The Best and the Worst
Some people know how to throw a party; some don’t. A surefire sign of the later: when you end up drunk, ordering at the takeout window at Taco Bell because you’ve been drinking for hours with no food to soak it up.
Such was NOT the case at a FANTABULOUS bash to celebrate the launch of the Tony Hawk Sidekick for T-Mobile. Taking over an empty building in the heart of Hollywood (the place used to be KCBS Channel 2 and KNX) and decorating it in skateboard chic was genius. And how killer was having the Stone Temple Pilots play for more than an hour? Scott Weiland progressively lost pieces of clothing as he rammed through the set. Outside, a half pipe, and and and: an In-N-Out Truck, a Hot Dog on a Stick truck and a Taco Nazo truck. Fast food paradise on asphalt. Party went right up to the rim of 2 a.m.
On the flip side, an event held by Genlux Catalog, I mean, magazine, at the W pool in Westwood. Billed from 6-9, cocktail and dinner hour in the rest of LA, they supplied not one morsel of an appetizer and sported 20-minute, no fun lines at the bar. Wait, think there was one tray of cheesecake balls on a stick. Being outside by the pool on a warm summer night is nothing to complain about. Everything else was.
