hollywood is waiting to explode
oh my god, i want to go back to the west coast immediately! my vacation was ridiculously fun and i tried to sum it up but i just couldn't be short about it, so here are the highlights & tons of pictures if you care. i love palm trees.
las vegas:
-the hotel the 'rents and i stayed in, the new york new york, was friggin' awesome and really looked like new york city and i loved it, ok. oh, and the first day i was there, i am walking through the casino area and see this beautiful boy who is basically a combination of macaulay culkin and the kid from the squid and the whale. so gangly, lanky and awkwardly amazing.
-i got to see jen and we basically had the best day possible, which included:
-walking down the strip to caesar's palace and witnessing a ridiculous animatronic greek god show thing.
-scavenging for food, in the process walking through like a billion different hotels, passing an elvis impersonator, and being accosted by a creepy man smoking a cigar on the sidewalk who asked if he could take a picture of us. um, no?
-eating at fatburger which later made us nauseous.
-participating in a screening of this awful tv show, AQUAMAN, at TV City in the mgm grand, in which we had to rate our level of interest at any given moment on this meter thing. the only thing i liked about it was the crazy black man who was aquaman's mentor.
-going to see art school confidential, basically best movie ever. "i think this one's ready for the kiln".
-going to this restaurant, hamburger mary's, which has a pretty much all-gay staff, and getting the hottest waiter ever. honestly, i'm biting my lip thinking of this man. plus i found his myspace and he's a drag queen. i mean really.
-oh, and more creepy men surfaced at dinner, in the form of four drunk 'n' frisky 30/40-somethings who kept eavesdropping on our conversation (not the best thing when jen and i were saying raunchy things about our waiter...more specifically, "DO ME NOW")
-going to a sweet record store, and driving around listening to mix cds from high school, oh so good.
-seeing a guy with "SLOW MOTION FO ME" written on his shirt.
-and the cherry on top of the fabulous day- upon returning to the hotel from eating ice cream, we decided to go into the hotel's magic shop. who is working there? oh yes, it's the macaulay culkin kid. he did freakin' magic tricks for jen & i. shiiit son. hahahaha and she took a stalker picture which is below. and he had the same name as our waiter, justin. crazy.
-i went to hoover dam, too.
-the fashion show mall, in which there was a betsey johnson boutique and i cried into the 500 dollar dresses.
-i ate at this "pharaoh's pheast" buffet and stuffed myself and wanted to vom, but the food was so good.
picture time!
sign for our hotel
the "skyline"!
the roller coaster on the top of our hotel!
part of the inside of the hotel
these next couple are of fremont street...
gamblin', man
me and my new boyfriend, a palm tree
gold lion...lolz
...and at night
pirate ship!
fashion show mall
statues in caesar's palace
magically became this!
aquarium photo op
fish
random asian girl and fish
behold the power of the pegasus-thing!
fatburger!
inside of fatburger!
PLEASE note the cobra sticker on the top left....we were hot on his trail...kind of
he's a magic maaaan
the top of the excalibur hotel
random egyptian thing in the luxor hotel
sup hoover dam
so pretty!
los angeles
-holy crap, l.a. really IS crawling with celebrities! well, at least where we stayed in west hollywood. i had like 3.5 sightings!
-we get to the hotel and the 'rents and i decide to walk down sunset for some lunch. i pick up a random lucky penny on the sidewalk, and promptly i see this skinny, blonde, tan, pretty skeevy looking dude coming towards me and feel immediately scared. the guy gets closer and is screaming on his cell phone, and i realize it's none other than c.c. deville from poison/the surreal life! he looked much more subdued than in that photo. i was so excited.
-after lunch, we go back to the hotel and our room keys aren't working. we get into the elevator to go to the lobby with this girl in leather pants, boots, and she's carrying a guitar case, so i figured she was probably playing at the house of blues. my dad asks her if she is, and she says "no, i'm just making the record now, look for it in the fall" and i asked her for her name. she says "marion raven" and then once i got out of the elevator i realize that she was in that teen pop duo M2M a couple years ago, hahahaha....anyone else remember them??
-finally, i was walking out of this diner and lock eyes with this very european, distinctive looking blonde dude eating in one of the booths with two other people, and my first thought is "that looks like sondre lerche", a strange thought to have since i don't know his music at all, but have just read about and seen him. buuuut i showed my dad his CD in barnes and noble the next day, and he confirmed it...plus, he was supposed to be in town the next day for an appearance at a record store on sunset...it was totally him! sigh.
other random shit i did there includes getting some sweet vintage stuff on melrose, going to universal citywalk and the hollywood walk of fame, santa monica beach, malibu, beverly hills/rodeo drive(SO NICE), going to some random swanky happy hour at the hyatt across the street from our hotel, getting a free half of a chocolate cake from the waitress at this chophouse we ate at for no apparent reason, drooling over the cds (and the guys) at amoeba music, befriending the employee at the starbuck's across the street from the hotel because i literally went 4 times during the 4 days we were there (and twice in one day), going to the grove outdoor mall and the farmer's market, having eye sex with this hot dude at a mexican restaurant (where my mom saw another celebrity that she says is from some cop show but we haven't identified him yet), the la brea tar pits, aaaand having an "everywhere" at the hotel (a dude i saw everywhere) who was so gay and wonderful and hot. brilliance! oh yeah, and there were SO MANY a.f.i promotional posters that said "6.6.06- you've been warned". i love them but it was scary!
our hotel
the view outside our hotel window
and again
i should have gone to watch american idol or somethin'
i don't know, i just thought it was funny
chinese theatreee
i had to elbow two asian dudes at the theatre out of the way to get this one
minus the anorexia, they're my idols!
it's my girl!
look at the little girl who's like WTF
so true
guitar at universal citywalk
madness!
woooo
reminds me of the ol' nickelodeon days
at santa monica beach
santa monica pier
amusement park at the pier!
amoeba music...i'm in love
trolley at the grove mall
i don't know but this was so friggin' cobra
poor elephant that got stuck in a tar pit
wooly mammoth!
so pretty!
someone was blaring panic! at the disco from their car while we were walking on the sidewalk and i LOL'ed
house of bluuues
love it
i arrived back at like midnight last night after being stuck in the philadelphia airport with a bunch of rabid red sox fans while our flight was delayed for no apparent reason. it was kinda fun though. loved it!
las vegas:
-the hotel the 'rents and i stayed in, the new york new york, was friggin' awesome and really looked like new york city and i loved it, ok. oh, and the first day i was there, i am walking through the casino area and see this beautiful boy who is basically a combination of macaulay culkin and the kid from the squid and the whale. so gangly, lanky and awkwardly amazing.
-i got to see jen and we basically had the best day possible, which included:
-walking down the strip to caesar's palace and witnessing a ridiculous animatronic greek god show thing.
-scavenging for food, in the process walking through like a billion different hotels, passing an elvis impersonator, and being accosted by a creepy man smoking a cigar on the sidewalk who asked if he could take a picture of us. um, no?
-eating at fatburger which later made us nauseous.
-participating in a screening of this awful tv show, AQUAMAN, at TV City in the mgm grand, in which we had to rate our level of interest at any given moment on this meter thing. the only thing i liked about it was the crazy black man who was aquaman's mentor.
-going to see art school confidential, basically best movie ever. "i think this one's ready for the kiln".
-going to this restaurant, hamburger mary's, which has a pretty much all-gay staff, and getting the hottest waiter ever. honestly, i'm biting my lip thinking of this man. plus i found his myspace and he's a drag queen. i mean really.
-oh, and more creepy men surfaced at dinner, in the form of four drunk 'n' frisky 30/40-somethings who kept eavesdropping on our conversation (not the best thing when jen and i were saying raunchy things about our waiter...more specifically, "DO ME NOW")
-going to a sweet record store, and driving around listening to mix cds from high school, oh so good.
-seeing a guy with "SLOW MOTION FO ME" written on his shirt.
-and the cherry on top of the fabulous day- upon returning to the hotel from eating ice cream, we decided to go into the hotel's magic shop. who is working there? oh yes, it's the macaulay culkin kid. he did freakin' magic tricks for jen & i. shiiit son. hahahaha and she took a stalker picture which is below. and he had the same name as our waiter, justin. crazy.
-i went to hoover dam, too.
-the fashion show mall, in which there was a betsey johnson boutique and i cried into the 500 dollar dresses.
-i ate at this "pharaoh's pheast" buffet and stuffed myself and wanted to vom, but the food was so good.
picture time!
sign for our hotel
the "skyline"!
the roller coaster on the top of our hotel!
part of the inside of the hotel
these next couple are of fremont street...
gamblin', man
me and my new boyfriend, a palm tree
gold lion...lolz
...and at night
pirate ship!
fashion show mall
statues in caesar's palace
magically became this!
aquarium photo op
fish
random asian girl and fish
behold the power of the pegasus-thing!
fatburger!
inside of fatburger!
PLEASE note the cobra sticker on the top left....we were hot on his trail...kind of
he's a magic maaaan
the top of the excalibur hotel
random egyptian thing in the luxor hotel
sup hoover dam
so pretty!
los angeles
-holy crap, l.a. really IS crawling with celebrities! well, at least where we stayed in west hollywood. i had like 3.5 sightings!
-we get to the hotel and the 'rents and i decide to walk down sunset for some lunch. i pick up a random lucky penny on the sidewalk, and promptly i see this skinny, blonde, tan, pretty skeevy looking dude coming towards me and feel immediately scared. the guy gets closer and is screaming on his cell phone, and i realize it's none other than c.c. deville from poison/the surreal life! he looked much more subdued than in that photo. i was so excited.
-after lunch, we go back to the hotel and our room keys aren't working. we get into the elevator to go to the lobby with this girl in leather pants, boots, and she's carrying a guitar case, so i figured she was probably playing at the house of blues. my dad asks her if she is, and she says "no, i'm just making the record now, look for it in the fall" and i asked her for her name. she says "marion raven" and then once i got out of the elevator i realize that she was in that teen pop duo M2M a couple years ago, hahahaha....anyone else remember them??
-finally, i was walking out of this diner and lock eyes with this very european, distinctive looking blonde dude eating in one of the booths with two other people, and my first thought is "that looks like sondre lerche", a strange thought to have since i don't know his music at all, but have just read about and seen him. buuuut i showed my dad his CD in barnes and noble the next day, and he confirmed it...plus, he was supposed to be in town the next day for an appearance at a record store on sunset...it was totally him! sigh.
other random shit i did there includes getting some sweet vintage stuff on melrose, going to universal citywalk and the hollywood walk of fame, santa monica beach, malibu, beverly hills/rodeo drive(SO NICE), going to some random swanky happy hour at the hyatt across the street from our hotel, getting a free half of a chocolate cake from the waitress at this chophouse we ate at for no apparent reason, drooling over the cds (and the guys) at amoeba music, befriending the employee at the starbuck's across the street from the hotel because i literally went 4 times during the 4 days we were there (and twice in one day), going to the grove outdoor mall and the farmer's market, having eye sex with this hot dude at a mexican restaurant (where my mom saw another celebrity that she says is from some cop show but we haven't identified him yet), the la brea tar pits, aaaand having an "everywhere" at the hotel (a dude i saw everywhere) who was so gay and wonderful and hot. brilliance! oh yeah, and there were SO MANY a.f.i promotional posters that said "6.6.06- you've been warned". i love them but it was scary!
our hotel
the view outside our hotel window
and again
i should have gone to watch american idol or somethin'
i don't know, i just thought it was funny
chinese theatreee
i had to elbow two asian dudes at the theatre out of the way to get this one
minus the anorexia, they're my idols!
it's my girl!
look at the little girl who's like WTF
so true
guitar at universal citywalk
madness!
woooo
reminds me of the ol' nickelodeon days
at santa monica beach
santa monica pier
amusement park at the pier!
amoeba music...i'm in love
trolley at the grove mall
i don't know but this was so friggin' cobra
poor elephant that got stuck in a tar pit
wooly mammoth!
so pretty!
someone was blaring panic! at the disco from their car while we were walking on the sidewalk and i LOL'ed
house of bluuues
love it
i arrived back at like midnight last night after being stuck in the philadelphia airport with a bunch of rabid red sox fans while our flight was delayed for no apparent reason. it was kinda fun though. loved it!