What was your graduation party like?

R. Sean Ghallager's Graduation Party - March 22, 2006 - CNN Skate Palace & Hennesy's

This was R. Sean's speech.

"Both the long and the short of my thinking behind inviting each individual with whom you enjoy yourself skating beside this fantastic and never to be forgotten afternoon lies rooted in one simple life fact.

Every single one of you at some point of my twenty - six and one half years on this planet Earth; turning oxygen into carbon dioxide, has at one point or another stood with me enjoying the lives we live together.

Through our shared experience in success, of failures, regrets, appreciations, tribulations, vocations, trials, resentments, laugh[t]ers, loves, and squab[b]les; I now find myself overwhelmed only with gratitude.

Through this roller skating at CN's Skating Palace I am in R. Sean's way attempting to thank each and every entity responsible for their part in shaping the current creation of this Ghallagher. The man who now stands before you recognizing and renouncing his love for the life he is now leading.

Thanking You.
Loving You.
Sean"


Here's just a small sampling of the pics courtesy of the Conquer.


It's his party and he'll do what he wants to


Sean and his sisters


The O'Donnell family


Andrew


Don't fuck with this guy


Some lovely ladies


Andrew P. Warcraft and some cake


That dude looks fantastic


R. Sean and R.



Rock Stars get all the girls


Double fisting


One handed!


Crew Deep!

Philly's Rad (vol.1 - music)

Rolling Stone loves Philly bands!
Dr. Dog
The Teeth

The Fader loves Philly bands!
Spankrock
Dr. Dog again

Pitchfork loves Philly bands!
Man Man = 8.3
Plastic Little = 7.4 video

Beck loves Philly bands!
Best of 2006
1. TV on the Radio: Return to Cookie Mountain
2. Miss Violetta Beauregarde: Odi Profanum Vulgus et Arceo
3. Spank Rock: YoYoYoYoYo
4. Liars: Drum's Not Dead
5. Madlib: The Dudley Perkins "Expressions" Instrumentals
6. Crystal Skulls: Outgoing Behavior
7. Dr. Dog: Takers and Leavers
8. Girl Talk: Night Ripper
9. Cornelius: Sensuous
10. The Raconteurs: Broken Boy Soldiers

I was waiting for Avi to post this . . .

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DentonTall Tales #6

I remember the day I went to speak with my guidance counselor about college very well. He had given me a book with lists of colleges in them, listing each colleges pros and cons. I immediately went to the Pennsylvania section and began looking for schools in the Philadelphia area. I could have cared less about majors, off-campus living, or meal plans. My main concern was the proximity of the school to Love Park. Upenn was out, I had no portfolio so the Art Institute was out, West Chester University seemed like a possibility. I walked into my guidance counselors office, told him confidently about my plans for the future, then waited patiently for his response. The first thing out of his lips were, “Have you thought about the military…..?” I never talked to him ever again.

Denton Tall Tales #5

Back roads were serious party areas. You could drive out to nowhere and not see any houses or see any cars and just turn up the stereo and party dude. It was convenient I guess. Every once in a while you would pass one of your friends driving and it would be hysterical because you were both in the middle of nowhere doing the same thing.
We were partying one night on a road that just ended. It was a dirt road and suddenly it just stopped in the middle of a big field. This was completely normal. Past the field there were trees, but there were no houses in sight.
Someone noticed two small lights coming from the woods, and I got this creepy feeling like when I watch Unsolved Mysteries. The lights were coming closer and closer, directly across the field. I wasn’t sure what the hell it was and there was a collective anxiety among the group. We stood together facing the lights coming our way, squinting, trying to make out what it was. Suddenly directly in front of us was a gigantic Bigfoot type truck, plowing through the field, coming right at us. It was bouncing up and down. The truck pulled up in front of us, asked us if we were hunting, explained to us that they were cracking down on illegal hunting, told us to have a nice night, and then drove back through the field. We were in the MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, smoking blunts and underage drinking, and the Deer Police almost busted us.

Denton Tall Tales #4

During the summer I worked painting houses. I worked with Crazy Rednecks and they would play pranks on me all the time. They would make me paint something on a roof, take away the ladder and leave me up there for most of the day, or lock me in a closet and eat my lunch, shit like that. We had 2 vans that we would take to work, one was for the beer drinkers, the other was for the weed tokers. I met Rob in the weed van. He was a weirdo, grew his own shrooms, and told ridiculously elaborate lies that you wanted to laugh at but he probably would have fought you if you questioned him. The 2 stories i can remember:

1) His friend was riding his harley down a country road. He was driving between 2 hills about as tall as his head. suddenly a deer tries to jump from hill to hill, crossing the road. The deer doesn't quite make the jump and lands directly on the back of the harley. His friend then drives all the way home with the deer on his back, kills the deer and makes dinner for all of his friends. Rob was at the dinner.

2) When he was a teenager in Florida he was drinking some cold ones with his buddies. A stranger approached them and asked them if they wanted to make some extra cash. they said sure. They all climbed into a van and were handed flashlights, then they were driven into the boondocks on an old country road. The van stopped and they were all instructed to lie down in the ditches lining the road and to turn their flashlights on. Fifteen minutes later a small plane landed on the old country road directly above them. They unloaded the contents of the plane, "pure Colombian cocaine, man", into the van, the plane took off, and they all made $20.

Rob was also part of one of the funniest things I have ever seen. He would leap over things at work all the time and say his agility came from his army training (he was never in the army). One day he tried to jump over a deck railing, his feet got caught up, and he landed face first REAL hard. The rednecks lost their shit, and I laughed so hard i almost threw up.