I’m still not really up for much of anything, and frankly, I’m a bit surprised as to how much this is affecting me. I mean it is expected to feel something when someone close to you dies, but in recent years, we weren’t that close. I guess part of it is reminiscing on all the things we did in the past, and that nostalgia partially reignites that feeling of closeness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I remembered the last time we were in Hawaii and running around together. We had both been there many times, but we thought it would be a fun change-up to do some of the tourist things. I believe we were both 19 or 20, but we bullshitted our way into one of those party bus bar-hopping tours. By the third stop we were already pretty drunk, and at the fourth stop, there was a cover band playing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now I’m not exactly proud of what we did, but we ended up heckling the band a bit. The band was pretty decent for a local cover band, but the singer wasn’t that great. A few songs later they launched into a cover of White Zombie’s More Human Than Human<\/em> and when he started singing, I sorta groaned and rolled my eyes prompting the singer to stop and say if I thought I could do better to get up there and try.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So I did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now I’m a bassist, not a lead singer, but I can hold my own, especially on a song that is mostly keeping a cadence and vocal effects. I tweaked the settings on his vocal effects processor a bit and jumped right in. I won’t say that I floored everyone with my performance, but I was three sheets to the wind already and gave a dynamic performance. I know at least the tourists from the bar-crawl enjoyed it, though the locals that came to see their friend’s cover band didn’t seem as much into it. Thankfully though, the singer seemed to get into it a bit and was grinning and even participated in the chorus. (Really, I didn’t think he was a bad singer, he just had a higher range and they were playing songs that didn’t compliment his range.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n We still had two more bars to stop at, but frankly I don’t remember much from either of the last two stops. I do remember at the end of the night, my cousin and I debating how we were going to get home and that we chose a pretty reckless method. But we got home in one piece, puked all over our grandparent’s bushes, and passed out in the living room. I even remember at one point racing outside to evacuate my stomach again… because my cousin was monopolizing the bathroom doing just the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We had also made plans to go on one of those booze-cruises, but I ended up needing to fly back early. I don’t exactly remember the reason why, but I remember it had something to do with my girlfriend at the time (the gal we met at the Queensr\u00ffche concert) and the house we were renting. I always have had a bit of regret and guilt for bailing on him on what was our last planned summer out there, but seeing how the bar-crawl turned out, we probably would have both ended up overboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Song of the day: More Human Than Human<\/a> by White Zombie<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m still not really up for much of anything, and frankly, I’m a bit surprised as to how much this is affecting me. I mean it is expected to feel something when someone close to you dies, but in recent years, we weren’t that close. I guess part of it is reminiscing on all the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-1322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cultofdarian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cultofdarian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cultofdarian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cultofdarian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cultofdarian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cultofdarian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1323,"href":"https:\/\/cultofdarian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions\/1323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cultofdarian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cultofdarian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cultofdarian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cultofdarian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}