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Familiar Venetian Tabbed for 'Californication'
July 30, 2009. Venice, CA If you're a Venetian, spend any time on Abbot Kinney, and are addicted to
Californication, the cable TV series, it would be hard not to miss some of the similarities between
Hank Moody, the show's lead character, and
Michael Deyermond, the owner of AK's Equator Books.
The penchant for beer and cigarettes. The exasperating fuck-you attitude mitigated by the heartfelt soul-baring admission at just the right moment. The needed-friendships destroyed and tattered. The mind blowing discourse. And of course: the jail time. Busted for defending his wife's honor,
Moody gets a dream writer's gig in the slammer. While, to raise money to pay off an expensive old warrant,
Deyermond--an artist as well as proprietor--issues a new print. Need we continue? Probably not.
As it turns out, we'll finally be seeing
Deyermond in Californication, as he's been cast as himself (as if there was any other possibility) in the finale of the show's upcoming season. The only marvel is that
Deyermond wound up with his own trailer in the canals. Not a surprise--when he reported to wardrobe wearing a self made t-shirt that read 'what did you expect, you met me in the bar' (the result of a bad breakup), he was told to go away, his wardrobe was fine. And what his dialogue is, vintage
Deyermond, though out of deference to the show and the writer we won't give it away.
