WEEKEND PARTY UPDATE: STILL WAVY AFTER ALL THESE 375 YEARS

Sunday, July 25, 2010

STILL WAVY AFTER ALL THESE 375 YEARS

Friday night Marissa, Ellen, Brian and I drove down to our ancestral spiritual home of Hartford CT for the Still Wavy #375 party in Bushnell Park. The celebration commemorated Hartford's 375th anniversary. Brian was spinning all night to keep the crowd revved and dancing between sets from a stellar line up featuring Cubic Zirconia, Tobacco, Maluca, Holy Ghost, headlined by the inimitably petite Janelle Monae. The party was pulled together by the Hartford Party Starters Union, a tight organization of handsome young men throwing unbelievably fun shows in Connecticut's crap capital city. Friday night was so not crap, as everyone has come to expect, and not even a crappy torrential downpour could assuage the good vibes and performances from taking over.

I kept encouraging everybody to channel Kate Moss at Glastonbury circa when she was Pete Doherty's girlfriend. When the going got wet, she put on a sick pair of wellies. That's still inspirational. Women look great wet, so do hot guys and regardless, people should just get too drunk to care.

Janelle Monae is a great performer, its all true. She's this big shimmying across stage with a couple of alien nymph back-up dancers. Her band is super high-energy with shticks galore, but every shtick is planned and fun to watch. Janelle can sing, she can belt and she absolutely connects. Her cool exterior betrayed by a warm demeanor but basically all she wants is to gently blow your mind.

some deer art, Bushnell Park.

Holy Ghost

HPSU co-founder Dustin and Brian//Rizzla

thats Marissa, expressing herself

OK This babe rules. Tiombe Lockheart from Cubic Zirconia was so nice, had this totally stellar lace bodysuit and told me to get my ass out of Boston. We also discussed how cute and gay Hartford's new mayor is. I was like "yeaah! shots?" CZ's performance was my favorite all night.