So I tend to talk about the weather in this area a lot and I try not to because it can be kind of boring but then its the first thing that usually pops into my mind. This week is pretty crazy because of the weather. Not only was it hot this past week both day and night, it rained! We never get rain in July and when its hot ... what is this, Florida?? I guess it did get a little humid one day but that has happened before. Now I didn't see the rain since I spent most of the week in the OC but a lot of people I know in LA were shocked at the rain in the middle of the week, 80 to 90 degree weather and ... July! It didn't rain that much but enough to wonder what the heck is going on here?!?Weekly Update:
So I was at a fast food place yesterday and I saw a schedule for the local House of Blues for the month of July ... the state of concert venues seems kind of in bad shape. I didn't recognize any of the bands on there for the month and a lot of "tribute" bands were the evening's act. So you have stuff like No Duh (No Doubt), Nearvana (Nirvana), Just Like Priest (Judas Priest) and a few others that I can't quiet remember but ... sad, just simply sad. Well, I guess if you can't get the actual band these days, get the 4th best thing?
At the movies:
No big surprise here as the sci-fi thriller of the summer takes the crown for the box office ... Inception earns a hefty 60.4 million for the weekend. Holding in at #2 is "Despicable Me"for an additional 33.7 mil. New at #3 with a 5 day opening is The Sorcerer's Apprentice with only 24.5 mil which is a pretty bad number considering its for a 5-day opening. Continuing to drop at #4 is "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" with another 13.5 mil but now over 260 mil cume. Rounding off the top 5 is "Toy Story 3" with an additional 11.7 mil as it makes it way close to a 400 mil cume but not sure if it will hit it or not.
Quote of the week:
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work ... I want to achieve it through not dying." - Woody Allen
Other News:Last week I got an e-mail from a mailing list I signed up for years ago for a little store nearby that focuses and sells supplies for scrap booking. Now for those who are not familiar with this, its basically creating memories to share and present them in a way that can be charming. Typically you take photos and make a page around it, theme it, so besides it just being a picture, it is almost a piece of art work. I have done it a few times and its pretty fun because it does get the creative juices flowing. I did a different form of this when I use to work at the movie theatre and we did a lot of movie promotions. We would create a type of scrapbook to show what we did and decorated the pages of the photos around the movie (or picture) so it wasn't plain or boring. So the store I got the e-mail from ... it is closing at the end of this month. Sad to see a nice little store disappear but in this age with online ordering, photoshop programs and even a power point set up ... the younger generation is electronic or digital. They create on the computer and then print it out later but there is not hands-on work or feel of the materials you are working with. Just isn't the same and it will be sad to see this little gem disappear.
Facts & Tips:
The starfish is the only animal that can turn its stomach inside out.
"Well, it’s a figure of speech I can’t “figure” out, because I’m not seeing “Colonel” on my uniform." - Michael DeLuise as Nick Marlowe playing Colonel Danning on the TV show "Stargate SG-1."
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