If any of you have been long time readers of this blog you may remember that the weekend I moved in Amy Locane (Cry Baby, Melrose Place) was staying with us. I was very sad to hear today that she was charged for vehicular manslaughter from a DUI.
Not sure what else to say.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Monday, June 28, 2010
out and about
So here is the rundown of who I have seen in the past couple days.
Jennifer Coolidge
Tim Bagley
Brett Ratner
Jennifer Coolidge
Tim Bagley
Brett Ratner
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
triple H...
:Watch your head or
:Look what a little oil money can do
I finally found a willing participant to tour Aline Barnsdall's Hollyhock House with me a few weeks ago. It is a sprawling estate on top of Barnsdall Hill, in the Los Feliz neighborhood, built for the oil heiress in the '20s. You can tell by the quote from Frank Lloyd Wright that he and Aline did not see eye to eye. I think he was fired and re-hired from the project at least once.
We unfortunately got a tour guide that had only done the tour once before, that day. She couldn't really elaborate beyond what her little note cards said. Also the tour was colored by these two yokels who loved loved loved puns and joking around. So whenever the guide told us to..
"watch our heads"
They replied "Well, I think we would need a mirror for that."
They were in their 50s, no excuse.
Hollyhock is a gorgeous maze of a house that has been fantastically restored. Frank Lloyd Wright has great attention to detail and made a lot of interesting functional pieces. This house was built in what seems like a Mayan phase as you can see with the "abstraction" of the Hollyhock seen below:
(Do you see the flower in the geometrical shapes)
And the other houses he built in the area like the Ennis House and Sowden House which you may have seen in a couple commercials and a season of America's next top model. (by the way you can rent Sowden house for $3,900 a night)
A lot of what we saw were replicas and adjustments, since the house went through some ownership changes after Barnsdall left, including the USO who demolished the kitchen and turned it into a formica hell.
Aline had envisioned a artist compound with a theater, gallery and studio, much of which is still standing and is being used for that very purpose.
I recommend going at $8 a ticket. I think I will do it again soon, maybe the tour guide will be off cards.
:Look what a little oil money can do
I finally found a willing participant to tour Aline Barnsdall's Hollyhock House with me a few weeks ago. It is a sprawling estate on top of Barnsdall Hill, in the Los Feliz neighborhood, built for the oil heiress in the '20s. You can tell by the quote from Frank Lloyd Wright that he and Aline did not see eye to eye. I think he was fired and re-hired from the project at least once.
We unfortunately got a tour guide that had only done the tour once before, that day. She couldn't really elaborate beyond what her little note cards said. Also the tour was colored by these two yokels who loved loved loved puns and joking around. So whenever the guide told us to..
"watch our heads"
They replied "Well, I think we would need a mirror for that."
They were in their 50s, no excuse.
Hollyhock is a gorgeous maze of a house that has been fantastically restored. Frank Lloyd Wright has great attention to detail and made a lot of interesting functional pieces. This house was built in what seems like a Mayan phase as you can see with the "abstraction" of the Hollyhock seen below:
(Do you see the flower in the geometrical shapes)
And the other houses he built in the area like the Ennis House and Sowden House which you may have seen in a couple commercials and a season of America's next top model. (by the way you can rent Sowden house for $3,900 a night)
A lot of what we saw were replicas and adjustments, since the house went through some ownership changes after Barnsdall left, including the USO who demolished the kitchen and turned it into a formica hell.
Aline had envisioned a artist compound with a theater, gallery and studio, much of which is still standing and is being used for that very purpose.
I recommend going at $8 a ticket. I think I will do it again soon, maybe the tour guide will be off cards.
Monday, June 21, 2010
mi vida loca
Believe it or not, I am still celebrating my birthday. I had a rain check dinner on Thursday, I have a rain check dinner this week (cooked for me, which is nice) and a yet to be determined outing, probably to a Korean Pirate Bar. (yes, you read correctly)
It is nice to feel so loved.
I am still settling into my new job. They have yet to find a new replacement for my old job. It has been two and a half months, starting to feel slightly taken advantage of.
Stars: None
Books: Still the Savage Detectives, started Tender at the Bone, by Ruth Reichl and I and since I am a believer in fate and since a couple of the books I have read keep pointing me back to Ulysses by James Joyce, I will be tackling this coming next month. Wish me luck.
Movies: I was disappointed in "Get Him to the Greek" I really wanted to laugh. I would recommend it to 18 year old boys.
I will be writing about some highlights in the next couple days. I realize I haven't written a while, but you know what they say about time....
It is nice to feel so loved.
I am still settling into my new job. They have yet to find a new replacement for my old job. It has been two and a half months, starting to feel slightly taken advantage of.
Stars: None
Books: Still the Savage Detectives, started Tender at the Bone, by Ruth Reichl and I and since I am a believer in fate and since a couple of the books I have read keep pointing me back to Ulysses by James Joyce, I will be tackling this coming next month. Wish me luck.
Movies: I was disappointed in "Get Him to the Greek" I really wanted to laugh. I would recommend it to 18 year old boys.
I will be writing about some highlights in the next couple days. I realize I haven't written a while, but you know what they say about time....
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Sunday, June 06, 2010
because this is how I do things
I am in the midst of a two week long celebration of my birth. I guess I started celebrating my birthday for two weeks once I got to LA. Everyone has such social calendars that require a lot of advance planning and conflicts. So very LA.
It is not that I wanted to turn 34 especially. I am actually not too pleased for very personal reasons. But this is how I do things now whether I like it or not.
My birthday celebration began May 30th at the UCLA jazzreggae festival. I went to jazz day and I have to say that it wasn't very jazzy, more r & b undergroundy, but I suppose that the r&bundergroundjamjazzreggae festival isn't as catchy. I really wanted to see a new band that my friend had me tune into called Quadron.They were fantastic, but the rest of the show was off because of horrible sound and the fact that it was 90 and on an open field, needless to say that my Irish skin could not handle all of the sun.
Thursday I went out for gluten free pizza and beer at this place called Pizza Fusion. It is fantastic, gluten free and have a great view on environmental responsibility. It was nice to share a beer with friends after not being able to really drink beer. This from a girl who misses New Castle and Old Peculiar.
Gluten free red velvet cupcakes from Sprinkles are better than gluteny red velvet cupcakes.
Friday night was another glimpse of Quadron at the Echo with a friend.
Saturday was a day relaxing on the beach of Manhattan with the ladies, then getting my hair done at home.
It all ends next weekend with Beetlejuice in the cemetery. How very me?