Dominic turned 23 today so wish him a happy Birthday if you havent already.
Happy Birthday, Dominic! You make life fun, thanks for growing old with me!
Please come celebrate us getting old together downtown on Saturday July 1st. Join us for dinner and drinking. Emphasis on the drinking. Time and location are TBD but good times are guaranteed. Hope to see everyone there!
I ran into this song on myspace called "From Roswell". Go to Brandon's Myspace and have a listen. I know, at first it made me laugh too but something pulled me back and I'm glad it did. I listened to it several times. Each time I extracted something more, actually, it brought something out in me.
I thought Roswell and I had grown apart but it's something I cant escape. She'll always be with me, She's where my memories are that's why I pay respect.. All of my repressed memories of this place came rushing back when i listened to this song. I've decided to start writing about them here as a form of respect and probably a little therapy. Enjoy...
Father’s Day just passed. I actually got my dad a card. I know it sounds harsh but I my whole life I resented my dad for the things he had done and not done. After I moved away from home our relationship improved but it wasn’t until last December that I was finally able to forgive him for his transgressions and see him in a new light.
I’d always known that I was an “accident”. My parents were young and unmarried. Mom was seventeen. Dad twenty-one. My mom accepted her fate as a young mother. She was fortunate to have been brought up in a very nurturing home and provided the same for me. My dad on the other hand was raised in…well he wasn’t really raised at all. He was born to a woman who has no motherly instinct, no nurturing capabilities and is pretty much a menace to society. Having no father and a mother who was anything but were the weak foundation for his upbringing.
My dad was the oldest of six, wait make that seven, I just found out he had another brother that was given up for adoption. With five fatherless and virtually motherless younger siblings in the house he took on the responsibility of raising them. And in the meantime put up with a lot of abuse from the various men his mother brought into the house. By the age of twenty-one my dad was through raising kids. He had graduated high school, an accomplishment few members of his family ever completed, and had even begun taking classes at the community college. Then he met my mom. The accident happened and they named her Nicole.
As a child I couldn’t rationalize his behavior. All I knew is that he was an intelligent man so why couldn’t he just do what was right? He became an alcoholic and an irresponsible father. As an adult I can be thankful that he always had one foot, or sometimes just a toe, in reality that kept our family afloat but what I needed as a child was to be able to trust my father.
Well if Dominic's not going to tell the story I will...
Last Friday we had the extreme pleasure of seeing Big Japan play at the Marquis. If you haven't heard of Big Japan check out their myspace. The first thing most of you will notice is that the drummer is a big celebrity. Some of you may notice the guitarist is an up and coming celebrity. But what you should know is that front man Nathanial Castro is an amazing musician, business savvy genius, and so much more. After the show Dominic stopped Nathanial to compliment him on his work and to explain that we had come for the music not the Hollywood freakshow. What we got was nearly an hour of interesting conversation from him that might have lasted longer if the Marquis hadn't kicked us out so that they could set up an area for people to come in 5 at a time to meet Adam Brody.
Later we ran into the liquored up band members and chatted for a while. Bret Harrison was retarded drunk and hilarious, at the very least he wasnt cold like his celebrity friend Adam Brody. I'm not sure what Brody's problem was but he wasn't very friendly and he didnt even seem happy. Tired? Maybe but the rest of the band had been on tour and they seemed fine. Annoyed? Possibly but our group was very respectful of him and tried to treat him like everyone else. At any rate we got a few words out of him and hope he wasnt too put off by us.
We had so much fun that we had to sleep it off at Dan's place while leaving our car in a tow away zone. Oops!
Photos are up in the gallery.