Star sighting-lost in the melee

I did have the chance to see teh wonderfully creepy James Spader a couple weeks ago with his lady and his dog. They live somewhere in my neighborhood.

I have been.....

busy busy busy.

Last weekend I went to San Jose to visit my friend. We also went to Santa Cruz for a couple hours. I remember Santa Cruz when I was younger because it was a very popular skateboard label. I love beach towns they are very cute and manage to keep their main streets very non-commercial.



(Here is a picture of me eating an ice cream cone as big as my head)

I went to a cold opening of a new restaurant in Culver City. A cute little italian cafe, that definitely had opening night jitters. The food was good, when we finally got it, but I hate when server argues with you when you get something you didn't order.

I saw Keiffer in his SUV in Los Feliz. I know he is having troubles lately.

Mainly I have been brainstorming and spring cleaning for my visitors coming up. I cannot wait!!!

I am mad about mad men

My favorite show as of late is AMCs Mad Men

I do not get AMC, but it appears on On Demand (cable service) the day after it airs. I am a complete addict. I watched it last night and I am already counting off the days until next Friday.

1) the production design is amazing. Someone has to win an award for this one. There is a scene in a grocery store with all of the 1960's era labels throughout the entire store. It must have taken days of work to pull off that one shot.

2) most of the actors really haven't been in a lot of other shows. (Yes Nicole, that is Connor from Angel)

3) like the early sixties the actresses are not twig girls.

4) Finally it really interesting. It is interesting to see a time when everyone smoked, the Kennedy-Nixon presidential race, how different advertising was.

If you do get AMC I recommend watching it, and if you want something to add to your netflix queue, you might have to wait a while, but it is worth it.

Caution, like most prime time cable shows, this is not for young viewers.

Powder Blue

Just a note. I found out what film they were shooting at my favorite Thai restuarant. The film is called Powder Blue. It stars Jessica Biel, Patrick Swayze, Forrest Whittaker among others.

Read a synopsis of it Here (Sounds very uplifting)

Celebrity sighting i am most jealous of

Although I wished it were me, Asher sighted Quentin Tarantino this weekend at the restaurant he works at. He was having a quick drink before seeing Superbad at the Mann's Chinese 6 and then came back after seeing it.

So jealous.

I don't know if I did have the chance to see him if I would have said anything. I loved Pulp Fiction, I loved Kill Bill Volume 1. More importantly I love the fact that he introduced me to one of my favorite directors of all time, Wong Kar Wai . Through Tarantino's now defunct distribution company, Rolling Thunder pictures, QT gave a few unknown directors their chance at American audiences. One of those directors was Wong Kar Wai and his film Chungking Express. Every year since that fateful day in 2000, I have watched Chungking Express every year on my birthday.

All of WKW's movies are beautiful to watch and I have a good chunk of his movies in my personal library. I can't wait for My Blueberry Nights to come out this winter.

Thank you QT.

Odd Coincidence

Lately Asher and I have been catching up on an ill fated television series called Undeclared . I really liked the show and was bummed when it was canceled. It was one of Jud Apatow's first project, Freaks and Geeks was another. Both were great funny shows that I really liked, but it was before people recognized his genius and he brought you movies like Anchor Man, 40 Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up. Those two television shows only lasted a season.

I wonder if those channels are kicking themselves now?

Mr. Apatow is one among many director/producers who uses the same actors over an over in many of his films. For example:

The mentioned films are all Apatows:
Will Ferrell- undeclared, anchorman, kicking and screaming (w/ mike ditka)
Steve Carrell- Anchorman, 40 year old virgin, knocked up
Seth Rogan- freaks and geeks, undeclared, 40 year old virgin, knocked up superbad

Another actress who has made it in a lot of his films/tv shows is Carla Gallo who after seeing Undeclared again I wondered what she was up to. Besides random small parts in Apatow films, after seeing her in Superbad, we ran into her at a tea house on Sunset and Vine.

How strange.

wow

Heatwave is an understatement.

I cannot believe how hot it was here last weekend. According to the thermometer/clock at the corner of 3rd and Fairfax on Saturday it was 105 and of Sunday it was 114.

There really wasn't too much you could do to escape the heat, it didn't help that last weekend was a pretty dismal weekend for movies.

I watched movies in the only room with air conditioning in my apartment. I am sad that i didn't set up wireless in the apartment but I am afraid that I would have wrote.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 31ST 2007
I got off work and I wish I could have stayed in the air conditioning because it is so hot in my apartment

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1ST 2007
I went to Superbad and I thought it was super bad and it is still hot.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2ND
ME KRISTEN. HEAT MELT BRAIN.

MONDAY, SEPTMBER 3RD
HOT. not as hot but hot. I am going to BBQ i don't want to, but I can't do nothing the entire weekend. I will suffer through it.

I do have a lot to write about, and now that my brain has re-constituted, i will write about it next.