Lady Antebellum – Jimmy Kimmel Live

So originally I was going to update this blog mainly for concerts and I’ve done exactly not that, lol. I’ve blogged about everything else except concerts. Luckily for me, I haven’t been to many this year so it will be easy to update.
I had just gotten out of jail like the week before and I wanted to take advantage of being a free man and being a LA resident so I decided to go a taping of any late night talk show. While I was looking up what guest were on, I saw Lady Antebellum was going to be part of Jimmy Kimmels outdoor concert series. I was stoked. I immediately signed up for tickets.

I’ve gone to a taping of Jimmy Kimmel (saw Rodney Dangerfield before he died) before but not to the outdoor concert thingy they have outside. The venue is pretty much a parking lot. It’s located behind where they film Jimmy Kimmel at El Capitan Theatre.  It’s like if Warped Tour set up a permanent stage with TV’s and camera crew.
While you wait, you’re watching the show that they’re taping inside on the TV’s outside that they have on the sides of the stage. Then the hype man comes out and lets you know to go crazy cause you’re on TV and blah blah blah. The taping wasn’t sold out. It wasn’t even half full which really isn’t a shocker. I’m pretty sure nobody in LA listens to country other than me. LA didn’t even have a country station for a while.

I’ve never seen Lady Antebellum and they’ve been on the must see list for a while now, so I was pretty excited to see them. They played “Need You Now” and then went to a commercial break. Then they played “American Honey” as the show went off the air. I was worried all they were gonna play was one or two songs. After they ended the show though, they kept playing. :-) They played three more songs for a total of 5 songs. Beings at the time they only had one CD out (the new one hadn’t been released yet) It was like watching their greatest hits and that’s it. I was satisfied. Overall good night.

Johnny Cupcakes - Ice Cream Sandwich LA meet up

I'm in the video! lol.  At :55 seconds for a split second and then again with my ex roommate at 2:16.

Rules of the Game - The Stylelife Challenge - Master the Game in 30 days.

I bought this book a few years back and never read the whole thing. Funny thing is I was with my ex April at the time when I bought it. I forgot I even had it until I was moving a few days ago and found it with some of my other random things. I decided today on the Big Blue Bus I'm going to actually do the 30 days.

I've started in the past and then stopped; I don't think I've ever gone past week one. LOL, I'm going to "master" the game in 30 days and I'm going to document every day here. I'll write at the end of each day what the challenge was, what I did and how it went. I think it will be a fun and interesting 30 days of random things.

As far as why I'm waiting til May to do it is, I need to get a few personal things taken care of. I'm going to re-organize my life this month with a list of things I need to get done by May 1st. I'm gonna focus only on these things for one month and then start adding fun back into my life.


* Find a place to live. (Hopefully this gets taken care of tomorrow.)

* Get a Job. (I have an interview with the Best Buy Music dept. tomorrow and my final test for the job at SMC Wed. So things are looking good there. It's about time. It only took applying to over 40 jobs and 4 months to get a job in LA)

* Start working out. (I have free weights I can use for now until I get some money and get my membership back at Ballys)

* College (I've fallen behind in a few classes and I want/need to catch up ASAP)

RIP 24, Smallville should be next.

I just read 24 is being canceled. This is its last season. I'm kinda sad about it but I think it's time. For me this last season has been the worst season of 24. It's like they really just ran out of ideas, but I understand, I mean how creative can you get telling the same story over and over again.

Smallville also needs to be canceled and I actually liked the later seasons. For me, after they got rid of Lex and Lana, the show was over. I barely watched the season after and finally just completely stopped. Clark should finally become Superman and the show should come to its logical end, but then I'd be forced to watch the last few seasons.

Weezer...

I didn't realize how much I liked Weezer until two things happened.

1. I saw them live on the Blink 182 reunion tour and I remember just watching and realizing how much I actually really like Weezer. I didn't realize I liked so many Weezer songs.

2. I heard their kinda new single "(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To" on KROQ the other day. The song was so catchy and put me in a good mood. It was the first song I heard on rock radio in a long time that I really enjoyed.

2010 Album of the Year

That's right, 3 months into the new year and I'm pretty sure I'm gonna be picking this album as my album of the year. It's that good. And to think I was a little worried after hearing the cover album.


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Now playing: Crime In Stereo - Type One
via FoxyTunes

I did it, Santa Monica 2010

I realized its been two months since I last wrote about wanting to move to Santa Monica and... Jan 4 I officially moved to Santa Monica (well kinda, technically its West LA)! So step 1 of my plans for the future has worked out. I've been in Santa Monica two months now and so far I'm loving it. It's definitely has had its ups and downs though, like going to jail and getting tons of parking tickets, but then I get to do a lot of cool things only LA can offer, there's tons of things to do, and meeting people like this dude who is going to be on an episode of tough love from new york to meeting a guy whos worked on videos with britney spears, flyleaf to meeting another dude who's worked in the music business industry whose worked with rappers.

Technically I moved to West LA which is pretty much right in the middle of Santa Monica and Beverly Hills. Santa Monica blvd runs from the beach in Santa Monica all the way through West LA, Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, Hollywood. Sunset Blvd is a parallel street down in Hollywood. All of that is literary down the street from me. I swear I see at least one Bently or a Porsche or a Ferrari or even a Rolls Royce once a day.



A big difference down here is everybody LOOVES Coffee Bean and you see them everywhere here. Same way you'd see Starbucks on every corner in San Francisco.

There's only one country station in LA, well depending in what part of LA you're in. I couldn't find any country clubs like the Saddle Rack down here. It's possible it exist, I'm gonna have to start asking around but I get a feeling there isn't a lot of people that listen to country in LA.

Another thing I've noticed is nobody is from LA lol. I would say a little over half, maybe 2/3's of the people I meet down here moved here from somewhere else. I'd break it down as 1/3 from another country, 1/3 from somewhere else in the US and 1/3 actually from LA.

What I'm really liking is that there's tons of local restaurants. There's almost no point in going to a chain restaurant. I know i'm going to try to avoid them and try all the local places.

The weather is definitely beautiful here. I'm enjoying it way more than the Bay Area. I personally love the sun and other than those two rain storms, its been nothing but sunny.

Why I'm Moving to Santa Monica...

I posted a thing on Facebook saying i'm moving to Santa Monica and got a few people asking why and I realized that I haven't really updated my blog on the whole situation. So in a way this an update to "Nashville and Chasing Dreams"

Quick recap, I'm not gonna be happy with life in the long run unless I'm doing what I love and am passionate about, which is music. In order to do that I've gotta go to college and Belmont University is the best fit for me. I can't get into Belmont University (in Nashville) on my high school grades alone. So I've decided to pretty much go with Option B in my last blog about the situation, which is go to community college in Santa Monica for a year and then transfer to Belmont. Problem with that was it would take me a year and half of community college to get the credits I needed, so I decided to start early, which is why I went to San Jose City College for the Fall semester.

Why go to community college in Santa Monica instead of The Bay Area??

Why the f not. No offense to the bay area, its my home, but i'm kinda bored of it. I'll come back eventually and settle there. For now though, I want to see the world and I'm pretty sure i'll only have when i'm young to do it. I don't have a career or wife and kids holding me down yet. So now's my chance. I've always thought about living in LA, so i'm gonna take this opportunity and take it. Its only a year. Then I move to Nashville for the next three. Then back home to hopefully San Jose or Fremont. During those three years at Belmont though, i'm really hoping I can do the study abroad thing and spend a semester in Australia and another semester in Italy.