Charles Russell
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Charles Russell, a fifth-generation Los Angeles native, will be writing about his hometown including but not limited to: traffic short cuts, general annoyances, food, people, places, and all things uniquely LA. Widely recognized as a cast member of MTV's "The Hills", Charlie can usually be found whispering snarky advice in a friend's ear, impressing young fashion models with parlor tricks, surfing in a neon wetsuit, writing genius manifestos, or winning at darts and ping pong.

He currently resides in his grandmother's 20's-era pool house in Windsor Square, where he conducts most of his business via speaker phone while listening to doo-wop vinyls and pruning the succulents. A self-described Scorpio, Pragmatic Nihilist, Fiscal Conservative with a dash of Progressive Libertarian, Charlie has a Master's Degree in Film from Bond University in Australia and uses that knowledge regularly while commenting on You Tube videos. After bartending and waiting tables in New York for just the right amount of time Charlie is back in his hometown and ready to let us all in on the secrets of savoring the qualities of life unique to the Southern California coastal area.

Blog Entries by Charles Russell

How the West Was Fun

Posted June 4, 2010 | 17:41:03 (EST)

So I'm dying to know, where did the epics go? Not just the big studio and big budget MGM epics of yesteryear's bygone era but the thirst for an epic story in general. Even if it's just an epically personal approach, we are drowning in half stories out here.

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The Wickedest Man in LA

Posted May 14, 2010 | 18:13:29 (EST)

Brian Butler speaks with the soft ease and quiet smirk of someone who either knows something you don't or simply doesn't care. There's some unseen force that compels him to create some of the most haunting installations employing film and music with the likes of Kenneth Anger and Vincent Gallo....

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The Triumph of the Pill

Posted May 13, 2010 | 17:53:50 (EST)

Don't be tardy for the party. That was the last text message I received at 5am Monday morning after the 11th annual Coachella Music Festival -- also known as "Three Days in the Valley." It was another cataclysmic cacophony of epic proportions, highlighted by lows and highs, like the landscape...

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The Location Scout

Posted April 13, 2010 | 16:10:00 (EST)

Do you know what it feels like to have a location scout come to your house? Well, the house I grew up in has it's own agent. No joke! My father is still referencing the time we had Life Goes On film its pilot there, 20 years later. The show...

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To Live and Cry in LA

Posted April 9, 2010 | 19:11:29 (EST)

I'm not an actor, but I play one on TV. I have no demographic or psychographic parameters on which I will be basing any of my blog posts. I will be writing solely for myself and maybe a handful of the 4,065,585 people who call Los Angeles home, as well...

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