I love me some Rosie

And I love Beth Ditto from The Gossip. I only wish they had both been at the Denver concert.

Many firsts

Michael Moore's Sicko premiered across the street from my hotel tonight. But right now I am in Radio City Music Hall seeing the True Colors tour again! In a few minutes I'll see my Rosie for the first time! Sigh.

Getting better

At least it isn't blurry this time. Chef Bobby Flay sat two rows in front of me in first class on my way to LaGuardia tonight.

And why have I been catching up with Season Two of Lost on the plane?

Big News

Skippy and I are trying to buy our first house together. Neither of us has owned a house before. We actually have one under contract so we're just waiting for the financing to come through. We hope to close by June 29th so we can do a lot of work the week of July 4th, which will be my first week home in months.

Here are two videos showing what the house looks like now.

This one shows the outside...



and this one shows the inside...

Some day I will take a good picture...

But for now here is Ted from Queer Eye (2nd from right) who will be on my flight!

My latest creation

Direct from Dave and Busters in Times Square

I gasped

Not to brag, but I have met a lot of famous people from my days as a performing arts sign language interpreter. So while it's fun to see famous people here in NYC, it's more like "oh, there's so and so".

So this morning after I hit the gym I left the hotel to walk around the city a bit. I noticed that there was going to be a movie premiere tonight across the street, the same place that had the Georgia Rules premiere. I didn't know what premiere yet as they hadn't posted the sign, but I did see that the red carpet was a lot longer than the last premiere.

I get back from my walk, turn the corner and gasped out loud. The movie premiere is A Mighty Heart with Angelina Jolie. Love, love, love, love her. The sad thing is I was excited about Angelina, my Mom was excited about Brad Pitt. What's wrong with this picture?

I am old

Red Rocks is truly the most amazing venue to see a concert. Of course you have to walk up so many steps to get to it that if you survive the climb you deserve a good concert. And that we got. We were in the 42nd row and it was LOUD. I can't imagine being much closer.

Evidently the lineup changes concert to concert, ours was:

The Cliks (sp?)

The Dresden Dolls

Debbie Harry

Erasure

Cyndi Lauper

Margaret Cho was the MC. I've seen her several times in concert before. She's always raunchy but dang, put her in front of a bunch of gay people and she doesn't hold back at ALL! I now know much more than I ever wanted to about female things.

The Cliks were interesting. There are four and I thought two were guys and two were girls but it turns out that they were all girls! Their sound wasn't the greatest so I couldn't understand many of the words.

The Dresden Dolls were very good. I had never heard of them before but they had quite the fan base. Skippy even liked them.

Deborah Harry wore the smallest miniskirt. The only song she sang that I recognized was French Kissing in the USA and even that I had only heard part of before.

Erasure, on the other hand, poured on the hits. It was like being in the clubs again!

Now Cyndi, I have seen at least five times before. She has one of the most amazing voices, much better than even shines through on her recordings. But by that time we were so tired and we had to be up at 3:30 am, so we left during her first song. The road to Red Rocks is one lane each way so the drive out would have taken way tooo long.

All in all a great night.

Oh and by the way we put in a bid on our first house.

Can you tell...

How beautiful Red Rocks is from this picture? We are walking up an amazing amount of steps to get to the ampitheatre to see Cyndi Lauper in the True Colors tour.

Justice has been served

Finally, Isaiah Washington has been fired for making multiple anti-gay slurs against T.R. Knight. I love that show and every time he showed up on the screen it would just make me mad. Now I can actually just watch the show again.

Why oh why

Does there have to be a huge Coldstone across the street from my hotel on 42nd Street? And why did they get rid of banana ice cream? And why is their Cake Shake such a tasty treat?

A first

I've never flown on a plane with a Business Class section before. Basically the first 14 rows have leather seats. The rest of the plane is Economy Plus so everyone has leg room but being in row 15 I have even more! See you in NYC!

So close....

I have been wanting to get back into San Francisco and see the sights. After work I went straight to my hotel only to find out that I had driven to the wrong Hilton Garden Inn! Luckily they just let me switch to that one.

My trusty GPS told me that I was only 8 miles from downtown San Francisco but I was tired and had room service and was asleep by 7:30 pm. Maybe next time.

Back in cloudy California

Only until tomorrow morning. Here is a shot from my vine of San Mateo.

Wiis!

Every morning NintendoWorld in NYC gets in a shipment of Wiis and sells out of them in an hour or so. I went to pick up Mario Party 8 today and every person in line and at the register was buying a wii but me.