Which is annoying, because the second time is usually over breakfast.
The latest I met at The Darker Side of Green party sponsored by Lexus and Patron. Why do I get invited to parties like this? Because I enjoy them so much I don't mind posting stuff like, "BUY PATRON TEQUILA!" and "EVERYBODY GO GET A LEXUS NOW!" Only seems fair after thirty-five hors d'oeuvres.
The party, celebrating the new Lexus hybrid CT200H, was in the top two floors of an abandoned warehouse, and you had to take a scary freight elevator to get to it. Upstairs, the place was star-studded. Kevin Bacon with wife Kyra Sedgwick, the gorgeous Tyson Beckford, Gretchen Mol, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jared Leto, Wyatt Cenac, assorted faces from Ugly Betty, and Zach Braff was on the arm of Taylor Bagley, the most stunning woman I've ever seen. At least six foot tall, platinum hair, shot me a gorgeous smile whenever I stared at her. (Here's a tip for hungry partygoers: if you want a steady stream of hors d'oeuvres coming at you, stand close to the stars.) Whenever they were in the vicinity I felt like saying, "Braff, go get yourself a step stool. The lady's going home with me!"
Sarah Silverman moderated a debate between some liberal woman and conservative man. When the woman said China was making great strides in their automotive industry, Sarah said, "Oh. So for every female baby thrown into the trash can, they're making a fuel-efficient car?"
The Misshapes DJed behind all this, and they were amazing. Mix old Billy Bragg with Belle & Sebastian and Lene Lovich and you can pretty much just do me then and there.
Which is how I ended up with a new man, posting at five o'clock.
The man? On third look, he really ain't half bad.
2 comments:
I guess I'm just out of it. I've heard of Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, Maggie Gyllenhall and Gretchen Mol, but none of those other people. Who are they, local NYC celebrities? Friends of the photographer?
Hey, join the club. If I hadn't Googled, I'd have said Kevin Bacon was married to Edie Sedgwick.
Zach Braff stars in Scrubs. Wyatt Cenac is from the Colbert Report, I think. I only know because a reader alerted me that he allegedly ripped off one of my bits.
Jared Leto was the guy in My So-Called Life about whom Claire Danes' character said, "I'm in love. His name is Jordan Catalano. He's always closing his eyes, like it hurts to look at things." Of course, that was thirty years ago, and now he's closing his eyes because it's 8:30 and past his bedtime.
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