Mama’s Cookin’<\/a>. The band is friends with one of Kathryn’s (the housemate) friends. It was nice to get out and see some live music. If only the second band would have been any good (they needed a bit of practice). We got there a little before Mama’s Cookin’ was set to go on…so we also caught a bit of Janeane Garofalo’s stand up act. She had some funny bits…but seemed to be phoning it in a bit.<\/p>\nSaturday was my friend Frank’s 30th Birthday. The festivities started off with a BBQ at the park in front of their apartment. After a few hours at the park, the party moved to an art gallery on La Brea. This part was a surprise for Frank. There we had wine, champagne and a little dance party. We only had the art gallery space until 11pm, so once that rolled around we tried to figure out somewhere else to go. We ended up at a place on Melrose, but they were booked with private parties…so we couldn’t get into the section where the dancing was going on. Some of the folks were hungry, so I suggested we check out Kitchen 24, a new 24-hour diner on Caheunga in Hollywood. It’s on the same block as quite a few of the trendy clubs in Hollywood. Kitchen 24 had only been open for a few days at this point…so they are still working out some issues (about half of their menu was unavailable), but the food we did have was pretty cool. The best part was the place has a DJ booth and when the DJ came on around 2am, our group started an impromptu dance party. We eventially got about half of the folks in the diner dancing with us. I think we may have been the first group to jump up and start dancing…cuz the staff was taking pictures with their iPhones, etc.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, one of my friends and I headed over to Manhattan Beach. We just hung out on the beach and talked for about four hours. It was nice and relaxing, though I didn’t quite get enough coverage on the sunscreen, and am now paying for it with a quite red back. Oh well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I had a great weekend. Friday night, I went out with my housemate and a few of her friends to The Mint to see Mama’s Cookin’. The band is friends with one of Kathryn’s (the housemate) friends. It was nice to get out and see some live music. If only the second band would have … <\/p>\n
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