Brad Walsh

American Characters

On Thursday we went to a Vanity Fair + USA Network party with Bianca and Mena (who was hosting with Jeff Goldblum). It was the “American Character” gallery opening; lots of really great portraits. Some made me jealous. Bianca introduced us to Lucy Liu, who looks just as great as she did ten years ago. We met a little girl who was the subject of one of the photos – couldn’t have been more than ten years old – and she gave me and Christian each her business card! Girl is a professional model. Already networking, and she fluttered away to the next in like ten seconds. Kind of awesome.

Afterward we all went to dinner at Bagatelle. I’d never been there before, it was great! My mushroom risotto was seriously incredible. Across the room I spied Ramona Singer from the NYC Real Housewives, who came over and was very sweet, and we got through half the meal before we noticed that Nicole Scherzinger was seated at the booth next to us. Christian dressed her for the American Music Awards a few months ago, so there were some excited hellos and hugs exchanged. I really like her, she’s so quiet and calm and nice and then she gets out on stage and becomes this monster performer with a huge incredible voice. We saw the Pussycat Dolls the next day; Bianca managed to score us tenth row tickets to their show on Friday with Britney in Newark! So we popped open a bottle of champagne in the SUV and happily waited in rush hour Holland Tunnel traffic for two hours to get there. The show was great. Britney’s really back.

I’m really into the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Fischerspooner albums (though both had to grow on me) and the Pussycat Dolls’ version of “Jai-Ho” from Slumdog Millionaire. Still really trying with the new Kelly Clarkson but aside from the single and the end-of-album “I Want You” I’m having a hard time getting into it. What I am into is our Keurig machine, which is making me coffee every morning and hot chocolate every night for the rest of my life. How do I liiiiive without youuuu…