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12/30 & 12/31/02 - NEW YORK CITY & NEW YEARS EVE!!!!!!!!

Oh my gosh, so this has been the most anticipated trip of my life. On the 29th around noon, Sean and I started our 17 hour journey on the way to New York. We drove all night, I got pulled off at about 3am and got a speeding ticket for 15 over. We finally rolled into NYC at about 10am. We spent all day walking around NYC, seeing the sights. At night we met up w/ Ann Lynch and walked around with her and her friend from California, becuase what is a trip if you don't see another person from Valley!? The first night there we checked out Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, This was show number 3 or 4 for him I beleive. It was at BB King's restaurant/night club which was a beautiful place. I went there by myself, while Sean tried to make arrangements for a place to sleep, since he fell through of course on that.. so at this point we had no place to stay. But I met some other people who went to the university of iowa and I chatted with them while DJ Z-Trip sucked balls on stage and made the place feel like I was at a Jr. High mixer with all the bullshit music he mixed. But finally Karl D. came on and blew the place apart, there were a lot of cool people there, drinks were $6 a beer and $8 a mixed drink... so I think Sean and I dropped about $50 bucks apeice collectively. This person who I was talking too at the end of the show invited us to come along for more drinks after the show, which I would have loved to go, but mr. party sean corbut was too tired so I had to decline...while I had already told them okay and we were on the way to the bar... thanks sean. So I suggested we go get our car and move it, since it was parked on the street. Sean said he'd get it in the morning, and in the morning it was towed. Great, so I slept in our HOSTILE which is the place Sean found for us to sleep.. and if you don't know what a hostile is.. well it's like a dorm, w/ about 80 rooms on a floor, the only thing in their is 2 small beds..and that's it.. it's seriously about the size of a closet. Maybe 5x5ft. Plus their are no ceilings, each room is connected by a tiny wall so you can hear everything that's going on. But whatever I was pretty drunk and fell right asleep, and let Sean work on the towed car situation ($185) in the morning..

So finally it was New Years Eve and I met up with Sean and we went to Madison Square Garden at about noon.. to try and find Phish tickets, the reason why we were here.. Already at NOON, their were TONS of ticketless people their trying to score tickets for Phish. My hopes were soon diminished and I quit caring so we got out of there. So we spent the day again walking around New York City blah blah blah.. Nighttime rolled around, and we got all dressed up and decided to give it one last try for tickets for Phish. BUT FIRST we had to hit up a liquor store and we bought 2 750's of Rum. We bought 2 7-ups, split 1 bottle between the two of us, and made our way back to the Garden... There were so many people their it was RIDICULOUS! Holy shit, there were thousands of people there, I'm sure their was a whole unit of police just around here alone. It was insane, Sean and I didn't even try to get tickets.. we stood across the street and drank and watched the madness going on... oh man, everytime the crowd cheered I got goosebumps, I think i stood their for about 15 minutes w/o moving just staring.. finally I couldnt take it, we decided to go hit up Times Square for NYE and have a blast... so we walked.. but their were so many people there Times Square was backed up to 56th street.. Where the ball drops is about 42nd st.. So we were like fuck that, what's the point of being a mile away. We passed Tobacco Road, the bar we would have gone to the night before and decided to check it out.. Psychedlic Breakfast was playing there for NYE and I had heard of them so we decided to check them out. I still had the other bottle of rum in my jacket too. So Sean went to the bar, and I ordered a coke, went into the bathroom and made my own drink. I came out of the bathroom and the opening band just went into Eyes Of The World. That pumped me up, there were only about 20 people in their watching them, and I was the only kid dancing in there. The band who opened, A440, kicked ass.. Very Talented.. I finished my coke and went to get another one, while I was waiting for the bathroom I started talking to these girls, and one of them said that their friend the other room thought I was cute and a good dancer, so I was like great!! I want to meet her! but first I have to goto the bathroom... so i went to the bathroom and made myself another drink, I ended up drinking the entire bottle of captain with 3 cokes. So I came out, met her friend and what not, and convinced her and her friend to take Tequila shots with me :) NOWW I was pretty drunk and things get fuzzy. Psychedelic Breakfast went on stage at midnight, they showed the ball drop, they played Auld Lang Syne, and hugs went all around. It was awesome, at some point I talked to the guitarist for A440 and told him i was from Iowa and came to see Phish blah blah, and he gave me a free cd of their band! Then the DJ who was spinning came up and the 3 of us talked about music for quite awhile. Mr. party sean ended up going home at 2am, so I was partying in their by myself for the rest of the night. I was a mess, I ended up takning a cab home at what was probably 4am, and apparently when I got back to the hostile, I busted into the room yelling and hollering about how great it was, and he said that I woke everybody up around us, cuz you could hear all the shuffling and whispering now going on in other rooms... sorry. Either way though, New York was a success and the next day we drove to Virginia for the real fun.

12/30/02

-Seans friends from Ohio -Sean squeezing that guys balls. -Times Square By day - Times square by night - I tried to get the statue, the tree, and the top of rockefeller center all in one shot!