My Hollywood

Today was a good day. Well then again so was last night, especially because of my friend Michelle. Michelle is a friend I met at a Souls' show last November in New York City, she's a student-teaching, punk rocking, hockey playing Long Island girl. We have what we've determined to call "B.F.F.P." which stands for "Best Friends Forever Potential". She's a cool person. Well, we wound up talking for like an hour last night on the phone and she has an uncanny ability to make me laugh about the most random shit. She had to go through something that absolutely no one deserves, she lost one of her friends in a car accident way before his time. She talked about him and he must have been one hell of a good guy because this past weekend Michelle and her friends through the second annual Jared Fest on Long Island, using the money earned towards a music scholarship for a student on the Island. It blew me away, it just made me think that God-forbid anything like that happened to me or someone I knew, I just want to be remembered the way that she remembers him. It makes you think about life and it's unpredictability. Think about Andrew Larchman in Garden State: "it's amazing how much of my life has been determined by a quarter-inch piece of plastic". Jared passed before his time but Michelle told me about his love of music and how many peoples' lives he has effected both through that and through his friendship. Living life in music I believe is one way of living life to it's absolute fullest, and I think that's what we all want, right? We hung up around 5 and I fell asleep in my bed.

I woke up today and felt like crap and along with Charlie Meluso decided that the best way to treat a sick body is to stuff it with some extremely unhealthy food. We headed off to Checkers in Jersey City where I had my usual #1 Nascar Combo which is a large fries and coke with a triple cheeseburger with a ton of toppings and condiments along with a chili-cheeseburger. We ate in Lincoln Park while listening to Jay-Z and felt tough.

On the drive back to the house my ticket rep Suzanne called me and asked if I wanted a sweet seat for the game tonight so I obliged naturally. I was pretty stoked for the game tonight and it lived up to the hype. If you haven't seen Lebron James play in person you are missing something. Even watching him in shooting practice you can just see the talent. During shoot around Mikki Moore of the Nets was nice enough to sign about 100 autographs for absolutely everyone that asked for one, including me. Really nice guy too and his hair is cool as hell. After warmups Chubby Checker sang the National Anthem and they tipped off the game. In the first minute Larry Hughes tossed up a sick ollie-oop to Lebron which will definitely be on Sportscenter tonight. Four minutes into the first quarter who walks in the arena but Jay-Z and Beyonce,who drew a solid ovation from our section. Ok, another thing, if you haven't seen Beyonce Knowles in person than you are really missing something. I looked at Jay-Z and for the first time since I met Mark Hoppus and Tom Delonge my freshman year of high school, I was actually star-shocked. I was just thinking "damn, that's fucking Jay, H to the OV, he used to move snowflakes by the O. Z.". He sat courtside and it was awesome to see how these huge NBA stars would walk over and need to shake his hand. During three straight foul shots in the third him, Vince and Lebron were just talking...imagine their combined wealth. The game was amazing, it went back and forth. In the second quarter Ciara and Missy Elliot walked in and it suddenly felt like the Source awards, well what I imagine the Source awards would be like. Totally awesome. I left out that the NBA presented Jason Kidd with a plaque and artwork before tipoff to recognize him moving into third place on the all-time NBA triple-double list and that was awesome to see. I guess it's so cool to me because I see these players in person more than I see most of my friends. These games have been so much fun, amazing investment...

"It's good for your soul to invest in something you can't control".

The game came down to the final second as Lebron in the fourth was almost unstoppable but not enough to topple huge performances by the entire Net team. Every player got involved, especially the bench. At that game I felt like I really was at the place to be, as really childish as that might sound it was so much of a show tonight. It was the best game I've been to thus far, in any sport. Thank you Suzanne.

Afterwards I met up with Liz and Nora at the diner and we drank coffee and ate french fries which was...interesting.

I hate going to sleep knowing that I have to work the next day. It makes me want to stay up and write forever while listening to the new Bloc Party record because it is really good and it's setting the tone right now. I'm going to wrap it up and watch a movie because I'm getting started early on resolutions.