mase loves Ozzy.
yesterday my teammates josh and bobby and i went to visit our friend Ma$e. we were walking to the dunkin' donuts, our arranged meeting place, and a couple other guys asked us for money, so we took Bob and James out to eat as well. but unfortunately Mase was no where to be found. Our other teammate had made him cookies and everything. we sat in Dunkin' Donuts for a while and just figured he didn't make it. but lo and behold. Mase showed up, with more jackets on than last time. He ordered the "Ma$e's Delight" ( a plain bagel with strawberry cream cheese and extra large coke, he gets it every time.)
we sat outside and listened to how he has 2 daughters and a son and how he loves to spend time with em because they are at an age where they need their dad alot.
he told us of his time in vietnam when he got "all shot to hell and back" and was carried out by his best friend Vinnie, an italian guy who now lives in Philly.
Mase, as it seems, is the life of the party among the guys that hang out at the bus stop. we found out that most of them are waiting for work vans to pull up so they can work for a while doing manual labor with whoever pulls up. Mase knows everyone and everyone knows mase.
truly, he's a genius. quite articulate and has a huge array of knowledge about early metal music.
you see, the reason mase is at our bus stop even though he lives over 30 blocks away, is because he loves music. The tweeter center is about 10 blocks from our bus station and he just sits and listens to whoever is playing on saturday nights. this week was aerosmith. he's not that big of a fan of aerosmith, but loves Black Sabbath, and began to sing "Iron Man," i also enjoy Black Sabbath and their contribution to music and began to sing along too, he knew the whole song verbatim. then he moved on to how much he liked AC/DC and his favorite newer band is Metallica, at least the "black album" era of Metallica.
it began to pour down rain, so we ended up standing just inside the door at dunkin' donuts with Mase and some of his friends just laughing and cutting up for about thirty minutes. it was an incredible time that i will hold sacred forever. i can't wait til next week.
we sat outside and listened to how he has 2 daughters and a son and how he loves to spend time with em because they are at an age where they need their dad alot.
he told us of his time in vietnam when he got "all shot to hell and back" and was carried out by his best friend Vinnie, an italian guy who now lives in Philly.
Mase, as it seems, is the life of the party among the guys that hang out at the bus stop. we found out that most of them are waiting for work vans to pull up so they can work for a while doing manual labor with whoever pulls up. Mase knows everyone and everyone knows mase.
truly, he's a genius. quite articulate and has a huge array of knowledge about early metal music.
you see, the reason mase is at our bus stop even though he lives over 30 blocks away, is because he loves music. The tweeter center is about 10 blocks from our bus station and he just sits and listens to whoever is playing on saturday nights. this week was aerosmith. he's not that big of a fan of aerosmith, but loves Black Sabbath, and began to sing "Iron Man," i also enjoy Black Sabbath and their contribution to music and began to sing along too, he knew the whole song verbatim. then he moved on to how much he liked AC/DC and his favorite newer band is Metallica, at least the "black album" era of Metallica.
it began to pour down rain, so we ended up standing just inside the door at dunkin' donuts with Mase and some of his friends just laughing and cutting up for about thirty minutes. it was an incredible time that i will hold sacred forever. i can't wait til next week.
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