December 28, 2006, 2:32 am : New York, London, LA, Utah – everybody talk about….

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The last month has been pretty crazy, plenty of cool things going on, along with travel to some of my favourite places in the world. London is fantastic, one of the reasons I love it so is the Tate Modern, home to one of my most beloved, humbling collections of paintings from Mark Rothko. The suite of works, originally meant to hang in the Four Seasons in NYC are now shown together, as intended by Rothko, being enjoyed by millions, rather than diners more interested in their Cobb Salads. I snuck this photo (below) and gave the Rothko’s a big set of horns cuz they ROCK.

NYC was a great trip, combining a pile of meetings with birthdays, tapings of Saturday Night Live and Letterman and seeing ‘A Chorus Line’ for the 6,246th time. The photo on the top is some cool graffiti that I HAD to get a picture with, just to remember the type and colours. The photo below is one of those weird ‘how was I in this place at this time?’ moments. I was squatting in my boss’s office and looked up and saw the Empire State Building, always a little breath-taking for a kid from North Dakota. As I was looking out, the clouds started moving, slowly at first, until they opened up this hole above the building – geez, I thought it was ‘Independence Day’, until seconds later, it was gone.

Now, writing this from the cool B&B in Salt Lake City, recovering from a day of trashing my new board and soaking up the peace and quiet of the mountains. A beautiful way to end up 2006. If you’re reading this, you’re probably one of my family or friends, so Happy, Successful, Karmically-Korrect 2007 to you all! XX Tom

December 28, 2006, 2:07 am : VH1 Best of 2006 Awards – free tix are always, always good

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After whining for a suitable amount of time, I managed to get a pair of tickets to the VH1 Best of 2006 Awards. Very cool to get on the Sony Pictures lot, cooler still to see Tommy Lee up close and even cooler to meet Ice-T and DL Hughley at the after party. I saw Dennis DeYoung, which made me want to go up and tell him that ‘Mr Roboto’ is STILL a ruling tune, but he was with some scary folks and I moved slowly away. A really nice, fun way to spend a Saturday night with the top down on the car driving into the city and 70 degree winter warmth all around (thank God for California, huh?). The pic below is a montage, if you will: Justin Timberlake on the left (dressed like a stock boy from Banana Republic) and Fergie from BEP singing (I use the word loosely) her other tune that sounds like ‘Hollaback Girl’.