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Posted by: Cosmin Lupu May 11 2014, 03:06 PM

Writing in a post earlier, I thought it would be a good idea to talk about our favorite places to hang out with friends For me, there's this fancy little restaurant/bistro in Bucharest, held by one of our fans. It's called 'Casa cu tei' and that means 'The house of the linden tree'. The chef - also the owner, likes to treat us with all sorts of incredible foods and sweets that he cooks himself. It's really like having your own chef who treats you with something different but delicious every time

Where do you hang out and why?

Posted by: Spock May 11 2014, 03:32 PM

I'm a home-body. Even when I use to hang out places, it was someone else's home and even now, I prefer to stay here in my "lab" or to my friends where the jam room is. People who are alike gravitate towards each other, and me being very introverted, my closest friends and even my wife are introverted as well. Meaning, we get our energy recharged by being alone and quiet working on a project or something like that - as opposed to being extroverted and being charged by having contact with people or crowds.

I still enjoy going places though like this past weekend. But typically my wife and I enjoy going to Charleston or Savannah and staying in hotels that are reported to be haunted - we also enjoy going on ghost tours.

But my favorite place in the world, is right here at home.

Posted by: bleez May 11 2014, 04:12 PM

Im the same as Spock, quite introverted and I much prefer hanging out at home, besides all my stuff is here
Im not too fond of crowds, Im happy with my own company.

That sounds quite cool. Have you ever seen anything really weird when staying in one of those hotels?

Posted by: klasaine May 11 2014, 04:46 PM

I too got the family thing going on these days so consequently ... not a lot of 'hanging out' anymore.

I go out or stay out after gigs. There's a couple bars and coffee shops in my neighborhood where I run into other muso buddies. Also my wife is pretty social and we have people over to our place all the time.

Posted by: Ben Higgins May 11 2014, 04:51 PM

I don't get out much but if things changed I'd get my butt over to Europe and hang out with some Germans.

And maybe a Finn.

Posted by: Gitarrero May 11 2014, 04:58 PM

I love you too!

Posted by: Spock May 11 2014, 07:37 PM

Not yet man. However, we never have gone through all the footage either. The most boring aspect is going over footage of a dark empty room. It looks like the video is on pause - and we have tape with hours of it - but to my knowledge, we have not captured anything.

I had a few experiences when I was a teenager, then saw a picture from a source that I know to be 100% reliable in the early 90s - so that peaked my interest in the stuff.

Posted by: dcz702 May 11 2014, 09:06 PM

i dont go out to much anymore i dont like crowds, im a bartender in las vegas at a busy casino in a nightclub and i just get tired of being out around drunk people all nigh , so i like staying home and playing guitar. my favorite place to hang is with my girl going to out sweet home community pool, its like a resort pool, the comunity pays a 100 bucks a year and out hoa makes it real nice. i like to stay home with me gear and play guitar. i have been trying to get her to go out with me to check out local bands and open mics in vegas but shes not feelin it

Posted by: bleez May 11 2014, 11:23 PM

It must be really cool doing that sort of stuff. I can imagine how boring it must be going through hours of footage, how nuts would it be to see something kinda weird! that would probably freak me the hell out!
Ive been fascinated in that stuff ever since I was a kid watching 'Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World' on TV I'd like to go on ghost hunt for sure, probably not on my own though, Im a skeptic .........not a noob
I suggested that maybe Cosmin and Monica could go and check out the hoia baciu forest in Romania on my behalf...... they weren't so keen though

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi May 11 2014, 11:29 PM

Great topic!! I have many ones, but this is a place where I use to go very often because I've become a big fan of Mexican Food. This place is called "La Fabrica del Taco" and it's around 20 blocks from my house. I use to go there with my girl and friends.

I have never gone to Mexico but it seems that it looks like Mexican Street Food stores.

Posted by: SeeJay May 11 2014, 11:34 PM

I think I am a lucky guy. I have friends that own bars, coffee shops, bakeries. There's also a great little spot that a marketplace for 10 or so businesses.

But one of the best things my wife and I came up with is what we call TNDC (tuesday night dinner club) (previously monday night dinner club until my wife's schedule shifted around). We have about 5-7 people over most weeks. Everyone brings some food or drinks and we just enjoy each others company. It's cheap, fun and depending on who comes depends on the outcome of the night. Sometimes it's just a nice polite catchup, other times it turns into an all night rager.

it has definitely made for better friendships.

Posted by: PosterBoy May 12 2014, 06:43 AM

Bed

The wife and I don't have that much time or energy to go and hang out. I suppose the gym and church are like 2nd homes to us though.

Posted by: Cosmin Lupu May 12 2014, 01:09 PM

Haha! No way! I will definitely go!



This sounds like a great idea! I think I will try it too I have some friends who know how to cook, so they can bring all the goodies with them, when they come

Asa general conclusion, I notice that a lot of folks here have families and that's pretty much keeping them in, aside the jobs and all the related aspects.

Have you tried having an evening out once in a while when you just forget about everything and enjoy time with friends, like in the old days? I'm sure it's a very good way to get over a lot of hurdles that life throws our way

Posted by: Monica Gheorghevici May 12 2014, 01:17 PM

I don't go out too much because I never find free time to do that. But if it happens to go out, I go at riding horse and I have a place when I like to go to eat. It's a restaurant near Bucharest (30 km), it named "Hanul Lupului" in english it sound something like "wolf khan". There it's very quiet and a clean air away from city mess. Also the food and cocktails have an awesome taste.

Hahaha......I will let Cosmin to go first or..... if Cosmin assures me that he can beat a ghost with a sword I will go with him

Posted by: Sensible Jones May 12 2014, 03:54 PM

My 'Hang Out' is 'Cookham Social Club'.
It's a Members Only club run by a Committee of Members. I am the Club Secretary and I also work behind the Bar a couple of times a week.
I've played Pool for them in the local Pool League for the last 10 years or so.

If I'm not there then I'll likely be found in one of the other local Hostelries.

Posted by: SeeJay May 12 2014, 04:50 PM

My gal and I have stayed at the Marshall house a few times in Savannah. Bet we could swap some stories.

Posted by: Spock May 12 2014, 05:51 PM

Awesome - yes we stayed at the Marshall House 2 years ago. I still have footage I have not gone over from there, but did not catch anything at this point. I put the video camera on night vision and placed it at the top corner of the bed and was able to capture wall to wall - the only way you could tell the camera was running was because there was a box of tissues that sort of flickered in the wind of the ceiling fan - I mean, IS IT TOO MUCH TO ASK FOR A CIVIL WAR SOLDIER TO WALK THROUGH THE ROOM???!!!

My favorite place to go through in Savannah is the Sorrel-Weed House.

We've had some great walk-throughs there, and others not so great, last year there were a bunch of drunk college girls which ruined it for us, but we have gone through with just 4 of us too. Talk about spooky, that basement especially. Last year was the first time at the Sorrel-Weed I tried to capture EVPs, but the drunk girls made it impossible, I tried to make sure they saw my dissatisfaction with them.

Also we had a good time at the old Jail in Charleston - only a few people were there and it was late at night, still didn't catch anything.

As for Marshall House, it is a great place to stay when in Savannah. We stayed at Old Harbour Inn last year, but next trip I think the Keyhoe House, check this bad boy out...



and it's a 4.3 out of 5 stars.

Posted by: Ben Higgins May 12 2014, 06:26 PM

Uh-oh.. sinister 'members only' clubs ?

Is there a secret handshake involved too ?

Uniforms ? Tell me there's uniforms

Posted by: SpaseMoonkey May 12 2014, 07:45 PM

I'm a home-body, I'm an introvert also. I can't handle large amount of people for a long time. I can do concerts due to the common grounds, outside that not so much. So typically I hang out in my room with my guitars. I do however enjoy going out for drives on nice days to try new restaurants with friends.

Just last week I went to DC. I got to see some monuments, museums, and the White House. Stayed 2 nights and did 3 days of activities. By around the middle of day 2, I just wanted to go back home to my room and play my guitars I lost interest in the trip.

Posted by: Cosmin Lupu May 13 2014, 07:52 AM

Yes, yes! Neil, tell us what this social club is all about

I for one am a nature lover and I get a tremendously good feeling when I get to visit places and know people I think this photo says it all:

Posted by: Sensible Jones May 13 2014, 03:32 PM

Yep, it's so sinister that anyone can get a Membership!!
No funny handshakes for the Members, although the local Masons hire the room upstairs for their Lodge Meetings!
The only Uniform you have to wear is Lederhosen with an ABBA T-shirt. It only has to be worn once, upon your initiation to the Club.

Posted by: SeeJay May 13 2014, 07:05 PM

Oh, you guys are intense about it. I don't think I believe in that kinda thing. Orbs and such caught on film. But we did a ghost tour and took all the pictures and such. it was silly fun.

Posted by: Cosmin Lupu May 14 2014, 07:47 AM

I believe that there's something out there for certain People usually make stories up, simply because since the dawn of time, we have been used to talk silly things about what we don't understand..yet

Look at the prehistoric humans - they believed that thunder and lightning are deities punishing them for some reason. As humanity evolved, science has demonstrated what these things really are. Who to say that one day, we won't really understand ghosts, or even get to communicate with them without the whole horror story attached?

Posted by: bleez May 14 2014, 08:17 AM

indeed, we now know they are created by NASA to cover up the sound of space battles.

Posted by: Spock May 14 2014, 08:48 AM

That's sort of my take on it Cosmin. I used to believe in the standard, face value definition of a ghost when I was younger. Now I am not so sure that holds much water.

I can't put my finger on a definition. I think some "residual hauntings" are things that may somehow be etched into the environment. Like the picture I saw in the early 90s. It was a picture of an old house being burned down. It was taken by the husband of a little 80 year old woman I use to work with at a local newspaper (she was our proof-reader - a retired school teacher). She and her husband were "salt of the earth" types, very religious and didn't even own a television set. There was an old house on their property which was at one time used for storage - it was the house her husband grew up in. They decided they wanted to clear the land so they had what was called a "controlled burn", where the local fire department came in and set the house on fire and stayed there to make sure nothing got out of hand. So the husband took pictures of the event. Most pictures were of them just standing around, nothing abnormal. But in 2 of the pictures there was clearly the misty figure of a woman standing in the window of the house which was on fire. She was wearing a light blue blouse and had her hair brown pulled back. (She was not visible except for in the pictures - which were standard 35mm film) The window she was standing in was the old kitchen window. Mr. Newton (the man that took the photos) instantly recognized the woman as his mother when she was younger. In one picture she was not as formed as the very next one taken. And the thing about it was, is that she did not die in that house. But I guess here energy somehow was captured in the environment. This is just something I can not explain.

In another instance, the woman that was my lawyer during my first divorce, was also my friend (and the girlfriend of my best friend) during high school. We had a few instances at my friends house. My friend actually had 2 little sisters that died in in house. 1 was 8 years old when she died, and the other was an infant. Later on his mother also passed away in that house. To make a long story short - Katherine (my lawyer) saw his eldest sister 2 times, not in the same year. The first time I had something happen there I was in 7 grade. I had gone in to use the bathroom (we had been sleeping on the back porch) and when I went into the bathroom, I left the door open and left the lights off - and walking out I heard a faint crying coming from behind me out of the bath tub. I told my friend that his sister (the one that was alive which had been adopted after the death's of his two little sisters) must have been sleep walking and was in the bathtub. We checked and the bathtub was clear and his sister was sound asleep in her bed. That is when I first learned of his two younger deceased sisters and he told me that his mother had seen one of them as well. He never had - and was not frightened by the thought of it - being his sister and all.

Another time, many years later. A friend and I "felt" the presence - broad daylight, it was very thick, almost like a cross between walking in water and opposing magnets. The stronger it got the more I felt I was going to faint. Bryant's parents were out of town that week, so he, and some friends of mine decided to spend the night there - except for Bryant , who slept in his old bedroom, the other 3 of use slept in the living room. We all 3 saw a pulse of light, about the size of a basketball ( I would estimate about a foot from the ceiling and 2 feet from the wall) It just flicked on and then flicked out. Sort of like a lightning bug mores than a light switch.

I won't bore you with anything else. And I don't have an explanation. But I can understand that unless someone has their own personal experience - it is a very difficult subject to believe.

Posted by: Ben Higgins May 14 2014, 08:53 AM

Sounds like my kinda place !

Posted by: Sensible Jones May 14 2014, 03:41 PM

I'm sure you'd fit right in!!

Posted by: Cosmin Lupu May 15 2014, 09:18 AM

Never thought about that version, to be honest

Wow! Amazing stories man! Thank you VERY MUCH for sharing I am a curious person, by nature and I do believe that there's more to life than meets the eye and more than we can understand at the present time. For now, all we can do, is believe and try not to get frightened, although it is in our nature, whenever things concern something that we do not understand.