Spotted

On Saturday, CJ and I went to Chevy’s in Burbank (for those of you in Indiana, it’s a Mexican restaurant) for some fajitas. While we were there we saw Tony Hale. Now many of you may not know Tony, but he had a very funny role in the short lived TV show, “Arrested Development”. He played the socially inept Buster Bluth while working alongside other funny actors like Jason Bateman and Will Arnett. He also appeared on another short lived comedy with comedian Andy Richter called “Andy Barker, P.I.”

Spotted and MET!!!

This afternoon I was shocked to be introduced to Jorja Fox at work. I went up to the printer and when I turned around, I was introduced to her. Apparently, a co-worker of mine is friends with her and she stopped by the office to go to lunch with him. She was very nice and we had a short conversation.

You may know Jorja from CSI. She has been on CSI since it started, but recently, she left the show to pursue other projects. I have always liked her acting and wish she was still part of the show.

You know that I always see celebrities around town, but I never bother them. It was nice to actually meet one, and she turned out to be nice with no ego.

Wicked

On Thursday night we went to see the musical, Wicked. Like I talked about in an earlier post, I had never been to a musical. It was fun and the music was good.

You can check out the details on CJ's blog. You can click on the link on the right side of the page.

80's

All this weekend VH1 Classics had 80 Hours of the 80’s. It was a Labor Day weekend of all 80’s videos from A-Z. It was fun to flip over to the channel ever so often just to see what they were playing. I got to see videos I hadn’t seen in 20-25 years, and others I had never seen. It’s amazing how technology and years of “getting it perfected” has changed they way we look at any visual media from 25 years ago. It’s also fun to laugh at the clothes and hair styles of the period too!

Guitar Hero

CJ had talked about Guitar Hero when he got back from his trip to Indiana a few months ago. I had also heard from friends that it was a fun video game. So, this weekend we decided to buy it for our Playstation. If you aren’t familiar with it, it is a video game where you play along to real songs on a plastic guitar. There are 5 color coated buttons on the neck of the guitar and a “strumming” button on the body of the guitar. The point is to coordinate your hand to push the color coated button and strum at the same time along with the notes the game shows you to play. Does that make sense?

I was warned by a friend that it is nothing like playing a real guitar. With that warning in mind, I was worried how well I could play the game. I didn’t do too badly when I first started. Actually, I’ve almost beaten the easy level. For the most part, the easy level only has you use the top three color coated buttons. As you move up to harder levels of the game, they start including all five buttons, thus it gets a lot more difficult.

We spent a good five hours this weekend playing the game, and as a result, my left forearm is sore. CJ already beat the easy level, so he is the Hero in our house!

Journey to the Center of 3-D

On Saturday, we went to see Journey to the Center of the Earth 3-D. As I assumed, it wasn’t a great movie. I mainly went to see the 3-D presentation of the movie. It looked very nice apart from the obvious 3-D gags like an actor pointing his finger at the audience or a yo-yo coming straight at me! I hope they use this technology in more movies (as I hear they are), because the movie comes alive with the actors in a 3 dimension plane rather than looking flat against the background. It would even be cooler if they could (in the future) put screens on the side of the theater walls and project the surrounding landscape from the movie onto these screens. It would make you feel like you are part of the movie even more so. I’m excited to hear that there is a movement to equip more theaters with 3-D technology. This is the only way Hollywood will make more features in 3-D.