Leaving, on a jetplane....

I am off on a big adventure!! I had to get up at 5am for this... my weekend bedtime... so you know it's something cool! Stay tuned...

A River Ran Through It

This last week was one helluva time! I am working on a mega-post-update of the amazing wedding for Vince & Julie in Tahoe... in the meantime, here's some of the other fun stuff I was up to!

On Tuesday Matt had Paul, Matthew, and myself over for his 1 year anniversary party (of being in LA) - congrats Matt!
Dear Miss Manners: My friend has been in LA for one year. What's the proper gift? Paper? Plastic? A smog mask? A Homeless-OFF! spray kit? A "I did crack with Lindsay at the Chateau Marmont" T-shirt?

Matt's apartment was really nice and he had it all pimped out!
Nothing says PAR-TAY like red cups!
He even cooked a ton of food - and I'm not even kidding - it was incredible! Seriously amazing food. I accused him of having it catered and hiding the boxes... he claimed he cooked it... but I still have my doubts!

I met Paul, Kirst, and Trent for dinner at Baja Cantina in Venice on Wednesday, which was great fun. I think Trent may have been having a bad day because he decided to order a margarita big enough to get the entire city of Venice drunk:
That's un-photoshopped, people.

Paul got a Mega-Margarita of his own - LOOK AT THAT THING!

It's bigger then Kirst's head! Insanity!

A few margaritas and a bunch of Mexican food later, we were off for drinks on Abbot Kinney...

Mike met us for drinks after dinner and he and Kirst proceeded to make out. *
*That's a lie.

Sorta.

HBD P-town!

Another crazy busy week and weekend... but that's LA life! Did some fun stuff this week, including the LA premiere of December Boys which my lovely Kirst brought me to...
It's the new Daniel Radcliffe movie, and was directed by a friend of Kirsten's. She knows all the Aussies - I'm going to start calling her a member of the Dingo Mafia.
Trent came as well and we got seats right next to the ones blocked off for Harry Pot... I mean Daniel R. Daniel came up to intro the film, and as he walked by I think my jaw dropped - he's SO TINY! He's like a lil hobbit. He must weigh like 80 pounds - and he's so teeny! Unfortch right after that he left with his entourage and didn't stay after to meet people. :( BOO!
So instead I got the next best thing - a photo with him on set. Ahem. Just take off your glasses and squint!

Everyone was talking like Kirsten - it was a little unnerving hearing all the Aussie accents. I felt like a foreigner! :D
HOWDY!

Last night I met up with Paul, Mike, and a bunch of Paul's peeps to wish him a Happy Birthday! Paul turned 20-something (I told everyone at the bar a different age, in the hopes of instigating a fight over people disagreeing on his age... it didn't work) and we started the night out at Home restaurant in Los Feliz... it was great food and you feel like you are eating in Peter Pan's treehouse! But with alcohol. And grown ups. OK, it's not like that at all.

Chocolate bday cake = a requirement. Doesn't this look like an ad for TGI Friday's?
Ryan, Mike's sister Jill, Steve, Jesse, and Pedro came out to celebrate!
We went to Akbar after to dance the night away....

Matt joined us and the proceeded to get a girlfriend on the dancefloor....
And by the bathroom.....
And again on the dancefloor.... he's a player ya'll.
Jill was visiting from Florida and was a lot of fun to hang out with, altho I was hoping for more sibling rivalry with her and Mike - that's where you get the juiciest stories (to blog, of course).
I'm practicing my Jim Carrey face here - but unlike him, I'll quit when I turn 40. Let it die Jim.
HEY JILL!

Paul turns twenty-***! WOOOOOOOOOOOOT!

Jesse was rockin the red suspenders which everyone insisted on pulling and snapping all night... good stuff.I'm pretty sure we were making this face because they were playing a crappy song or something. It was a strange mix of music, they actually played Riders In The Sky at one point, then some Kylie, then some 70's crazyness... Akbar rules!

Nothing's going on here. Nothing. We were talking about church.
Tara insisted on a dance, and thusly there was a dance.
"It's my bday bee-yotches! Hollaaaaaaaaa!"
I have no clue what's going on here but apparently the blonde is very "Sure". Everyone else must be "Unsure".
AKBARRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAUL! :)

Go-lorious!

The insanely beautiful and multi talented Natalie Imbruglia is finally releasing some new muzak... her video for Glorious has apparently been out for a bit but I guess I'm behind on my pop music - I blame the US.
Love her! Her greatest hits collection is in stores next week!

Squishee!

The ever-hilarious Benja has posted his Comic Con collection of squishees on his myspace blog... make with the clickey already!

Labor Day INVASION

Work has kicked up a bit more this week and kept me pretty busy - but I did manage to make it out and have some fun times! On Wednesday night I met up with Aliah, Kirst, Paul, and Matt for dinner at Basix cafe followed by Bitchy Bingo at Hamburger Mary's - it was so funny! We were cracking up, it's a wild and crazy evening to say the least.

Aliah had the week off and I made the mistake of introducing her to Crossroads - a discount clothing store in LA that specializes in second hand brand name clothes that are super cheap.
Long story short - she spent FOUR HOURS shopping for clothes at ONE store! I've created a monster!
Fortunately, she looked amazing (monster fashionista?) and found an entirely new wardrobe for like $100. :)

Kirst was our Luck Sucker (TM) and ended up winning twice at Bingo - none of us were able to win. We were happy for her (and happily threw our discarded, losing bingo tickets as hard as we could - in her general direction).

It kinda looks like we were on the set of Beetlejuice's Love Palace, doesn't it?
Yeah, it does.

On Friday the whole gang got together to see Matt's amazing new musical called:
Invasion! The Musical.

He did an amazing job in it as Father Riley and EVERYONE in our group loved it. Honestly, I was really impressed. They are playing at the Hudson Backstage theater right now in Hollywood and I could easily see them in a much bigger venue. The entire show is very well produced, incredibly creative, very well written, and the performances are fantastic.
Every single actor nailed their part - and they were all great singers!

The show is a bit - hmmm... racy? I hesitate to use the word "offensive" because it's an equal opportunity offender - they LITERALLY make fun of EVERYONE. It's awesome! We were all cracking up. You definitely have to go in with an open mind - and then sit back and enjoy and laugh your ass off. I'm going to see it again before it ends, it's so funny!
Aliah & Gabriel came up to enjoy the show and looked all stylish - see, Gabriel's even giving the "Yup, that's MY WIFE, bitches" look to everyone.

Matt's parents Gary and Lauren were visiting and were incredibly nice - and I hereby nominate them as the 2nd coolest parents in the world (after my own of course) considering they loved the whole show and were incredibly supportive of Matt and all his hard work! We went to Akbar for a few drinks after...
Trent & his camera are known to entertain Aussies and Wyoming-ian's alike.
P.S. Love his shirt.

"I ROCKED THE HIZZOUSE YA'LL!""Uh oh! Extendo arm reach-over-shoulder-camera-shot!"

We don't look very drunk in this photo.
We are actors.
Hear us roar.
As you know I have an unhealthy love of celebrity, and it came into play when I realized Matt is basically famous. They blocked my shots after awhile, but luckily Kirst was there to save me and catch them unawares.
Paul looks 12 in this photo, and I look 12....
plus 14 or so.
Mike and Kirst were all huggy all night. Trent is totally giving me the "I think they are hooking up right now" look.
Gary was kind enough to buy us all drinks - which I'm sure he regretted by the end of the evening. ;)
OK, you two, seriously. Get a room. Sheesh.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH INVASION! INVASION!
Extendo-arm-Moms-pic-FTW!

I'm trying to come up with a good nickname for us - I was going to go with Fantastic Four but that just reminds me of Jessica Alba with a terrible dye job.
Happy Labor Day everyone!

Not Mom's favorite

Reminds me of growing up....

I'm a proud US American

Good thing she's pretty damn hot...

... And he marries people too!

I had quite the fun and unique weekend in San Diego... My good friends Andrew and Zemina asked me last January at their engagement party to marry them... I of course said yes! I know you are probably thinking WTF? Fortunately I married my friends Josh & Cheryl in Miami last year so I was all certified and rarin' to go! :) It was an awesome time and I had an amazing weekend! My great friends Jeff & Jennie hosted me all weekend and we had a great time too! Onward with the pics....

Rehearsals on Friday morning went well so the groomsmen and Andrew and I decided to hit up K1 Racing for a little high speed go karting...
ZOOM!
Before slamming each other into the walls, we made sure the safety equipment was in check - remember kids, friends don't let friends get hit by their cart at 40MPH without a helmet!
"THEY... WILL... ALL... PAY!" Really, I have no idea where all this anger comes from. It's like fast cars + beer + testosterone = vehicular combat.
Unfortch since I was driving I didn't get good shots of us racing. Just pretend.
The last race was pretty crazy - I was doing well and then my damn car died! BOO! I was so pissed. They guys lapped me and didn't seem to mind - it took the 'pit crew' like 2 laps to replace my damn car! So they shut everyone down and as soon as I was in a new car I sped off - which unbeknownst to me, the other guys were waiting for the straggler behind us. I was then known as "The Cheating Preacher". Yeah, unfair, untrue... and funny. ;)
BOO! I should be standing up there!

Had a great rehearsal dinner at Piatti's in La Jolla, which was delicious - despite being randomly beaned by falling tree berries (it was outside under a big tree, that apparently felt like shedding it's dingleberries all over us).
This may very well be their last picture taken together before being referred to as Mr & Mrs. Z!
Saturday was the actual wedding... it was a beautiful setup at Powerhouse in Del Mar, CA. It sits right along the beach, next to a grassy park, overlooking the ocean and surrounded by beachy trees. It's a gorgeous location and honestly one of the best places to get married in SD. They really lucked out getting it!
Even the table settings were gorgeous! You could look out the window to the ocean...
Flowers FTW!

Hmmmm wedding cake... they won't notice... if I take just a little bite....
Zemina looked amazing in her dress, Z was rocking the tan suit with the sandals (who all the groomsmen wore, I was thanking God by the end of the night I didn't have to wear dress shoes!).
This was my view of the ceremony - without 130 people dressed in their Sunday best staring at me, of course. No pressure. No pressure.
Just behind me people frolicked on the beach. I'm so hoping that there's a volleyball randomly bouncing around my head in the background of the wedding video. ;)
It's a beautiful spot!
Josh and Cheryl were there to root me on - and of course give me sh** for anything I did wrong. ;) It was really cool to have the first people I ever married there at the ceremony - pretty amazing. If you asked me 2 years ago if I'd be marrying my friends, I'd be like ... yeah, right. Crackpipe. Then I'd probably make fun of you, and tell you your mom's fat.
Josh helped relax my nerves before the ceremony by getting Preacher Shots (Jack Daniels in a plastic cup - it's not like I could bless them or anything). I told the bartender "The minister needs a shot." She loved it, and offered another... I was like "Trust me, baby, I'll be back.". LOL

So I made the mistake of asking J&C to take my camera and take pics for me during the ceremony (I thought it'd be a tish rude to stop the ceremony to take pics):
Cheryl decided to grace us with her snazzy dress and legs....
Josh of course went for the obligatory crotch shot. Classy.


Married couple #1! Fun factoid: I wore the same shirt when marrying them!
... OK that wasn't fun at all, more boring, and makes me sound cheap.
So I started the procession by walking down the aisle. You'll notice my eyes are closed - you'd be AMAZED how much better the audience treats you when you pretend to be blind. I mean, they are like, WOW he's so nice and blind! Here's money and pity love!
Of course, I'm kidding. Cheryl managed to catch me blinking or something, it's just as well, I can't pull off dignified.
Zemina was escorted by her two brothers - who her beautiful Mother Magdalena informed me I'm now on tap to perform their wedding ceremonies as well. It's a family deal ya'll!
So the backlighting was a little harsh, henceforth the actual ceremony is a little shadowish.

Random baby shot! Thanks Cheryl! You get my camera every time! I have no idea who's child this is...
Random people I don't know! They were nice... so... hi Mr. and Mrs. Nice!
This is RIGHT after I said "Without further ado, by the power vested in me by the state of California, I now pronounce you Husband and Wife! You may kiss the bride!". It's pretty fun saying that and feeling some kind of magic power come over you. ;) And boy, did they kiss! Sheesh. Wait for the wedding night you crazy kids!
The newly anointed Mr. and Mrs. Z!

Cheryl caught this awesome shot of me telling people to go upstairs for cocktails and called it my "Jesus Pose". ROCK! lol
Anything dipped in chocolate = good.
I was going to make a joke here but it felt insanely inappropriate.
I also just realized this post contains no celebs - well, it was San Diego after all.
Cheryl did do her best Corona ad, complete with the beachy sun in the background. Homegirl knows how to work it!

I miss my SD crew!
There was major dancing... they started it off with Lifehouse's "You and Me". Awww.
Weddings are so fun, everyone is like super happy the whole time!

What was I saying about inappropriate comments? Josh likes Chocolate.
I think at this point the DJ put on a song that no one liked, so they all stopped dancing. Smooth move ex-lax!
So we had a major dinner, it was really good, and we got tired... real tired after. Nothing like a belly full of booze and meat to tire you out! I just realized that the camera lens to the left in this pic is really inappropriate... wow. LOL
TOO MUCH FOOD!
In an attempt to prove to Cheryl I'm still working out, I flexed my guns...

To which she laughed in my face.... and then somehow found sand on the floor and kicked it in my face.
"THIS is a gun, lil boy! Sheesh!" Oh and I love that she's totally flashing a gang sign here. She's a crip, I think.
Feeding each other cake = always funny.
All the groomsmen and our sandals. Aaaaah. The girls were jealous.
All the guys gathered to do shots - woo! It was fun. I cut my face off. I admit it, after a few drinks my crazy powers of self-picture-taking aren't exactly as good as they could be.
Hoo boy, it just gets worse from here. At least we are in frame. Kelly was a very good dancer and asked me to marry her.
....

and her husband next month in Vermont! Unfortunately I couldn't make it that weekend but I'm sure it would have been so fun!
Magdalena, Zemina's mom, was a great dancer!
Andrew had a little too much fun taking Zemina's garter off.
It was hilarious. :)

I tried to catch Zemina's garter, but failed... miserably. Heh, let some other sucker get married. ;)

CATFIGHT OVER THE BOQUET! GO GO GO!
Me, Kelly, and Jan - I hope your wedding rocks you guys!
Zemina and I made a Kelly sandwhich - rowwrrrr.
There were so many girls there, it was like the complete opposite of a game industry function. LOL
Good times.

GREAT TIMES! WAAAAAAH
We even did a conga line!
Not sure what's going on here, but at least it's PG.
All in all it was an amazing day, and I had such a fun time. I didn't screw up my lines, and everyone loved the ceremony. I had about 50 people come up to me to thank me for doing such a nice ceremony, and I had several others ask me for business cards. It was really a wonderful time. Congratulations Andrew and Zemina, I know you guys have many, many years of happiness ahead of you!

After I caught up with a few old friends and went to a few bars....
My buddy John has lost an ENTIRE Nicole Ritchie himself since the last time I saw him! 80 pounds! You go John! LOL I was such a jackass, when I first got to our table I didn't say anything to him - I didn't freaking recognize him! LOL
DRUNK BUS!
DRUNK BAR! I was actually the sober one so I drove everyone home.... go figure.


LOL! John's eye makes a guest appearance with me and Leilani - who just got married to Ghyan! I swear, all my friends are getting married. I'm feeling old.
Me and Lisa hanging out with her friend Eve in the background - maybe we can have that Mac and Cheese another day. ;)It was fun to see old friends and be back in the old hometown - Ghyan showed his SD spirit!
Saw this on Sunday morning as I was driving to meet friends for breakfast... purdy... it actually rained!



I met up with my great friends Ben, Raphael, Ferdinand, Jeff and Jennie at Tip Top Meats, where I had a delicious 3,000 calorie breakfast. Yum! Also I'm pretty sure we insulted nearby families with our discussions. FUN.

Ben wears insanely stylish shoes - seriously, the guy knows more about cool shoes then Lindsay knows about being a cokewhore. That's a LOT.
Me and Ferd - he was wearing a great shirt which just said "Anti". Heheh

Jill, Teddy, and Joy are the overly cute children of Jeff and Jennie... they are a hilarious trio!
J&J at their gorgeous new home - it's really amazing. I have such great friends in San Diego, I miss them all a lot! :( Thankfully they are a close drive away.
J&J 's home is so nice, I was kind of expecting a butler to answer the door, and to get lost in one of the wings of the house...
As I drove back, tired but content, I realized what a great weekend it was. Quite fun - and very memorable. I wonder where my next wedding will be... ;)
-"Minister D-Lo"