Mobile Billboard

I always thought the moving billboard trucks around Hollywood are so clever!

The $300,000 Wedding

I had an amazing experience playing for the most expensive wedding I have ever seen, and may ever see. The truly ridiculous part about it was that the event was rumored to cost over $300,000 and I was forced to accept a pay cut, and the bride and groom were too cheap to cover the parking of the musicians, and probably all of the other vendors. But, they will spend over $25,000 for a ballroom with silk draperies, chair covers, flowers, and specialty lighting??? I ended up accepting the job because it was on a evening where I wouldn't otherwise be working, and I decided that some money was better than no money. They had a huge feast before the wedding, with live music and an open bar, as the catering crew set up the reception with no expense spared. This had to be seen to be believed! Here are the pictures to prove it.


..and a view of one of the reception hall, blinded by the bling bling


Here is a close-up of one of the tables, glimmering like diamonds!


Here is an unbelievable image as I walked in to the ballroom for the ceremony


...and this was the view I had from my harp


Then the paparazzi came to take pictures, complete with their own photo director.


...and finally more than 1000 lucky guests came in their finest to witness a grand affair. They cheered, screamed, hooted, and hollared like it was the Stupid Bowl as each person came down the aisle and probably nobody heard anything I played. I could barely hear myself.

It couldn't have been more unusual!

Green Dog!

I thought it was outrageous when I saw two pink dogs on Hollywood Boulevard. Today, however, I saw a poor pooch dyed florescent green!

Barfalicious

Well, I have been purty busy lately and unable to write a blog entry, so here is a gratuitous barf video for your entertainment.

RIP Tammy Faye

A colorful life and personality is gone. She never got the respect that she probably should have had.

A new sign

Hollywood and Vine has a new sign, finally! It use to say "Pacific Travel School" for years, and that business was not even located there. Slowly that intersection is evolving, although I read in the LA Times that they don't expect construction on all projects to be completed for at least another five years! They haven't lit up the sign yet as far as I know, I'll bet it will look nice.

Ice Cream Man!

This is the ice cream man who pushes his cart up and down Hollywood Blvd and on side streets. He has a little bell he rings constantly that drives me CRAZY. How can he listen to that all day. I think a lot of people buy stuff from him. On occasion I see him pull up to this one particular gate where he rings and rings the bell cause he knows all these little Mexican children come running. It's kind of predictable yet amusing. A few years ago, I once saw one of these ice cream men with his hand down the back of his pants scratching his bare ass, while he pushed his cart with the other hand. I was scarred. Ever since then I have vowed not to buy that ice cream from his fecal fingers.