we started the alf house in september 2002. it was me and three other kids from chilliwack. all of us have moved out since, but three of us have moved back in. patches moved in around october, although his name wasn't patches yet. devon and i take full credit. to put this bluntly, we put on shows, although these days, usually because of lack of other venue. i still love them, we still like them although there's a lot of mixed feelings about a lot of things. we almost got evicted because of noise, although that wasn't a show. it was a party and just our drunk friends and firecrackers in the backyard. i don't drink anymore and i'm still at the 'i-feel-super-alienated-by-drunk-people' phase of it because it's still a super recent on-and-off kind of thing. because of this, i always hope people won't drink and i even put it on the posters. people still do though and sometimes i'm bummed and sometimes i don't care. i hate that the eviction scare makes me so paranoid. a lot of people live here and lots live here again because they couldn't find other places to live and that includes a baby and if we all became homeless at once it was would pretty brutal.