It is one of the only cities that has daily ferry service to San Francisco, Mare Island the former Naval yard is being converted to breweries and movie studios (Netflix & Paramount) and the average income is rising while the average age of residents is declining along with the crime rate.

Guru books are similar to "fact based movies".

its also simple supply and demand.. city went from 1.5 million to about 800k in the last 20 plus years.. so you had vast amounts of vacant homes.. not enough butts to fill them. take that and add flight to the suburbs So you see whole blocks that have been demo'd and or there are some really large factories still standing that look right out of an apocalypse movie.  

I love movies, but don't have an interest in making one.

There's this great clip from the original Conan the Barbarian movie called "The Wheel of Pain" that has really helped me in my visualization of the process of developing my REI skills.

I have now paid the collections, but it could take some time (months) for the report to bounce back and me be within good standing.I am single with no debt other than a small amount of credit card debt that is used for bills \ small consumer things (eating out, movies, etc) and is paid off in full every month.

I felt like I was reading a movie script.

I recently watched the latest spiderman movie, but you dont see me trying to websling around Dallas in a spiderman costume.

I like to first share a quote from one of my favorite Jet Li movies...

The movie exposed us badly on that.