Makein out.

Aug 10, 2001
I dropped off twenty slides to be printed at Holland Photo. Friday I will have some of the great greenbelt pictures up here for you. Honest.

Natasha and I met up with William and his friend Jen at Ruta Maya around 8ish, grabbed some grub at Waterloo Brewing Company, then headed out to Emily's Makeoutclub party. No, I'm not becoming a swinger. It's a rock and roll thing mom, you wouldn't understand.

We all expected the party to be chock-full-of-pretentious-rock-kid attitude, and that's basically how it was. You know the kind: scenesters taking themselves far too seriously and preoccupied with appearances and fashion and being cooler than the next shmuck. Amidst this tension was the pretention. But beyond the pretention were some really cool and quality people.

Emily (the hostess) was super-cool, and managed our teeming hoards pretty well, especially considering 90%+ were complete strangers. We wore nametags:

Pretty geeky, huh?

The first wave converged on the party all at once. Then half left to go find some food. Kindof weird first thing to do after first getting to a party .. but they drove from far away so I guess it's allowed. Stella the dog was a good sport and greeted newcomers with a happy bark and a dumb, happy nose. Then she chewed on a beer can.

I met Janice for the first time (who happens to have a really slick website). She had a little Fuji digital camera too - I'll try to grab some pictures for here.

And here they are:






Adriana (a-lo) showed up randomly (and fabulously as ever) with her roommate Stephanie. Christine was there too, and got all splishy splashy in the pooly pool. Kelly gave me a good book recommendation, "The Fermata" by Nicholson Baker.

Most of the evening consisted with mingling, playing with the dog, hamming it up with cool and questionably-creepy peeps, smoking other people's cigarettes, and drinking Lonestar beer.

A bunch of people swam in the pool. I wish I had worn underpants .. I would have SO been in there. Damn it's hot. Janice played AC/DC. I shook my booty in the living room.

And that was that. Here are the upcoming shows that I plan on catching:
Aug 11 - Nada Surf/Ozmo&Rilo Kiley - Mercury Lounge
Aug 11 - Litter Meet/Handful - Gaby & Mo's (punk rawk!)
uh ohh.. conflict here....
Aug 16 - Peaches/World Provider/Japanic/Toof - Emo's
Aug 17 - One Fifth Griffith/Spoon Fed Tribe - Room 710
Sep 20 - Modest Mouse - Stubb's

Maybe:
Aug 14 - David Byrne - The Backyard
Aug 17 - Wesley Will/Shazam/U.S.S Friendship - Emo's
Aug 24 - Rollins Band - La Zona Rosa
Sep 02 - Square Pusher/Plaid/Mira Calix - Mercury

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