White Party 2007 - it's not what you think.

So it was another fantastic LA weekend. On Friday I had big plans to go out - however one thing led to another and my couch was calling, and my body answered. I crashed out and had a quiet evening and became one with the telly.
Saturday Kirst and I went to a White Party. (Jeff & Ben, please leave the racist-Darion jokes in the comments field, you know you want to)

It's just a party where everyone has to wear white. The great thing is, I told Mom about it on the phone, and there was a bit of silence followed by a very concerned "A WHITE party?". Bless her heart, I could just hear the 26 years of trying to teach me that everyone is equal and not to see race or color flashing before her eyes. LOL! I was like "No, Mom, it's just a party where everyone wears white." She sounded instantly relieved. LOL

There were some nice sunsets happening - of course the party took place on the roof, like all good Venice parties. Inside is so not cool.
Awww! We look almost angelic!
White! The guy in the plaid kinda cheaped out, I know.
The most popular guest at the party was a giant light up gnome... he was hilarious! Everyone was taking photos with it. By the end of the night, the things that poor lil gnome had seen.... I'm sure he's in rehab right now.
See, and here you thought I was kidding!
Ashley makes a guest starring appearance, and I give my best creepy Tom-Cruise-I-Am-Smiling-But-I-Will-F***-You-Up eyes. Seriously, I look like a freaking stalker.
Or a Scientologist.
Same diff.
Jarad & Kirsten posing for the papparazzi.
NO! This party is my blog territory, beeeeyotch!
Kidding - it's the birthday girl! Happy Birthday Anais'!!
We had our own band! WOO! See the lil gnome also doubled as a light for the music notes... you go lil gnomey!
"Want some bubbles? You know you do!"
"BUBBLE POWERS ACTIVATE"
I thought this was a totally cute photo of me, Kirst, and Jonathan until Kirst pointed out it looks like a creepy ass white power photo with all the light hair and blue eyes.
Thanks for ruining all my fun photos!
Who knew everyone had white pants?
I like this photo cuz the guy in the background looks like a creepy beach bum version of Santa. Hey, everyone has a holiday, right?
ZOMG CAKE! Everyone get a photo! AHHHHH!

"It's my cake, bitches! MINE! MINE!"
Just kidding, she actually shared.
Some.

Sunday Kirst and I met up with our new BFF's Trent & Mike to see Sicko at the Arclight (best theater ever!) and hang out for a bit.

WOW. Sicko was a roller coaster - funny, brilliant, sad, teary, depressing, sick, eye opening, laugh out loud outrageous... it's an incredible film. No matter your view of Michael Moore (he's barely in it), your view of politics/etc - you must see this film. It's an incredible look at how the USA deals with healthcare VS the majority of the rest of the world. There's several moments in the film where I was like :O :O :O. The whole audience was engaged and clapped at several times.... it's so poignant. Recommended!

After we had some dee-lish food at Bird's and chilled out for a bit - great times! Pics enroute!

It's back to work and then I'm off home to Oregon, YAEEEE! Goodbye concrete jungle, hello nature!

Buffy, Bloggers, and Joss - OH MY!

Talk about an insane week/month... sorry for the lack of recent posts! I was swamped this week with work and was at the Hollywood & Games conference, which was a lot of fun. I heard Clive Barker speak, and I'm 90% sure he was either very hung over or had a visit with his friend Mr. Nose Candy...

Had dinner at Wolfgang Puck's restaruant at the Hollywood & Highland center - deeee-licious! Michael Clarke Duncan was sitting across the room, dayumn he's a big guy! Seemed very nice but he was having dinner with his wife so I didn't want to interrupt. The place was filled with Hollywood types, always fun to see.

Last night was AMAZING! I went to The Buffy Sing Along at the LA Film Festival. Check out buffysings.com!
The line was crazy at the theater - it sold out weeks before, and there was a standby line of over a hundred rabid fans trying to get in. People in line were playing the Buffy board game... it was great!
Vince, Kirst and I in line. I love this photo.
6'3" BABY! LOL! It's all fun and games now, till you see the scary pictures later in the post...
The line keeps gooooooooooing!
And going!

Once inside, our host - who was an awesome guy - led the crowd through all of the interactive bits. You got a goody bag once inside with things like bubbles, a streamer popper, fangs, etc etc. At certain points in the musical the crowd would interact and it was PRICELESS!
During the Giles powerballad everyone had their cellphones and lighters out! :)
Vince said everything tastes better with fangs. I say everything tastes better with my friend Captain Morgan.
Click the pic to see all the hilarious stuff we did!
"Grrrr, ARGGH!"
Everyone blew bubbles at one point which was hilarious to see in the theater!
The SHOCK of the evening was when Joss Whedon - creator of Buffy - and Marti Noxon, Exec Producer of BTVS came out to talk to the crowd. It was very clear they were moved by the people's reactions and energy at the event. It was pretty incredible, I've never seen a crowd be so amped for something before. SO FUN!

So after the show I saw Tom Lenk (who played Andrew on the show) and Trent who runs the best blog ever (Pink is the New Blog) were there. They were both super cool and we got photos with them.

Kirst and Trent!
Me and Trent!
Me and Tom! Sweet Jesus, I look like a freaky man-giant.

So what a night! Too much excitement the last few days. Thanks again to Trent for linking my blog and tripling my lifetime visitors in the span of about 30 minutes. :P
Thanks to Kirsten for getting the Buffy tickets and thanks to Vince for not pretending he didn't know me when I sang so off-key nearby glass shattered.

I've been up to a ton of other crap with no time to blog - but real quick, Kathy Griffin was HILARIOUS at the Universal Amphitheater (Gibson) last Friday. She FILLED the place - 6,000 seats - and stayed on for 2 HOURS! She is SO funny, there was literally not a minute that went by where I wasn't laughing my ass off. She had some great new material, and the crowd was roaring. Standing ovations at the start and finish!

Blurry photos! WOO!
She did an awesome impression of Paris Hilton's giraffe-model walk, which she says she does constantly. So funny.
PACKED!

Which is also a good description of my life right now. Loving it, though! I fly home to Oregon next week to get some much needed R&R and spend some time in that stuff called "Nature". Basically, the opposite of LA life...
Cheeeeeeeeeeers!