Random Musings From A Storied Life

Thursday, 04 February 2010

  • Posted by CareyGLY

    Chelsea ManHandler


    If you're familiar with comedienne Chelsea Handler, you might know of her #1 rated show on the E! Channel.  Yesterday, Claudio, Ryan, Guilherme and I went to a taping of her show, Chelsea Lately. We all love the show, but we were a bit disappointed by the whole experience. First of all, the security was a nightmare. I think it's easier to get into a White House State Dinner! The security guards were rude and power hungry and ...basically ridiculous. They manhandled us like we were going to federal prison!  Despite the fact that they made me remove my belt (I almost broke into a rendition of "Pants on the Ground"), I was STILL able to sneak my camera inside. What morons. Once we got inside, the guy who was in charge of warming up the audience was a complete tool and very annoying. Throughout the entire show he was waving his arms around like a banshee and really ruining the whole experience. He also made it very difficult for me to take any good photos. LOL. I still managed to sneak a few in though by holding the camera up discreetly. (In my inflated head, that's what my public wants!) When Chelsea came to our row to sign autographs during a commercial break, I got a little cocky and got caught taking a picture. After the next break they escorted me out of the show (it was over anyway, there was only 1 minute left). When I got to the lobby, dumbfuck security guard #2, asked for my FILM!! I laughingly asked him if he knew what century it was and turned around and walked out the door. He started to follow me, but I pretended to talk on my phone (which I also brought in) and he gave up. Great security Chelsea! What a way to ruin a show!  Such drama for a camera.  Sheesh!!  Every time I watch the show now, I'm going to think of those poor saps in the audience having to endure rude security guards and an annoying warm up act. Oh well, just another day in Lala Land!


    That's Heather "Long Boobs" McDonald in the monitor and Chuy to the right


    Claudio's big head and Chelsea signing autographs


    Guilherme, Claudio & Ryan outside The Hotel Careyfornia


    Guilherme & I

    Guilherme is visiting from Brazil for a while and hasn't had any Brazilian food since he left, so the other night we went to the little churrascaria down the street for picanha, then topped it off with some Pinkberry. Muito bom!!


    At The Grove, site of many a photo


    Why can't strangers ever hold a camera steady???


    Happy with his picana and Guarana!


    Guess who swatted his tail against wet paint?  Add it to the list!

    Tonight was my weekly Thursday dinner with the family and guess who fell asleep before the food arrived?


    Andy resting on his Pokemon card collection


    Gary's back on dry land for a month!

Monday, 01 February 2010

  • Posted by CareyGLY

    Tonight the Streets are Ours

     
    I had a great time at the Sundance Film Festival thanks to Drew, Christine and baby Lance.  Thanks also to Christine's parents for watching the baby while we played on Saturday.  My 2nd Annual trip to Park City also coincided with a ski trip that Marcelo and Emily planned with Vonda and Nate.  So the entire weekend turned out to be a mini GLY reunion.  We laughed, shared stories and ate good food.  The best movie we saw at the Film Festival was called "Exit Through the Gift Shop".  There was a lot of mystery surrounding the film.  We initially thought it was going to be a documentary on the infamous (and anonymous) graffiti artist Banksy.  His amazing street art has been popping up all over the world in recent years, especially in Los Angeles, and now in Utah, just in time for the premiere of his film.  It's described as:

    In the late 1990s, a hybrid form of graffiti began appearing in cities around the world. Enlisting stickers, stencils, posters, and sculpture and spread by the burgeoning Internet, it would be labeled “street art” and establish itself as the most significant counterculture movement of a generation. Los Angeles–based filmmaker Thierry Guetta set out to record this secretive world in all its thrilling detail. For more than eight years, he traveled with the pack, roaming the streets of America and Europe, the stealthy witness of the world’s most infamous vandals. But after meeting the British stencil artist known only as “Banksy,” things took a bizarre turn.

    Sundance has shown films by unknown artists but never an anonymous one. Banksy turns the tables on the only man who has ever filmed him, creating a remarkable documentary that is part personal journey and part an exposé of the art world with its mind-altering mix of hot air and hype. In the end, Exit Through the Gift Shop is an amazing ride, a cautionary modern fairy tale . . . with bolt cutters.

    Take a look:



    The worst film we saw was called "Double Take".  It was about 2 hours too long (and it only lasted 90 minutes)!  It was a documentary about Khrushchev, Alfred Hitchcock and Folger's Coffee.  Very weird.  Maybe I'm just not intellectual enough to get it, as Christine pointed out on Facebook, LOL:



    Yesterday morning the snow fell lightly and we went to Dim Sum with Marcelo & Emily.  I flew home to warm L.A. late last night, but I'm still reliving the snowy weekend, and already looking forward to next year!  Here are some photos:


    Flying into Salt Lake City, Utah


    Lance was glad to see me!


    So was Betsy!


    Brrrrr!


    Typical Sundance fashion...guess where they're from?


    Adrian Grenier of Entourage fame signing an autograph on Main St.


    Main Street, Park City


    An original Banksy!!


    Drew and Christine, before they knew how bad "Double Take" was!


    An Olympic tribute


    Skiing in downtown Park City


    Drew and I on the red carpet


    Vonda, Nate, Betsy and I


    Marcelo playing Puff the Magic Dragon for Lance


    The dim sum tradition continues!


    Lance, rubbing for good luck


    Best of the rest...starring Paris Hilton and Kevin Bacon


Sunday, 24 January 2010

  • Posted by CareyGLY

    Cheesy Food Porn and a Daring Rescue

      
    A week of rare stormy weather was capped off by a beautiful sunny weekend full of friends, flowers and food (porn).  Picasa tells me I took 224 photos this week.  Here are a few of them:


    More storm photos here and here


    Before & After


    It ain't Jesus, (Cheesus?) but Ebay anyone??  Make me an offer I can't refuse and I'll sell you my Cheenis


    A surprise mid week lunch visit from the family!


    This sunset was like a painting!


    Nothing like Grandma's spaghetti on a rainy day!


    This was the cloud that spawned hail and downpours downtown as you can see


    January showers bring...January flowers


    The rain cleared away the smog and left snow capped mountains over Hollywood


    Owen with downtown Los Angeles as a backdrop


    Shopping at The Grove with Owen


    Hooray for Hollywood!


    Sunset tonight from my roof


    To prove the clouds weren't Photoshopped, here's a short video of the last storm

    I've been dog-sitting for Buster & Roxy all week.  I have them until Thursday, when I leave for the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.  The poor dogs had cabin fever this week with all the rain, but they got cured of that really quickly after seeing this riveting rescue of a dog trapped in the swollen Los Angeles River this week:

     
    The dog's owners still haven't been found.  Maybe I should adopt him and get Chazz a playmate?'
    This was really quite an amazing thing to watch.  The poor dog was so scared and the firefighter was so brave.

Monday, 18 January 2010

  • Posted by CareyGLY

    When Eli Met Elvis


    My friend An and his wife and 16 month old baby Eli, visited The Hotel Careyfornia this past weekend, and needless to say, I couldn't take enough photos of this adorable little munchkin:



    The last time I saw An was at his wedding a long time ago, as this photo will attest:



    We went to Palms Thai and Eli got to meet Thai Elvis and woo a little girl:


    He's been singing since 1957!


    I think Eli better get used to this reaction from girls!

    The rest of the weekend consisted of a Golden Globes party (I won the pool again) and Din Tai Fung (again) and Avatar (again) with Kazaf.  It seems I'm a creature of habit.


    I told his parents that it would be tantamount to child abuse if they didn't leave him in Hollywood with me.  Think of how famous I could make him!!


    I dare you not to say "Awwwwww"!





    Best of the rest...


    The 101 freeway was empty yesterday morning at 9 as I snapped this shot from my sunroof


    The clouds rolling in over the San Gabriel mountains.  We're having an El Niño week, so rain is expected


    If you live in LA, check out www.fallenfruit.org/, it shows where all the free fruit is for the picking!


    Before going into Avatar for the second time


    What's he pointing at?  LOL


    I wish I could specialize in photos of fathers holding babies!


    Nothing better than leftover dumplings!

    I had an all day management summit for work today with the other vice presidents.  We ordered sandwiches from Domino's as it was raining pretty hard at lunch time.  I love their website.  It tracks your order right down to who makes it checks it and delivers it! 


    Thanks Pedro and Jose!  LOL

Tuesday, 12 January 2010

  • Posted by CareyGLY

    Dangerous, Delusional and Doltish


    The recent revelations about Sarah Palin in the book "Game Change" have left me giddy and completely unbothered by her recent appointment as Fox News' newest pinhead.  Let's face it, even McCain's own campaign had doubts that someone as vapid and crazy ("It was God's plan...") as Caribou Barbie should ever hold the highest office in the land and even hatched a plan to give her a mostly ceremonial role should they win.  So keep prattling on Sarah...and show us all how dangerous, delusional and doltish you really are!  To wit:

    "John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin may have been a bold stroke that narrowed what would otherwise have been a blowout defeat. But it was also, as the authors depict it, an act of extreme recklessness, a seat-of-the-pants improvisation that allowed for almost no serious vetting of someone who knew diddly-squat about the world we live in and who would have been a heartbeat from the presidency.

    "In the days leading up to an interview with ABC News' Charlie Gibson, aides were worried with Ms. Palin's grasp of facts. She couldn't explain why North and South Korea were separate nations and she did not know what the Federal Reserve did. She also said she believed Saddam Hussein attacked the United States on Sept. 11, 2001."

    Where'd they find her? Well, on the Internet, as it happens. "McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis, spotted Sarah Palin while searching the Internet for possible female vice presidential candidates." More from CBS News:

    "Her foreign policy tutors are literally taking her through, 'This is World War I, this is World War II, this is the Korean War. This is the how the Cold War worked.' Steve Schmidt had gone to them and said, 'She knows nothing,'" Heilemann told Cooper. "A week later, after the convention was over, she still didn't really understand why there was a North Korea and a South Korea. She was still regularly saying that Saddam Hussein had been behind 9/11. And, literally, the next day her son was about to ship off to Iraq. And when they asked her who her son was going to fight, she couldn't explain that.""


    "A debacle of historic and epic proportions"

    Now, speaking of doltish, American Idol begins tonight, LOL.  As I did last year and the year before, I will continue to post photos when I see these new faux celebrities about town or attend tapings.  (They're staying at a hotel close to me now, but aside from Todrick Hall and JB Ahfua (frontrunners for my money), I don't have a lot of information yet.)  It should be interesting to see how Ellen works out, and since this is Simon's last season, we'll probably be talking about the X-Factor this time next year.  Say what you will about Idol but at its best, the show extols the American Dream.  At its worst, it brings out the schadenfruede in all of us.

    Each year I think it might be the end of the show's popularity, and each year brings a new  Sanjaya, Danny Noriega, Jason Castro or Adam Lambert.  Anyway, I'm sure I'll be attending a show or two this year, and will run in to these wannabe celebrities all over town.  So stay tuned if you're so inclined.  Hit it Ryan:





    Finally, a week of spectacular weather and sunsets, was capped off at the Getty Museum over the weekend, where Ryan, Lorenzo, Adam and I enjoyed a sunset for the ages after coming out of the Rembrandt exhibit.  Take a look at the photos and video:





Friday, 08 January 2010

  • Posted by CareyGLY

    Dumplings, Dogs and Drag Queens


    I've been trying to get to Din Tai Fung with Lexi & Rita for over a year now, and we finally made it.  We ordered way too much, but the leftovers are always great!  I just wish it was closer!


    Watching the dumpling makers







    Keeping with the food theme, here's Chazz staring up at my dinner the other night with his laser eyes:



    The sunsets seem to be getting prettier each night, and they look so good with Chazz in the foreground:  It's been in the high 70's (25°) all week here and we've had some spectacular colors in the sky!


    Sunset on Sunset (Blvd.)




    Looking west on Sunset Blvd. at the top of my street

    The kids went to Disneyland today for Dar's retirement party and Andy fell asleep in the car on the way home and never woke up:


    Chazz standing guard

    Tommy and Mommy did homework, while Joel went for Chinese takeout and the dogs played:


    Learning multiplication


    I cropped out the bunny ears, LOL


    Chazz & Oreo II


    Best of the rest...including an encounter with fashionista Bobby Trendy (thus the drag queen in the title, though as you'll see in the photos, he was dressed way down...not in his usual glam!) a visit with Roscoe & Arielle and yet more sunsets, dogs and kids (but I'll spare you the Sarah Palin this time!)

    And finally, it's nice to know when your words inspire someone.  This was a great way to start the new year.  I'm glad I was able to help you Kevin.  Keep up the good work!



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About Carey Anthony

  • I was born and raised in Chicago, and have lived in Los Angeles (West Hollywood) since 2002. For the 5 years prior to that however, I literally had no home. I simply traveled. I owned nothing but clothes, books and my camera. Since 1990 I've traveled to all continents and have learned many things. I like to read and write. I love movies. I tend to be prolific in a scarce world. I value humor in every relationship. I'm prompt to a fault. I'd rather spend time with children than adults. If you like what you read or see here, leave a comment or send me an email at careygly at gmail dot com. Thanks!

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