From Hollywood to Vegas

So, another flight, another airport visit. I don't think I like airports anymore. We've put heaps of photos up on a site called Picasa, so take a look, you can add comments whenever the urge takes you.

While in Hollywood, we visited Paramount Studios, which was fun, despite my uninterest in 'celebrity.' Paramount was probably the best studio we could have seen, as it's a working studio, with no rides, no sugar-eyed kids careening around; just the hardware and manpoiwer needed to make the magic. Our young tour-guide, Rob, (private tour of two, sweet!) was interested enough and knowledgable enough to keep us entertained.

If you are interested, we saw Alicia Silverstone filming a sit-com called 'The Singles Table' and Jaleel White (Urkel) wandering around. Barry Manilow was narrowly missed.

Went to the Hollywood Wax Museum, kinda fun. We found a mixture of good likenesses which are almost creepy, and bad likenesses, which are pretty funny.

We've seen quite a lot of good live music at both The Lava Lounge, and The Hotel Cafe, including Alana Sweetwater and Zak Hexum - names to look out for. Shout-out to Andrea: at first I was amused by your Jagerbombs, then I was addicted to them.

Hollywood Boulevarde sidewalk-stars: despite the popular theory that you need to be a leader in your field for five years, everyone has a side-walk star, from Arnie to Ryan Seacrest to Big Bird. There are thousands of them and Mickey Roonie has two, I must find out why.

Today we are flying out to Las Vegas, so hang on to your cheese-o-meter, it's going to be vibrating at 'overload' for the next week.