Month: February 2009

  • Me & My Guy….Luau

    Even though I’m not home this week, the Hotel Careyfornia is booked to capacity.  Luis and David arrived in L.A. last night sent me this wonderful, albeit staged, photo to let me know they were having a great time in my home!  I love it!

    Meanwhile, it’s the start of baseball season in California, so Rob had coaching duties tonight which left me the delightful task of taking my cousin Tressa to the “Me & My Guy (that’s a “u” not an “a”) Luau” for the Girl Scouts.  It was quite well attended and Tressa seemed to have a really good time with her favorite cousin   I’m working this weekend, so this was the highlight for sure!  Have a nice weekend everyone.


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    Click above to watch Tressa do the twist

  • 6 Red Envelopes

    Gmail

    Carey Anthony

    Happy Earth-Ox New Year
    1 message

    From: Jessie Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 5:08 PM
    To: Carey

    Hey Carey!
    Happy New Year from Tibet!  Today is the Earth-Ox New Year of the 17th Rabjung cycle in the Tibetan Royal Year 2136.  We arrived here last week, and this is the first chance I’ve had to write.  Internet access is spotty at best.  Today we listened to the Dalai Lama give his annual New Year message where he announce that the normal festivities were to be put on hold.  He’s calling instead for a commemoration of those killed in brutal crackdowns on demonstrators a year ago today.  I haven’t been able to upload any pictures yet, but will soon.  Love ya!  –Jess


    Speaking of Chinese New Year, I’m down here staying at my cousin Darlene’s all week.  She had hip replacement surgery on Monday.  Last night I had to babysit for Tommy & Andy while Lisa went to the hospital to visit Darlene.  I was helping Tommy with his homework, and the following discussion ensued:

    Explaining to Tommy why I got six red envelopes this year

    I’ve been working 12 hour days all week and it’s going to be like this for another week.  I’m glad I got to see the kids a bit last night.  We had a good time.

    careytommyandy

  • Star Studded Weekend

    It has been a crazy weekend, but a lot of fun.  It’s after 2 AM and I just have a few minutes to post these pictures and then I have to get ready for my trip tomorrow morning (this morning).  I still have laundry to do and I have to clean the house as Luis & David will be staying here while I’m out of town.  (The Hotel Careyfornia is even busy when I’m not here!)  Claudio’s Brazilian BBQ was a hit yesterday, and he even made feijoada.  Yum!  Chazz is still growing like a weed.  Afterwards I headed up to Santa Barbara to see Tom & Cathy and little PatrickBassam hosted a great party last night and we all had a great time.  Today I came back to LA in time for two Oscar parties.  I thought the ceremony was fantastic this year…the best in a long time, maybe ever!  I got 19 out of 24 predictions right, and won the pool for the 2nd year in a row!  On the way home I walked down DeLongpre because I knew that one of the locks on the garage door of  the Sunset Plaza Hotel is busted.  I was able to sneak in to the hotel and take the elevator up to Sunset Blvd. next to where the Vanity Fair Oscar party was being held.  There were people who had been waiting there all day and I just walked out the hotel door and started snapping photos, LOL.  The LAPD were being assholes though, and it was really hard to get good pictures.  I had to get home but I hung out for about 45 minutes and got to see Kate Winslet, Penelope Cruz, Mickey Rourke, Meryl Streep, Amy Adams Frank Langella, Anne Hathaway, Jon Voight, Robert Pattinson, Gwen Stefani,  and that awesome Domo Arigato Mr. Roboto guy, hoisting his Oscar and waving to the crowd!     I don’t have time to go through all of the photos now, but here’s a sampling:


    The Vanity Fair party 2 blocks from my house


    Jon Voight


    That’s Mickey Rourke in the white coat and hat


    If you look closely, you can see Kate Winslet holding her Oscar


    Kate Winslet again


    I’ll have to through the rest of these later!


    Let’s hear it for the boys (and Daisy, LOL)


    Eva & Patrick


    Breakfast with Patick


    Ryan being butch


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    I took this out the sun roof on the way home from Santa Barbara

  • ‘Twas The Night Before Oscar…

    Update:  19 out of 24 correct predictions!  I only missed, Cinematography, Documentary Feature, Documentary Short, Foreign Language Film, Sound Mixing, but I got all of the major categories right!



    Apologies to Clement C. Moore:

    ‘Twas the night before Oscar
    And all through the “wood”,
    Celebrities were fasting,
    Making sure they’d look good.

    The statues were polished,
    All shiny and gold.
    Hoping Angie or Brad,
    On Sunday would hold.

    The poor kids from Slumdog,
    first time on a jet.
    Hope their movie will win;
    It’s a pretty safe bet.

    With their crash diets over,
    The celebrities came.
    And fans whistled and shouted,
    And called them by name.

    There’s Leo and Kate,
    Together again.
    And there’s Mickey Rourke,
    Wrestling with Sean Penn.

    And what’s all that beeping,
    Coming from the red carpet?
    Oh it’s just Wall-E,
    With Shiloh Jolie-Pitt

    Too bad for Heath Ledger,
    and his peculiar ticks.
    Sunday’s the Oscars,
    And here are my picks: 



    I did pretty well with my Golden Globe predictions this year and my Oscar picks last year….so we’ll see…

     
    From last year….uh huh 

    Finally, congratulations to Jessica & Jamal on their brand new baby boy.  Welcome to the world Jaden Alexander!


    Future Oscar Winner, born Wednesday in West Hollywood, CA

    Tom & Cathy are bringing Patrick down from San Francisco this weekend, so I’ll be in Santa Barbara, with a quick stop at Claudio & Ryan’s for a Brazilian BBQ.  Then I’m out of town starting Monday thru March 2nd.  Happy Oscars everyone!

  • Sick & Hilarious Humanity (& Women Drivers)

    Question:  What do gay Chinese butts, women peeing, & Obama beauty queens all have in common?

    Answer:  They’re all  Google search terms that have brought traffic to my blog in the past 3 days.


      

    Gizmodo recently reported some strange Google search stats.  They found that, according to Google’s search engine, 303,000 people out there were “extremely terrified of Chinese people“. (Just for the record, I’m not one of them!)  Then they delved deeper into humanity’s brain, and came up with this list.  (Go to the US version of Google, and type what is in bold to find the following):

    • 5,310,000 pages from people asking or answering: How to get pregnant.
    • 69,400,000 people asking How to make money.
    • 32,600,000: How to get over someone.
    • 3,290,000: Who do I have to be to make you sleep with me.
    • 841,000: I have a large cat in my pants.
    • 3,300,000: I have a large uterus.
    • 256,000,000: I want to die.
    • 112,000: I have a lovely bunch of coconuts.
    • 3,160,000: Why do I fart so much.
    • 528,000: Why do indians smell.
    • 63,500,000: Why do I sleep so much.
    • 680,000: Why do I have green poop.
    • 883,000,000: Why do I have no friends.
    • 7,570,000: Why do I have diarrhea.
    • 4,170,000: Why do I have so much discharge.
    • 7,120,000: Why do I have to pee so much.
    • 230,000,000: Why do I have gas or so much gas.
    • 456,000: Why do men have nipples.
    • 6,000,000: Why men don’t call.
    • 8,380,000: Why men lie.
    • 11,000,000: Why women have affairs.
    • 36,500,000: Why women lie.
    • 94,200,000: Why Obama should be president.
    • 19,100,000: Why Obama should not be president.
    • 42,300: Why Luke Skywalker is an idiot.
    • 1,610,000: I would like to buy a hamburger.
    • 286,000: I would like to extend you an invitation to the pants party.
    • 818,000: I think im pregnant.
    • 442,000: I hate Indiana Jones 4.
    • Almost 800,000,000: Who do I vote for.
    • 4,980,000: I want a new drug.
    • 114,000,000: I want a wife.
    • 783,000: I have one testicle.
    • 21,900,000: I have one more drink.
    • 12,400,000: I have three breasts.
    • 320,000: I have three testicles.
    • 1,580,000: I have three girlfriends.
    • 610,000: I have four sides, all opposite sides are parallel, I have no right angles. What am I.
    • 159,000,000: When to work.
    • 126,000,000: When to say I love you.
    • 2,730,000: Sleep is for sissies.
    • 2,890,000: I smell like poop.
    • 1,510,000: What is a recession.
    • 1,400,000: I have a hard time swallowing.
    • 338,000: I have a big bag of crabs here.
    • 1,060,000: Sex is for making babies and revenge.

    I get a lot of visitors to my blog through weird and interesting Google searches too.  Here is just a sample of people who came to my blog in the past three days through odd search terms.  You can click on the search to go to my resulting blog entry:  



    Someone in Luxembourg searched for “Cool Gay Chinese Butts” and got this:




    Someone in Germany searched for “The customer smells of smoke is it my place to comment?” and got this:




    Someone in Ireland searched for “Abba the best of the rest” and got this:




    Someone somewhere searched for “Obama Beauty Queen” and got this:




    Someone in Korea searched for “Kyopo Jokes” and got this:




    Someone in California searched for “Dog Ate My Homework Photo” and got this:




    Someone in Germany searched for “Gay Traffic” and got this:




    Someone in Australia searched for “Peeing Women Photographs” and got this:


     


    Someone in the United Arab Emirates searched for “Gay Latino Butts” and got this:




    Someone somewhere searched for “Stop Animal Killers in England” and got this:




    Someone in Massachusetts searched for “West Hollywood Fire” and got this:




    Someone somewhere searched for “Women Drivers Bulgaria Video” and got this:  **




    Someone in California searched for “Prettiest City in the US” and got this:



    Someone in Colorado searched for “Cube in a Kaleidoscope” and got this:




    Someone in Thailand searched for “Asian Gay” and got this:
     


    Someone in India (and 18 other places in the past three days) searched for “Whale Dicks” and got this:




    Remember, that’s just from the past three days, and it’s only a sampling of my Footprints!

    Whale dicks you ask?  Well, I happen to be the #1 Google Search for whale dicks.  Why?  2 years ago, I posted an obscure article about a beached whale that was being transported through the streets of Taipei.  Apparently, methane gas had built up in the carcass and the whale exploded, leaving its entrails and yes, its five foot penis, littered through the streets of Taipei.  I get hundreds of Google hits a month from people all over the world Googling “whale dick”.  So much so that I changed the title of that entry from 2007, to “Stop Googling Five Foot Whale Dicks“, and added some of my favorite blog entries to the post.  Yet, they still come in droves!

    **And finally, while I was typing this entry tonight about sick humanity, once again I heard a loud crash outside my window.  I looked out to see a gray Porsche squealing away and walked outside to find this:

    She had crashed into my garage gate and sped away.  It must have been a woman, because she couldn’t drive a stick shift.  You may remember a few weeks ago (as one of the above Google searches shows), the Bulgarian woman who crashed her car into my front lawn?  You may also remember the dumb bitch from a couple of years ago who took out the garage across the street with her truck.  What is it with women drivers in West Hollywood??  Oh yeah, they drive like this:


    Back in August, 2007 I saw this obnoxious Hollywood wombat, driving with her foot out the window, while smoking a cigarette and talking on the phone!  Are you fu**ing kidding me!!??  She barely noticed my flash going off as I took the picture and gave her the most disgusted look I could muster.  This girl symbolizes nearly everything I hate in life!  Let’s face it, would you ever see a man doing this?  I thought not.

  • Independent Movies, Music & Vibrators

    It’s Oscar week here in Hollywood and to kick it off I was invited to a movie premier tonight in Santa Monica of a new independent film called “The Graduates“.  It’s a coming of age comedy about four high school seniors who learn the true meaning of friendship and growing up.  My friend Seth composed 3 original songs for the soundtrack.  Most of the cast attended the screening tonight, and took questions from the audience after the film.  Seth received accolades from the director for his brilliant songwriting that captured the essence of what the film was all about.  Take a listen:

    Besides Seth’s music, the soundtrack is chock full of lots of great indie music that I really enjoyed.  If you like music, you might be interested to know that “The Graduates” is the first film in history to give away 1 million free soundtracks.  No strings attached.  To sample the music, go thegraduatesmovie.com/music.  If you like what you hear, click “Buy Now” next to “Both Digital Discs”.  When you check out, enter the code “GOGRADS” and update your cart (you may have to update twice to change the price to free).  Next simply enter the requested info and click “Free Soundtrack and Trailer” under Download your purchases.  If you like what you hear, spread the word.  This is a great way to market the movie as well as Seth’s and other’s music. 


    The cast of “The Graduates” and Seth, on the right


    Primo seats

    Last week Seth went to another premier of a new online movie called Zombies Inc.  For some reason, that premier was held at The Pleasure Chest, which is an adult store here in West Hollywood.  He called me at 11 PM to ask if I wanted the “gift bag”.  I said of course I did!  This is what it contained:


    I got a t-shirt, hat, a spanking paddle, and….


    LOL…don’t ask me what this has to do with zombies…but it was part of the swag!

    Another indie movie I saw recently was at Sundance a few weeks ago.  I forgot to blog about it, but it was called Lymelife and starred Alec Baldwin, Timothy Hutton, Cynthia Nixon and the Culkin brothers.  It was a really good movie.  Kind of reminded me of American Beauty in a way.  I have a feeling you’ll be hearing a lot about it this time next year (award season).

    Don’t forget that the Independent Spirit Awards are being held this Saturday, the day before the Oscars, in Santa Monica.  My younger brother was here yesterday, so we took the kids and the dogs (I’m still dog-sitting) to Santa Monica and saw where the awards will be held.  It was kind of overcast, so the pictures aren’t great.  It was much prettier last weekend with Claudio & Ryan, but the girls and the dogs had fun!


    Chanel’s first cat encounter


    It was hard not adopting these puppies at first sight


    Iraq/Afghanistan beach war memorial.  For pictures I took of the same place in better weather, click here

     

      
    Daisy, Chanel and Daisy with Daisies


    My younger brother on the right…we’re 11 months apart

    Please support independent films!

  • Octo Mom @ Gay Traffic School and a Valentine Named Chanel


    As you may know, I spent most of my Valentine’s Day at Traffic School….Gay Community Traffic School to be exact.  The whole day was kind of surreal.  I woke up early to walk Daisy (I’m still dog-sitting) and clean the house a bit as my brother was arriving tonight with his girlfriend, her two kids, and their dog.  Traffic school started at 9:00 and was just down the street.  It took place at the Gay & Lesbian Community Center, which is partly why they called it Gay Community Traffic School.  The other reason was because it was SO GAY!  Even though there were a few straight people there (including an Iraq War veteran), pretty much everything about this class was totally queer.


    Everyone was there at 9:00 except the instructor

    After someone let us in the building at 9:05, we all waited around until the instructor showed up at 9:20.  He was a stand up comedian (literally), who passed around a sheet of paper so we could write our email addresses to get on a mailing list of his upcoming gigs!  (Only in Hollywood.)


    9:11 and still no instructor…he finally showed up at 9:20


    I removed his name from this photo, as I don’t want him to get in trouble.  After all, he gave us lots of breaks and let us out an hour and a half early.  Shhhhhhh.

    From 9:20 to 10:00 we went around the room and introduced ourselves and told everyone what we were “in for”.  Most of the people were there for red light tickets, crossing to get in the left turn lane or speeding.  The instructor referred to us as “criminals”, and promoted the “Lifetime Membership” for traffic school incessantly.  The most I learned all day was in those 20 minutes, because I found out where all the speed traps and ticket cops were in LA!  At 10:00 we took our first 30 minute break.  After the break, he spent the first 20 minutes talking about “Octo-Mom“.  I kid you not!  I secretly videotaped a bit of it.  To wit:


    What kind of car will Octo-Mom have to get?  Click play to find out!

    Then he handed out a “sign test”.  We took it, without discussion, and then it was time for our 90 minute lunch!  LOL.

     

    When we came back from lunch the instructor went around the room to find out what everyone ate for lunch.  A few people had eaten at a nearby Subway sandwich shop, which led to the inevitable 6 inch or 12 inch question.  That’s all I’ll say about that topic.    That exercise took about a half an hour.  One more easy multiple choice test (about nothing we had talked about) and it was time for our afternoon 30 minute break!


    While we took our last test, our instructor napped

    When discussing road distractions, animals came up.  We learned that a pig is the most dangerous animal to run over (because of its low center of gravity).  Elephants and whales were also mentioned.  I believe his line was, “you’d be in deep water if you hit a whale”.  LOL  After the third and final test (none of which were turned in by the way), he handed us our certificates and sent us on our gay way to enjoy Valentine’s Day with our loved ones. 

    Shortly after I got home, my brother arrived.  Rebecca’s kids have a new dog named Chanel (I should have brought her to Gay Traffic School with me…she’s pretty gay).  We had a nice dinner and watched Mamma Mia.  So my Valentine this year was a Yellow Lab pup named Chanel.  Oh well, there’s always next year!


    Chanel, Me, my brother David, Rebecca, Nicole, Tiffany & Daisy


    Me and my Valentine, Chanel 


    Mamma Mia


    Tiffany & Daisy


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  • Life, Liberty & Roscoe on the Red Carpet

    I went to Ann & Jorge’s the other night and got to visit with Arielle, and take Roscoe on a long walk around the neighborhood.  I noticed the following billboard on Santa Monica Blvd. and thought it was nice:

    Have you heard that Kenneth Starr (yes, that Ken Starr) and the Proposition 8 Legal Defense Fund  have filed legal briefs defending the constitutionality of Prop. 8 and are attempting to forcibly divorce 18,000 same-sex couples that were married in California last year? The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in this case on March 5, 2009, with a decision expected within the next 90 days.

    The Courage Campaign has created a touching video using Regina Spektor’s great song “Fidelity” that puts a face to those 18,000 couples and all loving, committed couples seeking full equality under the law.  If you would like to tell the California Supreme Court to invalidate Prop 8, reject Ken Starr’s case, and let loving, committed couples marry, click here.

    Roscoe is finally growing out of his crazy puppy phase, but he’s still a handful.  Ann literally had to sit on him when I came in the door to keep him from going crazy.  After I left, he howled at the window for half an hour and Ann posted the videos


    On our walk, Roscoe got to attend a red carpet event at The Body Factory


    Roscoe and Daisy got along splendidly

     

    Tonight, Dar and I finally went to see Revolutionary Road (after three previous unsuccessful attempts).  I really liked it.  Roger Ebert said that it was “so good, it was devastating”.  I know what he means.  It was terribly sad, but so well done.  One of these days Leonardo DiCaprio has to win an Oscar.  On the way out of the theater I took this. 

     
    Happy Friday the 13th!

  • The Secret Life of Xangans

    Tony (generasianx) was nice enough to invite Albert (owbert) and me to a showing of “The Secret Life of Bees” on Sunday night.  After the movie, there was a panel discussion with the director, Gina Prince Bythewood, and one of the stars of the movie, Dakota Fanning.  (They were also joined by Dr. Barbara Rico, an English professor from Loyola Marymount who discussed some of the central literary & multicultural themes in the movie.)  Dakota Fanning, who’s not even 15 yet, blew us all away.  She is a remarkably poised young woman, seemingly unaffected by the spotlight and the falseness that permeates this town.  Her performance in the movie was riveting.  She kept pace with her fellow actresses Queen Latifah and Jennifer Hudson.  Quite frankly, I’m surprised the movie didn’t get more buzz (pun intended).  Roger Ebert writes:

    There is such a thing as feeling superior to your emotions, but I trust mine. If I sense the beginnings of a teardrop in my eye during a movie, that is evidence more tangible than all the mighty weight of Film Theory. “The immediate experience,” one of the wisest of critics called it. That’s what you have to acknowledge. I watched the movie, abandoned history and plausibility, and just plain fell for it. If it had been a bad movie, it would have been ripe for vivisection. But it is not a bad movie.

    I have some video of the panel discussion if anyone’s interested, I’ll post it on YouTube.  If you haven’t seen this movie, it’s worth watching.  If you don’t like it, I’ll pay you double.


    BFF’s!, Carey & Dakota.   She reminds me a lot of Jodie Foster


    The Three Xangateers:  Carey, Albert & Tony


    I think Tony wants to cast Dakota in his next movie!  Brokeback Bounty II??


    14 going on 15but she acts like she’s in her 20′s


    Rev. Kim Dorr, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Dakota Fanning & Dr. Barbara Roche Rico


    Outside the church in Bel Air where the movie was screened


    The San Fernando Valley on a rainy evening in Bel AirMore pics here…

    Before the movie, we celebrated my Uncle’s 81st birthday and my cousin Cody’s 17th birthday.  The whole family turned out and a good time was had by all:

  • Driving Miss Daisy Crazy

    Claudio & Ryan came up with Chazz on Friday.  It’s only been 3 weeks since I last saw him (when he “read” my animal books), and my how he’s grown!  I’m still dog-sitting for Daisy through the end of the month.  Daisy is 9 years old and I’m sure the last thing she wanted to do all weekend was contend with a playful rambunctious puppy.  She was a trooper though, despite her impatience at times.  I think they secretly had crushes on each other.  Just look how they were sleeping in bed with me when I woke up yesterday morning.  Luckily I had my camera by my side:

    Admittedly though, they needed a few time outs:

    Claudio & Chazz

    Yesterday we went to the beach at Santa Monica:

     


    We almost dropped to our deaths in this parking garage elevator….then noticed the permit expired in 2002!


    I need to add the words, “& Pet Motel” to the Hotel Careyfornia sign above!


    Tuckered out after a long day at the beach


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