The Boy With No Name
Not Jesus or Jeremy Freeze, Just some dude.
Maggie G. hiding
YokoThursday, May 15, 2008
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
The weekend that i hung out with the NFL
Last weekend i went to the movies to see Iron Man (no link required, you either know or don't). Anyhow i decided to go with my friend Cody that i used to work with and his roommate Stephan (i think that was his name). Before the movie we went to Cody's apartment and played Super Smash Brothers, and some sort of WWF wrestling game on the Nintendo Wii. It was sweet and i think i want a Wii. We head off to the two and half hour movie, and sit through the credits to see a secret scene featuring Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Furry. I thought the movie was great, i hadn't read too many Iron Man comics as a kid, or as an adult for that matter, but i am familiar with the character and most of his background. I feel like they did a pretty good job of portraying him in this Hollywood movie. The ending did kind of pissed me off and Cody made a good point about it. I would see this movie again and look forward to a sequel. There were lots of great previews before hand. The new Indiana Jones, Prince Caspian, Incredible Hulk, probably a few others.
After the movie i decided that i was up for an adventure. I had received a phone call from my friend Chris telling me that Martin Rucker was having a private party at Tonic for his birthday. This party was invite only and Chris had been invited and told he could bring whomever he wanted, i was on the list. I called Chris and was informed i had 15 minutes to meet up with him, i needed to run home and change clothes, as this was a fancy clothes place and i wasn't looking fancy. I booked it, showered, changed and was back downtown in about 18 minutes. I meet up with Johnathan and drank a quick beer at Sparky's Ice cream and then we were off to Tonic to meet everyone. Inside was a very odd setting off professional NFL players (i think 7 or 8 total), college football players, their girlfriends, some of the strongest looking dudes i have ever seen, $100 bottles of champagne being passed around, about 10 people i knew (all friends of Chris's), and a very out of place me. The night was crazy and was only made comfortable by mass amounts of drinking. I was glad i had a few friends there, and that i could brag about a crazy night of partying with NFL players, and got to see Chase Daniel be completely sleazy, making out with girls left and right, dancing very naughty, etc, etc.
The night ended with me fitting 3 other people in my car and taking them to Chris's house, as we pulled in the drive way, one of them stuck his head out my door and vomited all over the place. Chris wanted to go to the casino in Booneville. I wanted to go home. So i went home to sleep off the night.
The next morning Cedric (Chris's roommate) calls me to see how he got home. He was one of the 3 i drove home. He wanted to make sure he didn't puke in my car. He informed me he woke up in all of his clothes, with his shoes on and a space heater running, it was around 100 degrees in his room. He waned to go get some food so i drive over and pick Chris and him up and off to Apple bee's we go. After stuffing our faces and possibly feeling worse than i did before i got there, we all went back home. I went back to sleep, they got ready for work.
That night i went to Eastside Tavern, it was Big Pants birthday show and Jarret was going to be bar tending. It was going to be like the old days of Eastside. I hadn't spent much time there in the last 7 months or so, we haven't played there in probably a year. We were asked to play this show and decided not to. Haii Usagi was playing and they are great, Pharos was also going to play and i had heard good things about them. When i saw them i didn't hear good things. I won't go into what i think was right or wrong about this band, just not my thing i guess. Jarret didn't really end up bar tending until late in the night, Pants wasn't there for most of his own party, one of the two bands wasn't that great. Pants also announced that night that he eloped early in the day, and that this wasn't just a birthday party, but a party for that as well. I think it left a lot of people shocked. I went home after being invited to a few parties. I wasn't feeling it.
Sunday i slept in and knew that i would be eating dinner at my moms house for mothers day. I did a little bit of art, went to moms for dinner, and then went to band practice. That was pretty much it for Sunday. I was not looking forward to Monday and going back to work.
After the movie i decided that i was up for an adventure. I had received a phone call from my friend Chris telling me that Martin Rucker was having a private party at Tonic for his birthday. This party was invite only and Chris had been invited and told he could bring whomever he wanted, i was on the list. I called Chris and was informed i had 15 minutes to meet up with him, i needed to run home and change clothes, as this was a fancy clothes place and i wasn't looking fancy. I booked it, showered, changed and was back downtown in about 18 minutes. I meet up with Johnathan and drank a quick beer at Sparky's Ice cream and then we were off to Tonic to meet everyone. Inside was a very odd setting off professional NFL players (i think 7 or 8 total), college football players, their girlfriends, some of the strongest looking dudes i have ever seen, $100 bottles of champagne being passed around, about 10 people i knew (all friends of Chris's), and a very out of place me. The night was crazy and was only made comfortable by mass amounts of drinking. I was glad i had a few friends there, and that i could brag about a crazy night of partying with NFL players, and got to see Chase Daniel be completely sleazy, making out with girls left and right, dancing very naughty, etc, etc.
The night ended with me fitting 3 other people in my car and taking them to Chris's house, as we pulled in the drive way, one of them stuck his head out my door and vomited all over the place. Chris wanted to go to the casino in Booneville. I wanted to go home. So i went home to sleep off the night.
The next morning Cedric (Chris's roommate) calls me to see how he got home. He was one of the 3 i drove home. He wanted to make sure he didn't puke in my car. He informed me he woke up in all of his clothes, with his shoes on and a space heater running, it was around 100 degrees in his room. He waned to go get some food so i drive over and pick Chris and him up and off to Apple bee's we go. After stuffing our faces and possibly feeling worse than i did before i got there, we all went back home. I went back to sleep, they got ready for work.
That night i went to Eastside Tavern, it was Big Pants birthday show and Jarret was going to be bar tending. It was going to be like the old days of Eastside. I hadn't spent much time there in the last 7 months or so, we haven't played there in probably a year. We were asked to play this show and decided not to. Haii Usagi was playing and they are great, Pharos was also going to play and i had heard good things about them. When i saw them i didn't hear good things. I won't go into what i think was right or wrong about this band, just not my thing i guess. Jarret didn't really end up bar tending until late in the night, Pants wasn't there for most of his own party, one of the two bands wasn't that great. Pants also announced that night that he eloped early in the day, and that this wasn't just a birthday party, but a party for that as well. I think it left a lot of people shocked. I went home after being invited to a few parties. I wasn't feeling it.
Sunday i slept in and knew that i would be eating dinner at my moms house for mothers day. I did a little bit of art, went to moms for dinner, and then went to band practice. That was pretty much it for Sunday. I was not looking forward to Monday and going back to work.
The Great Mistake
Today at work i printed approximately 1750 shirts, 152 of those shirts were printed wrong. As i was on shirt 102 or so, the guy next to me says,"this word looks weird", i said, "it looks weird because you just keep seeing it over and over again". He said, "no, i think it is spelled wrong". So i stopped. After looking at the word OFFICAL on the shirt and immediately knowing that it should be spelled O-F-F-I-C-I-A-L i decided if i came that far i must finish before saying something. After all this wasn't designed by me, it had slipped through the art department and was approved by a customer, then the screens themselves were burned by my manager (at 4:30 am, trust me i heard all about how he did them first thing in the morning) I couldn't break his heart, and let him know that he had fucked up. It also had been touched up by another person, set up by me, and proofed by yet another person. Then it was printed over 100 times before someone noticed, and yet another person at the end of the dryer that the shirts come out of didn't notice either, nor did the artist who created it, that was standing next to her talking, or the owner of the company who looked at a few and said these look great. So as the last shirt went on the press i simply said "hey i have a question for you, is that how you spell official"? The response was um um um no it's not. So who gets yelled at for this mistake that passed so many before him? Yes, me of course, did i mention that the shirts had already had the fronts printed on them as well. My manager suggested spiffing (an act of spraying a image with a very strong chemical that removes ink from clothing, very time consuming) all of the shirts. Instead we will be re-printing these shirts later in the week. My punishment, my manager being an asshole all day. Remember he burnt the screens first thing in the morning and would have been the first to see the image, remember he didn't graduate high school, is a redneck, racist, claims to be christian, has worked the same job for 18 years, yet knows less than most of the people who work there. So I present to you the great mistake, it's OFFICAL.
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Thursday, May 8, 2008
caribou pictures
found these and thought i would share. one more video might be on the way, and then we are done with caribou for awhile
Burger Kingdom
Burger King now has this HOLY SHIT, and Columbia might soon have a band called Burger Kingdom. A burger with mashed potatoes, what will they think of next. Basically if you can make it into a burger someone will eat it. I was seriously kind of grossed out by this.
The week went like this:
Monday- work, home for a few hours, met up with everyone at Billy's and headed out to Nina's wedding at the winery in Rocheport. The wedding was nice and short, and i think Nina achieved all of her goals. After the wedding, there was a gathering and eating of appetizers and drinking of sangria. A little talking with mostly Columbia people (most were musicians), then inside for dinner, drinks, and cake. Then a dance party (80's themed) reception in the basement of the winery. We left early and caught the rest of the Cardinals game on the radio. My stomach hurt from 8 glasses of sangria and cake with too much sugar. Over all a good night and wedding. Congrats Nina and Pat.
Tuesday- work, it was a little rough due to Monday night. After work a nap, then a meeting with what looks like is the new lineup (touring format) of The Foundry Field Recordings. I feel pretty comfortable with this and i am getting excited to get things rolling. Oh by the way Flat Branch has added the shrimp pesto pizza to the menu, it's my new favorite.
Wednesday- work, and home. That was about it, i worked a little more on my "sketches" project and finally posted a few.
Thursday- work, and home. Today was a bad day at work. I hate my job, it makes me sad.
Friday- work, and then I'm not sure. Possibly going to see Iron Man, even if i have to go by myself.
The week went like this:
Monday- work, home for a few hours, met up with everyone at Billy's and headed out to Nina's wedding at the winery in Rocheport. The wedding was nice and short, and i think Nina achieved all of her goals. After the wedding, there was a gathering and eating of appetizers and drinking of sangria. A little talking with mostly Columbia people (most were musicians), then inside for dinner, drinks, and cake. Then a dance party (80's themed) reception in the basement of the winery. We left early and caught the rest of the Cardinals game on the radio. My stomach hurt from 8 glasses of sangria and cake with too much sugar. Over all a good night and wedding. Congrats Nina and Pat.
Tuesday- work, it was a little rough due to Monday night. After work a nap, then a meeting with what looks like is the new lineup (touring format) of The Foundry Field Recordings. I feel pretty comfortable with this and i am getting excited to get things rolling. Oh by the way Flat Branch has added the shrimp pesto pizza to the menu, it's my new favorite.
Wednesday- work, and home. That was about it, i worked a little more on my "sketches" project and finally posted a few.
Thursday- work, and home. Today was a bad day at work. I hate my job, it makes me sad.
Friday- work, and then I'm not sure. Possibly going to see Iron Man, even if i have to go by myself.
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Sketches Part 2
Bill Cosby
Larry Bird
Ringo Star
Unknown Subject
Bill Paxton
Justice 1/2.2
Seth Rogen
Bat For Lashes
Larry Bird
Ringo Star
Unknown Subject
Bill Paxton
Justice 1/2.2
Seth Rogen
Bat For Lashes
Friday, May 2, 2008
Caribou who?
Last night a band called Caribou from Canada were playing in St. Louis, Fuck Buttons. I had never heard either band before. The catch of the night was, that my good friend Ahmed Gallab was filling in playing drums with Caribou. Ahmed plays in a band called Sinkane, which is a new Emergency Umbrella records band and he really is the brainchild behind it all. Sinkane had problems with their tour van and ended up canceling a few months of touring, while Ahmed was trying to figure out a plan or alternative means for the next few months, he received a email from Caribou stating that their drummer had broken his arm and they were in need of a replace drummer. Ahmed jump right on it and now has been touring with them for close to a month in the states and was headed to Europe in a few days. I have known Ahmed for a few years now, as he used to play in a band called Sweetheart that Bald Eagle played with many times and he became my go to guy for shows in Ohio. He have hung out many times, stayed at each others houses while on the road, and now are label mates (again in sorts, but that's a different story). Anyhow Ahmed has been very lucky to be a part of the Caribou tour and will also be joining Of Montreal on a upcoming tour, again playing drums. Then it will be back to focusing on Sinkane. So while i h ad never heard Caribou i felt like it was a good chance to see one of my friends i hadn't seen in a while.
The day began with me getting up at 6am and going to work until around 3pm. After a shower and change of clothes, i met up with Billy, Justin, and Zach and off to St. Louis we went. We got there early in hopes to go out to eat with Ahmed, but Caribou was running a little late and when they arrived they needed to do a sound check. We waited out and went for a walk and got a drink at a nearby bar. Back to the venue, for Caribou's sound check and to meet our friend Ryan who lives in St. Louis. We gab Ahmed and load six people into the van and we are off to eat. After food happenings, we head back to the club and catch The Fuck Buttons, I was not impressed by their brand of noise/feedback that was coming from two people essentially playing laptops set on a table. I was happy when they stopped and hoped to god that Caribou was not like them. Soon Caribou took the stage and blew my expectations out of the water. They were great, and i am not sure if it was the fact that my friend was playing drums for them, but i think they would have been great anyways, he just added to it. Ahmed has always been good at drums, but i was seriously blown away by the shit he was doing, after what seemed like a hour and half of straight performing and drumming they were done. We said our goodbyes and headed back to Columbia, for a night of little sleep and a early morning of work at 6am.
I tried my best to take some pictures and video of Caribou, from the show. The pictures are so/so, but the videos turned out nicely. So here are a few, i have 4 total but only 3 will load, as the 4th is rather long and i will see if i can figure something out for a later post, as it is easily the best sound of the 4 and shot kind of cool as well. Anyhow enjoy the sweetness of Caribou and more importantly the drumming of Ahmed.
1. Short and sweet, 32 seconds of awesomeness (sound quality is kind of bad on this one)
The day began with me getting up at 6am and going to work until around 3pm. After a shower and change of clothes, i met up with Billy, Justin, and Zach and off to St. Louis we went. We got there early in hopes to go out to eat with Ahmed, but Caribou was running a little late and when they arrived they needed to do a sound check. We waited out and went for a walk and got a drink at a nearby bar. Back to the venue, for Caribou's sound check and to meet our friend Ryan who lives in St. Louis. We gab Ahmed and load six people into the van and we are off to eat. After food happenings, we head back to the club and catch The Fuck Buttons, I was not impressed by their brand of noise/feedback that was coming from two people essentially playing laptops set on a table. I was happy when they stopped and hoped to god that Caribou was not like them. Soon Caribou took the stage and blew my expectations out of the water. They were great, and i am not sure if it was the fact that my friend was playing drums for them, but i think they would have been great anyways, he just added to it. Ahmed has always been good at drums, but i was seriously blown away by the shit he was doing, after what seemed like a hour and half of straight performing and drumming they were done. We said our goodbyes and headed back to Columbia, for a night of little sleep and a early morning of work at 6am.
I tried my best to take some pictures and video of Caribou, from the show. The pictures are so/so, but the videos turned out nicely. So here are a few, i have 4 total but only 3 will load, as the 4th is rather long and i will see if i can figure something out for a later post, as it is easily the best sound of the 4 and shot kind of cool as well. Anyhow enjoy the sweetness of Caribou and more importantly the drumming of Ahmed.
1. Short and sweet, 32 seconds of awesomeness (sound quality is kind of bad on this one)
2. A few minutes long and in color (sound is bad on this one as well)
3. Longer and better sound quality
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