The Lives of Others: Selections from the Giant family photo album

pr- that lawn chair–and one other–were the first pieces of furniture i bought when i moved in. the original plan was for a large patch of plastic green shit like they put on outdoor patios and then a plastic palm tree. i guess that still could happen, though it almost certainly wont.

December 16th, 2008 / 8:47 pm pr—

when i was 22, i lived in “LA” (lower allston, a nabe in the boston area) with five guys for a summer. We turned the huge living room into a space ship by turning the two couches and all the chairs in the same direction and papering all the walls with aluminun foil. We had a “captains chair”. We had power consoles that were cardboard boxes covered in aluminum foil with christmas lights punched through them. We got really really fucked up and hung out in there pretending to be on a space ship for HOURS AND HOURS at a time. Lots of fights over the captains chair ensued. Once someone got into the captains chair, it was really hard to get them out.

I miss being young. I really do.

December 16th, 2008 / 9:32 pm Ken Baumann—

Who did I play Mario Kart with at Justin’s?

Was it Justin? Was it Mike?

December 16th, 2008 / 10:28 pm Justin Taylor—

Ken, we definitely played some Mario Kart. Mike was there too, but did he play?

pr- that sounds way fun. i have a videotape that i think is of a party i threw in college. but its in a weird format and needs to be transferred to digital. i’m scared to do that but i want to so bad.

December 16th, 2008 / 11:27 pm Jereme Dean—

pr we should have partied in our twenties together. i think we would have blown the walls out.

i have lots of random stories.

my friend had an empty telephone wire spindle for a table and smaller spindles for chairs.

my entire flatware and stemware was stolen from various restaurants (thank you denny’s).

i can make bottles magically levitate on the wall. great conversation piece when all you have is a sleeping bag and a 13inch tv in your living room.

my favorite memory is making women out of beer bottle caps on the ceiling of our apartment.

blah blah blah.

December 17th, 2008 / 1:06 am barry—

i remember i was at this party once. back when i was a dickhead 19 yr old. we poured boones farm in this guys tropical birds’ water dish and sprinkled weed in his food. they were both dead in the morning. we poured two gallons of bleach all over all his carpets. wrote in black marker on all the walls. broke at least 100 beer bottles against his living room wall, and threw all the food from the fridge onto the middle of the kitchen floor. i was a rotten bastard.

i did the stupidest dumbest, cruelest, funnest, coolest, shit ever. i miss being 19.

i will miss this spectacle… sorely miss. – joe dub

December 17th, 2008 / 1:36 am Brad Green—

Tao Lin looks three feet tall in that picture on the lawn chair. I always pictured him being like 8 feet tall and continually dunking on me with a expression of ‘medium-rage’ on his face.

December 17th, 2008 / 1:40 pm jereme—

barry,

ah to be destructive and young. how i miss.

January 22nd, 2009 / 10:04 pm aaron—

good stuff. the goodtimes are contagious.

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