february 15, 2004: what do you do when one of your favorite nonprofit art organizations need to raise money in order to survive?

you throw a piano concert benefit at someone's shnazzy mansion...


and you drink lots of champagne to deal with the stress.


and you make sure that the mansion has a ballroom. A BALLROOM SEPARATE FROM THE HOUSE!


and you have a concert pianist that lives in Vienna fly to Los Angeles, just to play for the art org's benefit


and while others are inside, you are outside in the cold, manning hte entrance


that is wendell who did the arrangement. don't get it twisted. he knows how to fight with knives.


but it don't matter that you are cold outside, because you are looking cute and are warmed by the champagne. (well, not me, cuz i don't drink)


and you wear shoes you don't normally wear.


and while others are listening to the concert, you take pics in front of a rolls royce that you don't own.


and you take pics in front of the mansion that has friggin' lion statues.


and you unleash the inner charlie's angel.


and then you wake up from the dream and go on to your happy struggling artist life...