Who said LA is the city of broken dreams, Certainly not me Sir!

I am trying to destroy the myth that LA is the city of broken dreams, It's not, quite the opposite. And I hope I've gone a long way in giving people another way a looking at what dreams are, and we all need them

Is LA the city of broken dreams as it is known for, it seems to be where everyone is an aspiring actress or actor, maybe, and why not, good on them! I'm always up for a punt, a bet, well it's in my blood, I did over 20 years in investment banking, and if there's one thing I know it's this, if you've got a talent get on that soapbox and sell it and that's what LA is all about, right! But really is LA the city of broken dreams and I will say very quickly for me, it is most certainly not, quite the opposite!

The more I write about LA, the more this extremely hard interpretation of the city as a city of broken dreams loses any such interpretation, in fact far from it!

Well, let's look at the audience that bought into the notion, the dream, this ethos that LA will indeed make you rich beyond your wildest dreams, all you need to do is buy a bus ticket there and take that talent as well. The problem is when you get off of the bus and see that every man and his dog bought the same bus tick, to the same destination, for each and every reason you did. Well, I did the same years back when I ventured in investment banking with a degree in graphic design, I took an immense chance, I joined the queue as well, but it did not stop me, no Sir, and that journey was a bloody hard one as well. The more I write about LA, the more this extremely hard interpretation of the city as a city of broken dreams loses any such interpretation, in fact far from it!

It is so bloody easy these days to be an armchair reporter cosily sitting at home with one's feet over the fire and pass judgement on others and their broken dreams, or are they, by the physical presence of sitting cosily in front of that fire on that cosy armchair, in itself blatant evidence that they have achieved absolute Jack as the Americans say. A little about me, I love a fight, God. I love the struggle, the haggling, touting for business, it's in me I can not just sit in that cozy armchair and switch off, that off switch will only happen when I'm dead and I have an uncanny feeling that switch will get stuck on the on position even after death. I think the proverbial meaning of broken, is indeed when one gives up on the dream and takes easily to that cozy armchair

Let's look at the audience that buys into the LA dream and buys that precious ticket. I think we would all be kidding ourselves if indeed we thought they were all young, all from some midwest town, nop. I think todays dreamers and the word dreamers maybe out of date lets say adventures because it is certinaly going to be an adventure are ones that we missed in the past, maybe they are the over 50s, over 60s, over 70s ex-bankers, teachers, housewives, doctors, lorry drivers the list is endless that have said to themselves is this it, the house is paid for, well hopefully, the kids have moved out, Ive seen enough and this cosy armchair just isnt doing it for me any more, and lets buy that ticket, and I say good on you Sir, Madam, I wish you all the best and Gods speed.

We live in a different time and we have to be honest with ourselves with that fact there's no going back, and I for one, am not too happy living in the age of the mobile phone, people only call me for one of two reasons, someone has died or they want to borrow money, but I have to except this time. This multimedia age has brought news into our homes in all colours and dimensions, and fast as well, and with this kaleidoscope of colour and images I think it has stirred up a lot of emotions in us, we have never been bombarded with so many TV ads, sales, promotions, dreams that I think somehow the human psychic has somehow filtered all of the nonsense, at least some, the background noise, the hard selling and somehow has been able to tailor make our own TV ad, and I think it starts with evaluating ones comfortable surrounding, buying that ticket and traveling to LA, or a city just like it, but for me, there is indeed only one LA. One thing is for sure, if you don't want a bumpy ride, don't leave that cozy armchair and neither sit over the wheel hub of the bus to LA but if your like me and you love uncertainty, of course, we do need certainty as well, buy that tick to LA, embrace all of what the word uncertainty means and the changes it brings forth, get on that bus, tell the driver its LA or bust, as fast as you can Sir, Madam and don't spare the horses

As for the cosy armchair, depending on how long you have had it, depending on its sentimental value I would do one of two things, sell it on eBay so that maybe we can buy a ticket on a train, 1st class to LA, lets start as we mean to go on, or burn the damn thing and video its demise, maybe in the future the video can be used to make an art statement for future generations. As it is, LA will hopefully still be selling that dream long after I am gone, and if it doesn't, ill be back, I know someone else that's said those famous words in LA

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