a lot of my friends are from chicago – or ohio – or boston – most of them live in or near some type of urban area – I have a hard time explaining that I really did grow up in the woods – however, it’s not totally backwoods stuff (even though my folks’ house is about 1/2 a mile from paved road) – check out these pink guns!
see what I mean? these guns are totally about equality of the sexes
oh baby!
last night was the snow angels show at delilah’s – it was a lot of fun – tons of people showed up and most of them danced – especially during the drunken 2nd set
since I’m the keyboard guy, I get wedged in the back but here’s a sweet photo of the guys that make it happen up front
in a way, I’m like the quarterback and they’re like the linemen
now I’m off home for x-mas in a few hours
xi xi made me a surprise party – most of my friend’s are lame, and didn’t show – but the ones that did are totally awesome
we started out at some party for her work people then we went to the ashland (*ding* *ding* – dead giveaway that sophie was involved in the planning!) but dude at the bar was a fucking weiner schnitzel and would’ve serve me (because, obviously, I’m 20) so we split and went to rose’s which was approximately 100 million times more awesome anyway – see!?
they had a rad jukebox (I played an entire rolling stones greatest hits record along with a bunch of other awesome stuff that was way cooler than the songs that flaiz picked but I can’t give him a hard time since he at least showed up)
also, the bartender was nice to me – instead of not serving me, he gave me a free birthday cocktail (bourbon & 7 – baby!) – then sophie and I played the worst game of pool in the history of drunk people in bars playing pool
we played an unnannounced x-mas party at ricochet’s (rick o’shea’s – get it?) – it was fun – I wore my onesy that xi xi gave me – a good time was had by all (especially me!)
you can actually see me in some of these photos too!
snow angels season officially started last night – we played on WHPK‘s Pure Hype – it was lots of fun – we brought a bunch of neat looking broads with us and they danced the whole time
look how happy I am!
frigates played at the volcano room last night – it was pretty sweet even though it was poorly attended – it’s getting colder and colder in chicago – i’m thinking that next year, I’m going to take the winter months off – or move somewhere where it’s always warm – RPM challenge is coming up in february and there’s just one show (frigates, january 9th @ quencher’s) scheduled – could be a good time to stay in
when we went to detroit, I brought Viva Equals
dig eddy grant’s rad guitar (and everything else about this band that is totally awesome)!
man oh man – last night was AMAZING – we played with our friends awesome and johnny roger – after our last show (aka the urchin debacle), this was exactly what we needed – we played with and for our friends – it was a good lineup – dan the fan made it out and he TOTALLY loved awesome (good for you guys!)
jim hollywood set everything up for us, totally took care of us at the bar and was, in general, just pleasant to be around – he also seemed to enjoy the event which is great so I hope we can play there again sometime soon – he also dished out some rocky soundtrack action after our set which was really incredible
our actual performance was just a blur for me – I think we played pretty well – we were pretty tight but I kept going for it and didn’t always make it – but everyone seemed to have a good time
and that’s what rock and roll is all about baby!
have a good time, all the time
these are in my top and bottom (inverse respectively) lists for sure – what happens when they combine!
seriously – stop littering – there’s a trash can just at the end of the block where these shoes were found
driving home from detroit, we stopped at a rest stop – all the urinals had little bee pictures in them – “pee on the bee?” – I don’t get it, but I kinda like it
check out this rad night light in the house where we stayed in detroit!
