If Rodney Dangerfield has ever had a heckler run up on stage during his stand-up performance, then he would get more respect from the media. That's been happening to country singer Taylor Swift for the past month.
Ever since the incident at the Video Music Awards, Taylor Swift has had the media showing countless love and boosting her exposure. In fact her exposure was so great that she she even got to do a double whammy on Saturday Night Live as host and Musical Guest that night. She reached the peak last night at the Dick Clark owned American Music Awards when she won 5 awards, including artist of the year. For country music listeners and fans, its a big ordeal; but for non-country music listeners, its obviously surreal.
I forgot that the American Music Awards was on last night, even though I had to work at white-ass Simi Valley last night doing security there. But I'm glad that I didn't see that shit. Everyone knew and predicted that it was gonna be another Swift/Michael Jackson fest. The ironic part was that both of them weren't present at the show in Los Angeles (LA Live was PACKED that night, along with the Laker game in Staples Center). Swift was in London and Michael Jackson is, of course, dead. From what I read, he even won 4 awards that night, and his brother took them upon his behalf. The Black Eyed Peas went "L.A. Live Hopping" going from peforming on the show, to watching Kobe Bryant and the Lakeshow courtside across the street. Also, Whitney Houston and Jennifer Lopez came out of retirement again giving performances during the telecast, a little something for the OGs. I'm pretty sure the Nielsen ratings are gonna be hella low for this, cause the Grammy Awards are gonna do the same shit in Feburary.
As far as Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts, they're just doing what every Quarterback and football team should do: win games. They had two close games against the New England Patriots last week and the Baltimore Ravens yesterday. I'm sure they'll go all the way to the "big dance", and continuing sending positive messages towards it fans unlike other sports francises.
By the way, this is the week I dislike the most. You got Thanksgiving on Thursday and then after that the "Holiday/Christmas frenzy" begins with Black-Friday sales. My parents are split so I don't see it making sense to have dinner with one of them, which is why I don't like Thanksgiving as a holiday. But I am thankful that they're still around. Now I'm gonna endure them for a week, at home.
Monday, November 23, 2009
Saturday, November 14, 2009
A taste of Fun
Damn, already a week since I met her for the fifth time.
So last Saturday, the Westfield Fox Hills mall, I mean, the Westfield CULVER CITY mall was hosting a fashion event with Kim Kardashian as a celebrity guest over there. Now I've seen her so many times before, but this one was way different. I got there at about 15 minutes to 7 in the morning. The 405 San Diego freeway was clear on the roads and fog was everwhere, which I didn't mind. When I got to the mall, it was pratically empty. I parked in the garage and there were no cars there at all. When I got inside, there was nobody inside the mall except the overnight workers putting the finishing touches on cleaning the floors. I got to the center of the mall across the Macys,where the event was taking place, so it looked like I was the first one there. 5 minutes later, these two guys and this girl came. I told them that I was the first one here, but they said that they were at the mall since 3AM, and the came from Orange County. I wanted to be the first one in line, but I let those people go ahead. Then later on more people started coming and by 8:00, there was already 40 people in line. The reason why was because the first 100 people in line will get a picture with Kim and also her autograph.
That's the reason why I came for this event, otherwise I could've easy skipped it if I wanted to. The thing is that I happen to have Kim's first ever cover shot of her in front of complex magazine that I got back in Feburary 2007, before she was as famous as she is right now. The event didn't start until 12PM and until then, I met so many people in line who REALLY like her. This one guy I met gave up his 11:00 shift at the JCPenny in the mall just to meet her, which I understand cause to a guy's point of view... it's Kim Kardashian. I did kind of the same thing when Britney Spears came to the Fashion Square mall in Sherman Oaks back in her "conceided" years in early 2008. I forced a 15 minute break from working at the Apple Store just to get some shots of her on my cell phone, and it was worth it. But yeah, everybody was cool, even though it was mostly females who are between 16-20 and some of their families.
I really wanted to bring some of my friends to this event, but unfortunatley since November has more birthdays than any other month (think St. Valentines Day) they had other plans on that day. The most obvious is a weekend in Vegas where they can LEGALLY raid the casinos, douse themselves piss-drunk in every liquor you can think of and find yourself broke at the Sapphire adult club the next morning. The reason why I want to bring them is because not only do they keep asking me about Kim, but they also never got a chance to be up close with at famous person. They won't be able to get that chance since times are getting harder. I'm not really doing this for myself, but since they decied to go wild after turning 21, so be it.
Later on Kim Kardashian came out, said some stuff to the people, answered some questions. Then she came to the meet and greet session. Some VIP people and 2 handicapped people selected by KIIS-FM got to go first. Then when she turned to us, the crowd in line went crazy. I didn't think she was gonna sign my Complex magazine, but she did cause I was the only one there with it. Everybody else had her recent cover issue on Cosmopolitan magazine. She also took my Sharpie even though there are 5 other Sharpies on the table next to her stack of head shots. I told her she can keep my pen.
After I finally took a picture with her and got her autograph, I walked this one girl that I met in line to her car. She looks a lot like her, and she's really nice. She gave me her number and after that, I saw two Cadillacs in front of the mall. I went over ther to see what was happeneing. I thought they were promoting their new 2010 model line-up vehicles and shit, but instead they said that they were letting people test drive their vehicles and to get a free Starbucks gift card. In my mind, I was like "Are you fucking serious?! Were in a recession and you're letting people test drive $40,000+ vehicles and giving away free gift cards?" I felt like I was residing at one of Donald Trump's timeshares or something like that. They told me there was no catch, no credit checks and they weren't persuading people to purchase the car. So I gave in and decided to test drive the 2010 CTS 4 door sedan. Man was that thing fast! Especially in the 5-speed shift mode on Automatic Transmission, I was flying all over Fox Hills. But it was a very nice car though. At the end they let me choose a Jamba Juice gift card or a Starbucks gift card and I went for Starbucks.
I then went to my cousin's house to pick up my brother over there. He just the new 2010 Ford Mustang and this was my first time seeing it. I didn't feel like test driving it since I drove the Cadillac, but he handed me the keys and I was like "What the hell". His Mustang was nice, hard to compare to the CTS I drove earlier. After that, I chilled there for a bit and ate this mexican food that my aunt got from a mexican restraunt. Then me and my brother left and he wanted to go to the American Apperal store in Studio City, but since were in Culver City, I told him that we should check out the one in Santa Monica at the Third Street Promenade.
When we got to the Third Street Promenade, it was already dark. I haven't been there in a year and a half. Last time I was here, they knocked down the Santa Monica Place mall right next to it. We check out the Apple Store there, by the way, this is the only Apple Store in Southern California with a theater cause every Apple store used to have theaters for presentations and other stuff. We saw that there were packing up what was already a session that happened at the theater there and then we saw Jason Schwartzman there who just talked about a film he's in called Fantastic Mr. Fox. I heard of him and I didn't even know he was gonna be there, so me and my brother got his autograph and posed for a photo with him. After that then we went to the American Apparel there and checked out some other stores there and went home afterwards.
Now it's Saturday night one week later as I write this, and it felt like it just happened today, except that it didn't. What happened today was that I went go see my younger sister sing at my pop's church today and USC got their asses handed to them by Stanford 55-21 at the Coliseum, which was a very rare loss at home. The only difference between today and last Saturday was not because it's a week apart. Its that last week had more to it, kept you upbeat and it had a lot of suprises. They say that when you have fun, time go by very fast. And when you taste it, the flavor goes by very fast.
So last Saturday, the Westfield Fox Hills mall, I mean, the Westfield CULVER CITY mall was hosting a fashion event with Kim Kardashian as a celebrity guest over there. Now I've seen her so many times before, but this one was way different. I got there at about 15 minutes to 7 in the morning. The 405 San Diego freeway was clear on the roads and fog was everwhere, which I didn't mind. When I got to the mall, it was pratically empty. I parked in the garage and there were no cars there at all. When I got inside, there was nobody inside the mall except the overnight workers putting the finishing touches on cleaning the floors. I got to the center of the mall across the Macys,where the event was taking place, so it looked like I was the first one there. 5 minutes later, these two guys and this girl came. I told them that I was the first one here, but they said that they were at the mall since 3AM, and the came from Orange County. I wanted to be the first one in line, but I let those people go ahead. Then later on more people started coming and by 8:00, there was already 40 people in line. The reason why was because the first 100 people in line will get a picture with Kim and also her autograph.
That's the reason why I came for this event, otherwise I could've easy skipped it if I wanted to. The thing is that I happen to have Kim's first ever cover shot of her in front of complex magazine that I got back in Feburary 2007, before she was as famous as she is right now. The event didn't start until 12PM and until then, I met so many people in line who REALLY like her. This one guy I met gave up his 11:00 shift at the JCPenny in the mall just to meet her, which I understand cause to a guy's point of view... it's Kim Kardashian. I did kind of the same thing when Britney Spears came to the Fashion Square mall in Sherman Oaks back in her "conceided" years in early 2008. I forced a 15 minute break from working at the Apple Store just to get some shots of her on my cell phone, and it was worth it. But yeah, everybody was cool, even though it was mostly females who are between 16-20 and some of their families.
I really wanted to bring some of my friends to this event, but unfortunatley since November has more birthdays than any other month (think St. Valentines Day) they had other plans on that day. The most obvious is a weekend in Vegas where they can LEGALLY raid the casinos, douse themselves piss-drunk in every liquor you can think of and find yourself broke at the Sapphire adult club the next morning. The reason why I want to bring them is because not only do they keep asking me about Kim, but they also never got a chance to be up close with at famous person. They won't be able to get that chance since times are getting harder. I'm not really doing this for myself, but since they decied to go wild after turning 21, so be it.
Later on Kim Kardashian came out, said some stuff to the people, answered some questions. Then she came to the meet and greet session. Some VIP people and 2 handicapped people selected by KIIS-FM got to go first. Then when she turned to us, the crowd in line went crazy. I didn't think she was gonna sign my Complex magazine, but she did cause I was the only one there with it. Everybody else had her recent cover issue on Cosmopolitan magazine. She also took my Sharpie even though there are 5 other Sharpies on the table next to her stack of head shots. I told her she can keep my pen.
After I finally took a picture with her and got her autograph, I walked this one girl that I met in line to her car. She looks a lot like her, and she's really nice. She gave me her number and after that, I saw two Cadillacs in front of the mall. I went over ther to see what was happeneing. I thought they were promoting their new 2010 model line-up vehicles and shit, but instead they said that they were letting people test drive their vehicles and to get a free Starbucks gift card. In my mind, I was like "Are you fucking serious?! Were in a recession and you're letting people test drive $40,000+ vehicles and giving away free gift cards?" I felt like I was residing at one of Donald Trump's timeshares or something like that. They told me there was no catch, no credit checks and they weren't persuading people to purchase the car. So I gave in and decided to test drive the 2010 CTS 4 door sedan. Man was that thing fast! Especially in the 5-speed shift mode on Automatic Transmission, I was flying all over Fox Hills. But it was a very nice car though. At the end they let me choose a Jamba Juice gift card or a Starbucks gift card and I went for Starbucks.
I then went to my cousin's house to pick up my brother over there. He just the new 2010 Ford Mustang and this was my first time seeing it. I didn't feel like test driving it since I drove the Cadillac, but he handed me the keys and I was like "What the hell". His Mustang was nice, hard to compare to the CTS I drove earlier. After that, I chilled there for a bit and ate this mexican food that my aunt got from a mexican restraunt. Then me and my brother left and he wanted to go to the American Apperal store in Studio City, but since were in Culver City, I told him that we should check out the one in Santa Monica at the Third Street Promenade.
When we got to the Third Street Promenade, it was already dark. I haven't been there in a year and a half. Last time I was here, they knocked down the Santa Monica Place mall right next to it. We check out the Apple Store there, by the way, this is the only Apple Store in Southern California with a theater cause every Apple store used to have theaters for presentations and other stuff. We saw that there were packing up what was already a session that happened at the theater there and then we saw Jason Schwartzman there who just talked about a film he's in called Fantastic Mr. Fox. I heard of him and I didn't even know he was gonna be there, so me and my brother got his autograph and posed for a photo with him. After that then we went to the American Apparel there and checked out some other stores there and went home afterwards.
Now it's Saturday night one week later as I write this, and it felt like it just happened today, except that it didn't. What happened today was that I went go see my younger sister sing at my pop's church today and USC got their asses handed to them by Stanford 55-21 at the Coliseum, which was a very rare loss at home. The only difference between today and last Saturday was not because it's a week apart. Its that last week had more to it, kept you upbeat and it had a lot of suprises. They say that when you have fun, time go by very fast. And when you taste it, the flavor goes by very fast.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
One year ago today.....
this Senator from Illinois "Baracked" the whole world.
By the way, congrats to the New York Yankees baseball club for buying..... I mean, winning their 27th World Series championship tonight. Sean "Diddy" Combs got one hell of a birthday gift today.
Speaking of birthdays, I wanna give a birthday shoutout to my twin friends Arlene and Darlene Arias. I known them since the 10th grade. Enjoy the best of the "legal" world and many more to come.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
100+ miles and bitching.....
I haven't been on here in two and a half weeks. That's a long ass time.
It's already November. Glad that trick-or-treat shit is done with. I only respect 10% of it because I have friends from high school who already have grown children at 21 or 22. (Yeah, Hormones all right) Also, they want to let their kid experience dressing up as..... whatever shit is hot right now and go door to door for candy for the first time, and its also the time that women can dress up like whores on Sunset Blvd. Speaking of that, on Halloween's Eve, I drove my mom and my sister to Vallejo SDA church in Glendale that night. My sister had bell choir practice and my mom and I stayed for vespers. The associate pastor there was discussing something about King David. I was trying to pay attention but there was this girl who came in dressed like a secretary from a racy Italian gangster movie. That bitch had a tight skirt and pearls and she was very attractive. Either she was coming from a costume party or she was going to one later. I sat in the back and she sat in the front. Now here's the kicker: she's by herself! After we had the closing prayer, I went and sat next to her without hesitation. The conversation lasted about 90 seconds. She did say she was here with her little brother, who was like 11. I should've talked to her more but the vespers ended and I wasn't in the mood to score some numbers that night. Again, I could've but I was in the chapel, and my mom was there also.
But yeah, October was a weird-ass month. It was filled with nothing but vampire craze, a ordinary family that TRIES to be famous in Colorado, the Southern California baseball clubs getting denied to the World Series at the last minute, the Kardashians being around Los Angeles more than Antonio Villarigosa in his first term as mayor, and the Lakers' 15th banner. Plus my mom bought a new car recently. It's a 1999 Nissan Altima GXE with 75,000 miles on it. The finance dealer didn't wanna sell the car to us on the day we were gonna pick it up and he was about to sell the car outside the business to somebody else, which is illegal cause we signed the papers and everything the day before. So what happened was that one of the dealers who wanted to give us the car sat in the Altima the whole day until we came to make sure no one else buys it. I'm basically the only one who drives it the most, especially yesterday. Here's how it went
In the morning at 8:00AM
Drove from my mom's house in North Hollywood to my pop's house in Granada Hills
Drove from my pops house in Granada Hills to Sylmar SDA Church
Drove from Sylmar SDA church on way to Valley Crossroads SDA church. I stopped at some guy's house to test drive his Nissan 240SX S13 that he's selling
Test drove Nissan 240SX around Sylmar for 10 minutes.
Drove from his house in my car to Valley Crossroads SDA Church in Pacoima
In the Afternoon at 2:00PM
Drove from Valley Crossroads SDA church to Sylmar SDA church
Drove from Sylmar SDA church to my pop's house
Drove from my pop's house to my mom's house
Drove from my mom's house to a gas station in Toluca Lake
Drove from Toluca Lake to Buena Park via 134 east freeway, 5 freeway south, 605 freeway south, and 91 freeway east
In the evening 7:30PM
Drove from Buena Park to Culver City via 91 freeway west, 605 freeway north, 105 freeway west, and 405 freeway north
Drove from Culver City to Northridge
Drove from Northridge to North Hollywood
Drove from North Hollywood back to Northridge
Midnight
Drove from Northridge back to North Hollywood
Places
Mom's house in North Hollywood
my father's place in Granada Hills
my church in Sylmar
my mom's church in Pacoima
Arco gas station at Toluca Lake
Medieval Times in Buena Park
Westfield Culver City mall in Culver City
Brunswick Matador bowling alley in Northridge
all in 130 miles and a extra hour. Fuckin' daylight savings time. Oh and Matt Barkley lost his first game as a starter, which sucks. First time for everything I guess.
It's already November. Glad that trick-or-treat shit is done with. I only respect 10% of it because I have friends from high school who already have grown children at 21 or 22. (Yeah, Hormones all right) Also, they want to let their kid experience dressing up as..... whatever shit is hot right now and go door to door for candy for the first time, and its also the time that women can dress up like whores on Sunset Blvd. Speaking of that, on Halloween's Eve, I drove my mom and my sister to Vallejo SDA church in Glendale that night. My sister had bell choir practice and my mom and I stayed for vespers. The associate pastor there was discussing something about King David. I was trying to pay attention but there was this girl who came in dressed like a secretary from a racy Italian gangster movie. That bitch had a tight skirt and pearls and she was very attractive. Either she was coming from a costume party or she was going to one later. I sat in the back and she sat in the front. Now here's the kicker: she's by herself! After we had the closing prayer, I went and sat next to her without hesitation. The conversation lasted about 90 seconds. She did say she was here with her little brother, who was like 11. I should've talked to her more but the vespers ended and I wasn't in the mood to score some numbers that night. Again, I could've but I was in the chapel, and my mom was there also.
But yeah, October was a weird-ass month. It was filled with nothing but vampire craze, a ordinary family that TRIES to be famous in Colorado, the Southern California baseball clubs getting denied to the World Series at the last minute, the Kardashians being around Los Angeles more than Antonio Villarigosa in his first term as mayor, and the Lakers' 15th banner. Plus my mom bought a new car recently. It's a 1999 Nissan Altima GXE with 75,000 miles on it. The finance dealer didn't wanna sell the car to us on the day we were gonna pick it up and he was about to sell the car outside the business to somebody else, which is illegal cause we signed the papers and everything the day before. So what happened was that one of the dealers who wanted to give us the car sat in the Altima the whole day until we came to make sure no one else buys it. I'm basically the only one who drives it the most, especially yesterday. Here's how it went
In the morning at 8:00AM
Drove from my mom's house in North Hollywood to my pop's house in Granada Hills
Drove from my pops house in Granada Hills to Sylmar SDA Church
Drove from Sylmar SDA church on way to Valley Crossroads SDA church. I stopped at some guy's house to test drive his Nissan 240SX S13 that he's selling
Test drove Nissan 240SX around Sylmar for 10 minutes.
Drove from his house in my car to Valley Crossroads SDA Church in Pacoima
In the Afternoon at 2:00PM
Drove from Valley Crossroads SDA church to Sylmar SDA church
Drove from Sylmar SDA church to my pop's house
Drove from my pop's house to my mom's house
Drove from my mom's house to a gas station in Toluca Lake
Drove from Toluca Lake to Buena Park via 134 east freeway, 5 freeway south, 605 freeway south, and 91 freeway east
In the evening 7:30PM
Drove from Buena Park to Culver City via 91 freeway west, 605 freeway north, 105 freeway west, and 405 freeway north
Drove from Culver City to Northridge
Drove from Northridge to North Hollywood
Drove from North Hollywood back to Northridge
Midnight
Drove from Northridge back to North Hollywood
Places
Mom's house in North Hollywood
my father's place in Granada Hills
my church in Sylmar
my mom's church in Pacoima
Arco gas station at Toluca Lake
Medieval Times in Buena Park
Westfield Culver City mall in Culver City
Brunswick Matador bowling alley in Northridge
all in 130 miles and a extra hour. Fuckin' daylight savings time. Oh and Matt Barkley lost his first game as a starter, which sucks. First time for everything I guess.
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