new message from jake epstein!

Hey everyone!

This last week has been sweeet. Best part about going to College and moving away from home is catching up with all your friends when you come back. I've spent most of the week with my bandmates, from my old band "Funkasaurus Rex," and other friends from home. I'll give you my week. I should warn you though, I am a movie fanatic. Or a movie `whore' as I've been told. I went to see a movie every day this week...but so what?! I haven't seen one in theatres in months.

Okay, so my week home went like this: Saturday night I went to this club with three of my good friends, who are girls. Now going to a club with a bunch of girls is very, very fun. You always have someone to dance with, and it's just cool. Haha, they know I'm kidding. These girls are some of my best friends, and know that I'm a goofball. Also, there was a great live band that played. On Sunday I went to see the movie `Capote' starring Philip Seymour Hoffman. Really brilliant performance; the movie is slow, but I loved it. That night went over to my friend John's to play poker. Poker's become huge with all my friends over the last few years. I'm not that good and most of my friends are. But I'm also a fast learner. I was up, I was down, ended up going `all-in' on a bluff and I ended up losing all my chips. But hey, it was fun. Monday was all about reconnecting with an old friend of mine who went off to another theatre school. It was great cause he's the only person I know who I can relate to and talk about the ridiculous parts of studying at a theatre school. I could mention the words "zone of silence" and he understood immediately. But the best part of the night was when I met up with my older sister, Gabi, later on in the night. We went out for Japenese food. I have a serious obsession with Japanese food. I don't know why. But it's always so delicious. Later we went to see this movie called `The Squid and the Whale.' Kind of a disturbing movie, but really well done. Tuesday, I hung out with my friend Neta. We went shopping, drank lots of coffee, and went to see `Memoirs of a Geisha." I did not love this movie. Wednesday, I babysat my little cousin, Zac. He's one and a half, and seriously the CUTEST baby I've ever seen. We played tag, hide-and-go-seek, and lots of versions of `peek-a-boo'.

Afterwards, I went to jam with my band Funkasaurus Rex. It was a crazy, intense, passionate fiesta of drums, bass and guitar. We free-styled, we grooved, it was a funky night. Anyway, after the jam, I went to a movie. Oh, don't give me that face. Went to see The
Producers and it was alright. It's really meant to be performed live on stage, but still a fun movie and Will Farrell is hilarious.

Thursday, I hung out with Danny, the girl I talked about in my last blog. She's awesome. We hung out, ate some food, went to a movie (Walk the Line). Friday met up with my bandmates, and just bummed around. We all went to support my friend, Dylan, and saw Cheaper by the Dozen 2. He has a tiny tiny part; but we all cheered him on for his line. Literally...we cheered in the theatre. Like, we almost got kicked out!

I'm off to the Dominican Republic and I can't wait! I'm going with my family, and a few friends and the next blog will be from there.

Until then, party on, and hope you had a happy Chrismakwanzaa.
Jake

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