rned alot about festival planning. the raft of severe storms that rolled through at night, however, sort of turned the evening portion into a bust. we ran two concessions stands (pizza and pulled pork nachos) and ended up with a lot of food left over, as the band didn't end up playing until three hours late and most of the crowd had dispersed. anyway, it was still a bunch of fun and i was once again lucky enough to get to be around some of my favorite people in the world, with whom i'm also lucky enough to work. the plush animals in the picture are courtesy of jess andjeski, spice of life's event planner extraordinaire. apparently, jess possesses the splendidly useless, but endlessly entertaining ability to conquer big choice games...you know, the ones with the little crain that you control to pick up toys and gifts out of a glass box. she wins almost every time and once even emptied out an entire machine just to see if she could. at any rate, for less than a couple of dollars she won all of the little friends that you see in the picture. clearly they were thirsty after spending all of that time trapped in an arcade game. personally, i think the world becomes a better place when filled with people who have awesome, amusing skills with no real-world applications. yay jess!!!! by the way, the title of this post is an allusion to "lush life", the great jazz vocal standard about lost love, a wasted life, and too much drinking written by billy strayhorn when he was only eighteen and, apparently, wise well beyond his years. the polychromatic mouse that you see finishing off my vodka and soda threw up only moments after this shot was taken and then borrowed my phone to drunk-dial the stuffed monkey that he'd been dating prior to being trapped in the game. we think that the dragon and the yellow rabbit left together, but no one can be sure.
Monday, August 11, 2008
plush life
i took this picture at the harbor inn (my favorite dive bar in cleveland) on saturday as we all sat around soaking wet after spice of life's all-day gig at burning river fest. it was a good day and i think ben lea
rned alot about festival planning. the raft of severe storms that rolled through at night, however, sort of turned the evening portion into a bust. we ran two concessions stands (pizza and pulled pork nachos) and ended up with a lot of food left over, as the band didn't end up playing until three hours late and most of the crowd had dispersed. anyway, it was still a bunch of fun and i was once again lucky enough to get to be around some of my favorite people in the world, with whom i'm also lucky enough to work. the plush animals in the picture are courtesy of jess andjeski, spice of life's event planner extraordinaire. apparently, jess possesses the splendidly useless, but endlessly entertaining ability to conquer big choice games...you know, the ones with the little crain that you control to pick up toys and gifts out of a glass box. she wins almost every time and once even emptied out an entire machine just to see if she could. at any rate, for less than a couple of dollars she won all of the little friends that you see in the picture. clearly they were thirsty after spending all of that time trapped in an arcade game. personally, i think the world becomes a better place when filled with people who have awesome, amusing skills with no real-world applications. yay jess!!!! by the way, the title of this post is an allusion to "lush life", the great jazz vocal standard about lost love, a wasted life, and too much drinking written by billy strayhorn when he was only eighteen and, apparently, wise well beyond his years. the polychromatic mouse that you see finishing off my vodka and soda threw up only moments after this shot was taken and then borrowed my phone to drunk-dial the stuffed monkey that he'd been dating prior to being trapped in the game. we think that the dragon and the yellow rabbit left together, but no one can be sure.
rned alot about festival planning. the raft of severe storms that rolled through at night, however, sort of turned the evening portion into a bust. we ran two concessions stands (pizza and pulled pork nachos) and ended up with a lot of food left over, as the band didn't end up playing until three hours late and most of the crowd had dispersed. anyway, it was still a bunch of fun and i was once again lucky enough to get to be around some of my favorite people in the world, with whom i'm also lucky enough to work. the plush animals in the picture are courtesy of jess andjeski, spice of life's event planner extraordinaire. apparently, jess possesses the splendidly useless, but endlessly entertaining ability to conquer big choice games...you know, the ones with the little crain that you control to pick up toys and gifts out of a glass box. she wins almost every time and once even emptied out an entire machine just to see if she could. at any rate, for less than a couple of dollars she won all of the little friends that you see in the picture. clearly they were thirsty after spending all of that time trapped in an arcade game. personally, i think the world becomes a better place when filled with people who have awesome, amusing skills with no real-world applications. yay jess!!!! by the way, the title of this post is an allusion to "lush life", the great jazz vocal standard about lost love, a wasted life, and too much drinking written by billy strayhorn when he was only eighteen and, apparently, wise well beyond his years. the polychromatic mouse that you see finishing off my vodka and soda threw up only moments after this shot was taken and then borrowed my phone to drunk-dial the stuffed monkey that he'd been dating prior to being trapped in the game. we think that the dragon and the yellow rabbit left together, but no one can be sure.
