It's my brother Chuck's birfday today - yaaay! (He's Frensch Flies on me MySpace top 8.)
My brother rules. He plays viola like I like to play geetar. He also does pretty damned good on the recorder, baritone, and the squeeze box if I do say so myself.
He makes very entertaining CDs that you have to hear for yourself.
He played with Trans Siberian Orchestra (in the 'orchestra' section) and said one time that when the guitarist went to play his solo that his amp wasn't on. So guitarist had porno face, but no guitar solo to go with it. THAT is funny. That's payback to that guy for me having to hear that fucking bah badda bah, bah badda bah, bah badda bah song for 3 months straight during the holidays. I'm glad Chuck was there and told me about that.
We've done a lot of smart things together. We used to take his piles of LEGOs and build what we called Torture Towns, comprised of various LEGO sculptures which would either mash or dismember its little LEGO citizens.
We used to open boxes of Jell-O in mom and dad's pantry and eat the powder (if you've never tried and are now contemplating, don't. The gelatin makes it a little chewy.. at least chase with boiling water if you're going to try.)
Once we were kind enough to secretly take my dad's coin collection and cash it in for "real" money. We put it to good use at Walgreen's buying plastic cans of slime and candy. Oh yes, we did. And oh yes, Dad found out and wasn't very happy to say the least.
That's just the tip of the iceberg of the so so many smart things we've done. Chuck is one of the coolest people to hang around with. He's practically like a brother to me! We have so much in common.. such as the same parents and sister.
Have a great birthday, Chuckers! Hopefully be seeing you in a couple o months.
