The Essence of Life...

....the guitar cup!

I was introduced to the infamous guitar cup on 01.03.04 at Jack Johnson's Kokua Festival. I was introduced to alot of things that night as a matter of fact. It was the first real event that Sarah Black and I had attended together and it marked the beginning of a BEAUTIFUL friendship, one that distance will never fade. At that festival I also found a girl to love, one that stole my heart like a careful thief, a future roommate and friend who would be the only other person to understand things like paper Christmas, Chocolate Pizza, and turtlecide. As if that wasn't enough....I developed a love for beer that very night.

See, I'd never been a beer drinker, at all. I just didn't have a taste for it. It made me gag. I was a bigger fan of "bitchpops" like Smirnoff Ice and wine coolers, or the foofoo drinks like pina coladas. Can I get a hell yeah for some Boones Farm?? I was a lightweight in every sense of the word. Never much of a "drinker" at all. Until that night...

The group of 1516 Ward Ave, that Sarah and I joined up with to attend this festival were pretty intoxicated before we arrived. NICE. The excuse? "It's Jack Johnson DAY!" Though I (being a cheap drunk) waited until we arrived at the Blaisdale Arena to actually have a drink. Lesbians are so cute when they are tryin to get in your pants :) It started off innocent enough with a screw driver that was no bigger than two shot glasses put together (ALL LIQUOR) which probably cost 18 bucks at the concert.

*side note, that has always amazed me, we go to concerts and get so caught up in the hype that somewhere in there we decide its ok that a 16oz beer costs 8 bucks.

3 or 4 screwdrivers later.....

I was beyond trashed and fit closely in with the group in attendance. They switched it up on me and started buying me beer. At that point, TASTE was no longer a factor. (And it hasn't been ever since...I love me some beer) I guzzled quite a few of those down. But, the guitar cup sat before us....glowing.....if we were going to drink beer, we needed to drink it out of the signature GUITAR CUP! As we waited in a line of 25 or so people to get another beer, we convinced ourselves that we not only needed this cup for drinking beer, but anything should go in the guitar cup. There was a strong fixation on drinking chocolate milk out of the guitar cup. Each of us managed to carry a guitar cup home that night as you might've imagined. Though it's pretty amazing we were able to carry anything home that night, including ourselves. The best part of it all, was the guitar cup, tho pretty to look at, was horrible for drinking. I think we ended up wearing more beer than drinking it. Something about rushing thru the skinny part to the wide opening at the rim...I dunno but it was fun.

Sarah actually sent me the picture last night sometime and I haven't gotten the scoop yet about where she was but that really doesn't matter because.....she had the guitar cup.