Outfest 2007: Day One Opening Night Party Checklist

[badatapologies]

Meet Chad Allen: Check.
Dance with Tori Spelling: Check.
Pray with Tori Spelling, who has just been anointed some kind of reverend or something: Check.
Drink something pink: Double check.
Say "Holy shit, was that Barney Frank?": Check.
Gaze just a moment too long at Wilson Cruz's ass: Check and check.
Flirt with Suzanne Westenhoefer: Check.
Momentarily forget where I am and wonder why none of the guys are hitting on me: Check.
Watch some pretty girl dance, wish I was a pretty, normal girl like that, then suddenly realize she's transgender too, just way better at it. Check.
Fuck up my "bad" eardrum by getting too close to the speaker, re-re-re-rendering me unable to hear on that side, except for a constant, maddening RINGGGGG noise: sadly, Check.
Hug all my gay male friends, then suddenly realize that somewhere along the way I've become Grace from "Will and Grace" only fatter and funnier and with actual boobs: Check.
See a really enjoyable movie at a really cool theatre: Check.

Bonus Round: Drive past the site of my very first paid employment, the McDonald's store my Uncle used to own at 330 S. Broadway: Check.

Thanks to a lifesaving tip from e_ticket I got a cute haircut immediately before the event. I woke up this morning and had this uncontrollable urge to lop off six inches. Jesus, what is it with me?

I love getting this note at 4:30pm: "oh, by the way, we're filming you tomorrow at 11 before the rehearsal so please have a presentation ready." Totally out of the blue. So I will be writing and rehearsing a brief introductory monologue in the next...oh, say, all night. And showing up camera ready. Could we fold a few more hours into the morning so I can sleep off the party first? No? No intradimensional temporal beds handy? Hm. Pish.

I found out this morning that they had lined up Mink Stole to play my grandmother. Er, Kit's grandmother. But they decided to cut the scene for time. I found out those two things in the same sentence. Verily, Hollywood giveth, and Hollywood taketh away. When I go to direct the feature, though, you can bet I'll be giving Ms. Stole a call.

I have to sleep. I didn't drink much, but I feel a kind of queasy euphoria about all this that I have no idea what to do with. Scary. Fun, but scary. Honestly, just between you and me, I looked out at this sea of stylish hipster fame and wonderful festive debauchery all around me, the swirling lights and bartender-models and giveaway-Mercedes and thought--"jeez, you know, I'm just this geeky girl from the trailer park across from the racetrack, I got this outfit from the Salvation Army, are you people sure you wanna let me in here?" For some reason they did. One thing about my life, it's always full of surprises. I wonder where we're going next.

Comments

[mcbrennan.livejournal.com]

It would definitely seem strange to see Richard Dreyfuss in real life, let alone collide with him.

Re celebrity parties, all I can say is, once you've danced with Tori Spelling, the rest of life seems but an afterthought.

[revme.livejournal.com]

Yaaay! And, man, they cut Mink Stole?! That's insane. Hollywood is silly.

[mcbrennan.livejournal.com]

Confidentially I don't think we've seen the last of Ms. Stole vis-a-vis this script, but we shall see what we shall see.

[aila76.livejournal.com]

Wow, sounds like you had a great time!

That would be so strange having Mink Stole play your grandmother (err, Kit's), but awesome!

[mcbrennan.livejournal.com]

It would be very strange, and not at all what I envisioned, but it could work, and I love Mink Stole so...yes.

This whole thing is insaaaane. In a good way, I think.

[ticktockmary.livejournal.com]

Cool! Sounds great, glad it's all so whirlwindy!

[mcbrennan.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :) It's making me very dizzy...dizzier even than usual...

[corenrind]

Wow, speaking of full circle: I totally saw Save Me, once, four years ago for sure, at a staged reading of the script at a theater my friend worked at, where they had a "Screen to Stage" or whatever series. I'd almost forgotten, but Judith Light totally rang the bell. As she does. I think I was running coat-check. Which is the beginning and end of any celebrity elbow-rubbing I do.

Just thought you might like that story, considering.

Also, by the way, you are awesome, and this is really exciting! I bet your work is completely excellent.

[mcbrennan.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :) I appreciate that. It is exciting. Also, terrifying. Mostly that last thing. But I'm hoping for the best.

Judith Light was fantastic. Really amazing performance. It was a good film.

Prior to my so-called film career the only celebrity sighting I ever had was when the weathercaster for the local station in Phoenix once bought a Grand Funk Railroad CD from me at Tower. So, this is all pretty new. :)

[mcpino.livejournal.com]

News item:

Overheard outside after-party for reading of Dramatis Personae -

Doorman: I'm sorry, sir you don't appear to be on the list...

Potential Party-goer: Are you sure? Look again - it's spelled D-E-E-Z-E-N. sometimes it gets misspelled.

[mcbrennan.livejournal.com]

Eddie and I had a bad breakup, sure, but I'm not bitter.

[mcpino.livejournal.com]

Oh, so you're holding out until I give the Donovan details, right?

Beeotch.

[mcbrennan.livejournal.com]

You can try to get it out of me, but you may as well try to catch the wind...

Inquiring minds want to know!

[mcpino.livejournal.com]

I guess this means you won't be commenting on the rumour that Mr. D. was picked up by Studio City Police outside explosivo's house, wearing a trenchcoat and holding a boombox playing Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes" at a very high volume?

[uncacreamy.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, Mink Stole. That is so awesome, and sad at the same time. I'm hopping around the better this sounds.

[explosivo.livejournal.com]

I passed out around 10:30, and now I realize I will read about your adventures before I get a chance to see you and chat with you about them. Have a great day. I'll be home mid-afternoon (FRIDAYS we have summer hours.)

OH MY GOD!

[satoribee.livejournal.com]

All of it. I'm so excited for you! Go, Caitie, Go!

(at first I thought you wrote you danced with Tori Amos, which would have been just insanely cool!)

Re: OH MY GOD!

[mcbrennan.livejournal.com]

Actually I'd rather dance with Tori Spelling, she was fun. Tori Amos, I'm sure we'd have a good chat.

Awesome!

[maleadanee.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you had a great time. Tori Spelling rocks. I was a 90210 junky at one time doncha know.

Re: Awesome!

[mcbrennan.livejournal.com]

Thanks! And hi! Glad you're here! :-)

[albatrossity.livejournal.com]

Flirt with Suzanne Westenhoefer: Check

okay, now i hate you

well, maybe not so much as if you'd said K D Lang

[mcbrennan.livejournal.com]

If it was k. d. lang, I probably wouldn't have come home last night. :)