by "Honeybunchesofgoats" (honeybunche0fgoats)
Published 06/27/2017 at 18:12
by "Honeybunchesofgoats" (honeybunche0fgoats)
Published 06/27/2017 at 18:12
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Apparently, I take a lot of photos while drinking. For these purposes, these are just things that came up with alcohol related tags when searching on my phone. Experiences when drunk will come later. These are just pictures of booze, since I don’t believe in posting pictures of people without their permission, and some of these people I’m not close to anymore for various reasons. Part two will probably be things I did while drunk for which there’s a photographic record.
The following should hopefully be chronological.
Fall 2013: Kvass in Bukhara, Uzbekistan. It was suggested to me that I drink too much and should switch to kvaas. It was also suggested I smoke to much. This was by a French person, what do they know about smoking and drinking, I ask you?
Bukhara: Yeah, those glasses are filled with vodka.
That’s Tamerlane’s tomb in Samarqand.. I was very drunk here, and we bribed some guards to let us in around midnight.
Bukhara: The brown bottles are beer. Some of the water bottles were definitely once filled with beer, because we could get them filled from the tap four less than a $1 and would usually stop and get four a night.
Winter 2014: Midtown Manhattan, somewhere. Possibly Tomi Jazz, but since it’s soju, I’m guessing it was a Korean bar by the U.N. I spent the night of a blizzard there and ended up spending the night with an elderly human rights lawyer who was advising the U.N. in the early days of the Syrian civil war. We got very drunk.
Winter 2014: almost certainly Guilin, China. This is beer I picked up on the street. There should be other beer photos here, but they have to wait for part two.
I would have thought Hong Kong, but there are settings for two, so I think Guilin.
I went to visit an ex of mine, with whom I’m still very good friends. She’s probably the closest friend I’ll ever have. Our original plan was to spend two weeks traveling China together, but after a few days of staying in the same room together, she “remembered why we broke up and you’re on your own.”
So on to Hong Kong, I went for a 1.5 week bender, which was not planned, but great fun.
I’m fairly certain this is Cathay Pacific on the flight back to New York.
Laphroaig, oh yes, I love you so.
I have no fucking idea what this is or why I drank it.
This was a good Bloody Mary. Having bacon in it means it’s some hipster shit. I think probably I must have had this while dating a girl who lived in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. She was probably the nicest person I’ve ever dated. I felt physically sick dating her. She’s my only ex who truly hates me.
November or December 2014: Malaga, drinking alone in a sherry bar waiting for friends who were arriving the next day.
Almost certainly Grenada.
Califa is a microbrewer in Cordoba.
Ages well.
Upper East Side.
Also Upper East Side.
Winter 2016, Madrid. Drinking alone, waiting for the same friends.
Also Madrid, also drinking alone.
Same.
Yup.
Barcelona at dinner, I believe.
Also Barcelona, at a tapas bar. The texting hands to the left belong to a drinking and travel buddy of mine. We had a falling out during the trip and I don’t expect we’ll ever speak again.
Cava at Montserrat.
Another tapas bar in Barcelona, I think.
Yup.
Christmas in a bar in San Sebastian.
A very big bottle of Txakoli, also San Sebastian, I think.
I think this was a Turkish restaurant in Toledo, on New Years Eve.
Really shitty blue wine in Toledo on New Years Eve. I was forced to drink it in punishment for suggesting that we order it.
He-brew. I’m always down for buycotting Israel. Plus it was surprisingly good.
"Honeybunchesofgoats" (honeybunche0fgoats)
06/27/2017 at 18:24, STARS: 0
Of these, I loved my shitty Chinese beer the most, but now I really want that bacon thing.
"AuthiCooper1300" (rexrod)
06/27/2017 at 18:28, STARS: 1
I’m confused.
So you went to Málaga, then rushed to the Caribbean... then went back to Spain to visit Córdoba?
"Honeybunchesofgoats" (honeybunche0fgoats)
06/27/2017 at 18:29, STARS: 0
:/
"Honeybunchesofgoats" (honeybunche0fgoats)
06/27/2017 at 18:36, STARS: 0
The takeaway from this is that my longest lasting relationship is with alcohol. I feel a genuine and intense love for it.
"JeepJeremy" (jeepjeremy)
06/27/2017 at 18:40, STARS: 1
I want that big Russian beer!
"Honeybunchesofgoats" (honeybunche0fgoats)
06/27/2017 at 18:42, STARS: 1
You probably don’t. It’s basically fermented bread and only like, 0.5% ABV. What you do want are 1.5 liter water bottles full of shitty Uzbek beer filled from from tap for $1.
"AuthiCooper1300" (rexrod)
06/27/2017 at 18:42, STARS: 1
Don’t worry, you are in good company: when Operation Urgent Fury was in full swing, Soviet TV showed pictures of... Granada.
Comrade Yuri Andropov – never exactly an easy chap to deal with – most likely ensured the culprits ended their sad inefficient lives in Vladimirsky Central.
"Honeybunchesofgoats" (honeybunche0fgoats)
06/27/2017 at 18:45, STARS: 0
I love the thought of that (showing Granada, I mean).
Although, for the record, having traveled to Spain a number of times, I think Granada is my least favorite place, with the exception of Barcelona, which I despise.
"unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins)" (unclevanos)
06/27/2017 at 18:49, STARS: 1
Does it include free membership to the FSB and gulag?
"Honeybunchesofgoats" (honeybunche0fgoats)
06/27/2017 at 18:53, STARS: 1
Is this a reference to my gulag story? If so, high five!
"interstate366, now In The Industry" (interstate366)
06/27/2017 at 18:56, STARS: 1
I’ve got quite a few on this phone. And lots more deleted from it...
"Honeybunchesofgoats" (honeybunche0fgoats)
06/27/2017 at 19:04, STARS: 1
I make a point of not deleting anything, because the really painful ones serve as great cautionary lessons.
Case in point:
This photo was taken with some Swedish people I met and went bar-hopping with. Possible while I was dueting Shake It Off with one of them.
I hit the eject button when they decided to visit a cathouse.
Things I learned:
Don’t go bar hopping with Swedes.
Don’t go bar hopping with anyone more attractive than me. The only one besides me opposed to going to a cathouse was unfairly hot and had already picked someone up and I was left without a wingman and four or so drunk Swedish college students looking for hookers.
"interstate366, now In The Industry" (interstate366)
06/27/2017 at 19:08, STARS: 1
I delete them simply because 90% of my phone space is taken up by music and i’m constantly adding and removing stuff. That said, I still have about 400 pictures on here.
"Honeybunchesofgoats" (honeybunche0fgoats)
06/27/2017 at 19:23, STARS: 0
I have issues.
"interstate366, now In The Industry" (interstate366)
06/27/2017 at 19:29, STARS: 1
Me too.
"Honeybunchesofgoats" (honeybunche0fgoats)
06/27/2017 at 19:31, STARS: 1
Actual conversation I had today:
“So, at some point on Monday I realized I hadn’t eaten in 30 hours. That happens surprisingly often.”
“How are you not dead?”
“Alcohol has calories?”
"interstate366, now In The Industry" (interstate366)
06/27/2017 at 19:34, STARS: 1
I can confirm that yes, it does.
"JeepJeremy" (jeepjeremy)
06/27/2017 at 21:41, STARS: 1
Yuck! Really?!?
How disappointing.
Then yes. I’ll have the Uzbek stuff! That sounds great!
"Honeybunchesofgoats" (honeybunche0fgoats)
06/27/2017 at 21:42, STARS: 1
I swear it tastes great when you’re already drunk. But sober? It’s the worst.
"JeepJeremy" (jeepjeremy)
06/27/2017 at 22:12, STARS: 0
I like the sound of that!
"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
06/27/2017 at 22:13, STARS: 2
All this shit is making me thirsty.
Lucky I’ve got some good Bourbon in the house.
Also, San Sebastian is awesome. Sangria spiked with god knows what got me obliterated there.
"Honeybunchesofgoats" (honeybunche0fgoats)
06/27/2017 at 22:16, STARS: 2
I love San Sebastián, but that is a weird fucking place. I went out looking for tampons at midnight there and got followed by some kids. They followed me for about two blocks calling after me until I turned around and put a cigarette out in my hand. They fucked off after that.
In my youth, I followed a drug dealer for a good ten blocks there before I realized he was trying to roll me.
Good times. I like that place.
"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
06/27/2017 at 22:24, STARS: 1
It is weird. I was warned about the local sangria, drank a shit load of it anyways, then ended up staggering home about a mile back to my hotel in the pouring rain when I decided I’d had enough. I have no fucking clue how I found it, but I did.
Was supposed to go to Bilbao the next day, but spent it on the beach by myself nursing a hangover instead.
My other memory is of a drunk local screaming at us for about ten minutes in Euskara, because he hated Americans or something.
Edit- fucked up the language name with the place name.
"Rico" (ricorich)
06/27/2017 at 22:26, STARS: 1
I wanna be like you when I grow up!
Had my first Tsingtao last week and it was better than I expected.
"Honeybunchesofgoats" (honeybunche0fgoats)
06/27/2017 at 22:31, STARS: 1
Spain is a beautiful place when you’re drunk and stupid.
I remember smelling pot so strongly at every bar that I thought it was easily available. After maybe 30 minutes, I found a guy selling. I rolled a spliff with him on a bench and he was trying to sell to other people, which I thought was really rude. So he was like “I have some really good stuff” and I was like, “oh okay.”
I followed that fucker for, like a good ten blocks asking “how far?” before I thought to myself. “Waaaaaaait. If you’re high late at night and some drug dealer keeps leading you into strange places, how is that going to work out for you?”
Those living in Harlem street smarts were there, but there was a bit of a delay.
"Honeybunchesofgoats" (honeybunche0fgoats)
06/27/2017 at 22:33, STARS: 1
Keep drinking that Tsingtao and you’ll get there.
I love that beer more than it deserves. It is the one beer that I make I point of always keeping stocked in my fridge.
"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
06/27/2017 at 22:39, STARS: 1
Heh— some of the people I was with managed to get some hash on Ibiza. Details are very fuzzy, but I remember it somehow being simultaneously very easy and difficult to get hold of. I think because the penalties were so high if you got busted? IDK
Most countries are beautiful if you’re drunk, I think.
I wonder if that dealer was kicking himself for not just rolling you after 8 blocks instead of all over town...
"Honeybunchesofgoats" (honeybunche0fgoats)
06/27/2017 at 22:41, STARS: 1
Oh, Ibiza...
I’m pretty sure Barcelona was the place I first realized that I did not enjoy coke.
I’m Waiting for the Man informed much of my youth.
"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
06/27/2017 at 22:51, STARS: 1
Yeah, I don’t fuck around with coke. Never tried it, never will.
I know myself well enough to know that it wouldn’t be good.
Not sure what to make of that last sentence, knowing what that’s about. ..
"Honeybunchesofgoats" (honeybunche0fgoats)
06/27/2017 at 22:55, STARS: 1
I highly recommend that. I have never had a good experience.
Imagine every awful thing about you, then magnify that by ten. That’s coke.
"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
06/27/2017 at 22:59, STARS: 0
I worry more that I would love it more than life itself, TBH.
Had an ex who stayed away from it because she loved it too much. But she had way more will power then I do.
"Rico" (ricorich)
06/27/2017 at 23:08, STARS: 1
It tastes like Heineken minus the skunk, 10/10 would drink again.
"Honeybunchesofgoats" (honeybunche0fgoats)
06/27/2017 at 23:17, STARS: 0
I couldn’t describe it better.
"Out, but with a W - has found the answer" (belg)
06/28/2017 at 01:11, STARS: 0
Wait, Omer in Spain? I’m constantly surprised by the export prowess of our brewers.
"Turbo Doritos" (booniebrew)
06/28/2017 at 06:04, STARS: 0
This is beautiful. I hope to do like 10% of this soon.
Is Laphroaig 10 or quarter cask better? I keep bouncing back and forth, and Ardbeg 10 is right there too. Can’t justify Lagavulin 16, but someday I will.
"haveacarortwoorthree2" (haveacarortwoorthree2)
06/28/2017 at 09:10, STARS: 0
No coke. Pepsi.