"Max...She's My Rushmore"

Its been a few days since last post... i know...get over it! Pretty uneventful week. Did an English paper on monday and tuesday, and worked all week. We did, however, watch a different wes Anderson movie nearly every night. We went in reverse cronological order though...Darjeeling Limited, Life Aquatic, Royal Tenenbaums, and then, Rushmore. I love the way his movies are layed out; real dry, real colorful though with back drops, and clothing. And the characters...brilliant. its pretty much the same actors throughout all his movies, and in his newest, The Darjeeling limited, the opening sequence is Bill Murray running after the train, but in the end he doesnt catch it. Clever scene. Its as if he just missed the train to be in this movie. That's the only part he is in. Good movie week.

Thursday though...Thursday was a great day.
Woke up and drove to Pierport with Jessica. She took me to this amazing beach like two years ago, and we've found it hard to both have an entire day to do it again. Pierport is just past bear lake and down numerous dirt roads...she was driving. She used to go there with sasha and her mom when they were younger. Im glad...if i was we would have been lost real quick. It was like 80 out...a slight breeze...just beautiful. we were there for what we thought was 2 1/2 hours, but since we were right on the shoreline of lake michigan, our phones switched to Wisonsin time. So when we got up to leave at 1:52pm...it was actually 2:52pm...and i was due to be back in Mesick at 330 to meet Dave and Brian to go down to Grand Rapids and eat Ethiopian food with Throwdown, and see them, bury your dead, and the dillinger escape plan play. Pieport is 30 minutes from Mesick, and we hadnt even gotten lunch yet. A nice man on the beach told us about this awesome place in Onekama (go figure) called the Blue Slipper. Onekama was 4miles south of pierport. So we decided that i was already gonna be late, whats another 20 minutes? Possible the best decision we've made in a long time. the place doesnt look like much, but the food and atmosphere was awesome. there was one other couple in there with us, but that was it. Old nautical themed place, makes there own wine, and has quite a diverse menu. Heres our line up:

Roasted Tomatoe and Artichoke heart dip with homemade bagel chip things for App.
Loaf of Fresh bread
Jessica: Caeser Salad topped with a portobella mushroom cap
Me: Portobella Mushroom sandwhich with roasted reds peppers, lettuce, and 2 different kinds of cheese...with waffle fries...

Awesome lunch. We got out of there around 345. A text message was sent to alert the guys i would be late, but i didnt feel bad about it at all. We got back to Mesick at around 430. i grabbed my bag, shoes, and jumped cars.

"hey, lets meet at 3:30 today guys, blah blah blah" says dave and brian.

My reply?
"Listen, i don't know what you guys did today...probably worked, got off work early to get here by 330, whatever... I had a hard day today. My neck hurts from laying on a towel all day, and look...i still have sand on feet, so don't tell me about hard days, ok..."

They were over it on about 5 minutes.
We got to GR around 630, and went right to Little Africa to get food. We got 4 to-go containers full of food, and 4 large cups of the awesome tea they serve with there platters. One box for each of us, including ben, the drummer from throwdown, who invited us down for the show. We arrived at the venue, and sat in the equipment/merch trailer to eat. pretty sweet. Ben is one of the nicest dudes ive ever met...no joke. great guy. He even gave me the name of this cupcake joint he used to work at in Long Beach. He said to drop his name when i get there, and you better believe im going (www.frostedcupcakery.com).
The show was pretty good. Bury Your Dead was super sloppy, and weird sounding. not impressed. throwdown was super heavy and tight. it was cool to watch ben play. he is quite the show man, and would stand up and point at the crowd, and do as much interacting with the crowd as he could from behind the kit. it was really awesome, and he played super solid too. we got to help him tear down, and hang out outside with them after the set. DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN was fucking phenomenal. amazng show. the drummer (Gil Sharone), is my current favorite drummer...the one to watch right now. You can just tell when a drummer has it all together; technique, style, control, etc...he had it all. There is not one person in that band that is not at the top of there game. its insane music, and insane to watch live. Bravo...bravo indeed. I got to meet Gil afterwards too. great night.

we hung out afterwards for a bit, but the bands were all doing business, so we took off after a bit.
like i said...thursday was agreat day.

more to come later. adios.