In “The Boyfriend,” Travis and I had to do a relativly simple tap dance. Travis, however, did not find it to be relatively easy. He wanted to practice it all of the time. This annoyed the shit out of me so every night before the show went up, Travis and I would get in a huge shouting match in front of everyone back stage because he would want to go over the steps AGAIN and I didn’t want to.
Travis and Nicole
(Hat night at the bar…of course we were the only table doing it. Cuz it was our idea:)
Joey and Randi
Horror Movie Night (Except we didn’t watch one)
So one night at Nicoles, and it couldnt have been a thursday because we would have been drinking Bacardi Limon around a Bon-Fire if it were, we thought it would be fun to play Horror Movie. We made our friend Jake be the killer (Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees etc. style) where he would just walk around trying to catch us. We would run and he would just walk. And he would actually catch us! So when he did we would act out a brutal death. We ran around Nicole’s front yard screaming and running, and really acting like it was real. I eventually had no choice but to jump into Nicoles car and as his hand went to pull the handle I had the door locked. After talking to myself in the car about how scared I was, I witnessed Nicole dragging her leg through the yard as he was ready to finish her off. Um…we were 19.
*Nicole’s Edit* At one point Travis tripped and fell, pretending to break his ankle. As I desperatly tried to rescue him by dragging him on the ground, he kept saying, “It’s no use! Leave me and save yourself!”
One More Thing….
Forgot to mention we were 18 years old!
Travis’s turn to help.
So also during the week in a half it took us to make like three posters each, at school, we would be in chorale and me Nicole would try to talk to each other from across the room. Of course I never knew what she was saying, because instead of lipping the words with her hands on the side of her mouth she would cover her mouth. So I had no idea what she was saying. So after class we would wait for each other, cuz we had no one else to walk down the halls with. Because Im sure our teacher gave us solos without an audition and well it just made things worse. And after school, it was back to the posters and singing to “The Boyfriend.”
When we first created Lazor, Travis and I would talk "in character" for hours on AIM
| YooperRoo: | lets talk like we are joey and randi |
| YooperRoo: | and talk about things they'd talk about |
| TravisJDuBord: | OK |
| TravisJDuBord: | so you know how i was suppose to stop doing coke...well guess who talked me into it last night on the bus while you and becky slept, while mama drove the bus |
| YooperRoo: | is the sphynx seriously back into that? |
| TravisJDuBord: | um yeah...and talked me into after i cried to you saying i would never do it again |
| TravisJDuBord: | im so sorry |
| TravisJDuBord: | but shit, it was fun |
| YooperRoo: | Well as long as you don't get so into that that is what you live for like The Sphynx |
| YooperRoo: | but you know what, i'm sick of your "i'm a busy rocker" attitude. in case you forgot, i loved you BEFORE you were famous, so you don't need to pull that kind of crap with me. |
| TravisJDuBord: | hey...do you wanna be on Joey Lazors arm at the Grammys or Mister Mister.....so watch what you say to me...Cyndi Lauper is just a phone call away |
| YooperRoo: | oh please. i know that cyndi lauper is trash compared to me and you'd never be caught dead with her. as much as you like to play it cool and act like you don't care, you need me. |
| TravisJDuBord: | Keep telling yourself that. If thats the case why did Joan Jett do a line with us last night and beg me to sleep with her. You need me more then I need you |
| YooperRoo: | don't tell me that you honestly wanted to sleep with joan jett |
| TravisJDuBord: | Of course not, your the only one I would do that with. I just get upset and say things that I dont mean. I saw how you were looking at Brett Michaels, when we opened for Poison. He was ready for you...it was all over his face and yours. |
| TravisJDuBord: | Your just as bad |
| YooperRoo: | (OMG I AM LAUGHING SO HARD) |
| TravisJDuBord: | (me too!!) |
| TravisJDuBord: | (im getting really into this) |
| YooperRoo: | Joey, you know I flirt, but it's nothing more than that. I like the attention. I like feeling like I'm attractive. But you know that I'd never ever consider being with anyone but you |
| TravisJDuBord: | I just feel sometimes you cant keep up with my lifestyle. I mean you just need to let things happen, if I do a line and your next to me, you do one to, its rude not to, esp. in front of The Sphynx, you know his temper, plus its so in...and very very cool |
| YooperRoo: | i don't know joey... i'm just not comfortable. I mean, smoking a little pot is one thing, but doing coke? it just seems so dirty to me |
| YooperRoo: | (i bet if we talked enough like this we'd eventually start to believe we were them. I already think I'm randi way too much) |
| TravisJDuBord: | (me too) |
| YooperRoo: | (case in point is the fact that when we are talking like the real "us" we put it in parenthesis) |
The Boyfriend = No friends for Nicole and Trav
During the fall of our senior year in High School, Travis and I decided we were going to cast our fall musical, “The Boyfriend,” ourselves. Naturally we casted us as the leads. Then we stupidly shared it with our friend John Mackenzie and from there word got out. Well, after that, everyone hated us (even though we casted it practically perfectly) so we only had each other to hang out with. So we spent our time making musical posters on big sheets of posterboard for my mom to hang up in my house.
