I’ve always been a playlist kind of person. I believe that music can completely affect the mood you’re in and even save your life. My dad says that every morning, before he wakes up and starts thinking about all the shit he has to do that day, he puts on a CD and cranks it as loud as the Bose will go. He says that he has all of the mixes I’ve made since the summer of 2005. Hearing that inspired me to make a new CD for him. I titled it “Sunshine of Your Love”. Here are the tracks:
America – Simon and Garfunkel
Overkill (Acoustic version) – Colin Hay
Blossom – Candlebox
Lucky Trumble – Nancy Wilson (from the Almost Famous soundtrack)
After the extreme fun and excitement of deleting my Myspace account, I decided to head outdoors and enjoy the beautiful Florida weather. Although the days were warm, the nights were a bit chilly and I was kicking myself for only bringing a light sweater to protect me from the 58 degree frozen tundra.
My Spring break went a little something like this:
Thursday 3/11/10: Juarez $2 happy hour margaritas, dancing, writers’ party, Congress St., closed down the Jinx, and a warm shot of well whiskey that resulted in a quick puke. Off to a good start.
Pay no mind to the watermelon.
Friday 3/12/10: Drive home to Melbourne, FL.
Sunday 3/14/10: Margaritas by the pool.
Tuesday 3/16/10: Surf day. Oz and Dave decided to paddle out.
I stayed behind to catch some sun. Unfortunately the clouds came out and the wind picked up, so I shivered for the entire hour. While I was shivering, a pelican landed about eight feet away from me.
So that was pretty cool.
Friday 3/19/10: Badfish concert, House of Blues in Orlando. Badfish is a Sublime tribute band. If you close your eyes while they’re playing, it almost sounds like Bradley Nowell is up on stage singing his heart out. What an awesome experience.
Near the end of the concert, the lead singer, Pat Downes, walked off the stage. Just when everyone was like what the fuck, Downes rolled on stage in this contraption:
I found out later that it’s called a Zorb. If you have $1300 lying around and would like to purchase me one, that would be fantastic.
Saturday 3/20/10: Oz, his cousin Terry and I headed to down Jupiter, FL (about an hour south of Melbourne) where Terry lives. For the next couple of days it was fish city.
First catch of the day: Oz caught a little puffer fish. It was cool because you could hear the fish make little sucking sounds while he puffed up to ward off the predators (us).
Second catch: Terry and his beautiful red snapper.
Shortly after, Oz reeled in a little sting ray. The ray was pissed and was whipping that tail around left and right. [Insert Steve Irwin joke here.] To unhook him, we had to pin his barb down with a broom. He was happy to be back in the water after that ordeal.
The next day, I caught what the boys thought was a perch. I really have no idea what it was but it was fun to catch.
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I hope you enjoyed my adventures. It’s sad to think that now that I’m graduating college I’ll never have another Spring break again!
It took me forever to come up with a URL for this blog.
I really wanted it to be “scarletbegonias” named after the Grateful Dead and Sublime songs, but there’s a Deadhead librarian in Norwich, Vermont who’s already got it. Props to you. I then went on to think of other songs that I love, like Tangerine by Led Zeppelin, but alas, it was also taken. I went through a number of other song titles and they were all taken, so I decided to type in the first random thing that came to mind: friedsnickers.
And then, before God and the entire WordPress community, it was born.
Yes, you read it right: fried snickers. The delicious treat that you get at fairs and carnivals that looks suspiciously like a deep fried turd.
