Rather than waiting to pontificate or ruminate on some musical epiphany, I thought I'd just share a few pics from the weekend.
We spent most of it working on a slamming cover of
Earth Wind & Fire's classic tune, September, but managed to make a few appearances about LA.
Adventure #1The Birthday of super rad DJ and BFT homie
C-Town in Venice! Mexican themed awesomeness with some of LA finest including
Anne Lee, Dirty Dave and of course C-Town's lovely lady, DJ
Valida (who is so fabulous, she has a life-size cut-out of herself in their vinyl stacked living room!) note: Fan of both proper vinyl and big cut-outs.
The theme was punk tee shirts and I wore a
Plasmatics shirt which far too many people didn't recognize. Respect ya'll! Apparently it was also a leather jacket party. I would recount more, but the Don Julio and antibiotics combined to pretty reliable memory eraser...
Adventure #2THE CalArts Graphic Design House Warming Party Feature a special advanced preview of our upcoming COLD FEVER music video by
Timothy Garrett!
Holy Shit! What were we thinking going to USC? CalArts Gallery shows feature free Pabst beer, strawberries, cookies and even orange sherbet and Gingerale! The Art was first rate too, until I had to touch a tee shirt display... opps. Never touch the art kidz.
Inner narrative, "
Opps, shouldn't have done that. I'll just hang it up... and drop it again on the floor.... shit. I'm totally that person who knocks over something... I hope no one is watching... but yes, yes they are."
Luckily, Tim came to the rescue and posed with us in front of some of his Stussy Designs...
Then we found a
GOOD Magazine with my hand on the cover! Why I'm throwing a peace sign escapes me??
Some of our favorite pieces...
Reebok pumps! Hollar!
Dan Deacon look a like? Stoop art with Nassir... Then it was time for the screening!
We were nervous (well, I was).
... and then the people clapped and all was well in the house of Toy!
Ok, real video coming soon... like tomorrow?!!
Adventure #3
Pirate's Night Out!
Sammy and I decided to hit up Redwood Bar to catch our fine buddy Barry (of
Something for Rockets) playing with his side project, featuring the spoken word of another BFT endorsed artist, Poet
Danny Stessen along with
The Gray Kid on bass. Kick ass.
It's really a Pirate Bar!
Our ears were both a little shot from mixing all day... note the glazed eyes...
but the show was superb along with the chick's afro that magically appeared in all our show photos...
...note bottom right hand fro' sweetness....
Got a little second wind thanks to the tiger cub family on my shirt compliments of Los Feliz finest vintage store,
Squaresville.
A fine weekend indeed... until the Lakers lost GAME 4 to the JAZZ! C'mon!
Onwards and upwards!
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