<p>If I ever do have a career in the entertainment industry, I'll probably remember yesterday for a long time. Last night, Jamie and I attended our first Hollywood movie premiere. It was for the movie "Grind", which was not a movie I would have gone to see, except for the opportunity to go to a premiere. Tony Hawk, the namesake of Jamie's store served as an executive producer on the film, which makes sense as it is a skateboarding movie. As a result of his involvement, they shot a promo for the movie at the store where Jamie works. Jamie went in on her day off to help out, and the producer promised us tickets to the premiere. Surprisingly, she came through.</p> <p> OK, so here's the situation. The premiere is going down at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, so we park up in the Hollywood hills and walk down, so we don't have to deal with parking up close. As we get close to the theatre, we can see that in the empty lot next to the theatre, there is a huge skate ramp and some promotional tents. There is a huge crowd lined up around the edge of the lot, mostly tourists and those who want to know what all the hubbub is about. We show our tickets at the gate, and they let us in through a line of people handing us promotional materials and candy for the movie. But don't think that we're headed into the theatre any time soon. No, we'll be out here doing the pre-show for a while. We immediately spot an In-N-Out truck and gravitate towards the line in front of it. We soon discover that they are indeed handing out double-doubles for free. In fact, everything within the fence is free, so we start making the rounds after polishing off our burgers. Next up is the Red Bull bar where they are serving Red Bull with Skyy. I haven't received my real Cali license yet, so I have to show them my folded up paper temporary license accompanied with an explanation. They buy it. After the beverage, we visit some of the product tents where we get Etnies t-shirts, Zoo York stickers, Head Games hair products, a ton of CD samplers. Then we head over to the Krispy Kreme table for a little dessert action. As we enjoy our haul, there is an emcee on stage that only gets attention when he gives out free stuff to the crowd. Jamie's co-worker, Andy, who is a solid mix of Craig Wilson and Jonathan Jones, goes near the stage and yells at the emcee until he finally succumbs and tells the prize-hander-outers to give the "psycho guy" a hat. One other note about the pre-show party. I haven't seen this kind of girls-dressing-up-to-be-seen since Crickets on a Saturday night. Once "Nappy Roots" performs a decent set of four songs to a relatively disinterested crowd, we head into the theatre. At the concessions we are greeted with free popcorn and beverages before we head down to our seats. The middle section is reserved for the cast and crew, where we see many of the stars of the movie. The movie starts and the cast/crew section cheer for each name in the opening credits, which is a little bit annoying, but I'm all for camaraderie. We sit through the movie (which makes no sense, tells no story, and I think would even be boring to a young teen) until we have to go to the restroom. Jamie goes first, where she glimpses the female star of the movie, also going to the bathroom. There is no one famous in the bathroom when I go, but on my way back up the stairs, I trip on the last step just in time to display my adroitness to the main guy on the new show 'The OC'. Once the movie is finally over, head on home.

So, why will I remember this night? Is it because they gave me free In-N-Out and Krispy Kreme? Yes. But also because of the cast/crew section of the theatre. It was kind of cool to actually see all these people watch the fruit of their labor for the first time corporately. In spite of the fact that the movie sucked, which I'm sure most of them knew, they created something together that no one of them could have done on their own. It inspired me to want to find some people out here that I can help to create something. Hopefully, that something will be better than 'Grind', but if we're going to suck, at least we'll suck together.

Celebrity sightings: Wee Man, Ryan Atwood, Seth Donovan, Jason London, Jennifer Morrison, Stephen Root, Vince Vieluf*.

*Some of these might not exactly be celebrities, but you'd probably no who they were if I explained it to you.