BlogSpot needs an update or some shit. I haven't been able to get backstage on my blog for like a week. Now suddenly today it wants to work. Somebody must heard me talking shit in my head and decided to come off the lunch break, only now I forgot what the hell I was coming in here to say.
Bastards.
Sunday, August 25, 2013
Monday, August 5, 2013
Weekend Wrap-up
This might have been one of our best road trips yet.
So me and the midgets are about an hour into our upstate drive when the radio frequency starts getting fuzzy. I tell my son to put a CD in and when he goes to do it, the player ejects a CD that was already in there. We look at each other like WTF? Obviously it belonged to whoever had the rental before us, so Im curious; “who is it?” My son says “Brad Paisley?” I scramble through the database in my mind and can’t come up with any song that he sings but I do know he’s country. I say fuck it, let’s give him a listen.
So we throw 5 other discs in and let Brad be #1. The next hour of that ride was fucken EPIC! This dude has songs about a battered wife taking karate and fucking her abusive husband up LOL, about a man who justified his divorce to the church by declaring that had been dead for 5 minutes before the defib machine revived him (so since he technically died, they should be able to part LOL) and another song about crazy Christians. We rocked all the way out. Our collective favorite though was “Beat This Summer” which is probably a popular track of his because there was an acoustic version of it as a bonus track at the end of the CD. I was gonna turn it in when I returned the car but um….. Yeah. They can’t get that back LOL.
My purpose for being in town turned out to be much less of a reunion than anticipated, but not all for naught. I did stumble across an epic pic of your favorite scum bucket, Stevie J, in a 1990 Ben Franklin yearbook….
Lie your way outta that one, Steebie LOL.
Of the maybe 35 people who came in and out of the room Friday night, about 30 of em graduated in the 70s and I think I only knew 2 of them. One is a former member of the church my family belonged to when I was younger and the other is the uncle of my best friend from high school, who I had a teeny weeny crush on for about 5 minutes (shhh LOL). Hardly worth the drive up here, but I got a bit more of my money’s worth sitting on my girlfriend’s porch, having a good old-fashioned couch session over a couple glasses of something wet. It’s been a few years since we’ve done that – since I’ve been able to do that with any of my friends – but I’d have made the drive all over again just for those couple hours…. And I got the rest of my money’s worth before the weekend was out.
I spent the first half of Saturday responding to 3 of 6 mandatory essay questions for my comprehensive exam and then my girlfriend and I shuffled over to the reunion banquet. One of my childhood mentors who became sort of like a godfather to me was one of the highlighted speakers. He came over to me and almost made me cry telling me how proud he was of me. He prefaced those words with, “If I never get the chance to tell you again…” and it drew my attention to the age and wear on his face. I wondered how much longer I’d have him around and it took me back to the night I had that same conversation with my big brother. Hopefully I wont have to mourn the loss of either one of them for many, many years. I knew my girlfriend and I weren’t going to stay the whole night at the event but I made sure to stay for his speech. He actually dedicated a portion of it to me, telling the audience how he’d known me most of my life and was so proud of the fact that he was instrumental at crucial points in my life and proud of who I have become. Again, I almost lost it, but I kept it together LOL.
There were a handful more people there that night that I knew, most of whom told me how much I had grown to look like my mother. It was like there was a page in the program that instructed anybody who knew her to say so LOL….smh. Its all good though, I am my mama’s child.
A quick drive by to see a couple high school friends at this cookout they were at and then we were off to a local bar near my girlfriend’s house. Saw a couple people I knew there too and I was having a ball with the girlfriend I went with and the other who we called to join us. It was a really good time and only got better when a guy I recently reconnected with came there to hang out with me. I was missing one girlfriend who I definitely owe some time on the next trip, but still, it was the best night I’ve had in a really long time.
I came back to Jersey yesterday and between last night and this morning, finished the last 3 essays I needed to submit for my exam. Now that its really over, I feel the lifted load. It will be 4 to 6 weeks before I know my final grade but Im holding a 3.5 cumulative GPA right now so I feel good about it. Tonight Im supposed to go to a Motown review down in Times Square with a friend of mine. No better way to celebrate than with a Motown review, right? A couple of drinks and a shimmy or two and then its back to life as I know it. Still have some hurdles to clear but Im optimistic. I hope yall had a good weekend too.
So me and the midgets are about an hour into our upstate drive when the radio frequency starts getting fuzzy. I tell my son to put a CD in and when he goes to do it, the player ejects a CD that was already in there. We look at each other like WTF? Obviously it belonged to whoever had the rental before us, so Im curious; “who is it?” My son says “Brad Paisley?” I scramble through the database in my mind and can’t come up with any song that he sings but I do know he’s country. I say fuck it, let’s give him a listen.
So we throw 5 other discs in and let Brad be #1. The next hour of that ride was fucken EPIC! This dude has songs about a battered wife taking karate and fucking her abusive husband up LOL, about a man who justified his divorce to the church by declaring that had been dead for 5 minutes before the defib machine revived him (so since he technically died, they should be able to part LOL) and another song about crazy Christians. We rocked all the way out. Our collective favorite though was “Beat This Summer” which is probably a popular track of his because there was an acoustic version of it as a bonus track at the end of the CD. I was gonna turn it in when I returned the car but um….. Yeah. They can’t get that back LOL.
My purpose for being in town turned out to be much less of a reunion than anticipated, but not all for naught. I did stumble across an epic pic of your favorite scum bucket, Stevie J, in a 1990 Ben Franklin yearbook….
Lie your way outta that one, Steebie LOL.
Of the maybe 35 people who came in and out of the room Friday night, about 30 of em graduated in the 70s and I think I only knew 2 of them. One is a former member of the church my family belonged to when I was younger and the other is the uncle of my best friend from high school, who I had a teeny weeny crush on for about 5 minutes (shhh LOL). Hardly worth the drive up here, but I got a bit more of my money’s worth sitting on my girlfriend’s porch, having a good old-fashioned couch session over a couple glasses of something wet. It’s been a few years since we’ve done that – since I’ve been able to do that with any of my friends – but I’d have made the drive all over again just for those couple hours…. And I got the rest of my money’s worth before the weekend was out.
I spent the first half of Saturday responding to 3 of 6 mandatory essay questions for my comprehensive exam and then my girlfriend and I shuffled over to the reunion banquet. One of my childhood mentors who became sort of like a godfather to me was one of the highlighted speakers. He came over to me and almost made me cry telling me how proud he was of me. He prefaced those words with, “If I never get the chance to tell you again…” and it drew my attention to the age and wear on his face. I wondered how much longer I’d have him around and it took me back to the night I had that same conversation with my big brother. Hopefully I wont have to mourn the loss of either one of them for many, many years. I knew my girlfriend and I weren’t going to stay the whole night at the event but I made sure to stay for his speech. He actually dedicated a portion of it to me, telling the audience how he’d known me most of my life and was so proud of the fact that he was instrumental at crucial points in my life and proud of who I have become. Again, I almost lost it, but I kept it together LOL.
There were a handful more people there that night that I knew, most of whom told me how much I had grown to look like my mother. It was like there was a page in the program that instructed anybody who knew her to say so LOL….smh. Its all good though, I am my mama’s child.
A quick drive by to see a couple high school friends at this cookout they were at and then we were off to a local bar near my girlfriend’s house. Saw a couple people I knew there too and I was having a ball with the girlfriend I went with and the other who we called to join us. It was a really good time and only got better when a guy I recently reconnected with came there to hang out with me. I was missing one girlfriend who I definitely owe some time on the next trip, but still, it was the best night I’ve had in a really long time.
I came back to Jersey yesterday and between last night and this morning, finished the last 3 essays I needed to submit for my exam. Now that its really over, I feel the lifted load. It will be 4 to 6 weeks before I know my final grade but Im holding a 3.5 cumulative GPA right now so I feel good about it. Tonight Im supposed to go to a Motown review down in Times Square with a friend of mine. No better way to celebrate than with a Motown review, right? A couple of drinks and a shimmy or two and then its back to life as I know it. Still have some hurdles to clear but Im optimistic. I hope yall had a good weekend too.
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