Well here it is duder...You started this several years ago and perhaps it might just keep me(us) sane. So let's see, since I left Syracuse a week from today I have driven close to 1000 miles already for the summer and I have yet to travel to Chicago (which I am leaving tomorrow for the weekend!) and obviously the ultimate trip to Los Angeles. Oh boy! Hesitating a bit about that one, that might take some thinking before hand.
Anyways, I drove down to Pennsylvania a week ago today to visit my dear loved one, spending two wonderful days, and unfortunately having to leave on a semi-rainy Saturday. When I arrived home I talked to my mother and heard my phone ring at 11:30pm with a call from Jonathan McGlone who was fresh off his controversial graduation ceremony at Calvin College where a certain President G.W. Bush gave the graduation speech to an apparently pleased crowd, with Jon and a few others offering dissenting opinions. So we chatted about that for awhile and then he left to go back to Grand Rapids I imagine to move out and make plans for the summer with Nick and the gang.
My next venture took me to East Lansing, where a slew of friends went (and still go) to university. Those were a couple drinking nights, but not drunken nights, so that's a positive. The Pistons lost last night as I sat in Rick's American Cafe (?) and drank a few pitchers with Zemanski, Germain, Andy, Vargo, Show, Podolak, Guy, Nephew, etc. etc. We talked about the past, present, future. Shots at stardom, when our buddy Josh Robertson almost nabbed the part of the young Stacy Peralta in Lords of Dogtown two summers ago, but after several director changes and a plethora of producers' money took a more Hollywood approach and the kid from Gus Van Sant's Elephant took the role instead. Oh well. It was nice while it lasted.
This afternoon I returned and have been tweaking mixes all day pretty much--ohhooohh I shot around a basketball for a good hour which was nice. Outside and the old clubhouse where I used to live by the high school. Damn, so many good memories and games played there. It struck me awkwardly that I will probably never play another game there with anyone but myself. Its weird no one is around here anymore. Even Cosens is spending the summer in the Upper Peninsula and Craig is working a new job in Kalamazoo and has little free time for any of our galavanting about. Oh well. There is always the future.
Oh, a word about the mixes. My winner this time around goes to Adam Frucci!!! Man alive is that guy on fire from three point range right now. A very good mix, last time it was Bill's, but this time Adam's has not left my automobile. And with all the driving I have been doing, I've been listening to it quite often. So congrats to Adam. I hope his graduation party goes well this weekend. I know its supposed to rain here in Michigan, so maybe it will not reach New Hampshire in time. All the best to him and the other graduates. Congratulations!
I will leave you on this note of songs I wished I would have put on my mix but listened to them too late:
The Dirty Projectors - Not Having Found
The Skygreen Leopards - Careless Gardeners (of Eden)... OR Where do songs come from?
Have a good summer. If anyone wants, I can forward an email sent to me by Dave Nielsen giving directions on how to do Dhalsim's moves from Street Fighter.
Ciao.
Anyways, I drove down to Pennsylvania a week ago today to visit my dear loved one, spending two wonderful days, and unfortunately having to leave on a semi-rainy Saturday. When I arrived home I talked to my mother and heard my phone ring at 11:30pm with a call from Jonathan McGlone who was fresh off his controversial graduation ceremony at Calvin College where a certain President G.W. Bush gave the graduation speech to an apparently pleased crowd, with Jon and a few others offering dissenting opinions. So we chatted about that for awhile and then he left to go back to Grand Rapids I imagine to move out and make plans for the summer with Nick and the gang.
My next venture took me to East Lansing, where a slew of friends went (and still go) to university. Those were a couple drinking nights, but not drunken nights, so that's a positive. The Pistons lost last night as I sat in Rick's American Cafe (?) and drank a few pitchers with Zemanski, Germain, Andy, Vargo, Show, Podolak, Guy, Nephew, etc. etc. We talked about the past, present, future. Shots at stardom, when our buddy Josh Robertson almost nabbed the part of the young Stacy Peralta in Lords of Dogtown two summers ago, but after several director changes and a plethora of producers' money took a more Hollywood approach and the kid from Gus Van Sant's Elephant took the role instead. Oh well. It was nice while it lasted.
This afternoon I returned and have been tweaking mixes all day pretty much--ohhooohh I shot around a basketball for a good hour which was nice. Outside and the old clubhouse where I used to live by the high school. Damn, so many good memories and games played there. It struck me awkwardly that I will probably never play another game there with anyone but myself. Its weird no one is around here anymore. Even Cosens is spending the summer in the Upper Peninsula and Craig is working a new job in Kalamazoo and has little free time for any of our galavanting about. Oh well. There is always the future.
Oh, a word about the mixes. My winner this time around goes to Adam Frucci!!! Man alive is that guy on fire from three point range right now. A very good mix, last time it was Bill's, but this time Adam's has not left my automobile. And with all the driving I have been doing, I've been listening to it quite often. So congrats to Adam. I hope his graduation party goes well this weekend. I know its supposed to rain here in Michigan, so maybe it will not reach New Hampshire in time. All the best to him and the other graduates. Congratulations!
I will leave you on this note of songs I wished I would have put on my mix but listened to them too late:
The Dirty Projectors - Not Having Found
The Skygreen Leopards - Careless Gardeners (of Eden)... OR Where do songs come from?
Have a good summer. If anyone wants, I can forward an email sent to me by Dave Nielsen giving directions on how to do Dhalsim's moves from Street Fighter.
Ciao.
1 Comments:
Chris,
Here's to continued sanity and a complete sense of uprootedness!
Keep me(us) up to date with your travel tales and don't hesitate re: your ultimate trip.
spaded under,
Bill
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