"Everybody is a Star" - The Roots, Star/Pointro [buy the album]
Sometimes you have to go big. Sometimes you have to spend 200 bones on a meal and drinks. Sometimes you have to see last year's funny movie to remind you how much you laughed at this year's funny movie. Sometimes you have to be sexy and flirtatious and overt. Sometimes you have to wonder aloud if a certain kind of underwear smells like candy. Sometimes you have to ogle the table next to you. Sometimes you have to give a wry smile to the waitress, the hostess, and the bartender.
Sometimes you have to lick whip cream and caramel sauce off your spoon privately but seductively for the sole purpose of exciting your senses and no one elses. Sometimes you've got to drink someone else's malibu and pineapple like it's a shot. Sometimes you have to dance to The Roots in the middle of a club by yourself.
Sometimes you have to name drop. Sometimes you have to wear the right jacket on a hot ass evening despite the fact that you will sweat your face off. Sometimes you have to treat yourself special.
Sometimes you have to go to Cinespace on a Thursday night with good friends.
And remember that, especially in LA, everybody is a star.
Also: Go wish EJ a Happy Birthday...Time Wastin' has been updated...losing steam as the week goes on? I, Robot, the lakers and Ozomatli's Street Signs...gaining steam as the week goes on? The Bourne Supremacy, The Manchurian Candidate, Slum Village's Detroit Deli, Rachel Yamagata's Happenstance, the Denver Nuggets, the Miami Heat, and Fuggin' It Up.