Hollywood

The other day I went down to Hollywood to check out Amoeba Music. That place is enormous, it was my first time being there. Very cool store with lots of choices in music and amazing posters.

But what really made me think was the ride back as I thought about everything that I had seen when I was there for only a short time.

I think I have a love hate relationship with Hollywood because everytime I go there it leaves me with a feeling that I can't explain. A part of me always feels excited when I'm there. It leaves me with a hope that I can be someone. Almost like I can do anything I want, and a hope that I can get far with music, which I love so much. I have a strange fascination with it because there are so many kinds of people there that are all intermixed. People of different race, style; I saw a man with a six inch mohawk in fact, it was colored black and a red orange color. That's cool to me. That when you're down there, you can be anyone you want to be and nobody thinks strangely of you for it.

But the flip side to that is that it always leaves me with a somewhat sad feeling as well. On the way out, there was a homeless man walking in circles, and a man talking to himself. There is so much poverty there that can be seen around every corner, and no way to really help any of them. You see alot of misleading things, and realize that there are many spiritually lost people.

So I am always puzzled as I drive out of Hollywood and head back home on the crowded freeways as I think about how interesting and exciting and yet at the same time how sad it is.

That feeling gets me everytime...I suppose it's just one of those things in life; Everything in life has a sour and a sweet...I guess that's what makes the world go round.