Monthly Archive for December, 2004

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12 Bars of Christmas Charity Pub Crawl

We par­tic­i­pated in the 12 Bars of Christ­mas Char­ity Pub Crawl in Boston last night, with dona­tions going to the New Eng­land Center for Chil­dren and the Boston Med­ical Chil­dren with AIDS Program.

Ned & Presley

I feel a bit guilty claim­ing this was for char­ity, since all we did was drink heav­ily, over and 8-hour day, in a pack of Santa-​hat wear­ing revelers… but, we did had a lot of fun with Jason, Kim, Casey, Jess, and the rest of the pack. Thanks to Autumn, for organizing.

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Gigantic

“Gigantic”, posted by nedward

The Pixies were inspiring… really, I’m amazed.

This is one of the bands that I lis­tened to high school, and still listen to ten years later. Surfer Rosa was recorded at Q-Division, which once employed both my girl­friend, and my best friend. So, nat­u­rally, it meant a great deal to me to finally see the band live.

The crowd in Amherst was rau­cous, (but totally under­age — damn all-​ages show). Pres­ley, Nobuko, Lind­sey and I had a good time fight­ing off the kids and their “dancing”, despite the ban on beer sales inside the arena.

Wednes­day night, in Lowell, was a bit different… we had 4 tick­ets, but I couldn’t have given them away. Pres­ley had class, and Tbone bailed because of ill­ness. Sadly, not what we expected.

Luck­ily, I made a new friend at work this past week, Stef, who came along. She had seen the Pixies in Europe back in the day, so I think she was as excited as I was. After get­ting lost sev­eral times in the hin­ter­lands of Lowell, being unable to sell the extra tick­ets, and get­ting stuck in the park­ing garage for 90 min­utes with­out moving, you might say it was an adventure.

But the music was the most impor­tant thing. Seeing Frank Black and Kim Deal sing together, hear­ing Joey riff the solo to Hey… wow.

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