walking amongst the stars

These past few days have been star-filled (and super fun). After a two month drought of famous peeps, let's take a quick inventory of the star sightings that have occurred in the past 48 hours.

-Martha Stewart
-Yo Yo Ma
-Mayor Bloomberg
-Dylan & Cole Sprouse (of Big Daddy and Disney Channel fame)
-Martha Stewart
-Ellen Burstyn
-Alan Kalter (announcer on The Late Show)

Seriously... that's an impressive list. I'm impressed just looking at it. Last night Eric and I attended a Yo Yo Ma benefit concert at Carnegie Hall. I'd never been in there before-- it is so, so, so beautiful. And huge! We were up in the nosebleed section of the top balcony, which is actually higher than the top of the stage. The sound wasn't amazing, but what a view! Yo Yo played with the Sony Symphony (composed entirely of Japanese Sony employees... yeeeeah Suzuki kids!) and all of the benefits went to several New York music charities. He played the Dvorak Cello Concerto-- keepin' it classic-- and just completely poured himself into it. It always blows my mind how much of a team player he is. There he was, on stage with an amateur orchestra, and he treated it as if he was playing with the New York Philharmonic. He's such an incredible musician and entertainer. I'm totally psyched that he's got a holiday CD out, called Songs of Joy and Peace, with all-stars like James Taylor, Renee Fleming, Dave Brubeck and Diana Krall. FYI, we're just 16 days from the official start of the holiday listening season. That's Nov. 1, baby. Take off the Halloween costume and put on some Bing Crosby and Muppet Family Christmas, in my book. I'm looking forward to adding some Yo Yo to the mix!

Eric, you totally need to blog about our BYOB hilarity last night.

Ooo, another celebrity connection... I'm officially just one step away from Perez Hilton. I was in the studio today when this interesting election prediction was shared with the world this morning!