Living On The Fly

Saturday eve, attended Margot & Tony's party...finally got a chance to officially 'meet' Tony, and he is charming [they are engaged]...  Cecilia met me there, we chatted, caught up, drank wine.  Also there was Jason, the DP from 'Beneath The Dark', and coincidentally, also in attendance were my sublettors Matt & Marianne!  What a small small world.  Matt apparently spent a year working with Tony shooting establishing shots around the world, what a job.   

Mimi is getting soo big...slept at Julia's.  She is trapped in Tracy-drama.  Hard to stop the drama.  We are all victims of this.

Living on the fly, on the circumference of L.A.  sleeping at random places, story of my life...or rather Ma's life...  Dan's empty house in the Palisades last night.  Freezing cold, tried to turn on the heat but it made horrible noises, as if it was going to explode.    One broken bathroom, the working one on the other side of the house.  Kitchen sink leaking... oiy vey...  a property begging for attention in such a rich neighborhood, harboring arbitrary pieces of furniture, Dan's mother's things he won't get rid of, my mother's things for staging jobs.  My mother reminiscing of a time many years ago when we went to Santa Barbara for the summer, and I think we arrived on 4th of July eve or some such holiday, and  we couldn't get a hotel room, so we slept in the car on a neighborhood street.   Then another memory of a freeezing cold apt. she rented in Swampscott one Christmas.  So cold inside, and a roommate she was trying to lock out for not paying rent banging on the front door.  Cops coming...forced to move the bureau from the door, forced to let her in.  Never been so cold.  No heat, no $ for the heat.    Circling the fringe of the L.A. basin with no direction.