Legos in La-la-land

And Legos make great gifts, too. Trey and I went to Beck's birthday party out in Silverlake this past weekend. He seemed genuinely pleased when Trey handed him the Lego Ice Speeder. In fact, I think he wanted to put it together on the spot, but Gina Gershon walked up. He immediately lost interest in the Legos. I don't blame him. She is something else. After I whispered to Trey who she was and that she was hot (it was very dark and he hadn't really seen her yet), he got her number and they made a dinner date. I mean, I was going to ask her out myself, but I thought Trey looked a little down and it might do his confidence some good. So I sent her his way, you know? That's the kind of guy I am.

Plus, I was busy holding myself back from mussing Crispin Glover's hair, which appears not to have moved since he played the high school version of Michael J. Fox's dad in "Back to the Future."

The party was held in a sprawling house that overlooks downtown L.A. Trey had been to a couple of parties there before, including one for Virgin Records. That's where he first met Nick Rhodes. After they had chatted it up a bit, Nick suggested they go up to the VIP area. Trey followed. But when they reached the bouncer, he wouldn't let Nick up. Gave him all sorts of shit for trying to fake his way into VIP. Real assholey in that way bouncers can be when they feel you're trying to put one over on them. Then he saw who was behind Nick and waved Trey through. Now, Duran Duran has made almost half a billion dollars for Virgin, so Nick wasn't really pleased with this guy. "What's your name, so I can have you fired?" he sassed. "You can't have me fired," the bouncer shot back. "All right," Nick said, "what's your name so I can have you killed, then?"

Talking after the party, Trey and I agreed the main drawback, despite the beautiful surroundings, were the shuttle buses. They're a kill switch. You go from dancing around, drinking and laughing, to sitting quietly with a bunch of strangers, wanting desperately to be home already.

Speaking of home, one night I came home to find him and Jun both building separate Lego projects and I felt so lame I pulled out the Lego Boba Fett ship Jun had bought me several months earlier and snapped it together. It was eerily soothing.

Love,

David

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