#166 - Do you believe in ghosts?
L.A. is full of ghosts. Where else do the rich and famous go when they die? Or those who wanted nothing but to be rich and famous. Their spirits end up in Hollywood, of course.
Rev thinks she can see them, sometimes, drifting in the early morning mists that linger in the canyon before the sun rises to drive them away. Sometimes, if she closes her eyes and listens really, really hard she can hear them - hear them begging for just one more chance to make it big, just one more movie to shoot, just one more red carpet to walk. Just one more.
Maybe it's because she's been close to the edge so many times that she accepts them as easily as she does. Maybe everyone can see them and hear them and they just don't talk about it, because this lifestyle is crazy enough as it is. Or maybe it's just a given that ghosts are hanging around every star lined street, so why make a fuss?
Then again, maybe it is just Rev, and others like her, looking and listening for things that aren't really there. Projecting, as Pop would say; forcing her insecurities to manifest themselves into something inherently more relatable. Of course, Pop talked too much and usually about things she didn't understand.
But maybe he was right. Maybe all she really wants is just one more herself, so she can finally join them.
Rev thinks she can see them, sometimes, drifting in the early morning mists that linger in the canyon before the sun rises to drive them away. Sometimes, if she closes her eyes and listens really, really hard she can hear them - hear them begging for just one more chance to make it big, just one more movie to shoot, just one more red carpet to walk. Just one more.
Maybe it's because she's been close to the edge so many times that she accepts them as easily as she does. Maybe everyone can see them and hear them and they just don't talk about it, because this lifestyle is crazy enough as it is. Or maybe it's just a given that ghosts are hanging around every star lined street, so why make a fuss?
Then again, maybe it is just Rev, and others like her, looking and listening for things that aren't really there. Projecting, as Pop would say; forcing her insecurities to manifest themselves into something inherently more relatable. Of course, Pop talked too much and usually about things she didn't understand.
But maybe he was right. Maybe all she really wants is just one more herself, so she can finally join them.