Friends . What do you think we're doing here most days anyway . Really I find most I talk to today...really talk to not just hey how are ya...are friends from back in the days. Old work or school friends who have usually seen you at your best and at your worst. Being honest I've always kept people at arms length early on but once you're in then its bond. Somedays stand offish like a prick and somedays you cant get me to shut up. Have never been into big scenes or popular crowds and my tight friends I can count on maybe two hands. That said I've always hung out or talked to anyone and probably comes from youth when raised military so you move all the time. One year you're in white as rice suburbia and the next you're being bused into a gated bungalow school surrounded by 19 yr old cholo sophomores with full mustaches and hair nets. I've workmen on crews where no English was spoken and I've worked in clinics where I'm the only dude surrounded by 10-15 females. I've partied with gay straight and lesbian and never took time to ask for someone's tribal I.D to decide if they were cool. One year we met a massive cast who did Rocky Horror picture show and that was an eye opener. 20+ lived in a huge house by the theater and a couple of us would drop by to buy crappy weed and pocket cheap beers on the weekends. Not a straight person in the place and not our type of hang out but after being kicked out initially because 'you three look like skins' we actually got to know some well. Where I live now I see a melting pot from creole, Vietnamese, black, white to depending where you go downtown even some WTFs. People are people and who am I to judge. If you can get by my weird shit, occasional glare and bad metaphors then I'll buy you a beer. Life's too short.