He gets a visit from his grandfather who begins to train him to become a master of disguise.

[jackshoegazer]

Did today even happen?  Was I there?  How is Friday over already?

Let me give you the rundown...

Eight and a half hours of sleep, then six hours of work, then bank errands and phone talking and then Ethan arriving and then dinner having and then Ferris Bueler's Day Off watching and then Power Point playing and then good night saying and now LiveJournal typing.

And then...

NO AND THEN!

My good friend Mitch from Ecstatic Productions and Chris from Outlawed Productions both called me today to ask me if I'd do a pre-flyer and then a large, main-flyer for a Labor Day camp-out rave called Even Closer, a parody/homage to the infamous Drop Bass annual summer camp-out, Even Furthur, the last of which took place in 2001.  Can you say holy-grammatically-correct run-on-sentence, Batman?

Yes, Robin, I can.  "Holy-grammatically-correct run-on-sentence."

Wait, let me get a glass of water.  Hold on a second...  Ok, that's better.  Water is good, dehydration is bad.

Speaking of raves... some of you may have seen this picture before, some may not.  It is of me with my friend Jana at Rave 'Em & Bail-E 3 in July of 1999, at the height of my raving career.  Compare that to this picture which was taken on May 30th of this year.  Almost seven years separate these two snapshots of my life, but you would never guess they were even of the same person.  Hell, compare both of them to this picture from my junior year in high school, way back in ancient 1993, a massive gap of six years before the raver picture.

One might say I like to reinvent myself.

Comments

[holographia.livejournal.com]

"pfftt! how much can a guy reinvent himself??" i thought. well color me impressed! if i saw those three pics out of context i would never guess they were all the same person.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

I've always thought if I was on the run from some evil government agency or mafia-type establishment, I would be a great master of disguise.

[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

I wonder where you'll be next? So long as it doesn't involve wifebeaters (even if ironically) I think that'd be ok.

I wish I had more photos in my life. I feel like so much is lost. I guess it's a good thing I have a good memory. Now that I've promised myself to take more photos as a New Year's resolution, one camera gets stolen and the other breaks.

I need to remedy that.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Read th other comments, I've mentioned where I'm going to be for awhile :)

We need a new camera. besides the one on my phone :P

[choogy.livejournal.com]

i'm dying, this is so good. the rave picture made me pee a little. the pacifier. oh god. i'm DYING. i'll have to upload jamie's senior picture so we can all laugh at him (he's wearing a stone washed denim button down shirt and rocking a FULL ON MULLET). i'll see if i can find some pics from my very brief goth phase. (ie: no chance in hell)

where J will go next: sensitive indie rocker or "sad bearded bastard" (same difference) once we get this mix tape exchange goin on!

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

My sophmore year picture, I've got the remnants of what could be described as a mullet, though I didn't know what a mullet was back then. I was just trying to let my hair grow out :P

I'm glad you got so much enjoyment out of this :) Sorry I made you pee.

I'm thinking I'm going to stick with the aging hipster/mod record store owner look, because it allows me to give homage to my grunge and raver roots while still appearing modern and hip yet avantgard :/

[kiwikat.livejournal.com]

i still can't believe with ll the photos you've shown me that they're all actually YOU. you're a shapeshifter. don't steal my babies you evil shapeshifting demon!

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

You don't have babies, dummy.

[kiwikat.livejournal.com]

then don't steal my EVENTUAL children, mr nitpicky s. poopypants.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Ah, thank you for being more specific!

But I have my own kid, so I won't want yours.

Maybe cookies. I'll be a demonic cookie snatcher.

[kiwikat.livejournal.com]

changlings don't take your kids to raise them. they steal your baby and leave him in the woods and take the baby's place and get pampered and raised and such while pretending to be the baby.

i want to raise my baby, not you. no offense.

cookies die horrible horrible deaths.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

It won't work since thee aliens stole the real Jeremy when he was a baby and replaced him with me. It's like Changeling UNion Code, you can't be changed twice.

[kiwikat.livejournal.com]

zat so? i'm going to have to file a complaint with the local chapter, i been a poet a pauper a prince a begger a kid and a king *singin'* but that's liffffeeeeee......

did you ever see that episode of family matters? laura is having a dream that steve urkel built an atomic bomb for the science fair and they're all about to die and her family starts singing and dancing to that song instead of running for their lives. good stuff.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

I *never* watched Family Matters.

[kiwikat.livejournal.com]

FREAK!

T.G.I.F. night was a very big deal at my school. if you didn't watch you were tres nerdy.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

I daw a commercial once and realized I never wanted to watch it. Of course, I often go through 5 year periods without watching TV.

[kiwikat.livejournal.com]

you're probably better off. i look back on those shows now and i CRINGE.

[mananath.livejournal.com]

Is that a lizard/dragon on your shirt in Junoir year? Or an ominous shadow?

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

No, actually it was a blue tie-dye stripy thing. Yeah, touch of hippy that year.

[gutzilla.livejournal.com]

The next step is huge white beard with dreadlocks. Get started on that.

[pedero.livejournal.com]

Agreed.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Uh, nooo. I think I'm going to stick with the aging hipster/mod recordstor owner thing for while. It allows me to wear clothing the gives hints of both my raver and grunge past and yet appear modern and hip, yet avantegard.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

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