Friday, March 23, 2007

notes from the road...day twentyone



Lee and Nakita







us rock'n out. ba dum ch!
Our favorite donkey, Festus
Black Cat Flyer of Love


word. after our smash breakthrough in charlotte, we drove straight to selina's in boone, n.c. i slept on the way and then arrived and slept some more. when we woke up we took much needed showers and brushed our filthy scum covered teeth. when i (dan) flossed, the junk from in between smelled like poop. its embarrassing to tell but dammit this blog business is SERIOUS. so selina made us green pancakes with just the right amount of cinnamon, but held out on her real maple syrup cuz thats for her and her alone. are you ready for this? cuz things are bout to go down! alright, keep all this on the low, but selina's got the hookup at this mountain they got out here so we went. she takes care of animals there and we were going to visit those very animals. first we went to the peak of the mountain and listened to the carter family and crossed a really high bridge and blah blah blah BEARS, bitches! we fed bears. we crossed the invisible boundaries between bears and man with a spoonful of peanut butter. they love that stuff. also peanuts, raisins and cookies. in typical lee fashion, he mixed all his together, making a super sweet bear concoction that no bear could possibly resist. there were also baby bears that we couldn't feed cuz they gotta be kept scared 'o people. one of them scared me! i was leanin in all close like and he leaned forward all fast. my eyes got real big and my heart pounded a little. it was cooler than anything you've ever done. then we visited some of our otter friends, who were chillin out, swimmin, explorin and generally bein cute. also we saw nikita and aspen, two cougars that we were about to become friends with. we walked to this weird room with cages in it and selina opened a door to the cougar area. "Nikita!" she said, and whala! a 150 pound killing machine pounced in and started pacing back and forth. we stood there waiting for her to calm down a little and when she did, i started sneakin little touches of her feet and legs. she came around and let us all pet her. she was the cuddliest little killing machine! lee started petting her chin and neck and thats when she told us that thee makeout party is her favorite band, ever. when she purred it sounded like growling. we also made friends with a charming donkey named festus. that was cool but, you know, cuddling with bears and cougars is just, well... festus we love you. oh man though, bears and cougars. thats a party and a half. if you ever get the chance (and you won't) give a bear some peanut butter and just watch him go. so we left and tried to get some BBQ but both places were closed. they act like they're all about BBQ but they're only open fer the tourist season, boo! we had crappy hamburgers with even crappier lemonade and went to the record stores while alex caught yall up. i found a walter wanderly record (which rules hard) and 10cc and liza, sean got alice cooper's first, a peter pan bubblegum music record, the buckinghams and the mirrors but lee won with his purchase (sean's find) of the spongetones cd. 2 bucks and when we opened it, it was signed by the whole band. lee is gonna switch with sean when we get home cuz thats whats right, dammit. fat cat records hooked up the deals. we then headed over to black cat burritoes for a frustrating exercise called "find the mexican food at the burrito place in north carolina". there was none. what was on yours again alex? fuckin pineapple. they fed us and gave us beer but seriously, they should have at least one burrito at any burrito place. instead they had : the dont be a jerk-chicken shrimp pineapple jicima and our own jerk sauce and satay it to me softly-chicken tofu in a spinach wrap stuffed with carrots broccoli carmelized onions thai peanut sauce peanuts and mung sprouts. whats a mung sprout? they weren't that bad, we just wanted burritos. so i scooted my chair back a little and ended up falling down some stairs. we waited and waited for everyone to leave so we could play, but oddly enough, more people came! so we rocked down the house animal style in honor of our friends back on the mountain, and sold lotsa rekkids and badges. i think i musta been a lil bit tipsy cuz im blanking between loading out and getting to bed. lee tells me it took 2 minutes to get home and nothing happened, well that explains that. now we're sitting in the van driving to york pennsylvania talking bout girls we didn't sleep with. aren't we the sweetest?
currently listening: good golly miss molly (with snore accompaniment by brian)

All new pictures posted all da way back 2 day terteen.