Even on holidays i grab the computer if i have spare 3 mins to check what's up in Chemical Land X-D 2 more weeks till the gig...!! I'm in Edinburgh now , its such an amaaaazing city , there a cool festival now with loads of cool music and stuff. Yay!

It was a gorgeous day, and 'stash is back from a 3 week stint in Minnesota, so we headed down to the beach.



The water was like glass and there was hardly any surf, and it was perfect for hanging out and browsing the tidepools.



And all I wanted to do was hang out on the beach and read the new Harry Potter.



So we packed up our stuff and headed down. I immediately buried my nose in the book while 'stash went off with our son to check out the shorecrabs and sea anenomes. 'stash's stepdad Brad came down with our brother-in-law, and they'd been drinking a nice cabernet beforehand and thought it would be a fantastic idea to bring their drinks down to the beach in large, conspicious blue tumblers.



Paying little attention to their shenanigans, I kept on reading and my brother-in-law stashed his blue wine filled tumbler behind my chair, then he wandered off to check the tiedepools.



I don't know how much time passed, but the next thing I knew these 2 cops came up to me and Brad, and with the sort of assertive young rookie cop tone to their voices, they asked, "So... you mind telling us what's in those blue cups?"



I looked up from my book (I was only on page 35) and said, "what?" because I'd completely forgotten that my brother-in-law stashed his wine filled cup behind my chair.



"Ma'am, is that your drink?"



"No sir. That's not mine," I answer.



"Well, who's is it and what's in it?" they ask, their tone becoming more accusatory.



Brad is sitting there doing his best impersonation of a beach chair while I'm getting grilled. And I'm just sitting there with my Harry Potter book on my lap, doing my best not to look the cops in the eyes and sort of glancing off in the distance at the tidepools where 'stash, my bro-in-law and son were. All while wondering why I'm getting the flak for other peoples' stupidity.



"What's your name, ma'am?" they ask. And I tell them, and they're writing stuff down, and I'm thinking "this is so fucking stupid, like the time I got pulled over 14 years ago with my friend's huge bong in my backseat... 'oh no officer, that's not *mine*'... yeah, right... goddamit it, I just want to read my book"



So finally Brad steps up to the plate and admits one of the drinks is his and that I haven't been drinking, so at least by this point the cops' attention was diverted to my sheepish father-in-law. Meanwhile, my head is down and I'm glancing over at 'stash and crew as they're making their way up the beach with confused looks on their faces wondering why the cops are hassling Brad and me.



Then bro-in-law, bless him, says the drink behind my chair is his, and I'm off the hook. But some few minutes later Brad gets cited with a $100 ticket for consuming alcohol on a public beach.



*blah*

It's my birthday today! Yeah i'm 16 years old :D

Happy Birthday Big Boy

Happy birthday dear egil. ;)



So, tomorrow I'm going on vacation in the south of france with some friends of mine. I hope we'll survive since we damn don't know where to sleep nor what to eat. But in the other hand, we know what to drink for sure... :P



See ya in a few days people!!

Happy birthday egil!



Chrisman you lucky frenchman, I could do with a trip to the south of France right about now. :D

Happy Birthday, egil!!!



Hope you had a great day!



Enjoy your youth! ;)

Chrisman Escribi�:

So, tomorrow I'm going on vacation in the south of france with some friends of mine. I hope we'll survive since we damn don't know where to sleep nor what to eat. But in the other hand, we know what to drink for sure... :P



See ya in a few days people!!

Cool deal, sounds like good times. Have a fun trip.



And be sure and take lots of pictures (like you need reminding!) X-D

Thanks everyone! I had a quite nice birthday I got an iPod shuffle =D



Looking forward to you're pics chrisman ;)

Happy b-day Egil!

Happy Birthday!!! :P

Whirly , what a bummer , fucking 100 dollars for drinking in public ,man i am glad not to live in the u.s.a.... 8O



ONLY 10 MORE DAYS ahaaaaaaaa untill i will experience chemical magic and dance like a monkey HA HA HA!!!!! (That was monkey noise )



I LUV YA'LL PUMPKINS!

10 days and counting jeanie!



HA.. shattered 100dollars for drinkin in public.. move to Northern Ireland where when u drink outside u get gifts n stuff :P

Naw they say we have drinking fines but alot of people in the suburbs drink on the street corners and people in town carry there pints about with them.. and shtuff



I.E we dont have drinkin fines... :D

Equalizer Escribi�:

whirlygirl Escribi�:

Well, I think someone was probably playing a joke...

The open letter was not a joke. True, it seemed pretty harsh when I read it back to myself. But that was really what I intended it to be? a stinging (but honest) criticism of something that was very important to me.



The Chemical Bros. music was sacred to me. But I had a seriously negative reaction to some things on Push The Button, and wanted to share my reaction with those who created it.



Popular musicians wield so much power through their art ? power to change and influence. Thus, I feel musicians have a responsibility to use that power carefully. By jumping on the slam-Bush-bandwagon, I feel the Chems were irresponsible with their power. Regarding Dylan and the Beatles ? I don?t particularly like their political stuff either. Like my im buddy said about musicians who get political? take drugs, play music and stfu!



I must say I was surprised by the vitriol spewed at me by other posters. For people who surely consider themselves a tolerant bunch, many demonstrated a good amount of intolerance toward someone who holds different opinions (me!). One person, although he/she knows nothing about me except a few paragraphs I wrote, even expressed explicit hatred for me. I would loathe living in that person?s utopia, where everyone agrees on everything and divergent views are verboten.



The fact that the original post was deleted demonstrates that even the board?s moderators prefer to squelch open dialog and the expression of unpopular opinions (relating to politics or Chemical Brothers music).



Equalizer

Go eat a big bag of dicks, your opinion is WRONG.

I drink in public quite often, it just has to be done discreetly, with a backpack to hold the carryout, or a Slurpee in which to hide the tequila or vodka.



A couple of friends were busted drinking at the beach the other day and told they could either dump out their beer or get a $185 ticket between the two of them. With only about $4 worth of beer left, it was not a tough decision.

lol Too Bad for ur friend.. thats what happens if we get caught over here aswell..

I once got fined $50 for underage drinking in public a few years back! my dad had to pay for it 'cos I was 16 and didn't have a job and he wasn't very happy!



We never see much police around when I drink in public which is a good thing though they were everywhere at the St kilda festival this year and ever second person had a beer in their hand and they didn't seem to care....although it was a alcohol free event... :P I've never been so trashed in my life.

yeah well beat this - i was pulled over by a cop last year after i decieded to leave my friend's party when i was sooo under the influence. ;-) he gave me a breathalyzer and i think i blew .9 or .09 i can't remember the correct scale (for measuring how drunk you are). instead of giving me a DUI and taking my license away the cop said "you have been very cooperative, so i will give you MIP (minor in possesion)...",even though i was 18 at the time. so ofcourse i thanked the mother fucker for making my life more miserable.i had to go stuipd AA meetings and had to pay 200 dollar bills and 6 months of mother fuckin probhation.I never felt guilty about it or apologetic to my parents at all.

wow your very very very lucky........cops around here never give anyone a break.....a old buddy i had in higschool, blared his music pretty loud in his car while just leaving his drive way, meanwhile a cop was right near by his house...he heard his loud music, and pulled his car over....wrote him up a $75 ticket........o yeah in my town we have crusing vialtions...if a cop sees you passing by the same spot like 3 or more times in a car at night you get ticketed.......now thats fucked up

Bosco Escribi�:

if a cop sees you passing by the same spot like 3 or more times in a car at night you get ticketed.......now thats fucked up

:o

That's just fascist!