100 Monkeys & Brunch With...?

As some of you know ES & I went up to LA [again] to see 100 Monkeys at the Viper Room. This was our 6th show & as always, it was an absolute blast. I will admit that I think I'm done asking Jackson for a pic. He waited until the bar thinned out a bit before he emerged from hanging out with everyone else backstage. Even then, he was swamped by a group of gals. I'm definitely not going to stop going to their shows, because they rock, but I'm satisfied with the pics I have.
Note to ES: I am not speaking on behalf of you :)


Warning: The air-conditioning was broken upstairs at the Viper Room, therefor it was an absolute sauna...Oh and yes, ES & I had had a few vodka-ish drinks too... Hence the sweaty & kind of fugly/frizzy pics of us.

Me, Mr. MOS & ES

Us with Ben G.

ES w/ Uncle Larry, aka "Munkle."

After the kick a** show we headed back to our hotel and crashed for the night. On Sat we decided to go grab some brunch and maybe either lay out by the pool or go to the beach. We drove down Sunset Blvd. looking at all the restaurants...just as we approached the Chateau Marmont, I see a car that looks VERY similar to the one we've seen The Precious driving around in...Turns out it wasn't the right make, but it practically gave me a heart attack. I had heard he was at the SOHO House on Thursday night which is located on Sunset as well...swoon. Maybe I was breathing his left over air?

After driving around for about 15 minutes I asked ES if she wanted to head over to Robertson...it's a shopping street/district famous for celeb spotting, but less conspicuous than Sunset. We parked the car and walked over to check out the The Newsroom Cafe...which is nicely situated across the street from The Ivy.

We walked in & decided the menu looked delicious, healthy and affordable...score. I requested a table outside so we could people watch and the hostess gladly obliged. Just as we were sat, I look to my left and gasp...internally of course. It's DAVID F*CKING SLADE!!! I look at ES & mouth to her what I have just seen & she agrees that it's him. We both just stare at each other as if we've seen a ghost...Eventually I work up the nerve to say hello. I couldn't just sit there and NOT say anything. I jokingly said that I could literally kiss his feet. He jokes back "Please don't," but then laughs. I tell him that I love "the movie" [don't think I even said Eclipse out loud] and that we have seen it 4 times. He seemed genuinely humbled and a bit caught off guard that we recognized him. When I first said "Excuse me, you're David Slade....," he responded dryly "Yes... No." Ha ha ha, maybe he thought I was a Twi-hater or thought Eclipse was shit. Maybe he's had that happen before?

Seriously!? Out of all the people in the world to be seated next to at brunch, it's the man who brought us the lovely leg hitch! I mean, what are the odds?!? I wasn't even at a Twi-event...We could have been seated next to Julia Roberts and I would have been blown away, but it wouldn't have had the same meaning that David Slade did. Fate? Anyhoo, I didn't want to ask for a pic while he was eating so I slyly turned my new crackberry into a spy machine...flash off of course!

David f*cking Slade.

P.S. He's shorter in person and not as big as I thought he would be. He's wittle ;)

WOW, JUST WOW.

As we left Robertson, ES & I took wrong turn into the Bristol Farms Grocery store parking lot...kind of [I did accidentally make a right hand turn half a block too soon.] I explained to her that it's similar to a Whole Foods and also another celeb spot. Sooo.....we decided we needed some water for the beach...As we were walking in we see this lady staring at us. Long story short she smiles and says to ES, "I'm sorry to bother you, but I designed your shirt." YUP. ES was wearing a shirt I just bought from Target. This lady seemed super excited to see this particular shirt and was super sweet. Her name was Sarah Williams. Click on the word shirt above to see which one I'm talking about.

As we walk into Bristol Farms we see Kate Walsh. I knew I knew her from somewhere, and it wasn't until ES gasped "Oh. My. Gawd. That's. Kate. Walsh." that it dawned on me. Apparently she played Addison Montgomery-Shepherd on Grey's Anatomy. ES is a HUGE Grey's fan...so she was super excited. Kate was in the check out line as we came in...ES almost approached her then chickened out. A total ME move. Btw, she is just as gorgeous in person.

Needless to say LA was super fun as always. The two of us tend to have celeb spotting luck...or maybe we just know where to look? On another note, we didn't end up hitting the beach in Santa Monica because the traffic/parking was a literal nightmare. It took us 4 hours to get home...should have taken 2 on a Sat afternoon. Gaah!

Thanks for reading :) MORE PICS of Jackson and the rest of those lovely 100 Monkeys to come soon! OR if you just can't wait...someone over at Twifans posted these ridiculously HAWT pics of Jackson. Don't say I didn't warn you ;)

XOXO J