Beauty is Imperfection

(Originally posted Wednesday, January 02, 2008 )

Stephanie and I are back from a two week Christmas holiday in Oklahoma and Texas. Among other things we did:

–*Held a launch party for the Oklahoma premiere of “The Retributioners”;

–*Shopped for presents in roads covered with black ice;

–*Played with many babies, including the game “rocket ship,” in which childrens get launched from Uncle Eric’s foot up into the air;

–*Won several hands of Texas Hold-Em, until I started to lose several hands of Texas Hold-Em;

–*Got peed on by a new baby Chihuahua named Rosabelle;

–*Chased a few chickens around a friend’s backyard;

–*Fed some bunnies parsley;

–*Played drums and piano with a baby named Darlene;

–*Saw “No Country For Old Men” at Austin’s Alamo Theater, where you can watch the movie while drinking coffee and a mean milkshake;

–*Was disturbed by the movie’s message of violence and nihilism while enjoying said milkshake;

–*Drove eight hours from Austin to Oklahoma City while listening over and over to a song called “Redneck Roundup” and later another one called “Redneck Yacht Club”;

–*Discovered the magic of a friend’s Nintendo Wii;

–*Discovered that it’s hard to get a Nintendo Wii right now;

–*Enjoyed our friend Jason’s souped up XBox with vast multimedia capabilities that will destroy you;

–*Ate at Red Lobster;

–*Enjoyed multiple “artgasms” at the transplendent New Year’s Eve Flaming Lips show at the Cox Center (formerly The Myriad) in Oklahoma City, where the Lips lit onto the stage from a giant spaceship (Wayne Coyne himself rolling out inside a giant balloon) and where we all spent the evening punching giant balloons around the arena and attacking fellow audience members with our free laser pointers;

–*Enjoyed the Oklahoma City fireworks display marking 2008;

–*Crashed a truly lame black tie party at the beautifully restored Skirvin Hotel and danced for a few mere minutes to some really awful music ;

–*Visited with awesome photographer Romy Owens at a very cool Oklahoma City coffee shop (Romy’s on my friend page and you can find all of her art there);

–*Had a hearty Braum’s ice cream sundae with extra fat-making shit all over it;

–*Ate more fat making stuff in the form of a chicken friend steak, so FU Weight Watchers;

–*And finally, we said goodbye to all of the families and boarded a jet plane at 7:25 a.m. this morning and wistfully drank in the memories of a very happy holiday.

That’s a lot of god damned Christmas cheer.

I have a few crappy cell phone photos from the Flaming Lips show, but you can get a much better view of the fun on my brother-in-law’s page here.

Happy New Year to all. I hope you had as much fun as we did.