I don't want to write my blog today. I'm too hungover. Maybe I will come and add more later. My party was great. The vodka cranberry definitely helped me. It was pretty weird at the beginning though. I hadn't booked the venue because my friend had told me you didn't need to. I also had never been there before and didn't think it necessary to contact them and tell them I was having a party. I, of course had a strange fear that maybe Langford and I would show up and discover that the bar was closed. Then I told myself that that was ridiculous. Then we walked up to a closed bar. Great. This place is so 'cool' that it doesn't have a sign or even the address printed outside but we were pretty sure we were in the right place. Then a handsome black man, sitting in a car outside, asked us if we were looking for Club L. "Yes," we replied. "Well, I'm the manager and it doesn't open till 10."
"Oh shit." The current time was 8.45 and I had invited people to come at 9. I really didn't want to tell everyone that we just had to hang out on the sidewalk. This was a terrible start to my party. People were already going to have difficulty finding the place and now it wasn't even open! The manager introduced himself and said he was waiting for the owner to arrive with the key. A girl showed up and I eagerly asked her,
"Are you the key bearer?" This was beginning to sound like a mystical TV show. My friends started to arrive and there were 5 of us now huddled in the cold on the street. I wouldn't let them go to another bar for fear of confusing the yet to arrive guests. They finally let us in and so we started the party in a massive warehouse with only the 5 of us and all the house lights on. Great. Then the writer of a movie I did arrived and had brought with him a pretty well known British actor. I rushed to explain why my party is so weird. They were probably expecting a thumping cool scene and instead it was just 5 or 6 people in the corner of a massive warehouse. Weird. Anyway, the served us some drinks so it was OK. Then finally, more people arrived and we had a great time. Will tell more, later.