Box Suite at the Staples Center

I was so excited to be invited for an evening in a box suite at the Staples Center to watch a basketball game. Those are the private areas above the regular seating designed as miniature living rooms, with a kitchenette, lounge furniture, and plush stadium seating for about 18 people. There are also two bar areas on either side with bar stools so you can sit and have a place to put down a plate of food while you watch the game. Each suite also has it's own television and dvd unit if the game isn't holding your interest, and there is also a monitor to get close-ups of the basketabll court. Our host told us the suite costs $300,000 annually! I went as part of a customer appreciation night from my investment advisor at AXA, who leases the suite from Staples. It was really fun to watch a game in a luxurious environment and see how the other 1% of society lives. Thanks Mimi!!

Oops! Waiting for a star to fall (on her ass)

New Submissive Jesus Ad

A nipple, a comb, and some jazz

Last Friday I went to a gallery opening of a photography show. The live entertainment was a jazz singer, an older woman in her 70's, if not older. She walked up front and took her place, and her bare breast was so long and droopy that it was peeking out from under her shirt. Her nipple was smiling at everyone. It was hard not to laugh. Then a nice woman from the audience walked up and pulled her shirt down as the singer was not even aware. She went on with the performance and waved a comb around that she had been combing her hair with. At one point she walked right up to me and started singing in my face but I pretended to be engrossed in the program notes because I knew I was going to bust out laughing in front of everyone. Finally she went away. Too bad I couldn't get a picture of her floppy tit hanging out. That was quite a sight.

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!