Fiesta Weekend: Part 2

"I want to reconcile the violence in your heart
I want to recognize your beauty is not just a mask
I want to exorcise the demons from your past
I want to satisfy the undisclosed desires in your heart."
-Muse, "Undisclosed Desires"

As if I was going to leave you on the cliffhanger for very long. :P

Okay. So on Tuesday night, we got all dressed up and headed to the roof of the hotel for the first awards ceremony and dinner. It was pretty much your standard swanky LA roof party, which I have never had the pleasure of attending, so I felt incredibly cool. There was so much amazing food, but I remember eating just a ton of portobello mushrooms and these little fruit tarts that were amazing. Also, I tried sushi for the first time because I was feeling adventurous, even though it was only the avocado and celery kind. So it was cheating a little. But I don't like seafood at all, so it was the best I was going to do.

We walked around, we mingled, we ate, and then everyone gathered around the pool while Jake and Amir from college humor talked about the fiestamovement and handed out awards. I won an award! I was lumped in on "Best Prank", because the other Seattle agents decided it would be funny to prank me and my car a few months ago. So I had a pretty passive role in the winning of this award, but I still have a customized frisbee with my name on it, suckaaa.

Then Jake and Amir drew the names of the three lucky people who would be winning cars. I didn't win, unfortunately. I actually didn't know any of the three people who did win. But the third guy jumped in the pool after his name was called, which was pretty funny regardless.

Then we were shuttled over to the Palladium for the REAL party. This was so crazy; the outside of this big venue, right in the heart of Hollywood, had a giant picture of my face outside. Only a few agents had pictures of them on the wall, they happened to pick one of mine!


The inside was really fancy too. They had these 8 giant monitors where they were looping their favorite mission videos all night, and my rap video was up there! I kept seeing myself out of the corner of my eye all night, which was a little strange, but kind of fun at the same time.

There were Ford video games set up all around, so we checked those out, and then Luke and I started utilizing our free drink tickets. Eventually we ran into Alex Carpenter and Jason Munday, whom I'd invited to the party, and we hung with them for a big portion of the night as well.

A bit later I had my interview with currentTV (you can watch it online here) and I got to meet Max & Jason in person, which was awesome. I met them via skype while I was sitting in my closet a week or so ago, and I have to say this was much better.


The rest of the night consisted of dancing, introducing people to each other, making new friends, watching Parachute play, and finally ended with me getting a stomach ache (worst timing ever). I stuck around as long as I could, but eventually Luke and I took the shuttle back to the London hotel and hung out in our sweet room there. Apparently loads of our friends kept partying once they got back to the hotel, which I am a little sad I missed, but there will be other opportunities for partying with LA friends. Since, you know, I'm going back for my birthday and new years. :D

Oh! And they showed the video Parachute made with my car! As far as music videos go, I have to admit it was a little cheesy. It was really just them driving around in the Fiesta and was so obviously sponsored by Ford. But as far as professional videos with my car in them go, it was amazing. I felt really silly because as I stood there watching it, leaning into Luke and a few glasses of wine in, I started getting a little emotional. There it was, right there, in all its magenta and blue decal-ed glory, and I was never going to see it again. I felt really dumb for letting my eyes tear up a little bit over a material possesion, but hey - this is coming from the girl who cried when she saw the Dakota Fanning remake of Charlotte's Web. I am a sap. And I really loved that car.

I can't believe at this point in the story I have only finished talking about the first day of the Fiesta Movement festivities. I haven't even gotten to the LA Auto Show part of the story yet. But I am going to stop here, again, for now, to talk about something much more pressing.

Formspring.

I have been completely addicted to it for nearly three days now, and by the looks of twitter, so has most of the Internet.
I can't explain why it's so fun. Maybe because it's like blogtv, without all the awkward, "Okay, so, hey guys. What should I talk about?" and also because the questions aren't whizzing by, so I don't miss as many as I would on blogtv. And even though it's all text based, we really are interacting live.

I think also, it's fun because not only do you guys think of hilarious and wonderful questions, but we've all spent so much time doing this that we've started to develop inside jokes within our little formspring groups. Like how my question-askers informed me of the shortage of Eggo waffles do to bacteria growing in one of the factories, how we're all admitting to being neopets dorks and reminding each other to get the dailies, and how Luke and I have forbidden fanfiction being written about our relationship. I spent a good portion of my night spamming Eia's formspring as well, which was probably only funny for me. xD

Anyway, it's been fun having a new way to connect with you guys. Next week is the week before finals, and I don't know yet if that means my formspring participation will slow down or if I'll just fail all my classes because I am too busy answering questions. We'll see. Ha.