The Omen (Scary)

Barry & Shannon Visit

Picnic In The Park

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We saw Kenny Chesney in concert last night and it was pretty awesome!! It was my first "country" concert but it's kind of hard to call Kenny Chesney country when he has special guests like Uncle Kracker and (get this) Eddie & Alex Van Halen. They came out and performed "Jump" and "Your Really Got Me" with KC which was a huge surprise!

Sorry you weren't there Tuti but I got it on video for you. It's a 189mb file and pretty good quality all things considered. I even got KC's "I Go Back" for my mom who's a big Kenney Chesney fan.

We went with Janice & Mike, Sara & Brian and Sara's mom and had a blast both before and during the concert. Here's a few pics...enjoy!
    

The Blondes (Kim, Sara & Janice)

Jim & Kim

Sara & Brian

Mike & Janice

Our View From The Floor

Our View From The Floor

We had a pretty wild Friday night starting with a free dinner at one of our favorite seaside restaurants. The owner "desperately" needed to meet with me LATE Friday afternoon so I used a little of my business muscle to get a comped dinner for two in exchange for me seeing him at the last minute. We got a great table right over the ocean with the windows open and a cool breeze blowing in. It's a great way to have dinner to have dinner. We had a nice bottle of wine, shrimp cocktail, crab alfredo, salmon, swordfish, and scallops. Power has it's privileges sometimes. Don't worry, I don't let it get to my head. We'll probably be at Taco Bell before the weekend's over! Ha-ha!

After dinner, we went back to the house and got into loose summer clothes and opened a few more bottles of wine. We kicked off our shoes and played darts with the music turned up...and Kim beat me in every game!!!

I'm a huge fan of Keanu Reeves, always have been, always will! So it came as no surprise to me when I stumbled across this article outlining 40 reasons why Keanu is one of the best actors (and celebrities) of all time. Check it out and decide for yourself...

• http://www.thejay.com/2006/06/13/keanu-reeves-does-not-suck-and-i-can-prove-it/

Just when you thought the whole Katrina fiasco was over comes news that so far, over one billion dollars worth of FEMA aide (given out in the form of debit cards to those displaced by the Katrina) has been misused to buy diamonds, porn, champagne, vacations, nights at the strip club, lawyer fees and other items not deemed "necessary" to human survival. As if all the looting and pillaging that went on in the aftermath of Katrina weren't bad enough, now all these savages get tax-payer funded debit cards to go buy "bling-bling" and go partying.

Sometimes even I hate America. I think ever tax paying citizen should call the IRS and tell them they are not paying any more taxes until all this misused money is recovered and these two-time thieves put behind bars.

• http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/06/13/fema.audit/index.html

Katrina Looters In Action

New Clothes & Home Decor

Liquor & Cigars For The Block Party

New Ghetto Wearables For All

New Timberlands for Little Calvin (he's starting early)

The countdown has begun to our first summer concert...Kenny Chesney. We've got floor seats to see him this weekend with Mike & Janice Caruso. Opening for Kenny will be Carrie Underwood and Dierks Bentley. Should be fun and looking forward to sort of kicking summer off with a great concert!

I saw a commercial for the new Dairy Queen Blizzard Saturday night and just had to have one but being too lazy to drive to the other side of town, I settled for an Oreo McFlurry from McDonald's. Being the Sabbath and all, I guess it was only appropriate that I got served a McFlurry by the King of Kings. "Jesus" was working the register at the local McD and despite his poor grasp of the English language managed to serve me a heavenly Oreo McFlurry. Maybe next week the Pope can serve me an Arby's beef & cheddar!

It was another warm yet relevantly uneventful weekend for us...but here's what we did anyway.

• Friday Night - Went and saw The Omen...see previous post below. 

• Saturday - Spent almost the entire day spring cleaning before cooking on the grill and watching a couple movies: Dazed & Confused and The Family Stone

• Sunday - Had Sunday brunch at Billy's Deli in Torrance and then ran around town picking some little things here and there.

And believe it or not, we did not go to Best Buy the whole weekend...ha-ha!

Looks like R. Kelly is finally going to be a movie star. Although no trial date has been set yet, the presiding judge in his statutory rape case will allow the public to view a tape that allegedly shows R. Kelly having sex with and 'peeing on' a 13 year old girl in the back of his tour bus. Police believe the tape was made sometime between 1998 and 2000 while R. Kelly was on tour. It was discovered several years ago at which point R. Kelley was arrested and charged with a laundry list of offenses that would have landed anyone else in prison for decades. 

Kelly, 38, has pled not guilty to 14 counts of rape and child pornography and has been using his celebrity status to postpone the trial for years while he continues to make music and live the good life. Isn't it amazing how celebrities and politicians get a different kind of justice than everyday citizens.

13 year old girls should be playing with E-Z Bake ovens...not getting peed on by a low-life rapper like R. Kelley...on camera none-the-less.

We saw The Omen Friday night and it was really good although it would have been nice had Damien (the Devil's son) said more than 5 words in the whole film. Other than that, I really enjoyed it and it has one of the best decapitation scenes of any film I've ever seen...if you're into that kind of thing. Half the fun of seeing this movie was the reaction of some of the Latino people in the audience. I swear there were some big Latino guys screaming out like little girls every time something scary happened and the whole theatre would crack up laughing each time that happened. Can't wait to get this on DVD and I hope they re-make the sequels.

So this post may be a little heartbreaking for some of you gals but it is no way meant to be mean spirited...just an observation. Like many country stars, Kenny Chesney always wears a hat and now I know why....

Kenny Chesney with hat...

Kenny Chesney sans hat...big difference huh?!?

I'm still going to enjoy seeing him in concert cause I don't care how he looks, he makes really great music!

Nothing makes it feel more like summer than a good outdoor concert and in two more weeks we'll be seeing Kenny Chesney at the Home Depot Center. From what we understand you can take cameras so hopefully we'll get some pics of the event. This will be my first "official" country concert but Kenny Chesney is more pop than country in my opinion.

Speaking of super cool movies, the new rendering of The Omen comes out this Tuesday which is of course 06.06.06. Agghhhh! The end of the world! LMAO!
    
Wonder how many idiots will be waiting for the rapture to happen on Tuesday? Or thinking that somewhere in Eastern Europe the Antichrist is being born?

We saw X3 tonite and it was really good if not heartbreaking on so many levels. Let's just say there are a lot of casualties in this one and it pretty much rules out any chances for another X-Men movie. Maybe that's why it's called "The Last Stand." I left the movie theatre feeling a little deflated not because it wasn't a GREAT movie but because I hated to see some of my favorite characters get killed or have "other" things happen to them. Having read X-Men comics as a kid I guess I have more of an attachment to them than the general public. I guess that also makes me a nerd! Ha-ha!

UPDATE: Apparently there is a extra scene at the very end of the credits (which we didn't see) that completely changes everything and opens the door for another X-Men movie. So for those of you who plan on seeing the movie, stay until the very end! I already found out what happens in that scene thanks to the internet...still wish I'd seen it though.

Friday - Summer finally showed up this weekend with clear skies and temperatures in the 80's during the day and warm ocean breezes at night. After being cooped up in the house all week I was dying to get out of the house on Friday night so we hoped in the car and went to...where else?...Best Buy. We picked up a few DVD's that were on sale and looked at lots of other "toys" we wanted.

Saturday - It was an absolutely beautiful day but we had no choice but to do laundry after putting it off for over a month. Despite having a high tech laundry mat minutes from our house and getting all our laundry done in less than 3 hours, we still dread doing laundry more than anything else. Judging from the warm glow on the horizon it was probably a gorgeous sunset which made it even more dreadful to be doing clothes but that's what we get for putting it off so long. After we were finally done, we headed to California Pizza Kitchen for a late dinner and then crashed on the sofa to watch the 40 Year Old Virgin on DVD. I love that movie!

Sunday - It was another warm day so we laid out by our pool most of the afternoon getting started on our summer tans. We normally already have tans by this time of year but the first 5 months of 2006 have been the most dismal in all the years we've been out here. Maybe things are back to normal now. After getting some sun we went out to dinner and a movie. See next post for movie review.

So that was our weekend.