LA 2000

my friend christine at the GR house where i lived back in 2000. that was a long time ago eh.

shark teeth and crab heart

letterpress cards i made today. poorly drawn by hand by me. even more poorly rendered in Illustrator by me. printed in high quality by me on the Vandercook Universal III. printed on French's Speckletone Kraft cover. comes with a matching A2 envelope. send them to your friends and enemies. buy them from me for 2 bux each, plus a buck for postage if i need to mail 'em.

auburn

this is mischa at auburn skatepark back in 2002 or so. it's hard to believe this was so long ago when i was living in sacramento with pat. we would always be drinking and driving. i don't think i can match how much pat and i used to drink, not even the mission records days, though they come pretty close. anywhere we went, it didn't matter how close or far, we would always hit the liquor store first. we always had a six pack in the car when we went to skate. it was pretty awesome, though reckless.

mischa came to nyc to visit a couple weeks ago. i haven't seen him probably since 2004 or maybe 2003. he's such a rad dude. i must have met him when he was 16 or so, right around when this picture was taken. now he does tattoos in the grass valley area. he works a lot in the tattoo americana with a good dose of humor. sounds about right knowing him. check out his work here.

boat party

my friend anthony organized an "Arrested Development"-themed party aboard a yacht in the delaware river. i remember it was on on the dance floor. they played that song by the outfield.

viva mexico

i think i can learn spanish, though i have no natural, innate faculty for acquiring other languages.








homemade breakfast at the constandse house beats anything you can buy at a restaurant.






requisite group shot aboard the family boat


isla mujeres. this drink was called the miami vice.




tricked into eating a fish for two








requisite bird shot, this one had a mohawk though you can't really see it here

fort tilden on a cold may day

two dead thresher sharks caught by someone and thrown up on the beach.


bride of frankenstein



Fort Tilden a day after the Rapture. May 22, 55 degrees. All photos taken with the Yashica t5.

oh men

Berkeley bathroom in some old building. Taken with the Yashica t5.

note for a dead girl

a random airplane wing over america

i hardly knew you, yet you deserved more than we gave you in this world.
rest forever in the hearts of those who loved you.

best friends

letterpress cards i made today. poorly drawn by hand by me. even more poorly rendered in Illustrator by me. printed in high quality by me on the Vandercook Universal III. printed on French's Speckletone Kraft cover. comes with a matching A2 envelope. send them to your friends and enemies. one in a series of potentially three. buy them from me for 2 bux each, plus a buck for postage if i need to mail 'em.

i love you but it drags me down

happy birthday.

zen guerrilla at UD

I found this shot of zen guerrilla recently, even though i took it probably in 2000. It's crazy I even got a picture like this because this show was so bluesy and mellow, and Marcus was sitting down most of the time. I only remember this because this show was the opposite of the one they played the night before at the East End where they killed it with the rock, including the Iron Maiden and Rolling Stones covers. Probably the best show i ever saw at that place. Of course, no photos from that night because I was too busy drinking and rocking out. Now I regret it a little.

old newark bands

I dug through the crates and found a bunch of old photos from Newark bands from the late '90s and early 2000s. I never claimed to be a good music photographer and going through these negatives was pretty embarrassing and funny at the same time. First of all my composition sucks. I'm always cutting some shit off in the dark. I also realized I CANNOT shoot drummers at all for some dumb reason, so I'm going to apologize in advance for not having any good shots of Steve Hollis or Rif. If I have a single decent photo of a drummer I'll build a time machine. Anyway, some of you might remember these shows because they weren't *that* long ago. They're old but not like Fire Tribe old. All photos via the Nikon F4, and I thankfully didn't use the 14mm fisheye on any of these.

Unleash the Bastards at Girls Inc.
I know I still have this tape or cd somewhere...




hey look, it's that guy from Dr. Dog

Miles to Failure at Girls Inc.

in case you didn't know, Allen Hitchens was straight edge back then.


and emo. Sorry Allen, haha.

Trailer Park Riot and The Bureaubrats at East End Cafe
These were two of my favorite bands to see toward the end of my time in Newark. I still have that 7" and a tape Rif gave me. Trailer Park Riot was Ken Adams, Nate Eggink, Scottie Curran, and Steve Hollis. Bureaubrats was Dave (Aaron Watkins), Lee Dickerson, Jon Riffenburg, and some metal dude; I don't know his name. They also had one of my favorite songs of all time called "Grave Digger." When I was in seventh grade, Aaron was one grade above me. We went to this tiny Catholic school in Maryland and there was this custodian we called Mr. Wally and he had been at the school forever. A couple years earlier Mr. Wally got cancer and he died around the same time Aaron got in trouble at school and was suspended, only instead of making him stay home from school the nuns sent him across the street to dig Mr. Wally's grave. Fucking incredible.









again, no pics of Steve or Rif. sorry dudes. i suck.