Wednesday's & Thursday's Happiness Experiment entry

22/7/15

• Hidden Hills
• LA
• Anaheim

1. Meeting the intriguing Olivia (new porn performer)
2. Reading Simple Twist of Fate in the California sun (in a porn star's home)
3. Conducting interviews for LA Hardcore

23/7/15

• Anaheim - VidCon

1. Dinner with Jody at a par-for-the-course US burger restaurant
2. Listening to Ze Frank (Buzzfeed Motion Pictures) and a couple of other industry experts at VidCon 2015
3. Watching all the young folk (some with their parents) having fun around Short Form Video

Yesterday's HEE - LA 2

21/7/15
Sunset Strip, Beverly Hills - Hidden Hills - House of Blues (shortly to close)

• A surreal afternoon spent with a porn star
• Finding good vinyl in a Sunset Strip bookstore - Back in Black and Fine Leaves Left
• People watching in Beverly Hills culminating with a paparazzi ambush (of Hilary Duff)

Yesterday's & Today's Happiness Experiment entry - LA 1

19/7/15 LHR-LAX, Sunset Marquis

20/7/15 Sunset-Hollywood&Vine, Culver City (YouTube Space), Marina del Rey beach

19/7/15

• Watching You're The One That I Want from Grease with D aka Sonny Lattiere
• Watching plane movies - Ex Machina & Kingsman
• Arriving to find the Sunset Marquis steeped in music, in the footsteps of Joe Strummer

20/7/15

• smoking on Marina del Rey beach at sunset
• iced tea at Mel's Diner, off Hollywood Blvd
• seeing CBGB's bar at YouTube Space