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Ahh the L word! That thing called L O V E love.

Love can be many things. It can make you see life through rose colored glasses or make you want to cry your eyes out. There’s puppy love, true love, forbidden love, and unrequited love. Love can be an emotion, a virtue, or just the thing that makes a great song.

Here are 5 Songs about a Thing Called Love:

Jerry Reed was a country music singer, guitarist, songwriter, and actor. You might remember him from Smokey and the Bandit, he was in the movie and he sang the theme song “East Bound and Down”.

Here he is with “A Thing Called Love”:

Queen is a British rock band that formed in 1971. Before his death in 1991, Freddie Mercury rocked the stage with his lead vocals, piano and theatrics. I think everyone with a TV, radio, or internet connection knows of, listened to, or rocked out with Queen. Many of their songs have been used and re-used in tributes, parodies, television and film.

Here’s Queen with “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, the single was number two in the UK and became the first U.S. number-one hit for the band.

Before they signed a record deal this British rock band, The Darkness, made a name for themselves with their live shows.
Here they are with “I Believe in a Thing Called Love”:

Leo Reisman was a violinist and bandleader in the 1920s and 1930s. Every once and awhile I’m in a big band music mood. Time to break out the Ginger Rogers moves to “What Is This Thing Called Love” by
Leo Reisman and His Orchestra.

While on my quest for other “Thing Called Love” inspired songs I found the British trance music group Above & Beyond.

Check out this club video of Above & Beyond’s, “Thing Called Love” featuring Richard Bedford:

Queen still rocks on, visit their official site: http://www.queenonline.com/home

The Darkness split up but a few band members are reforming as The Stone Gods, check their MySpace for details: http://www.myspace.com/thedarkness

Visit the official Above & Beyond site for tour dates & more info: http://aboveandbeyond.nu/home

Thanks to my kiddo and her extensive YouTube knowledge for finding this fun video maker.

It’s the YouTube Search Stories feature, a visual display of your searches using Google. I decided to search for action words that describe Housewife in Hollywood.com the best.
Check it out:

Create your own at http://youtube.com/searchstories

Do you remember my interview with actor David Arquette about his clothing line Propr?

Click the link for interview. http://www.housewifeinhollywood.com/propr-attire/

David Arquette shared a video on Facebook he directed called “You Got Me” by Crash Kings.

Watch the video and tell us what you think?

This was my comment:  “Crisp clear imagery of dirty rockstar action. I dig the Schroeder style piano.”—Housewife in Hollywood

Click here for Crash Kings official site.

We went to Disneyland yesterday. Finally after years of pleading, the kiddo went into the Haunted Mansion. This was a day for celebration because I’ve been a Disneyland park fan since I was a little kiddo and the Haunted Mansion has always held the second place spot as my favorite attraction. First place goes to Pirates of the Caribbean.

On our drive to the “Happiest Place on Earth” I explained to the kiddo and her park guest that Disneyland stands on what was once orange groves. Being the “green” kids that they are, this was a bit upsetting. When we were in line at the Haunted Mansion the conversation about the mansion’s history began.

The kiddo: “I wonder if this is the home of the family that owned the orange groves? Wouldn’t that be weird. Maybe this home was always here but Disney didn’t want to tear it down. He knew it was haunted.”

Me: “Hmm that is a good story.”

For Myths & Legends of Disney’s Haunted Mansion visit http://www.doombuggies.com

What Disneyland attractions are in your first and second place spots?

One song. One take. One cab.

Have you seen the Black Cab Sessions?

Click here for a fave of mine from Sunset Rubdown.

Love this one from Grizzly Bear, click here.

Click right here for another fave this time from Peter, Bjorn and John. Looks like Peter and John got in the cab, Bjorn was missing.

For more musical cab rides, visit http://blackcabsessions.com

Visit http://www.themotels.com/ for current info and tour dates.

Let’s celebrate Shark Week with a little bit of Jabberjaw jammin’:

For less trivial nonsense and more shark action visit http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/shark-week/

Written by HIH Houseguest, Caleb Bacon.

WordSpy.com defines “appointment television” as “television programming for which one sets aside time to watch, either live or on videotape.”

I blame HBO.

One day, our nation’s elites (they say: “cinemaphiles”) had their own Must See TV. NBC’s Thursday Night lineup became simply pedestrian compared to Sunday Nights on HBO where shows like The Sopranos and Six Feet Under looked, sounded, and watched like film.

Weekly appointments were made by the affluent and hundred-aires alike to gather around the ole’ idiot box. I was one of them. Then came the blow-up of TiVo, DVR, Hulu, and even (gasp!) Torrents. Appointment television became less of… well, an appointment.

Then came the second season of Party Down.

Party Down was a show whose first season had been chicken soup in DVD-form on an overcast Los Angeles day where I was under the weather. Sunset Boulevard billboards suggested the second season’s premier was shortly after. I knew I wasn’t waiting a year for DVD set and I certainly wasn’t in the 0.003% of Americans with Starz (even if I do have it, it’s probably impossibly buried somewhere between 584 and 1,483b.)

I downloaded that second season premier on the very night of its release, thanks to a Starz partnership with Netflix, whose instant watch option did the trick and quick.

(While Netflix Watch technically streams content, “appointment stream” sounds a little too pervy, even for me.)

My appointment book featured a thirty-minute block on Friday nights spent with a group of showbiz up-and-comers and near-misses who paid rent via civilian employment as event caterers. Ten Fridays were spent appointment downloading.

I loved those five total hours with Henry Pollard (Adam Scott, Step Brothers’ wonderfully douchetastic Derek) Ron Donald (The State’s Ken Marino,) Kyle (Ryan Hansen,) Roman (Freak and Geek Martin Starr,) Henry’s love interest Casey (Lizzy Caplan, recently topless on True Blood,) and newcomer Lydia (Megan Mullally.)

As a writer in Hollywood, I typically loathe the dramaticization of youngsters trying to make it in Tinseltown. (I also hate people who say “Tinseltown.”) It’s a lazy premise that bores me and exposes a lack of creative imagination. Party Down was nothing like that — it was smart, had heart, great writing, great characters, and a strong assault of weekly guests.

Unfortunately, Starz recently announced that weren’t picking up (read: canceling.)

the low-rated yet critically acclaimed Party Down for a third season.

Looks like I have to cancel an appointment.

Caleb Bacon is a staff writer for LAist, and eventual screenwriter who co-hosts the weekly men’s interest comedy podcast, The Gentlemen’s Club. He lives in Los Angeles and writes his bios in the third person (but not Tweets.)

http://calebbacon.com

http://www.gentlemensclubpodcast.com/

http://twitter.com/thecalebbacon

Eating fresh cut watermelon, the smell of charcoal burning, drinking out of a big glass bottle of Coca Cola, sliding on a  Slip-n-Slide and bringing out the brightly colored box of Otter Pops to all my friends. That was summertime in the 70’s.

It was great fun deciding which Otter Pop to choose. There was Alexander the Grape, Little Orphan Orange, Sir Isaac Lime, Louie-Bloo Raspberry, Strawberry Short Kook, and Poncho Punch. Those fun frozen treats are still sold today and they have a fun cool website for the kiddos. Click here to check it out.

Looks like Otter Pops aren’t just refreshing and fun to eat, they’re also a source of creative inspiration.

Bryan Cranston from Breaking Bad shares Otter Pops and a head freeze with Jimmy Kimmel:

Ode to an Otter Pop

Otter Pops LIVE

Otter Pop Song

What was/is your favorite Otter Pop flavor?

Written by HIH Houseguest Lizzy Cline

I caught up with Holt at the young stage play, “Love like a Hun” in Hollywood. The ‘test run’ was a great concept and reminiscent of theatre in Los Angeles before “politically correct” became the norm. (See review below) The Hun is looking for independent support and investors, interested parties can contact Holt on facebook. Get to know one of Hollywood’s emerging stars Mr. Holt Boggs. You can see Holt right now in The Prodigy currently playing on Starz and Encore.

Click here for more info:

Review of “Love Like a Hun”:

What happens when you believe in modern progress? The thought presents itself besides the question, what happens when you get what you thought you wanted? This is the situation that Joe finds himself in during the stage play of “Love like A Hun.” The script addresses the preconceived notions of marriage and social standing prejudices in today’s society. Joe, portrayed by Holt Boggs, thinks he is control over every part of his life at work and at home. When he loses control over his own desire for “progress”, a circle of life’s clichés follow. Holt pulls along the dialog like the tourbillion in a clock with his passion and honesty to the character and story. A hint of humor, Holt doesn’t skip a beat as he is asked, “Where is your wife from again?” “Hell, she’s from Hell.” The counter to Joe is Atilla, Frank Gangarossa, who brings about a bit of dark drive to the stage with his direct approach to the character itself. Mixed in with the comedic timing of Holgar Moncada as Daniel, there were plenty of laughs and enjoyable action scenes that brought about an afternoon well spent. True to the stereotypes and surface views in today’s world, the writer and director of this piece has successfully approached topics that still seems to be taboo in most circles.

Holt Boggs official site: www.HoltBoggs.com

Click here for Holt Boggs Facebook Page.

Click here for Holt Boggs at IMDb.com.

To learn more about writer and HIH Houseguest, Lizzy Cline visit her Facebook page,  Click here