S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y Night!

Had a bit of a birthday get-together/housewarming party last night at the Oakland Lair where we enjoyed vegan pizza, drank some hobo-grade Trader Joe's "Simpler Times Lager", and watched the Bollywood remake of the film Death at a Funeral, Daddy Cool. Don't ask me why the name is so divergent or even what it means, only the movie can make you understand.

After we'd all had our fill of dirt-cheap beer, manly "meat" pizzas and Bollywood shlock it was off to Concord where Nick, a former colleague of Pat and Brendan's, plus Claire's drum coach, was playing a downtown bar & grill with his band "The New Originals". This establishment, Vinnie's, was something else: the decor was a clashing mixture of exposed wood, cheap carpeting, pool tables, hanging mirrorballs and old records and a long, classic bar that did its best to tie it all together. It was the stereotypical Wild West saloon meets American Bandstand--what a mess. It wasn't until the music got going and the crowd's gas tanks were filled with generous amounts of hooch and subsequent poor judgement that the fun really started. Vinnie's is, in fact, just one massive Saturday night middle-age person's meat market. Watch:

Documenting the Atrocities: Vinnie's from Matthew Lopez on Vimeo.

Oddly enough, virtually no alcohol (on my part) was involved in the making of this video.

--Matt