yup, five more days till i am on vacation. and a hell of a vacation it will be. going down to virginia to catch a less than jake show, hang with the rents and my bro who moved in across the street, and chill with my goddaughter. oh an i guess i'll meet my new nephew. he was born just in time to be a tax deduction…dec 31.
after the va leg, i come back home just in time for st. patty's day. st. patty's day is my absolute favourite day of the year and i have high hopes for this year after not doing much of anything last year. what makes this year so special? well, nothing. gonna drink like we do every year, but there's just something awesome 'bout march 17.
the next day is another less than jake show. yup 2 shows in 2 cities less than a week apart. yes, i love less than jake. they put on one of the best live shows you'll ever see. insanely high energy. keep your fingers crossed that they play "my own flag" twice for me, eh?
typing that made me wanna hear the song so i went and you tubed it. found a vid of some band covering it. my god were they horrible. if you want to enjoy some chills of the douche variety, check out this video, if you've ever given a damn about any song you'll understand what it's like to hear it massacred by someone else. an a+ for song choice an f- for song execution.
is there even such thing as an f-? can you worse than fail?
to wrap up my vaca, i'm hoping to check out ozomatli who happen to be playing irving plaza the day after less than jake. haven't found anyone who wants to join me yet though, so we may just scrap those plans.
friday shall be my day of rest.
speaking of virginia, was listening to opie and anthony on the way into work and the boys were picking on lil jimmy norton about his obsessiveness when it comes to getting pictures with celebs. apparently, he's so into it that he's fairly easily tricked into taking pics with nobodies because someone told him it was somebody.
back when i was a kid down in virginia, we used to go to the tides games fairly often. the tides are currently the triple a affiliate of the baltimore orioles, but at the time, they were the mets triple a team. so i gave a damn about them.
one day while my friend brian was down visiting we went to the game. and true to form went autograph hunting. we got so into it that we even got some usher's autograph because he was employee of the month or something. i have no idea why we did that, but it was fun.
after the game we waited around for the players, because that's what potential victims of a pedophile do, they wait as prey. we got a few more signatures and were on our way to the car. that's when we saw a guy wearing what looked like expensive sunglasses. it was night time so he had to be a player. so we walked up to him and asked him to sign our programs. he either didn't speak english or was dumbfounded as to why we'd want his autograph, but after some prodding, he did the deed for us.
he signed "romo." when we got home we went through the program several times wondering why there was no romo, first name or last, listed. we decided to ourselves that he'd only recently been moved up to triple a and therefore wasn't in the program.
either that, or he was just some random guy…
