Aside from Steve Jobs, there have been a lot of recent passings and sudden deaths from some notable figures such as Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis, Indianapolis 500 race car driver Dan Wheldon, and Muammar Gaddafi who was the former dictator of Lybia for over 40 years. Plus, you got Lindsay Lohan back in the fucking headlines for the same typical shit that isn't new to everyone else and the Occupy Wall Street protests taking place in just about every major city you can think of. It looks like that shit will be around for awhile, especially here in LA.
When I went to go check it out the first weekend that it happened around city hall in Downtown earlier this month, there was ALOT OF FUCKING PEOPLE THERE! Marching around Spring Street and first while shouting and holding all kinds of signs regarding the protest. I had my film SLR with me so I managed to take about twenty-something pictures there. The scene looked like I was at Coachella again mixed with some 1960's UC Berkley, only smaller. There were all kinds of people from different races and age camping out with tents and shit. I mean, it was just too real. I thought it was gonna last for less than a week, but to my surprise its still going on. I'm just curious to see how this ends so that its get to the point where it'll be written in high school textbooks and have several adaptations of this demonstration on novels and made-for-Television movies in the future.
As far as the Death of Michael Jackson trial, man they should just throw Dr. Conrad Murray's old guilty-expression ass in prison already! I mean, fuck, I'm tired of seeing him trying hard to look like he's on the cover of GQ inside the courtroom everyday with a different suit on. That's something Pat Riley would do on the courtside, sans the slickback greased hair while Dr. Murray's hairstyle look like he just woke up without combing. Basically, he just fucked up while he had the chance to save the life of the largest entertainer in the universe in Mike Jackson. You have to be with your patients at all times as they said in one of the hearings.
Also, they're saying that if he is convicted, that he may not be serving jail time cause of his clean record and background, but to instead serve a lengthy house arrest. Well, at least just take away his medical practice license for starts, cause that has been happening longer than two years and I totally doubt that the constant delays is just to breed publicity to the Jackson family. They did a tribute show for Michael a few weeks ago in Wales. I read that there were more stars that declined to perform than those who were booked on that night. I wasn't interested in it cause honestly, the man is dead. I respect him and everything he did in the entertainment and philanthropic aspects of his career, without mentioning his bizarre court cases and his epic TV documentaries from 2003. I would say the same for Steve Jobs since the media and tech sites has been covering his passing and what he did to impact everyone's lives in such a way so much, but I won't cause like I said in the previous post, I looked up to Jobs alot more when I was young and I was really into his products and worked at one of his company's retail store. All in all, they should just extensively stop talking about both of them just out of respect, and create unofficial annual holidays of both of them in remembrance since they made such a dynamic impact over the years.
As for me so far, well, no fun as of yet. Just one year ago at this day, I was at Howl at the Moon taking photos at my homegirl Cecilia Navarrete's 21st birthday party with my friends. That was an awesome night and so many things took place that was unpredicted and fun. Now a year later, I'm just here at my place in Sylmar typing this. Kept it kinda low key, so to say.
So two weeks ago I went to a taping of the new self-titled NBC sitcom starring comedienne Whitney Cummings. I don't watch television anymore except for Pro-Football, and I've never heard of her before, but I went for two reasons: 1) to see how an actual production for a Television sitcom is like. Now I've been to other production television tapings like the Lady Gaga performance at Jimmy Kimmel Live this past summer, Cee-Lo Green's Talking To Strangers on FUSE network, two episodes of the Amercian version of Top Gear and both the MTV Movie and Video Music Awards, but NEVER to a television sitcom filmed in front of a live studio audience, and 2) it never hurts to try something new, so I gave this program a chance. From looking at the billboards all over the Valley and seeing some of the ads on Sunday Night Football on NBC, I can tell its gonna be another over-hyped soon to be cancelled sex comedy with numerous innuendos and puns, and for giving a benefit of a doubt that night, it was.
The taping was fucking long. 7 hours to shoot just one episode. It started at 6pm and I thought that it was gonna end at 10pm but apparently it finished at midnight. It was at the famous CBS Studios Center in Studio City on Bradford just north of Ventura Boulevard, where a lot of decent TV programs get filmed at, as well as the studios for KCBS 2 and KCAL 9 in Los Angeles. My second time being there this year and the first time was for a Lakers viewing party back in April. Plus, they had this "Tom Hanks from the late 80's" looking MC who was entertaining the audience by telling them the synopsis about the show and the episode that was being filmed. He even picked on me in front of everyone for not smiling but apparently, he gave me a cheap Five Dollar "Los Angeles" t-shirt that you can get on Hollywood Boulevard. The audience was filled with a decent amount lot of women who looked and acted like they're on menopause. I sat next to a black lady who looked like Grace Jones straight from Egypt wearing Cleopatra's wardrobe and this white girl who looked like an attractive twin of Scarlett Johannson. I liked the production of the show being in progress more than the show itself, but I gotta give Whitney Cummings and her co-stars props for having to recite the script on an average of 5 times per scene (they did that ALOT, which is why the show went on for a long time).
I was supposed to be this Nigerian event party last Saturday, but I didn't show up for miss-communication reasons, and it was my fault. Feeling very upset, I went to my friend Marlene De La Torre's house that night for her husband's birthday kickback to change my mood. I originally wasn't going to attended, but I just went anyways. The kickback was fun, left a bit early though cause I didn't wanna stay out late again.
Again, it was a pretty dull month. Not as spectacular like last years. I just need to have the phone company try to get my cell phone working in progress again so that's gonna be tough. By the way, I'm gonna be going to the Americana At Brand in Glendale this Sunday for Cadillac's Culinary Challenge. I'm gonna be test driving and comparing Cadillacs and other expensive luxury cars that y'all will never get to buy unless if you're a 1980's drug dealer in Miami, a European pornstar with fake tits or a assistant to Birdman from Cash Money Records or Floyd Mayweather's shoe shiner. I went to this event last year, and the whips they have are fun to drive. I don't know if the Cadillac comparison vehicles will be the "rich stay at home moms" SUVs I drove last year like the Mercedes-Benz ML class, the Lexus RX and the BMW 5 series wagon (that one I liked cause it had the M package). Plus they have all the latest Cadillacs like the Escalade Platinum trim edition (the cup warmers and coolers on there its a MUST SEE), and every CTS (sedan, coupe, and wagon) model without the V performance in them. So if I were you and if you're a car enthusiast, I'd totally go. Cause stuff like this rarely happens and I was seriously surprised and caught off-guard that they're doing this again this year. Just hit me up on Facebook or Twitter if you are planning on going. You have to register for this, but I can get you in as a plus one to save the effort.
Thanks for your time reading this, and lastly, major MAJOR shoutout to my old high school friend Marissa Mendoza for giving birth to twin girls earlier this month. I wish her new daughters happy and healthy successful lives. Congrats Marissa.
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