When you’re Downtown Oliver Brown, not much fazes you. But waking up with my hot nineteen-year-old girlfriend’s MOTHER naked in my bed did actually give me what felt like a flutter in my chest followed by considerable shortness of breath. I would have been completely distraught but for the fact that my girlfriend Misha’s mother [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2009
OLIVER ENCOUNTERS A CRITIC
I stopped by Starbuck 11th and Grand with every intention of walking over to the new Starbucks at LA Live. But as a member of the Downtown community I did feel obligated to at least say hi to my all my friends—wouldn’t want my absence to be a cause for concern. Well, I’m sitting with [...]
OLIVER’S REPUTATION PROCEEDS HIM
I spotted Tim Leiweke, the president of AEG, out of the corner of my eye. I had just sat down at Starbucks 11th and Grand to finally focus on a script about a writer who moves Downtown to get away from the pretentious idiots in Hollywood. The irony of course being that I was there [...]
OLIVER’S THANKSGIVING
“Hi, Oliver Brown speaking,” I said into my iphone.
“Oliver, Stan wants to see you in his office with something on paper,” said Iren Shmeklestein, the powerful and scummy producer, Stan Peter’s longtime sidekick.
“Iren, it’s not that I’m avoiding Stan. And I am truly grateful that he kept me from running off with someone [...]
OLIVER STRIKES OUT
I was just minding my business dancing away at three in the afternoon inside of the always cool, on a Saturday, Hard Eight Lounge.
“Downtown Oliver Brown,” said the beautiful DJ Eden, dancing up to me.
“Eden, you’re so beautiful it hurts my soul.”
She twisted and turned around me. “So, what did you think [...]
A DAY FULL OF WRITING
There is a part of me that misses those days in the hills above Sunset…
This is as far as my script about an author who moves Downtown to escape the pretentious idiots in Hollywood had progressed. See, I write at Starbucks and most of my friends don’t understand that a writer’s office is pretty much [...]
AN INTERSECTION OF LOCALS
1100 Wilshire had been an office building with no tenants before the most recent housing boom came along and made it a place that people who enjoy a sky-pool call home. Frankly, the pool at the Skyline, where I am currently borrowing a rich friend’s place, is probably the nicest in Downtown—I’ve used it once. [...]
HANGING WITH STRETCH
“Hey Oliver, slow down a second.”
I stopped half a block short of 7th on Flower so my homeless buddy Stretch could put a torch lighter to the pipe in his hand. I call him Stretch because he’s almost seven- feet-tall and looks like he weighs one-sixty or less. “Stretch, you know I don’t approve of [...]
INTRODUCING DOWNTOWN OLIVER BROWN
“I just dropped Kevin off at the airport, so I can come hang out,” Joe’s voice rang out through my iPhone. “Where are you?”
“I’m at Starbucks on 11th and Grand—come pick me up,” I answered back, wondering how I was going to get my hair cut at Salon Eleven and meet Joe in the same [...]
