Vegas, Baby, Vegas

Monkey and I have returned from Vegas. He was happy to make the trip with me, although he had to stay in the car (lest people think I'm completely certifiable). My dad and I had a really good time, although our itinerary kept us busy pretty much the entire trip. As soon as we got into town on Saturday, we went to Hot Topic in a Las Vegas mall to see Perez Hilton, who was making an appearance. Even though I've met him several times (see pics below), I still thought it'd be cool to stop by and see him again. Plus, a girl at my work totally loves him, so I made sure to get an autograph for her.After that, we checked into New York, New York and then headed over to Cinevegas to pick up our tickets. Since we still had some time before our first movie started, we were able to attend a little cocktail party sponsored by the festival and I ran into a bunch of people I know from Sundance, which was super fun. I felt like a major star knowing that many people, especially when I didn't expect to see anyone I knew.

Then, we were off to our first movie. Sadly, it was pretty much the worst thing I've ever seen in my whole life, so it wasn't the best way to start the adventure. Oh well. In between films, we were grabbing a bite to eat in the food court and I ran into Todd Glass, a comedian who was on Last Comic Standing. I'd actually booked us tickets for his show at 10:30 and had really wanted to meet him, so I was stoked to see him milling about the food court. Our second movie, Deficit, was written and produced by Gael Garcia Bernal, who also starred in it. I LOVE him, but he was unable to attend the festival, which was a bummer. I would've loved to meet him. The movie was pretty good though, MUCH better than the first one. As we were heading out to find the comedy club, we ran into Morgan Spurlock (from the movie Supersize Me), who was a jury member at the festival. He's always such a nice guy.

Once inside the comedy club, right before the show started, I spotted Jared Leto sitting in the back. Now, I've wanted a picture with him forever, so I was so excited to see him (as an embarrassing side note, when I got a picture with Stuart Townsend this year, I actually thought he was Jared Leto up until the picture was over. We took the pic and I said, "I'm so excited because I really wanted to get a picture with you last year" and he said, "I've never been to the festival before." Um. Crap. That's when I realized he wasn't Jared Leto at all, but rather Charlize Theron's boyfriend, Stuart. Oops). My sister has always had a major crush on him and says she's going to put our picture next to her bed. The show was really funny, but by the time it was over we were exhausted. We got back to the hotel around one and just crashed out. How do people stay up all hours in Vegas? I'm just not that young anymore, I guess.

Sunday morning we headed over to Planet Hollywood for a Father's Day Brunch before our special screening of Get Smart. As I was waiting for The Rock to walk the red carpet, I saw Eddie Griffin chilling out in a bar.

The Rock introduced the movie and my new camera's zoom did really well, considering our seats were pretty far from the stage. The movie was hysterical! The only bummer about it (aside from not being able to meet The Rock) was that it ended too late for us to make our last movie at four, so we just headed back home. All in all, it was a really good time and I was happy to spend Father's Day with my dad and have him experience his first film festival (although, I think he needs to go to Sundance to see how a "real" festival works). :)