the year in review
New Year's eve 2004 at Cruzers. Got real full on noodles+champagne and sang Girl From Ipanema on the karaoke machine.
Lived with my mom and explored beachfront construction sites.
Had a good time at a wave pool in West Virginia.
labor-related adventures through New Jersey and New York, lived in a extended-stay hotel, ate steaks, watched Discovery Channel, had Indian food delivered to my room.
exploring an old auction house with johnathan and finding some invaluable treasure. including the journal of one of the employees. half of it was filled with original song lyrics about God and being a christian while the other half of the journal had fantasy sex stories.
moved to Texas + met Will Sellari & Co.
Got my first job behind a grill. Got my first apartment without roommates.
I saw Melt Banana and lost my glasses to the mosh pit.
I joined my first band but got kicked out cause i didn't like the songs and would sit down when we played shows. But it was fun to play a show on bridge.
dove off a diving board into an icy cold natural spring.
I saw Battles.
swung from a rope into a river.
one day i got real nervous.
Attended my first slipnslide party.
i joined a Beach Boys cover band and played a show at Emo's. They liked the idea of sitting down to play and even got me a fold out beach chair to sit on.
rob weatherington came to visit and it was like long swig of cold water when u been run'n around in a sweatsuit all day long. we explored a riverbed and ate ice cream.
turbo and i waiting at the bus stop and watching some frat boys try to kick a soccerball from the street to the top of a 3-story building but they sucked hard and it kept bouncing back into the street and onto cars and buses.
I saw Dungen.
told Will it would be a good idea to buy the game Shadow of the Colossus and then I went over his house everyday and played it until I beat it.
my friend Jeff showing up at a birthday party and telling the birthday girl that hes "had better cake in prison" (its true) and then squirreling the cake away in his jacket pocket to be snacked on later.
took my pearly pink sweater out for a farewell tour at some party and then did my first(last.) keg stand at the same party.
Juan Carlos and I went to see Cerberus Shoal play in a practice space for ballerinas and there were mirrors on all the walls and it was like nothing else.
i was Where's Waldo for halloween and it was a great success. i had the all the right clothes and even found a nice wooden cane. only a strappy brown backpack and some solid-colored books could've made it something more.
I visited Virgina for thanksgiving and saw all of my favorite people. Got drunk at some show in Williamsburg with Matt & Jason and on the way back Jason got pulled over for speeding over a bridge. From the backseat I lied to the cop and said I wasn't drunk and so he decided that I'd had to drive us home. But it was stick shift which i can't really drive and so as I pulled away from the cop, the car kept stalling and jerking around and for some reason he didn't stop me.
I visited my family in Florida for Christmas and went to Busch Gardens Orlando on christmas day. there were no lines and i went on the safari walk and a lioness looked straight at me.
For New Years i'm doing a detox fast with Turbo. Hes off right now to get this special drink (water, lemon, honey, cayenne pepper, gross) that's 8 bucks per gallon and its all your allowed to have. I'm probably going to cheat.
now i'm sure i've unintentionally excluded some important happenings. feel free to leave me a little reminder.
until next year,
-conrad