california girls: day two

Wednesday August 11 2010:

Emily and I left the hostel quite early to avoid the disgusting derro’s we shared a room with, many of whom were passed out on the floor and one had this green shit all over his feet (I only noticed this because he was right by the exit)!

We headed down Hollywood Blvd to a bus stop, headed for the Getty Centre in the Los Angeles’ hills. The bus arrived after what seemed like forever, so we got on and asked about the cost of a ticket, it was $1. At this point, a man towards the back of the bus became highly frustrated, jumped up, started swearing at us and calling us “dumb fucking tourists who waste everyone’s time” and jumped off the bus… It was an interesting start to the morning, for sure.

On the bus we drove past Whiskey-A-Go-Go, which both Emily and I were excited about, and we momentarily reminised about Neil Morgan’s amazing stories about the good old days at the Whiskey-A-Go-Go from Criminal Law. We then swapped buses at UCLA and headed up to the Getty Centre.

The hills of LA are so beautiful, they make you forget just how ugly Hollywood is and I think I will remember LA fondly because I saw a more attractive side of it. The Getty Centre is a real work of art, the gardens are full of the most amazing plants and the architecture itself is totally worth the trek from the tourist trap that is Hollywood. However, it’s a good thing that entry to the Getty Centre is free, as most of the art is pretty mediocre and very generic in nature – biblical, early modern, but nothing was particularly stand out fabulous… Alot of it seemed like cheap knock-offs of the beautiful artwork in European galleries, plus the gallery guards aren’t much fun and told Emily off for “standing too close” when she clearly wasn’t that close… All in all, the insides were very blah. It is the outside that makes the Getty Centre so great.

After we finally tore ourselves away from the Getty Centre (seriously, wandering the gardens there is something I’d happily do forever), we headed back on the bus and alighted at UCLA, where we spent a little time exploring the campus, before heading over towards Rodeo Drive.

We wandered through the suburban part of Rodeo Drive, which is another totally worthwhile part of LA, because the houses are so grand and the front gardens were stunning, we were the only people around as well, which made it that much better. I can totally see why people would want to live in LA if they could live in one of these houses.

Eventually Emily and I found ourselves on one of the most glamourous shopping strips in the world, it was nothing like I expected. Immaculate in every way: pristine white stores, filled with designer duds I can only dream of owning and sales assistants that stand so still we actually thought one was a particularly well-designed store mannequin. It was only when he came to life that we realised our minds were still playing tricks on us from the day before at the Wax Museum and we made a quick escape from his judging eyes… He knew we couldn’t afford the amazing $400 Tod’s loafers. 😦

From Rodeo Drive we wandered down the block to what was supposed to be the “more affordable” shopping in LA, but found nothing that particularly grabbed us – so we decided to head over to an op-shop I’d heard about called It’s a Wrap, where film studios send over all their old costumes for resale to the public. We got lost several times, and ended up miles away from where we wanted to be, but when we finally arrived the trek was more than worth it: a huge warehouse full of REAL designer clothing, worn once or twice by various television and film stars, and then sold to us! It was absolute HEAVEN! At the front of the store was alot of crap, and we were upset by some of the very small actress-sized outfits that were drool-worthy, but a bit of digging and we uncovered racks of real Armani, Diane Von Furstenberg, Gucci and in the corner I spotted Jimmy Choos and Manolo Blahniks in almost perfect condition, mind for a bit of scuffing of the soles – it devastated me that the sizes were not right. The same went for the mountains of clothing sent in from the set of Ugly Betty – none of the sizes were right!

However, I did score a Valentino jacket from the Fox 8 Studios and a neat little Michael Kors jacket worn by London in the Suite Life of Zack & Cody from the Disney Channel, as well as a skirt that was worn by someone on As the World Turns. Emily got a great black jacket (show unknown) and a pair of pink trackpants worn by Hannah Montana. It was all-round one of the coolest shopping experiences ever and I am glad I’m not studying in LA or I would have already spent ALL my money at that store. (I think Emily’s wallet is also pleased she is up in Michigan.)

From there Emily and I decided we would go out to dinner, as we wanted to avoid the disgusting derros as long as possible. UrbanSpoon suggested a little restaurant called Cheebo’s which did amazing pizza and even better desserts. Crayons on the table kept us entertained, and we left a remarkable piece of artwork behind, they should put it in the Getty Centre – it would improve the collection significantly.

We arrived back at the hostel well after 11pm, pleased with ourselves for having avoided the gross derros, only to find they had checked-out and we had new roomies. They were pretty friendly, but a little bit weird and kept us up talking far later than we should have allowed considering the big day we had ahead of us…

xoxoxo

1, 2, 3, 4… tell me that you love me more.

Ok I stole this from some place that had pretty pictures. If I can find it again, I’ll link back. If someone else finds it, link me pls. Ta.

p.s. I finished exams! YAY!

I didn’t cheat, I promise. (Ok I saw the last Q as I copied it in… Luckily the last Q makes little to no difference on my choices!)

Pick six fandoms and then answer the questions below. Don’t look at the questions ahead of time 😛

1. Harry Potter
2. Twilight
3. Hannah Montana
4. Star Wars
5. Gilmore Girls
6. High School Musical

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1. Who is your favorite character from #2?
Twilight – Ok, this has several possible answers (and would, Twilight or not!). Quite obviously, Edward, but that’s so duh obvious that I don’t count him! So here are my other favourites:
Favourite Cullen: Alice, hands down. She’s me… If I was a vampire?
Favourite Human: Mike. I’m Team Mike always.
Favourite Good Vampire: Stefan & Vladimir
Favourite Ship (besides the obvious): Kate & Garrett… Although, I like to imagine Stefan and Vlad are secret gay lovers who, because they are so old, don’t feel the need to be mushily obvious anymore.
Favourite ‘Bad Guy’: Marcus or Victoria. Marcus cos he’s so freaking bored with everything, he needs a hobby. Victoria because she’s just out to get revenge on the people who broke her heart.

2. Who is your least favorite character from #4?
Star Wars – Um, I didn’t like Palpy when he was pretending to be a ‘good guy’ cos he was lameo. And I didn’t like Count Dooku, he failed at being a Sith cos he didn’t even have the prefix of ‘Darth’! Epic failurism on his part. I also found myself frequently annoyed with that creepy Twi’lek, I can’t remember his name right now, he was Jabba the Hutt’s slave Twi’lek and he was freaking creepy and feral looking.

3. What would a crossover between #1 and #5 include?
Gilmore Girls & Harry Potter – Oh man, can you imagine Rory getting a letter from Hogwarts? Emily would have a FIELD day and Lorelai would be SO psyched and they’d go and tour Hogwarts like they toured Yale and Rory would totally out-magic Hermione with her super skillz. And omg Rory would so blitz everything and win the Tri-Wizard Tournament! And Lorelai would try to invent her own spells and have insane, dangerous fun with magic things and give all the little deprived wizard kids lots of muggle movies to watch so they were well educated because she’d be SO shocked when she heard they hadn’t seen Pippi Longstockings!

4. Who is your favorite ship from #6?
High School Musical – um, clearly Sharpay and the basketballer who likes cooking. I haven’t seen HSM3 yet, I hope they hook up. That’d be delicious. (Yeah, I pun.)

5. If you were to set one person from #3 and one person from #6 on a blind date, who would they be?
Hannah & HSM – Mrs Darbus and Billy Ray. Cos no one else would say that. Also, it’d be epicly hilarious when Billy Ray realised he was going out with an old theatre mole who was probably menopausal hot for him.

They look so happy… *tear*

6. If you could meet one person from #4 and spend the day with them, who would it be, and what would you do?
Star Wars – Yoda, I’d tell him that I would do or do not, because I could not try. And he’d so train me in the ways of the Jedi and I’d be the best Jedi ever. Or Aayla Secura because she has blue skin, and I’ve always thought it might be a good idea to paint my skin some unnatural skin colour like blue or purple. Also, she has super saber skillz.
Or Chewbacca, we could have a roar-off. Can you imagine that? So totally awesome.
It’d look something like this:

We’d have an Idol-style panel judging us, consisting of Master Windu, Yoda and probbers Lando Calrissian.

7. If you could change one thing about #2’s plot line, what would you change?
Twilight – Um… Kill Bella and replace her with me? Duh. Who wouldn’t? Who doesn’t want to have freaky pillow-biting sex and freaking mutant babies with Edward? I sure wouldn’t say no! Or have Bella and Mike hook up – just to see the tweenie reactions – that would be the most epicly hilarious thing ever. Team Mike foreverz.

8. Explain a relationship between two people (not necessarily romantic) from show #5, and why you like the relationship between them.
Gilmore Girls – Emily and Lorelai. Because they’re basically my mum and my grandma (dad’s mum), but on television.

9. If the lead title characters (first name in the credits) from #1 and #3 were both drowning, and you could only save one, who would it be?
HARRY AND HANNAH! – OMG! Well, Harry would have his wand right? So I’d save him and then he could save Hannah. Regardless, I’d pick Harry over Hannah. I love Hannah, but Harry’s been with me for over a decade, man. That’s commitment, that is.

10. If you could change the title characters’ order in the credits for #4, what order would you choose?
Star Wars – Um, Chewbacca would be first? But really, I don’t care so much.

11. If you were able to add a new character, any kind of character you wanted, to the storyline for #6, what would the character be like and what would their role be?
HSM – Um, I’d put me in. Cos I so regret not going to a high school where they frequently burst into song and dance when they can’t work out their problems. My role would be ‘girl in the corner with the nose spray’, because that’s pretty much my role in life currently, except I don’t use my nose spray… She’d actually be the most talented person in the whole school and everyone would fall inlove with her (yes, even the girls) once they realised how sexy the nose spray was. Oh, and then nose sprays would become trendy, like heroin or something.

Look! Sharpay taught me to walk in heels! (pls click the image for the complete text, i’ll shrink it later, i promise!)

12. What happens in your favourite episode of show #2?
Twilight – Episode? Um… Well this could be chapter or book I guess… But my favourite bit is probably when Mike and Jake and Bella all go to the movies and Mike vomits. I so would’ve held his hair back… Even though his hair is too short to hold back.

13. If you could kill off one of the characters of #1, who would it be and how would you do it?
Harry Potter – I think JK Rowling kills off enough characters for all of us, so how about I bring one of them back to life? Clearly I’d bring back Snape. Or Movie-Cedric, as long as it was after Cho had met her muggle lover (cos did you know she marries a muggle? what a loser… oh wait I’m a muggle… um yeah, anyways…) …wait where was I? Oh yeah, Movie-Cedric, as long as I could sex him up good. Cos he’s hot.
Maybe, if I couldn’t bring back someone to life, I’d kill off Marcus Flint for having bad teeth.

14. If you got the chance to visit the set for either show #3 or show #5, which would you choose?
GG & HM – Oh man! How difficult! Well, I guess, because Gilmore Girls has finished, so I’d go on the set of Hannah Montana. Hannah and I would become best friends.
But I’d have to pick Gilmore Girls if that was still going, cos I could run around Yale and drink ‘faux coffee’ cola with Alexis Bledel and have a talkfast-off with Lauren Graham (I’d win) and I’d dance naked on the gazebo and everyone would be thoroughly disturbed by my naked body.

15. So, I saved the best question for last. If you could date anyone from any of these shows, which show and which person?
I think we all know the answer to this question, but I’ll say it just for confirmations sake: Edward, duh. Who wouldn’t? But I’m not going to go stalk Rob Pattinson, cos that’s creepy and he can’t catch a break from those little marriage craving tweenies. Even if he is gorgeous, cos he was like Movie-Cedric as well… Mind you, maybe I should go after him? Poor bloke can’t get a date… Man, what is the world coming to when a hottie like that can’t find a girl? *offers self up for sacrifice, but not in a creepy way, cos i’m not like that…* lol.

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Think you can do better? Prove it. I bet you so can’t, cos you epic fail.

Shake Shake Shake It

Did you know Metro Station (aka Metrosexual, as I like to call them – see earlier entitled “Like a Virgin, Jonas Brothers…”) are the older brothers of Disney Channel stars?

That’s right. I discovered this the other day and it blew my mind. IT BLEW MY MIND MAN! And few things blow my mind like this did. The last thing to blow my mind like this was those rumours (or truthinesses?) about Jackson from Hannah Montana being 30!

Actually, this post isn’t leaving the realm of Hannah Montana. But before we go on, let me make something very super absolutely totally completely clear: I love Hannah Montana. And I often ask myself:

I bet even Hannah asks herself the very same thing:

I know I would if I were a famous teen sensation.

Infact! I bet when Miley is “just being Miley”, she too considers what Hannah Montana might do. Why wouldn’t you?

And Hannah Montana would use her Hannah Montana teen sensationess to her advantage to teach the wrong-doer a lesson and then write a song about it which would be a number one hit and then she’d make up a dance for it and get a sparkly costume to match. That’s what Hannah Montana would do. So noble.

But we’re trailing off the actual point of this post, once again.

What blew my mind? Well, I’ll tell you.

Metro Station are the older siblings of Miley Cyrus and Mitchell Musso! THEY MET ON THE SET OF HANNAH MONTANA! I, too, would’ve started a band with a fellow older sibling did I meet them on teen sensation Hannah Montana’s show. And do you wanna know why? Because I would’ve thought to myself WWHMD? And I bet that’s exactly what they did. And then they named themselves Metrosexual… I mean Metro Station.

Also, p.s., Mitchell Musso plays Oliver ‘Smokin’ Oaken on Hannah Montana.

So yeah, Metrosexual, with their piercings and tattoos they look super hardcore and all… yeah… But um, you are just Disney with tatts, really. Ok, Metrosexual? Go play on Hannah Montana and maybe then I will listen to you. That’s how I discovered the Joe Bros, afterall. Everyone knew that was meant to be, me and the Joe Bros, not just friends.

Yes, ok, Metrosexual. You better come out of your closet and admit you’re just Disney. And you’ll always be Disney. Because you’re Hannah Montana’s brother…

AND THIS INFORMATION BLOWS MY MIND!

Finito.