…really into this awesome show called Veronica Mars. Last year I donated $25 bucks to become an official Kickstarter Backer for the Veronica Mars Movie Project. It was a no-brainer for two reasons. The first being that I love this show and the idea of bringing these characters back to life in any form was something I wanted to get behind. The second reason is they sent me an Official Veronica Mars Kickstarter Backer T-shirt. I'm a sucker for a good t-shirt (good=free). If there was a third reason it would be this.
As an official backer I have been receiving updates from the show's creator - Rob Thomas. In one of the email updates I received, Rob mentioned the cast would be at PaleyFest in March. PaleyFest is the ultimate TV fan festival. They have live moderated panel discussions with the casts of various shows at the Dolby Theatre (i.e. where they host the Academy Awards). Uh…you had me at ultimate TV fan festival. I bought tickets and started dreaming of warmer days with temperatures that didn't start with a minus sign.
Bryan and I decided to make a mini-vacation out of the trip and explore LA/Hollywood/Southern California. The last time we were in LA we didn't have much time to explore anything, so we wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to get out of Winter and defrost for a few days.
The following are some of the things we did on our first day in LA. I'll blog more about what we did on the other two days as well, but like most of our trips we crammed it too full to talk about everything in one post. If you find yourself in LA/Hollywood or want to go to PaleyFest next year, here are 5.5 things I would recommend.
1. Spend Time at The Getty: Our vacation started at The Getty. We spent time at The Getty last time too, but it's so beautiful and free (only $15 to park). Bryan spent the first part of our visit trying to recreate pictures that we took the last time we were there.
Last time we visited The Getty we took the Garden Tour which I highly recommend. As we were walking around the gardens I remembered a lot of what the docent shared on our first visit. This time we decided to do a Focus Tour of the Impressionism paintings in the Galleries. They were also doing a special exhibit on Jackson Pollock's Mural, which was amazing. Photography wasn't allowed, but here's a link to the exhibit on The Getty's website - http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/pollock/.
2. Check out the LA views: It was a beautiful day and it was the first time seeing no snow on the ground in months for us.
3. Stuff Your Face at In-N-Out Burger: A must when you're in California. I've had In-N-Out Burger a few times, but for some reason it was the best "burger" I've had that night (I order a grill cheese with lettuce, tomato, and pickle). Bryan ordered some time of double x double or triple x triple or whatever they call it on the secret menu that he loves so much.
But then my frustration quickly disappeared as the cast walked out on stage. I had to keep stopping myself from watching the screen above them and remind myself that I can actually look at the person talking because I'm sitting in the same room as them!
As an official backer I have been receiving updates from the show's creator - Rob Thomas. In one of the email updates I received, Rob mentioned the cast would be at PaleyFest in March. PaleyFest is the ultimate TV fan festival. They have live moderated panel discussions with the casts of various shows at the Dolby Theatre (i.e. where they host the Academy Awards). Uh…you had me at ultimate TV fan festival. I bought tickets and started dreaming of warmer days with temperatures that didn't start with a minus sign.
Bryan and I decided to make a mini-vacation out of the trip and explore LA/Hollywood/Southern California. The last time we were in LA we didn't have much time to explore anything, so we wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to get out of Winter and defrost for a few days.
The following are some of the things we did on our first day in LA. I'll blog more about what we did on the other two days as well, but like most of our trips we crammed it too full to talk about everything in one post. If you find yourself in LA/Hollywood or want to go to PaleyFest next year, here are 5.5 things I would recommend.
1. Spend Time at The Getty: Our vacation started at The Getty. We spent time at The Getty last time too, but it's so beautiful and free (only $15 to park). Bryan spent the first part of our visit trying to recreate pictures that we took the last time we were there.
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| Left: Our visit in 2011 / Right: Our visit in 2014 |
2. Check out the LA views: It was a beautiful day and it was the first time seeing no snow on the ground in months for us.
3. Stuff Your Face at In-N-Out Burger: A must when you're in California. I've had In-N-Out Burger a few times, but for some reason it was the best "burger" I've had that night (I order a grill cheese with lettuce, tomato, and pickle). Bryan ordered some time of double x double or triple x triple or whatever they call it on the secret menu that he loves so much.
4. Stand Where the Famous Stood: Last time we were in Hollywood we couldn't visit Chinese Theatre because they were holding a special event so we spent some time being tourists before heading into the Dolby Theatre. This totally reminded me of that scene from My Girl 2 except I was not with my cousin who I later (spoiler alert) creepily made out with in the airport in front of our parents (who are brothers). Did anyone else think that was weird?
5. Show Up Late and Bring a Sweater: We finally made our way to the Dolby Theatre for Veronica Mars. We got there an hour early because I'm a psychopath and felt like I was going to miss something if I didn't get there right when the doors open. For future reference, there is no point to get there an hour early because nothing happens and because they blast the air conditioning so you'll be sitting in an empty theatre watching your toes turn blue. There was also this guy who was "organizing" the people who were waiting to get into the theatre by Paley Center members and non-members. The Members got to go in before the non-members which I, as a non-member, did not know about. We non-member losers got pushed to the side by the guy working the front door as he let the Members in He explains to us, "See folks this is why it pays to be a member." Then about 20 seconds later he let the rest of us in. Did I not mention that there were only like 15 Members? Wow - it really PAYS to be a member. We could have saved seconds.
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| Move out of the way, we're trying to take a picture! |
The Veronica Mars Discussion started off Rob Thomas introducing a video/documentary that covered the whole Kickstarter process and the cast at different events. Pretty cool stuff, but about 20 minutes too long. I feel like I'm complaining a lot here, but at this point I was freezing and was waiting to see and hear from the cast not watch a movie full of details and clips that I had mostly seen before.
But then my frustration quickly disappeared as the cast walked out on stage. I had to keep stopping myself from watching the screen above them and remind myself that I can actually look at the person talking because I'm sitting in the same room as them!
5.5. Catch a Midnight Movie: After the live panel discussion we went back to our hotel to power nap before heading to see the Veronica Mars Movie showing. Let me just tell you now - that did not happen. At this point we had been awake for almost 20 hours, we flew across the country, walked for hours at The Getty, drove in LA traffic, consumed a million calories of fast food, and sat through a live panel discussion. By the time the movie would have finished we would have stayed up an entire day. It would have been awesome to say that we did that, but I am the Youngest Senior Citizen after all. Don't know what Bryan's excuse is...
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