Baby Shower of Bullets

Babys coming, better shoot some guns. A grip of us headed over to our buddy whorehay's farm in Flat River , NC to camp and shoot guns. Ron Jovi brought an arsenal of weapons. We had shotguns, .22's, an AR-7, AR-15, .38, .44, Winchester 30-30, luger, some other shit that I can't remember, and even a homemade rifle. Twas, awesome. Thanks Ron Jovi for bring the heat and to Darnel and whorehay for hooking up the spot.

 We tried to master our West Coast shooting style but we couldn't get the rolls down.

FRIENDS IN LOW PLACES

Coast to coast bike trip. Pit stop in TN, back in the day. Got to keep it fly fo ya.

THE RACE IS ON

I AIN'T PAYIN' FOR SHIT

Idle hands are the devil's workshop they say. After an investment in some primitive tools and a willingness to fail on a grand scale I embarked on a bad journey. Stop me before I really fuck up.

Truth and Soul

Maggot hipped some of us to a new documentary about 80's/90's supergroup (whoops) Fishbone that some folks made. They were some weird cats, but for some reason what 6 guys in late 80's LA did- (with too much energy and totally confused about where they belonged and what they were doing there)- resonated like hell with 6 young guys in late 80's suburban Raleigh (who had too much energy and were totally confused about where they belonged and what they were doing there). I can remember the feeling at those Fishbone shows. There was some wild shit. In Wilmington one time Dirty Walt Kibby was singing into a weird looking microphone- upon closer inspection, it turned out to be the FIRST black dildo I ever saw. I remember knowing that I didn't know anything, but that whatever this was, it was for real and it answered that nagging doubt that tormented us and made us ride skateboards and search the cassette wall at Record Bar for answers- that there had to be something else out there.

The years went on and we moved on to other music, other obsessions. But soon after I got to the newspaper in Stockton in 2006, I got assigned to cover a Fishbone show in town. I was psyched. I think I tried to negotiate some kind of backstage shooting access that got shut down. The place was nearly empty. Most of the crowd sat in the theater seats. The Rialto it was not. I tried to feel that same explosion in me, but it wasn't there. I couldn't tell what had changed- if it was me, or the band, or the scene. Or maybe just time. After the first couple of songs, Angelo decided to matters into his own hands. He scaled the seat backs, crawling with the mic until he was face to face with the (lack of) crowd. He screamed at them into the mic. In all those years, his energy had not dimmed a bit. He seemed like he was asking us, begging us for an answer- why had it turned out this way? Why were they just sitting there, and why hadn't his band ever become famous? For all of this effort and all these songs and all those miles, why were they playing to 50 people in a shitty theatre in a nowhere town? And why wasn't I screaming and jumping and going to the end with them? Where had we been, and how did we end up here?

I took some pictures, and they came out in the paper the next day. I didn't have an answer for him.

New Years 2011/2012

 Started off the weekend with a pit stop in the woods to fire off a few rounds.

Big trips to Hogs Inlet happened everyday and Fletch F Fletch broke out his new style, socks and flip flops and a hacky sack

NEW MILES

New year. Went to sleep listening to the thunder of the guns of Oakland—some of those pistols had to be within two blocks of the crib. Woke up and rode with Seldom. First ride in two weeks, coming back from a sprained knee. Yoakam's playing Reno this Spring, see ya there.

It's going to be a great year.

Kicking Field Goals

 Invading Grimsley Field after a little shit talk about who can and who can't kick a field goal, Brionic Creanium, The Pobanz, and I set out to prove each other wrong.

The Pixies 11.8.11

Pixies played Greensboro 11.8.11

I was their doolittle tour. Surfer Blood opened up.

It was awesome.

Cherry Grove in the Fall

For Thanksgiving and New Years it seems customary for me to be found at the beach. I love it. There's no one there, the beaches are empty and the sky is so clear.

 Blakers and I took a sunset stroll down the beach. It was the first thing we did when we rolled up to the beach house. I probably walked down that beach 6 times in a day and half. I'm gonna do it again come New Years.

 Bolineaus is quite possible the best grocery store ever. Their donut display is divine.

 Carlee wishing and fishing all for not.

Cherry Grove Pier 

41 YEARS, SAME OLD RUSE

Homage to a jam.

backyard hoot nanny

Young pioneers

Barnyard and his buds started "Young Pioneers"for all there youngens once a month folks meet up on the first weekend of the month somewhere and camp out .I brought my nephews who had a blast.First they bounced for hours then played capture the flag ,sat by the fire a listened to stories and ate smores .Theses are the only photos I took. I'll get some better ones next month

moores spring camp ground

Wisa and I took the rig out this week end .had the entire camp ground to ourselves . I used to go to this place when I was 10 years old with my dad.Then it closed down for a # of years .It just opened back up this year. Its right on the dan river but you can look back and see hanging rock .the place has huge trees .

Fast Times

I'm thirty seven years old. I'm not sure how it happened, but I had never seen Fast Times at Ridgemont High until this month. It's kinda like I had never seen Ferris Bueller's Day Off, or had never listened to the Beatles. It's just weird. I have no excuse.

I've now watched every minute of it countless times on fast forward and slow motion, stopping and starting, rewinding, pausing, for those perfect screenshots that made this possible. I'm typically not one for showing off, but I figured you guys would get a kick out of these.

DERBY DAYS

Spring 2010, meeting of the minds in Luhville. Radar, Darnel, Jizza. Pure classics.

Halloween in Glenwood

This wasn't the best year for trick-or-treater's, but still we had a good hall. Usually we have tons of kids all night with and without costumes supporting FoodLion bought plastic buckets or the grocery bag they came in. Darnel and Wisa came over and we had a fire in the front yard and blasted some tunes from the front room. All in all it was a great Halloween.

 This is what kid's were met with when hunting that candy

WILD IN THE STREETS

When I was a clueless kid in NC I thought California was all about the Daggers and Agent Orange. See, I was 11 when Thrashin came out, and me and Victro were damn near wearing out the "Living in Darkness" cassette we got from Schoolkids (or was it Record Bar?). It was 1986. The whole album wasn't twenty minutes long so I guess I must have flipped that poor tape 4,380 times (four times a day for three years straight)—at bare minimum. Radarluv had a 8' wide mini ramp in his yard and a Motley Crüe poster on his wall. I don't think Mom knew how far we skated to get over there. It's OK though, no matter how much we felt we were wild in the streets, we didn't run into any Daggers, and we were "Too Young to Die."

Treat yo' Self

Y2blogosphere

KHole sent this to me. forgot about it. "Pay to cum" read the church sign on the way. How many people emptied their bank accounts for this one? I think there are still people in WNC that are trying to sell their stockpiles of food from this fun Millennium change.

Country music was revived after this year.

Do you ever get the feeling that there's something... Powerful pressing down on you?

WE RESPECT A DIVERSITY OF TACTICS

Because this is EV and not the Federalist Papers or Workers World Daily, I thought I would include this to make a compelling argument against, (maybe for, whatever blows your skirt up,) the OWS phenom. I mean, you can hate on FOX news all you want, but do folks have to make it so easy? Ha. Forward this around to all your right wing parents friends, it will help with confirmation of their world view. I will reserve my more sober coverage for the pages of the grey lady.

Somebody Had to Say It…

What's the EV opinion poll on the national movement against banks and the financial services industry? I won't post Ghandi quotes or link to radical or establishment articles about the Occupy movement. This choir don't need preaching to but does anyone wanna comment? I know GSO is kicking off Saturday. I was at Occupy Oakland tonight, it could be over a 1,000 US cities and dozens of countries by the time you read this.

For the last couple weeks and the next few I think Americans are/will be asking and trying to answer some really difficult questions. It's beyond soundbites on all sides.

At this point you are living through/observing/participating in the largest critique (I didn't quite say revolt) against representative democracy and capitalism in your lifetime. Wow.

I have my opinions, you show yours and I'll show mine.