A SATURDAY NIGHT IN HOLLYWOOD

Okay, so I think tonight my very well have been one of the most completely random evenings I've had in L.A. so far. First Gary and I met up with David Rich (Janet's husband) and Lisa at the Arclight to see "Once". It was so amazing, unlike anything I've ever seen before. I don't really want to say anything specific about it but please go see it!

As we were leaving the theatre, Lisa asked if everyone was going home or did we want to go to Bobcat Goldthwait's birthday party? That seemed like the most random thing we could possibly do so we all got in our cars and drove to this funky little gallery called FAKE. www.fakedotcom.com. (please excuse these photos, they were shot with my phone)


It was full of all sorts of crazy art. This was my favorite piece, it's called Crazy Person Magazine.

In case you can't read them, some of the headlines are:
"What the voice in your head isn't telling you"
"New! Tin foil hats just in time for spring"
"Paranoid? Look behind you."
"Double Issue, over 100 pages of gibberish"
"Price: 1 handful of dirt"

So anyway, we walked in and there were only about 25 people there and everyone was watching this bizarre little jam band playing weird songs that sounded like they were making them up as they went along. Then Gary noticed that the singer was Tom Kenny, the voice of Sponge Bob Squarepants. Okay, so I got to watch Sponge Bob serenade Bobcat Goldthwait for his birthday...talk about random.

After the "show", we stuck around for a while to eat some donut muffin things from Big Sugar and to tell Bobcat happy birthday. Such a nice nice guy. What a fun night!

ALANIS IS BACK...

This evening I got to celebrate my first Passover dinner over at Janet's house. I had no idea what I had been missing but we had such a blast. At some point in the evening, my sister-in-law Kay brought up this thing she had seen on perezhilton.com. Alanis Morissette made a little low budget music video to her own "Alanis-style" version of "My Humps." It's so funny because it has got to be the dumbest song I've ever heard and seeing her writhing around in hoochie clothes singing in her signature mellow style is such a riot. Enjoy!

WILL FERRELL


So I hate to make this blog all about celebrity sightings but it's just been one of those weekends. Gary, Oliver and I went to have bruch at Figaro this afternoon (felt like morning though) and along comes Will Ferrell with his family to have brunch there too. He had big floppy curly hair and didn't really look much like himself in person. :) After lunch as we walked by the movie theatre, Gary pointed out that there were all of these people standing in line to see his move, Blades of Glory. Little did they know that Will Ferrell was eating lunch a block away. :)

ANOTHER CELEBRITY SIGHTING

While I was grocery shopping at Mayfair Market on Franklin in Los Feliz today, I saw Mandy Moore in the produce department. She was wearing sunglasses inside and trying to be incognito but I spotted her anyway. Haha! :)

CELEBRITY SIGHTING

Who: Drea De Mateo

From: The Soprano's
When: Sunday evening
Where: Katsuya in Studio City
What: Eating sushi
Why: Gary and I had just picked up my mother from Long Beach airport and we were all starving so we hit Katsuya for some delicious sushi before dropping her off at Michael & Kay's.

THE BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA

Has anyone else seen the previews for The Bridge To Terabithia? Well I've been watching these for the past few weeks and thinking, it's a kids movie but it looks so good. I suggested to Gary that maybe we should take my niece Zoe to see it but he thought it might be too scary. We mentioned the idea to Michael to see if he thought Zoe might enjoy the movie. Then we find out, oh Zoe went to the L.A. premiere of the movie and walked the red carpet and everything. I guess it wasn't too scary after all.

Here she is with her friend Hayden and Hayden's dad, Ed Begley Jr.

SHIRLEY MANSON



Gary and I saw Shirley Manson dining at Farfalla on Hillhurst tonight. This was not the first time I'd seen her though. About 7 years ago, I served drinks to Shirley Manson and the rest of Garbage when I bartended in college. I remember Shirley drank sea breezes and greyhounds. I wonder if she still does? :) She did go to her room early but everyone else stayed and hung out with me and my sister until closing. They also gave us tickets and backstage passes to the show the next night. One guy in their road crew was this guy named Chad. A couple of years after that I saw him again at the 9:30 Club in D.C. when he was on tour with Nina Gordon. Very random.

STEVE MARTIN


So yesterday was so incredibly cool and surreal. I got to do a shoot with Steve Martin! Yes, THE Steve Martin. He came over to play the banjo on Lisa's album so I was asked to come and shoot it and I was more than happy to oblige. He was incredibly professional and very nervous, even though he's an incredible banjo-player. Oliver turned out to be a HUGE Steve Martin fan too even though we had to banish him and Bea to the house for a while so they wouldn't interrupt.

Here are a few images:




Steve & Lisa

Michelle, Dan, Steve & Lisa

CELEB SIGHTING



This afternoon Oliver and I took a nice walk over to Hillhurst to go to Box Brothers because they are the nearest FedEx location and I had to ship out a wedding album. When we walked in I noticed that there was Kelly Lynch standing at the counter trying to ship out a package of some sort. I guess this neighborhood is a hotspot for celeb sightings. Seems like every time I go anywhere these days I end up seeing somebody.

FIRST WEDDING OF THE YEAR

I shot my first wedding of 2007 on January 13th while I will still in D.C. for the holidays. Emily and Jeff are a great couple from New York who hosted a very tiny wedding (just 14 people) at the Morisson House in Old Town Alexandria. It was such a sweet and intimate ceremony followed by a fabulously delicious dinner. Here are a few of my favorite images from the day.






(this one I made by photoshopping two images together)

NEW WEDDING POSTCARD


I designed this yesterday to hand out to potential wedding clients/ contacts etc. out here in L.A. I don't have my real business cards yet but I'm heading to Aardvark Letterpress tomorrow to get those ordered. Yay!

SHANNON ELIZABETH

I saw Shannon Elizabeth at The Alcove in Los Feliz the other day.

I was there to meet Jackie from Dollface for lunch and there she was. She seemed nice. She smiled at me and I smiled back and then kept on looking for Jackie. I'm just starting to get used to recognizing celebrities around here. Last year in NYC, I saw Rachel Weisz at Whole Foods and I kept on staring at her because I could have sworn I knew her from h.s. because she looked SO familar. And then I realized, oh that's Rachel Weisz. Oops.

RANDOM MINOR CELEBRITY SIGHTINGS

In the past week I've had two random celebrity sightings. In fact, I didn't even know either of their names, just recognized them.
One was last Thursday at the 101 Diner. Patrick Renna a.k.a. the redhead kid from The Sandlot was waiting for us to leave so that he could have our table.

The 2nd sighting of the week was Judy Greer who I saw at The Echo when Gary and I went to see the Submarines. She was in Jawbreaker, The Wedding Planner & 13 Going on 30 among other girly movies...all of which I've seen. :) She usually plays the best friend, assistant or other tag-along to the female lead.

KRISTYNA & JIMMY'S WEDDING

On Saturday I shot the most beautiful wedding at Congressional Country Club for a gorgeous couple named Kristyna and Jimmy. I actually met Kristyna and her mom last year while they were gown shopping at Hitched (www.hitchedsalon.com) and I was just visiting the shop. Anyway, we ended up chatting and they came into the studio and booked me to shoot the wedding. Kristyna looked so amazing, I haven't had chance to edit the whole wedding yet but here are a few. I'll post more later in the week.



Jimmy gave her a gorgeous diamond ring (yes another one) as her wedding gift




Giselle (www.hairbygiselle.com) did a fabulous job with the bride's hair






Dad helped Kristyna with her jewelry


Kristyna's grandfather gives a toast...in Chinese, I have no idea what he said but it sounded funny


the ring bearer ran around like a mini Chippendale dancer






They pretended to leave in a golf cart but just drove away and then came back since they were staying at the club.

Bubbles are always a good send off.