Best band...

KUT U UP. STARRING IN THEIR OWN HILARIOUS DOCUMENTARY, RIDING IN VANS WITH BOYS. I seriously love this movie, and now it is on YouTube. Watch it.

Charles Baird Snyder.

Charlie and I met at a show in Charlottesville, and became friends, but then he moved to Richmond for art school. He is my number one BBM friend, and he visited Charlottesville over the weekend. We had a good time. He is a social butterfly and apparently has an intense urge to fight. Check out his blog at http://gearcrisis.blogspot.com.

TL: Best or Worst?
CS: Best.

TL: Best food you've eaten this week?
CS: Oh, uh...Chili's, when I broke veg with a rack of baby back ribs.

TL: Best joke you've heard recently?
CS: I don't think anyone's funny. Anything that comes out of Noah's mouth is a joke.

TL: Best way to spend a day?
CS: Asleep. Nothing bad can happen to you while you're sleeping...and your door is locked.

TL: Best current fashion style?
CS: Manly deep v-necks...with chest hair...and cut-off jorts.

TL: Best job imaginable?
CS: Going to college being unemployed...not having a job....or sperm donor.

TL: Anything else?
CS: Um...I wanna make a shout out to every girl at UVa who wears a dress to class everyday, and no panties...and my mom....who owes me money. Fuck everyone who says I smell like strawberries, fuck that.

Best Eater/Worst Eater...

Best...
Worst/Grossest...

Interviews tomorrow.

Best drunk

Eric, at the tender age of 16.

Best/Worst Sign

Taken at a "First Year Impersonation Party"....

Worst Cold/Rainy Weather Attire...

Good thinkin' Ruthie.

Worst camera phone to use to mobile blog...

Chris Becker's. That picture is one inch by once inch.

Best way to make money...

Driving drunk people around. $5/passenger. This girl was too drunk even for our services. I'm hoping she made it to the hospital.

Charles Edward Crawford.

Ned and I have been friends for awhile and he is my favorite Vegan Edge kid in the world. This interview was conducted outside of Alley Katz while waiting for Cold World to set-up.

TL: Best or Worst?

NC: Best.

TL: Best thing you've eaten this week?

NC: Um..I'm trying to think back..oh, fuckin' the sandwich I made today, um a dick and avocado sandwich.

TL: Best joke you've heard recently?

NC: Um...oh its a long one. I saw it on The Sopranos. A Chinaman goes into the eye doctor, and uh...doctor says, "I know what your problem is, you have a cateract." Chinese man says, "No I don't, I drive a Lincoln."

TL: Best way to spend a day?

NC: Um, Pipeline...Go to Pipeline.

TL: Best current fashion?

NC: Uh...Alex Ball's 'Core Costume.

TL: Worst job imaginable?

NC: Um...Whole Foods.

TL: Describe the best double date.

NC: I would go on a date with my grandmother in the past, and uh...and the other guy would be my grandfather in the past...and uh...his date would be...be...uhhhh....a clown, a female clown.

Eric Anders Benson.

Eric and I have been friends for probably two years. We once drove to Tennesse, ate breakfast and came home. We also used to make Goals of The Month lists, and Eric made one and it was the best list ever made, he got them all done, so he retired from the game. I also made up new questions because the old ones were getting boring...word.

TL: Best or Worst?
EB: Best.

TL: Best thing you've eaten this week?
EB: Uh...hamburger wit some A1 sauce on that bitch.

TL: Best joke you've heard recently?
EB: Oh...I got a really good one. What do you get when you cross a brown chicken and a brown cow? Brownchicken Browncow hahaha...

TL: Best way to spend a day?
EB: Fishin', man.

TL: Best current fashion style?
EB: Um...tight on top baggy on bottom...for life.

TL: Best job imaginable?
EB: Just like...chillin'.

TL: Shoutouts?
EB: Shouts um...muhfuckin' Jake, Baby Loke, fuckin'....Chuck from Charlottesville, my boy. Nervous Bombers...that's it. Ned.

Worst place to eat: China.

6 foot cakes, gongs, stir fry, pot stickers, a fake Great Wall. The dining hall went all out today...

Too bad the food still sucks.

Worst Fashion Choice: Henry's Riding Boots.

Filled with balloons so they keep their shape. Henry never ceases to amuse me.

Best place to take a nap...

In Astronomy...
Photo by the sneakiest, Zack "Smokes Mad" Grasso

Christos Nelson Anastasopoulos.

I just met Christos right before we went camping. I like him a lot though, and he has the best nicknames such as Double Dos, Toast, and my favorite, Greek Toast. He now lives in Richmond. Christos and I were laying in a tent avoiding a really stupid fake ghost story.

TL: Best or Worst?
CA: Worst. (Jake says, "No, do best, I did worst.") No, I don't like best.

TL: Worst feeling?
CA: Being stabbed in the back.

TL: Worst job you've ever had?
CA: Uhhh bus boy at the Brick Oven.

TL: Worst purchase you've ever made?
CA: Oh shit. I bought that pop-up penis lighter on tour.

TL: Worst time of day?
CA: Uhhh....middle of the day. Noon.

TL: Worst place in the world?
CA: Um...Hang on...Athens, Georgia.

TL: If you had to kill someone in the next 24 hours, who would it be?
CA: Um, I don't know if I'd wanna kill someone. But I wouldn't wanna kill myself. If I have to... I don't know! Probably like, Sylvester Stallone. Bruce Willis is better than Sylvester Stallone anyway.

TL: If you found $100, what would you spend it on?
CA: Hmm...um, like right now? I'd probably buy a bike. Actually no, probably a lot of CD's that I don't have.

TL: Double date...
CA: Can it be like me and three girls? (Yes...lesbians.) No, Jessica Alba. (Jake, "That's such a bro answer, you need something clever.) And then...Bruce Willis...and he's gonna go with fuckin' Helen Keller.

TL: What do you want to happen to your body after you die?
CA: Uhhh you know...um, burn me. I guess...No. Dude. I wanna be shot off in a cannon. (A few seconds of silence)...towards a preschool.

TL: Something you would never do?
CA: Um.... NEEEEEEVVVVVERRR DOOOOOOOOOO.....betray my friends. (Jake, "That's such a core answer.)

Jacob Elliotte Schmitt.

Jake is the lead singer of Full Court Press and one of the few edgemen in Charlottesville. He now lives in Richmond attending VCU. He didn't like interview format, so we added some questions. Jake is also an associate of the Gear Crisis blog. He was blowing up a mattress while this interview took place, we were camping in the woods of Albemarle County.

TL: Best or Worst?
JS: Worst, always.

TL: Worst feeling in the world?
JS: Being around Pat...or...how Pat feels every day.

TL: Worst job you've ever had?
JS: Ummm...camp counseler at Camp Shenandoah...Swoop VA.

TL: Worst time of day?
JS: Any time I'm around Chris Becker...Hahahah

TL: Worst purchase you've ever made?
JS: Um, whenever I like bought food when I was going camping and I spent $30 and no one paid me any money...You know what I mean?

TL: Worst place in the world?
JS: Um...Christos! What's the worst place in the world? Oh..I'm gonna say Monta Vista. Where Jesse lived and a bunch of faggots lived with him. It was like where all the drunx punx and the kinderpunx (little kids who go to shows) hung out.

TL: Alright, some new questions...If you found a hundred dollars in your shoe what would you spend it on?
JS: Ummm...what would....oh, I'd buy a new skateboard.

TL: If you could go on a double date with anyone who would it be?
JS: I don't know how to answer this, cause I'm not very clever. I kinda wanna do some couple I wanna spite. Can I come back to this? (Ten minutes later) I want Alex Chappel to be the other guy...ALEX!!! (Talks to Alex) Can you just not use this question?

Henry Bonner.

"Smoking is my favorite pastime."

Taylor Lorraine Nystrom.

Taylor is my best friend. Probably one of the most interesting people I know, she's number 7 in the nation in rock climbing, attends school in Colorado, has one of the best families to ever exist and is always willing to help anyone out. I couldn't live without her. We did this over video chat because she is 1500+ miles away from me.

TL: Best or Worst?
TN: Best!

TL: Best feeling in the world?
TN: Um...I have a couple. Hugging people. Like those really good hugs, ya know? Like where you get your arms around the person. Not one of those little shitty hugs. The kind where you just hold the person for a second. Oh! And waking up and realizing you have another hour to sleep. Ahhh...

TL: Best job you've ever had?
TN: Umm...Working Rock Week, where I basically get paid to climb at the New River Gorge and "teach little kids to climb," but really I just get to climb more than they do. It's perfect.

TL: Best purchase you've ever made?
TN: I just bought a bike that I'm in love with...but no. I have one pair of shorts, boy's swim trunks. I have worn those every day of the summer to work for four years straight. Every day. And I think I only spent like, fourteen bucks on them.

TL: Best time of day?
TN: Uhh probably like...I like seven o clock when you're down with every...No, five. No. Noon.

TL: Best place in the world?
TN: Um. The New River Gorge. I love it. All the people I love, except you, are there. And of course the climbing.

TL: Please respond to Evan Chambliss' "Perfect Date".
TN: Awww Evan, umm I think it is very sweet and I'd love to my favorite restaurant with Evan. I was actually bummed because I came back to Richmond and I didn't get to see him. I guess we should go on this date when I come home at Thanksgiving.

Adrian Nigel Henson.

Adrian is a bum who hangs out on the Corner in Charlottesville. He's always asking bro's for cigarettes or change. He has a million good stories to tell (true or not). This interview took place on the Corner while he sipped beer from a Styrofoam cup.

TL: Best or Worst?

AH: Best or worst what? (It's just a question) Can I do two best and two worst or four best and four worst? Or no worst? (No, I mean like..what's the best place in the world, you know). Machu Picchu, definitely. (Okay, I guess we're going with best then.) Yeah... best.

TL: Best feeling in the world?
AH: Dealing? Oh. Feeling. Love!

TL: Best job you've ever had?
AH: C.I.A Library...construction

TL: Best purchase you've ever made?
AH: An $87,000 house in Culpepper...Virginia.

TL: Best time of day?
AH: After midnight...hahaha

TL: Best place in the world? Machu Picchu, right?
AH: Yes, Machu Picchu of course. Oh man, the floor there is magnificent. And it is about 16000 feet. You know, the growth and everything makes it perfect. And they have monkeys too. They're pretty timid though, not like those ones you told me about. Its pretty wild...and its history too. Its terrace farming. Yes sir, I realized how small the world is when I went there. I met some Japanese sailors who had blown off course and we just talked about the Red Sox and the Yankees and Osaka and you know they're related to the Incas and shit. They were there because their GPS blew off course. When I got back to Charlottesville, I went to pick up my good friend's mail, and on the cover...low and behold, you know who it was?

My Japanese sailor friends...small world I tell ya.

Roommate Update...

Nope.

Evan Patrick Chambliss.

I've known Evan for a few years, and he was the one of the only other people at my high school who was into hardcore. We had Shakespeare together, worst class but funny stories came from it, and we ate lunch together most days. Evan can be hilarious and at the time of this interview he was calling random people via the internet.

TL: Best or Worst?
EC: Um...Worst

TL: Worst feeling?
EC: How about...um...when you just made a PB&J and you drop it face down into dog hair or something. And you've already had a shitty day.

TL: Worst job you've ever had?
EC: Working at that shit ass Indian restaurant.

TL: Worst purchase you've ever made?
EC: Like, weird knives when I was little, you know, like fantasy knives like shaped like a dragon and shit...and cigarettes.

TL: Worst time of day?
EC: Um...5.30 AM and you've stayed up all night and it's getting light?

TL: Worst place in the world?
EC: Um...can this just be a best AND worst and say Harvie?

SUPPLEMENTAL QUESTION: If you could go on a date with anyone in the world, who would it be, where would you go, what would you eat, what would you drink, and how would it end?

Are you serious, it would be like Angelina Jolie...Oh no, I know what it would be...you ready? Taylor Nystrom. We would, we would go to...her favorite restaurant, we would order her favorite food...and it would end...with us getting married.

Dorm life...

Bored to death...

Jonathan Warren Parker.

Jonathan Parker, better known as JP, has been a friend of mine for awhile. He is my best friend's brother's best friend, so I've been seeing him ever since he was in high school. He is the lead singer/heartbreaker of Pendleton (http://myspace.com/pendletonpendleton). I also had a streak where I would see him wherever I went. I saw him on four college campuses within two months. JP is always down for fun.

TL: Best or Worst?
JP: Worst.

TL: Worst feeling in the world?
JP: Being in debt...or like, dreading work because your boss hates you.

TL: Worst job you've ever had.
JP: Ukrops cashier. It fucking sucked.

(Long discussion about Ukrops...)

TL: Worst purchase you've ever made?
JP: That old straight edge hoodie that said "Drinking Sucks" on the back. It was like, $25 bucks. That's like two cases of beer.

(Long discussion about the edge...)

TL: Worst time of day?
JP: Uh...depends on the time of year. Like, in the summer time, if it's hot, I hate late afternoons...unless I'm in the shade.

TL: Worst place in the world?
JP: Uh..Darfur or Somalia..or Siberia.

Disappearing Act.

Yesterday, around 1 P.M., I was taking a nap in my dorm room. Alex Ball had left just a few hours before and I was finally catching up on sleep. I woke up to a knock at the door. "Fuck that, I'm not answering it." I thought to myself. Then I heard a key go into the door. This is quite peculiar because 1. the door was unlocked and 2. no one has a key but me. I figured I was dreaming.

A kid who I'm assuming was a fellow first year comes in and sheepishly introduces himself as "JP" and tells me that he is my new roommate. He seems pretty shy but also quite happy to be there. Being the antithesis of a morning person I grumbled a "Nice to meet you," and then told him that he couldn't move in until I had cleaned the room. He told me he had class till 6:30 or so, and "Would that be enough time to clean?" I said "Absolutely," and he left. I went back to sleep.

When I awoke a few hours later, fully energized, I realized I had some serious cleaning to do. I knew this day would come, but I had no idea it would be this abrupt. Combine that with the Hurricane Alex Ball that had wrecked my room the few days prior and I was in for some heavy duty tidying up. I spent the rest of the afternoon cleaning, until my class at 6:30. I also grabbed a bite to eat with my mom, who was in town for a few hours to see a specialized doctor.

So, 6:30 came and went and still no roommate. I went on some adventures that night and returned to my room at 3:00 A.M. Still no roommate. I woke up this morning at 8. No roommate. I went to class, slept through my 2:00 class and he still hadn't arrived. It is now 24 hours after he was supposed to come back and I haven't heard a word. Nothing from my R.A., I haven't seen him around campus, none of his stuff is here. I don't know what to make of it.

I think I might be going crazy.

Having two blogs is annoying.

Any stories, pictures, interviews, etc. will now be posted on this blog.

Eric Raymond Ackerman.

I don't really know Eric but we met at a show in C-Ville. He is a fellow blogger, so check out http://www.gearcrisis.blogspot.com. This is the first entry I've posted from my cell. Crazy.

TL: best or worst?
EA: um...best

TL:Best feeling?
EA: Happy!

TL: Best job?
EA: Lifeguard, i guess.

TL:Best time of day?
EA: hm...2am

TL: Best purchase?
EA: My bike....no, a surfboard.

TL: best place in the world?
EA: Oh man....charlottesville.. haha
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