Reduce, Reuse, Repackage

I spent the beginning of this week at a Sonic shoot in Phoenix. We stayed at a hotel that we always used to stay at, which was The James but is not The Mondrian. At The Mondrian, the entire staff wears all white and instead of "checking in" they say "register." One thing that struck me there, other than the $10 a day internet which, when it was The James, was free, was the fact that right next to the card in the bathroom telling me I shouldn't have my towels and sheets washed everyday because of all the water and energy it wastes, were not one but two bars of soap packaged inside what was essentially a thick CD case. Every day I used the soap, the case was discarded and a new bar of soap was put inside a new case. Well, it probably came that way already, but you get what I'm saying.

Along those lines, I've had to buy some light bulbs recently for my new apartment. I decided to buy the energy saver ones, only to find that each bulb is surrounded in a ridiculous amount of plastic packaging.

Let's get it together, people.

Halestorm

If you've been reading this blog for, say, 2 1/2 years, you may recall that the first celebrity to play a Mainstage set after I joined the cast was former Arrested Development actor Tony Hale. Well today, I shot my very first feature film...with Tony Hale. The movie is called The Goods, stars Jeremy Piven as a car-salesman mercenary, and I had one line in it, delivered to Tony Hale. And, in keeping with my impression of him after our first meeting, he couldn't have been nicer. Look for it in 2009. Granted, my part could easily be cut, but let me live the dream, at least for now.

Oh LA

Looking back on my bog records, it appears that as of January 2, this blog is three years old! It's not walking yet though, so I'm a little concerned about its development.

Ok, seriously, this is going to sound like some trite LA cliche, but on the noon local news, the weather guy was talking about the Santa Ana winds coming in, blah, blah, blah, then used the phrase "Arctic chill." Having not been outside yet today, I wondered if we were experiencing a legit winter storm. So I looked at the bottom corner of the TV screen where they show the time and temp, and it was 62 degrees.

I think it's high time that I re-watched one of my favorite movies of all time, LA Story. There's a scene in it where Steve Martin, who plays a weather man, interviews people about how they coped when the temperature dropped into the 50's.

Excuses, excuses

I'm still here, just in a bit of a tizzy between the holidays, traveling, and an upcoming move. Oh, and the flu. I'm embarrassed to even say that I had the flu, since I could have gotten a flu shot and avoided the delightful 5-day ordeal. But when the weather rarely dips below 60, it's hard to get in the mindset that flu season is coming. Live and learn.