check it...
now im putting names, if u dont want ur name on this
TELL ME!
thursday after sonnets practice got picked up by sandie
who had some mc'ds yeah! Went to Live Band Karaoke at Bellys,
Hootenaners were there...yay!!!
Watched some awesome versions of songs by the Karaoke Punks.
I did We Will Rock You / We Are The Champions by Queen...fun!
I think tho that night the star was the Hootenaners though
even tho Val spun energy for the masses
the band outdid themselves w awesome renditions of
Boston's Such a Long Time complete w Foreplay!!!
and Styx's Come Sail Away
awesome indeed!
We closed it out and then left to go sleep.
I went the next morning to see if i could get phone on
no such luck, tried to go to see Hodge's lil kid, no such luck...
ended up getting lunch and coming home to find
a firetruck, an ambulance, police cars
me thinking its for neighbor upstairs
but nooo nooo noooo
go inside to find cops running amok my apartment
and go further to back bedroom and find paramedics and
oh oh
DRUMROLL PLEASE
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My roomate has just OD'd on Heroin
woooohooooooooooooooooooooooooo
she's all green and pale
purple lips
oxygen mask on, breathing like a dying frog, in gasps
head fallen over, she looks like death
oh she lived alright...after nice scare.
During night time, not having quite digested all this yet
dad comes by, starts asking me questions i have no clue about
'who, why, where, how, shit, how, where, why, when' etc.
umm i dunno
try asking ur daughter that
she was there
grrr
then the killer...
her dad "lemme write you a check"
me "let me be honest, she's not welcome to live here anymore"
her dad "why not??? Is it cause of the drug thing?"
ARE U FUCKING KIDDING ME???
So with few minutes to spare i try and get ready for the LMDC calypso show
so i start packing things and try to get somewhat ready...
then i hear the door
fuck its 8pm
i was supposed to be at Mike Parks house 5 minutes ago, so i grab my bag
and open the door
and lil miss OD walks in as if nothing pushing her way past me
uttering an 'im sorry' as she makes her way to her room.
Knowing she knows the deal its still pretty ballsy.
I go and knock and ask her to come out
and shes like 'im sorry im sorry im sorry'
im like i aint mad...u just cant live here like that anymore
shes making excuses how/why she got heroin
(shes supposedly been clean for 3 months)
im like i dont really care, u gotta go to ur moms
and she starts calling her dad, then her mom
next thing u know, shes crying to me
telling me shes got nowhere to go
no way to get anywhere
i give her my last 2 dollars
and tell her to take bus to moms.
I had to leave, i was late
mike was outside waiting.
So i go do show
good show, pkdores made some new friends,
dgb were soulfully good as always, mike even sang w them
forgot wot song
lmdc kinda sucked music wise but it was still fun as band effort.
Lotta showmanship
the kboard battle was pretty awesome.
Ophelia, Val, Krist, Angela, and some other friends were there.
Finally left after a while, Ophelia and i went to diner...i ate big cheeseburger.
Walked home tired, exhausted.
Sat morn Ophelia went to work, i went to help LadyJ move w ChronicA.
Did it quickly, truck needed to be back by 1pm. Idiots.
Went home, tried to stay awake w Diane, my non junkie other roomate
and watched some chappelle, i was quietly wasting away...
tried to stay up, Ophelia came over after work.
She looked as bad as i did when i opened door, pretty funny.
Took short nap, had to get up for The Sonnets show.
Durso came over around 9, stuffed ourselves into car
went to Mutiny, saw friends. Love Dictators were playing after all.
They opened, pretty fun stuff. We went next. It was ok, kinda lagging at 1st.
Did better second half of show, did cover of Psychotic Reaction from Count 5,
was ok...kinda messed up, but i kept hitting the chord, then opened it up,
moved to different chords, and did Kids Are Alright by the Who. Wayy better.
Gabe from Love Dictators sang last chorus.
Then Venom Lords took over.
Sounding tight, even when drunk.
CUE GINA AND VEE PIC!!!
Love the new songs, so tight.
Afterwards hung out a bit.
Actually closed bar.
Bess tried to school Ophelia about HEMI's
ahh ahhh ahhhhh wots that?
U tried to school me Bess???
Wot does Hemi stand for?
hehehe
Crunched in car, went home.
Collapsed.
Woke up Sunday, lollied around.
Recorded Ophelia's live session w guitar.
Not bad, first half ok, second half oh no! Shes fucking up!!!
The best parts were the inbetween, the dorky interactions between us,
the story of Poo, Grandpa and m&m's was classic!!!
Went to get Thai, went back, took another catnap, went to train
said goodbyes. Walked home, feeling the humidity full force.
Checked emails...says October 2nd.
FUCKKKKKK Shitttttttttttttt
forgot my sisters bday amidst the CHAOS
lost in days dont remember which one im on.
Made her a card w an old pic of us on it.
I miss her tons. Felt really really awful i even forgot a lil.
Such an idiot sometimes.
went w Sandie and Val to din din.
Ate, talked a mess, had baklava. Lotsa soda.
Went to Hidden Cove for Karaoke.
I wanted to hit up Hard Rock but everyone was supposedly going to cove.
Not so, only Bess and Leon' were there from our group.
Maybe 10 other people at most during whole night.
Tie, between sandies version of Wham's careless whisper yodelfest
and val's girls gone wild uncensored version of Divinyls i touch myself.
Went home, hot as fuck. dripping sweat in my apt. Burned cd's for roomie.
I HATE WINDOWS MEDIA!!!
wtf thought of this? is this a hoax? The most non friendly interactive thing.
grrr
went to bed, fan full on...dreamt music dreams.
Fucking weekend!!!
Thursday, September 29, 2005
son of its ok...
So after all that, the next weekend was pretty sweet. Got to see friend from indiana, rested after long week...got to see hedwig, or at least most of it (thanx abe!), got to eat some great thai food, went to see momma sister and kiddies, got ride back to train, said goodbye...ended up karaoking BY MYSELF but met some kewl peeps and had a blast!!!
Mon came and had Calypso rehearsal, Tues came and had Irving Parkas(!)rehearsal, Wed. came and had Waxon 7 rehearsal, tonite its Sonnets rehearsals...tomorrow is Calypso show, Saturday is Sonnets show.
Where is the good life for me???
ok, so monday nite i was supposed to go to a bon voyage, but ended up exhausted and fell asleep getting ready.
Tuesday after rehearsal i got a ride to das foot, it was fun. I drew on my resume pages (karaoke punx joined in) skeletor's 15yr old pottery sculpture that looked like a tiki god. bad ass! I drew him in a polynesian setting, val a pig setting w pineapple fish, then we had a penis page...complete w penis drawings, then we had a page where we all tried to draw the bday girl.
Wed. my cat acted like he was dying, he was limp and couldnt open his one
eye and i got worried and called friends, val came over and helped w the
whole cat carrier and things. He did get better eventually. So not dead cat.
Then after practice val and i got dolled up and went to mod/soul dance party
at subt. Met up w sandie, krist, jro, jason, etc. Good times, didnt feel like
dancing all that much tho...but it was good tunes. Great to be out.
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Oh its ok really!!!
So i havent written in a while but here goes.
Couple weeks back mind you.
Went to see friend in Indiana. Had blast. Drive was a bit long but worth it.
Kept playing w kid sister, shes the funniest. Plates a flying, birds flipping,
good times and all. Ate pizza, had some desert. Hung out, watched movie.
Left. Friday was supposed to be the start of a crazy ass weekend w my friend
coming up from downstate. Well, i woke up to a flat tire, that soon turned to
traffic hell, which turned to me parking a block away from Union Station,
which turned to me putting quarter in meter and meeting friend an hr. late,
which turned to me greeting, going outside and CAR FUCKING MISSING!!!
Yeah well doesnt take long to figure that one out does it?
Fucking Daley and his vulture tow crew waiting for someone to make a
mistake like i did. Well as it turns out i had to pay 160 for the tow, but above
that i needed the car owner's title and permission to remove said vehicle.
Well, my friend who loaned me the vehicle was out of town, she was flying in
later that day. Long story short, shes not even the owner, her dad is.
Her dad is almost 90 and walks w 2 crutches. So i had to stress all day w my
friends, at coffee w friends. at lunch (twisted spoke! u rock Patty!) w friends,
at home, friend came w car to help out, stressed there, dinner (superdawg!),
at airport stressing w friend and her son, gone to her parents house to take
him to currency exchange for certified letter...not very happy. Pleasant tho.
So finally go get car, and the cherry on top was the fact that i got a 50 tix
on top of it all. Gotta love the city.
Arrived home at 11pm. Friends wanted to see band. So we went to Silvies.
Got there semi late, but enough to catch 2 bands. more later!
It's OK part deaux, 2, dos, II
Ok, so we get to see part of I Love Rich and the Plastik Explosives. Fun, but we are supposed to meet some friends over at the holiday, so we leave 2 songs b4 the plastiks are over and take a cab on down to holiday. Say hello, see peeps, drink a lil, all is good. Get in photobooth and take pic...CUE PIC!
ok, so then we head home. Cabbie take us home, val goes home, cabbie dont like the val. Exhausted i pass out quickly.
Next day and im up like a rooster, crack of dawn. I run and do things, x-roomie offers to take us out to breakfast. CUE PIC OF X-ROOMIE jasin!!!
Wake up erica, we head on over to bongo room. Go have iced tea and wot have u, steal some Lemon Heads (actually ate last one last nite!!!!).
Then we get called to go eat. X-Roomie likes waitress, she is pretty.
CUE WAITRESS!!!
Then we went to Alcalas, great western wear. Then to that lovely designer toy place where they had all wonderful toys and my current (actually currently turning trendy so will have to find another) fave Gloomy Bear...Gloomy Bear, didnt Hedwig say Gummy Bear GOOOMY Bear???
Anyway...cue gloomy bear!
That is exactly the windup toy Erica bought me to cheer me up.
Anyway, after all that we go to a friends house to house/dog sit.
Watch a bit of pink panther, eat a lil nuts, then time for din din w Dez.
Ate some good stuff. Then went to go see Hot Rod Hucksters, except they
dont go on till midnight. Shit. So we stick around and first band wasnt very
good so we go to pretentious ass cafe. Dez and Erica love it, i sit and stare
at classical musicians to make em feel wierd. Mission accomplished. We leave
and head back to Horseshoe. Find Tommy (he of fried-chicken fame) and Squiggy. Also find Jasin. Lotsa foot pix, camera malfunctioning, hot rod scuffing, pix later and this is wot i got to take of jasin and ancestor.
CUE JASIN AND EEERY LOOK ALIKE OLD PAINTING!!!
Finally Hucksters begin, tommy heckles...see di and razr, life is good.
Finally got to go home, relax longer, take slow ass time to get to Cuban food sandwich shoppe, closed sundays grrr, went and got some thai, good stuff, ran to get bag, ran back, took cab, made train amidst sunday traffic, val and i
on sears tower flower bed, she tried to push me, i pushed harder, after teetering for wot appeared to be a minute she finally fell backwards...crushed
said flowers. Killer.
Went to live band karaoke.
Life was indeed good...
even tho i OWE A SHITLOAD OF MONEY!!!
Saturday, September 10, 2005
this week
so the rest of the week went like this.
Sunday...nothing, cleaned, friend came from indy w grapes and strawbs, watched my fave programme (Check Please!) drooled over Alpana, then watched image union and some other stuff...friend left. Crashed. Monday did nothing but clean (manic). Was supposed to go to early movie, got moved back, was supposed to go to afternoon, got back more, early evening, more back, finally went at 7pm. Saw march of the penguins. Ok, i was expecting more something else, not a love story for gods sake. Fell asleep, friend elbowed me. Went to mcd's afterwards for a 25 minute to make sandwich that i had a free card for...umm yeah, not too good. Pissed off but hungry i ate it. Tuesday cleaned more, then had rehearsals w LMDC. Someone found my shoes and brought em from the hideout. Went to foot, saw lotsa friends, hung out, in good spirits. Friend dropped me and other friend off.
Wed. had another good cleaning event...followed by a bigger mess. At night i went to live band karaoke w friend. Took us forever to get there but so worth it, i was a bundle of energy singing the Darkness' "I believe in a thing called love". Wot the hell got into me? Anyway, afterwards got a ride home from some other fellow live band karoke kids. Thurs more mess more cleaning, rehearsed w mod revival band. Awesome...getting it done is good. Later on got a ride from friends to hidden cove for friends bday party. Sang the Night Chicago Died. Ok, lackluster to be honest. Took cab home w friend. Friday more cleaning, watched tennis cuz it was there, friend came over w steaks, fired up grill, made rice & black beans, other friend came over, had dinner. Relaxed for a bit, got ready, went out to friends bday party at Holiday. Saw some other friends there, danced, nice time. Cabbed home. Slept.
Tuesday, September 06, 2005
Austin Rally / Chicago Rally
THE END.
ok so we left chitown at 10pm wed nite heading for the Blazin Saddles rally in Austin. im late getting back to pack and as such im completely disorganized and running to get shit left and right. Finally we leave and im completely tired but dont wanna sleep. So i fight it for a really long time, i anticipated driving but i havent got my license renewed. So i just decide to stay awake and assist by providing some kinda conversation. Abe went first w gris (and jesus) as his co-pilot. We ended up getting a ticket in southern ill, wouldnt u know it? For going 80 in a 65...i can see if we were the only ones but we werent. Typical way for a waxon7 show to go. We keep on, going towards memphis. Somewhere around Missouri/Arkansas ric took over and we just forge ahead making great time. Morning arrives when we hit mid arkansas and cant believe the amount of friggin bugs and crickets mainly...theyre all freaked out about em! I think i took a pic of them. Anyway, so this gas station was all about the confederate flag, porcelain bald eagles, and 'heritage' things. yay.
We keep on making great time, watched dvd's like tombstone, lolita (the original made me pass out cold), and some other movie i cant remember. Hit texarkana in the morn, got myself yet another rockstar energy drink now im hitting the highest of highs. Dallas, Waco, another stop, then finally we arrive at Austin mid afternoon. We laughed at certain wierdness like Pizza Patron (texmex pizza hut w a mobster lookin dude painted on the sign w the slogan as "more pizza, less money"). We get to chachas singles complex and hang out some. We are completely starved so we go to the heb grocery store, i ordered some arrachera from a very latino looking dude who tells me oh yeah we got them skirt steaks, i asked him to pass it thru the machine and he asks if i want it tenderized, similar stories all around, very wierd. Anyway, so we get back, fire wont start, i start making rice and reheating lentils and making sure all is right. We feast, enough for all, and some even had 2nds and 3ds, success. Stufed beyond recognition. We get ready, go meet girls, rehearse, all is well. We turn in for the eve. I got woken up by chacha, he takes me to mels on scoot, i crash on her sofa bed. Next morn we are up for breakfast, i get ready and take off w the gang. We go to some place supposedly good but start to notice how hippie austin really is. Takes em forever to seat us, we finally get to eat, foods ok, compared to lesabre everywhere else sux. We go to the dept store, theyre shopping for swimming trunx. We all start feeling sick, food??? Sure enough everyone races to toilet, xcpet chacha. We go swimming, i cut off chachas old pants to swim in. I havent been in a body of water for quite some time now. I have fun doing mini laps, and just overall enjoying being in water. I teach ric in seriously almost 10 mins how to float/dogpaddle/breaststroke without ever touching him. Mel and elsa came over. Me being shark. I guess my prayers for rain worked as it started to drizzle then come down lightly. im already pruning and turning purple. Go inside, start restringing tele. Then daisun shows up, we talk, he looks good, we decide to go to whataburger, he decides to visit friend at tatoo shop. We ate delicious burger, all good, came back, then got ready for the show. Too hot for suits, decide casual. get there, do load in, find nice spot...daisun arrives do load in, walk w him to 6th street (block away) up and down, see the clubs all there, walk back, see abe/ric/gris walking where we just walked, back inside. set up, talk a while, start show at 5 after 10pm.
Sonnets set is completely random. Started with Rock Opera, Let it Go, Drunk on the Stairs, The Sea, Succinct, Needle Through Camel's Eye/Waiting For My Man (medley), Anniversary. Pretty good crowd reaction, too bad not much of a crowd. Get drink/smoke, go fetch lisa from next door, good band. Do waxon7 songs, sounds wierd, no bass, just rumble and trying to lead drums/keep energy. Fun dancers, wierd situation, but ok...getting better, do songs have fun, finally end it with ok set...people liked it, better crowd. Flametricks come up, they have massive following, satans cheerleaders are darlings too. Hung out w locals, very friendly people. lots of nice people.
Load out and night over too soon, daisun kinda pissed that i didnt get him more cash, im upset cuz i wish i woulda too...but gave it up for gas money.
Said goodbyes, took off into night...drove to ft worth, saw abe/rics uncle and aunt. Rested, got breakfast, talked and laughed a lil, got back on road, nice people too. Headed home...watched some dvds, 3 stooges, zzzzzzzz, stuart lil 2, getting better...ice age...aww yeah!!! Passed out at times, hung in there towards end, got in ill early enough, decide to see if calypsonians started the Slaughterhouse rally yet. About to make it...they get me congas and im there!
I make it to hideout, get on it, walk in, see lots of faces i knew, get up on stage...lets do it! Good times, hand hurting. Tired, run down, muscles sore from swimming lots. End night, good times, take pix of mirandas in alley. lol.
Get stuff, forgot doc shoes, get ride home, and crashed. Wot a great way to spend 4 days. Sobering thing tho was the ride back, seeing convoy after convoy of military vehicles en route to new orleans. Great, except this shoulda been done the day after the hurricane left tho...right bush or whomever is in charge??? Sad really, it hurts to see the news.
THE END.
