Sunday, August 19, 2012

Birthday Celebration

Hey there. I've been MIA this week. I was working like a mad man and then on Thursday, celebrated my 27th birthday. What does oldman river do on his birthday? Well I spent the day with my girlfriend at The Getty Center, had dinner with family and saw a movie with some friends. Yeah, party animal I know.

b-day @ The Getty. Gangsta
I've never been too found of birthdays. In fact I used to loathe them. I gotta say this year's celebration was pretty rad.

The Herb Ritts exhibition at The Getty was awesome. Something Jay would love for sure. My girlfriend spoiled me with a bunch of dvd's from Amoeba and then as we walked across the street to catch our movie we encountered a special someone in the lobby...Natalie Portman. Yes, the Female Obsession honoree from February 2012, Natalie Portman in the flesh.


I've encountered my fair share of random musicians and celebrities before, usually saying something casual like "hey" or just ignoring them all together and letting them do their thing, but seeing Portman standing 3 feet away from me was straight up insane. I was paralyzed. My usually silver tongue turned to mush and I went into Wayne Campbell mode, "WE'RE NOT WORTHY."


She was with her husband and they seemed to be running late to their movie. I wanted to call her Matilda/Padme/Jane/Nina, ask her about securing the rights to all those Metallica songs for the film Hesher she produced, inform her that I saw Black Swan at this same theater two year earlier, and show her my driver's license as proof that it was actually my birthday and if she could please just acknowledge my existence. I wanted to do all those things, but I choked. As we stood inline for snacks I managed to ask "What are you guys seeing?" as they passed by. Her husband answered with, "The Campaign..."

And like that, she was gone. I was kind of amazed Natalie Portman was rushing off to go see The Campaign of all movies. The ticket guy agreed. "We can't judge her" he said as we exchanged, OMFG I just saw Natalie Portman in person and she looked damn amazing in those giant heels banter with one another.

So yeah. Happy Birthday to me.

13 comments:

  1. Happy birthday buddy. You're just a year away now from living longer than Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison and a whole lot of other famous rockstars! Your birthday sounds pretty awesome too and wow, I cannot believe that you seen Natalie Portman in person dude, that is incredible and I'm not going to lie, I am so envious of you, I don't think her and the husband will last too long unfortunately but hopefully I'm wrong!

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  2. hey happy birthday! I'm glad you enjoyed the Herb Ritts exhibit, and got to see the goddess in person. :D

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  3. Sounds like a great birthday and wow that is awesome you saw her in person. The Campaign, hmmm can't say much for taste.

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  4. I want to say mean things to you. You've done nothing wrong, just, Natalie Portman. Man. No. This is lies.

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  5. that's really cool you got to meet her

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  6. It's good to see you back. That does sound like a pretty happy birthday. I think she would have said a happy birthday at least if you had told her what day it was. But you got to see her, that's pretty cool.

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  7. Happy Birthday to you! The Getty Center and a best actress encounter all in the same day is doing well I think.

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  8. That's a pretty cool birthday gift! Maybe Natalie Portman knew it was your birthday and went to watch a movie so she could walk past you on her way there!

    Do you think she wants to see the movie or her husband is dragging her there?

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  9. Happy birthday to you! And that is quite the birthday gift you got. ;)

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  10. Ha. That fucking sucks that the husband was the one who responded. I'm sure he has to deflect her admirers all the time.

    Happy Birthday, man.

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  11. Happy birthday man! Congrats on meeting (err, seeing) Natalie!

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  12. Happy late b-day. Sounds like you had a fun night. I'm following you, check me out:D

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  13. Happy belated birthday!!! So awesome that you got to see Natalie Portman. She must be really pretty in person.

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