I’ve wanted to blog about a lot of crap, but I always have crap to do. Even with no job. So anyway, this is my new year’s catchup post. LOTS OF PARTY PICTURES INCLUDED!
Thanks to everyone who came out: AE, Ben, Bunnelanie & her horny-for-Mark sister, Carrie & husband, Chris Y, Christian & Shannon, Dan & Erin, Darren & Debbie, Eli, Evan, Gene & Heather, Greg & Nicole, Jason, Jason & Anna, Jay, Jeremy, Joe, John The Canadien, Jon B, Justin, Mandy M, Mark, Melanie S and her couple-friend, Parthena & Peter, Sammy, and Tabbitha, and a couple random people who’s names I don’t remember (that’s about 41 people, counting Carolyn & I).
Eric A:Where were you?
Eve:Too bad you got sick.
Jen R:You gotta come out one of these times.
Britt:Taking a nap is a lame excuse,sister.
People who came but never RSVP’ed to the evite: It’s 3 clicks!
People who opened the evite but didn’t respond: That’s only 2 more clicks!
Anyway…
In traditional style, people didn’t start showing up until wayyy after the 8:30PM start time. By 9:30PM there were maybe 4-6 of us, so we watched a couple episodes of the new mindblowingly-strange adultswim comed Xavier Renegade Angel (from the makers of Wonder Showzen). Suddenly, people started pouring in. In the space of 20 specific minutes, the crowd probably doubled.
The air was full of smoke, but Parthena & Peter survived pretty much for the long haul:
Wonderful foods appeared on our kitchen table (you guests were crazy for not eating every last chocolate truffle cooked by Shannon & Christian I believe–but I begrudgingly ate them, sparing their feelings of rejection).
Truffles, and other delectables.
Synchronized music poured out of the upstairs stereo, downstairs stereo (wiring:1 hour), kitchen boombox, utility-room boombox and another radio in the bathroom (which someone kept shutting off–why???). Most of our party lights (including the kitchen spinny-light) were moved upstairs:
So downstairs was rather… normal looking. By comparison.
Except it was purple — and a lot of people hadn’t seen the purple yet. Hell, some hadn’t even seen the spiral stairs yet, so I’m sure things were “strange enough”. Multiple new people remarked it was the coolest and most interesting house they’d been in, and that was cool to hear. The cleaning up and moving furniture around and cleaning clutter definitely helped the party vibe. It will be even better when we’re “done done” with the house.
Carolyn showed her strobe-string-spinny-light-trippy-thing to everyone, and everyone seemed to enjoy it:
They also all enjoyed Beavis‘s company:
“Come on up and see me sometime.”
Carolyn didn’t quite sexually harass as many people Friday as she did Monday at Eli‘s New Year’s party:
Anna was pretty damned drunk when she arrived — there was a dinner party with 12 or so people who all came here afterwards.
I don’t remember the fur jacket……!
(And I don’t even really like gin.) (But it’s making a comeback.)
Here is Eli featured with his camping egg-carrier, which I got him for xmas because I happened to see it — since he’s the only one with a level of culinary intensity to actually bring eggs into a non-refrigerated, camping setting. So he may as well not break ’em.
(He’s not even on the evite!)
It’s always something…
“Texas Is The Reason That The President’s Dead”, photo by AE (as are all the black-bordered photos here).
NEW YEAR’S EVE
Next up was Eli‘s New Year’s party, where they had 300 JELLO INJECTORS (you can get them at CoolBarStuff). You had to get a $1 ticket, and then get the injector, so there was some management to be done. (But I got the bought-but-unclaimed last 1 or 2 at the end of the night!)
Bandolier! Or Jellolier?
This is how they were served!
Happy to have the primary colors.
There were also at least 13 kinds of chili:
Carolyn’s is on the lower-left.
There will be notes when this shows up on my flickr.
Of course, the chili was quite awesome. Being able to sample each one, and appreciate the differences was great. People even ate Carolyn’s ground turkey Chili Cheese Mac (it has macaroni in it)… I thought people my be put off by the macaroni. Eli‘s “Got Game” was excellent, with venison Eli got hunting (sounds like a delicious videogame to me–shoot, then eat chili). The Velvet Revolver was popular, and sadly I didn’t have as much of that as I should have. I pretty much liked them all, some more than others. But they were ALL awesome. And romaine lettuce too — fuck that iceberg shit!
And the most important component for New Year’s: A shitload of people:
As featured on KitchenParty.com
The upstairs kitchen, living room, dining room were totally packed.
The garage (smoking) constantly had 4-10+ people in it.
Eli’s room downstairs wasn’t really trafficked in much.
The upstairs got used a bit some too. Usually people were up there.
Anyway, because of a semi-recent alcohol binge, a more recnet illness, and heartburn issues that seemed to only affect drinking beer, I could only drink Jello Shots.
How many did I consume: SEVENTEEN!!! YEA BABY!
And mind you, each one of these is the equivalent of at least two “normal” jello-shooters-in-a-cup.
Carolyn looked beautiful as always:
The she got really drunk. And grabby.
Freaked out yet? (grab victim)
There was also a 2AM bout of re-heated chili. Eli‘s had venison in it that he killed himself. NOTHING tastes as good as murder! I also made mash-ups of different chilis; I put Eli‘s in another. That may be culinary sacrilege, but it was sacrilicious.
Anyway, I was the last man standing this time — and BOTH parties were awesome!
LAST MAN STANDING!!@!!!
5:25AM. 17 jello injectors later.
I’m wrecked.
Everyone else has gone to bed.
AFTERMATH:
January 3, 2008 at 8:17 PM
Good times! Sorry Bethany, Parthena & Casey for all the grabbing that I do. :)
It was funny how Shannon & Clint both mentioned to me on separate occassions that Alan looks like Sylar. Then Eli said they all think that, and he knows they think it. And Clint told me the CRX story the next day. Crazy!
Clint does look wrecked in that last picture. :)
My brother didn’t “unexpectedly” show up. I invited him a few days before. Who *didn’t* show up and should have was Vicky. Boo on TGAW.
I was surprised how long Peter & Parthena stayed. Yay!
Those truffles were awesome!!! White chocolate and dark chocolate ones!!! Chriggy had to quickly text Vicky to get some kinks out of the recipe.
January 3, 2008 at 10:23 PM
Haha-Those chocolate bourbon thingies totally did me in. I forgot to take into account that *alcohol was actually in them*, and then started wondering why I was feeling the effects so much!
I was pleasantly surprised by how long we stayed too, hehe. ;) Thanks for a fun time!
January 3, 2008 at 10:26 PM
I thought that if you cooked with alcohol, all the actual *alcohol* is cooked off, leaving only the taste of the alcohol, and none of the intoxicating effects…
January 3, 2008 at 10:33 PM
Oh yeah, those chocolate bourbon balls were awesome. They came from my aunt’s sister.
Yum!
And my uncle said the alcohol is cooked off, but there is still a small amount left in them. If you eat like 50 of them, you’d feel it, he said.
January 3, 2008 at 11:35 PM
aaawwww man stoopid lack of my own transporation!!! It looks like I missed a whole lotta fun . . .
January 4, 2008 at 1:01 AM
Bah! I busy dragging our poor unfortunate father to the worst movie he has ever seen – “Sweeny Todd: The Demon Butcher of Fleet Street”. It was so bad, Dad ditched it in the middle and snuck into “Alvin and the Chipmunks”
Let’s think about how bad a movie has to be that your refuge is Alvin and the Chipmunks.
Anyway, I do regret my decision and it has nothing to do with how incredibly horrible that movie was. Rather, the pictures made your event look super fun.
Stupid Johnny Depp.
January 4, 2008 at 2:00 AM
Fun party!
Depends how hot you “cook” the alcohol concoction. Just keep it below 173 deg F, and most of the alcohol should be preserved.
January 4, 2008 at 9:06 AM
Sorry i missed the party. :( looks like you guys had fun! and beavis too!
I thought the primary colors were red, YELLOW, and blue….?
January 4, 2008 at 12:39 PM
Man, I’m so bummed we missed Eli’s party! We had a particularly lame New Years Eve – sat in front of the TV and watched the ball drop at Times Square.
The pre-New Years party was fun, though; I missed out on the truffles.
January 4, 2008 at 12:47 PM
Britt:
1) First off, primary colors are arbitrary.
2) Red/yellow/blue are only primary colors when dealing with subtractive colors. I.E. Art/paint only, not real life. And in fact, CMKY color is used more for print anyway, and the primaries there (still subtractive) are cyan,magenta,yellow. And painters used to consider there to be 4 primary colors – red yellow green and blue. But they changed their mind. Since they have no scientific basis for any of it anyway.
3) Primary colors of light, for humans, are red green blue, not red yellow blue. We have 3 types of cone receptors, and they most closely match the perception of red, green, and blue. Why is why physicists and such consider those to be the primary color of light.
Not to mention every HTML color, every JPG color, etc, is typically represented by an RGB – red green BLUE – level.
BTW — This was an argument I had over 10 years ago. Heh.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_colors
January 4, 2008 at 1:06 PM
Hmmm… I have only ever thougth of them in subtractive terms.
I like life simple.
January 4, 2008 at 1:16 PM
Life is anything but.
Understand reality.
January 4, 2008 at 1:25 PM
I guess to add to that, if you were to print pictures the good ole fashioned way in a darkroom, you adjust the colors from your film using various percentages of RGB. ;)
January 4, 2008 at 2:34 PM
actually, not to be a smart ass, when you develop color photos the enlarger uses CMY. i’m gonna stop now before i start rambling.
clint, the picts of you should become new avatars.
January 5, 2008 at 12:33 PM
damn, looks like i missed a good time. next time I’ll be closer… within party range!
January 5, 2008 at 4:56 PM
Out of curiosity, who took these pics? You guys, or someone else? It’d be cool to see any more that might be skulking on the web. :)
January 5, 2008 at 5:00 PM
Well — these were all taken by us, except the photos with the black border around them. Those were by AE http://www.flickr.com/photos/aejonze/with/2146488682/
January 7, 2008 at 12:45 AM
Wow, both parties looked like a lot of fun (and you looked pretty wasted!) :) Thanks for posting the pics.
April 1, 2011 at 4:07 PM
Pictures restored. Recovered from the mess caused by John Edstrom from Virginia Tech disabling paid accounts that had been maintained for almost 20 years.