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Some things.

Fri, 02 May 2008 17:13:41 GMT

So last night Trey and I watched The Golden Compass. Having read the book a while back and really enjoyed it I was interested in seeing how it would transfer to film. Unfortunately it was poorly done and didn't give nearly enough details to tell the actual story not to mention that several things were completely out of order. The book itself is very addicting and has a very intricate story line that is nicely strung together in an orderly and intelligent fashion, something that you would not expect if you were only to watch the film. I know that this happens with just about every book turned into film, so I really shouldn't be surprised, but I was still hoping for a little bit more. It's just one of those things where the people in charge of adapting the screen play should be smart enough to realize that their "story" is about to ruin the original story and that they should just cancel or re-do the entire thing. It's just frustrating...... This isn't even a favorite book of mine, but I did really enjoy it and I don't like that it was so poorly translated to film.

In other news.

Trey and I are supposed to go on a weekend over-night sail starting tomorrow. It should be pretty fun except there's no way I'm even going to put my feet in the water with that rabid great white shark still on the loose after last weekends fatal attack. I mean.... he's probably not rabid, but still.... I'm just hoping it's warm and that I can wear a swim suit and not a sweat suit. (not that I even wear sweat suits.... come on). But I do love my "yoga" pants. They've got to be the most comfortable type of pants to wear. srsly. But that's totally beside the point. All I'm saying is, it better be warm or I'm gonna row right back to shore and spend the weekend at Intelligentsia sipping Angeleno's and reading a good book!

Ok. I guess that's all. Life is being nice to us these days and I hope it's the same for everyone else.

Love,
Erin

PS - my sister Ashlee is really great!

A favorite old picture of a couple people I love and miss.

So So Good!

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:18:26 GMT

So funny....

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:46:56 GMT

I'd have to say, that Jimmy wins this round.

Monday, February 18, 2008

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:35:37 GMT

A couple of things about today.

1. I accidentally threw our dust buster out of the second story window today and of course it shattered into pieces on the sidewalk below. Surprisingly it still turns on and off, but unfortunately it can't suck anything up because it's broken.

2. The "$5 guy" just walked past our windows on the sidewalk below with a pink sparkle hat on singing Maniac....awesome...

3. Intelligentsia is yummy.

4. Trey dropped a brand new bar of soap in the toilet today. He couldn't get it out so he thought it was a good idea to flush it because, "it was dissolving so quick". I can't believe this. I guess it's no worse than me throwing the dust buster out the window.

5. We're painting our bathroom...............................AGAIN. I hate it.

We're trying to go back here again.

And I love Bryan Adams. I just do.

A good week

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:19:08 GMT

So I don't usually watch the Grammy's because music these days is usually to dissapointing to pay attention to (music that gets recognized at lease), but I watched this year hoping to catch a glimpse of some friends. Well, I never did catch sight of them, but I did catch Amy Winehouse at the end. I wasn't really too familiar with her music before seeing her perform on Sunday. I have only caught snip bits of her crazy life through random websites. I had heard the song Rehab before, but only so much as I remembered the beat when I saw her preform it. Since then, I have been loving that song. And even though she may be a bit of a "train wreck", I still don't think I would have liked it if anyone else had won the award for Record of the Year. Her acceptance was amazing. The shocked look on her face and her whole attitude seriously made me so happy it almost made me cry. And I can't stop watching it. And as for "for my Blake, my Blake incarcerated" that was one of the funniest things I've ever heard from an acceptance speech. I think overall she's fantastic. Except for the whole drug thing. Anyway. I'm gonna post the video of her acceptance just in case anyone else out there can't stop watching it.

Now. I went and saw Rufus last night with my friend Mac. Trey unfortunately is out of town. But the show was fantastic. I enjoyed every second of it. There's just something about that gay man that I love so much. I'll also put two youtube videos on here that someone else took of the show. He loves to twirl that mic cord around. His hairy chest and HUMUNGO necklace made me laugh on more than one occansion last night. I couldn't decided between these two videos which one I like best. In this first one Susan definitely doesn't get the credit she deserves. I wish that she was on it more. She had some of the best dance moves I've ever seen. It was pretty out of control. If you notice when the video is right around 2:25 Rufus looks back at her and realizes how crazy this lady looks dancing behind him and makes kind of a funny face. The second video is of the song he opened with. It was pretty special. The Wiltern is now on the list of venues that I really enjoy in LA. It's right up there with the Troubadour.

Trey comes back in town tomorrow. We have plans to see Wicked this weekend. I think it will be a good time.
Love, Erin

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:52:42 GMT

Work sure is gonna be different now that Rudy isn't in the race anymore...... who knows what's gonna happen.

anyway...♥

This is what my brother-in-law, Jordan, tells me I'm gonna be like in a couple years as a result of Trey traveling so much for work......

Monday, October 01, 2007

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:01:54 GMT

Fun weekend. And week for that matter. It's always fun when friends come to town and then introduce us to new friends. We miss being social. Darren and Israel should come back every week.

Trey and I went to see Bright Eyes at the Hollywood Bowl this weekend and we were completely disgusted by one of the opening bands. Particularly this man.

Yo La Tengo was the most horrible thing we've ever seen on stage. There wasn't one good part of their show. A lot of people seem to really enjoy their music, which is weird. We tried to relate our disgust with several friends via text messages throughout the show only to find out that the majority of the people we know "love them!" ... we were in shock. Thankfully, Enoch fully agreed with us and made us feel a lot better about life. I think we concluded that maybe they are better recorded. But if you ever have the opportunity to see Yo La Tengo live then spare yourself. It's really gross to watch. Really. Believe me. It's gross.

But Bright Eyes was pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, good. The LA Philharmonic played with the band and it sounded nice. The horns really took over sometimes, but I liked it. Everything was pretty. See...

Not the best picture, but we liked the lights. Trey was really a little upset that they didn't play Four Winds. I mean it's a little strange that they didn't. It is the first single off the new album after all. Connor was probably just mad because the very same crowd that we were a part of booed Jimi Hendrix when he was on stage at the Hollywood Bowl 30 years ago or something.....What? Exactly. He hated us before he ever went on stage. Just kidding. Maybe he didn't.

In other news. We went hiking up at Runyon Canyon yesterday. It was fun. Lots of gross dog smells though. Owners don't really pick up after their dogs on this particular trail. So every now and then you get a whiff of dog poop that is pretty overwhelming. I guess they all like to go in the same spots. There were some pretty steep spots on the trail. I think I almost fell down 10 times. 10 times exactly.

So. Here it is. For Trey because I love him.

Legend

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:12:10 GMT

I can't believe I was allowed to watch this when I was little. I can't wait to watch it again.

Apache Boy

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:22:35 GMT

This is really something that should not be missed. Trey would disagree. I thank Carolin for bringing this into my life.

Saturday, August 11, 2007

Sat, 11 Aug 2007 21:18:28 GMT

We sure did get married.

Here are a couple of photo's. I will post more at some other time. Thank you to everyone that was able to be there. We really appreciated all the traveling that everyone had to do. It was wonderful to see so many far away friends and family.

love, erin wales