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Huzzah for free booze!

Yesterday was FULL of it

It started with a wine and cheese tasting at one swanky hotel in Beverly Hills, which was supposed to be $45/person, but we got comped in, as knowing the right people is a good thing. It quickly turned from a tasting to a swilling, and we left full of cheese and feeling rosey.

Then we popped...
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Well, Monday started off slow, but ramped up quick when I started doing tequila shots at 5.30 before going to a metal club in Hollywood later, with a bunch of friends from the bar. From what I remember, that ended with my friends pulling me out because I wanted to start a fight with this certain celebrity who I thought was hitting on my friend's...
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So far, so good!

Friday started out mellow, which I very much needed, by way of me sitting at a laundry/cafe place washing all my clothes and linens and having a sandwich and tea. A friend popped in for a bit to chat, but mostly I sat there and read and relaxed.

That afternoon I met up with another friend and went to check out...
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Party time!

So it's now the wee morning hours of my birthday. I've got the next 5 days off of work in order to celebrate.

Tomorrow I'm going to hit a couple of art shows; one has some pieces by a friend's sister, the other has some pieces by a friend.

Saturday is a whopping big monster benefit gig; sad story, it was supposed to...
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Summertime seems to be a time of change for me, looking back on the past few years. Most of my major moves and changes have been in the summer, but not generally from my choice, it's just happened that way.

So now it's June 1, summer's basically here, and I'm wondering what's going to go down over the next 3-4 months.

I have a feeling...
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Haven't had a crazy night of silly adventures like this one in ages!

Me and a couple of the guys left the bar around 2.40am, drove all the way across town to Glendale to eat at a 24-hour diner near where they live, then drove back west to Hollywood to another diner, then back east to a third diner, by which time we'd decided to...
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Drinking at the bar last night, towards the end, you know, so I was a bit tipsy by this point, and some English guy starts talking to me. Being a friendly type of guy, I chat back ... apparently with a convincing English accent, although it wasn't intentional, and he actually thought I was English. Took a bit of effort to get him to believe...
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So, made a run out to the desert to see a couple bands: The Spores and The Eagles of Death Metal.

Enjoyed both bands, but the real highlight for me was catching another band I didn't know was playing: Charley Horse.

It's the singer from Throwrag, the bassist from the Cramps playing guitar, the original bassist from Nashville Pussy playing bass, another guitarist and...
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So, talked to one of my bosses about all my frustrations with work, and mentioned that I was talking to another restaurant about checking them out. He went and talked to the head chef, and came back the next day telling me to give it a few more weeks and everything would change; he said they really don't want me leaving and just to be...
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I haven't been able to get "No New Tale to Tell" out of my head since the DJ spun it at the bar last night.

And that's fine by me, as it's a great song.

But tell me ... is it a DJ faux pas to play Love & Rockets and Bauhaus back-to-back?

I have a lot to do today; I should get off my...
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One might think that 4 years would be long enough after one's mother passed, that Mother's Day wasn't that big a problem.

One would be mistaken.

My laptop hard drive died a violent and horrible death yesterday.

It seems like everyone I know that has an Apple laptop has had a catastrophic HD failure with the things.

I can't remember when my warranty stuff expires. A trip to the Apple Store is in the very near future.