Weirdly enough I think both of these photos were taken on the same roll.
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I took a photo of a hole in the wall. This was a music venue in Richmond, VA appropriately called Hole In The Wall. I went to college in Richmond and this was pretty much the best place to see a small show. They didn't have a real liquor license so they could only sell beer so everyone would go there to see bands but there were two bars on the same block so people would leave to get drinks between bands and come back. It was a really symbiotic relationship between the three spots. At some point my friend John bought Hole in the Wall and I got a job there as a bartender. I didn't know how to be a bartender, but I did know how to open PBR tallboys so it didn't take too much training. I got hired on a Friday and Monday was supposed to be my first day, but over the weekend John found out that Hole in the Wall was never zoned for live music. He ended up pulling out of the deal and I never even worked a single shift. The bar became an Ethiopian restaurant (It was great actually) and within a couple years the other two bars on that block closed. Also the blonde girl in the photo was my friend Tony's girlfriend. I am guessing his band was playing that night and man I had the biggest crush on her. I had known Tony since we were in high school and when I was like 16 he and two other dudes from his high school band jumped me "as a joke". They were my favorite local punk band and supposedly my "friends" but that was pretty much the end of that friendship until I ran into Tony five years later when we were both living in Richmond. We sort of became friends again but that night was legitimately traumatic and I didn't forget. The other two guys who were involved were legitimately apologetic and in time I forgave them, but Tony not so much. A few years after I moved to NYC and became a successful photographer I was in Richmond visiting some friends and I ran into Tony at a party with his new girlfriend. He introduced me to her and was kinda hyping me up, talking about my photo career and stuff and then I guess he decided now that his girlfriend thinks he's cool for knowing a VICE photographer or whatever, he decides to tell her the story about how funny it was that he jumped me in high school. I fucking lost it. I went off on him and called him out for how fucked up that was and then I said something like "you know all about my career but you are still stuck here playing in shitty bands to noone and I haven't thought about you once since the last time I saw you". He basically broke down and almost started crying and genuinely apologize. He said the reason any of them were into punk was because they got bullied and he just turned that around and bullied me and he should have never done it and he had no idea why he did. He said he always liked me and was so impressed with my career and all that shit. It was incredibly cathartic and he looked so bad in front of the girl he was trying to impress. I accepted his apology and I meant it, but I'm absolutely fine that it was the last time I ever saw him. The end
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Gm. Working from my bed today because brick masons are cutting into the wall right next to my office with a saw that looks like a weapon from a video game. Between repairing the brick and the landscaping also happening this week, we are so fucking close to where we wanted to be on the house repairs on a house I bought ten months ago, but don't worry we still have plenty of projects for the future when I'm ready to burn more money.
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