A great weekend for Zacki!

It was nice to have a weekend just roll on by at the perfect pace with lots of fun stuff to do, and some relaxation thrown in.

Friday was dinner after work with my Uncle Ken, my sis, my friend Mark, T and myself. We hit up Home in Silverlake for some really yummy foor then headed over to the Bigfoot Lodge for a cocktail or two. Since the week had really taken its toll on us, we were all pretty tired, and add into that a huge dinner and we were ready to head home a little early.

Saturday I woke up, headed back home for a quick shower before spending the day with my sister and uncle. We grabbed lunch at Litterati 2 in Century city and then headed to the Skirball Center to see a staged reading of Kenneth Lonergan's "This is our youth" starring Mark Ruffalo, Josh Hamilton, and Missy Yager. This reading was done without a set, costumes, or any kind of framework except for the actors reading and an actor off to the side creating all the sound effects from a door slam to rolling a joint. It was great to see a play pared down to this, it just shows how good the writing is and just how talented these actors are when they are simply sitting on a stool, but you aren't missing a bit of the realism and emotion. I really dug it and am totally in love with Mark Ruffalo.

After a stomach churning trip to the almighty Tommy's Burgers in Eagle Rock, we headed to the Echoplex to see the band "The Sadies" from Toronto. They were pretty great.



I liked the venue of the Echoplex, but must say I could do without the 1,000 degree temperature... it was like standing in hell's mouth with a tiny fan blowing on you intermittently while you stand and drip...

Sunday I met up with T for lunch at his place, and we headed out to the Faultline for their beer-bust LA Leather kick-off party. It was a good time. His friends were there and it was fun to see them and do some people watching. We swear we saw perfect look alikes for Morgan Freeman and the Blair Witch. After the merriment, we had some delicious yellow curry and hit the hey for some snuggle time. All in all a great weekend!

Clam show at the Seismic Gay bar

Lately, Sunday is a day to relax, search for places to live, and hit the bar with friends for a drink or two before the big week begins. "Seismic Gay Bar" is usually packed to the gills and yesterday was no exception. Free shows can abound at times, with people showing off their shirtless bods etc. but this Sunday there was a new exhibitionist amongst the throngs of gays... I never got her name. It was interesting, sad and bizarre to witness what transpired...

Her impromptu strip tease began on stage during a simple butt-rock song... cowboy hat, typical stipper dance moves, and then the clothes started to come off. She flashed her boobs, then showed her boobs, and the audience had two types of reactions: Horror, and Cheers! It was amazing to see just how a group of men can go from relaxed and chatty to all catcalls and "Show us your snatch" in about 2.4 seconds. It was funny to witniss this girl having her fun, dancing and showing off to a crowd she knew was supportive and jovial, but as the second song started there was a sense that she needed to raise the stakes or get off the stage. She raised the bar for herself and started taking off the lower half of her clothes peice by peice. The spreading of labia ensued, camera phones multiplied in the sky with the arms of the giggling masses trying to get a better look. This was when things kinda stopped being funny, stopped being jovial, and kinda started to seem sad... this girl suddenly looked kinda desperate and it appeared she was looking for any and all attention. She WAS making a few bucks from the growing crowd, but she even had a gleam in her eye that maybe she was a little too drunk, or stoned to be doing this... the look that maybe she wasn't gonna remember much the next day. Som small group of her apparent "friends" circled around when she was done with her "set" and within minutes, there was some bj action going on being performed by stripper girl. Funny. Weird. Sad. Completely unexpected for "Seismic gay bar." Maybe it was leftover weirdness from Friday the 13th?