What an awesome weekend.
Friday day, of course was the fire. They still won't tell us the cause.
Friday night, was the Def Jux show. My friend Alexa that I went with knew the guy taking out the trash and he let us slip in the backdoor and not have to wait in the long-ass line out front even though we were on the list. Shock G (Humpty) made a surprise visit. He played keys and drum machine during Murs' set. I got to chill with Murs after the show...didn't quite get an interview, but he said to call DefJux in a couple weeks when they're off tour and get him there. It was rad...I wore my SG shirt, and he looked at me and said, "Hey, where'd you get that shirt?" And I said, "Where do you think I got it?" And he said, "Are you a member?" And I said, "Yup! Are you?" And he said, "Of course!!" My friendship with him is pending since he's on tour and can't get online to accept it.
He's such an awesome nice guy...and a kid at heart. Like, he wears jammy pants on stage. Here's the pic Alexa took of him and me. There's plenty more of the show in my pics section. Please browse!
Saturday, was the Richmond chilli cook off. Yes...I went...but only to film my friend Sully's band. He plays in this band that he totally hates called 'Groove Spot'...it's a soul band...but the thing of it was...'Will Hung' was opening with the band. For those of you who don't know, Will Hung is that (I think) retarded asian guy who tried out for American Idol and sang Ricky Martin's 'She Bang'. It was all I could do to keep myself from laughing at him while I was filming...I would have shaken the camera otherwise. Anyway, after the show, during clean up, we heard on a walkie talkie that a baby was born in a VW in the parking lot. I said to myself, that is the most redneck thing I've ever heard. That poor kids life is doomed. Then, as we were driving away from the dreaded event, I look over into the traffic disaster of a parking lot to see this couple having sex in the back of a jacked up pickup truck and frat boys sitting on the hood of the car behind them watching and rooting them on. Then I said to myself, no that is the most redneck thing I've ever seen.
Sunday day, I worked. And because I hadn't worked for two days, the boys left me with so much to do. I sware, if I weren't there, that place would fall apart. Plus I had to take an hour lunch break to avoid overtime because they're on my ass about having too many hours. But they need my help. Whatever. That just meant that I got to go fuck my man on break.
Sunday night, I helped out my man, and his best friend by taking pictures for their band. Well, it's my man's lable, and his best friends band. Heath Haynes and the Cryin' Shames. It's a straight up garage rock band. They kick a lot of ass. Cargo & Revolver are interested in distributing it. Anyway, The guitarist in the band makes these awesome metal light sculptures, many of which are sold to various restaurants around town. So we 'stole' one and turned my man's apartment into a photography studio. I took all the pictures. Which is badass because now I'll get all the credit! My man's gonna use the pictures for all of the album art. Here's a couple. Doesn't that second one look like a Giger? There's a picture of what the sculpture looks like when it's off in my pics section under the 'Other Randomness'. I took pictures for 3 and a half hours. It was exhausting, but liberating. I haven't gotten many chances to do some real art in quite a while. It felt so good. I love exercising my brain.
Anyway, today I have the day off and I am working on my 3 different versions of my resume (one of which to send to junglkitty so she can hook me up with a better job in the VCU video department); dubbing the video from Sully's band this weekend along with burning his pictures to CD; figuring out how to upload the 'She Bang' performance to my computer so I can send it to the promo-guy from Q94 to put on their website; clean my room; and eat because I'm starting to feel faint from the coffee!
Have a great week guys!
Friday day, of course was the fire. They still won't tell us the cause.
Friday night, was the Def Jux show. My friend Alexa that I went with knew the guy taking out the trash and he let us slip in the backdoor and not have to wait in the long-ass line out front even though we were on the list. Shock G (Humpty) made a surprise visit. He played keys and drum machine during Murs' set. I got to chill with Murs after the show...didn't quite get an interview, but he said to call DefJux in a couple weeks when they're off tour and get him there. It was rad...I wore my SG shirt, and he looked at me and said, "Hey, where'd you get that shirt?" And I said, "Where do you think I got it?" And he said, "Are you a member?" And I said, "Yup! Are you?" And he said, "Of course!!" My friendship with him is pending since he's on tour and can't get online to accept it.
He's such an awesome nice guy...and a kid at heart. Like, he wears jammy pants on stage. Here's the pic Alexa took of him and me. There's plenty more of the show in my pics section. Please browse!
Saturday, was the Richmond chilli cook off. Yes...I went...but only to film my friend Sully's band. He plays in this band that he totally hates called 'Groove Spot'...it's a soul band...but the thing of it was...'Will Hung' was opening with the band. For those of you who don't know, Will Hung is that (I think) retarded asian guy who tried out for American Idol and sang Ricky Martin's 'She Bang'. It was all I could do to keep myself from laughing at him while I was filming...I would have shaken the camera otherwise. Anyway, after the show, during clean up, we heard on a walkie talkie that a baby was born in a VW in the parking lot. I said to myself, that is the most redneck thing I've ever heard. That poor kids life is doomed. Then, as we were driving away from the dreaded event, I look over into the traffic disaster of a parking lot to see this couple having sex in the back of a jacked up pickup truck and frat boys sitting on the hood of the car behind them watching and rooting them on. Then I said to myself, no that is the most redneck thing I've ever seen.
Sunday day, I worked. And because I hadn't worked for two days, the boys left me with so much to do. I sware, if I weren't there, that place would fall apart. Plus I had to take an hour lunch break to avoid overtime because they're on my ass about having too many hours. But they need my help. Whatever. That just meant that I got to go fuck my man on break.
Sunday night, I helped out my man, and his best friend by taking pictures for their band. Well, it's my man's lable, and his best friends band. Heath Haynes and the Cryin' Shames. It's a straight up garage rock band. They kick a lot of ass. Cargo & Revolver are interested in distributing it. Anyway, The guitarist in the band makes these awesome metal light sculptures, many of which are sold to various restaurants around town. So we 'stole' one and turned my man's apartment into a photography studio. I took all the pictures. Which is badass because now I'll get all the credit!
My man's gonna use the pictures for all of the album art. Here's a couple. Doesn't that second one look like a Giger? There's a picture of what the sculpture looks like when it's off in my pics section under the 'Other Randomness'. I took pictures for 3 and a half hours. It was exhausting, but liberating. I haven't gotten many chances to do some real art in quite a while. It felt so good. I love exercising my brain.
Anyway, today I have the day off and I am working on my 3 different versions of my resume (one of which to send to junglkitty so she can hook me up with a better job in the VCU video department); dubbing the video from Sully's band this weekend along with burning his pictures to CD; figuring out how to upload the 'She Bang' performance to my computer so I can send it to the promo-guy from Q94 to put on their website; clean my room; and eat because I'm starting to feel faint from the coffee!
Have a great week guys!
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majortomias:
um... you work tomorrow? I couldn't come on tues or wed or thurs cuz I had gobs of homework then well party time. I'm going to come by the store regardless, hope I see you!
nucpro_gmac:
Hey! <as I stand Up> I am the real Homer Simpson and I only snore, I don't make the drooling noise! 