Soundtrack: Belle & Sebastian - "I'm A Cuckoo" (the bizarre yet cute African-style remix)

On July 4th me and Meredith went to the free Belle & Sebastian concert in Battery Park. It was really sticky out, and there were indie rockers as far as the eye could see...

Ran into Sammy, who hooked us up with popsicles, saki, and a sweet spot right up in the front.

I brought my special giraffes-licking-lollipops picnic blanket. I've had that thing forever. It's filthy from years of rowdy picnicking, but it sure brightens up a lawn!

It's also great as a tarp for when it starts to pour, like it did right before the band was supposed to play. They announced that they might have to clear us all out of the park if it turned into an electrical storm, but luckily it didn't and then a few minutes later, after we all got thoroughly soaked, the sun came out and the band came on!

It was a great show. They played "If She Wants Me." I always forget how good that one is. Totally worth having had to stand in line outside the Astor Place Starbucks for 2 hours for the otherwise free tickets. True story!

Veronica. She's like an even bigger fan than me, if you can imagine.

"Put the dog in the fucking basket!!!" Ha. That evening, Gavin and Emily hosted a July 4th BBQ and fireworks bonanza on their awesome rooftop wonderland. This is the scary hatch with completely vertical ladder you hafta climb to get up there. You can put all your beer and junk in the bucket to take up too. Smart! It's a pretty dicey climb, but once you're up there, totally worth it.

See? It's a rooftop paradise! Check out the sweet Andrew WK awning left over from his merch table or something.

Yay, hammock!

Yay, falling off the hammock!

Scott is proud to be an American. An American with binoculars.

Duffy likes the pretty pink clouds.

I know you can't really read David's shirt, but trust me, it is filthy. It's detailed instructions for eating pussy and it's okay advice, but if you're short like me, you're basically trying to have a conversation while phrases like "layers of pussy flesh" are staring you right in the face. It's just a tad distracting.

Also distracting was this soaked-in-rum watermelon courtesy of Sarah. Mmm.

She knows how to fill a watermelon with booze AND grill meat? What can't she do! Hey, let's see how those hot dogs turned out anyway...

HA HA HA! Oh man, it's not a party till Gavin's dick is on a bun and covered in ketchup.

Thought ya might wanna see that from another angle.

Aaaand, once more for good luck. Man, these two are gonna be the coolest parents ever!

See? I'm not kidding about the parents thing. Aww, so cute! Thanks for the awesome party, best pregnant hostess ever.

Fireworks pictures... never as good as you hope they're gonna be.

More smiley faces! More smiley faces!

The party ended with a coupla rounds of Mafia, the most elaborate mindfuck game ever. Ew, "mindfuck." Sorry, I just don't know how else to describe it.

No talking during Mafia!

So these are some random odds 'n ends from the past few weeks. Forgot to put em up before, so I thought I'd just stick em in down here. Here's Jim's band playing at Gavin Brown's. The audience (a.k.a. one little boy) loved it! Kidding, everyone loved it, they were just all out on the roof eating delicious BBQ. The band relocated out onto the roof soon after and it was just perfect.

I've been enjoying roofs lately. Roofs and stoops, possibly my two fave summertime locales.

I hadn't seen Jim in forevs. What a rare treat. He even brought me a pissed-off-looking kitten in a basket! He gives the best presents. He once got me a stuffed animal from Cracker Barrel (haha!) that looks EXACTLY like my cat Lucky Star. It's actually kinda creepy so I keep it in the back of my closet.

Thalia and Lana at Lit on one of those crazy, sweaty nights we've been having... Ugh, you know like how it's been so humid out that it feels like the air is just water? Yeah, so combine that with booze and dancing and you can just imagine...

...how I ended up like this! Haha, I know I said no more pictures of me for awhile, but this one is just too horrific not to share. Thalia doesn't know my rules about taking pictures of wasted people after 4am (the rule: don't do it). I'll let it slide just this once.

And finally: haven't had a picture of Ryan on here for awhile, how about one of him shaving in the tub? H-O-T! Your welcome, lucky fellas.

Hello yeah, it's been awhile, not much, how 'bout you?