goatboy is hurt by your indifference
By anders pearson 29 Apr 2002
the plan was originally for me to go down to DC, then lani and i would take a bus to richmond, anthony and kim would drive up and we’d all hang out with some of lani’s friends. had we actually planned ahead, that might have happened. unfortunately, we didn’t quite have the foresight to get in touch with the friends in richmond before we were ready to leave. when we couldn’t get ahold of them we decided that it wouldn’t be quite as much fun to go to richmond without knowing that we had somewhere to crash.
<p>as a backup, lani and i decided to just rent a car and drive down to Chapel Hill and hang out with anthony and kim there. while the backup plan ultimately succeeded, it was not without its flaws. primarily, we underestimated the difficulty involved in renting a car. despite calling ahead and reserving one, we ended up spending two painful hours at the counter of the rental place waiting for them to get the paperwork together and find us a car. we ended up with a crappy silver ford escort with no cd-player but by that time were were happy just to get out of there.</p>
<p>the rest of the trip went relatively well. we only got mildly lost in north carolina for a few minutes. then we met up with anthony and kim in downtown chapel hill for dinner. while we were eating, some guy in a spiderman costume wandered through the restaurant. then, later, in the parking lot of a supermarket we stopped at to pick up some wine, we saw some guy riding by on a unicycle. kim assured us that guys in spiderman costumes and on unicycles weren’t everyday occurrences in chapel hill and that things were just weird because we were visiting. </p>
<p>then we went back to anthony and kim’s little purple house in the middle of nowhere to have a quiet evening drinking wine, talking, and watching videos. kim showed us an interview with Alejandro </p>
<p>Jodorowsky (the director). i’m not sure if it was something he said or was just translated oddly but he used the phrase “_____ goes straight to my balls.” meaning roughly “_____ really pisses me off.” we decided that this phrase definitely needs to be worked into our slang vocabulary. eg, “Budget Rental Cars goes straight to my balls.”</p>
<p>we also watched a tape anthony had of Bill Hicks’ last public performance before his death. it was filmed in london in 1992. interestingly, all his commentary about Bush and the US government’s habit of giving small countries weapons and then going and blowing them up is still entirely relevant and timely ten years later.</p>
<p>in the morning we went and said hi to the llama (i’m not sure i could have talked lani into driving all the way to chapel hill if i hadn’t remembered that they lived on a llama farm. the promise of llama’s was an important motivational force. although apparently they’re down to just a single llama now). then i insisted on going to a waffle house for breakfast (what’s a trip to the south without going to a waffle house?). it was cheap, greasy, and filled with rednecks; the experience was complete.</p>
<p>traffic going back into DC was scary but we managed to make it alive.</p>