Bryan and Halloween Weekend
Well, here in real-time land, it's MLK day, and I've been a little under the weather. Jury's still out on whether I'm really sick or just have a confluence of various crappy feelings, but I'm feeling better. On to the blogging...
10/23-25
I'm sure stuff happened on these days, but I really can't remember. It was right before my credit card rolled over to the next month, so I could have been conserving funds...
10/26
Will IMs me and asks if I want to go on a comic store run, which of course I do. Afterwards we try out Prince's, a diner-style burger joint. Certainly they nailed the diner part, and Will's malt was impressive, but their burgers didn't knock me over.
Afterwards, home for a while before it's time to pick up Bryan from the airport. He was coming into town just in time to catch Voxtrot over at Walter's, but... he didn't. There are weather delays, and, tragically, we miss the band. Instead, I took Bryan to Tapatia for some dinner (and a michelada for me), where Cindy met us post-show before we head on to the Prole to hang out for a while.
10/27
It's a good Friday afternoon for skipping out of school a little early, so Bryan picks me up and, after a quick Wendy's run for his lunch, we meet up with Phil at the Ginger Man in the village and knock back a few, including trying some of the pumpkin brews they have on hand. Next we proceed to Hans', where we have some more and enjoy sitting outside despite the (as the Arcade Fire would put it) cold wind blowin'.
Cindy meets us at Hans' before we head to Star to meet Brina and Shawn for dinner. In addition to the now traditional salsa verde pizza, Cindy talks us into the Joe's (spinach and garlic), half with bacon (and half without to maek sure Sabrina doesn't get trychonosis). The bacon adds a nice smokiness to the spinach and garlic, pleasing many of us. Pitchers of Shiner are also consumed.
After that, Phil, Bryan, Cindy and I continue on to the Warehouse to catch Broken Social Scene. Do Make Say Think opens and sound... very Broken Social Scene-ish. As for the main act, well... they're never going to top that kick ass show that we saw at the Proletariat, with a ton of audience members crammed into the tiny room, and a ton of band members crammed onto a tiny stage, and Stars opening. The show was OK, but chalk another mediocre set up to the Warehouse's deplorable sound.
Phil's got to be up early to catch some soccer the next morning, so we call it a night after that.
10/28
After an aborted attempt at going to Reggae Hut (closed on weekends, tragically), we are joined by some of Sabrina's law school crew and fall back on the old standby of Niko Niko's, where I try their meatballs wih feta (excellent!).
Next we retire to my place to watch the Royal Tenenbaums and get into character for our Halloween costumes. We gather up a few items from my place, make stop-offs at Target and Walmart, and then go to Sabrina's house.
Part of the plan involved Sabrina flattening my hair, which she did, and I looked like a fucking rock star. We go to meet Lisa and friend at Teala's for a good but pricey Mexican dinner (I should note that we had previously eaten there before the last Broken Social Scene show). I have something that involves a chicken breast, a whole lot of melted cheese, and some peppers, which is certainly tasty.
We returned to Sabrina's, finish readying ourselves, and embark for Viraj's final (?) halloween party. I begin to work on getting thoroughly trashed. The party was good, with plenty of good costumes (my favorite was the girl that came as spinach infested with E. Coli). We ultimately lose best group costume to the unimaginative and poorly executed Fanta girls, and baby Jesus cries. Oliver's date is dressed in a suspiciously similar fashion to his date the previous year, making us wonder just who is coming up with the costumes. Much beer is consumed. I flit around like the social butterfly I am.
Once things start to wind down we head north, past downtown in search of a difficult-to-find wearhouse that has been rented out by the U of H student bar association, where more things are drunk, lots of people get our costumes (which is awesome), and a generally good time is had by all.
10/29
I do laundry either at the apartment or at Susan and Jerry's; Cindy comes over; we watch TV.
10/23-25
I'm sure stuff happened on these days, but I really can't remember. It was right before my credit card rolled over to the next month, so I could have been conserving funds...
10/26
Will IMs me and asks if I want to go on a comic store run, which of course I do. Afterwards we try out Prince's, a diner-style burger joint. Certainly they nailed the diner part, and Will's malt was impressive, but their burgers didn't knock me over.
Afterwards, home for a while before it's time to pick up Bryan from the airport. He was coming into town just in time to catch Voxtrot over at Walter's, but... he didn't. There are weather delays, and, tragically, we miss the band. Instead, I took Bryan to Tapatia for some dinner (and a michelada for me), where Cindy met us post-show before we head on to the Prole to hang out for a while.
10/27
It's a good Friday afternoon for skipping out of school a little early, so Bryan picks me up and, after a quick Wendy's run for his lunch, we meet up with Phil at the Ginger Man in the village and knock back a few, including trying some of the pumpkin brews they have on hand. Next we proceed to Hans', where we have some more and enjoy sitting outside despite the (as the Arcade Fire would put it) cold wind blowin'.
Cindy meets us at Hans' before we head to Star to meet Brina and Shawn for dinner. In addition to the now traditional salsa verde pizza, Cindy talks us into the Joe's (spinach and garlic), half with bacon (and half without to maek sure Sabrina doesn't get trychonosis). The bacon adds a nice smokiness to the spinach and garlic, pleasing many of us. Pitchers of Shiner are also consumed.
After that, Phil, Bryan, Cindy and I continue on to the Warehouse to catch Broken Social Scene. Do Make Say Think opens and sound... very Broken Social Scene-ish. As for the main act, well... they're never going to top that kick ass show that we saw at the Proletariat, with a ton of audience members crammed into the tiny room, and a ton of band members crammed onto a tiny stage, and Stars opening. The show was OK, but chalk another mediocre set up to the Warehouse's deplorable sound.
Phil's got to be up early to catch some soccer the next morning, so we call it a night after that.
10/28
After an aborted attempt at going to Reggae Hut (closed on weekends, tragically), we are joined by some of Sabrina's law school crew and fall back on the old standby of Niko Niko's, where I try their meatballs wih feta (excellent!).
Next we retire to my place to watch the Royal Tenenbaums and get into character for our Halloween costumes. We gather up a few items from my place, make stop-offs at Target and Walmart, and then go to Sabrina's house.
Part of the plan involved Sabrina flattening my hair, which she did, and I looked like a fucking rock star. We go to meet Lisa and friend at Teala's for a good but pricey Mexican dinner (I should note that we had previously eaten there before the last Broken Social Scene show). I have something that involves a chicken breast, a whole lot of melted cheese, and some peppers, which is certainly tasty.
We returned to Sabrina's, finish readying ourselves, and embark for Viraj's final (?) halloween party. I begin to work on getting thoroughly trashed. The party was good, with plenty of good costumes (my favorite was the girl that came as spinach infested with E. Coli). We ultimately lose best group costume to the unimaginative and poorly executed Fanta girls, and baby Jesus cries. Oliver's date is dressed in a suspiciously similar fashion to his date the previous year, making us wonder just who is coming up with the costumes. Much beer is consumed. I flit around like the social butterfly I am.
Once things start to wind down we head north, past downtown in search of a difficult-to-find wearhouse that has been rented out by the U of H student bar association, where more things are drunk, lots of people get our costumes (which is awesome), and a generally good time is had by all.
10/29
I do laundry either at the apartment or at Susan and Jerry's; Cindy comes over; we watch TV.
Labels: bars, concerts, halloween, parties, restaurants
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