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Pat's birthday & a hundred other things

(Masks we found at kiosk)

Yesterday i went to Brooklyn with Mr. Rodney to visit Fiacco, and see Pat & Kyla. It was Pat's 24Th birthday, and the birth of his first modern life is war tattoo.

I woke up around 11, drove to get Rodney, and headed towards Brooklyn. Nothing exciting happened, except i learned how impossible it is to count how many raindrops are on a windshield at one time. I need to focus on driving when i am behind the wheel, and not every stupid little thing that is going on around me.

Once we arrived, we went into a few thrift stores, which had some cool stuff. I got a brown and yellow trucker hat that says "Vita" on it, as well as a lime green terrycloth polo shirt. I made an offer on this sword that i saw, but twenty dollars is obviously out of the question for an authentic, made in America, 1998 bent Japanese sword. whatever.

We walked to Pennylicks so i could get Mody a cupcake, and then American apparel. On the way back we ran into Lee from trash talk, which was really weird. We got Pat & Kyla, and headed towards Soho to visit a few cool shops. One of the places they took us to was called "Evolution". They sold animal and human bones, as well as fossils, stuffed animals, crystals, and other odd things. I snapped a few pictures of my favorite finds. I would love to come home every day to a human skeleton standing in my living room. The cool thing about that place was that most of the skeletal figures were once inside of living organisms.



We also went to the Burton store, a Japanese wholesale shop, and a shop called "kiosk", which looks like it was ran out of someones apartment. They sold odds and ends that they picked up from all around the world. Weird little things with cool stories behind them. After all that, we walked back to my car to find that i had a $115 parking ticket waiting on my windshield. I apparently parked in a commercial parking zone, but there were no signs posted and everyone else on the block got a ticket. We headed to crif dog for some delicious veggie dogs, and then back to Brooklyn to drop pat off at his tattoo appointment and go run around. Watched some simpsons, drank some tea, ran around, found a cell phone, returned a cell phone, then headed to Pat & Kyla's apartment to play ukulele, drink more tea, play accordion, become a catalyst for jumping cats, and be exhausted. I shortly left and embarked on my voyage back to long island only to be accompanied by the sounds of Rodney snoring. It seems like there is always something to do in Brooklyn, i always look forward to visiting my friends who live there.

Recent Life

I finally scanned some pictures, so i posted them in my past blogs. Some of them are worth checking out, others not so much.
Since i got back from California i don't think i have sat around bored once. Here are some pictures to give you a vague look into what i have been up to lately:

I got this auto harp from a thrift store.



I stole this from fiacco's apartment because i thought it was funny. Street mosh.




This arrive in the mail (finally). The album itself is good, but the album art is amazing. The cover is holographic, so the 2 pictures that i uploaded are what you see when you look at the record from different angles. I bought both colorways of this record.



Some goats that we played with at the ecology site.


A birthday cake we made for rob.

California Trip

I spent the past Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday in California skateboarding, snowboarding, and doing tons of other fun things. I didn't want to post an official recap until i had pictures, but the 2 kids who brought cameras have yet to get back to me, so ill do a text update and then hit you with some pictures later.

Tuesday morning I woke at 4 a.m. and had the man, the myth, the one and only, tad cox drive me to J.F.K. international airport. After a few hours of complete and utter chaos, i boarded a plane toothpaste, cologne, and inhailerless. Airport security is a load of dump.

The flight there was kinda shitty. I sat near a group of Hasidic Jews who needed to complain about every single thing as loud as they could. i eventually fell asleep, but when i arose they were still complaining, only 5 decimals louder.

When i finally got to L.A.X. i got my snowboard, backpack, and called the representative from Neff head wear to come pick me up. He drove me to go meet up with some Terry Kennedy, Adam Dyet, Sean Neff, and some Zumiez employees. I was pretty phyced to find out that they were all really fun to be around, because the kids I went to the DC headquarters with were pretty boring. We raced go-karts, hungout at the Neff headquarters, got mad free shit, skated for a while, then designed a shirt for Neff that will be sold in Zumiez nationwide.


Tk had to bounce, but Adam, Sean, and the rest of the Zumiez crew headed to the Powell headquarters to checkout the premier of their new video "Fun!". the video was pretty dope, plus there were mad little nuggets skating around. Fuel TV interviewed us, but i cant find the interview anywhere.

When we left the Powell wear house we headed towards in and out burger, then back to the hotel. I roomed with two other Zumiez employees, one named Eric from Austin Texas, and one other dude who i forgot his name (whoops, sorry dude) but was really cool. Kyle, Chris, our enter to win contestant Mitchell, and his mom all stayed in other rooms.

The next morning we got picked up by the ThirtyTwo crew, which was composed of Alyssa, Erin, and some other girl (whoops). They drove us up to bear mountain. The drive there was crazy, the road to the mountain is like a snake run, and you drive to such a high altitude that you actually drive through clouds. We stopped and peed, then arrived at the mountain. We meet up with JP Walker, Cook (i think he owns 32 or something, I'm not sure) and a bunch of other heads. Snowboarding was awesome, conditions were great and I learned a bunch of new tricks. Afterwards JP and Cook had to do some interview so we all chilled in the lounge before heading back to the hotel.

At the hotel all of us (except Mitchell and his mom) decided to hop outside into the hot tub, which is when Erin got the idea to pull the cover off the pool and jump in. It was the most disgusting, freezing, horrid looking water ever, but all of us except for Chris did it, mainly because Chris is a nu-metal bitch (just playin, much love). She then decided to tell us if we jumped in and swam one lap that she would give us one item from 2 of the companies that sole tech owns (Emerica, Thirtytwo, Es, Altamont, and Etnies). Eric, the other kid who i cant remember his name, and I all did it. We showered, then headed towards some bullshit Italian place, where i found out how much I like NEW YORK pizza. west coast pizza sucks. word up.

We went bowling, that was mad fun. midway through we placed a bet between Eric, Kyle, Cook and myself that whoever has the highest score gets 20 from all the losers. Kyle is a cocky son of a bitch, so we all just decided that if anyone other that kyle wins we don't have to pay up. Eric made the most epic comeback and beat kyle, then he tried to pull the whole "you cheated" card, which didn't work. JP left, and everyone started to get tired, after I played Eric in pool, we bounced back to the hotel to party, and eventually pass out.



I was so bummed on leaving California, everything about that place is so great. But, now I'm home, back to the same routine, awaiting my next chance to go out there. I got a lot of cool shit and have so many cool stories that i forgot to post, and I am so grateful that i got the opportunity to go. Ill hit you all up with some pictures from it soon, but as for now I need to crash. I'm so exhausted.

Puppy's

A lot has happened over the course of the past week or so. I got to see a lot of people who i dont see often, which was so awesome. For the first time in my life i feel like i have surrounded myself with people who are worth placing my trust in.

Wednesday i went to the bronx zoo with Keith, Fiacco, Pat & Kyla. Pat had a bad headache which could have been cured if he had only stretched (advice given to him by Fiacco M.D.) but once we got to the zoo he felt better. We walked around for a little, saw some cool animals, and i pee'd on a fence while some african dogs watched me. Afterwards Keith, Fiacco and myself went to Vinny's, ate some pizza, and watched jay and silent bob strike back.

I dont remember what i did thursday, so if anyone knows please inform me.

Friday and Saturday were spent at United Blood fest in Richmond VA. Converge and rise and fall were awesome, as well as title fight, pulling teeth, trapped under ice, alpha & omega, and tons of other bands. Some drunk was driving down the alley that the venue was down and got his car destroyed as well as his ass kicked. We ate at Denny's and were served by a woman named "Eight" and a man who kept bringing me out one slice of cheese every 30 minutes. My waitress at waffle house was named "Sweet Tea", aloght im almost positive that her name tag was lying to me.

Sunday we drove back, and at night fiacco came over. He slept at my house that night, as well as the three following it. It was really good to see him, I had a lot of fun, even though he sleeps until like 3 in the afternoon. Wednesday i drove him to the train station. After, rob and i went to guitar center, got drum sticks, a pick for my ukulele, and a shirt and pants at the marshalls next door. i had to go to youth court that night to testify against a kid i caught stealing, but insted i went to puppy depot and let a pitbull gnaw on my hand. All the puppies were very cute. so cute that i decided to go back the day after, which is when a small mexican man gave me his phone number, and two myspace urls.  WEIRD HUN?!

I bought this at the shop next to puppy depot.