This Valley is my Hollywood

[swombat]

Good article on the whole.

One fallacy though:

These are the guys that looked impossible in the face and knocked it out in the first round.

They knocked it out in the 50th round, but you didn't hear about the other 49 rounds.

Also, seriously... leave the concert just to meet some guy? Don't idolise people. As the old buddhist saying goes: If perchance you meet the Buddha wandering on a mountain path, kill him.

The author unfortunately has his priorities all wrong...

[sdpurtill]

Well the Radiohead concert kind of blew anyways, it was way oversold and I was 500 feet back. And some guy was standing right in front of me so I couldn't see. So that made the decision a lot easier.

Love your buddhist saying :D

[aaronblohowiak]

It is good to study the "old masters" and to learn the lessons of the successful, but I don't think cults of personality or "celebrity" of the successful is putting the emphasis where it belongs.

[LogicHoleFlaw]

I am reminded of the poem by Matsuo Bashou -

古人の跡を求めず、

古人の求めたるの所を求めよ。

kojin no ato wo motomezu,

kojin no motometaru no tokoro wo motome yo

Seek not to follow in the footsteps of the wise;

seek what they sought.

[stcredzero]

I'm reminded of a woman's description of what it was like to live in LA. She said it was like "being an ember in this big, blazing bonfire."

[gojomo]

Speaking of Hollywood, the term there for people who behave like this is 'starfucker'.