Celebs and Such

I meant to blog about this a week ago but I guess I just don't love you enough to be on time. I keed, I keed. My new job keeps me for 10 and 12 hour days already, but I LOVE the work. It's very fun. More on that later.


I took my friend Eric, (who's crashing at my place until he gets his house rented and his roommates into the state) and Jami to Palms Thai a little over a week ago. It's a Thai place that has a Taiwanese Elvis impersonator who performs at dinner time and long community tables where you sit right next to the party next to you.

Right next to us that evening was this gentleman, who was in THE SHIELD for the first four seasons. I didn't bother him at dinner (what the hell would I say?) but on the way out I gave him a little salute and nod which he smiled widely at and seemed to understand that I was a fan of the show and waved goodbye. I didn't think too much of it because it's par for the course here. If you know your B-level celebs and character actors, you'd probably see somebody every day if you go out.

Just over the weekend I saw LA VIE EN ROSE, which pleasantly surprised me. My bread and butter movies are Kung-Fu, zombies, gladiators, heist movies and typical armchair tough-guy nerd stuff. I'd like to think it's rare for a guy that watches a lot of this would admit he really liked a biopic about France's most beloved ennui-filled songbird, which I really did.

At any rate, when we were leaving the Arclight, we saw this guy. In a span of about four days, I saw two of the main characters from the same gritty, FX cop show. I expect to see Michael Chiklis picking out grapefruit at Ralph's any day now.

Also, I saw Britney Spears on our floor on the Sony lot. I realize she's a much bigger star than these guys, but she's so remarkably uninteresting (other than being crazy lately) I don't have much to say about seeing her. She looks -exactly- like she does in tabloids and on TV. She had a gaggle of handlers, assistants, make-up and other people around her. I'd say it takes about 5.5 human beings to manage 1 Pepsi product of a human being.