Hollywood experiences, take 1 (Klappe die erste)

Ok the beach was better than on the weekend: very empty, big waves to ride and to dive through. Only really sad thing was that I lost my Indian anclet. It was so pretty. Stupid giant wave!
We helped Jan find a hat in the hat shop on the Venice promenade. The street is flanked by little vendours who sit on the lawn behind their art stuff, smoking weed with friends and just enjoying the nice atmosphere like everybody does along the beach! Some drum away into trance or just chill out. Right behind that promenade is the apartment of Jim, a Hollywood screen writer that the other Villa residents met on the beach some other day. We met him by chance and he invited us over for dinner. He had some original prints of Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa and other famous photographers on the walls. We had expensive salmon and good wine and a great conversation about the arts in Europe and America. It was interesting to hear of his experience in film business. He has sold numerous scripts to Disney, non of which has actually been produced in the end. That is the way it works. He had had one big blockbuster success, having written the script for "John Q" by Nick Cassavetes, in German cinemas it was called "Q", a family drama/thriller with Denzel Washintgon for New Line Cinema. On Tuesday we met up with Timo, a German directing student in Hollywood. In five we ended up visiting another guy at a strip club, the oldest strip club in Hollywood, he said. Quite an interesting experience for Lena and me who weren't exactly very strip club experienced. Actually the girls were very bendy and flew around that pole rather than danced. It seems to be a real art and discipline which has to be exercised a lot in order to learn the cool moves.
On Saturday we hope that the barbecue is going to happen that we were casually invited to. The same guy lives in a horror rocky house. It was home to the Rolling Stones befor Marilyn Manson moved in. Now it is a film student community living place. It sounds like adventure! But if people say something is gonna happen, it doesn't necessarily happen, it depends on so many things..