feels like L.A.

Backstory: Ashley's friend Darryl works for some company that provides help to different acts that come into San Francisco. His job is to book their flights, hotels, transportation, etc and make their itinerary. One night, Ashley and he were talking and he told her he would email her a list of upcoming events and he could put her on the guest list. A few weeks later, Ashley received that email and in that email, it showed that there was going to be a midnight showing of our favorite movie, Wet Hot American Summer and some of the cast members were going to be there. So she chose that one, and she chose me to go with her. Something i will never be able to repay her for.

We showed up around 11:15 like Darryl said and talked to the will call guy and he made it sound like we might be able to get in if there's room because it's pretty full...even though we were on the guest list. So we were kind of freaking out and Darryl wasn't there yet (he was driving the cast over from an earlier event they had) but we waited it out. While waiting outside, Zak Orth, walked by. Finally, the guy called us over and gave us our tickets. We walked around the corner from the venue to see Darryl and say thanks when we almost bumped into Michael Showalter. And then we looked past him (Ashley had met him before and he was kind of a jerk so we didn't really care) and we saw everyone else. We then decided to go inside.

Right as we were walking in, it began. David Wain, the director/co-writer, came out and started introducing the cast members. They were Michael Showalter, Zak Orth, Michael Ian Black, Janeane Garofalo, Ken Marino, Joe Lo Truglio, and Peter Salett. They acted out a little of the movie, just being silly, trying to remember things that happened and then they opened it up for questions. No one asked a good question. Everyone was trying to be really funny and it just wasn't working. Ashley and I were pissed because they now probably think their fans are retards.

They left the stage and I went to the bathroom before the movie started and most of them were hanging out in the lobby. So i went back in and told ashley so she came out and we just stood out in the lobby in awe. They were then leaving and we decided we didn't want to stay and watch the movie and have a bunch of lame people quote it when we can watch it in the privacy of our own homes. Then Darryl text us and said they're going to an after party at a bar and we should come. so we did. The bar was closed for the private party and you had to be on the list to get in. We weren't on the list, but Darryl got us in. So we basically hung out in a bar with all those same people (minus Michael Showalter).

Earlier that day and again today they did a thing for an old MTV show called The State. A lot of the WHAS summer cast were on that show plus some others and they were at the bar too including. Thomas Lennon, Kerri Kenney, and Robert Garant. Also, a lot of people from the VH1 show Best Week Ever, were there too. Rob Huebel, Nick Kroll, John Mulaney, and Paul Scheer. Also, Tig from The Sarah Silverman Program and Rob Riggle. We didn't really feel comfortable talking to them so we just were in awe of being in their presence. We did however joke around with Ken Marion, Zak Orth and Nick Kroll by the bathrooms.

As the bar was closing (2am) and we were getting ready to leave, Darryl told us some people were going to be going to this guy Casey's house so we thought "ok. i guess we'll go." It was just a few blocks away and there were a lot of random people there we didn't know but some not so random people we did know (of) including David Wain, Tig, Nick Kroll and Aziz Ansari from the show Human Giant. We just hung out with them until about 4am and finally decided to go home arriving in my bed at 5am.

So yeah, i would say it was probably one of the greatest nights of my life.