Tuesday, July 06, 2004

Fourth of Joooly Weekend Recap...................

.............And what fun was had.....Many parties, much music, many beers, much good food, blow whole bunches of things up. At one point as we were loading the mortar rounds of fireworks, some of us were joking how clearly insane these terrorist fuckers must be to mess with a country that likes to get drunk and blow things up to celebrate its birthday.

You would think that it would be dumb to challenge our country to a fight, stating that we are weak and run away at the first sight of violence.

Judging by this years fireworks displays, which were extended another day due to the wacky calendar this year, you would REALLY have to be an idiot to believe that.

We blow the crap out of things for fun. And now some two bit arabian gangsters want to see if we'll cut and run? Those towels are wrapped a little too tight fellas. Ask Osama and Saddam how much we've cut and run. And good luck finding Osama, he's currently, um, indisposed. Saddam probably will have plenty of free time soon though.



Muscial Theme Song for the Weekend

Artist: The J. Geils Band
Song: Love Stinks

You love her
But she loves him
And he loves somebody else
You just can't win
And so it goes
Till the day you die
This thing they call love
It's gonna make you cry
I've had the blues
The reds and the pinks
One thing for sure

(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah

Two by two and side by side
Love's gonna find you yes it is
You just can't hide
You'll hear it call
Your heart will fall
Then love will fly
It's gonna soar
I don't care for any casanova thing
All I can say is
Love stinks

(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah

I've been through diamonds
I've been through minks
I've been through it all
Love stinks

(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah


And that should cover how the romantic aspects of this weekend fared. On to the recap.

Friday: Night gets in to full swing at Jacksons early, around 7:00. Beers, Jagers, onwards and upwards. Went over to Bound'ry/Chu/Southstreet for a bit, back to Boscos for a pizza (duck szechuan-mmm tasty). Dropped of my bud at home, as he was expecting company from out of town. I went back to Jacksons and had a strange encounter with a small ceramic doll dressed up as this mexican dude with a cactus for a penis. For some reason, the doll and I didn't get along, and let's just say he won't be bothering anyone ever again. Seriously, ever again.

Saturday: Woke up, walked back to my truck which was conveniently parked where I had left it the previous evening. I needed a walk anyways. Went to meet up with the fellas after a haircut and some food. Made repeat visits from last night, except this time we had a much larger group, and proceeded to make much more trouble. That was of course, until each member starts getting their individual booty calls. This means that by around 11:00 the party was winding down. Back to Jacksons for nightcap, and walk back to best friends house, once again leaving the truck where it will do no harm.

Sunday Morning Get woken up around 3:00 in the morning by best friend and old friend of ours from high school who was in town. Their method of waking me up meant putting a cold Jager bottle on my head/belly. That meant me waking up and drinking, thus postponing the inevtitable hangover until later that evening. Went to breakfast, met yet another group of friends, had more drinks, went to the pool to float around for a while and (that's right, you guessed it) drink more. Then proceeded to go to a Jam party where we got to play music and blow stuff up for hours on end. I was pretty much done by 11:00, and homeward bound we were.

Monday Breakfast and Coffee at Bongo Java, then proceeded to rest until the final party of the weekend. Watched this really cool show on Discovery called "the Planets" which had some amazing photography from our various satellites zooming around the solar system (see the astronomy section to the right for more interesting links.) Finally got our bass player for the band back from hiatus, and had an excellent practice, despite adding more blisters to the ones that I started the previous night. (Note to self:must remember to pace oneself after not playing for a month or two. Hands look like damn sausages this morning.) Went to a friends day after the fourth party, and had some great food and beers with what seemed like half the service staff of Nashville. At around 9:00, the heavy artillery round of fireworks arrived, and we proceeded to light up White Bridge road like a christmas tree for about an hour or so. We had eleven or so guys manning mortars and stocked up for a grand finale that was pretty damn cool. Definitely the most stuff I've even blown up at one time. Left that party, went for a nightcap at Dan McGuiness and called it a night.

A very fun weekend, minus the usual drama. Very excited to be practicing again, and this could mean I'll have some gig blogs forthcoming.

Hope y'all had a good weekend too....back to reality...

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