The Best of The Summer of '09
I am already accepting the end. I am in the midst of my swan song. My final bow. My gentle gallop into the sunset. The summer is over. For most of America, at least the America for human beings 23-39, Summer doesn't really exist. But for me it exists and I dread things that have ends...and everything has an end. Pause and look up and to the left...
Here is my list of the greatest things this summer
Alcohol of the Summer-
This is always Bud Light Lime, but for the sake of discussion I am going with a Tequila Gimlet. Petron or Cabo Wabo with a little bit of Roses Lime Juice. I had always thought Tequila was the Devils sweat, but once you have a drink from a $60 bottle of Tequila you will continue to sneak into your parents liquor cabinet.
1) It was my birthday and I ordered two double Patron Gimlets. On the second one the waitress, noticing that I looked poor, asked if I knew this was a $20 dollar drink. I said yes of course, and fell into a cold, cold sweat.
2) I was excited about the Christmas holiday season and I bought a lot of expensive bottles of alcohol. I tried to carry it all in from my car and dropped the bottle of Cabo Wabo and watched it stream down the gutter and into the drain on the corner of my street.
Album of the Summer
I would like to say Sunset Rubdown-Dragonslayer, but would also like to say Wilco has a fine fine album.
Honorable Mention-The Rural Alberta Advantage-Hometowns. The only reason this makes Honorable Mention instead of the top of the podium is because they are from Canada and Canada never feels like Summer
Movie of the Summer-
I have been disappointed with movies since Shawshank Redemption. That was an exaggeration, but I remember the days where there were such things as Summer Blockbusters. I did enjoy The Hangover as most did...some say it was stupid but I say that they are...
The movie of the Summer, for better or worse is (500) Days of Summer. I actually hate this movie so it is sort of curious to see it as the movie of the summer, but sometimes the things I love the most are because I hate them so much. The soundtrack is pretty good. I feared it to be too cutsie and it kind of is. But it is also brutal (in an early 20's heartbreaking kind of way) and I don't want to talk to Zooey Deschanel ANYMORE!!
DVD Release of the Summer- Coraline. I loved this movie. I didn't watch it with 3D glasses on, but thought it was a fine and entertaining movie.
Festival of the Summer- Sunsets Festival Live From The Clap
Because it was bitching.
Grilled Meat of the Summer- I am in search of the perfect burger. It is the best hobby to have because you can never truly be satisfied. It is chasing the carrot that is fastened to an apparatus on your head. The closet I came is a sausage burger (undisclosed proportion of ground beef-sausage) with pepper cheese and caramelized onions, dill pickle and dijon mustard.
I am learning to do fantastic things to steaks.
New Website of The Summer- www.butterscotchsundaeiguess.blogspot.com. This will be something great. It just has to.
Epiphany of the Summer- I am done listening to new music. Finished. For now at least. Went to the record store today and bought Paul Simon, Tom Waits, Tom Petty. Have decided to only listen to...said artists and Bob Dylan and the Pixies and Wilco and everyone else that falls into the category of what I have in my mind as "non-new music"
Best Field Trip of the Summer- Sanibel Island, FLA is uncommercialized. This makes it great. In July it is hotter than satans heel, but still great. If you can get there in March you will experience the best vacation of all times. That is, if your idea of a good vacation revolves around drinking Busch Light on the Beach all day and then eating fantastic food in the evening and hitting the sack by 10. And it is for me.
