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I heard that song three times last night within 4 hours. I was on my way to Cinespace for Natasha’s birthday party and it played on STAR 98.7 and then they played it at Cinespace in their front dance room, and then on my way home, they played it on JACK 93.1 a new station that I love (it replaced ARROW) because it plays a random assortment of 70’s, 80’s and 90’s music. I just thought that it was weird because I hardly hear New Order on the radio at all and then in one night, I hear it three times. I had their CD in my car and was tempted to pop it in, but I thought the randomness of tonight was good enough.

Cinespace was an interesting venue. It was pretentious, which I expected because it was a trendy Hollywood club. But I didn’t expect a lot of the interesting mixing of many different crowds. I think that there was a birthday party for an Asian porn actress because all night, I kept seeing these short, thin, hot Asian girls with HUGE fake breasts walking around everywhere. It looked like they were going to topple over because they were so top-heavy. Maybe I’m wrong, maybe they were all real. In any case, they were there and there were break dancers and a private party, a lot of Hollywood wannabes, people in the industry, midgets, sorority girls and some arty types that just didn’t look like they belonged. Natasha was drunk and having a blast. The girls (Eva, Dre, Mich Garr) were there and I was glad because we entertained ourselves for a bit. We didn’t feel like dancing because the dance floor was too crowded. I couldn’t really dance anyway because I was sore and very tired from earlier that day. I did see an old friend and coworker, Priti, who is one of Natasha’s friends as well. I haven’t seen her in a long time and I found out that she works for MTV with my friend Gabe. Small world. The music was interesting as well. The back room played all hip-hop music. The dance floor was slightly bigger and the DJ had many unusual mixes, such as NIN’s “Closer” with 50 Cent’s “In Da Club.” But he would be okay, if I liked hip-hop music. He played other favorites like Notorious BIG, Warren G, and Tribe. The front room was playing totally different music like Joy Division, Rod Stewart, Blondie, Depeche Mode, New Order, and Future Sound of London. I preferred the front room and spent the rest of my night there with the girls. I left there a bit early and was kinda mad that I had to pay $15 for parking there. I am just glad that I didn’t have to pay a cover. I was glad to have been able to check out the venue and hang out with Natasha and her friends. I would like to come back on a weeknight when they are actually serving dinner and showing a movie and have live bands play. That sounds a little more agreeable to me.

Well, the reason why I was sore and tired yesterday was because Alexis and I volunteered to help with Habitat for Humanity for the UCLA Alumni Association, which was organized by Eva. We started bright and early at 7am in Pacoima. I would never wake up early on a Saturday unless I had something worthwhile to do and luckily I was able to get up in time to do this. Our job was to paint primer on all of the interior walls of two houses. It sounded like fun because Alexis and I wanted to paint instead of working outside and building stuff. We got our brushes and rollers and got busy. I got all dirty and primer was everywhere on my clothes and face and glasses. It was fun for a while, but after lunch, I could feel my arms hurting and it became a bit arduous to paint more. We did stick around until it ended, but I was beat. It is nice to know that we were able to finish 2 houses in that small amount of time. It felt good to help out. To pick our spirits up, Alexis and I sang along to “You Oughta Know” by Alanis Morissette while sitting through 405 traffic. That made us feel a lot better. I got home and took a short nap (which isn’t very usual for me because I can never take naps during the day) and got up and got ready for Cinespace. I was still exhausted mentally and physically.

On Friday night, a group of us (Josh, Wen, Amy, Shahab, and Angela) went to dinner at Kabuki. We had so much sushi. Tons and tons of it to the point where we had to take some home. Wen got drunk and fell asleep, which was very amusing to me and Angela. It was nice to see the girls and Shahab. Shahab has been working a lot and we haven’t seen him as regularly as we used to. Seating and service took a long time and we didn’t get back until 11:30pm. I didn’t get to sleep until late, which wasn’t a good idea because I knew that I had to be up early for Habitat. Well, at least I am glad that I was able to sleep in today at least and catch up on some of the sleep that I’ve lost this week. I am hoping that today is going to be a relaxing day. Cleaning, reading, drinking coffee, and such.

S&TC quote of the day:
“It was a typical downtown male mix. Ten percent Wall Street, ten percent real estate, and ten percent Samantha had already slept with.” – Carrie (Season 3 - Running With Scissors)