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Hello and welcome to beyond the gray sky. I'm Linda and this is another restart of the same old blog.
Starting to add in some of the fun sidebar stuff that used to accompany blogs. Hopefully one day soon everything will be added back in, since I myself enjoy reading those on other people's blogs. For now, I hope
my random and most probably sporadic ramblings will keep you entertained. Enjoy your look around!
| January 12, 2008 @ 5:11am | New Year, New Me? |
I don't like to make New Year's resolutions because inevitably most of them are never accomplished and it just becomes one more reason to get down on yourself. So I'm just going to give myself a broad, general outlook for the new year (and beyond): Get motivated.
If you know me, you know that I have tons of big ideas and big ambitions but practically no follow-through. It's been this way for as long as I can remember. But as I will be officially entering my mid-twenties this year (*kills self*), it is most definitely time to wake up, grow up and get shit done.
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| November 9, 2007 @ 3:50pm | Books, books, books |
I think I'm going to read all 100 books on this list. I'm really not a fan of books written in the 20th century, but I feel like I haven't read a real book in years. I was an avid reader all through my school years but at the beginning of college, I decided to forgo the heavy stuff and only immerse myself in mindless entertainment (celebrity gossip, romantic comedies, teen soaps, absolutely nothing that would make me feel sad) - an ideal I've held onto for the past 6 years. Maybe it's time to give in to that culture-starved part of myself.
What prompted this? I found this on a random blog....
My seven favorite book characters in semi-order:
1. Tom Jones (Tom Jones by Henry Fielding)
2. Edmond Dantès (The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas)
3. Heathcliffe (Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte)
4. Kate Croy (The Wings of the Dove by Henry James)
5. Holden Caulfield (Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger)
6. Atticus Finch (To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee)
7. Percy Blakeney (The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy)
BOOKS ARE FUN!
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| November 1, 2007 @ 5:29pm | I heart MySpace |
Who got a picture with MySpace Tom yesterday? Oh yeah, MEEEEEEE!
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| October 27, 2007 @ 12:30pm | Photography Post |
The fog rolling in across Century City skyscrapers during rush hour. 10.26.07.
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| October 25, 2007 @ 3:28pm | Friday Five on a Thursday! |
Yanked this from Reen:
5, 4, 3, 2, 1…
1. Name five favorite movies.
Serendipity, Moulin Rouge, Stranger Than Fiction, Casino Royale, Romeo + Juliet (1996)
2. Name four areas of interest you became interested in after you were done with your formal education.
Hasn't been that long, but... basically marketing and PR
3. Name three things you would change about this world.
California weather everywhere, cheaper gas, more bunnies!
4. Name two of your favorite childhood toys.
Bike and teddy bear
5. Name one person you could be handcuffed to for a full day.
Right now, it'd have to be Gaspard Ulliel. Hee.
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| October 19, 2007 @ 12:59am | Piiiiiiiiiink (is the new blog) |
Yay, yet another new layout. I can't help myself, I'm back in "bored with this layout after 5 minutes" mode. Need to sharpen up my design skills anyway - have promised two friends I will design their websites and hoping to rebuild the portfolio in order to lure some real clients.
I haven't really been watching much TV these days, which is huge, since for about as long as I can remember I've been an obsessive couch potato, meticulously following every detail of every plotline on several different shows every season. But for some reason, this season, nothing has grabbed my attention, not even the perennial favorites like "The Office" and "Heroes". I thought I would love "Gossip Girl" but I only sort of tolerate it. I haven't seen any other new show. I'm counting on "Lost" to be awesome when it comes back in February; maybe my brain will let me love a TV show again in 4 months.
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| October 14, 2007 @ 3:55pm | Yay winners! |
David is awesome and apparently luckier than I am because we played the Wicked lottery last night (his first time playing, my 5th) and his name was the very first name called. I just about freaked out, allegedly screamed "I fucking love you!!" (I have absolute no recollection of this) in a crowd of families with little kids around and just started pushing him towards the ticket window. It was all a blur and pretty damn exciting.
Seeing the show from the front row is an experience I won't soon forget. It will be hard to go back to the cheap seats after last night. Though there was a major technical difficulty (Glinda's bubble was MIA) the show went really smoothly and Kristoffer Cusick even waved to us during the curtain call. :-) Can't experience that sitting way back in the balcony!
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| September 30, 2007 @ 3:01am | New layout! |
Remember back when I used to put up layouts more than I blogged? Yeah, I feel myself returning to that in the near future. Welcome to version 6.0 of beyond the gray sky, featuring Harold Crick from the amazing (and amazingly underrated) movie "Stranger Than Fiction". It was one of the very best movies of 2006, yet got nearly no recognition. At the very least, Zach Helm deserved an Oscar nomination for the brilliant screenplay. Personally I would have nominated it for Best Picture as well. It certainly deserved it more than "The Departed" or "Babel".
Also trying to spruce up the MySpace page, but it's using overrides that I don't completely understand so it's a slow-moving process. Finally managed to put up a header but I'm already kind of sick of it so that was a waste of time, ha.
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| September 25, 2007 @ 7:58pm | It's so LA |
Yesterday, during my usual stalking of Wicked cast members on MySpace, I discovered that Eden Espinosa and Kristoffer Cusick were going to be a part of a cabaret style concert that very night. Being the spontaneous adventureous person that I am, I bribed Cynthia with a free drink and dragged her with me to go see it. It was at this really nice restaurant/bar/lounge in Hollywood and the cast of "Heroes" ended up at the same place - they were having their 2nd season premiere viewing party there. Saw Milo Ventimiglia and Zachary Quinto - tiny skinny little people they are in real life! Not quite the action heroes they play on the telly, haha. Very cute though.
Had some very nice drinks (though I suspect they kept the alcohol out of my 2nd drink - could have had something to do with me exclaiming "omg I totally forgot I'm driving!"), lounged around on a comfy sofa and listened to some great singers in a really nice, intimate setting. Though Eden and Kristoffer and a whole bunch of other Broadway people were mingling about and within 5 feet of us the whole night, I didn't gather up the courage to speak to them. Alas! I bet I would have done it if that waitress didn't stiff me on the alcohol in my 2nd drink!
All in all, it was a great, fun night, and so typically Hollywood. Sometimes this is just a great city to live in. I love random spontaneous adventures in Hollywood!
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| September 24, 2007 @ 2:05pm | Matt Long = Prince Charming |
Saw "Sydney White" last night and rediscovered my love for Matt Long. Did anyone else watch that awesome show "Jack & Bobby"? I can't believe I forgot how hot and talented this guy is. He had a pretty one-dimensional role in the film - Tyler Prince, the hot fraternity president with a heart of gold, nothing like the wonderful multi-dimesional Jack McAllister that made him famous, but I enjoyed him immensely nonetheless. He had been in other films but this was my first taste of him since J&B's untimely demise. At one point Amanda Bynes gives a fangirl sigh and looks at him longingly and all I could think was, "Oh, I know exactly how you feel, Amanda."
Despite the dreaminess of Tyler, and though we knew all along Sydney would end up with him, I was hoping against all hope that she would end up with Lenny, one of the 7 dorks instead. From their first scene together I felt their connection so much stronger than the one between Sydney and Tyler. I was hoping that since it was sort of an "unconventional" fairytale, they might break away from the idea that the girl has to end up with the prince and let her end up with one of the dorks. They also threw another girl at Lenny to (in my mind) counter-act the bond that is clearly too present to ignore between Lenny and Sydney. Alas, I fear I'm always doomed to ship the UC couple. Ryan/Summer, anyone??
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| September 23, 2007 @ 7:05pm | Rain, rain, go away... |
Well, first of all, this blog is freaking the hell out on me, so please excuse its lameness if it looks weird. I'm using a temporary template jacked from one of my other sites right now while I attempt to fix whatever is wrong with the Cutenews configuartion on this server. Onto our regularly scheduled blogging...
I think the sudden downpour in LA on Friday put me in a weird, depressed mood. Or it may have been the roomie's super depressing tale of how horribly his day had gone (which he told me after I picked him up on the street corner he had been standing on in the rain for over an hour). Yikes. Either way, I felt like total shit and wanted to curl up in bed and sleep forever.
Turned out to be an impossibility because I had to come to San Diego this weekend (where I'm currently writing from and where it's nice and sunny. Oh, San Diego...) to help my parents pick out a new computer. Decided on a Compaq SR5310 for $350 from Fry's. It's infinitely faster and quieter and prettier than their last pile o' junk PC, but I must say, I HATE WINDOWS VISTA. They changed EVERYTHING and I'm resistant to change. I guess I'll have to get over it, since I hated Windows XP too when I was first forced to switch over, and now I find myself missing it.
Can't wait to see "Wicked" again. Have seen it on a fairly regular basis with David and Cynthia for the past few weeks. I've dubbed the three of us Team Wicked, because I'm awesome and clever. Actually saw it from such an amazing seat (13th row, dead center) with the roommate on Wednesday night but it was a total waste because Eden Espinosa did not go on, and we had to see her standby Julie Rieber as Elphaba instead. The whole pace of the show felt off, the chemistry with Megan Hilty and Kristoffer Cusick wasn't right at all, and it was just hard not to compare every little thing Julie did to how Eden would have done it. Again, I'm resistant to change! Can't wait to see it again to set my "Wicked" universe back on track (ie. with Eden, Kristoffer and Megan all in attendance).
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