Tuesday, October 27, 2009

New York State of Mind





 Ryan throws themed parties in his art studio every Friday. This one was a skater party so I did my  best Damone. Thanks to Gerhard for the Budweiser gear and to Tasha for being my best friend and having a boyfriend who lends me his epic wardrobe. Love you guys, duders.

 
Yesterday Ramona and I went to 30 Rock to the Jimmy Fallon show for Har Mar's performance. He rocked it! His new album is SO GOOD, seriously. The man sings like Stevie Wonder in heels. He's also the coach in Whip It which I haven't seen. Anyhow we got up close to America's Sweetheart (Tim Gunn) and got some major face time! We're on in the beginning when he walks through the crowd and then we're right behind Adam Green at the end in the dance pit behind the band. I look like an apparition, a craft I've become skilled at, but Ramona looks foxy and tall.

That night Elizabeth and I went to see him perform in Williamsburg and we ran into Gavin and Emily (Emily is the hottest mom in New York no joke- she is such a babe, and also turns out is lifelong twinsies with Elizabeth. Seriously, they are the same person). We went to go watch Jimmy on the TV at some bar, but the most important part of the evening was when Elizabeth used "vas deferens" in a diss. That's an OUR BODIES OURSELVES heckle. Amazing! 

So fun! I'm seriously considering moving back here. I can't but I want to. See you at the party? Don't forget to RSVP!

xo
Veevers

Monday, October 26, 2009

RSVP



RSVP to lgovea@studiobeautymix.com

KISS YOUR BOYFRIEND KISS YOUR GIRLFRIEND KISS YOUR FRIENDS KISS MY GRITS

xo
Aviva & White Lightning

Bezerks. Out of Control. Bananabrains.

Thursday night Alexi and I hosted a party at Fred Segal to celebrate the launch of Studio Beauty Channel...

   
See more videos at Studio Beauty Channel

PARTY PICS:


Desa, Yasi, Chris


Amanny and RJ, who is extremely goddamn fine, JESUS! Important tid: Amanny did the wardrobe for my ALL TIME FAVORITE VIDEO EVER EVER TIL I DIE... Major Lazer's Pon De Floor. I mean holy fucking obsession!! It's geniussssssss. Moving along.


Ms. Gorgeous Ana Calderon DJ'd


Hot lady doctor alert! 25 year old med schooler coming through!


Mollie


Reed and me
(I look weirdly rotund. No idea what's going on with my size 10 dress pose here- I'm NOT this big)



Desa and a little peanut


Ha, look at that little toeheaded booger. She looks like she's making the world's most polite toot, and that toot has a British accent. Seriously, click on this pic to make it bigger, she's priceless.


Three blonde women of a certain age (40? 50?) came in what I think were wigs or weaves, tranny lashes, and mom shoes (Jimmy Choo/Manolos). Dressed in Victoria Gotti-meets-Fredericks of Hollywood-meets-Dolce&Gabbana-meets-BLAAARRRRRF. Anyhow, they were being followed by a cameraman and people were saying they're on a reality show. I hope it was about proud divorcees who just realized they can still sexxx on younger guys, because they pretty much raped my friend Dallas who was manning the Kissing Booth with Alexi...

 
Alexi and Dallas





 
Rosanna Arquette!!



 
Lex and Dex



 
Two of my favorite people


Okay seriously get your hands OFF of him. I kid! Noreallytakethemoff. Now.


I LOVE this pic of Lauren!


Ariana! I interviewed her for the Ladies Choir. David Lynch just produced her solo album. She recorded part of it in her parents' house in Kabul (while two guards stood outside with AK-47s to fend off the Taliban...not kidding).

It's a cool mixture of Canyon rock and traditional Afghani music. There's some psych rock too, but she had Afghan players collaborate with her using classical instruments (a tabla and a rabab for instance) so it's really different from anything I've heard.  Check her out and make sure you look at her photos. Amazing! Okay let's get out of the kissing booth and back to the party...




Michelle (right) was my study partner in college. We were best pals.


Oh look there's RJ in the background HIIIIII. Hi.



Cory jumped on the Serato


 Dance party broke out. Nicole (right) is the CEO. Hot stuff!



Cory, Liz and Rudj




"If you're clean and have a car come into the kissing booth and smooch me!"


Pinky Vodka made us themed drinks. And check out the cute Studio Beauty team:




Free Tacos = Happy Guests


The girls found some vibrators which we thought were free (they weren't- we're recovering the unintentionally stolen goods right now)


Best photo of the night

Super fun party. Bummed I don't have more pics of the action, but it was a success and everyone was happy. Most importantly, the gift bags were AMAZING. I'm hosting the NY party this Thursday in Soho with my girl Elizabeth Spiridakis aka WHITE LIGHTNING and Lesley Arfin will be spinning. Leyla from Hearts Challenger will bring the ice cream truck and a good time will be had for all.

I'm going to 30 Rock to see Har Mar perform at Jimmy Fallon today. More pics on the wayyyyyy

xo
Veeeeee

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Aviva Worky

A sneak peek at what Crystal and I have been working on: the launch of Studio Beauty Mix at Fred Segal. They have a new "channel" that we create content for.  We only cast our friends so it's been fun working on this project.




More kissing, staring, confessing, laughing, cringing... more friends, secrets, boobs, stories... it's all coming. We are officially in business as TOTALLY PRODUCTIONS and we create content for brands. There are so many more things coming down the road- this was just our first campaign. Enjoy!

contact
website coming soon!

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Party



BACK TO LA... come to this tomorrow. Alexi and I are hosting the launch of the Studio Beauty Channel at Fred Segal and we will be showing the new campaign Crystal and I did for them.

Kissing booth by Dallas Clayton and Alexi Wasser
Music by DJ Ana Calderon

6-8pm
MUST RSVP to lgovea@studiobeautymix.com

Monday, October 19, 2009

DRUNK POST!

I am just stopping by my house to walk David's doggie, Ollie Red Sox, and take her out on the town for 15 minutes of turding and I just wanted to let you know that life RULES THE SCHOOL.

Listen, I almost died in a chemical/terrorist attack at The Standard just now. Google it. And we lived! Now I am going somewhere else to put raw food into my organs in celebration of my mortality, but when I'm done with this crestfallen mission, I'll be at the UC (Ultimate Cokehole) known as LIT to hear Brosephine Baker aka Brian DeGraw play stuff that sounds like what my dreams smell like.

He is my weird science buddy. I mean he is my weird buddy who enjoys science, not that he is my buddy whom I build 10s with in my teenage bedroom like in the movie Weird Science. We go into horribly reaching, yet curious discussions about Superstring and Futurism and he is THE ONLY ONE I can talk to in this world!!! about that stuff, because it's a dealbreaker for most people and you guys probably aren't interested in that stuff anyway. Except for my friends, anonymous college bloggy/internet fan boyfriends who write me, and high school girls who send me their artwork/problems/suggestions, I know you guys don't really care. Just want some ebtertainment. No thoughts to pass through your brains as you procrastinate work (me too!). Which is fine... but what that means is that you don't want me to talk about Superstrings or drunk write for that matter. You just want to see photos of my pals and fun parties! Right? I mean who wants to read ANYTHING?!?

So my very next post will be strictly photos of my trip back to NYC and everyone I love here. Maybe.

xo
Uh-veev-uh

Sunday, October 18, 2009

Friday, October 16, 2009

For my pals in NYC and BK







Please join me for some oysters and beer at Marlow & Sons this Saturday at 4pm:


81 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY 11211

marlowandsons.com


Off to see Where The Wild Things Are! Tissues and eyedrops! 




UPDATE: Didn't cry once! It was incredibly beautiful and the monsters were amazing, but boy did they Eggers it up.



xo
Avivssss

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Grrr x eleventy million

GODDDDD I want to write about a girl I can't stand and this one guy I used to be able to stand so much I couldn't stand it. But since this is a public forum, this entry is as close to any of that I'll ever get. I'm forced to shove this all down deep inside, suck it up, and move forward.

I'm almost there, but sometimes residual anger toward people who don't treat me with respect bubbles up and I just want to burst. Mostly because I don't ever have any drama- I get along with everyone, I love my life, and I am grateful for how happy I am. So when people harsh my mellow I get...frustrated.

Writing is what soothes me, corny as it sounds. Maybe I should start my Ask Veevers column up again and answer my own questions through Other People's Problems. I'm down with OPP y'all.

Aviva

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Campfire Tales with Aviva Yael



I barely lost my V. when I was in high school. This was because I was a GIGANTIC nerd and no one would come near me. I met the entire checklist of teen barfage: braces, glasses, Jewfro and, according to Colin Aston-Smith, knock knees. For the record, once I got my first cool/older/surfer boyfriend, my social status jumped a few notches on the totem pole and I became marginally acceptable to the popular girls, but not really. I went from asymmetrical-drama-freak-with-a-giant-L-on-my-forehead-who-sobbed-so-hard-on-the-way-home-every-day-after-school-that-I-required-a-constant-stash-of-tissues-in-my-backpack to someone who could actually lose my V. Finally.

Anyhow, yeeears before I was making out in convertible Jeeps with my fancy new boyfriend I kissed one guy. One. Guy. Enter kind of cute half Japanese half Italian Daniel. We made out a big ol bunch one night. I'm glad you weren't there because it was unquestionably repulsive. Remember when you were younger how sometimes a guy would kiss you all intensely and they’d make their tongue all hard and stabby til it felt like a slobbery finger was doing seismic work inside your mouth? Daniel and Aviva, all the way.

This heinous scene occurred at my friend Jocelyn's house in her mom's bed. I remember that we were basically dry humping (that's what virgins do) and he kept accidentally banging my head against the headboard. The headboard had a set of shelves built into it (so 80s!) and was part of a matching bedroom set- the chintzy, glazed, paneled kind that they give out on game shows.

We didn't know what we were doing so I think we were being overly dramatic about it all. I remember not being into it but being too embarrassed to act like I was inexperienced so I just went with it.

So there we were making fake boning noises and kissing really loudly- I mean it seriously must have sounded like we were in a pie eating contest - and all of a sudden this sticky, kind of heavy object fell off one of the shelves and onto our heads. I fished around for it in the dark, picked it up and holding it in both palms, smelled it. I couldn't make out the scent, weight and what I immediately realized was the girth of the object. Of course it was a big, dirty, vibrating dildo. The kind you put IN(?) To this day it occasionally crosses my mind, inducing a cross-eyed shudder.

I went back to school on Monday and was tipped off that half my class already knew about Daniel and the Dildo. But what's cool about it was that somehow by the end of the day I had also apparently given him a beej. In an open field. Behind the middle school. In front of a homeless man.

First, why? Second, this was in Mill Valley where there are no homeless people, but if there WERE homeless people it would be one clean shaven guy wearing a fleece Patagonia and comfort sandals because the upscale hippies (read: yuppies) there would never stand for it otherwise.

Theenks Daniel FUCKING Miyake for starting such a rad rumor, that was super cool! I mean, I understand telling people you effed a hot chick, but I was a knock-kneed, brace faced drama freak, remember?? How could that possibly help your social status?

Anyhow, Daniel should've gotten a beejay from me in college when I blossomed into a non-quasimodoesque vertebrate who made out with babes and winners. He'd have been a lot higher up on the totem pole.

Monday, October 12, 2009

Clapping hands, kicking legs under my desk

So my plan to secretly turn Genevieve and Charlie's wedding reception into a key-swapping party didn't happen. Darns! Ummm Trent Reznor and MONICA LEWINSKY were there (?!?) We were hoping Genevieve was secretly at the epicenter of the whole 90's sex scandal but after some minimal sleuthing (asked the person next to me) we found out they met at a cooking class. Not too juicy, unfortch.

Now onto business. I'm back in New York where I thrive the most. Please come to HUGS tonight at LIT for a beer! You enjoy torching your clothes after a drink or two at the filthiest barhole in New York don't you? I can't stay late though because tomorrow is a big day (watching a Hoarders marathon).

Aside from work and meetings, the goal for this trip is to have an art vacation. Museums, galleries, artfaggy films at the IFC and the Film Forum. Oh, and I'm on a beer and oyster vacation too. I'm so jazzed up to be here I've been doing tween spins and screaming my own name in the mirror since last night.

Who is going to this SPIKE JONZE THINGY on Sunday? Or to Patrick's high brow skater thing on Thursday?

Does this mean I have to go to the MoMa twice this week and listen to babes talk about skating art and film? OH WELL I'LL LIVE.

All sorts of functions and outings over the next two weeks. Let's go!

xx
Veevers

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

DEAR PALS: LET THE WILD RUMPUS BEGIN!


SF-LA-NY-LA-NY-SF: my October schedule

A lot of my friends read this jam so I'd like to save some time and tell you that I'm going to be in your towns and would very much enjoy seeing you. Particularly on a bike or in a park or at a restaurant or maybe even the Met. You tell me, cause I will be there.

Today I'm in San Francisco writing down words for my favorite director Matt Lenski. Tomorrow I'm acting/comedying in front of a camera in LA! More on that later, but I'm all jazz hands over it. Then my friends are getting married on Saturday, so that's nice. Reed is back, so that's nice too. He has a really nice face and personality.

Then I go to NY to work on a project with my nice little directing partner Crystal, take bike rides through Central Park, look at stuff in Museums, eat at all my favorite places and go see Where The Wild Things Are, which I can't wait for. Can. Not. Wait. That's a bunch of nice things, amirite amirite??

Anyhow lalala I'll go back to LA for a few days to host a party for Fred Segal with Alexi, then back to New York to host ANOTHER party with Elizabeth (blog bitches unite!) and be something simultaneously dumb and clever for Halloween. Last year I was Neckface so I can't do that again:



What are you guys gonna be this year? Are you going to Miami to Neck's show or will you be in Brooklyn taking your friend's kids trick-or-treating (so cutenfun). WHEYUHS THE PAWTY MARTY?

xx
a

Monday, October 5, 2009

Worst Tattoos Ever


What? You read my blog every day and you don't have a copy of my book yet? I have children to feed someday! I have vintage 501's in every wash waiting for me to buy them from that place on Beverly! I have to buy my parents a house before they die to prove how grateful I am for making me into a decent guy! I have to pay for my Upright Citizen's Brigade classes so I can get over my paralyzing fear of public speaking in the form of jokes!

Anyhow my book got a shout out on STYLE.COM today. Go get one. I promise your bathroom experience will be improved by at least 14% with the purchase of this book.

xx
Veevers

Sunday, October 4, 2009

FREE HUGS


hey girlsss I know what we'll do this weekend... let's put on some crushed velvet low-waisted bellbottoms, slap some bells on our muffin tops, do a little whoman dance to some STOMP-style bucket drums and show these people what we're made of!


this is what little girl's dreams look like


I recently went to Portland for a wedding where my little brother lives. He was responsible for entertaining me when we weren't doing wedding-related activities, which resulted in us going to a hessian art fair. They were selling veggie farts, treehouses and leather pipe protectors. I went for the jewelry of course (photos above).

As we walked along the water toward the action some cute but crusty teenagers came up to us and asked us if we wanted some free hugs. If you know me then you may be familiar with just how repellent the thought of a hug from a stranger is to me. I mean I have a hard time air kissing my fashion friends. Anyhow, without blinking an eye my little brother says in a really sweet, yet earnest voice, "Oh my gosh ever since I was diagnosed with the cavitary form of Tuberculosis and they won't let me on planes I've had a hard time traveling and meeting new people, so thank youuuu!" (ARMS WIDE OPEN)


Good job dad