Roasted, Toasted and Burnt to a Crisp, Thank You Bobby Budnick.
Since the rest of the samurai are here in the DC area, I've been trying to see them all at some point before the trip back to Atlanta. So after the initial plans were laid out, a chain of emails began that quickly evolved into everyone reminiscing about the high school and college days. I miss these guys terribly...they are my best friends for life. And what is this site if not an archive for the band? So here are a few choice quotes from the 25 or so messages that have been sent in the last week:
"A little frisbee golf at Burke Lake sounds great. I got some discs a few weeks ago and found a little park right near Jeff and I that has a nine hole course. And maybe after we could go see the Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants? Ehh?"
"hmmm, I say it's a toss up between The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants or the Perfect Man starring Heather Locklear and Hilary Duff. I think we all know the answer to this one...BOTH!"
"oh and by the way, everytime I see the trailer for War of the Worlds, I think of that movie Gone Fishin' starring acclaimed actors Joe Pesci and Danny Glover with one critic noting that "You'll laugh your bass off!"
"do you remember the time when we made "smiling eugena" snowman in the werners front yard, which consisted of american cheese eyeballs that i'm pretty sure were pecked away by birds? that too, was quite entertaining."
"andrew, remember that time when you tried to fight me when we were playing basketball at your parents house. then all of a sudden will ferrell was walking down the private driveway and andrew's like "oh dude, its cool its cool" haha. in addition, remember that time sarah was wearing that vest and you told her she looked like marty mcfly and "it doesnt matter buttons"."
"dave, remember when jeff and i came up to baltimore and we went to that TFA party and jeff and i ruled the table at beer pong and you ate an ENTIRE chocolate cake. jeff and i were trying to hide the cake from you, we actually put it on top of the cupboard so you couldnt find it, but alas, it didnt slow you down. in addition, remember that one time in ms. thawley's pre-algebra class when we passed a note around to the entire class when we had a substitute teacher and orchestrated everyone dropping their huge textbooks at the same time. haha, that was awesome. donald sohn, aka frogvoice was in that class too."
"Don, yes I do remember how excited we were about our first day at college and how much fun we had. I also remember your character, The Artist fomerly known as Everlast, who was comprised of vintage headphones with neckties hanging on both ears, a 3.5" floppy disk stuck in between your sunglasses, and all other sorts of crazy crap on your face. I'm laughing out loud as we speak."
"Jeff, remember that concert we went to, it was either oasis or stone temple pilots and I got totally rocked and my glasses broke, but I said they were fine, but when I put them on my face that were all messed up. I think I had to use electric tape to keep them together."
"Dave, remember when you me and andrew went exploring into deep depth woods of what we refer to as "burke." I still remember we were throwing rocks at lead pipes and made sparks and thought that was the coolest thing. And then we tried throwing rocks at another piece of rock that was on the other side of the lake trying to knock it down, but all we did was get more rocks stuck in the mud, and when we came back we were all muddy, and I think your mom made us crab cakes with pepsi. that was good. Also, remember we played tron on that playground of yours and then we all got scared of you cause you were giving us a pep talk about going to war acting like a drill sergeant. That was awesome. And don't forget the richie petibon brian shea game."
"Don, remember when in Baltimore, that night where we ran the beer pong table, taking shots, with side sippers, drinking all beers before shooting, and you declaring, "That's right! He's calculating his shot!" as I hit the last cup right in the dude's face...we were running around in the scary dirt basement of Dave's house, and I fell down, then proceeded to run around tracking dirt all over the house...we were the coolest and meanest guests in B-more that night."
"Don, 2 words (actually one's a number) Pacman, 219,400."
"Speaking of Tower Records, Eugene, do you remember when I ran into some really hot girl from school and you came over with the Indian in the Cupboard soundtrack and handed it to me saying "Hey I found that CD you were looking for". Beautiful. I also remember Eugene playing more Redneck Rampage than bass while recording our CD."
"Speaking of replacement killers, Don, I seem to remember whooping you in the front lawn of my parents' house. I also remember playing that Indiana Jones game for hours making sure to save snoopies and poopies every so often (savee votre) and never forgetting our good friend ronjomp. I also remember Don's room in 891G that I stayed in the summer before it burned down and how it had a blacklight poster with a butterfly that would totally creep me out when I was trying to sleep."
"Speaking of turtles, I remember betting a kid in third grade that Dave could draw a better picture of Leonardo from TMNT than his brother. I took a drawing of Dave's and let's just say that a jury of my peers agreed that the kid had to give me his tater tots for lunch. I remember vowing to name my first child megaweapon and if the apocolypse ever came, deciding I would walk around naked with a Terminator 2 Big Gulp cup and put bricks on cars' accelerators and watch them fly down the highway. I remember watching in awe as Dave beat Super Bases Loaded 4 by playing a perfect game as the Los Angeles Lizards. I'm still convinced he's the only person who has ever done that."
"Remember when I thought a really great band name would be "Good Times Had by Paul?" Obviously substituting "Paul" for "All"... the only problem was that we didn't have anyone named Paul in our band..."
Thursday, June 23 at 10:12 PM
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