my birthday party

Private room at Rob's new place, supposed to have been live music but Adam Yauch got in some sort of accident (he's OK, they tell us...probably ran over a waterbug with his skateboard, the crazy Hindoo), and the others won't do it without him, so no music. We just ended up hooking Chelsea Clinton's Nano up to the sound system, and it seemed to be made up entirely of classic hip-hop, so everything worked out fine.

Johnny Depp got dressed up like a birthday clown and was making balloon animals for everybody, did an amazing jellyfish that pretty much blew everybody's mind...his Fear & Loathing co-star Benicio Del Toro playing original "Mario Bros." with Scarlett Johansson, Scarlett just wrecking Benicio at it, while Bob Balaban kept up a colorful commentary from the arm of their couch (this was before Bob got out of control and had to be removed from the club, screaming something about "Metroid" and poker).

Macaulay showed, which was weird since I hadn’t hung out with him in 10 years. He came with the whole crew from the old days: Lukas, Leo, Harm, Wiley, Flea... Actually I was a little threatened. I said I see you got the gang back together, and Macaulay took me aside and opened a little box like for special cufflinks except inside there was a human ear.