The weekend of the Gaga

So remember like a month ago when I posted that embarrassing photo of myself from my 13th birthday party? You know: bangs, bad jewelry, Backstreet Boys cake. I wrote then that screenprinting on a pastry was "awesome" and that I would love to have a cake with Lady Gaga on it for my 24th birthday.

Well, my friend M came through with fucking cupcakes with Lady fucking Gaga fucking screenprinted on them. Here's a side-by-side, as promised.

Um, weird, right? The saddest thing about this comparison is that my hair only looks marginally better in the left photo.  I need a haircut, y'all. Here's a closeup of the cupcake since you probs can't see it that well.

Bam, motherfuckers. My friends rock.

A few life updates, more for my benefit than yours.

1. The Gaga concert was transcendent. So transcendent that I'm having great difficulty writing about it. Suffice it to say: I laughed, I cried, I jumped up and down, I closed my eyes and felt the energy of the room pumping in my blood, I danced, and my boobs almost fell out of my strapless dress. And when I walked out of Radio City, I felt like myself for the first time in months and months.*

2. The hair bow tattoo is a definite go. I went with J on Saturday to a consultation at Brooklyn Adorned and we are both getting tats on the same day in March. It's going on the inside of my left wrist. I'm very excited.

3. On the way back to Manhattan after my tattoo consult, I saw Rich, the writer of FourFour, on the L train!!!! It was my first (semi)celebrity sighting that I actually cared about enough to try to talk to the person. He was very nice and took my blogging card (yes, I have those). I was (too) nerdily excited. I of course told him how much I love Winston.

4. Last night was my co-birthday blowout bash with my friend B. She turned 25 on Jan. 15, and my 24th birfday was last week, so we just decided to mash 'em together for a big blowout night at Solas in the East Village. It was amazing. I counted, and all together, about 23 people came out to celebrate with us. It was such an amazing New York night; I was surrounded by people I love, and when Bad Romance played, I got to re-live a bit of the concert energy from a couple nights before. Pokerface also played, and Z and I danced up and down the stairs. Natch.

*If you want to see video clips (spoiler alert!) of some of my favorite segments from The Monster Ball, click here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.

Throwback Thursday: Lady Gaga Edition

Today is my birthday. I'm twenty four. TWENTY FUCKING FOUR. As many hours as there are in one day, I've lived that many years. You may recall that I announced a couple months ago that Lady Gaga is performing at Radio City Music Hall tonight. I am already prepared: brown hair bow, fishnets, new dress, Art Deco necklace, studded boots and eye liner await my gracious donning.

In honor of my first live Gaga experience, today's Throwback Thursday goes allllll the way back to April 2008, when Gaga released her first single as a solo artist: Just Dance. I didn't like Gaga at this point - in fact, I don't think I had even heard of her - and she didn't really start growing on me until last summer, more than a year after the song came out. But listening to it now, it seems like old school Gaga, or something, which is ridiculous since she's such a new artist. But compared to her tracks on The Fame Monster, it somehow seems like a really old song.

It's definitely not my favorite song on The Fame, but I decided on it because it was the first one released, and it was a huge, ginormous hit. Instead of posting the official music video - which, BTW, I feel doesn't do the song any justice because her inspiration for writing the song was her crazy nights going out in NYC, and the video takes place at, like, some lame house party in LA - I am posting her live performance of the song on So You Think You Can Dance? from fall 2008. I was living in Alabama at the time, and I watched this show religiously every week with Schmom B., so I saw this performance as it happened. I remember actually saying to my mom, "What the fuck?? Who is this bitch? She's not a good dancer and her singing is just sub-par."*

Oh, how things have changed.

This barely even seems like the same person performing. True, her budget was much smaller back then, but even her face looks different. Her body looks a bit stouter. I mean, this was almost two years ago so it's definitely possible that her look has changed. But that's no defense for those shoes. I mean what the hell? Neon highlighter wedge sandals? Hell. To the naw.

*Yes, I used those actual words, because Schmom and I are tight like that.

(30) Rock around the Christmas tree

As I mentioned yesterday, I finally made it to the tree at Rockefeller Center last week. Like good little capitalists, my friends and I partook of Starbucks hot chocolates, coffees and peppermint mochas - guess which one's mine - then bopped on over to the tree, where we saw lots of adorable bundled up babies (awwww!!!!1), couples in love (shmeh) and a healthy number of very blatant B&Ts (double shmeh). It was a beautiful, beautiful thing.












































I'm in red. My friend Z is the only boy, and the other two are B and J, the latter of whom took the bottom photo. (BTW, she's a pretty brilliant photographer.) We all went to college together. Just a group uh good ol' Suhhhthuhnuhs in the big citay.

Here's some more Christmas-y photos, for your enjoyment, taken with my busted ass iPhone. Please forgive the somewhat lackluster quality.

The Rock tree, from further (farther?) away.





















And up close. Yeah, I totally upskirted the Rock tree. I don't feel bad about it.





















Some trees along the side of the Rock ice skating rink. So pretty.





















Radio City Music Hall with some Crimma lights across the skreet. PS, This is where I will see Gaga in just over a month (!!!!!!!!)
















The same lights, and a bunch of cabs. Pretty typique.
















Back at the beginning of November, I wrote a post saying that if I ever found a place more beautiful than Manhattan in the fall, I would have to move there immediately. Well, I found it. It's Manhattan in December. And I already live here. Life win.

Gagannouncement

Yesterday, Lady Gaga announced her North American tour dates for The Monster Ball. Of course I was excited to discover that she will be coming to Radio City Music Hall in NYC, because originally when she was supposed to tour with Kanye West (vom), there was no NYC stop planned at all. Which is basically heresy, because Gaga is like the physical embodiment of the Lower East Side.

Anyway, an NYC stop is exciting. More exciting? An NYC stop on January 21. Why?



















IT'S MY BIRTHDAY, Y'ALL. If I can get tickets, this promises to be the best birthday I have ever had, hands down. And last year, you might recall, I went to DC for the inauguration. Yeah, I said it: this is going to be better. First black president? Awesome. Gaga live and in person? Better.

It's also her last stop in North America before she continues her tour in like Australia or something, which means it's going to be the shit. Hello New York, hello Meghan, byebye America.



She is so epic. Hello most amazing night of my life. Sigh.