Here's some of my favorite things of 2003...please share yours

Sina as Courtney Love at the Halloween Acklen party
Snorting lines of cherry snuff in the bathroom with Keith, Mitch, Mark, and Joel
Drunken Paul putting a large dent in the bathroom wall with his head
Passing out on the Exit/In bathroom floor
Carl's birthday party
Features show at Bingham's apt
Rob Rickman Birthday Party Bonanza Extravaganza @ the Red Rose
Going on a date in Alabama with a Britney Spears look-alike
Older ladies...yeah
The birthing stages of paulpassesout.com
Finding an orange 1969 Dodge Charger in Hartsville and climbing through the window

Newlyweds
I Love the 80s
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
MLB Playoffs
Joe Schmoe
P. Diddy Runs the City
Reno 911

(Edited by richarddawson at 4:38 am on Nov. 21, 2003)

2003 Top 10:

10 Doing New Orleans for the first time
09 Discovering the Super Furry Animals
08 4th of July on the deck at Blightman's - the best ever!
07 The De Novo Dahl / Hot Pipes weekend in Johnson City
06 Seeing my dearest cousin Katherine get married
05 Seeing Blur at the Tabernacle
04 Winning $600 in an hour of blackjack at the Barbary Coast
03 Seeing Radiohead at Red Rocks - 4th row!
02 Any time I got to spend with J. Raymond
01 Seeing a newborn Bridget Isobel Ashworth for the first time

Normally, I wouldn't make a list like this until about mid-January, so I guess this is subject to change. We still have 40 days left!

(Edited by jamiecarroll at 1:20 pm on Nov. 21, 2003)

Finally introducing my nephew to Star Wars...
Finale of Buffy...
X2: X-Men United...
Partying with Zach Galifianakis...
Features @ Bingham's (and all the arguments/joy that it caused)...
Strokes in Atlanta...
Getting a job (mostly for the free movies)...
Seeing Matt Pelham sing Learn To Fly...

I'm sure I'll come up with more...

(Edited by DigsySlattery at 7:50 pm on Nov. 21, 2003)

Uh huhuhuhuhuhuuuhuhuhuhuh...

What can I say? Julian is a dirty, dirty boy...

grr....i hate new year's because of crap like this....
But I'll share 2 moments that just happen to involve The Features:


1. Sneaking into the Boro when they played with Silent Friction because I left my stupid ID at home.

2. The next time The Features played at the Boro when they made a whole bunch of us stand OUTSIDE and then Roger going off on the management.

(and they haven't played there since. the end.)

favorite moments of 2003.......

21st birthday with The Violent Femmes
my first legal 12th and Porter Features show
Bingham Barnes House Party w/The Features
Zwan @ The Tabernacle (I shook hands with Billy)
getting a label somewhat off the ground
The Flaming Lips @ Uptown mix
getting a pet rabbit
eating an enitre can of cold soup for 11 dollars
getting a new car
losing my job and in return getting a new and better one
Sonic Youth in Lousiville
recording in a real studio for the first time
seeing Pearl Jam again
drinking guinness with my brother and playing guitar until 5 am


more will come to mind later......

I'm sure there will be more, but.....

Breaking up with a horrid, horrid man
Belle & Sebastian in Atlanta
Having the best, easiest job in the world
Meeting the nicest C-List celebrites ever
Started smoking
Started drinking a lot more
Stealing massive amounts of cash from my summer job

hmmm.....

I think mine are yet to come:

Graduation Dec. 13th 2003
Xmas in Hawaii. December 21st 2003


Up to this date:

Last spring's strip spades tournaments
The "end" of the war in Iraq (although thats not really accurate)
Internship in the presidio of San Francisco
Bonnaroo 2
Qutting Smoking (8 years) July 15 2003


Its getting hard to think about anything else.....

Weren't you smoking 2 weeks ago when I saw you?

I love call-outs.

I dont recall if I smoked one that night or not. But I have smoked less than 10 total since July 15th. I remember I bummed one jack at the features show on the 7th when i was really drunk, and I smoked a couple last saturday at a party in my drunken state. (used to smoke over a pack a day upwards of 2 packs)
Ive decided I do need to quit bumming one randomly. Nicotine is the devil.

(Edited by GrungeSlobTearPants at 4:10 pm on Nov. 24, 2003)

I love you. Lets do it in the rain.

Heretic! I'm afraid that if you have a problem with nicotine, you've got a problem with RD. I hope this doesn't get ugly, because nicotine really doesn't take kindly to being forsaken.

I'd rather be smoking.

That would be a great t-shirt.

I'm down with ROB.

No, I love nicotine too. Thats the problem, I love it too much. It grabs you by the balls and wont let go. And its not until I tried to quit, numerous times, until I realized how addicted I was. From the age of 14 and on I depended upon that stupid drug. My advice, get out while you can, cause it really is a lovable thing. It dont love you though. I'm still trying to stay nicotine free nate, and its terribly difficult, as ceeze said, i do cheat, but im not an addict right now, which I'm insanely proud of. I'm just getting fat now b/c a lower metabolism, and change in eating habits, and too much beer and pizza and big macs......

This is hard but...

~ REM in Birmingham with JamesRiot
~ Meeting Mike Mills and telling him that he "means so much to me" (haha, so incredibly dorky)
~ Zach Attack
~ The many Features shows
~ Ray's 21st birthday party
~ Paul putting his head through the bathroom wall
~ Numerous trips to Atlanta and Athens with my sister
~ Finally finding a way to get into 21+ shows

Seeing frank black play at the exit in and hearing them open with "where is my mind" was the highlight of the year for me.

the white stripes in NC
the strokes in ATL (oh, nikolai)
zach attack
amy's wedding (and bachlorette party)
various features shows
moving out
the wild and crazy fun that was had on halloween
ray davies b-day (and various other iwe/sadie parties)
various hilarious moments with the kids at the daycare (chipmonkeys!!!!)

I forgot those...those were darn good moments.

And Dr. Haas' history class has to be added to mine. That ruled...