My crazy friends
Created | Updated Oct 30, 2002
I've got some weird friends.
I mean weird.
Very weird.
If nothing else, they certainly bear introduction to the world. Frankly, I can't believe they aren't famous already. They're not the normal passers-by. Yes, they're strange, but extremely cool, too. Talented. In different ways, of course. So I figured I'd introduce them to the adoring public.
Someone had to.
Clickeroo!
The deal is, I've not got a scanner. So until I get these bizarre pictures up, this page is basically useless, which is OK since I imagine no one will see it anyway. But I'll describe what'll SOON be here. The order has nothing to do with anything except the order in my photo album, that's all.
Katie
Am I going absolutely insane here?
Did I not specifically say, right above, that the order in which I'm putting people down here is the order in my photo album? I said that because I knew otherwise people would be offended that they weren't first on the list.
Well, no matter how hard you try, you can't please 'em all.
Katie typed to me in a very injured tone that she'd noticed she wasn't up on the site, and then not five minutes later she said that she hated pictures of herself and tried to minimize their existence.
Well. Could there possibly be a correlation, or what?
Let me explain something, here. I once went to the San Diego zoo, of which I remember not a damn thing. However, I took a lot of pictures there. Weirdly, in every single picture, there's the same guy wearing a blue and white hat and a "I survived Crash Mountain" or something t-shirt. I have like a million pictures of this guy. That doesn't mean I like him any better than any of my friends, but had I put those photos in my photo album, he'd probably be listed here before most of you. So I get one more complaint I swear to God someone's gonna die.
Anyway, despite my biting tone, I'm a very easy person to guilt-trip, so feeling bad, I hopped to it and created a whole page for Katie, which eventually I will do for everyone. But it takes a bloody long time to do these, ya know? So not only does no one else have a page yet, but they probably won't for awhile. And Katie's isn't even half-done yet. But at least I'm getting started, huh? So click here to read about Katie.
Jessica
Jess is probably one of my oldest friends. We've been hanging around with each other for years--eleven, in fact. She's a great chick who really knows how to have fun, and she's also one of the few people I know who reads as much as me. Which isn't necessarily a quality to be proud of, admittedly. What she should be proud of is, amongst other talents, her exceptional ability as a pianist.
Jess is a freshman at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Colorado.
Soon-to-be-picture:
I've chosen this pic out of many appealing yet mystifying shots. It's Jess shooting pool.
Damien
Damien is God's answer to those annoying Abercrombie and Fitch clothing clones. You know what I mean? Let me quote my friend Nate Adams: I'm not kidding, the other day I saw three guys in about five minutes with the same hair cut and the same Ralph Polo shirt on. The only way I know they were different guys was because they had different Nikes on and different Tommy Hilfiger jeans.
OK. Well, Damien isn't like that.
Damien, who is a badass guitarist (he's so cool that he's having an electric viola built for him) with the Fingerfood Trio, is doing some work at the School of Music in the University of Colorado at Denver.
Soon-to-be-picture:
This one's Damien standing in his backyard at his grad party. Don't bother counting, I'll just tell you: Eleven.
Rob
Rob is, without question, one of the drollest, driest people I've ever met, and definitely one of the drollest Americans currently in existence, which isn't necessarily a hard title to snare, of course. But his sense of humor is one of the best around, and it demonstrates the quick mind and wit that his almost reticent silence might normally hide. He plays guitar, writes essays, and navigates computer hardware with equal and impressive aplomb.
Rob might do any number of things. But, currently, he's probably going to do his sophomore year at the University of Colorado at Denver in, obviously, Denver, Colorado.
Soon-to-be-picture:
Rob's either camera-shy or perenially absent when I've got mine with me. I do have some good shots of him with other people. But the picture I'll be putting up is his senior pic, which is great because it looks like a GAP ad. I don't want group pics.
AJ
Here's a guy with whom I don't have any shortage of photos. It seems like every time I bring my camera to a gathering, AJ is there, usually with his clothes off. AJ's a fantastic guy who knows how to appreciate (and take care of) his friends. He's dabbled in French, basketball, hotel management, and beer.
Oops, did I say beer?
AJ's doing some basketball time at a school in, I believe, Minnesota called Crown College for his sophomore year. But you never know.
Soon-to-be-picture:
Gee, which one should I stick in here? I did toy with the idea of the pics showing him losing rather badly at strip poker (actually it was Strip Categories, but it's the same result anyway). But this picture shows him wearing a kerchief of mine around himself, for no reason apparently other than we were all very, very hung over. It was a nasty morning.
Emelie
Emelie is Rob's sister. She's also one of the most unique people I've ever met. Emelie manages to friendly and yet aloof at the same time. She juggles intellectual and casual at once. She is intense and carefree. She is, simply put, a person of differentiating personality.
Emelie may act 25, but she's actually a senior at Thompson Valley High School in Loveland, Colorado.
Soon-to-be-picture:
Emelie's pic shows her drinking a candle, or something. It's a very confusing picture. I actually haven't been able to figure it out myself.
The Gravitones, Collectively
Because I'm just plain lazy, I'll eventually add separate entries for these boys but I've not the gumption to do it tonight. The Gravitones are a talented quartet from Loveland that hopefully will get their act (no pun intended) together and finish their damn CD. Of course probably we're not helping any by getting the guys continually drunk.
Dan is the guitarist (and first in the alphabet). I've got some hysterical party pics of Dan. I even have one where he's hiding inside a blanket from AJ and I when we were annoying him. The one you'll see, though, is actually one where he's sober on the 4th of July. After weighing the options, Dan decided to forego school (and the thousands of dollars of useless spending) in favor of going for the music career right away, as record contracts don't generally require university work.
Greth is the singer. I can honestly say that the more I get to know Greth the more confusing he becomes. Anyway, the pic I'll be putting up of him is pretty typical, with him making a weird face, which is apparently what he does whenever he's aware of a camera in his zip code. He's going for rock stardom, too.
Jeff is the drummer. He's got a...um....friendly part of his anatomy upon which he has bestowed the name "Steve." Steve is very active and I can't believe I got any pictures of Jeff not p*****g. But, amazingly, I managed to and the pic you'll see is him getting pretty well soused. I'm not exactly sure what Jeff is doing at the moment. I do believe that he works at Walmart or something, and other than that he's the drummer for another band as well, Chlorgasm (did I spell that right?) so he's a busy guy.
Matt has the misfortune of having the last name, alphabetically. He's the band's bassist and I only have one picture of the guy. This is at Jessica's graduation party. Matt's staying away from the school scene for about a year while he works off the potentially harmful affects of exposure to the high school system.
