movies I need to see

this

and this

Thursday, tomorrow, live music, Belly Up

ok, I'm trying to calm down but only one day left till No Knife plays at the Belly Up. Which also means one day left until I play at the Belly Up as well since my band, John Foothills Band is opening up the show. This is the band that I play drums in.

Fuck, this will be a good time. I've said it before, but I feel very lucky to have gotten to know the guys in No Knife, and then wind up playing in another band, GYDO, with Brian on top of that. Good dudes, good tunes, good times.

SO COME ON OUT TO THE BELLY UP THURSDAY NIGHT. I promise it will be a great show.

No Knife, The Focus Group, and John Foothills Band.

Not a night to be missed. You will regret it if you do. That much I can promise.

this weekend in encinitas

if you're around in north county this weekend, you should head over to the UNIV shop in Encintas for a little event Saturday night.

The Lovewright Company & UNIV present the Recession Sessions. Looks like there will be a motorcycle exibit courtesy of 02 Motorworks as well.

Unfortunately, I won't be able to attend, but FORTUNATELY for me, I'll be out of town on vacation with my wife for our 2 year anniversary. If you have gifts for us, please, please feel free to send them to us. Its a pretty big deal. They say that if you make it past the first 2 years, then you'll probably make it for at least 2 more!

so do yourself a favor and check out all the radness that UNIV has going on and say hi to Tim and the gang over there.

the wave

I'm not sure if I'M the jerk in the situation or what.....BUT I just don't feel obligated to 'wave' to fellow motorcycle riders when I'm riding. Especially other Harley dudes, but even the street bike crowd. I'm not purposely avoiding it, but I'll notice it sometimes that some dude going the other way in traffic will be almost flagging me down to wave, so if that happens I might lift my left hand off my grip and give a peace sign or something....

OK, I do totally avoid the guys with the mohawk helmets, that I can admit, unless of course its DMX and the Ruff Ryders, cause then I'll stop and just chit chat it up with them.

so, are we the New Jeeps? I know harley guys have been waving to eachother probably longer than bros with CJ7's, but are we obligated? Is it something that we must do? I think not, but still I feel bad if I think that some other idiot now thinks that I purposely avoided it.

AMF era tanks

clean lines, good logos, great colors.

Taiwan

2 more days till I head home. it will be nice to enjoy socal for a while. Friends Krista and Josh will be in town from Wednesday till Sunday with young Gunnar and it will be great to see them and get in the water.

here's a few snaps from the iphone from Taiwan

sex sells the scoot

ummm....can I buy everything in this room?

Great cafe in Taichung.

another pic of Robot Station

bikes and skates

I don't know what it is, but nostalgia has got the best of me. I realize that when I bought my sportster I loved the flat tracker and K-series styling of the paint job and its almost like my bike is a "re-issue" of the old sportsters....

here's a great example of a nice XLCH done up right with an amazing paint job and that racing vibe.

ALSO, I just found out that Powell Peralta reissued my first real skate deck, the Caballero Mechanical Dragon. I had it in the Purple color and all they have is the teal, but i'll take it. If anyone is in need of getting me an awesome childhood memory gift, now you know.

One of the coolest things about this skateboard is that the powell peralta ripper logo on the top was a robot head on my original. I wonder if they went that far on the re-issue. I sure hope so...