I'm Not Afraid to Keep On Living

So, I've had the Empires cd Howl for awhile. I like it, it's catchy and fun. That's pretty much all I knew about them--I couldn't have even told you how many people were in the band.

Then I stumbled upon This primer (which you should totally read because it's wonderful and priceless and shit. And um--my response?

These kids are like the idiots I went to college with, only, ya know, they're friends with people who are also in bands. Seriously, these two guys I hung out with my freshman/sophomore year of college (Ben and Joe) would fit in completely with this group of people. Joe tried to teach me guitar a lot, but whatever. Ben and Joe were the type of people that would have conversations with each other using only Arnold Swartzenagger soundclips from different websites. For hours. Back and forth, back and forth.

Always high on something, always funny, we totally turned a trashcan into a waterbong one night while watching Princess Mononoke (in support of my neil gaiman crush) and yeah.

Ben and I once had this epic conversation that lasted 7 hours or so, which basically consisted of Ben trying to convince me to sleep with him. Joe was in the other bed and I found out years later he was awake for the whole thing. Hmmm. Haven't thought about that in years.

It's like, there were these two other guys, Andy and Soup. Constantly high, always hilarious. Andy would steal, STEAL, forks from the dining hall (not just a couple, we're talking somewhere in the thousands by the end of his dorm years) and turn them into "works of art" that he would then turn around and sell to different kids in order to support his pot habit. He turned them into earring holders and sculptures and when he discovered that fire made the metal easier to bend? He totally set the fire alarm off like a zillion times.

Or Jeff and the other dudes from my house, year 2 RAing. They had a habit of talking really loudly about hot girls and I would often join in. One evening, it was some Jewish holiday, I forget which one, I came back to the house drunk and Jeff decided that because I was trying to sleep it off it would be funny to pull the fire alarm. 3 times. So I would have to do a head count and shit while totally intoxicated and my boss was there, watching me. I was over 21, so whatever.

But the guys from Empires? They remind me of all the guys I went to college with, except they have some people who know about them and they make music. Galen and Josh made music in college, hmmm.

Anyhow, that is all.


Expect more stupid boy stories from college over the next few weeks, because I forgot how funny that shit was.