Socks and Sweaters at Crash Mansion Xmas Party

The streets were alive with the sound of music (oh yes, I went there) last Saturday night with yet another Los Angeles holiday sweater party, this time at snappy new addition venue Crash Mansion.
Visit snappy new addition venue Crash Mansion here.

A few Pity Party complaints (which also somehow managed to infiltrate the band's Myspace) came from an alleged sound guy not knowing what he was doing. I was googling background info on them and perhaps because I'd included "holiday" as part of the search, I stumbled upon this. Don't go there. It was weird.

Eskimo-mo-hunter, as I am starting to call them unbeknowest to them or to their management, of course rocked these blue and white socks off. They make me go shoegaze-crazy. Unfortunately, bassist Jenni Tarma was wearing neither a sweater nor socks, but boots and a dress in lieu of the magic.

Speaking of socks, Sarah Negahdari killed. Let me rephrase: she flat out thrashed.The Happy Hollows vocalist has gotten so much press this year that she has helped solidify herself as a solid Los Angeles rising hero and her band as a one of the most talked about this year. Homegirl scored herself a spot in the L.A. Times' "Image" section a few months back, as a tribute to her threads.

Go white socks, go.

The gig went something like each band scheduled to perform two 15 minute sets each. Nothing to do with that 15 minutes of fame idiom. No. Nothing. Holiday (we don't say 'Christmas' anymore because this is not PC) sweater was encouraged. Read: if you didn't wear your red and green (or blue and white, whatever your fancy) - you were not part of the in-ness that is the in-crowd at any such holiday fiesta.

This leads me to...

... the best part of the night. Dem sweet 'lil sweaters and swashbucklers...
Try saying that one five times fast.

Rock on boys, rock on.

(Thanks thanks to Darren Kim, who's photos were much better than mine. Insert exceptionally defeated face here.)