We'll Always Have Paris...

The never ending press tour continues with me always moving, thumping myriad media tubs, trying to get the word out prior to Choke's nationwide release 9/26. Last week at some media event for the VMA's I was dragged into a nearly empty waiting room where a nice older guy laid out sandwiches and fruit on a table beside a lone canvas chair and a make-up mirror. On the other side of the room a couple of bored, aging LA hipster chicks were seated by a table of swag. The table was literally dripping with "new stuff" trendy T-shirts, Japanese PDA's, weird cherry red euro-Pumas, giant chrome blow dryers - free crap for the various rockers and rappers who would be coming through. The rock guy or chick takes a picture with the camera or shoes and a little ad man somewhere has an orgasm. The main bottle-blonde hipster chick glanced up from her Treo, gave me an appraising up-down, decided I was not hip enough to sell any Pumas and too bald to need a blow dryer (true) and went back to thumbing off. I headed for the spread to whip up a quick sandwich.

Just then I heard a gruff voice from behind and above me, "Step aside...:" I was brushed out of the way by a seething wave of bodies. I quickly moved to a nearby couch as a tight throng of broad shouldered dudes bristled past. From inside the moving huddle I heard soft whiny voices chattering back and forth. The tiny mob converged on the make-up mirror. I tried to peer through the cracks to discern the nature of the emergency. Was it Axl Rose in mid overdose? Blake Lively bloodied from a cat fight?

Suddenly, the circle of bodies parted and an impossibly tiny hairdresser hissed, "Voila!" then stepped to one side and there she was...the legend herself, the soulful feminine embodiment of all that's wise and noble in modern civilization! PARIS! I grabbed my iphone and fumbled for the photo feature, but as you can see my hands were shaking like a leaf. Still I managed to snap one quick picture as she darted back out to be interviewed about the videos and music that she has yet to create.