i had my bday party at the coffee shop / art gallery, downtown last night. all week ivan the terrible had been threatening to literally rain on my parade. but he came and went pretty quick.
i never lost power at my apt. ivan knocked around all day thursday and fucked up some trees and left over 1 million alabama residents without electricity. friday was a different story. perfect weather. i remember this happening growing up in florida. the night of the hurricane you pack for the beach. because the next day is going to be excellent weather. but back to the party... i ended up having about 25-30 people including jesse and ashby performing some acoustic songs and aaron and shep throwin' down their usual excellent dj umm..."skillz."
the cake was killer, the upstairs loft was chill. the entire band made their way there by 10pm. new friends, old friends. i can't complain. the only bummer was not being able to play my version of under the milky way tonight because we only had one acoustic guitar, and we needed two to make it sound right.
the plus side is that jen got me the most beautiful martin acoustic. exquisite. i can't really believe the tone this thing gets. my moms was in full effect. she did way too much. first birth, now this? i'm in debt. chrysla gave me 30-50 little feeder fish. we couldn't tell how many were in there... amber did her z100 "mc" thing and gave me some great cd's.
her and judah are so cute. and of course there were black balloons, and half the people wearing black..etc. but it was pretty cool. after that we went to the nick and watched beitthemeans. i'll post some pics eventually.
i never lost power at my apt. ivan knocked around all day thursday and fucked up some trees and left over 1 million alabama residents without electricity. friday was a different story. perfect weather. i remember this happening growing up in florida. the night of the hurricane you pack for the beach. because the next day is going to be excellent weather. but back to the party... i ended up having about 25-30 people including jesse and ashby performing some acoustic songs and aaron and shep throwin' down their usual excellent dj umm..."skillz."
the cake was killer, the upstairs loft was chill. the entire band made their way there by 10pm. new friends, old friends. i can't complain. the only bummer was not being able to play my version of under the milky way tonight because we only had one acoustic guitar, and we needed two to make it sound right.
the plus side is that jen got me the most beautiful martin acoustic. exquisite. i can't really believe the tone this thing gets. my moms was in full effect. she did way too much. first birth, now this? i'm in debt. chrysla gave me 30-50 little feeder fish. we couldn't tell how many were in there... amber did her z100 "mc" thing and gave me some great cd's.
her and judah are so cute. and of course there were black balloons, and half the people wearing black..etc. but it was pretty cool. after that we went to the nick and watched beitthemeans. i'll post some pics eventually.