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Inking and Drinking

Tonight saw and impromptu party at my house.  I got back to my place a little bit later than usual from work to a barrage of calls from my roommate asking if he could dip into my "fancy" beers.  I have a lot of micro-brews and whatnot in the extra fridge.  I was glad to oblige my roommate.  Turns out we hosted a gathering of about 15 people.  Not bad for a Monday night.  Downing my beers was my roommates tattoo artist Dave.  My roommate is rather tatted up, both arms basically covered, one leg covered, back mostly done.  Dave once again tried to get me to go to him for ink work, but I ONLY go to my artist back in NY.  Dave brought a few friends of his(suffice to say they all had some ink) and we all just drank, bar-b-qued, ate, drank and laughed. 

In attendance were 2 Suicide Girls that Dave and his boss ink up.  I can't begin to tell you how awesome these chicks are.  Stunningly gorgeous with nice fresh ink.  Yum Yum. 

My roommate Steve went out to Laughlin for the weekend.  He didn't sleep Friday at all, got about 3 hours on Saturday and 4 more on Sunday.  He got back today to another party.  No sleep, drinking since Friday, and we force a party on his ass.  Aren't friends great?

Busy week for life, and work

I have a pretty full schedule this week which includes 3 different concerts.  On Wednesday I will be going to the Troubadour on Santa Monica to see Ivy.  Supporting Ivy will be Robbers on High Street as well as Astaire.  I am looking forward to seeing Ivy, but I am actually more excited about seeing Astaire.   I have their 5 song EP "Don't Whisper Lies" and am looking forward to their live set and hearing some other songs.  I have to thank my friend Tim for turning me on to this band, TimmyGunz!  I am probably most looking forward to this show, but the rest of the week should be pretty damn good.

On Friday I am going to see my friends band play a small show in Covina, about 20 mins from L.A.  The bar is supposedly a real shit hole (I've never been) called Rude Dogs.  More on this show to come later.

On Saturday I'm heading out to the Long Beach Arena to see Taking Back Sunday and Jimmy Eat World.  This show is presented by KROQ and MTV2.  Since KROQ is sponsoring the event, I am sure that I will run into Jed the Fish once again (see previous post).

This should be a long but very fulfilling week.  I look forward to hearing a lot of great music from Ivy and Astaire to Taking Back Sunday.  I get to enjoy time with friends and sip on a few cocktails.  Doesn't get much better than this.