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

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