Guy Fieri was always a member of Eastcide.
Ticket #1 for the 1st ever Open Road Music & Arts Festival! Get your own for $8 (until 8/4) at http://tickets.openroadfestival.com, they go up to $15 after 8/4/10
Interview With a Friend: Kristie Santos
This is Kristie Marie Santos and she shapes young minds.
Q: What is your current passion in your life?
A: I have two, travel and food. I want to see as many places as I can in this world and food is honestly what I think about most of my day. I am seriously passionate about vegetables and condiments and the many combination possibilities of the two.
Q: Name 1 band you love right now, 1 food that you think is delicious right now, and 1 activity you currently enjoy doing.
A: Well she is not a band but she is BADASS: Carol King. She is…I cannot even find the right words to describe her. She is a hot shit and a babe. One food would have to be sushi mmmmmm and one activity would be pretending I live in a tree.
Q: When & how did you first meet me?
A: I first met you a block away from MINT the spot. I was crying on the side of the road and you picked me up in your black bomber and gave me a ride home, which took us awhile to find. (Editor’s note: This is a lie.)
Q: What’s for breakfast?
A: one banana, cereal with almond milk OR an egg with cheese on an english muffin.
Q: Smoothie or Slush?
A: Smooooooothie please.
Q: Name something that you want to do within the next five years. You have a specific long-term goal?
A: In the next five years I would like to complete my masters, live in a spanish speaking country for at least 6 months, ride an elephant in thailand, visit India, live in Austin, Chicago, NYC, for at least a year each, road trip across America, and assemble as many delicious sandwich recipes as I can.
Q: What’s a memorable & unique story about yourself?
A: I hiked the grand canyon, down to the colorado river at the base and back up to the top, with a 74 year old man from Switzerland I met on the trail. We nicknamed him swiss miss.
Q: A moment, phrase, or song that has changed your life the most.
A: “Happiness is available. Please help yourself to it.”- Being Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh. “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” - Anne Frank
Q: Do you have anything you’d like to promote? websites?
A: Karma is endless and it’s loving that leads to love.
Tickets to Open Road Music & Arts Festival are on Sale!
Tickets can now be purchased online for a low pre-sale price of $8 through Venuevents. After August 4, the price will go up to the regular price of $15. If you procrastinate, you can get them at the gate for $20 on the day of the festival. The tickets will be printed on 50% recycled paper too!
If you’re a Facebooker, you can RSVP on the event page. We hope to see every and every one of you there to help make the first year a success.
Creative Projects
Creating and completing creative projects for one of your own ideas (a music festival program out of an 11x17 poster) is so much more gratifying then a project assigned to you (school or a corporate job).
I’m never going back to the corporate 9-5 world or college.
Interview With a Friend: Thomas Godfrey
This is Thomas Philip Godfrey (with a Robert tossed in there if you’re counting full Catholic names). He’s an “English Instructor” at a private academy in the lovely and dirty city of Cheongju, Republic of Korea (not to be confused with those dudes in the North).
Q: What is your current passion in your life?
A: My current passion is writing and photography. I’ve got nothing on Krakauer or Capa but I spend most of my non-teaching time doing one or the other. Practice makes perfect I suppose.
Q: Name 1 band you love right now, 1 food that you think is delicious right now, and 1 activity you currently enjoy doing.
A: When I am in my apartment I am constantly cycling through 8 different versions of the same O.A.R. songs but it makes me happy. Most of my daydreams involve burritos but they are basically nonexistent here so I would have to go with Korean BBQ: the kind with the grill built into the table that is probably illegal in the States. I enjoy playing my new, albeit crappy, Korean guitar.
Q: When & how did you first meet me?
A: I no longer remember but it more than likely involved the Lucky Dog and Castine.
Q: What’s for breakfast?
A: Rice and kimchi. Same for lunch, and same for dinner. Maybe throw in some squid tentacles for good measure.
Q: Smoothie or Slush?
A: Smoothie unless this slush comes from a Slush Puppy machine.
Q: Name something that you want to do within the next five years. You have a specific long-term goal?
A: I’d like to throw all of my little travel journals together into one centralized location. I’d like to not feel old and keep on living like I do. Maybe with a little less alcohol.
Q: What’s a memorable & unique story about yourself?
A: It is a long story, the short version of which is tattooed onto my arm. Basically my buddy Brandon and I tried to walk to Maine: we hitch-hiked, almost got run over by a Red Bull truck, destroyed our feet, slept in the sand, bathed in a drainage ditch, hitch-hiked again with two ladies and watched as the driver (just out of prison, I kid you not) drank six beers through out the trip. We ended up sitting on Hampton Beach under the stars while some kid played guitar. It was pretty moving.
Q: A moment, phrase, or song that has changed your life the most. (This is a new question to the Interview With a Friend Series!)
A: The two ladies who gave Brandon and I a ride bought us food and refused any of the money we offered. They said to us: “You know, we picked you up because we have daughters your age and we would hope that somebody would help them out if they needed it. So, just remember to pay it forward in the end.” I’ve tried to live by that.
Q: Do you have anything you’d like to promote? websites?
A: I suppose I do. I jumped on the non-Livejournal blogging bandwagon once I touched down in Asia. www.oriental-adventures.blogspot.com. It’s mostly day to day life but there are a few travel essays thrown in there for good measure.
