Tough life

Sorry, I haven't posted in awhile, after I turned 30, it went down hill from there! Nah...I have been further occupied playing with my toys from the birthday! The I-Touch is awesome, I can download podcasts which include cooking videos, plus check email and surf the web. And check out the Bose system Cousin Tina gave to me, sound is outrageous!

There were be tons of good posts to come like my Cinco de Mayo themed dinner and also, I'm in Napa all week...! Taking a cooking class for work....ahhh, life is hard. The class in on Healthy Flavors of Asia, Latin America and the Mediterranean. I just ironed my chef's jacket and am ready to roll at the CIA in Greystone tomorrow, 7 AM! Wish me luck.

If I weren’t a Chef, I’d be a ROCKSTAR.

I LOVE music and am constantly listening to it, waking up to the radio, in the car (my 80 minute commute- round trip) via radio, at work via I-Tunes, running via I-POD, and at home via CDs. My favorites….I am quite obsessed with the late 60s such as the Beatles, CCR, Paul Simon and then there’s the kind of alternative/rock/pop stuff, like Coldplay, Snow Patrol, any my CDs, one highly recommend the Last Kiss soundtrack, where I discovered Ray LaMontagne. I only wish the blogspot site had links to music, ugh.

I went to the Hollywood Bowl this weekend and had a blast with John Mayer. The whole time I kept thinking and wondering, is he singing his heart out for the loss of Jessica Simpson??? He’s such a talented singer and I can’t fathom the thought of singing AND playing guitar in front of thousands. The site at the Bowl is beautiful, Hollywood hills in the back drop, cool, crisp with your own food, wine and good friends, sunset. WOWsers. If you haven’t checked out his latest album, please do. Contiunuum.

Snoop Dog Concert

I read somewhere that Snoop would be in putting a concert to benefit his "Snoop" Football Little League. While the man does get in trouble with the law, I have listened to him my whole life. From when he collaborated with Dr. Dre in the early 90's and most recent with Justin Timberlake (my secret boyfriend), I have always loved his music! My dream come true to see Snoop Dog perform in the LBC...or at least 40 miles from it. This was the best concert I have ever been to! For all our VT folks, we wish you guys were there cause he kicked it back old skool. The scene was crazy, all sorts of folk, old, young, white, black, asian, there was no discrimination.

Damian Marley opened up and the smell of 'herb' radianted through the crowd. Next was the Pussy Cat Dolls featuring Snoop singing the latest top 40 'Buttons' mix. He was smooth and sleek wearing a black velour jogging suit with '20' etched on the back and his infamous Snoop Dog logo on the front. Unfortunately, afterwards, he left the stage and we had to endure what seem to be high school dance routine songs by the Pussy Cat Dolls. 20 minutes later, Snoop came out again with literally 30 of his friends in the background while he went through a hodge podge of oldies but goodies. He started off slow with a rendition of P-I-M-P by 50 cent which was odd. Hysteria filled the LA Greek theatre as he lead into..."Nuthin' but a G Thang", followed by "Gin and Juice, It's Like This and Like That, Gansta Party and Bow Wow WoW, Yippe Yo Yippe Yeh." I was screaming like a teenager when "Beautiful" and "Drop Like it's Hot" ended the show.

It was a rockin' time and made me realize that Snoop Doggy Dog is not only an icon but a legend with classic and eloquently spoken schizel-dizel lyrics. He makes us remember that life is just plain silly.