Jason & Ingrid

Jason and Ingrid performing "Lucky" from Jason's
latest album "We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things".

Jason Mraz

Well Jason, the concert was OK. You have a great voice
and big lungs, and you are a great singer, but you have
toooooo many slow songs on your repertoire. The concert
lost momentum every time you performed the slow jazzy,
bluesy songs. Where are all those good pop songs on
your first album?

Best:
* The Remedy. Good introduction to the concert.
* You & I Both
* I'm Yours

Ingrid Michaelson Live @ Olympen, Lund

Half-Swedish Ingrid is supporting act for Jason Mraz
on the European leg of his tour.

Best:
* "The Way I Am" from One Tree Hill and Grey's Anatomy
* "Breakable" from Grey's Anatomy
* "Corner Of Your Heart" from Grey's Anatomy
* "You & I", the duet she and Jason sang

Check out her MySpace.

She has a new album coming out soon. It's called "Be OK".

Chinatown

We went to Chinatown yesterday. We ordered a lot of food at a restaurant. We didn't know every entrée was for two or three persons so we ordered one each. After two entrées the waiter already layed down the piece of paper where he'd written down our order, but we asked him to continue with two more entrées and one salad. No wonder he looked strangely at us and no wonder that everybody who walked by our table looked at us. Some of them even smiled. We had to ask for some doggy bags.

Later on we went to Chinatown Icecream Factory for some tasty ice cream.

Earlier today after we had checked out from our suite we bought some breakfast from a nearby café and went to Central Park to eat it. After that we went to Bloomingdale's before finally taking a cab to leave Manhattan for JFK. The taxi driver was nice so he got some extra tip.

We are at the airport now waiting for boarding. The plane is 40 minutes delayed.

Rain, Bitches, And More Rain

This morning we walked 5th Avenue and then we went to the United Nations. Their garden was closed due to reconstruction so we were only inside a little while.

The rain had been pouring down this afternoon. We chose to spend a few hours at Macy's instead. Luckily there are a lot of people with a lot of bad taste in this world. Who otherwise would have bought all the ugly clothes. People behave like they've found gold just because there's a 'Hugo Boss' or 'Ralph Lauren' printed on the clothes and there's a sign on the rack that says '25 % off'. Crazy! I mean man, you have to be able to walk around wearing those clothes when seeing other people!

If you want to feel in this season, buy a T-shirt with a tree printing on. Every other label has shirts like that. And yes, I'm in, so I own one of these shirts. :-D

Oh, I think I have forgotten to crown NYC the city in the world with the rudiest and bitchiest people in the world! Even worse than Hong Kong. I mean I have always known that but tend to forget that every time. Don't forget to be rude and bitchy back when you're here the next time. On our first day when taking a cab from JFK to Manhattan the driver demanded 15 dollar in tip (33 %!!). I totally refused that and had an argument with him. Today a register bitch first called the customer before us a bitch because the customer didn't want the stuff due to her Visa card not working on the payment terminal. And now imagine all four of us with our hands full of shopping bags after a day of shopping. Imagine we had walked the whole day and it had been raining the whole day. She asked us ('nicely' she said) to push the groceries forwards even if she easily could had pushed the conveyor belt on. After that she asked me 'nicely' to get out of the way so she could help the next customer. I didn't find that funny anymore so I answered in a very bitchy way 'No, I can't'. She thought I was rude and asked me to go home. I should had said 'With pleasure, bitch!' Two days left...

In California - interact with the locals. In NYC - never interact with the locals. Oh, I mean animals, bitches or whatever you choose to call them.

NYC

Yesterday, our first day in NYC, we waited outside Letterman's theatre for Robin Williams, Shannen Doherty, and Duffy. We got some good pictures and See Man got Robin Williams' and Duffy's autograph. On our way back to our hotel we saw Usher playing live. It was a huge NFL kickoff at Columbus Circle with him, Natasha Bedingfield, and Keith Urban.

Earlier today we went up Empire State Building, went to a lot of other sightseeing spots - Flatiron building, Union Square, Washington Square, Statue Of Liberty, New York Stock Exchange, Ground Zero, and South Street Seaport. LG held a free music event there and we saw Gym Class Heroes playing.

At LAX

We have returned our rental car now and have checked in at LAX. We are flying to NYC later tonight at 10 and will be landing 6 in the morning.

Hoover Dam And Lake Mead

Earlier today we went to Hoover Dam and Lake Mead. After that we went to Las Vegas Premium Outlets for some shopping. The outlet was huge with a lot of stuff, most of it I don't want. I'm simply not interested in shopping anymore nowadays. At least not that 'out-of-control' kind of shopping. It is quality before quantity I prefer now.

We are having a buffet at Luxor now as I blog.

Grand Canyon

We left Las Vegas yesterday. After a 5-6 hours ride we came to Grand Canyon. We entered the park at the southern entrance and drove to its eastern entrance. It's about 25 miles with some spectacular vistas. The park was not crowded at all. Maybe the high season is over now. It was quite cold. We were freezing in our room even though the A/C was off.

Anyways, we lost Marcus and See Man at Grandview Point, one of the vistas, when they accidentally went down a bit of the trail thinking See Mei and I did that.

Later in the evening we went to Lipan Point to see the sunset. We sat there completely tucked in our British Airways blankets and sweaters and were freezing the whole time haha.

We are back in Vegas now and staying at Excalibur.