Jupiter One

January 25, 2009

Charleston, SC

January 17th - The Tin Roof

Hey Girls and Boys! Panda Bear at the helm today... we just woke up at Margo and Iceman's in Richmond and after some serious bloody mary brunch hanging I'm going to report the events of Charleston, SC. Sit back and relax... this is going to take a minute...

We drove from Jacksonville after some coffee with Kevin and Gina. We got to drive over this bridge! Three times! (Ol' Zac forgot his coat.)

There were these smoking towers. Terrifying. Looks like where Homer Simpson works.

Anyway... I'm very serious on this drive because there's a very serious hang on the horizon. I don't want to be late. Pedal to the metal, BLAZE! (Dave loves when I drive fast.)

K doesn't .

FINALLY! We reached our destination. Charleston, SC. The home of my A1-ALL-TIME-MAN-OF-ALL-TIME!!! RICKY HACKER!! (applause)

Allow me to pause for a second and describe the nature of my relationship with Ricky Hacker. There's a moment that happens sometimes, a glimpse of common purpose shared between two souls... it doesn't happen to ALL buds when they meet, but when it does you just know... ya know?! And so it was with Ricky and I. Grand Theft Auto. We forged our friendship out of solid steel while pushing my mother's car out of the driveway at age 15 and, without hesitation, driving it to a party at a college 50 miles away. My mom never knew... until NOW! (sorry mom.) Between then and now there have been various car wrecks, rock concerts, road trips... I mean, I was best man at his wedding fer chrissakes. There's a lot to say, but I'll spare you. Just understand this... I was ready to get down with the ol' boy in Charleston ASAP. Back to reality:

We made it to Ricky's restaurant, the famous EVO Pizza in North Charleston, he fed us some SERIOUS food. He's got a wood fired pizza oven and uses only local ingredients. If you're ever in Charleston hit it up. Its really delicious. Dave's buddy Sean was there. We got to try almost everything on the menu...

but everything comes with a price...

Afterwards we took some glamour shots with various vehicles.

Ricky with the EVO Mobile

Dave and the BLAZE'S Grandpappy

Zac and the BLAZE

Me and Lil Pup

K making this poor Minivan feel used

Off to the show!

We had a blast! Thanks to Matt Welch, Lauren, Brendan, all the EVO Folks, Elana Hacker: Queen of the Angels, Sean, Jessica, Charleston Symphony, and everybody else that made the trip! We rocked it out until they threw us on the pavement. Dave and K went to Sean and Jessica's.

Zac and I went to Ricky's and prepared for a Solid Sunday.

-pjd

January 24, 2009

Jacksonville, FL

January 16th @ Club TSI
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So I'm a bit behind and the details are fuzzy, but here's what I remember. On the way to Jacksonville Pat got all hi-Tech Lo-Tech by creating a short film based on an answering machine message I had gotten.

It's called "hahahahahaha"

We hung around a Vintage shop called The Warehouse all day and met some really nice people. We didn't find any jeans (the one pair we each wear everyday are starting to wither away) so we went to the club for load in. We had some time afterwards and peggy gave us free movie passes so we went to see The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

Review: 3 thumbs DOWN; 1 thumb UP.

We went back to TSI where we found Kimmy, Georgine, and Peter. Pat gave Kimmy the camera to document the evening...

PBRs that night were on ly a penny. 1 cent. crazy!

I don't even drink beer but i had a ceremonial sip with Pat just to celebrate the thrifty beverage

Here's Pat asking me to grab his penny PBR off the monitor for him....

We all had a good time watching Eugene open the night. They also let K use their guitar when he broke a string. All the pics you see were taken by Kimmy and her friends....thanks guys :)