Lifestyles of the Rich, Famous and Dave Alpert
About a month ago, one of my roommates, the mighty Lou Ulrich, played a show at The Foundation Room, a members-only club attached to the House of Blues on Lansdowne St in Boston. His band was able to bring a number of guests to the club, so the party could really be hopping–and so the members would have more beautiful people to look at. So, of course, Vanessa, Josh Buckley and I made the scene.
Here are Josh and Vanessa, sitting in a room strangely pimped out in Hindu art:
On one end of the room was a huge golden statue of Nataraja (”Lord of the Dance”), a dipiction of the Hindu god, Shiva, balancing on the back of what I thought was a baby, but turns out to be a demon dwarf symbolizing ignorance. Either way, it was a pretty creepy looking statue. Here’s a similar one from the Wikipedia page:
I think if I ever become rich (or even just not dirt poor), I am gonna get me a membership and show up wearing a smoking jacket or one like this:
Ah, now that would be the life…