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Stardate: 20221119.0027 | |
Location: The Lab | |
Input Device: Dell 7202 | |
Audio: The dryer | |
Visual: Messy lab desk | |
Energy: 30% | |
Mental: 20% | |
Emotional: tired and spent. | |
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This evening, I had a chance to see live music. I had received | |
tickets to "Candlelight: Best of Amy Winehouse at The Hotel Roosevelt" | |
for my birthday (a few months ago.) The description of the show | |
reads, "Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory | |
musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before | |
in Los Angeles. Get your tickets now to discover the music of Amy | |
Winehouse at the Blossom Ballroom of Hollywood Roosevelt under the | |
gentle glow of candlelight." | |
I went with my wife and my daughter. We had dinner at 25 Degrees | |
prior to the show, which is a burger joint inside the hotel. They | |
had tater tots, so I was happy. | |
The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel is an old hotel that was built in the | |
1920's. It is right in the the middle of the busy Hollywood Walk | |
of Fame area with all of the tourists and many things happening, | |
especially on a Friday night. It has been in films, many famous | |
celebrities have stayed and/or lived there, the first Academy Awards | |
was in the Blossom Ballroom (where the event was held), and it is | |
supposedly haunted. | |
There's supposedly a ghost of a man in a tuxedo and a guest in a | |
white suit that plays the piano that occupies the Blossom Ballroom. | |
There is also a young girl in a blue dress that shows up every now | |
and then. For some reason, images of The Shining kept coming to mind. | |
A fitting venue for the Candlelight show for Amy Winehouse, RIP | |
(she passed in 2011 at age 27 from alcohol poisoning.) | |
The show itself was a great time! They had LED candles all around | |
and the lights were turned down low in the ballroom. There was | |
seating that was set up with spacing in between and LED candles next | |
to your seats. They had a bar set up in the back and also a bar | |
outside the ballroom, for those who partake. The band played many | |
of Amy's popular songs and the singer did a pretty good job at | |
singing Amy's songs. The sound could have been better...the high | |
ceilings probably made it a bit challening. We still had a great | |
time though. | |
After the show while we waited for the valet to get the car was when | |
I noticed a figure sitting on a bench. I walked over and it | |
turned out to be a statue of Charlie Chaplin. He had been a guest | |
at the Roosevelt Hotel back in the day. I immediately thought of | |
fellow SDF user and mastodon moderator, christyotwisty, who is quite | |
fond of that Charlie Chaplin. I took out my phone and snapped a pic. [1] | |
Even though I would rather stay home on a Friday night these days, it | |
was nice to get out again to see some live music with my family. Too | |
bad my son couldn't join since he is away at school. | |
[1] Charlie Chaplin statue | |
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