Eh, I’m behind again. It’s been busy over here! Here’s a cop-out: a bunch of photos of what’s been happening.

Many days ago, Friday the 8th, we all headed out to Brooklyn for the 88 Drummers event. Beautiful evening. 88 drummers were gathered and they all played for 88 minutes along with the band Gang Gang Dance. Nike organized it and based it off The Boredoms’ 77 BoreDrum event from last year, who did the 88 Drums event in Los Angeles on Saturday.

Drummer waiting for the ‘one.’

Main snacker, word-shortener and photographer Peter Sutherand was there. He has some interesting projects in the microwave, one still wrapped in aluminum foil that is hot hot hot, but it’s not my business to reveal it here… so hurry up, P-Sod.

Tony ‘Triggers’ Chan in the place, getting one of the silkcreened-on-the-spot shirts.

82 minutes later…

The sun had set and it was like “BOOP BEEEp bommm BOOOOM baaahhmp”

This guy was stoked:

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Also opening on the 8th was ‘Beautiful Losers,’ the film. Lost some of the ‘beautiful’ in the edit, but well worth watching.

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I guess the real stress of the week was a hard-drive crash I had on Sunday. What a dud! But I have to tell you, it wasn’t that big of a thing, really! I had the whole thing backed up via Time Machine - I really recommend using it if you’re on a Mac running OS X Leopard. Bought a new hard-drive, installed it, and 8 hours later, while I slept, 400 gigs of data was back like it never happened. This is coming off like a commercial, but REALLY, DUDE, it will save your sanity as well as your 7 years of digital photos. It can happen to you. Yes you… the one reading this.

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Few days later, went to see the exhibit ‘After Nature,’ at the New Museum. My favorite work was from artist Paweł Althamer, who had a whole variety of ’self-portraits’, including a full leather body-suit painted the color of his skin, with hair, nipples stitched on, and yes, a penis. Some really good stuff for New Museum, I haven’t caught a lot there other than the inconsistent initial opening show, but this was the best show I’d seen them exhibit.

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“True Story… Rims big, make the car look like it’s two stories”

Walking home I spotted this beast outside of Café Habana, so ill. I used to be a real car-nerd, and I love heat like this. Reminds me that Need For Speed: Undercover is coming out for the 360 and PS3, with a live-action storyline backing up the gameplay, starring Maggie Q. Too bad they left the drifting style from NFS: Underground 2 out of the last two NFSs though, that was great.

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Fast-forward to James O’Brian’s birthday party at Trophy Bar. He’s working on an epic mini animated intro to a snowboarding video and it’s taking all summer. That is the way of such projects it seems. Party was perk’latin’, with Big Steve outside making kimchee hotdogs while James DJed a while, then I dj’d a while, then Othello from Saved Tattoo took his at-bat.

James with some icing on his birthday.

Me playing some G-funk, R. Kelly, Sleep, Bad Brains, some ska, some house, but Eddie Pak mostly appreciated when I played Killing Joke’s Eighties.

THE CLONE WARS

Earlier in the day, I had met up with the incredible JK5, Ari Joseph Aloi. A fellow Star Wars head, he contacted me about some advance tickets he had gotten to see The Clone Wars at a Cartoon Network showing on Tuesday at 1pm. We sat in a theater surrounded by kids and their parents and bugged on this movie. It’s pretty cool if you like Star Wars. Or maybe not. I didn’t go in with a lot of thoughts on it, honestly I was still reeling from the hard-drive crash so I needed to be taken elsewhere mentally. We were just taking in all the new facets to the Star Wars universe, including Jabba the Hutt’s nutty uncle, Ziro, who came off exactly as JK5 described him: “a gay pimp from New Orleans.” It’s not great, but I liked the flick. Whatever, I just get geeked when I hear all the sound effects - they always take me back to being 11.

Clonin’: Many Bothan spied died to get us these tickets. Guess who woke up just in time to get there by 12:30pm?

After the flick, we got some pizza and digested the new Star Wars nuggets. Check out JK5’s ill ‘Creactivator’ pendant, a light-saber pencil.

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My friend Miguel is starting a reggae/dancehall night at Santo’s… Went over to the kick-off night and saw one of the first people I met out here in NYC in ‘94, even before I moved here, Max Glaser. He took the helm to dj and just killed it as usual.

Max Glaser performs the infamous ‘Serato Switch,’ while wearing the largest IZOD alligator I have ever seen. I think that thing ate Matt Goias.

That’s all that’s been happening. I’ll work on consistency, I promise.

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