my black friend aj and other things that happened over the weekend

the weekend was more busy than it should have been and i've delayed writing anything about it till now.

saturday i drove to travis' house in provo. we went to graywhale where travis traded in some records for the led zeppelin mothership box. we ate at taco bell where we met a black guy named aj who works there, he gave us free food and hung out with us while we ate and later asked if we would buy him some kools because he didn't have an id or money a bit of a hustle i suppose. he seemed like a nice guy though and said we should drop by and hang out at muse a local venue later. when we stopped at stogies for the kools i decided to buy a corn cobb pipe and some pipe tobacco for the evening. we went back to travis' house after dropping off the kool's to our black friend aj and listened to the led zeppelin box and smoked some tobacco.

later we went to the d.i. and smith's so travis could get some food to last him the rest of the week he'll be living there, he's moving on sunday to my town, pleasant grove. i'll barely have a reason to drive to provo anymore. less driving with gas prices the way they are is always a good thing. we also got a six pack of devastators from the liqueur store.

back at his house we got drunk while listening to the beatles and the microphones, and earlier in the day travis sold me it was hot we stayed in the water by the microphones for $20. after we were drunk we decided to see if we could find our black friend aj and see what was happening at muse. nothing was going on and we thought maybe we imagined aj, i started feeling sick from possibly too much taco bell and described it as a pirate ship attack by a cracken in my stomach. we walked back and after i felt better and more sober around 1:30 am i drove home and went to bed.

sunday i figured i would wake up late and spend the day watching movies. instead alex woke me with a phone call requesting travis and i come to salt lake again and watch movies all day even though we were already up there that friday. i agreed since that was pretty much my plan anyway and alex has a blue ray player and a big flat screed hdtv and i've never watched movies in blue ray before. so i called up travis who was not into it and convinced him, alex had already bothered him before he called me.

we met alex halfway to salt lake in draper, and he drove us the rest of the way to his house. once there we wasted enough time selecting two movies and deciding where and what pizza to get. we ended up individually purchasing large pizzas at a near by health food store, alex is ridiculous about health food.

back at alex's we ate our pizzas and watched the two movies we picked out. flatliners, a 90's movie starring kevin bacon, julia roberts and kiefer sutherland about saying you're sorry and all the boys love mandy lane, a teen slasher that was pretty good.

after the movies alex took us back to my car, he also let me borrow four david cronenberg movies, crash, eXistenZ, videodrome, and spider. i watched crash last night, starring james spader. the actors were all emotionless and had lots of sex whilst being obsessed with car crashes and injuries, i liked it.

i didn't do much on monday. i went to work and later i went to graywhale to trade in some records, i got underground, private collection vol. 1 by phil keaggy, songs of leonard cohen by leonard cohen, and take me to the sea by jaguar love with the credit.

jaguar love is the blood brothers new band, the blood brothers are pretty cool and i think take me to the sea is just as good as previous blood brothers albums. i ordered march on electric children on clear vinyl with black splatter from vinyl collective the other day. it shipped yesterday so it should arrive in the mail soon.

today i found out that two mount eerie records that i've been waiting on are now for sale at p.w. elverum & sun, ltd., lost wisdom w/ julie doiron and fred squire and dawn, an album of songs phil elverum recorded while living in a cabin in arctic norway during the winter of 2002/2003. i ordered both of them right away on my credit card because i didn't want to spend anymore than i already have. i'm a huge fan of phil elverum's music. i plan to see him play for the third time at kilby court in salt lake on the 4th of september with travis alex and some other friends 5 days before my birthday.