Valentines Day is, in my humble (but I swear not bitter) opinion, one of the most controversial holidays. “But why, it’s so lovey dovey and sweet and makes me feel like a princess” you may be saying. It is this exact thing, mixing a holiday with such a combustible emotion that makes it so contentious.
On one hand, you have the perfect holiday. You, your significant other, deliciously yummy chocolates and a hot tub shaped like a heart, filled with rose pedals and soaps of which the names are impossible to pronounce and dangerous to the life of your heart when getting the bill. A great way to show that special someone that there’s no one else in the world for you and to be able to display your affection on a pedestal. This is wonderful and I applaud all who are able to pull this off without unintentionally creating a 3rd member of the relationship or coming off as a huge loser.
However, on your other hand (I hope you just looked at your other hand) you’ve got the majority of the country, the single/bad relationship-wrecked who fear a day full of fake or vacant love and hide in the corner, waiting for such a “corporate scheme of a holiday created by corporate giants to boost profits in a slow holiday season” time to end. It’s a big fat reminder of how single you may be, which isn’t always the coolest thing to be reminded about by the entire country at once.
I on the other hand (yes, your third hand) will be smack dab in the middle this Valentines Day. I may be single, but I’m not worrying about it and am going to have a good time making fun of those in relationships along with every single person I can find, putting me in the third group, the group of the group of people who would like to conduct a full scale fight between the previous to groups. I think it might be kind of fun, similar to the commercial where the guy can control what everyone on the bus does “you two, fight to the death, you turn up your radio, you shake your booty, you drive faster.” I will be doing my best to antagonize everyone I can find, but of course, all in good fun, and I hope they do the same to me, because what is a holiday without some good, clean friend and family bashing?? I say no holiday I want to take part of, that’s for sure.
Anyhoo, now that my rant is over, I can tell you AALLLL about the Grammy Awards, which were pretty boo ya. I was what you would call an ‘escort’ as I helped talent and their publicists & others make their way down the red carpet and manage all the interviews they wanted to do. There were so many of us volunteering that I only managed to do this twice in the course of five hours, but it was still a good time. My first celebrity was the infamous Fiona Apple. She seems like there’s a nice person just eeking to get out, but is being suppressed by whatever “chemicals” she may be on along with what appears to be a serious by-polar disorder and manic depression and insecurity. However, I could be wrong, she may not have any of the above, but I’d bet money she does.
Fiona is fairly famous, though, and pretty much everyone wanted to talk to her, so I have to judge what was good, beating certain people off with sticks and allowing others off their leashes to go after Fiona. It was pretty cool, my job was simply to make the artist and their publicists life as easy as possible on the red carpet and I think I did a pretty decent job considering I was a red (or green, in this case) carpet virgin.
The other “star” I got was Masiela Lusha (http://abc.go.com/primetime/georgelopez/en/bios/masiela_lusha.html) who is a young gurl who is one of the characters on the George Lopez show. I had no idea who she was and I don’t think most other people do either, but all she wanted to do was get her picture taken by the paparazzi which was great because then I didn’t have to try to fight to get her interviews, making my job much easier.
After the carpet spectacle was over, they had a few extra tickets and I was able, along with a few other people, to actually go see the show live. It’s funny to think that the cheapest tickets for sale were $175 a piece (the tickets we got) and they were in the complete nosebleed section with our views blocked by rafters and scaffolding rigging the lights and what not. Apparently lower bowl tickets were over $400 a piece, making it one of the most expensive shows I’ve ever seen, craziness. It was a great show, though, everyone who performed live did a very good job and it sounded amazing. It was basically like seeing a giant concert with lots of big starts that had a few commercial breaks. I enjoyed every minute of it and would definitely go again.
Not a whole lot other than that has gone on here in good ol’ Los Angeles, we’re kind of boring. We’ve simply been watching the Olympics with our new best friend, the keg we got to help us make it through all the TV watching we’re going. We’re so fond of our new buddy, that was actually made a short film about him. You can go see it here http://homepage.mac.com/yakyak9/iMovieTheater5.html . We hope you like it. It was our source of fun entertainment while watching the Olympics last night and so far the critics seem to like its presentation. We’re pleased with our first short film and I have a feeling it’s just one of many to come during the rest of the semester.
Along with the movie, I’m just super duper excited about the Olympics. The Winter Olympics are one of my favorite things ever and I’m just pumped to watch them and especially educate a few southerners about the fine art that is Curling, the most underrated sport in the games and possibly ever. I also really like watching Cassie Johnson because she’s ridiculously attractive (she’s hot AND a world class curler, what more could you ask?!). So, I know you guys are going to make fun of me for liking curling so much, but I’m used to it along with the “Canadian accent” I apparently have. I guess it all goes hand in hand. But, if anyone knows Carrie, or even her sister Jamie, or anyone else on the team (Jessica Shultz, Maureen Brunt, Courtney George), I would appreciate putting in a good word for me to Cassie (or her sister, she’s cool too).
Finally, I’d like to plug a “local” band that I’ve liked for a while. They came out with a full length CD a little while ago and are quite creative and funny. Their name is Tally Hall, a band from Ann Arbor who I’ve seen a few times live. Go here to check them out http://www.tallyhall.com/ . They’ve got some good music and funny videos, so if you’re ever bored, you can go there and play around with some stuff.
Ok, well, that’s about it for now. I’ll update “ya’ll” soonly with the happenings of my life, not sure what exciting things are coming up except for spring break in a week and a half and that we might also go to Bear Mountain this weekend to shred the nar for a day, which would be nice so I don’t make a complete fool out of myself when I get to Denver and have a world class skier and friends show me up on the mountains there.
I’ll see you guys soonly, ciao
Jon Boy
The Keg Movie: http://homepage.mac.com/yakyak9/iMovieTheater5.html
Please watch it and let me know what you think, ‘cause we’ll probably make more. Any suggestions welcome and encouraged along with stupid short film ideas for the future (trying to get our hands on an actual movie camera to shoot motion shots).
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Monday, February 06, 2006
Philharmonics and Beaches
Hello everyone, adoring public. Lots has gone on since I last wrote you a week and a half ago. Spring Break plans have been made, Grammy credentials have been obtained, Super Bowl’s have been one, and Philharmonics have been viewed.
First, let’s start with the spring break. It was quite a toss up this year between being able to hang out w/the roommate for life & crew and hanging w/some of the new friends. The ultimate deciding factor was, as usual, the dinero. The U of Mers were going to Acapulco, a lovely little place where I’d never want to live, but is super fun to visit. Plane tickets were surprisingly expensive and then hotels. I am saddened that I will not be able to join my former college family for what will be an epic spring break, for this I apologize and wish you the best of times.
I will, instead, be mooching couches and floor space for a virtually free trip to Denver and New York. Starting Friday, February 24th, I will be in Denver until March 1st, at which point I will be finishing my trip in New York, taking a bite of the big apple for the first time. I look forward to being able to shred the narr and then hang in central park. Any suggestions for things to do in New York are welcome considering I know not a great deal of information pertaining to the city.
Also, last week Thursday, most of us in the program here went to go see the Los Angeles Philharmonic perform Mozart, Hayden, and Shostakovich, paid for by the school. It was quite amazing, seeing at The Walt Disney Concert Hall where the L.A. Phil performs is virtually acoustically perfect. This mean, in lay-men’s terms that you can hear everything perfectly w/o any mic-ing of instruments to project their sound through amplifiers. Every individual instrument can be singled out and heard by itself by even the completely untrained ear and be heard perfectly at nearly any point in the entire concert hall. It’s an amazing building that has a very striking resemblance to the Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain.
Also on the docket for the past week was going to the red carpet premier for Final Destination 3. Someone at work had an extra pair of tickets for the movie premier and the after party. So the cat and I hit up the red carpet in style and wined and dined with the movie star elite for a night, basking in the glory of our own awesomeness…in the corner of the club, making sure not to make eye contact with anyone too important for fear they’d question our presence at such an event. Unfortunately we arrived a little late and missed all the red carpet hoopla, but it was still fun none-the-less.
I would also like to add that I’m fairly jealous of everyone who got to go to the super bowl, not only because, well, it’s the fricken super bowl, but the Stones played the half time show, which just had to be super duper cool. Detroit rock city with the stones and the super bowl, sounds like a wining combination if I ever heard of one.
Other than the semi-random events that have occurred in the last while, things here are going well. Working the Grammy’s Wednesday, which should be really interesting. I’ll let everyone know how that goes, but I will unfortunately not be allowed to have a camera, so pictures will be at a minimum if any. I’ve just kind of been hanging out around L.A., reading lots of scripts at work and trying to figure out how people deal with the insane amount of traffic for no reason that plagues L.A.
Also, more pictures have been added to the photo website, so you can check there to look at Newport beach, which I went to with the cat to check out apartments and the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Some good stuff, you know you want to check it out. Anyhoo, I can’t think of anything else to write at the current moment so I’ll have to catch you cats at a later date, sooner than later, of course. Keep it real back home and lemme know how things are going.
Jon Boy
Photos a la boy... http://www.flickr.com/photos/myjonboy/sets/
First, let’s start with the spring break. It was quite a toss up this year between being able to hang out w/the roommate for life & crew and hanging w/some of the new friends. The ultimate deciding factor was, as usual, the dinero. The U of Mers were going to Acapulco, a lovely little place where I’d never want to live, but is super fun to visit. Plane tickets were surprisingly expensive and then hotels. I am saddened that I will not be able to join my former college family for what will be an epic spring break, for this I apologize and wish you the best of times.
I will, instead, be mooching couches and floor space for a virtually free trip to Denver and New York. Starting Friday, February 24th, I will be in Denver until March 1st, at which point I will be finishing my trip in New York, taking a bite of the big apple for the first time. I look forward to being able to shred the narr and then hang in central park. Any suggestions for things to do in New York are welcome considering I know not a great deal of information pertaining to the city.
Also, last week Thursday, most of us in the program here went to go see the Los Angeles Philharmonic perform Mozart, Hayden, and Shostakovich, paid for by the school. It was quite amazing, seeing at The Walt Disney Concert Hall where the L.A. Phil performs is virtually acoustically perfect. This mean, in lay-men’s terms that you can hear everything perfectly w/o any mic-ing of instruments to project their sound through amplifiers. Every individual instrument can be singled out and heard by itself by even the completely untrained ear and be heard perfectly at nearly any point in the entire concert hall. It’s an amazing building that has a very striking resemblance to the Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain.
Also on the docket for the past week was going to the red carpet premier for Final Destination 3. Someone at work had an extra pair of tickets for the movie premier and the after party. So the cat and I hit up the red carpet in style and wined and dined with the movie star elite for a night, basking in the glory of our own awesomeness…in the corner of the club, making sure not to make eye contact with anyone too important for fear they’d question our presence at such an event. Unfortunately we arrived a little late and missed all the red carpet hoopla, but it was still fun none-the-less.
I would also like to add that I’m fairly jealous of everyone who got to go to the super bowl, not only because, well, it’s the fricken super bowl, but the Stones played the half time show, which just had to be super duper cool. Detroit rock city with the stones and the super bowl, sounds like a wining combination if I ever heard of one.
Other than the semi-random events that have occurred in the last while, things here are going well. Working the Grammy’s Wednesday, which should be really interesting. I’ll let everyone know how that goes, but I will unfortunately not be allowed to have a camera, so pictures will be at a minimum if any. I’ve just kind of been hanging out around L.A., reading lots of scripts at work and trying to figure out how people deal with the insane amount of traffic for no reason that plagues L.A.
Also, more pictures have been added to the photo website, so you can check there to look at Newport beach, which I went to with the cat to check out apartments and the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Some good stuff, you know you want to check it out. Anyhoo, I can’t think of anything else to write at the current moment so I’ll have to catch you cats at a later date, sooner than later, of course. Keep it real back home and lemme know how things are going.
Jon Boy
Photos a la boy... http://www.flickr.com/photos/myjonboy/sets/
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