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Sleater-Kinney, Haim, J Mascis, Steve Jones & more played Fred Armisen's 50th birthday party (pics, video)

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You’re turning 50 in December. How does that feel?
I’m psyched. For some reason, the person I’ve focused on for turning 50 is Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips. He’s still himself and still an innovator. He’s turned the Flaming Lips into an art platform. Turning 50 is great. I’m gonna celebrate in a graveyard.
Seriously?
Oh, yes. I’ll have a bunch of my friends come together. It’s not a public event, but we’ll be at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. We’ll have some chocolate. J Mascis is gonna play. He just turned 50 too. We’ll play music and celebrate being alive. – [Rolling Stone]

Sunday (12/14) was Fred Armisen‘s 50th birthday and his party happened at the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, and was quite the affair. Sleater-Kinney, Haim, J. Mascis, Rusty Anderson with Susanna Hoffs, and more performed for the SNL/Portlandia/Documentary Now!/Trenchmouth star (often with Fred), and onetime Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones sang “Happy Birthday” with J. Mascis on drums while his girlfriend Natasha Lyonne wheeled out the cake. One of Fred’s gifts: an actual plot at Hollywood Forever Cemetery right next to Johnny Ramone. You can check out Instagram pics and video from Fred’s 50th bash below.

Since his birthday, Fred has offered up on Instagram lists of his Top 20 heroes/idols (including David Byrne, Cindy Sherman, Prince and Steve Jobs) and Top 25 LPs (including records by Kraftwerk, The Damned, Husker Du and more) from his life to date. Check out those lists below too.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BNomJRcBWdB/?hl=en

Fred Armisen’s Top 20 heroes/idols list 1966 – 2016!
Mark Mothersbaugh
Cindy Sherman
Captain Sensible
Prince
Rick Moranis
Keith Moon
Steve Jobs
David Byrne
John Waters
Peter Sellers
Mick Jones
Steve Martin
Questlove
Tito Puente
Mike Myers
Steve Albini
Tina Fey
Matt Berry
Ralf Hütter
Joe Coleman

Fred Armisen’s 25 Best albums list: 1966 – 2016!
Ram – Paul and Linda McCartney
The Hot Rock – Sleater-Kinney
Strawberries – The Damned
Computer World – Kraftwerk
Sign O’The Times – Prince
New Day Rising – Hüsker Dü
Walk Among Us – The Misfits
Mars Audiac Quintet – Stereolab
The Milk Eyed Mender – Joanna Newsom
This is Big Audio Dynamite – Big Audio Dynamite
Herein Wild – Frankie Rose
You’re Living All Over Me – Dinosaur Jr.
The Great Rock and Roll Swindle – Sex Pistols
Sea Change – Beck
End of the Century – Ramones
The White Album – The Beatles
Insignificance – Jim O’Rourke
Remain in Light – Talking Heads
Up On The Sun – Meat Puppets
Rock for Light – Bad Brains
Music Madness from the Kinetic Kid – Klark Kent
The Soft Bulletin – Flaming Lips
From the Valley to the Stars – El Perro Del Mar
Sandinista! – The Clash
God is Saying This to You – Kurt Vile