Hands down: my favorite drummer (no offense to the many other great drummers I have known)

I've known this suave cat for at least twenty years. We were in high school together. I saw his bands (Stewface, Resol, Dart 360, Mercury Birds, Red Fang) more times than I could count. I'm sure I have permanent ear damage from standing five feet away as he pounded his drums in small living rooms, basements, and clubs—most recently in October.

This snap is from a Mercury Birds show on Van Ness Ave in the Mission district, SF. I believe it was the summer of '99. Those were good days, the best days.

My Lovely Wife

Today is my wedding anniversary with my lovely wife. 4 years married, 10 years unmarried. Every day I am amazed by her generosity, her caring, and her gentleness. She has a grace about her that draws people in to her warming presence. Her beauty and style make me blush and giddy. I feel so fortunate to be loved and cared by her. 

I love you my chicken.

Happy Anniversary.

A tale of two dongs!?

…sitting here with Seldomwright wondering about the veracity of the claim that the dongerator was first unearthed in my van on a cross-country-trip, with our model friend. History is a slippery subject. Was Chocolate Jelly Love the same implement that fell—it was taped to the ceiling—onto a certain friend with a commemorative Waffle House tattoo while his future wife was, well, in the act of, use your imagination? There's a "firm" memory of washing a similar—but possibly "caucasian?"—dong off after it had been moshed on at a show and used in a tasteless "Princess and the Pea" hoax at Morehead Ave.?

Any takers? Let's not cower in revisionist history here! Are we talking multiple dongs? Did Divide and Conquer—no pun intended—have a separate device on tour at some point? Have the myths merged?

Name that model...

...and he'll wash your dishes naked

This is how we do it....

There are always many memorable get-together' s. This is usually the best part.

Golden Gate

For years, Golden Gate shopping center in Greensboro harbored one of the most awesomist skate spots ever. In the center of the parking lot stood a lonely photo mat that offered a banked handicap ramp which  lent itself to numerous lofty ollies. It is Golden Gate that Darnel claims it's the first time he ever saw/met me. I had long green hair. We sessioned GG for hours upon hours. Boards were broken, Legs were broken, Ego's were broken. For me, one of the best feelings in the world was hurling myself down that parking lot, setting up for the bank, and then cranking a straight up floater through the summer air. 

11 Years of puttin in work. Ring a ding ding dong with Choclate Jelly Love

So in 1999 the item in question came into our possession in all of its ridiculousness. To make a long story short, the initial pass off was to maggotbrain into his vw van when he was moving across country. Only to be discovered when the van broke down and they needed to unpack the van. Other notable events were passed off to friends into their vans upon sad departures from long adventures, birthday gags, lost in Utah and into luggage. The infamous pass off happened in 2002, when victro received "Chocolate jelly love" in his carry on luggage in our post 9/11 world. One can only imagine his surprise when it was found in his luggage by the TSA.
Now, to top this, only one person was left and due for a donging, mixmasterfresh. His love of Chocolate chip cookies could only be fulfilled with the help of Darnell and partners. His surprise was awarded when he opened his chocolate chip cookie cake in the privacy of his home directly before his dad showed up for the weekend. Christmas dong.

This photo was the last place the dong was seen before mixmaster got it. Someones house who in a fit of rage put it with this guy who has big balls.

You know it's forever, right? "…Barf"

Something from the archives. A little beer, a little whiskey, 473 top shelf action: True 'til deaf.

Photocopied Chaos

Found some strange photocopied photos of New Years 1999/2000 (Oak Island, NC). Blasts from the past for sure. I know it seems impossible now, with people having kids and contacts being lost, but I would love to see the friends we had 10 years ago reconnect at another New Years. Until that happens, I've got photo's and memories.

Dance with me, Come on dance with me baby

All this talk lately of New Year's about who can come to the beach and who can't has inspired me to post a couple of dance moves by pac-ass. This New Years won't be the same without you's guy's. 

video by WBS

2006 on Dellwood

There are no words for this.

Awesome, maybe. Definitely an epic vista.

photo by victrolysis

Asheville, the new Portland

The Brilliance of Charles. His pamphlet promoting Asheville to hipsters was just a glimpse of his writing skills. Enjoy this long lost treasure.

Fifteen years ago today

Here's a pic from the archives. Me and Mixmaster about to devour our meager meal of bean burritos, stew, mashed potatoes + gravy, and what looks like a pie cooling on the loft in back. Click on the pic and peep Mixmaster's plate. It's one he made as a runt, it's got his damn name on it. And don't let the expansive loft seating fool you, it was a friendless feast.

Only hours after this peaceful setting was captured a shithead named Dave knocked on the back door asking for a ride. I offered to help him out and got fingered as an accomplice to his petty thieving ring that resulted in a forty-five minute car chase around Greensboro. Nothing like redlining a three-cylinder Chevy Sprint through red lights on Thnxgvng night to protect someone you wanted to kill… but hell, that's another story.

New York's alright if you like Saxophones

A little bit of punk in all of us

FEAR 10-31-81 

 The show's director originally wanted to prevent the dancers from participating, so Belushi offered to be in the episode if the dancers were allowed to stay. The end result was the shortening of Fear's appearance on TV. They started their second performance by saying, "It's great to be in New Jersey," drawing boos from S-N-L's New York live audience. Fear played "Beef Bologna," "New York's Alright If You Like Saxophones," and started to play "Let's Have a War" when the audio and video of the telecast faded into commercial. During the performance the slamdancers left ripe pumpkin remains on the set and stage speakers. Shortly after the 1981 Halloween SNL appearance, which resulted in $20,000 in damages, some clubs chose not to hire the band. -wiki

$14.00 sq ft for the 30ft yurt =dirts in yurts

i could get with this who else ?

Best 10 minutes of your day, fuckface

JC died for us, dude.

Maggotbrain and I recently unearthed a grip of flyers from back in the day chronicling the time when we hosted shows in our living room. Starting at the end of this year and running through 2011, I will be posting said flyers and stories, pictures, maybe some video, and (if I can figure it out) audio tracks of some of the bands.  What would be glorious is if any of you esteemed viewers had any stories or pictures from that era (1993-1997), please send them to me (via email). I will do my best connect the dots of past shows and you's people's stories. This will be a year long project, but don't wait, holla at me if you gotta the funnies.

Apparently a last minute show, there's no date. You don't see many colla-bro-tive flyers these days. This one has CRCKT's collage, Maggotbrain's and my handwriting. Team Work. The rumor on the street is that Assfactor 4 never made it to this show. 

The Faces of Gate City

Had a great week hanging with familiar faces. Miss you guys already, I'm tipping a glass of whiskey to you right now.