September 23rd 2005 Posted to
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Post # 466 figured I would backtrack to October of 2003 when I go to take a trip to NYC to visit Sirius Satellite Radio HQ. This was one of the most fun trips I had ever taken. Got to stay in a nice hotel and see all the sights of NY that we had time for. But anyways my first experience drinking to get drunk.
I am a moderator at SiriusBackstage.com which is the #1 and only Sirius Satellite Radio Fan Site. And we got offered a trip to go out to NYC to meet with the people at Sirius which was awesome in itself.
So after a day ties and handshakes and laughing we went out to dinner in little Italy. I was 20 at the time and sitting around the table with Jeff, Ryan, Dave, Sterling, Me, Tom, John, and some other people from the Sirius Crew they brought over wine. I being the youngeset of the group said I was to young to drink but they just started to pour me this red wine.
And I had a glass and then another glass and another glass. I was feeling happy and enjoying the meal and just having a drunk good time. So we are all a bit drunk and we decide that hey lets go hang out. So I was sharing a room with Sterling at the time and we decide hey lets go ride the subway.
So we stumble out of the Hotel and down into the Subway since we were in Times Square we just crossed the street and down into the subway. And we get on there and sitting there going to whereever this subway happened to take us which was out to Queens in the middle of the night. So we are thinking “Shit Shit we need to get out of here” then we said “Back to Times Square” So we ran down the platform down the stairs back up the other side and were standing there trying to act not drunk.
We see this group of black guys all break dancing around a boombox. I thought this was to cliché and we had to check it out. So we walk over and they are all saying Hello and we are all freaking out trying to figure out why we walked over there and we just started to dance hoping we wouldn’t get stabbed. And they were all cool about it and the train came back and we said Laters and went back to Times Square.
We strolled into Virgin Records and Paul Van Dyk was mixing live for the release of his new record at the time Reflections and according to the recipt I was the 6th person to buy it. =)
So then we went back to the hotel and crashed. Next day we were at Sirius and Paul Van Dyk himself was there and I got him to sign my copy of his new CD. And called Ollie and was like Boo Ya I got to meet Paul Van Dyk and you didn’t so life went on. And that was my first drinking experience.