VMA's

This past Sunday, my book club and I got tickets to the season premiere of the Ellen DeGeneres Show. It was a long day involving bus shuttles from Burbank to downtown Los Angeles, waiting around, not getting any sort of free giveaways, and massive amounts of mac and cheese (not related to the show, but still part of the Book Club Day). The lack of free stuff was a bummer, especially since my friends had convinced themselves they'd be getting at least an iPad, if not two plane tickets to anywhere in the continental US and a bottle of Cristal. Completely realistic, right? Those last couple sentences sounded really negative, but it was actually a lot of fun.

Anyways. The season premiere was hosted in Club Nokia and the theme was the MTV Video Music Awards, since the award show was going on about fifty yards away in the Nokia Theater. For the first hour or so, we just watched the live feed from the VMA's, which included a performance by Florence and the Machine. I had never heard of this group before, but I loved the song they performed. Check it out (it's not the VMA performance, just the music video. In case you couldn't tell...)



The actual Ellen show was pretty awesome too. The guests were Lady Gaga (crazy), Katy Perry, Usher, Justin Timberlake and Justin Bieber. They didn't perform, but it was definitely entertaining.