friday night came around and i hopped on a bus to go to this wired monk place. i arrive at 8:15 or so and walk in to see like 10 or so fellow first year regent students sitting around like 3 joining tables with a variety of beverages. coffee, beer, and ian from england was drinking what looked to me like a big glass full of snow. he exclaimed the the shaved ice drink was mint flavored. i really wished this happened:
ian - "oh, yes ill have a large of the shaved ice, please"
clerk - "ok, well what flavor do you want? we have peach, strawberry, grape, orange..."
ian - "flavor? ohhh no, none for me thank you. 'cold' will be my flavor thank you very much"
clerk - "oook, thatll be a million dollar"
ian - "yum yum yum i looooove snow flavored shaved ice"
so while im searching for an empty chair to join the group, i notice one that is right in front of the band. no one was sitting in it but there was something hanging off the back. i asked the guy standing near it if it was his and he said he wasnt sitting in it and that he could move the thingy. awesome, i scored a chair. before i could walk away, he said, "hey do you know anything about PAs?" i looked at him and said, "sorta" so for the next 15 minutes, i was hooking up everything. all the mics, sound checking them, adding effects to certain mics, etc etc. i loved it because it took me back to working v21 productions. it was fun and easy since there werent many things to mic.
the first act was this solo guy who sang and played the acoustic. he was this black guy with short hair but with two 7 inch dreads in the back, forming duo-rat tails. it was awesome. he was really good and scat like none other.
the second act was a 2 person band. the front man sang and played an array of instruments. steel guitars and a banjo. the drummer was awesome. they played like a blues, rock, mix. i dont know. their myspace page says: Blues/ Ambient/ Big Beat soooo pretty much they ruled
i sat between ghita and donkey (mike) and so i talked to them the most. it was awesome that we all could hang out outside school and that we are finally past the "where are you from", "what classes are you taking", "why did you choose regent", "aaaand whats your name again" questions and can actually move on to normal conversations.
ghita is from saskatchewan and claims that a hoodie is called a "bunny hug"...i just told her that the reason its called that, is because where shes from is because they are still making apparel from wild animals and they just happened to make the hoodie entirely out of rabbits. its good that we are past introductions and have moved onto clowning each other.
so while mike was in the bathroom, someone asked to be reminded of his name (a reoccurring pattern for everyone) and someone said mike but i quickly corrected them and said his name was donkey. they asked why and i explained that his last name is yonkers. so:
yonkers to donkers to donkey. its just a logical progression. come on! its like:
caleb - kalib - karib - karibbean
so anna asked if i should just take the next step and call him 'ass'. while everyone was laughing, mike came back and asked what was so funny. someone pointed at me and said "oh he was making fun of you"....mike thought they said ian so looked to ian wanting an explanation. ian quickly pointed blame to me and i laughed and pointed it back to ian. but i finally took ownership of the insult (privilege in my book) so i grabbed his shoulder and looked intently in his eyes and said, "mike, your new name is asshole"
everyone laughed because i took it another step by adding hole to his recently upgraded name, ass. he laughed and so i explained the progression from donkey to ass and finally to asshole.
he accepted this name and told us that he was going to get his professors to call him that. haha YES!
prof - "mike?....is mike yonkers present?"
mike - "oh yes, but i prefer to be called 'asshole', sir"
we will have to see how well this works.
side note:
im really excited about my 2 new pairs of shoes:
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