Neighbors

Ok, so I'm almost positive we know some of the same people. The east side is like a small town. Everybody knows everybody.

 

To be honest, I never lived there but I've spent a lot of time there hanging out and playing music. My parents bought that house after I was already grown up and on my own. So...maybe we do know some of the same people. I'm sure we know some of the same people on the music scene.

 

I'm sure you would recognize a few names if I threw them out there. People that I haven't seen or spoken to in years. I haven't gone to local shows for a long time but I know some of them still play shows around the area. That is if you know anybody in the skate punk scene.

 

Yeah...I was going to throw a few names out there but decided not to put them online...plus...some people I've known forever and I'm still not even sure what their real names are. But I've been on the DSM scene for a very long time and if I don't know them...my son probably does. We both play a lot of East Village shows, Court Ave, etc.

 

Sorry about that threadjack btw. Just kind of moved that direction.

 

haha. Don't know their real names. Chances are we do know the same people. Do you know someone with the "last name" Chaos? I'll have to PM you and we can discuss names.

 

I came home from the bar one night, about 3 am on the first night of living in the apartment I'm at now. Not thinking, I opened another beer and plugged in my bass. I was playing loudly for 2 or 3 minutes before I heard a knock on my door. I was like, "fuck, this is not the way I want to meet my new neighbors, I should have turned it down."

I opened the door expecting to see a passed off neighbor is pajamas. Instead, I saw a big burley man with a guitar in one hand and a six pack in the other. We ended up jamming till sunrise .

A few nights later we jammed again, and the downstairs neighbor ended up coming over with some grass.

I have cool neighbors.

 

I like that you called it grass. Also, your neighbours sound awesome.

 

They sound grass-fed.

 

Heh, you're on a bit of a Big Lebowski kick today!

 

And I haven't watched it in a year or so. Still can dream the whole movie

 

Pfff, that's nothin'

In some areas of So. Cal where I live you have entire neighborhoods who go absolutely ape-shit crazy and competitive with this shit.
You also have many, many "boat parades" and house boat decorating contests and shit here.
For a while I was the Asst. Manager for a drug-store near a one of these rich, coastal communities and we would get two truck trailers full of decorations over what we normally received. We sold out every year.
It was common to have someone come in and drop $1000 on decorations and another $1000 on booze at one time in that neighborhood.
(got nice fat bonuses' when I worked there)
Heck there are people on my street that I swear you can see their house from the moon during the holidays it's so lit up.

 

Your drug stores sell booze?

 

Listerine is just like Absinth if you drink enough of it.. :mickey:

 

as long as you have a liquor license, ANYONE can sell booze just about ANYWHERE.

As a matter of fact recently talking to the guy who owns the local laundromat (our washer is broken ) I asked him why he doesn't put vending machines in there. He said because of contract with the property management company he can't sell any type of food items, BUT he could get a liquor license and sell beer if he wanted too, he actually considered it.

 

that's weird. here, anywhere with a pharmacy is not allowed to sell tobacco products. booze is only sold in licensed restaurants/bars and at the lcbo (liquor control board of ontario) and the beer store (which is owned by 3 of the giant corporate brewers). there has been a push lately to allow beer and wine to be sold in corner stores, and it seems to have pretty wide support.

 

A laundromat with beer kinda sounds like the best business venture ever. I'd call it Suds.

 

You could sell fries as well, and then call it Suds n Spuds

 

My famous curly fries, of course.