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Hotel Review - Crowne Plaza, Tulsa
Tuesday, 13 April 2010 16:34
Matt O
What the hell, I can't resist.
Pros:
- Fitted Bottom Sheet
- Comfy reading chair
Cons:
- A/C didn't work
- mattress less comfy than average
- windows didn't open
- no free WiFi
Notes: Why is it so goddamn impossible to get A/C working? (Why is A/C the shorthand for Air Conditioning, anyway? Shouldn't it be A.C.?) Again, I set it at various temperatures and nothing happened except the fan blew and blew. Weak. I had an outdoor-facing window this time. Only notable after the Dallas indoor-facing window. There was a sliding-glass door in this window, but it was nailed shut with a weird, ghetto solution that involved plastic over the finger pull-well. I'm going to list "no free wifi" every time I do this despite the fact that it's going to happen everywhere. Simple solution - Free. Fucking. WiFi. If you're so desperate to make additional money, go airline-style and charge for turning on the television and flushing toilets, too. Hell, charge for hanger use and an hourly rate for the bed by the pound so single, skinny folks pay less than fat couples. I mean, we wear the beds out much less, right?
Recommend: Maybe.
That's all. Crowne Plaza is in a neat building and Tulsa is TINY, but it's not unattractive. Thinking about it now, it's a little like a dust-bowl doppelganger of Portland, Maine, somehow. I'm not even sure why I think that - age and spacing of the infrastructure, maybe? This is a broken train of thought; I'm quitting this connection immediately and taking no credit or blame for it. There were a couple of local bars, but I walked by some of them last night and many of them were just about closed at 10pm. I guess it *was* monday night.
Okay, Dashboard is breaking my head, and Bon Jovi ain't on for another hour or so. Bus to Atlanta tonight. Fun!
Last Updated ( Wednesday, 23 June 2010 06:53 )
Hotel Review - Westin Dallas CityCenter
Sunday, 11 April 2010 12:09
Matt O
It's occurred to me that I could do a pretty thorough series of hotel reviews while on this tour, and, while I'm not that interested in writing (or reading) reviews, I thought it might be a neat experiment to try it out at least once. I don't have any tools like blacklights or checklists to keep myself on task, and I don't have an overarching theme or clear to the review - yet more ammunition against writing anything, but still. As a final caveat, I'm a low-maintenance traveller. I read other reviews and wonder how these people even get through the night. I don't care about the front desk, the bellhops or really, the size of the room. I'm just interested in my experience, so here it is.
Last Updated ( Wednesday, 23 June 2010 06:54 )
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Minneapolis/St. Paul
Wednesday, 07 April 2010 14:51
Matt O
Well, here I am.
I put my bike under the cover, I didn't mow the lawn, and I set the sprinklers to go on occasionally, hopefully spurring the growth of new grass in my half-dead-and-half-jungle yard. Fucking yardwork. Here's the problem - I want to have a great, lush yard and gardens, but I'm never home to deal with it. Quandary. I'm sad that I can't ride my bike, too, but this tour is making me the money I need to insure it and to pay tickets and such that I'm sure I owe. 2010 has been a pretty good year for getting myself into less trouble than I'm getting into, but it's barely a third complete, so I've got plenty of time.
I'm just about starved out on the whole JVS/Tech front, but I do believe that I could manage to get more work if (again) I was home to deal with it. I'm starting to sound like a broken record. Records were like CDs... wait, no one remembers those, either. They were these huge black disks that people used to play music and occasionally they'd skip, repeating the same section over and over...
My wine is in secondary, and I can't check on it until I get home, so I have to just forget about it for now. When I started the siphon, I got to taste a little and it tasted like a cross between grape juice and wine, so I guess that's pretty good for now. I don't know what else will happen to the must to make it wine, but something, probably, right? Also, I don't know if there's enough must in the carboy - it's not full up to the neck, so maybe there's too much air on the wine? Man, it's amazing how little shit I know, huh?
Last Updated ( Wednesday, 23 June 2010 06:54 )
Glendale is not a city
Tuesday, 23 February 2010 19:38
Matt O
As far as I can tell, Glendale, AZ is more of a strip mall than a town. I'm in a Renaissance of some sort, and man, what a disaster. I just ate a burger at Johny Rockets because every restaurant in the area is a chain, and that's where I could spend the least money. I guess I could have gone to Margaritaville. Geh.
Anyway, we're on an early call because some departments couldn't get their acts together and Jon's pissed. That's fine with me because I'll just go to bed early, then get up, load in and go see a movie. WTF. Maybe I'll also get some writing done. Or at least outlining. That's what I should do tonight, but I'm not mentally prepared tonight. I think I could settle into a routine, though, with this whole living on a bus thing. Fortunately for me, it's almost over.
I just wanted to say hi. Happy Birthday to Justin, too, whom I didn't call today. Bad cousin, me.
Last Updated ( Wednesday, 23 June 2010 06:54 )
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another day, another city
Tuesday, 09 February 2010 17:14
Matt O
So tomorrow morning I leave the hotel at 6am to make an 8:15 flight. Fun times. Okay, not fun times, but at least the destination is fun times, in theory. I'm off to Hawaii for the first time. I'll take a picture or two.
TIME PASSES
Okay. I'm in Honolulu, on Oahu. Or O'Ahu. I'm backstage again, and waiting for the show to start. We've had some rehearsals, but still haven't rehearsed a whole show, and there are songs in today's playlist that we haven't rehearsed. I mean, I haven't been involved in rehearsals, anyway. They've played all these songs a million times at least, so there's that.
I wish I could say that I'm taking advantage of Honolulu's various cultural attractions, but I'm totally not. I went to bed early last night, and will probably go to bed right after the show is over tonight. I don't know why I'm still tired after 10 hours of sleep last night, but I am. It's weak. And besides, what would I do if I went out? I don't know anyone here and I'm not picking up chicks, so.... Yeah. Of course, I've written zero screenplay pages thus far on this trip, so maybe I'll try that. It's impossible to do backstage, but maybe tonight before I sleep I can get an hour in.
Okay, time for the opening act to go on. Time for me to put in the earplugs and get in the zone.
Last Updated ( Wednesday, 23 June 2010 06:55 )
What do you do in Detroit?
Thursday, 05 November 2009 15:19
Matt O
I'm going to be there tomorrow morning, and it doesn't look like I'll be too busy on Friday night. I'll have to work a lot on Saturday, of course, but I could imagine going out a little or at least drinking a beer or two at a bar somewhere within cab distance.
Anyone have any advice on that?
Last Updated ( Wednesday, 23 June 2010 06:56 )
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