goodolmike: (happy at All American Grill)
goodolmike ([personal profile] goodolmike) wrote2011-01-04 07:29 am

My Oldest Friend

Last night, Mark and I met up with my friend Justin for dinner. He's my oldest friend and the closest thing I have to a little brother. It was nice to catch up on life. About ten years ago, he moved to Florida, so I see him about once a year.

We went to Randy Jones's All American Grill, and I had a kick-ass bacon burger. I think he had salmon. Good times.



A lifetime ago, Justin worked with both Mark and me at Toys R Us. While he was working there, he met legendary comic artist Jim Lee and eventually landed a career as a comic book colorist. He currently colors Marvel comics like Uncanny X-Men and Ultimate Spider-man.

Both raised in religious households, we met at church (of all places) when I was 11 and he was like 8. We weren't really friends until one summer when he came to live with us for a week.

Years later, we started playing music together. We never played live, but we recorded a lot of music. Want to hear something we did back in 1995? Check it out.

[identity profile] titoagogo.livejournal.com 2011-01-04 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Rockin'!

[identity profile] andybr.livejournal.com 2011-01-05 08:22 am (UTC)(link)
I so dont get the finger movements?
Were you choirboys together? I can so see you as a choirboy...

Yay us!

(Anonymous) 2011-02-04 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
I have been slacking in checking this, your non-FB source of news and events. I was honored to see I made a post! It's wurreal hearing how long it's been. We's some ol' skool homies. Next time I'm out, we gotta hang for more than just dinner, mofo. It should be summer sometime, so brace yourself for chilling.

-=j.h.p.