Ahhhh... a title
nod to that video my father and I made nearly
thirty years ago...
What an absolute
treasure that video is to me. And 30 years later, my
boy Kurtis (of
"Worst
Show on the
Web"
fame) texts me and asks: "Have any interest in
paintball Saturday? We play at an abandoned former oil
storage facility. Very super secret
location."
(sigh)
Really? Do you
really have to ask me? The world's first and longest
running video blogger is in desperate need of non-baby
video fodder and in 2013 I know exactly what to
do on a Saturday Afternoon: an apocalyptic war game
with paintballs and a camera and editing equipment my
father and I could only dream of in the
mid-80s...
Sooooooo fun.
Sooooo kinda not legal maybe.
Ahem.
I mean, once
you're in... you figure let's just float downstream
and see what happens. These two guys that Kurtis knows
are paintball nuts and have taken to finding abandoned
places around LA and actually building cover and
"sets" so to speak that most people, remarkably, leave
alone. It looks like it belongs there and I guess
until someone constructs something new on that
space... so it shall be.
But make no
mistake, we play our game or 2 and then move the fuck
on. We actually saw 2 hikers and one guy was like "Oh,
dude, should we worry?"
"Uhm, we have the
guns... what would you do if you were
them?"
I guess it goes to
show you that in most cases? Look like you know what
you're doing and you don't stand out. Even if you're
in camo shooting and screaming at people.
Of the two "maps"
we played (seriously, it was a videogame, so it's hard
to stray from videogame terminology) the forrest was
the most fun because of how much cover you had as you
jumped around... but with a little work? The two
buildings one could be amazing. I'd have even enjoyed
playing capture the flag on both sides of the tinier
house 3 on 3 so you could really piss your pants
around corners. Just some awesome, awesome
stuff.
Alright, back to
life. Was fun to be a teenage boy again.
THANK YOU KURTIS! Best text I've gotten in a
long time. See you at The GolfKon
Memorial.
