Friday, Friday, Friday. I woke up on Friday, January 29 (our 2.5 yr anniversary!) at 6am. Why? Well other than my body thinking it was 11am, Clif’s phone kept making blooping noises because it was 1) Charged up and 2) getting text messages. Then at around 6:30am, his phone rang. He answered it and it was his father and he had a full out conversation with him at 6:30am. Honestly, I know that Jay got annoyed by it and talked about it on the Jay & Jack Show but it wasn’t that bad for me. I didn’t want to waste any of the day sleeping in.
I made Jay get up around 7:15am and we ended up going for a walk on the beach. We walked down one way on the beach and then back along the street. On the way back, I saw the hotel that my family had stayed in the first time we went to Hawaii, back when I was 15 or 16, the Moana Surfrider. Oh yeah and we also came across some pretty awesome leis in an ABC store…
Walking on the beach
The hotel that my family stayed at 10 years ago
My kind of lei…
So upon returning to the hotel, it was around 8:15am and we decided to go in the totally super awesome pool at the hotel. Around 8:30am, we saw Clif on the balcony of our hotel room and waved to him. I guess he was shouting down to us a little too loudly because that’s when Jack woke up and went onto the balcony to investigate. Here’s the picture Clif took while he was yelling down to us in the pool. You can barely see us, but we’re in there lol.
So we went back upstairs around 9:15am. In the interest of people want to actually continue reading this, I’ll speed it up a little bit. We gathered Clif and went into Jack & Cyndi’s room, where I did my whole “omg-I’m-so-excited-yaayyyy!” speale and everyone who doesn’t like to have fun in life looked like they wanted to kill me. Soon after, we all showered and got ready. Jack, Jay, Clif & I had not eaten breakfast yet. Jay, Clif & I decided to walk down to a local Jack in the Box and get something light to hold us over.
We had plans with Beth to give us an unofficial “Lost Tour”. We had to meet her on the set at noon. The set was on the North Shore, which was literally the furthest point from where our hotel was. It would take an hour to get there, so we left around 11am. I only had one of those Breakfast Jack thingys in my stomach. We figured that we’d get lunch on the North Shore with Beth after she finished showing us some famous filming locations. So we met up with Michael Purcell of Global Cash Card and hopped into a little rental car.
Well [pause]. Since Jay didn’t know where he was going and was relying on the GPS on Clif’s iPhone to get us to the meeting point, it took us well over an hour to get there. We saw the Grass Skirt Productions signs and turned into the lot. The guys doing security asked us if we were here for Lost and we told them yes and got in with no problem. We see dudes walking around in Others garb. Beth walks over to the car and Cyndi & Jack ask her if they can use the restroom. Michael’s face lights up and he follows them. This entire time, Clif is lecturing Jay & myself about the proper etiquette for being on the set of a TV show. You know, I may be loud and annoying in my every day life but I know how to be on best behavior when I want to be. I start nagging the hell out of Jay for us to catch up to them because I did have to pee pretty badly and I didn’t want to be stuck with professor-dad Clif over there. Jay doesn’t want to “get in trouble” so he resists until Beth waves us over.
We walk around what I think was the costume trailer and come across another set of trailers. My eyesight makes a total beeline to none other than Josh Holloway! Internal monologue: “Uh whaaatttt?!” In an attempt to try not to stare, I turn to face Jack. He mutters to me, “He’s talking to Matthew Fox!” Internal monologue: “flkajdflaudfahfOMFGokdafhia. Be cool. Go pee.” Then I remember my full bladder and natural instinct kicks in and I ask where the bathroom was. I think at this point, it was either Jack or Cyndi who quietly exclaim, “I just walked past Evangeline Lilly!” I nod and walk towards where Beth is motioning the bathroom is.
As I walk by Beth, I see she’s talking to Evangeline Lilly in her trailer but this time, I’m on a mission. I did my business (#1, don’t get any ideas) in Jorge’s trailer and return to the group. At this point, Evangeline Lilly is now outside talking to Josh Holloway and Matthew Fox. I must say that she really is quite a beautiful woman. Oh hell, everyone on that show is attractive.
End of fangirl geek-out paragraph. Start of just plan geek-out section.
So we set off with Beth (and since we all keep talking about Beth but never actually saying who she is, I should probably just clear up that Beth is Jorge Garcia’s lovely girlfriend). Since it took so long to get to the North Shore and we had to leave by a certain time to get back for the ABC press mixer, we didn’t have as much time as we would have liked for the tour. But we made the best of it!
We hit up the camp that serves as the set for New Otherton:
And saw Benjamin Linus’s house:
And the beach where the filmed the pilot, Aljira 316 crash, etc:
Moving along from there, we went to the site where they keep the wreckage from Oceanic 815 and the little plane that Yemi’s body was on:
Oh and did I mention that Jay & I found pieces of the plane that had blown outside the fence? HA! 5 years ago when I stood in the middle of the DVD section of Wal-Mart trying to decide whether or not to buy Season 1 of Lost, I definitely never would have imaged that I’d be actually holding a broken piece of that set in my hand someday…
Next up, we made a quick stop at the set where young Mr. Eko’s flashback took place - the one where the kids were playing soccer.
On the way back to dropping Beth off on set, we stopped at the tree where Kate buried the NKOTB lunchbox. I wished we could’ve gotten closer to it because I wanted to climb it lol.
We dropped Beth back off - and no, there weren’t any more sightings because the actors were all off filming - and then began the long drive back to Waikiki. Clif got us a little bit lost and of course then his phone died BUT we managed to get back based on pure awesomeness and a good sense of direction.
Well, I think I’ve lived up to this blog’s name and rambled on long enough. Next up: Friday evening (well, what I can remember from it…).
P.S. Beth has a children’s book coming out in the spring. You can find it on Amazon.com by clicking here.
I have a gazillion pictures and some really great stories from this past weekend in Hawaii but it’s taking me a little time to get them all up/written. So to hold you over in the meantime (and you’ve probably seen this already but whatever, Clif kept us up til 1am working on it and both Jay & I happen to think that this is pretty bad ass), here’s the trailer for all the coverage that was done by Team nuDia from the weekend.
I still have to finish up my post about Jay & my’s New Years Eve adventure but I’ve been blah all day when it comes to doing anything. Mainly because I spent like 3 hours yesterday cleaning out my closet and reorganizing things, so today I felt lazy. I’ll get to it within the next 3 days, I promise. It’s a fun story with some special guest stars so stay tuned.
Anyway, Chuck started again today on NBC and will air Monday nights at 8pm EST, so if you’re looking for a great TV show to get into, then check out Chuck. It’s a great show. The first few episodes of the first season are somewhat slow but if you stick around, you will not regret it.
Please keep in mind that it’s not a Jay & Jack podcast, so if you’re expecting to hear them, you will be disappointed. I know that I do not come close to being as great as Jack is but hopefully, Jay & I can keep you entertained. We like getting to do something together that has zero pressure or money involved! Well, that being said, I’m off to bed because I have a feeling it’s going to be a looooooong week…
Oohhh and Happy Birthday to Randy Princess Cupcake Assface Green, even though it’s after midnight so technically his birthday is over. I miss you, dude. I hope you peed in a river and thought of me.
Jay keeps making fun of me (sad smiley face) but I AM SO EXCITED!!!
nuDia.tv is#19 in the Video section for Comedy on iTunes! We FINALLY got approved by the iTunes Store today, just in time for our Fall Launch.
Aaaannndd as of right now, #41 over both Audio and Video categories in Comedy! Hooray!!!
I’m so excited and I don’t even have a show premiering on there until Friday, which is sure to be just as awkward and painful as you all remember :D To subscribe to nuDia.tv on iTunes, you can search “Nudia,” “Nudia.tv” or “Jay and Jack” on iTunes OR you can just go here: http://bit.ly/3kMpyE.
Jay and I are seeing David Cross tomorrow night. OH! And I have the video all converted, I just need to upload it - song videos from the Rob Thomas concert in Cary, NC last Monday night, September 28, 2009. I’ve kinda slacked because I also have all the video from the No Doubt concert back on June 8, 2009 on my computer that I compressed to a smaller file but never uploaded because I suck.
The good news is that I actually did edit and upload a brand new show from me on nuDia.tv, which is a NuNews interview series. The first one, which will premiere either Friday Oct 9 or Sunday Oct 11 (we haven’t decided yet), will be an interview with the awesome dudes who do the “John Locke Rap” on YouTube. Stay tuned
Okay time for bed. I have to be at work wicked early tomorrow. And I need some new YuBlog.org submissions, so if you have anything, please email YuBlog.org@gmail.com otherwise it’ll be my take on David Letterman being a cheating pig (please someone else do that one lol) or my absolute JOY on the Sweet Valley High series becoming a major motion picture written by Diablo Cody. So yeah. You’re funeral.
P.S. Alice, you rock my socks yet again. Thank you
Okay so I sorta took what I had and combined it with what Media Junkyard did for their vidcast and voila, a brand new idea was born that directly lead to me getting 4 hours of sleep and having 45 minutes to finish up YuBlog.org stuff for today and pack for my straight-from-work trip back to Long Island this weekend. All this traveling is seriously starting to wear me down; I wish we could just pull a Potter and Apparate/Disapparate whenever and wherever we pleased. But anyways, here’s what the end of a long week of fun/being awake since 2am did to all of us who let’s face it would probably have done it regardless of when we’d woken up or our previous days’ adventures.
In other news, TGIF. Peace.
Oh and P.S. since Jay just pointed it out again, yeah, this is a blatant rip off of what Rob & Chris did but since they’re mostly my pictures with 2 or 3 from Adam, I’m going to split the difference and called it “loosely inspired”.
Oh double P.S. I’m looking for new submissions to YuBlog.org so if you have anything you’d like to contribute in any topic at all, please email YuBlog.org@gmail.com or get in touch with me. Gracias!
As usual, I’m running late, so I’ll make this quick. I’m working on sorting thru a crapload of pictures from yesterday for YuBlog.org (Nudia.tv’s community blog site) but I’ve literally sorted through hundreds of awesome ones from people who’ve contributed, so it’s just taking a wee bit longer than it did yesterday. We are heading to the convention center in 5 minutes to get some Exhibit Hall time in before Jay and Jack’s live podcast at 12PST in the Sails Pavilion. I’m finishing this during the live Lost Podcast. The actual Con pics will be on YuBlog.org soon enough but I wanted to get some personal pics from our time in San Diego up here first.
Sorry for the lack of the No Doubt video/playlist. I promise that I will get it all out there. For now, here’s what’s going down. Since No Doubt, we’ve had Jay’s sister’s high school graduation, Sara’s bachelorette party, Jay’s family reunion in Ohio, 4th of July in New York, and then I went up to NY again last weekend. It’s been somewhat busy/crazy. I also promise to do a HUGE set of updates once things come down. Now I’m busy scrapbooking the last year for my & Jay’s 2nd anniversary on July 29.
Oh yeah and WE’RE GOING TO COMIC CON IN 5 DAYS!!! I. Am. So. Excited.
Jay, Jack & I filmed this amateur’s guide to Comic Con for www.nuDia.tv. Check it out if you haven’t already. I have to give props to Ralph & Ben, formerly of the Dharmalars podcast aka the godfathers of the Comic Con Survival Guide. I’m going to be blogging updates from this blog (more personal pictures from Comic Con) and YuBlog.org (Nudia.tv’s community blog, which anyone can submit blogs to be published - this will have the more “professional” pictures, I guess), and of course, Nudia.tv will be updating content on the site at least once a day. So if you’re a Comic Con enthusist and want to know what’s going on, then bookmark all 3 sites and check back daily. I can’t promise that this blog will be updated every single day, but YuBlog.org & Nudia.tvwill be updated daily. Jay & Jack will also be doing some live stuff from ustream.tv at some time during Comic Con too.
Okay, enough yakking out of me. I seriously have to go eat olives & scrapbook right now. This is not a joke. They are olives stuffed with garlic and jalapenos so GFY if you think eating olives is lame. Thus said, here’s Comic Con Guide:
I’ve had a lot of really cool things happen to me since I started podcasting but this has to take the cake. I submitted that dorky vidcast to CNN.com’s iReporter site on a whim as we were on our way out to Wal-Mart on Tuesday and look what happened! Sick nasty.
