SF fun

So I had to go to SF to take corporate headshots for a venture capital firm.

Corporate headshots are the best and easiest gig ever because normally the clients are not very particular, nor do they have very high expectations, if any, for how their pictures turn out. Most of the time they figure they'll be like passport photos and will come out looking awful, so when I deliver a pretty, photoshopped picture of them looking 10 years younger and 30 lbs lighter they are generally very pleased.

Anyway.

After my shoot I met up with VVR at a french bistro called Gamine. It was a really delicious with a Roquefort and grilled onion slathered burger I ate so fast I didn't even have time to take a picture. Oops.




Post-dinner we climbed the super steep hills of the city to find Victoria's car, and her boyfriend Charles ripped the ass of his pants.



They dropped me off at a sketchy bar called Gas Light where Bralex was celebrating Alex's birthday.



With BEER!



And raughter.



Yeebee met up.



And it was pretty low-key.



Until we got attacked by a homeless.

We are all going to die...

Girl Talk in Brooklyn

Last Sunday we went to see GirlTalk performing in a free concert in Williamsburg, overlooking the city.

Girl Talk is the stage name of musician Gregg Gillis. He specializes in mashup style remixes, in which he uses often a dozen or more unauthorized samples from popular songs to create a new song. His music is a continuous mix packed with wildly disparate Top 40 genres and eras. Current hip hop hits, soft rock radio standards, party classics, grunge masterpieces, R&B singles, glossy club-shakers, and rock anthems are all layered and pieced meticulously together into one non-stop celebration of pop and excess.



Katie, Goon, and their high school friends were all present.




And we happened upon long-lost friend Anna!



The concert itself was superb. He played what I think were a bunch of brand new unreleased mixes featuring some of today's biggest pop hits.

The crowd was a lot like Spring Weekend at Brown.



There was free T.P...



Beach balls...



And crowd-surfing.



And overlooking the New York skyline, it was definitely a sight.





Fans were allowed onstage where they danced around all sweaty-like.



And it was just a sea of deranged people...which eventually resulted in us losing track of almost everyone.




As the sun began to set, it started pouring.



And people left the park in droves.



Only to come across thousands of onlookers...



And people waiting desperately to get in. (We had arrived about four hours early to ensure admission...)



Poor wastedface TL was among those people.



Somewhere...



Lost in the crowd...

Stupid PantsParty

Sam U.L. Hodgeson threw a going away party for himself as he heads off to San Francisco to join Tee at Stanford Business School in the fall.

He held the party, however, in Meatpacking District at this awful bar called the Gas Lite that did not allow patrons to enter if wearing shorts after 10:30pm.

I arrived at 10:35.

I was unable to enter.

It was the most ridiculous rule I've ever heard because people who entered the bar wearing shorts BEFORE 10:30 were allowed to remain the bar...I was mad. And sweaty.

As I sat outside on the edge of a large streetside flower pot, I waited for my friends to arrive and watched, sadly, as they each were allowed to enter. The bouncer-black pitied me none.

But THEN a man and his girlfriend went up to the entrance and the man was CLEARLY wearing shorts and the bouncer let him in. The man was black. I ran up and cried racism.

They just looked at me funny.

I was so (egg)furious.

Sure I could have bribed the guy...but why would I want to enrich someone who is a total jackass? Instead I cursed the man silently and prayed for the sweet baby Jesus to bestow a pigflu upon him.

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Happily PWu and Zameer met up and we went to G-Lounge, where exposed calves are not an issue.



Smersh and Semmes were also in town and after attending the pantsparty met up with us as well.



We see them again next week in New Orleans! Yay!

Layover in LAX

So I bumped into Dan and Emily's cousins Kathy and Xiu on my flight from Ohio to LA.

They found a baby!





Oh and then I witnessed major obesity as the monster woman below ordered $20.82 worth of food from Burger King all for herself.



2/3 way to SF!

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TV for Sale

Does anyone in LA want to buy my supermega awesome TV?



50-inch LG Plasma (or LCD, I forget). Original purchase price $1,699 + tax.

TV base stand and/or wall mount included. Originally paid $300 for the wall mount.

I'd ship it cross-country if the risk of breaking it weren't so high.

Satisfaction not guaranteed but highly probable.

Layover in Cincinatti

Daylong cross-country journey 1/3 complete.

Airport is nice and spacious. Homes look sunny and nice from above with lots of pools.

Ohio is surprisingly pleasant! Who knew?

Don't Text and Drive!

You may wish to swallow or spit out your food before you watch this video.




I think I'm just going to drive in silence for the rest of my life.

No music. No talking. Just driving.

Brandy learned the hard way so you don't have to!

Airline pricing makes no sense!

So I am going on an epic cross-country journey tomorrow.

Well not that epic. I am flying. To SF. And have two layovers because I booked my tickets late and am supercheap and wanted to save two hundo by stopping in Cincinnati and LAX.

So I am flying Virgin from LAX to SFO.

And they want to charge me $15/bag for my two bags (Delta gives me two free bags all the way from NYC to LAX).

My other Virgin option is to upgrade to first class for $50. And that price includes two checked bags. Plus food and legroom and free TV and internet.

Brainer? No.



(Will work on weekend pics while I'm in transit!)

Sex and the City sighting!

I totally forgot to mention that I saw Stanford Blatch aka Willie Garson the other day as I stepped out of my building to go to dinner. He was literally standing right there less than two feet away from me staring at me with his little son whose hand he was holding and taking on a tour of the neighborhood.

I recognized him immediately but had my phone in my hand so quickly looked down and resumed the texting I had been doing. He crossed the street and I was going to take an iPhone pic but he kept turning and looking at me so I kept pretending like I was just texting people on my iPhone and didn't know who he was. (I think he and his son were talking about me being tall.) I waited and waited. It felt like a standoff. Finally I gave up on the pic and just headed down the street to the restaurant I was going to only to realize they were then following me. (His voice is exactly the same in person.)

I ducked into the restaurant and got my table but by then they were almost out of sight and this is the best I could do. Sorry!



As you can see though, pretty much everyone recognized him!

Answer Fail

Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn't seen it)

I think this film won some kind of award at Comic-con. Ryan sent it along. Thank you Ryan.

Things I Will Never Be Able To Do: Trapeze

MAO went trapezing yesterday.



Like a beautiful swinging monky...



She is a natural.



Tonight Anne and I will be visiting a restaurant as guest reviewers of Steph's blog:

www.lickmyspoon.com

Our goal is to help her generate lots of bicoastal publicity for her blog so that we all become recognized as top food/restaurant reviewers in NYC and SF so that any time we set foot in a restaurant we will be showered with free drinks and meatballs.

The adventure begins tonight!

Parking Ticket

I got a parking ticket today. In a clearly marked parking area.

There is a sign right next to my car clearly pointing in the direction of the car saying I am allowed to park except from 11:30am to 1pm.




The tickets states that I "parked on a sidewalk" but as you can see...there IS NO SIDEWALK!

No one would ever walk on that side of the street because it is a dirty old fence. The sidewalk is on the other side of the street!



I'm going to contest the ticket. I really hope they don't make me pay the $115...I pay enough in parking tickets as it is!

Kelly Clarkson - Already Gone

I currently have this song on repeat.

They are saying she ripped off Beyonce's "Halo", but I actually think it is a better song.

(And if anyone deserves blame it is OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder because he produced the song and gave both singers the same backing track to write to. Lamesauce!)

Music video legend Joseph Kahn, who also directed "Toxic", did a fantastic job of hiding Kelly's obese.

!!! DO NOT SEE THIS MOVIE !!!- The Time Traveler's Wife

This was a horrible horrible movie that did not make sense.

I LOVE Rachel McAdams. But I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie. Hated it.

I hated it so much that I am bumping this back and posting a variety of critics' reviews to make sure you avoid this piece of trash at all costs.

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"It's hard to live in stolen moments, but trying to find a few enjoyable ones in The Time Traveler's Wife is nearly impossible." -Joel Neumayer, New York Daily News

"The Time Traveler's Wife drags so much that you will wish you could be a time traveler and speed past the slow spots...and it's all slow spots."
- Gary Wolcott, Tri-City Herald

"A kooky, head-spinning romantic mess." -Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

"If you allow yourself to think for one moment of the paradoxes, contradictions and logical difficulties involved, you will be lost. The movie supports no objective thought." -Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times

"Rarely does a movie make me so dearly wish I could come unstuck in time."
-Gregory Weinkauf, The Huffington Post

"Don't expect The Notebook." (Ha! Understatement!)
-Kit Bowen, The Movie Kit

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I mean. I we spent a good two hours following the movie discussing what absolute garbage it was and contemplating ways to get our money back.

That...and flinging rubber hair-ties into each other's mouths...



The rubber band thing was MUCH more fun.

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Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? - Music Video

I was just doing some late-night browsing around iTunes looking for new music to dry-hump my couch to and stumbled on the new #1 Music Video of the moment which happens to star Brown alum and LA acquaintance Sandeep Parikh. A lot of you might recognize him.

As a former WoWer I found it somewhat amusing.



Congrats Sandeep! Please get super famous.

In PVD for photoshoot

Mmmmmmm antonios...



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