"I Miss New York"

That was a lyric from one of actor Brendan Hines' songs. Miss Mao invited me along on one of our many adventures out in Silverlake to the Bootleg Theater this evening. Contrasting parts of LA with "I Miss New York" makes me repeat parts of Jay-Z's latest single and tribute to his hometown. Brendan closed with a song about wishing a crush's boyfriend was dead.

One of my friends took off to NYC for work and for the holidays. I miss that city a little. But I love LA, it's home. It's been awhile since I've blogged...2009 has been a learning experience. Especially the last few months. Turkey day was spent with friends and family I'm thankful for. Baked quite a bit and discovered a few new recipes and spent time with friends. Learned that I'm lucky. Even related a bit to "Up in The Air" after seeing it this weekend. Even ventured out onto the grass at the UCLA v. USC game. FB-ed and twittered a bit too much. And finally got into the vampire book game a little late. Caught up on quite a bit of television via the internet. Still love "Ugly Betty" even though I think that the Friday night timeslot is a death sentence in TV now a days since it seems to no longer be TGIF.

Music as usual is something that gets me through certain chapters. OneRepublic did it again with their sophomore album. It's been on repeat since I bought it when it came out. I miss my local singer/songwriters (Curtis Peoples, Tony Lucca, cough cough) as most of them have hit the road during the last quarter. I still want to look into getting the new Rihanna album and the rest of Jay-Z's and even the latest re-issue of Lady Gaga's extended album. Love the "Bad Romance" video.

2010 is around the corner and I'm doing something different this year and going to see snow. So maybe it's like what my friend Jules said recently about there's no point in being afraid. Or like the T.I. song says, "Live Your Life."