I hope that many years from now, when I am legally “old”, I will still have the spirit and energy I have today, and be as in love with that person (who and wherever he may be) as the day we recognize those feelings.
September 24 2007 | musings and relationships | 2 Comments »
If you are drinking a cup of good coffee, please take the time to appreciate it. I forgot to do so today, and when I realized what had happened, it was really rather disappointing.
September 12 2007 | food and musings | 2 Comments »
Another summer has passed and sometimes things just don’t want to happen. For example, this post. I can’t motivate myself to write about anything these days….
Significant events have happened over the last month, however, towards which this blog should pay tribute…
First, please allow me a moment of ridiculous sentimentality as the first event is a wedding and the half-week leading up to it. I have never considered myself a very emotional person, but every so often, people get the better of me. Lauren, a one of my dearest friends and one of my guiding lights my freshman year of college, had an absolutely gorgeous wedding, despite the 100+ degree Farenheit weather it occurred under and in which we had to play. Seeing her and her husband (also a friend) devote themselves to each other was just the icing atop a cake of celebration. After all, paying witness to two people pledging themselves to each other for life is actually really quite beautiful.
But perhaps the most emotional moment came three days before the actual wedding itself when the violist of the wedding quartet and I threw a surprise bachelorette party for Lauren. We had spent the previous day contacting as many of the younger female wedding attendees as possible, telling them to arrive at the apartment at around seven. Then we lured Lauren to the apartment under the guise of listening to us rehearse her wedding music. At seven, when people started arriving and we admitted to Lauren what was going on, she burst into tears.
I am very hard pressed to think of another recent moment when I have seen someone so moved by happiness. But I get at least three more chances to catch and experience this all over again by the end of next summer, if not an entire year now that my roommates just got engaged to each other last week.
That being said, congratulations to you all who have managed to find your someone. Truly, you are lucky people.
While on the topic of luck, happiness, congratulations, and more happiness, I extend yet again another congratulations to [The OneUps] for their incredible performance at the [Penny Arcade Expo] (PAX). Apparently, the boys knocked everyone dead and I could not be happier (and a little jealous) that they were given the chance to experience such an embracing venue, playing in front of thousands of people, and the thrilling rush of being such rockstars. They may think they’re just “normal dudes” playing video game music, but these guys - both individually and as a unit - really are something amazing, and their music shows.
So far as my own shows go, my band played a very nicely run [Nerdapalooza] event the day after The OneUps’s killer show, but I rode on their high for a bit, especially since the guys were being wonderful enough to help sell our CDs at PAX and Mustin was filling me in every so often on how sales were going. That was quite exciting as well. Our show went well enough for how darned humid and hot thirty-forty people packed into a fifty-by-twenty (or so) foot room with no air conditioning is. Some videos are available for viewing [here] (a little scrolling is required…sorry)
Finally, I had the fortune this past week to attend a fantastic show by Miami Afro-Latin funk band [Suenalo]. The cohesiveness and energy of Suenalo’s sound is unbelievable. I highly encourage everyone to check out their music.
And that’s that for now until I can think up something to write about again
September 04 2007 | music and relationships | 1 Comment »
