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Entertainment by The Blonde Diaries on October 15th, 2008 10:18 pm
I’m super excited. In just two days I am going to head to San Antonio with one of my closest friends to see New Kids on the Block in concert. The last time I saw them I was nine years old and it was right after the cd Step by Step came out. It was their 2nd tour that came to Baton Rouge and boy was I excited. My dad woke up early the day that tickets were to go on sale and brought me to “camp” out between 6am until 10am when Ticketmaster officially opened. We had fairly good seats for the show and I was a happy camper coming home singing my head off, wearing my buttons, and my tshirt.
Fast forward goodness 17 years and I am giddy and excited all over again. I don’t have any buttons but I have been singing to the Greatest Hits cd and my dad found my tshirt from many years ago. As cheesy as it sounds, I can still fit into it and I think I’m going to wear it. Why not? I wonder if he could see the future and knew they’d be reuniting and going on tour again. Maybe that is why my shirt was kept all these years. Either way, I am excited and looking forward to Friday night. San Antonio, here we come!
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Entertainment by The Blonde Diaries on July 31st, 2008 12:02 am
Mike and I have small habits that we have developed over the years. One of our habits is the nightly watching of Cheaters and Blind Date. I don’t know which one we started watching first but it extended to the other show and we now watch both. I tend to prefer Cheaters but lately there are so many reruns that I’m preferring Blind Date. But I am digressing (no surprise). The point of this post is to talk about commercials. These shows run on a pretty low budget local channel here in Houston. Because it is a low budget station, we see the same slimy commercials each night throughout the shows. It seems that party lines and male enhancers are the commercial of choice but every now and then you’ll get an education commercial thrown in there. The past week I have noticed that our favorite commercial is no longer running. I don’t know if their advertising budget ran out or if they are out of business. The commercial was for a party line/dating service and had the a catchy jingle. I guess even in these hard times people can’t pick up the phone as often as they use to in order to call these “hot” girls. Well a new month is about to start. We’ll see if they are just another victim of the economy or just have a small advertising budget.
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Entertainment by The Blonde Diaries on July 18th, 2008 11:38 am
Most people want to forget about the 1980s but I love remembering them. Yes at times the 80s were cheesy but at others they were just fun. One of my favorite ways to remember the 1980s is through movies. I remember watching 9 to 5 with my mother every time it came on tv. I just thought it was the funniest movie ever. What is even funnier is that I never really understood as a kid the sheer desire to put rat poison in your boss’s coffee until I started working. Can I tell you there have been many times since I started working in college that I would have loved to put rat poison in customer’s drinks at the batting cages. Oh how they would drive me up the wall but I just wasn’t able to muster the courage like Dolly and the gang did. Probably a good thing though.
If you are a fan of the 1980s and some of the awesome movies that came out of it then this should be right up your alley. The movie WarGames, a sci-fi thriller about a hacker who unwittingly gets the chance to play a game with the US Military’s war computer which starred Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy, is celebrating its 25th Anniversary. To help ring in this celebration, select theaters nationwide will be showing the movie on the big screen on Thursday, July 24th. This is a one time event and will include special features such as interviews with the film’s creators, the cast, and the crew on how the movie was ahead of its time and relevance. While you are there you will also get a sneak peak at the making of the sequel - WarGames: The Dead Code. Make sure you don’t miss out on this event!
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Entertainment by The Blonde Diaries on July 15th, 2008 12:04 am
Mike is a huge online video watcher. He started small by watching on myspace and graduated to youtube but ended up not liking either site very much because the former didn’t have enough videos and the latter became too “corporate” as he called it. Thus, he found a new site Viddiction.com which is similar to the other two sites in that it is a video sharing website but different in that it is smaller and more personal than other sites. He has come across some pretty cool videos, such as this Budweiser commercial from last year’s Superbowl where the donkey is training for a spot on the Clydesdale team representing Bud, so I’ve enjoyed watching with him on his laptop. I have a soft spot for Budweiser/Bud Light advertising so coming across these old commercials were fabulous. I need to figure out how to make a dvd of commercials to go with my cd of radio commercials.
So why do you want to visit Viddication.com? Well there are a few reasons. First off, if you like searching and watching videos without getting caught by advertisements then this site is for you. Viddication does not sell advertising to companies so you don’t see bias videos or ads running before the video plays. Secondly, you can earn cash for videos. Each month the site runs a contest for the most popular videos submitted where you can win between $50 to $500. It is completely free to enter the contest and there is no limit on how many videos you can submit in a given month. All you have to do is submit and then promote your video(s).
If you are looking for a new form of entertainment or a way to increase your income give Viddiction.com a visit!
Last night Mike and I went out for sushi as previously discussed in my blog. Originally we had planned on going to Sushi King but Mike read some very mixed reviews on Citysearch and at the price point on the menu he didn’t want to take a chance on a crummy birthday dinner. I can’t say I blame him for that either. So we got ready after I came back from my hair appointment and set out for Ra which is my favorite sushi place here in Houston. We drove on over only to discover that apparently after 9pm they roll out a carpet and put up a barrier outside of the restaurant - basically a line making you wait outside until they either a) deem you cool enough to enter or b) someone leaves so you are “allowed in”. Umm… this is a restaurant and it’s freaking Houston. Give me a break!
So Mike and I were not about to participate in this game and decided to give Rickshaw a try since we always see it when we go to Chuy’s. The reviews on Citysearch were ok so we figured why not. Well, the drinks were good (though they all seemed to include the same mix of liquor - peach schnapps, vodka, sweet and sour, and then 1 other random liquor) but the sushi was just eh. I don’t know how to describe it other than supermarket sushi which is not good for $10 a roll. Our favorite roll of the night was the one we just decided to try for the heck of it - buffalo chicken - which isn’t even close to sushi. Oh well. We had a good time anyways but probably will go elsewhere for our next sushi night. I would recommend Rickshaw for drinks on a Friday or Saturday as they had a DJ playing hits from the 80s/90s which was fun.
