Luis Perez:
CLASS OF 1988
San Pedro High SchoolClass of 1988
San pedro, CA
Lewis & Clark College - LawClass of 2003
Portland, OR
University of CaliforniaClass of 2000
Santa barbara, CA
Luis's Story
Life
After SPHS I dabbled in college for a spell but found it terribly difficult to make the connection between a degree and the rest of my life. So I went to Hollywood. Just a fifteen minute drive from Watts but a five year trek chasing a dream. In between my college years I danced with Steve Bucemi; I wore white shoes and he dressed in his best drag. I sang to Gloria Estefan and chatted up a quickie with Mel Gibson in a dark alley. I appeared in a Speven Speilberg picture and I whistled for Dick Clark. I went to an awards show hosted by MC Hammer and sat behind Mariah and later nibbled on lobster with Boyz II Men. I got a kiss from Maria Conchita and asked to dance from a very hot nurse from General Hospital. I got to dance at the Mayan and my mom saw it on TV. I sang Silent Night at Snow White's Castle with Ricky Martin, Celia Cruz, Tito Puente, and Jose Feliciano. I auditioned with Taylor Dane and Scott Baio but didn't get the part. I ate a pringle in front of three people who were not impressed. I got fame without the fortune and even caused a slight raucus at a shopping mall. But all in all, it was just still me.
During the times of glamour and glitz, I had enough time to complete life guard training, work security detail for Metallica and Guns and Roses, and let Lemmy from Motorhead talk about his addictions. I drove trucks, cuts lawns, played tennis, finshed my first degree of masonry, and worked hard as a super secret spy for Taco Bell. Next time yo uget your order right, they were probably just shopped. I taught aerobics at the YMCA and sold fireworks for the Fourth. During the glitz was a somebody and nobody. Yeah those were the days.
Then if finally dawned on me, "There is a connection between a degree and the rest of your life!" I thanked Hollywood for all it gave me, memories m...Expand for more
ostly, but memories are flavorless and not very nutritious. I made the return to college. During the next seven years I really lived. I worked hard and earned captain of the crew team; completed my first panty raid at 26; I almost ate an alligator in Australia; I became an ATO and formed a "brotherhood as strong as right and as lasting as humanity." I lived through Malaysia, Singapore, Turkey and Indonesia. I performed comedy at Campbell Hall and then flew to Spain and lived there in search of one person. After I met a girl in Madrid we flew back to Santa Barbara and under the cover of night, without telling a soul, she asked me to marry her. She drove me to Reno where at the Heart of Reno Wedding Chapel I became her husband. After her father finally accepted it, we went to live Joyce DeWitt (Janet from Three's Company) in a Montecito mansion, but shortly thereafter we set out sights for South America.
I studied History in Santiago and trekked across the Andes and found Macchu Picchu. I hunted the anaconda and ran away from an exploding Bolivian volcano. I stood in Argentina with Paraguay on the left and Brazil on the right. I tasted the meat and bones of a pirahna and almost bought the dessicated fetus of a llama. Why? Why not! After the journey ended, I started to slow down and think about more important things. Then before you know it I was in Portland studying Con law, Torts, and Property, inter alia; a torture I would not wish on Pol Pot. After three years of law school and two daughters I am where I thought I would be after SPHS. Content. Content that I look back on the last fifteen years and not feel old. Although I am not young like I was, I have very few regrets.
As of this writing I start on an exciting career in entertainment law. I needed the last fifteen years to get me here.
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