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Sometimes, much like right now, I get so thirsty. I drink water and I drink water and I drink water and it's like I'm immune to the stuff! I'm always thirsty.

Does anyone know if this means I'm dying?

Some Sugar

A friend, Ben Stein, produced this clip. I think it's genius. And I think you will too :)

it's been a while

I've been busy and bored all at the same time.

Last week was my birthday. I was home in the twin cities looking for apartments (and celebrating my birthday with my parents). It was really refreshing, which is exactly what I am hoping will happen when we move there. Oh. yes. We're moving to Minneapolis. October 8th.

This is the mess that is my room right now.
Moving boxes and bubble wrap.

So, I got back to LA and now Scott and I are trying in vain to get in all those things that we like about LA before we leave.
Saturday night- we went to California Plaza in downtown LA for a free concert. It was really amazing. The concert was !Viva! Yiddishkayt. In California there are, were, some Mexican Jews who speak Ladino; part Spanish, part Yiddish. It's an amazing language and since Jews are, were, all over the world, they became part of the culture that they lived amongst, so from that came Yiddishkayt music. A mixture of spanish music with traditional Jewish/Yiddish music. So, this concert was that. It was a mix of amazing talent. Many members of Ozomatli were there performing with Michael Alpert, the Klezmatics and with very specials guests, a 13 piece band out of the streets of Huntington Beach.


Then on Monday night we went to GrandSLAM of The Moth. This is my favorite thing to do in LA by FAR. Every month they have a get together and each night is a theme. Then random people get up and tell a TRUE story having to do with that theme. For instance, one month the theme was "weddings", and one woman told an amazing story about how she left her small town in Texas to become an actress in London, she only had $10 to her name, after she bought her plane ticket, and with that she went to one acting class. She met and became best friends (for that hour) with a girl who invited her back to her place, after telling her she can crash there, since she didn't have a place to live. Turns out that girl is the daughter of a BIG director. though him, she got a small extra role on a movie, and met a man who later became her Italian husband. Well, she is a MUCH better story teller than I, because she won that month. Now, every winner from the months all come together for the the GrandSLAM. It was really awesome. Molly Ringwald was one of the judges. A couple of the storytellers happened to be comedy writers for shows like Craig Ferguson and Crossballs. Needless to day, many of the months winners, had practice....but who cares! That makes for really amazing stories!

Dima, my friend from Birthright (our "medic") is now living in LA (working) so yesterday we spent the day together. It was great. I really love that kid. We ended up at Aroma, on sunset in the evening. this is an all Israeli place; food, waiters, .....service (hahaha). So we're sitting outside in the "drink only" chairs around the fire pit and there was THE MOST SCARY THING EVERY that happened out in the street. Everybody screamed and I swear, with all the Israelis around me I thought there was a suicide bombing. It sounded like a bomb, even Dima said so. A crazy mother fucking drunk driver hit a car, bounced off it, then over compensated and swerved into ANOTHER car, then he had the chutzpa to drive off!! There was debris everywhere and smoke too. We had to stay longer than we wanted because I was too scared that he would come back and I would become one of his victims. Thankfully, nobody was hurt, just cars. but.....OY. It was scary.

BBBgasm

Beginning of the night- in the E! parking garage, walkin' to the El Rey

Yaniv, Gal and I











Deleon- the opening act.

Washboard back drop! :)

This is what happens when Yaniv is trying to take a picture of the band, but I knock his hand from flayling and dancing too much
I SERIOUSLY WISH HE WASN'T MARRIED!

BEST.NIGHT.EVER.

Last night was BALKAN BEAT BOX!!!!

It was an incredible concert.

I went to E! to meet up with Yaniv, then we walked over to the El Rey, to meet up with Gal and Sharon. We got there and the only problem of the night occurred. The "bouncers" are working there on a really wonderful program, they're mentally challenged adults checking IDs if you want a "drink band". Well, I left mine at home (for some crazy stupid reason) and these guys are TOUGH! So, needless to say, I didn't get a drink band and I looked like the only 19 year old in the place, but it's fine with me. Yaniv got me a drink, and I was undercover sista' while I drank that, but that was one concert I WAS NOT GETTING KICKED OUT OF for "underage" drinking.

So, then the opening band came on. They're called Deleon, out of New York. They're really great for an opening band. I say that with all the respect, they're just not as polished yet as BBB, but still, they're good, so it's a good sign.


Anyway, so between sets, Yaniv made an observation that not many people at the concert were Israeli, and that it seemed odd, only because every other concert of theirs has mostly been filled with Israelis (but not they're getting bigger so I understand why there are "others" there) So I asked the two girls next to me how they heard about BBB, I asked "are you Israeli?"
"No" they said "we're Serbian". "SHUT UP, SO AM I!!" I screamed. We were all instant best friends. They invited me to Serb Fest in San Diego and told me about all the dance groups in LA that I should join. Well, it was just so nice.

Here are some visual candies for you. More to come (from a real camera haha)

Mr. Tamir Muskat (the future Mr. ME)
Jeramiah Lockwood (L) and Ori Kaplan (R)

The amazingly talented Tomer Yosef