So I took in the SkyBar at the Standard Hotel in Hollywood last night. Interesting, no two ways about it. And very LA, or what the folks back in the midwest imagine LA to be. Consider:

• The scantily clad model whose job was to lie down and read a magazine in a large aquarium above the front desk.
• The fact that I stumbled into the place on the very same night that MTV hosted its "white party" at the locale. That's right. Lots of twentysomethings in white from head to toe with a lot of mousse in their hair. There might have been a few celebrities there, but I don't watch MTV, so I wouldn't know.
• The pounding beat of the music wafting over the pool and the patio, over the view of Hollywood and LA below.
• Folks wearing sunglasses. At night. Like the song.

That said, it was fun. It was a good way to help my friend Lis celebrate her birthday. Of course, given that it was a crowd of aspiring writers, we served as stark contrast to the MTV kids in white. Whatever.