jimmy made for a family dinner and homemade gelato, so that was pretty weird and exciting.

Some visual evidence: