Posts tagged hollywood

this week i finally made the journey to this is not ikea. it was basically {overpriced} heaven.

stacks and stacks of vintage luggage.

vintage signs.

carousel parts. 

i need this tv in my life.

hooray for hollywood! does anyone else wish the sign still said “hollywoodland”? what i wouldn’t give to see that back up on that hill. regardless, as long as i live here, i don’t think the hollywood sign will ever get old. i love it so. 

saturday night, we tried our hand at underground rebel bingo again. this time it was at the dragonfly in east hollywood. i was super pumped because last time was a blast. to be honest though, this time i was ready to leave almost as soon as we got there. i just wasn’t feeling the crowd or the vibe. but then, the countdown started and the sexy british man came on stage, and all was well again. 

this time he played a little charade of being a headmaster type fellow teaching a school of etiquette. we were lectured in proper versus improper socializing and attire (no man wants to marry a prostitute, ladies). once he confirmed the doors were locked and the authorities were nowhere near, all bets were off and it was time for rebel fuckin bingo!

the first round was three games, and it was pretty tense, but neither marshall or i got even close to winning. now, how it works is when you get bingo, you scream “BINGO” at the top of your lungs and race to the stage to give the sexy brit a hug. the point being if more than one person gets bingo at the same time, the first to hug the man wins. so round two started and i figured we should move closer to the stage. just in case. when the grand prize round finally came and they announced the prize was yet again the most awesome 80’s style boom box with ipod hookup, i felt the stars align. i was one number away. i scream-wispered to marshall that all i needed was 29 and the boombox was ours. three or four numbers later, THEY CALLED 29!! i screamed bingo and marshal screamed bingo and practically threw me on stage. i almost forgot about the hug, but remembered just in time because someone else had bingo too!

let me tell you, i was a ball of nerves up on stage as the sexy bingo girls checked my numbers to make sure i wasn’t one of the idiots who thinks they have bingo when they don’t. the tension mounted. one of the girls handed me back my bingo card (with her teeth) and everyone onstage bowed down as i was declared winner and the crowd went crazy! it. was. amazing. 

we left feeling triumphant and got some celebratory street meat from a hot dog vendor on the way back to the car. 

this was probably the most sober, but funnest new years eve’s in recent history. usually it’s all hype and big letdown. but this year it was easy and a blast. of course, any day that starts off with chick fil a on a warm, sunny los angeles afternoon is bound to be great. 

(gratuitous hollywood shot)

after lunch, we dove down to melrose so i could get the JOHNNY CUPCAKES HEY ARNOLD TEE SHIRT - but stopped on the way to snap pics of the mr. brainwash and klasky-csupo murals.

jump forward a couple hours…

and i got a little more dressed up than necessary. but hey, its new years. 

we braved the crowds at universal city walk to go to the jon lovitz theater to watch kevin smith and ralph garman’s hollywood babble-on new years babble-eve. 

it was a freakin riot. i’ve loved kevin smith for quite some time now. awhile back we went to see a screening of red state where he did a q&a afterwards which was awesome, but kinda serious. last night he was so adorable i could hardly contain myself, and i don’t remember the last time i laughed so hard. 

marshall could also hardly contain himself - he got to go on stage for their game show portion and stumped them with a big lebowski question, thereby winning a magic set that ralph was re-gifting and shaking hands with both gentlemen. 

at midnight we had our own bottle of champagne and i got to kiss his handsome face. 

from the show, we went to the comedy store on sunset where i developed a major girl-crush on the bassist for a makeshift air guitar band and i saw jesus in la! (but like an idiot accidentally deleted the photo in my girl-crush haze.)

we got home around 4am and now i’m the only one awake and STARVING! who wants brunch? 

this weekend was so amazingly beautiful and exactly why i live in los angeles. 80 degrees when its almost december? i’ll take it!

so we went for a hike up through the hills and behind the hollywood sign. the hike was awesome and practically killed me (my legs still ache!) 

plus i got to check something off my los angeles bucket list! hooray!