so i go to in-n-out with a couple friends. i drop them off at their place and head back home (south on la brea from sunset). i pull up to a red light and stop. i look around at the people in the cars around me, as usual — nothing interesting. i look to my right at the people getting out of the car parked right next to me against the curb. ooo, hot girls. and she looks like . . .

no way. impossible. of course, there is a huge man looking very bodyguard-esque escorting her and her friend into the shop there. and there are a few paprazzi across the intersection . . .

oh my god i actually did see britney spears from like 10 yards away. not even at some red-carpet hollywood star-watching thing, on a regular old sidewalk a few miles from my apartment. and she looked right at me when she was closing her car door. she made me get honked at when the light turned green because i was not paying attention at all. i laughed most of the rest of the way home because i didn’t believe that really just happened to me.

living in los angeles is so weird. and SEXY!

too bad it wasn’t living in chicago which would mean i could drive down to champaign this weekend for furnacefest and see my favorite band of ALL TIME who has the nerve to play a REUNION SHOW halfway across the country from here (or 300 dollars of short-notice-airfare from here, in more practical terms) after being broken up for several YEARS. now that would be sexy. anyone who lives in driving distance and happens to videotape their set will garner my undying love and an adequately substancial financial compensation as well; no fooling. any midwesterners who are tempted by this email me for more details and agreements can be made, you lucky bastards.

{addendum: i don’t know how i got birmingham and champaign mixed up, but gabe tipped me off and the sad thing is it’s equally far away and i know even fewer people in birmingham. meaning zero. but the invitation stands all the same.}

[now hearing this: headin’ home to go wifi! i can download new music again and be all cultured and shit! and have something new to name-drop in this post-script next time!]