Groupies

It's official. My friends and I are now groupies.

Our neighbor, Gonzalo, is a musician who plays in 4 bands. This weekend and last weekend we went to his shows, got to know a bunch of his friends and have basically embraced our lives as groupies. It's pretty awesome, we even got a shout out at the show this weekend-- they thanked their Canadian fans for coming all the way from Canada to watch them. Nice, eh? It's fun walking into places and not having to pay because we're "with the band". ;)

It's a pretty good life- Gonzalo and his friends drive us around, take us fun places, help us improve our Spanish and most importantly- they are really entertaining guys who love to party. My sleeping patterns and my liver are suffering a bit, but it's more than worth the sacrifice.

It's quite a different vibe hanging out with these guys, they are all super creative (mostly musicians) and they have a completely different lifestyle than the grad-school-then-work-for-the-government . I'm pretty sure some of them will end up being semi/famous. A few of their friends already have their own Mexican television show where they play pranks on people. One of the guys on the show is going to be in a Christmas movie sponsored by Warner Brother's where he plays an elf that has been expelled from the North Pole for wanting to commercialize Christmas. Random, but awesome!


Here's a photo of Gonzalo onstage.