Hey guys and gals. I haven’t posted in a while so I thought why not write about something that’s just happened with me recently. On July 15th, 2007, I attended a Tuesday taping of Late Night with Conan o’ Brien. The guests were Heidi Klum, Joel McHale, and musical guest: Daryl Hall and K.T. Tunstall I had never experienced an actual ‘live taping’ before so it was a real treat to see how everything operated in terms of what goes on live during a taping. I saw the many staff & crew members involved, the cue cards, the big gigantual cameras, and the lighting fixes.  The musical guest was fantastic and was one of my top highlights besides seeing Conan. K.T. Tunstan and Daryl Hall played two songs for the live audience in attendance from their new album out in stores now. I thought the whole interview with Heidi Klum was decent but ultimately bland and boring. She’s nice to look at and all but eh, she speaks way too softly and really doesn’t have much interesting things to say besides plugging Project Runway and talking about her hubbie, Seal. As always, Conan tries his best to make it entertaining. Joel McHale, from “E’s Soap” was pretty funny at times too. I must digress that I wasn’t exactly thrilled when I logged onto the NBC website to find out who would be appearing in this week’s episode only to find out its no one from the the new Batman film “The Dark Knight”. It was one of the reasons why I reserved by tickets a month back  and chose this exact week to go see Conan as I was hoping it would be one of the cast members from the sequel. How disappointed  was I to find out that actor Gary Oldman (Lt. Jim Gordon) would appear just the day before and again actor Aaron Eckhart (Harvey Dent/Two Face) on Thursday (the day the sequel hits theaters). Instead we got Heidi Klum and Daryl Hall. I guess it was just bad luck or faith. Luck has never really been on my side in many occasions… It’s one of my misfortunes in life.

To anyone who plans to attend a taping of Conan o’ Brien. Your should leave before the stated arrival time or you will get really bad seats. Our taping began at 5:30 pm and we had to be there no later than 4:15 pm. Unfortunately, I had to wait for my brother to leave work first. He came home at 2:30pm and we left at 2:45pm to take the subway on the F’ train to 47-50 Rockafeller. We arrived at 3:22 pm and from there, we looked for the mezzanine floor to go pick up our tickets. They gave us a wristband and a ticket with a number. Afterward, they told us to roam around for a bit. Note: don’t just stand in the area and wait, go check out the NBC Experience store — lots of cool stuff there. Besides, you can’t just stand there and wait anyway as security will just tell you to move as it is dangerous and considered a fire hazard. Also, it would make much difference anyway as the earlier you arrive to go pick up your ticket, the better chance you have at getting good seats. The studio room is really small. I looks so big on television, its amazing. Also, the amount of seats available were about 200. Anyway, we sat in the second to last row on the band side. That’s pretty bad but at least we still got to see it live. You won’t believe how upset I was that I didn’t get to be to the action.

Overall, it was really great to see Conan live and in person. It was expected that the taping would take up at least 2 hrs and a half of our time. As my bad luck would have it, everything went smoothly so it was exactly an hour until it was finished taping. Bummer, I want more Conan! That is all.

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Until then, Ray