So Tuesday was a weird night.  I was just sitting around my house when I got a text from my friend Andie (Dj Cassette) who was DJing Disco Down at Happy Ending later in the night.  I told her I would go.  A few minutes later I get a text from my friend Brendan (DJ VH1) who told me I needed to get up to the Royalton Hotel because Lady Starlight was doing a party and Justin from Semi Precious Weapons was hosting and it was a weird scene with all these old downtown kids hanging out in Midtown.  It seemed weird and I haven’t seen Justin since SPW’s video shoot, so I jumped in a cab and was in Midtown in 20 minutes.  When I got there the mood had changed because Lady Gaga had shown up.  I was given a place to stay in Miami two years ago if I would shoot her birthday party so I figured I could probably take some photos there.  Clearly I was mistaken.  I wasn’t even allowed to point my camera in her direction even if I was across the room.  I took a few pictures outside and then I got some shots of Starlight and Justin by the DJ booth. I took a photo of VH1 her old DJ down stairs and I got yelled at it because the bouncer said “she will flip out if there’s any pictures being taken near her”.  He seemed to understand his request was silly.  The whole thing was funny because her and I have a ton of mutual friends and they were all at Justin’s table with her.  And so I was over there with them and then there was a whole ring of people around us, and then a whole ring of people around them.  I felt like I was in a Greek auditorium and she was Socrates speaking to her super weird looking pupils. I tweeted something to that effect and the rest of the night I was bombarded with Tweets from Gaga fans all over the world who were just trying to get another peek into her life.  The whole thing is tremendously weird. She did eventually pose for one of the photos from Guest of a Guest but I didn’t try to get a shot because a) I don’t care that much and b) I am not a fucking paparazzi.  I only want to take pics of people who want their photo taken.

Anyway, that was all pretty funny, but because of it I didn’t get to shoot many photos at what was a pretty fun party, but my night was far from done.  I headed down to Happy Ending and I never even got inside the place because while I was talking to friends outside my friend Annika came running outside.  She had been punched in the face by some dude because he was grabbing her friend and she pushed him off of her. The cops came and she had to get looked at by EMT’s and such. It was crazy fucked up. They got the guy on film doing it, so hopefully they catch him.  She handled it like a champ and kept partying.  While all this was happening DJ Cassette came out and was heading over to Lauren Flax’s party at Home Sweet Home.  I was at Happy Ending just to see her so I went with her over to Lauren’s party.  Lauren had already left so I hung out with Andie and some rad lesbian chicks and then when Andie went home headed back over to Happy Ending for my friend Eden’s birthday.  Twig gave her a bunch of mustaches for a present so that was entertaining for a while.

The whole night was pretty fun and I took a few pictures of it. You should look at them by clicking here. It would be the right thing to do. See you guys tomorrow with the final updates from SXSW.  I hope.

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