a brewing - flying punx is all i'm saying.
ryan!
Monday, February 16, 2009
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Saturday, February 14, 2009
Thursday, February 5, 2009
let me smell yo dick
Sooooo
After 2 days in the back of a covered truck with carl and derek i'm in gainesville.
The ride was long and silly, but mostly long. Carls farts smell like exhaust - actually we were breathing exhaust, I think.
Want to get home soon - might ride with deanna yet - otherwise we're riding thumbs in the cold.
ryan!
After 2 days in the back of a covered truck with carl and derek i'm in gainesville.
The ride was long and silly, but mostly long. Carls farts smell like exhaust - actually we were breathing exhaust, I think.
Want to get home soon - might ride with deanna yet - otherwise we're riding thumbs in the cold.
ryan!
Sunday, February 1, 2009
one, two, three, four, aaaaaaxxxxeeeemmmmaaaannnnn
Long times.
I got up to philly good - rode up with circle pat, hannah and john con. it was probably the funniest and scariest car ride of my life. those kids are totally rowdy. pat and john con would be throwing stuff all around and fucking with the driver (hannah) and we'd be swerving all over the place. I learned about a game called (correct me if i'm wrong) fire chicken where people set things on fire and whoever puts them out is the chicken.
Julio and I got in to philly on thursday night. We hung out with robbie and carl at a guy named purple's house. That night we were going to some party. We hiked it all the way out to this party in this super sketchy area and it turned out to be really cool. There were tons of kids into the shit we were. 40's of shaeffer beer. I met lots of cool people and was treated to vegan cake for this girl, ashleys, going-away.
Julio and I stayed in south philly at a guy named 'party steve's' place. Totally the weirdest looking place i'd ever seen. it was weird, fort thunder-style. everything was painted some color and there was a wall sized spiral-quilty thing on the wall with origami houses all over it. there was a blue piano with a bookcase, too tall for the ceiling (w/ subsequently removed ceiling tile) - the bathroom had like a hundred toy cars on the floor.
Next day we did things - julio and I hoofed it all over philly. Ate at govindas, walked through love park, saw some sculpture-turned-punx ride/slide - walked back to west philly and hung out at purples again with robbie and carl. I fixed my knee hole. After this we got some more 40's and headed over to the TWO show happening. The first show (the better one) was in a basement of a warehouse. Playing were retard strength (last show), social cirkle, some other hc band, and a really crappy band with matching clothes.
Social Cirkle is the best HC band today.
The show was cold/unheated, but after a couple times around the circle pit I felt great. the ceiling was super low and there were tons of kids. It looked like a fucking dungeon too.
A kid julio met, logan, offered to put me, robbie and julio up (carl was kinda-sorta rolling with a girl named 'scurvy.' Come to kind out later that some guy punched him on the subway and he was bugging about it and he and robbie got into a mutually pathetic drunk argument that was instantly okay in the morning.
The next show was a thrash/black metal show in a warehouse that was fun, but it was a little too much. For some reason, punx in philly are all about calling people "fags" or saying "that's gay". one band even was talking about trying out "sluts" for their "street bitch" 7". fucking dicks.
Stayed at logans - they put on a porno movie when we got there - mad awkward.
Woke up and took the subway/street car deallys here to chinatown for the show - we grabbed a bite with our last duckets at a chinese restaurant. Met up with derek, drank some beers in the alley then went and saw the BIG SHOW. It was lost cause, parasytic, behind enemy lines, mischeif brew, kylesa and AMEBIX. The show w/o amebix could've stood alone as an awesome show, but amebix was sooooooo awesome. feeling kind of fanboy right now. lolzzzzzz
After the show derek, john and I walked 60 blocks to a party that was over before we got there through a really sketchy area. Bummer. Got my pack back from this car, and slept at steve's friend brittany's place. Good things in philly - might leave today to either waldo or atlanta - hopefully waldo.
ryan!
I got up to philly good - rode up with circle pat, hannah and john con. it was probably the funniest and scariest car ride of my life. those kids are totally rowdy. pat and john con would be throwing stuff all around and fucking with the driver (hannah) and we'd be swerving all over the place. I learned about a game called (correct me if i'm wrong) fire chicken where people set things on fire and whoever puts them out is the chicken.
Julio and I got in to philly on thursday night. We hung out with robbie and carl at a guy named purple's house. That night we were going to some party. We hiked it all the way out to this party in this super sketchy area and it turned out to be really cool. There were tons of kids into the shit we were. 40's of shaeffer beer. I met lots of cool people and was treated to vegan cake for this girl, ashleys, going-away.
Julio and I stayed in south philly at a guy named 'party steve's' place. Totally the weirdest looking place i'd ever seen. it was weird, fort thunder-style. everything was painted some color and there was a wall sized spiral-quilty thing on the wall with origami houses all over it. there was a blue piano with a bookcase, too tall for the ceiling (w/ subsequently removed ceiling tile) - the bathroom had like a hundred toy cars on the floor.
Next day we did things - julio and I hoofed it all over philly. Ate at govindas, walked through love park, saw some sculpture-turned-punx ride/slide - walked back to west philly and hung out at purples again with robbie and carl. I fixed my knee hole. After this we got some more 40's and headed over to the TWO show happening. The first show (the better one) was in a basement of a warehouse. Playing were retard strength (last show), social cirkle, some other hc band, and a really crappy band with matching clothes.
Social Cirkle is the best HC band today.
The show was cold/unheated, but after a couple times around the circle pit I felt great. the ceiling was super low and there were tons of kids. It looked like a fucking dungeon too.
A kid julio met, logan, offered to put me, robbie and julio up (carl was kinda-sorta rolling with a girl named 'scurvy.' Come to kind out later that some guy punched him on the subway and he was bugging about it and he and robbie got into a mutually pathetic drunk argument that was instantly okay in the morning.
The next show was a thrash/black metal show in a warehouse that was fun, but it was a little too much. For some reason, punx in philly are all about calling people "fags" or saying "that's gay". one band even was talking about trying out "sluts" for their "street bitch" 7". fucking dicks.
Stayed at logans - they put on a porno movie when we got there - mad awkward.
Woke up and took the subway/street car deallys here to chinatown for the show - we grabbed a bite with our last duckets at a chinese restaurant. Met up with derek, drank some beers in the alley then went and saw the BIG SHOW. It was lost cause, parasytic, behind enemy lines, mischeif brew, kylesa and AMEBIX. The show w/o amebix could've stood alone as an awesome show, but amebix was sooooooo awesome. feeling kind of fanboy right now. lolzzzzzz
After the show derek, john and I walked 60 blocks to a party that was over before we got there through a really sketchy area. Bummer. Got my pack back from this car, and slept at steve's friend brittany's place. Good things in philly - might leave today to either waldo or atlanta - hopefully waldo.
ryan!
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Why do you have a gun in space?
RVA day 3:
So last night after Julio got off work at Crossroads we headed up to 'Lil Florida' - the punk house at 800 W Clay with all ex-florida kids (aaaaaand Adrien used to live there). Julio let me borrow a beast of a beach cruiser (BEAST CRUISER?) - and we went up to a Sushi place called Nara to see the Government Warning show. Apparently, in Richmond, they have shows in sushi places - new to me!
When we got there there were tons of kids and the show was $7 instead of $5 - and, not trying to spend $7, I was reluctant to go in the first place, however, since the place was full they weren't letting people in - so julio and joe dela got in, then some dumpy burb punk with an eyebrow ring cut me and got in as the last one in (after having to go in and spange for the extra $2 he forgot to get from his mom. I was chilling outside and julio came up with a marker so I x'ed up and went right in, saying I paid earlier. Hells yeah, saved me that $7, then julio got me a pbr and we saw cool bands. Greatest heist of the evening went to Kyle from St Pete (now rva) who also x'ed in. He is 21 and the bar tender still wouldn't serve him cos of the x'es, so he went up to the door person and said something like "hey I guess i didn't show you my ID" and she gave him a wrist band to drink - so silly.
Government warning is the shit.
Also at the show were Circle Pat, Jon con and Hannah from BoMA, who were (you guessed it?) driving up to BOMA the next day with (you guessed it?) an empty seat! So today they're dropping me off in philly - philly pals, what up?!
ryan!
So last night after Julio got off work at Crossroads we headed up to 'Lil Florida' - the punk house at 800 W Clay with all ex-florida kids (aaaaaand Adrien used to live there). Julio let me borrow a beast of a beach cruiser (BEAST CRUISER?) - and we went up to a Sushi place called Nara to see the Government Warning show. Apparently, in Richmond, they have shows in sushi places - new to me!
When we got there there were tons of kids and the show was $7 instead of $5 - and, not trying to spend $7, I was reluctant to go in the first place, however, since the place was full they weren't letting people in - so julio and joe dela got in, then some dumpy burb punk with an eyebrow ring cut me and got in as the last one in (after having to go in and spange for the extra $2 he forgot to get from his mom. I was chilling outside and julio came up with a marker so I x'ed up and went right in, saying I paid earlier. Hells yeah, saved me that $7, then julio got me a pbr and we saw cool bands. Greatest heist of the evening went to Kyle from St Pete (now rva) who also x'ed in. He is 21 and the bar tender still wouldn't serve him cos of the x'es, so he went up to the door person and said something like "hey I guess i didn't show you my ID" and she gave him a wrist band to drink - so silly.
Government warning is the shit.
Also at the show were Circle Pat, Jon con and Hannah from BoMA, who were (you guessed it?) driving up to BOMA the next day with (you guessed it?) an empty seat! So today they're dropping me off in philly - philly pals, what up?!
ryan!
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Drumble in the Bronx (not in NY content ahead)
Spent the night here in Richmond with Pablo, Josh and Lindsay. Last night we had some fancy beers at the bar that Pablo works at, then went to a Bday party at the "Slanty Shanty" - a hideously slanted row house in the Oregon Hill section of Richmond. Hung out with a bunch of people that I didn't know and had a lot of fun. There were some R.O.T.A. and Cutthroats there too who were very nice. Turns out ROTA and YABAI have similar colors (black and green v. black and LIME green).
I saw a craigslist post for someone going to amebix in philly looking for a ride - I emailed them to see if I could get in on that too. Turns out it was julie (of julie and kyle) from St. Pete - both of whom live in RVA now. FLAVA! Still trying to find a ride - feeling like a baby not wanting to hitch in the cold and rain, but who cares?
Discovered that i'm now missing my Yabai vest - fuck, had my new ID in there too.
Walked "home" and crashed out pretty quick.
Today I awoke to a text from julie about the chinatown bus system, but it's not going to work out - it seemed really early to text someone or be up, for that matter though, as the whole house was so dark, but I looked at my watch and it was already 12:30 - OOPS! Pablo was still spending collapsed midday, so I let him sleep, cleaned up my sleeping spot on the floor and wrote him a note that I'd gone out hunting for ducketts and bean (wow that sounds really funny).
RVA is really really cool looking, and superbly easy to walk around in. Lots of "art/alt school" kids, who don't acknowledge you when you say hello. My kind of place?
I wound up just where I wanted to be, at Harrison St. Coffee House, slurping bean and eating a sandwich - my first "real" food since I left, and my first anything food (save a beanadilla pablo made me) since the day before yesterday/midday. SIFG.
After that, I got a call from Pablo saying he was walking up to Slanty to get his car that we left there last night (drunk-stumbling home/drumbling home). I met up with him and we headed off to meet up with Jeremy and two new characters, Mo (an XVX super-active radical lady punx) and Charlie (probably not XVX or 'x' - still punx) who were working on the coolest punk house that I've been to yet - "Battery Tracks" - a squatted row-mansion of sorts. The house was built in the early 20's they think, and I'd probably agree. It's got the coolest looking, ornately-moulded stairway up to the second floor and a fold-down stairway from the attic (kind of like the dome, but way bigger, fully finished) - the walls are newly re-drywalled and the whole downstairs has been painted wacky colors. - there's also a basement, but that'll be closed off for the time being (if they ever do open it, it'll be a 4-story squat). They, so far have done some electrical work and painted the place - their working on getting the electric fixtures up to code so they can get the electricity turned on. I've got pics, you'll see it - it's amazing.
Next door to battery tracks is the 'Mashup House' where Mo lives. She treated everyone to tea and toast and we hung out with her dogs, Grits and Flapjacks (breakfast dogs, I guess - i told her about bagel too).
Afterwards, we stopped by Josh and Lindsays again to grab some shite before Pablo had to goat to work - then I headed up to Crossroads coffee and food place to hang out with julio (while he worked, lolzzzz) - Might go see government warning tonight.
ryan!
p.s. might head up to dc tomorrow via greyhound ($23) then philly from there on the chinatown ($15) - that is - if new friend Eroll doesn't get us a ride up to philly.
I saw a craigslist post for someone going to amebix in philly looking for a ride - I emailed them to see if I could get in on that too. Turns out it was julie (of julie and kyle) from St. Pete - both of whom live in RVA now. FLAVA! Still trying to find a ride - feeling like a baby not wanting to hitch in the cold and rain, but who cares?
Discovered that i'm now missing my Yabai vest - fuck, had my new ID in there too.
Walked "home" and crashed out pretty quick.
Today I awoke to a text from julie about the chinatown bus system, but it's not going to work out - it seemed really early to text someone or be up, for that matter though, as the whole house was so dark, but I looked at my watch and it was already 12:30 - OOPS! Pablo was still spending collapsed midday, so I let him sleep, cleaned up my sleeping spot on the floor and wrote him a note that I'd gone out hunting for ducketts and bean (wow that sounds really funny).
RVA is really really cool looking, and superbly easy to walk around in. Lots of "art/alt school" kids, who don't acknowledge you when you say hello. My kind of place?
I wound up just where I wanted to be, at Harrison St. Coffee House, slurping bean and eating a sandwich - my first "real" food since I left, and my first anything food (save a beanadilla pablo made me) since the day before yesterday/midday. SIFG.
After that, I got a call from Pablo saying he was walking up to Slanty to get his car that we left there last night (drunk-stumbling home/drumbling home). I met up with him and we headed off to meet up with Jeremy and two new characters, Mo (an XVX super-active radical lady punx) and Charlie (probably not XVX or 'x' - still punx) who were working on the coolest punk house that I've been to yet - "Battery Tracks" - a squatted row-mansion of sorts. The house was built in the early 20's they think, and I'd probably agree. It's got the coolest looking, ornately-moulded stairway up to the second floor and a fold-down stairway from the attic (kind of like the dome, but way bigger, fully finished) - the walls are newly re-drywalled and the whole downstairs has been painted wacky colors. - there's also a basement, but that'll be closed off for the time being (if they ever do open it, it'll be a 4-story squat). They, so far have done some electrical work and painted the place - their working on getting the electric fixtures up to code so they can get the electricity turned on. I've got pics, you'll see it - it's amazing.
Next door to battery tracks is the 'Mashup House' where Mo lives. She treated everyone to tea and toast and we hung out with her dogs, Grits and Flapjacks (breakfast dogs, I guess - i told her about bagel too).
Afterwards, we stopped by Josh and Lindsays again to grab some shite before Pablo had to goat to work - then I headed up to Crossroads coffee and food place to hang out with julio (while he worked, lolzzzz) - Might go see government warning tonight.
ryan!
p.s. might head up to dc tomorrow via greyhound ($23) then philly from there on the chinatown ($15) - that is - if new friend Eroll doesn't get us a ride up to philly.
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