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December 4th, 2006
12:31 am - RIP VAHAGN - Boycott Lane Garrison's movie in honor of V.
My little sister's 17 year old friend was killed on Saturday night in Beverly Hills when Lane Garrison of "Prison Break" was driving intoxicated in the vehicle that Vahagn was in. This 26 year old actor picked up Vahagn and 2 other 15 year old girls from a high school party that he was also at... My question: What the HELL was a 26 year old doing at a high school party? And then following that action by taking 3 minors lives in his hands by having them into his car and then driving under the influence? Let's help bring the bit of justice that we can to this and honor Vahagn's memory by boycotting Garrison's new movie, "Shooter". Please keep Vahagn's family in your thoughts and prayers.
<3, Lacey
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GOOGLE IT:
"Prison Break" actor in car accident that kills teen and injures two others
Associated Press
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Actor Lane Garrison of TV's "Prison Break" escaped serious injury when his SUV struck a tree, but a 17-year-old boy was killed and two other teens were injured, police said.
The accident occurred at about 11:50 p.m. Saturday when the vehicle jumped a curb and hit a tree. The boy, who was killed, was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center where he died. His name was not released.
Two 15-year-old girls also were injured, one critically, police said. Their conditions were not immediately released. Garrison, 26, had minor injuries.
Authorities were trying to determine who drove the SUV, which was registered to Garrison.
Garrison, a Dallas native, plays "Tweener" on Fox's "Prison Break." He has worked mainly in television, but appears in the upcoming film "Shooter," which is due out next year
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If anyone is keeping up with the news, there's a sad twist in what's going on:
the more the story about VAHAGN develops, the more the story is changing.
right now news sources are starting to say that maybe the actor wasn't actually driving the range rover.
even saying maybe it was vahagn. naturally this is a concern, because that would leave VAHAGN with involuntary manslaughter, underage drinking and driving.
shit is not true.
Do your part in spreading the correct and accurate information about what happened.
Vahagn's favorite story was telling how he got his favorite green beanie from a rastafarian on Venice beach in honor of Vahagn and the beanie that came to be known as a part of his personality were all wearing something green tommorow please anything that you have a t-shirt a hat or even shoes just wear green and if you see this bulletin please re-post it
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August 2nd, 2006
07:26 pm
norcal feels good
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July 28th, 2006
04:10 pm
i wanna come hoooome :)
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July 24th, 2006
02:21 pm - land that i love
i miss everything
home
my bed
my car
my boyfriend
my friends
american food
mexican food
being able to go to the doctor when youre sick for the eighth day straight (yup, thatd be me)
i cant enjoy anything anymore bc im so freaking pissed off at all the annoying ppl blaming all the evil in the world on america
it makes me want to go home and never leave our borders again
of course i will, but as for now, im sick and tired of it all
its been nice seeing so many things and learning so many things, but the thing ive learned repeatedly is:
you just cant freaking beat the american standard.
or california, for that matter.
home in: SIX nights
Current Location: cannes/nice, france
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July 17th, 2006
12:02 am
dont remember where i was last time i updated cuz its been a while... but in the past two and a half weeks ive been to:
england
france
belgium
netherlands
deutschland (germanyy)
austria
italia
austria again
hungary
romania
bulgaria
greece
tomorrow:
back to italy for like a week
then france
switzerland
france again
england again
ahhh i miss:
my bed
my ken
my friends
my car
americanness
Current Location: athens
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July 2nd, 2006
07:23 pm
Friday 6/29/06
On Friday morning when we woke up in Amsterdam, we visited a diamond factory called Gassen Diamonds, who is one of the top producers in the world. They showed us how they cut the diamonds into the different shapes and then the different variations of colors that the diamonds come in. After all of that, we went downstairs to the showroom where we were able to make purchases if we wanted. (I’ll let someone else do my diamond purchasing, thank you.) Leaving Amsterdam was sad – I wish I had had more time to explore and just people-watch. It was such a different city from anything that we’re used to. For one thing, there are over 540,000 bikers in the city. You have to constantly be on-guard when crossing the streets and all the bike paths because it’s so easy to get hit by a biker.
We crossed the German border and immediately it was a different feeling. We stopped in Koln, which we call Cologne, to look at the amazing Dom (church/cathedral) that took 600 years to build. We were given about an hour and a half of free time so Landry and I wandered around the shops, etc. a bit. Germany had a World Cup game that evening, so everyone was walking around with German colored lei’s around their necks and German flags draped around them. They were all completely wasted and singing and cheering and just having the best time ever it looked like. I bought a German World Cup flag and Landry and I joined the crowds marching and singing – it was pretty fun! Until one of the guys spoke to me and I asked him in German if he spoke English. He said, “Yes, I am from Deutschland. Where are you from?” I told him the U.S. and he looked so completely disgusted and was all “George Bush is evil blah blah blah” and some other Anti-American sentiments. Meanwhile, his drunk friend started singing “Miami” by Will Smith.
After Koln, we drove along the Rhine River for a long time looking at all the amazing castles in the hills. We got to a certain spot on the Rhine and then boarded a boat at a dock in this really small town and took a cruise down the river. The river is extremely wide and our tour director told us that the current of it is extremely strong. The weather was really hot out, but we countered that with some nice German beer. It was so nice just sitting atop the boat taking in the medieval castles in the hills, soaking up the sun, and drinking. The only annoying thing about the cruise was that there was another tour group onboard of young teenage Brazilian girls who were very obnoxious and shoved everyone around. Otherwise, it was great!
We arrived in Mannheim for the evening right before the World Cup Game finished – thank God. As soon as we walked into the hotel, you could screaming and chaos break out everywhere in celebration of the Germans winning. We went up to our rooms and watched from our windows to see all of the beautiful blue-eyed-blonde-haired people running around wasted and honking their car horns continuously. They didn’t stop for til after midnight sometime…
Saturday 6/30/06
Woke up in Mannheim and drove to Heidelberg, which is a small town right on the River. Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi have a house and there, and I completely understand why. The town is out of a storybook, it’s so cute. We admired an amazing castle up on a hill and walked about the cobblestone streets for a while.
Then we set off for Munich, or Munchen as the Germans say, where we saw the 1974(?) Olympic Dome – it looks like a Spider Web, or a high-tech circus tent. We had lunch at a biergarten, which is an outdoor café that focuses on their delicious German beer, right in front of the old City Hall, which was designed in amazing Gothic architecture. People definitely stared at us in Munchen because we apparently scream “American”. Even though the guys in Koln weren’t that friendly, we met an extremely nice German lady, around fiftyish, at the biergarten. She had a dog with her that was absolutely adorable, and so of course we were semi-ogling at him. She began speaking to us in English and asked us where we were from. We thought for a second it would be all over when we told her the U.S., but she went on to ask where in the U.S. we lived. Before we left the café, I ran to the restroom, and I was super embarrassed that I’d forgotten to bring my purse. Pretty much everywhere in Europe, you’re meant to tip the bathroom attendants, if not pay a fee to enter. I’m sure the lady gave me a mean look when I walked out without leaving her a tip, so I ran back up to the table and ran back down to the bathroom to give her a few cents. When in Rome, right?
Wilkommen to Austria! We entered Austria and the Alps and oh my goodness, it’s so breathtakingly beautiful. I took pictures, but they didn’t even come close to doing the Alps justice.
More on our evening and today later!
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June 29th, 2006
01:24 pm - london/amsterdam
June 29, 2006
London was amazing. Our first day in London was a combination of trying to get to our hotel, get checked in, and shower and change clothes from our ten hour flight. Once we all were a little refreshed, we made our way our to a pub near our hotel called The Mitre. We stayed in Kensington, which is more of the upper-class area, so we had to take public transport to get into the city. Laura (older sister) used to live in London, so she knew how to navigate the Tube, or the Underground, very well. We rode into the city via the Tube and we made quite a hike to see the Eye – the London Ferris Wheel. It’s something like 450 feet high. It moves really slowly, which is nice so that you can take in the views, and each cubicle is air-conditioned and can hold up to 25 people. Right next to the Eye is Big Ben and the Parliament building, so we took pictures of us with Benny in the background. While we were goofing around and taking pictures, we saw this guy looking at us and noticed that he had a “UCLA” sweatshirt on; so of course we motioned him over and began to talk with him for a bit. We eventually made our way home around 9:30. (It doesn’t get dark here until like 10 pm!)
Our second day, we got up early and had breakfast and met our tour. The tour took us by Harrod’s and the nice shopping district of London, the Eye and Big Ben again, Westminster Abbey (where Diana’s funeral took place – it’s so gorgeous!), St. James’ Palace, Kensington Palace (where Diana, Harry, and William lived), and Buckingham Palace (where the Queen lives). After that, we had lunch at another pub and then went back to the hotel to nap for a bit. After our nap, we all went to Liverpool (where the Beatles are from) and met Laura’s old boyfriend, who came in on the train from Ipswich, for beer and dinner. I love the beer here, by the way. Stella Artois is a great beer.
I’m currently on the Coach headed to Dover so that we can ferry over to the mainland Europe. J
- Later –
It’s 10 pm and it’s still bright as day outside. We’ve arrived at our hotel in Amsterdam, right on the Amstel River (think Amstel Light Beer). We drove for two hours from London to Dover, then ferried for an hour and a half from Dover to Calais, France. Once in France, we boarded our Motor Coach that will basically be our second home for the next 30 days. We also met our driver, whose name is so hard to pronounce because it is Flemish (he is Belgian) that we just call him Herbie. Our tour director’s name is Vince. Once we boarded our motor coach, we drove four hours north from Calais to Amsterdam. I had no idea that Amsterdam is a city of canals, but the guides told us that there are more canals in Amsterdam than in Venice! We took a boating tour through the canals and then had dinner on an Indonesian Restaurant Boat. After dinner, Vince led us through the “Red Light District” (Prostitute Area) which was completely unreal to see: Women standing in windows trying to sell themselves to the men walking by. And if one of them has a customer, they just draw the curtain on the window. Also in the Red Light District, you could smell weed everywhere – so weird. Laura and I got a couple souvenirs in that area… (Haha she’s not as stuffy as you thought, huh, Ken?) Anyways, I have to wake up at six, so I’m off to sleep for the night! xoxo
Current Location: amsterdam
Current Mood:  exhausted
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June 27th, 2006
05:41 am - At Heathrow Airport
I just got into the airport, and we're waiting for our ride to the hotel. Flying in over London was interesting. Everything was sooo green, and I swear I saw Harry Potter's neighborhood a few times - so many of them looked like what that movie showed. The flight was long (10 hours) and I actually ate my first in-flight meals... Nothing to rave about of course. It was also kind of trippy on the plane seeing the highway traffic driving on the opposite sides of the road to us. And when we got off the airplane, there was a sign the read "Buggy Drivers: Note New Direction." I think it's kind of cool that they call the baggage carts either trollies or buggies. Sounds nicer than 'baggage cart'. And then also, the signs for the elevator said "Lift", which I never knew that that was their official name for it... I always just thought it was like slang. :)
My mom and sisters are sitting here arguing about the British currency and how a pence compares to a penny. I'm sure we sound like such lame-o's around the native English sitting around us. I think I'll have much more empathy in the future for people not from America.
Oh, AND there are soo many Middle Easterners, and women who are completely cover are everywhere it seems!
Current Location: Heathrow Airport
Current Music: the Persian man humming next to me -- so annoying
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