last night i went over to travis and lizzy’s house and we agreed that anytime you have the opportunity to drink anything that is cheaper than water you’re making a wise choice. as we watched ben harper: live from the hollywood bowl on dvd, i kept going on and on about how i was at that show with stonebraker and crew back in da’ day. i was spouting off like some kind of hollywood-bowl-concert-afficienado and just when i was out of stories, tim and brian came over and i got to re-tell each story with increasing levels of detail and clarity and there wasnt anything anyone could do about it.

tim decided he’d had enough of me being the center of attention so he told us about how he went on this mountain bike ride earlier and how they killed some rattlesnake with a metal post or something. the story was complete with details of decapitation, snake taunting and passive-agressive male-bonding. pfft…did they make a fuck dvd of your rattlesnake killing? no? well, they sure as hell made one of the concert i went to. game. set. match.

after everyone had told their best snake/concert stories we decided to brave the non-sense that has become downtown redlands. either i’m getting old or they’re letting high school kids in everywhere these days. (i fear the former.) lizzy and i sat at a beat up table and tore apart a bunch of these soaked, dilapidated, drink coasters and threw them into a big pile on the table while everyone got caught up on life and love.

we left the after-school hangout that has become redlands and walked over to see if we could get into see lizzy’s art exhibit. so we’re walking over there at two in the morning fully expecting to be able to walk right into the front door of the gallery and wax poetic about liz’s artwork. when we got the front door and found that they had been closed for like five hours we were shocked! luckily, we were with timmy and he told us that he had a key to the building but that he had left it at home. apparently all the snake-killing had made him a bit forgetful. so instead we walked out into the middle of the street and spotted a corner of one painting and started jumping around, desperate to see the corners of two paitings at one time. timmy started climbing up the side of this parking structure while travis explained the geometry required to view portions of both paintings at once. meanwhile, brian shook his head and wondered why he’d invested his friday night into our little group…

…but maybe you had to be there.