Heavens! This is the thread where we who attended the July 4 FAP in NYC and related events make everyone else jealous of THE BRILLIANT TIME WE HAD! ;-)

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Carey, Aaron and Phil's new loft...Franz's side of the squirrel tail story...Millar playing Korean nu-metal at Chris too early in the morning...meeting the force of nature that IS Millar and just experiencing him...alternating between food and drink and walking and food and drink and walking...chilling in Siberia, eating at the tapas bar, going INSANE in Bellevue...Anthony Miccio ISH Shean Connery in Drive Chrish Barrush to Deshpair...the weird-ass propaganda soundtrack to the fireworks that could have been a Negativland piece and the crap DJing beforehand...wandering around Williamsburg and marvelling at the neo-hip Thai place...wandering around Union Square and marvelling at the neo-hip pizza place..."Do it for THE BROTHERS IN HOUSTON!"...realizing that one was wandering the same streets twenty-four hour earlier and that then you had just woken up and here you had just gotten back to sleep...Sean being a caricature of himself on the phone, Bryan the possom murderer...the hyperdamn cool pizza place on the Upper West Side right near the Insanely Rich and Tasty Hungarian pastry place...Millar looking at me without my glasses and saying "I don't know you anymore"...J.Lu and Nichole telling me to remove a little hairband so that way Andrew could recognize me from my free flowing locks and then seeing him a minute later with him recognizing me for precisely that reason...the statue of decapitation and bestiality in a CHILDREN'S GARDEN next to a CATHEDRAL (H. P. Lovecraft, where are you now?)...wandering around Brighton Beach and wishing we could try all the food and eventually seeing where a young JBR grew up and then ending up at Coney Island and That Bar and That Jukebox and Those Hot Dogs ('it's toasted')..."RUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNN TOOOOOOOOOOOO THEEEEEEEEEEEEEE HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILLLLLS!" (and Alex in NYC was nowhere in sight and he has only himself to blame)...JBR saying that this one Greek place in Astoria called Taverna Kyklades was fantastic and we eventually get there after much toil but all the weariness we had melts away due to the Cypriot beer and the amazing salads and the wonderful bread and the GRILLED OCTOPUS and the CHEESE and the GRILLED SWORDFISH and the STUFFED SHRIMP OF GOD (the latter so astoundingly overwhelming in its brilliance that Mr. Barrus was struck into shocked silence, the only time I've EVER seen him like that because of food)...the Beer Garden! the beer! the phone calls! the series of astonished and erotically-laced reactions to the realization via phone conversations that Spencer indeed has THE SEXIEST VOICE EVER...the fact that Super Shuttle screwed me over and said I should get a cab but Bryan came to the rescue and drove me to the airport and proved what a grand egg he was...

My god, everyone who wanted to make it but couldn't, I'm damn sorry you missed it. It would have made an absolutely wonderful time even more so. SIMILAR MEGAFAP NEXT YEAR ON THE FOURTH. LA or Dallas are currently the chief candidates. (Do you want to all visit Sam and help her set off fireworks and eat the best Mexican food ever while downing many beers and all that? I THINK YOU DO.).

Tell stories now. I am barely coherent. Excuse me. *slides to floor of apartment with a dull thud(

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 6 July 2003 20:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh yeah, and post all relevant pictures here NOW...or when you can.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 6 July 2003 20:52 (twenty-three years ago)

I was already envious.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 6 July 2003 20:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Me too - even with the phone calls.

― luna (luna.c), Sunday, 6 July 2003 20:57 (twenty-three years ago)

OK, this is my first chance to get online since Thursday morning. Currently dealing with pictures right now.

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 6 July 2003 21:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Chris Barrus, I will demand of you to post pictures. Many, many, many, many pictures. As many pictures as you can possibly post.

I MEAN, GIVE ME PICTURES, MAAAN!!!

*only those people who've seen "Sing Blue Silver" will get that*

― Innocent Dreamer (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 6 July 2003 21:34 (twenty-three years ago)

And videos. Many, many, many -- errr let's not get carried away here.

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Sunday, 6 July 2003 21:41 (twenty-three years ago)

YAY MEGA FAP!!

I think we should look for a coroporate sponsor to send us all on a cruise next year.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Sunday, 6 July 2003 21:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Caricature, eh? Eh? If I ever find you ooot and abooot I'm going to whap you with a two-four, eh!

As some of the people I yapped with on the phone already know, I was out attending my own Seanie C anti-FAP, retreating to the solitude of nature somewhere northeast of Peterborough. Yes, beer was had but instead of hanging out with Ned I got bitten by mosquitos and chatted with chipmunks. Of course, I'll link a page of photos as soon as I get them all prepared, though admittedly they'll be far less interesting than the NYC pix.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 6 July 2003 21:52 (twenty-three years ago)

(Oddly, though, I probably found more cool records today at a flea market in Lakefield than I have in a lonnnnnng time. Go figure.)

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 6 July 2003 21:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, now I am really feeling like mud. Can't y'all just talk about how horrid it all was, and how you hated each other and had food poisoning and got arrested for not good things and so forth?

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Sunday, 6 July 2003 22:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Sorry I didn't go out yesterday, but I slept until 4pm and then went back to bed at midnight.

But I had a really fun time!

― rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 6 July 2003 22:28 (twenty-three years ago)

And I will have to get my Canadian potato chips sometime.

― rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 6 July 2003 22:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey I'm glad you guys all had a good time together even if I didn't get to be there. yay ilx!

― That Girl (thatgirl), Sunday, 6 July 2003 22:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Thanks you guys for letting me drag your hot sweaty asses all over New York City and thanks for being good sports throughout our long, unwieldy, frustrating subway sojourns.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 6 July 2003 22:32 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.dvdcult.com/images/warriors.jpg

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 6 July 2003 22:33 (twenty-three years ago)

You're making me look bad, Sam - go for the guilt trip!

(And ya'll know that I am envious, but am still really happy for you.)

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Sunday, 6 July 2003 22:42 (twenty-three years ago)

yep that made me jealous. i'm coming to a megafap one day. i don't know when but it'll happen.

― di smith (lucylurex), Sunday, 6 July 2003 23:23 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah they always make me feel as though I am living in the arse-end of the universe.

oh wait!

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 6 July 2003 23:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I've never even been to an FAP, but I don't know if they would be for me anyway. Glad you all had a good time, though!

― Nicole (Nicole), Sunday, 6 July 2003 23:26 (twenty-three years ago)

there's not enough photoshopping on this thread

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Sunday, 6 July 2003 23:26 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah bring on the indie guys with trucker hats

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 6 July 2003 23:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Thanks you guys for letting me drag your hot sweaty asses all over New York City and thanks for being good sports throughout our long, unwieldy, frustrating subway sojourns.

JBR, you totally rule for the tour yesterday! Girl, you know it's true...

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Monday, 7 July 2003 00:20 (twenty-three years ago)

THANK YOU FOR THE BEST VOICEMAIL MESSAGE EVER.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 7 July 2003 00:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Hahaha! Sir, your presence was demanded many times, so we opted for the best possible alternate solution. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 July 2003 00:33 (twenty-three years ago)

You never call, you never write...*sob*

― Nicole (Nicole), Monday, 7 July 2003 00:39 (twenty-three years ago)

JBR, you totally rule for the tour yesterday! Girl, you know it's true...

I did it for the brothers in Houston.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 7 July 2003 00:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Sorry I couldn't make it, y'all. But hey, I get to meet ANTHONY EASTON tonight! How cool is that?

Thanks for the phone call, too. Sorry it was too loud in the club for me to hear anything.

― hstencil, Monday, 7 July 2003 00:57 (twenty-three years ago)

No Laura, I'm encouraging you to feeel the love!!

― That Girl (thatgirl), Monday, 7 July 2003 01:52 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd feel it better if it's accompanied with a few alcoholic beverages and a back rub, Sam *grin*

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Monday, 7 July 2003 03:31 (twenty-three years ago)

That sounds exausting. From one end of the N train line to the other and points in between! I go to all those places, just not in one weekend. Weird I don't recognize a single person in the photos section, considering I regularly run into people at those places and have become convinced of what a small world it really is.

― Scaredy cat (Natola), Monday, 7 July 2003 03:40 (twenty-three years ago)

YAY MEGA FAP!!
I think we should look for a coroporate sponsor to send us all on a cruise next year.

-- That Girl (dallasdeadgir...), July 6th, 2003.

best idea

― Vic (Vic), Monday, 7 July 2003 04:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes - cruises are where it's at. Gambling and alcohol and music and dancing and swimming - woo-hoo!

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Monday, 7 July 2003 04:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm jealous and I was there. Sarah and Nick, I'm really sorry I didn't get to meet you two. It was lovely to meet everyone else, thanks for livening up our 4th megaweekend, and what a bonus to meet the enigmatic phil, who was wearing a black tie, white shirt and black pants, looking like a korean schoolkid on parole, I can now die a happy woman.

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 7 July 2003 05:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Why don't we just start an ILX kibbutz?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 7 July 2003 06:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Bryan has a video of me and Phil grinding to It's a Small World. This better make it on the net or someone dies. Also, I would marry Millar, seriously. He's got no soul, it's fucking incredible.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 7 July 2003 07:42 (twenty-three years ago)

OH MY GOD AND THE PORK CHOP THE FUCKING PORK CHOPS, Phil I am so sorry for forcing you to eat 73 pork chops. Though it was worth it for the butt sex and the sensual licking and the attempt at subway dertailment...photos to come, I promise. Phil eats pork chops like Naomi Campbell tears up runways.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 7 July 2003 07:44 (twenty-three years ago)

also I've been on a four day bender and Andrew and Millar are at my house at 5am right now so don't necessarily entirely trust my posts. But shit yo I do have a photo of sensual licking.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 7 July 2003 07:45 (twenty-three years ago)

i think it should be in boston next year so us bostonites can attend.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 7 July 2003 10:52 (twenty-three years ago)

It should be in Bloomington, so everyone here can go! (Which is just me, I guess. But I can pretend to be other people.)

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 7 July 2003 11:36 (twenty-three years ago)

(Watch, I'll demonstrate: "Hello, my name is Ted." See? Not Tep. TED. That's like a whole different person. Ted doesn't even like baseball.)

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 7 July 2003 11:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm now mostly rested and at work and I still can't believe it all happened. Heh heh heh.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 July 2003 13:47 (twenty-three years ago)

PHOTOS! I NEEDS ME SUMMA DAT!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 7 July 2003 14:02 (twenty-three years ago)

D'oh! I just found the other thread. Ignore me thoroughly.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 7 July 2003 14:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Did someone just post something?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 July 2003 14:26 (twenty-three years ago)

(Not thorough enough, Ned.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 7 July 2003 14:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Also: we realized that Ally would make a great kogal. This must happen.

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 7 July 2003 14:35 (twenty-three years ago)

pictures paint a thousand words.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 7 July 2003 14:35 (twenty-three years ago)

what is a kogal?

― gareth (gareth), Monday, 7 July 2003 14:42 (twenty-three years ago)

It's almost a Kogan but you wear it like a hat.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 July 2003 14:47 (twenty-three years ago)

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splitter!

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 7 July 2003 23:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Ally's kogaru friends
http://www.globalcompassion.com/images3/kogeru.jpg

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 00:02 (twenty-three years ago)

"Ally's Kogaru friends"=Mary and Felicity obv.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 00:28 (twenty-three years ago)

*Felicity*
http://daveahlman.com/society/ganguro1.jpg

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 02:26 (twenty-three years ago)

That is such a good outfit

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 03:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Heavens! Is she wearing anything under that jacket? ;-)

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 03:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Cartoon summer panties most likely. How was the mod party?!

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 04:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh it was great! Neither me nor Phil expected everyone to go quite so crazy over it but it was really good. Dancing, drinks, Slash, Seth Green, typical stuff. The thing is, it's definitely not the type of thing you can do a lot. It's fun and charming but only for a certain amount of time because then you start thinking that you are now in a room with people who care too much about their hair, as Tom noted, but the result is not good hair, you know? Then you feel out of it and have to go. So like it's a once a month or every two months type of thing.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 04:12 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm really sorry I missed it. Meanwhile, we must stop by Shibuya to the 109 Mall, kogaru palace, and home to the store Love Boat, I believe it is called, to initiate our new look.

http://www.mumbleboy.com/mumbleboy/imagefolder/4WOP/kogal03.gif

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 08:42 (twenty-three years ago)

getting up at 0700 to make it to work on time today is the hardest and most painful thing I've had to do in a long, long time. But that's okay, because BUCKET DRUMS MOTHERFUCKER.

― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 10:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Shit, I was THERE, and I'm still jealous, because apparently we missed a lot of cool shit on later days. I guess that's what I get for having to hang out with my damn sister. I had a fucking insane time. Thanks to everyone for putting up with me. Everyone was hottt and funny and a pleasure to be around. Except for Millar, who nearly got us kicked out of that weird furniture store where everyone was using the restroom. Just kidding. I'll put some photos up on the other thread as soon as I get my pictures developed and scan them and upload them. So that'll be in about three months.

― NA. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 11:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, sucks that I didn't get to meet you, Mary, or Phil and whoever else. And it does sound like we missed lots of good party action. But we got to see the sea lions get fed at the Central Park zoo though, so there!

― Sarah MCLusky (coco), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 12:35 (twenty-three years ago)

WHO RODE THE BEAST?

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 13:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Sarah and Nick going to see the sea lions at the Central Park zoo = OMG SO CUTE BEGIN PUKING NOW!

― Chris P (Chris P), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 14:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't worry, we fed them nickels and pennies. Is it less cute now?

― NA. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 14:18 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.sindominio.net/fap/imatges/punki_fap.gif

― Dada, Tuesday, 8 July 2003 14:20 (twenty-three years ago)

The funniest was when Ned was talking to me at that first bar we went to, the BBQ place, but I was so pathetically buzzed off of one glass of beer (look, I hadn't eaten and we had been walking forever) that all I could think was "Wow, I have no idea what he's talking about." Sorry Ned!

― NA. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 15:07 (twenty-three years ago)

http://a1764.g.akamaitech.net/7/1764/33/3f6806cafea440/images.citysearch.com/profile/e2/9f/7186381p1.jpg

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 16:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes. That place was pretty nice, actually.

― NA. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 16:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Sorry Ned!

Ah, ya punk. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 16:50 (twenty-three years ago)

You mean lightweight, don't you?

― NA. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 16:58 (twenty-three years ago)

pantywaist
bubblegummer
etc.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 17:02 (twenty-three years ago)

haha millar + miccio + farrell = the terrible three!!

i only made it to one crazy night of mega-fapness (i was moving heavy boxes out of my apt for the rest of the weekend blah) but the friday nite fap was GREAT.

you all rule the school

― geeta, Wednesday, 9 July 2003 01:32 (twenty-three years ago)

three weeks pass...

I never actually said anything on this, did I?

New York was incredible. It nearly killed me several times, for inappropriate foot and jacketwear, and I ran out of steam just one day before I'd have liked to, and I didn't see enough of people before they went back home, and I didn't even see enough of the people who lived there, but I will return, and I will do better.

(cut to "eye-of-the-tiger" montage of Andrew learning to type lefthanded)

My time there provided two of my favorite lunatics, and my favourite 20 minutes of social interaction expressed through dance ever.

I'll definitely be back for a 4th FAP next year, and I think I said this to everyone present, but what the hell: between 2005 and 2008, I'll spend a year there, provided you get the election right.

I've even been practicing been snobby re: Brooklyn & Queens.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 4 August 2003 19:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Ya'all know that technically no train transfers are required to get from Coney Island to Astoria, right? Although god knows I wouldn't trust the W either.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 4 August 2003 19:17 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't believe it's only been a month since this all happened

― Millar (Millar), Monday, 4 August 2003 19:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Haha yeah! It feels like it was like last year. I blame the time-space continuum issues as presented in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 4 August 2003 19:28 (twenty-three years ago)

"type lefthanded"?

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 4 August 2003 19:29 (twenty-three years ago)

I am kinda glad I left the way I did, leaving things unfinished, leaving things to see and do. I want to return as soon as I can and have the time I should've had. I think if there's another megaFAP next year it should be somewhere else, though. The Dallas and LA suggestions are good, though Toronto would be a great choice, too. We could take over the Victory or Sneakoo's!

― Bryan (Bryan), Monday, 4 August 2003 19:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, well then I won't be seeing you! I ain't travellin' for no fucking FAP boyo.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 4 August 2003 19:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Not after this past weekend? ;-) I'm gonna try to get to NYC anyway, probably next spring.

― Bryan (Bryan), Monday, 4 August 2003 19:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, right, this past weekend. Yeah. That's why I went. The FAP.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 4 August 2003 19:45 (twenty-three years ago)

My time there provided two of my favorite lunatics, and my favourite 20 minutes of social interaction expressed through dance ever.

Set to Fatboy Slim, yet! Classic!

I just remembered I never said anything about it, either! Despite being hogtied, I had a great time: a prime example of doing NYC on the cheap;> But seriously, my latent New Yorker was able to rear her odd little head....and no one minded. My social bunny was able to frolic, meet new joyful lunatics---as well as hang out with my fave older ones.

I'm up for doing this again---if I'm here, Stateside. Where else could I watch the struggle between life and death ("Millar and the Sloshed Party-Goer's Guide to Traffic Safety")?

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 4 August 2003 19:45 (twenty-three years ago)

i am coming to new york again soon i think

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:04 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought you were coming to the Northwest?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:05 (twenty-three years ago)

I may go to NY again sometime this month. Depends on my willingness to spend money and how smooth moving into my new apartment goes.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:08 (twenty-three years ago)

gareth are you a professional nomad or hobo?

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Gareth come back we miss you and want to tape 40s to your hands.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:19 (twenty-three years ago)

gareth picks up bags in shitty NJ cities like elizabeth!

― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:20 (twenty-three years ago)

nw is on rocks. ne wins again

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:22 (twenty-three years ago)

"type lefthanded"?

It's a Rocky II thing.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 08:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh is that what you call that these days?

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 12:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Less out of you, secrets girl.

"Yeah, say hello to Rocky II. I, uh, had to retire Rocky I."

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 12:45 (twenty-three years ago)

I have no secrets.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 12:46 (twenty-three years ago)

five years pass...

do any pics of this exist anymore? what a weird time in hindsight

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 4 May 2009 22:58 (seventeen years ago)

remembered i probably have some actual film photographs of this somewhere

― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 5 May 2009 19:40 (seventeen years ago)

four years pass...

coming up on 10 years!

― dunham checks in (get bent), Sunday, 23 June 2013 04:23 (thirteen years ago)

Memories, corners, mind.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 23 June 2013 05:19 (thirteen years ago)

Oregon, distance, indifference.

― Aimless, Sunday, 23 June 2013 05:30 (thirteen years ago)

fuck, i want grilled octopus.

― paula deezen (get bent), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 22:36 (thirteen years ago)

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