Kinkle Says...

For once I had a really action-packed weekend, probably the most action-packed weekend I've had since I've become a mom except for when we leave the child with the grandparents to go out of town. ANYWAY Thursday I went with the hubby to see Devo in McCarren Park which is the first show I've seen there. The Tom Tom Club opened which was pretty cool because I have only seen them once before. It didn't beat the show a few years ago in Central Park but it was good and full of a nice mix of olds & youngs and surprisingly empty. I'm thinking I'm going to hit some of those Jelly NYC pool party shows over the summer as well. After we had some drinks with a friend of mine and I was very hungover the next day. Consequently we stayed in Friday night and watched La Vie En Rose. Damn that girl really deserved the Oscar. It was amazing it didn't even seem like the same person, especially since i had only seen her looking dishy on the red carpet. It was a very disjointed movie but her performance was great and now I know all kinds of stuff about Edith PiafSaturday we couldn't get our shit together (running late, got lost, etc) but we went out to Long Beach to see a friend who has a beach cottage there and meet his new baby. Unfortunately by the time we got there it was kind of rainy but i wasn't exactly dying to put my butt in a bikini so I was fine with that. We never even touched down on the beach, we just stayed in and had a kind of weird vegetarian meal and got pretty drunk just hanging out with my friend, his sister and her friends. We spent a good portion of the evening watching my kid freak out to this album my husband just produced. He was jumping up and down and moonwalking and everything he loves that rock and roll. We didn't get home until like 2:30 am which is pretty late when you're dragging the kid home at that hour. SO Sunday I was invited to a screening of the Joy Division documentary. I've known one of the guys from New Order since the 80s and he was speaking then DJing the party after. It was at the New Museum where i had not been before but the general consensus is the art sucks there so I didn't check it out. We had some time to kill so we went to Cafe Habana and had a couple of bloody marys and a ridiculously quick meal because the service is so pokey then saw the film. It was really well done particularly if you are a Joy Division fan but I'm moving Control down on the Netflix list because I don't think I can handle seeing the same story twice. The Q&A was very funny and it was really nice to see my old friend even though I didn't get to spend too much time with him. They had an after party in Nolita at The Randolph which I guess is a hotel but it was a really weird set up...no speakers in the front of the tiny bar, a bunch of cold burgers and salad with no forks set up in front of the DJ booth.. weird! It was fun just hanging out though and the cocktails were free. We stayed til about 11:30-midnight then had to go home to relieve the sitter but all in all it was a very eventful weekend for me.