Red Hot Chili Peppers

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     I'm officially going to see the Red Hot Chili Peppers live!! They'll be in Oakland in February and guess what? I will be there as well.. even if I'll be in the most nose-bloody nose bleed seat, I will be so ecstatically happy I won't even know what to do with myself.. except maybe sing at the top of my lungs and take a million pictures!! Gah! I'm so excited. I can't believe it.
    Oh and the show is gonna be in the Bay Area [obvee since it's in Oakland], but it's exciting [well more exciting than seeing them in Portland. Sorry Portland.] because I'm gonna consider it a hometown show! Yay! So after this show, I will have seen two of my favorite bands in their hometown! hmm.. I really need to get going on that goal of mine [as in, my goal to see all of my favorite bands in their hometowns. Hometown shows are the best! I should know, I've been sooo many of them!]

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Currently listening to... "Goodbye Hooray" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers

Alice.

Photo by Kim McAuliffe.

     As my parents fly over the Pacific Ocean to yet another paradise [Maui this time, which is a real paradise where as Los Angeles is a cement and plastic [aka fake] paradise.], I'm going over past photos, looking to print some out to bring back to school with me! And I'm also checking out the new ABC Family show, Jane by Design, since I'm such an ABC Family whore and need to watch at least the first couple episodes of all their new series! 
     I leave to haul back to that college in the Bay Area Saturday evening and start classes [and practices ickk] again on Monday, so I gotta pack, email profs, spend time with friends and family, ect, ect, ect. Crazy that this break is practically over already! It was an extra long one [I normally would've started classes this past Monday if it wasn't for Jan. 1 being a Sunday], but I spend so much time either traveling or celebrating holidays, that I haven't had more than two days in a row to just veg on the couch or whatnot the entire month! And once classes and practices start on Monday, I won't have another true break until... well.. next Winter Break, if I'm not mistaken. Yay! Well I'll have to make the most of today, tomorrow and Saturday. Hmmm.. I'm thinking I probably won't. hahah but oh well. I'll be back in Santa Clara, back to normal, back in no time. 

I love my Duuuucks!

     So excited that my Ducks won the Rose Bowl today!! I was super proud to be a part of that crowd. It was such a phenomenal game throughout by both teams. Between the game and the Rose Parade before it, I may or may not have taken 606 pictures. ahahah but I won't bore you with all of those... yet! hahah I'm just gonna give you a little taste of the great start to 2012 since I've been up since 5am [after only 5 hours of sleep and sadly no nap] and I gotta wake up at the buttcrack of dawn again tomorrow to get to the airport by 5am. 


Rose Bowl 2012:

Some Badgers we became friends with while tailgating.
Photo by Michael Bonino-Britsch.

All that red!

Oh you know. Just those classy Beaver fans and their Wisconsin shirts.

This Wisconsin fan was in the Duck section and was cheering when
one of our players was down on the field. Suffice it to say, we showed
him how we felt about his "sportsmanship."

I liked this O standing out against all the red.

Final score.

Photo credit: a very friendly, very intoxicated Wisconsin fan.

Currently listening to... the Fiesta Bowl. Let's go Stanford! Get another 2012 bowl game victory for the Pac12!

West Hollywood/ Beverly Hills

Mama at the La Brea Tar Pits museum.
[which was also closed]

     So I have to wake up in less than six hours to head up south to Pasadena [south to Pasadena, never thought I'd say that!] for the Rose Bowl Parade and eventually the Rose Bowl game [hopefully with a nap of some sort in between!], so I'm gonna skip giving you all the pictures and gory details of our New Year's Eve at Disneyland and jump right to the very few pictures I took today in West Hollywood and BevHills [but fret not, I'll update you on Disney and the Rose festivities once I'm back where it rains a lot]. 
     We did mostly a driving tour [except going to the La Brea Tar Pits, which were pretty sweet, but also pretty smelly hahaah], only getting out of the car to take some pictures, eat at a completely vegan restaurant, and to go to the Guitar Center Hollywood RockWalk, which was sadly closed [it was Jan. 1 after all, everything but retail and restaurants was closed]. But my mama did see someone famous! A one Dyan Cannon was spotted strolling through the streets of BevHills walking her canine companion [if you don't recognize the name, you might recognize the face, if you don't recognize the face, you might recognize her accomplishments]. So yay! We saw someone famous and just being a normal person whilst in Hollywood! Mission accomplished.


Now for some photographies:

La Brea Tar Pits

model of a mama getting stuck in the tar,
with distraught baby and daddy looking on. 

Where the Maine played the last time they were in Hollywood.

The Viper Room.
Once owed by Johnny Depp.
The sight of River Phoenix's 1993 overdose.

Ring of Fire.

My idol.

Downtown smelL.A.

Hollywood

     So on Friday, parentals, Will and I made the long trip [due to traffic, distance, and a small detour into Pasadena to pick up our Rose Bowl Parade bleacher tickets] up to Hollywood to see the Walk of Fame as well as the Kodak and Chinese Theatres! I got a bundle of Johnny Depp pictures [one with three of his movie characters as portrayed by Hollywood Boulevard street performers, one with his star on the Walk of Fame and one with his hand and foot prints outside the Chinese Theatre]. It was oodles of fun and just a bit too crowded. haha not really. it was a lot too crowded. but oh well. Disneyland the next day [aka, New Year's Eve] was even more crowded, but I'll put up pictures from yesterday latah. Alas, this morning has been a slow one [seeing as I am bloggin' from my hotel room while on vacation, you can more than tell that this slow morning has not been my choice. I'd rather be experiencing the area then experiencing my hotel room, thank you very much!], but I'm hoping to rev up my family this morning [afternoon, actually!] and get going up to West Hollywood to take in some of the fame and excess of LA! Wish me luck!


Hurr're some pictars from Hollywood:

 Using my new [my dad's old] camera! [at the Hollywood Bowl]
Photo by William McAuliffe.

Photo by William McAuliffe.

Chinese Theatre.
Photo by William McAuliffe.

Photo by William McAuliffe.

No James Dean! because he was already gone :[

First picture with Johnny!Photo by William McAuliffe.

Inside the Chinese Theatre.

the sunset sets on Hollywood Blvd.

Chuck Norris!

Second picture with Johnny!Photo by William McAuliffe.

LAmerican Apparel!

Award for best kitty sitter goes to...

Photo with three Johnny Depp characters at once!
Photo by William McAuliffe.

Hipstahs.

Currently listening to... the Matches [I'm all the way through E. Von Dahl, Decomposer and half way through A Band In Hope. I wonder if I'll make it through their last album before we leave dis hotel room!]


P.S. I probs won't put up pictures from whatever we end up doing today, as well as from Disneyland yesterday and the  Rose Bowl until I get back to good ole Orygon because tomorrow will be real crazy and busy and we fly out super early Tuesday morning!