Here's the first half of the photos I took back in April 2007! It's the April Roundup Part One!
Friday, March 30th
I went out Friday night, but came home around 2am because I wasn't feeling well. I came into our bedroom and found this little git cuddling a stuffed animal and playing her Nintendo DS!
On Sunday I took the train out to NJ to visit my parents and grandparents. For whatever reason, I only took pictures of the train ride and no pictures of people! Hahaha. I don't know why, but I really love the strange, swampy marshland that's in New Jersey right outside of New York City.
I love the way the water and grass contrasts with all the old, abandoned industrial train tracks and factories from when this area was huge manufacturing district.
...and by different, I mean that one of them (The Good One) was dyed bright pink! Meredith bought some Kool-Aid and decided to give Ratso a little bit of color.
By the way, I'm writing this almost a year and a half later and after years and years of touring, Antony's band is finally starting to blow up! Check out this vid of Pamela Anderson introducing them as the musical guest on The Sunday Night Project, a big variety show that airs in the UK. Insanity, right?
...don't forget, back in the late 80s, Fatty (fourth from left - check out THAT MANE!) was the main ax-player in Nasty Magic, the sickest metal band in the entire greater-New Milford area of Connecticut!
By the time I got there, she'd finished DJing. The music was way too loud - but because she was promoting the place, she couldn't leave to go somewhere more conducive to having conversation. Leigh's solution? Steal a bottle of vodka and a bucket of ice and commandeer the back bathroom as our private lounge! Problem solved! Of course, drinking vodka on the rocks for a few hours...
On Friday afternoon, Mike and I took Court out to a farewell lunch! Two weeks earlier he'd announced that he was resigning his job as Chief Operating Officer of Community Connect (where he was my boss) in order to take a job as the CEO of a new start-up called Yodle that helps local business advertise online! (Where I currently work and Court is my boss again! Yay!).
I know he's my boss and all, but I just can't help myself and need to point out that I think Court is exactly what McLovin will look like when he grows up!
Later that night after work, I went to the opening of Katie & Ellen's show in the East Village. A bunch of the pieces there were collaborations between Ellen and Katie and there were a bunch of a familiar faces...
Later that night I went over to the Blue Owl to wish Karen M. a happy birthday! Here's the birthday girl with Karen L. and Dens. (Dennis had just recently left Google and was saying goodbye to his old ID badge).
Around 2am we all went around the corner to see the apartment that Karen had just bought! Here she is showing off the "fish tank in the fireplace" in her new building's lobby!
Meredith caught Vin and I taking one of our signature "Tough Guy" photos that we've been doing as joke since at least 1998, and wanted to give being a "tough guy" a shot.
Hahaha. She pretty much nailed it her very first time! I like how she combined the "NJ-Guido Brow-Furrow" with the "Staten Island Mouth-Pout." A very effective combo!
On Tuesday night Meredith and I went to the Bitter End to see Caitlin sing (with "WHITEBOY" Mitch Mitchell on guitar!!! LOL!). It was a charity show to raise money for...
After almost dying on my bike ride to work on Thursday morning (a big truck pulled over into my bike lane and almost smooooshed against a row of parked cars), I decided to stop being an idiot and went to the bike store during lunch and bought a helmet.
...and we all marveled at "Heart of the Cajuns" painting that Siege's agent had given him of an old family photo of Siege with his mom and little brother.
