oh man, i almost forgot to write down the weird thing that happened monday night (other than my tivo being a dick and not recording heroes in HD just because i hadn’t deleted a couple old episodes. sombitch!). see, all day sunday i saw roadie-type dudes setting up scaffolding and other weird shit in an empty fomer car dealership across la brea from our apartment building, which we have a full clear view of from our balconies. i figured maybe they were going to use the place to film a movie or commercial or something.

then monday night i get home from work and see the place all lit up in blue and some crazy projections on the front of the building announcing it was a party for helio. there was even one of those backdrops where they do red carpet photos, and after a little checking, apparently it was a launch party with a bunch of b-celebrity guests, which i could have easily gawked at had i known they would be showing up and either owned binoculars or gone to the trouble to go down to street level.

much more amusing though was how loud it got around 11pm. i told jessica, who was sitting with me in my room, that ‘some live band’ must be playing. then she sort of froze and listened for a second and suddenly half shouted, “HEY, THAT’S BECK!” as she bolted to go open the door to hear better.

so with my sliding doors open, we sort of got a free live beck party set — just without the benefit of being able to see anything — as the music drifted up and across the road. a little more initiative and we maybe could have gone down and peeked through windows, or even snuck in perhaps. instead we just lied in bed and listened for a while, which is something i bet most people have never got to do during a live beck show anyway, so it was pretty great. he was even nice enough to wrap up around 12 so we could go to sleep.