Bar Mitzvah: Redux

One year ago today, 828 was momentarily transformed into TEMPLE BETH SIMPSON and played host to the Second Bar Mitzvah of ADAM SACHS and ROB LUCHOW. It was a party for the ages. At least, that's how I choose to remember it. It's one of the best things about getting faced off Manechevitz -- you can choose to remember things however you want.

Pictured above, STEVEN HASDAY channelling inappropriately inebriated Bar Mitzvah staple UNCLE MORRIE, KIM STRAUB as the over-made-up tween trying to look grown up by packing on the blush, Bar Mitzvah boys ADAM SACHS and ROB LUCHOW; NIKKI MACRINI as a life-of-the-party Bar Mitzvah Dancer and CHAUNCEY as her Kabbalist counterpart.

We danced the horah, signed the sign board, blessed the challah, and listened to (too much) Bar Mitzvah music from the '95-'96 era. It was a Jewtastic explosion -- so much so that when former roommate RICHARD KIM walked in the door midway through the blessing over the wine, he immediately turned in the other direction and walked back out the door.

Below, a few select memories to get that nostalgia chill going as we move into the Holidays - Nostalgia Central:
Meet the Bar Mitzvah Boys with Rabbi Must officiating.Kabbalist Bar Mitzvah Dancer Chauncey and Sachs examine the Ghetto Sign BoardThe Candle Light Ceremony - written by me, NIKKI MACRINI and KIM STRAUB was a smash. Below, a selection:

Candle #2: RYAN MARTINEZ, what can I say?
Does It really matter, he's probably high now on yay.
Hossin spends his time at his computer all day
Playing poker and blackjack, just throwing his money away
In Engel's words, Davidson's got the best life.
In grad schoo, a Beamer and Pines as his wife.
Treichel used to be belligerant, now he's tame.
Levi's such an Old Man, it's just so lame.
Lotz listens to his "you're the best tape" every night.
It's a wonder anyone in this house doesn't get in a fight.
Whenever I hear that I've got an IM, I always know that it's coming from Glick-man
I want to call up each and every housemate
Candlue number two is for the guys of 828.

Candle #3 - Freshman year was where it all began
And I owe my great time to this guy, he's the man
I know now for sure, that our meeting was fate.
I'm talking about my freshman year roommate.
All that year, on Nutella he fed
Everybody can't help but love Ted
I'm glad he's here on this special Day.
This one's for you, Ted. Come on up. HEEEEEEEEEEY.....

La Luch returns WASCH's enthusiastic "Mazel Tov."

E . Schor rocks out on the inflatable guitar -- the classic Bar Mitzvah swag item.

Everyone knows, it's the music that determines the all-out garrish quality of a Bar Mitzvah. So it was up to us to come up with the ultimate playlist to set the tone -- a pitch-perfect alchemy of Hava Nagila and cacophonous post-grunge/pre-Boy Band pop of the mid-'90s. And there was only one man with the necessary awful taste to do so:

Above, Bar Mitzvah dancers PAM GALLAGHER and CHAUNCEY boogie down. A sample of the playlist, below:

"Come Baby Come" by K7
"Mony Mony" by Billy Idol
"Jesse's Girl" by Rick Springfield
"Only the Good Die Young" by Billy Joel
"That's What Friends Are For" by Dionne Warwick
"Walking on Broken Glass" by Annie Lennox
"Get Out of My Dreams, Get Into My Car" by Billy Ocean
"Escapade" by Janet Jackson
"Jump" by Kriss Kross
"Waterfalls" by TLC
"Eternal Flame" by the Bangles
"Kiss from a Rose" by Seal

Hasday, apparently wasn't the biggest fan of the playlist. It drove him to drink. And drink and drink. Within two hours, Uncle Morrie had actually killed Hasday:

New blog game. It's called "Count the Disgusting Sachs Faces." I think it's going to be a career-maker. A bigger hit-grabber than that pop-up "Shoot the Monkey" game. OK...BEGIN:

Sachs, Luchow and LUPO, a few minutes after the candle lights and toasts -- Adam looks like he's about to Manischewitz all over the floor.

Adam and "luckiest lady at the party" Kim slow dance to ALL-4-ONE's "I SWEAR." Look closely and you'll notice that Kim has her eyes closed during this interaction, lest SHE Manischewitz all over the floor.

And of course, the piece de resistance -- the picture that almost destroyed my camera. I've gotten some e-mails from BLOGGER asking me to take down this picture, just in case some wayward kids stumble upon this site and are forced to go into massive therapy.

Happy Birthday Adam & Rob!