Friday, June 16, 2006

Hillbilly Karma Sutra

Well this was more like it... The place was basically empty except for one tentative office/birthday party. Jimmy was firmly established behind the bar and there was no sign of trouble anywhere.

By the time The Alien arrived from his XBOX/DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION Installation, things were ready to leap out of the starting gate... for one rotation it was basically us, Matchbox Kenny and the most bold and dramatic of the office party. It was an easy, layed back vibe.

Too easy and layed back as it turns out because our apparent disregard for our lack of "singing" and "performance" ability emboldened the office party to flood Matchbox Kenny with a tsunami of requests. Effectively JAMMING us until 11pm.

Luckily Joe came in about that time with some Fun and Games in the form of Joe's childhood friends (and brothers!), Ebin and Asher. Just what our little party needed to bring it to that next level... Ebin coming from the Far East (Philippines) and Asher coming from the Nearer East (Hawaii), brought a much needed international perspective on the "performance" and the "drinking of shots and beers". Asher shared many of Ebin's unusual habits and predilections to all assembled for our collective entertainment, then graciously proceeded to knockover a HL and spill it down Ebin's back... Oh did we have a time.

As Minnesotans and as Brothers, these two are knaturals... Ebin even "left one on the table" when we hightailed it out of there around 11:30.

The Alien had a wonderful Idea... in order to Avoid the JAM we can put in slips with random names... That way he will not know who to JAMM. Assign any old name to each slip given to Matchbox... We were leaning in a CompLit direction by imagining names from Great and Obscure Books... I plan to use "Stephan Daedalus" at my earliest convenience.

Jimmy was in high spirits... relating to us that he had received his belt (the Hillbilly Karma Sutra one) from an acquaintance of his residing in "the Penitentiary". We immediately began to speculate and entertain ourselves with what practical purposes Jimmy applied his belt to.

THE LINE UP
The Alien: SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO (NOW)?, CITY OF NEW ORLEANS
Joe: STREETS OF BAKERSFIELD (duet with Chris)
Ebin: ALCOHOL AND CIGARETTES
Asher: (As designated driver, he chose to sit this one out)
Chris: THE WEIGHT, STREETS OF BAKERSFIELD (duet with Joe), LOVESICK BLUES

I will not be at K next R @ K's... I will be taking a vacation from "performing"
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