saturday night live…

deery-lou.
saturday started out as a gloomy day. rain, rain, rain. i had plans to meet chen in seoul to see the mustangs at club ff. the problem was that i was having a hard time motivating myself. i spent most of the day watching tv. for those of you who didn't see the season finale of otl—OMG!! it was so good i had to watch it twice. towards the end they played a zeppelin "babe i'm gonna leave you". speechless. now i know why i love teen dramas so much. the acting was top notch. this show is so much better than that other crappy fox teen show which will remain nameless. they ended the season with some major cliffhangers. usually i enjoy cliffhangers except when the life of the show is on the line. since upn and wb merged its not sure if oth is going to be picked up. aaahhh! its like popular all over again. they canceled popular and we never found out what happened. i can only hope that oth gets picked up. this boy will be extremely sad if it doesn't.

after my fill of oth i decided i needed a nap. lazy much! i got up around 5pm and still couldn't decide if i was going to seoul or not. i figured a nice hot shower would give me the energy i needed to rally. it didn't. i forced myself to go anyway. afterall if i'm going to be a band stalker i can't let being tired stand in my way can i? at the station i grabbed a much needed cafe latte in a cup. it comes with its own straw. fancy that. shortly after i started to feel much better. thats why i realized part of my tiredness was due to me decided to quit coke this weekend. me thinks my body was craving my daily ritual of caffeine. at my first transfer i grabbed another cliac. why stop at one right? by the time i reached seoul i felt alive and ready to rock n roll. while waiting to hear from chen i decided i needed a green tea latte. who really knows what i was thinking at this point. i met up with chen and some others at naibi. its a chic-hippie bar where you take of your shoes, sit on cushions on the floor, and be mellow. they have a sand room, a pond with incense burning from hangers, etc. its actually a pretty cool space. we stayed there a bit then went other to club ff to catch the mustangs. the two bands before the mustangs were pretty good. both were k-bands. one of them sang covers. it was all right. then the mustangs came on. they freakin' rocked the house down. during the second song the lead singer/guitarist busted a string. so punk. while he fixed it the bassist and drummer continued to play. then with freshly stringed guitar then finished off the song. these guys keep getting better and better.

later on i went with betsy to meet up with some of her friends, while chen went to check out this new drum bar. around 2am or something i got a text from chen telling me that the mustangs were at the drumist cafe. of course i bid farewell to betsy and company and made my way to the dc. later on i found out from betsy that her friends thought i was mad because i left. umm hello mustangs! the dc was set up similar to naibi minus the pond. it was good vibe to it. the staff were extremely friendly. i'm not a 100% but i think the manager was flirting with me. allow it is korean so i could be completely wrong. while chillin at the bar some people started drums. it was cool. as things were winding down the guitarist from the mustangs asked me what i going to do and then asked if i wanted to go dancing. i looked at chen and we were both like YES! so off we went with the mustangs to dance. we met two other guys from the band plastic day [at least thats what i thought he said]. their band name might actually be painted box. the verdict is still out. after stopping by m2, then the drummer getting stopped in the street by two girls, where we got to watch some foreigner pass out in the street, we ended up at ska. it was 4am and they wanted a $10 cover charge. the guitarist and rebecca were already inside. the rest of us stood out front not really wanted to pay. chen and i decided to head back to ff. especially since we could get in for free and i wasn't sure how much longer i was going to last. we spent a little time at ff then headed home. as we walked to the motel it was starting to get light out. another all nighter in seoul. chen and i stayed up a little longer acting like giggling school girls. i don't even remember half of the shit we were laughing about. i know at one point we busted out in valley speak. oh the crazy antics.

on sunday we left the motel around 2:30pm. we grabbed some lunch at jenny's. the mushroom sandwich there is yummy. then we went to her friend brandon's to drop off some stuff. brandon was havin a little roof party so we spent the rest of the day hanging and chillin there. he's got an awesome space. it makes me want to move to seoul like tomorrow. reverting back high schoolers chen and i decided to have a private conversation by texting each other from across the room. a little snippet of what we were saying:
ethan: we are so high school
chen: like totally. lets meet behind the gym 4 a smoke.
ethan: 4 sure totally. hope the teacher doesn't bust us.
eventually we got ourselves busted. this one guy closest to us thought it was funny and joined in on the joke. we played it off as being too lazy to talk to each other. before heading back to home chen, betsy, and i stopped in at club aura for one final drink. the drummer, who works there, and the guitarist were both there. they said hi. we are so in. but the question is: just how old am i? i love it. life couldn't be better.

be fresh. be hs. be well…