California here I come (came)

This is the hotel where we spent the night. It is located somewhere in California. I give it Two point Five stars as it was clean and not unpleasant, however our room did not have an alarm clock or a trash can.

Looks like I still have some sizing issues to work out.

With the pictures I mean.

Megan claims that I have slipped back into my "aggressive" driving style.

I prefer to think of it as active driving.

This is someplace north of San Francisco.

Here are some exciting pictures of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Fog-tastic.

And how!

Here we are impersonating Asian tourists in San Fransisco.

Those are monks. We would have posed for a picture with them, however, they already had a line.

In China Town, we learned the "ancient Chinese secret" to making tea.

Megan had just had about eight cups of tea and was now ready to get in the car and continue our drive to Yosemite.

Not before pausing to reflect on our effects on the earth.

It's hip to be rad

In case you were wondering; David LaChapelle is now my friend on mySpace.

This was a Jim Isermann installation of wallpaper at Deitch. I think it would make pretty nice wall paper for the long corridor leading to my rec room. I think it would look even better with animal heads mounted on it, maybe a buffalo or a lion.

I think this was part of a show at Apex Art, in which many pieces were being auctioned off. I got a bumper sticker from Apex Art even though I have no real allegiances to the place.

I think this was from a show of pirate/quasi-pirate art, called Til I Die, at Spencer Brownstone Gallery.

China Town is still packed to the gills with tourists, the only difference is, now I'm one of them. I tried to walk around looking confused and then I bought a Roolex watch.

This was the tastiest red velvet cupcake ever.

For a long time I think me and Ei didn't really understand one another. I think this trip has been a real turning point. Hooray for us.

I went to MoMA for the Paper Rad/Correy Arcangel show or by it's alternate title The Hipster Event of the Century.

Corey Arcangel did " The Bruce Springsteen Born to Run Glockenspiel Addendum" it was pretty amusing, even if it was impossible to hear anything in the performance space/entryway of the MoMA.

I don't think the MoMA security guards knew exactly what to do, this may have been the only time there had ever been crowd surfing in the MoMA. I saw one guy smoking, and the bike-fashion-hipster-hippie version of the hippie dance. This version is very similar to the original hippie dance, but it involves even more careless abandon and more bumping into the people around you, plus costumes.

Paper Rad video's were installed and played throughout the space (with and without the musical accompaniment). I'm not sure, but I don't think this picture is of a Paper Rad video.

Extreme Animals played, I don't remember exactly what they sounded like and it was difficult to hear anything at MoMA, and their mySpace page isn't working (maybe?).

Slow Jams Band did a set involving costumes and choreography. Again it was difficult to hear. I like the song Pssy's Day Off on their mySpace page it's vaguely offensive and definitely inappropriate to play at work.

I met up with Stefan and we met up with some of his co-workers. We headed out to go to the after party.

We went to Gillian's work and drank wine.

Stefan got a call from Corey saying that they would not be attending their own after party.

Galleries and a Party in South Central

UuDam picked me up and we headed downtown to the Red Hat or Red Cat I'm not sure, it's next to the music center. It was closed.

We decided to walk around the music center. There was some event going on, possibly a wedding though there were some old pictures on this table so, maybe it was a funeral or a reunion.

This reminded me of Richard Serra.

This was a pretty sweet fountain. There was some change in it, but not much.

Erotic...

We thought that there were evening events at the MOCA involving wine, cheese & music.... we were mistaken.

We wondered how many wires on this sculpture would need to be cut in order for it to fall down. We think allot.

this is a back alley in Chinatown.

This was this sweet truck we saw that had some stuff stuck to it maybe for transporting horses or maybe for attracting the ladies.

Rye made a sculpture at Black Dragon (not the pictured gallery) that involved a cot, dressed as a lion.

Rye, Hannah & Rebecca posing as McDonald's characters.

Here they are "Krumping".

This is us racing to find food.

We went to a Vietnamese place in Chinatown.

I had a dish titled "fish".

Rebecca had bobba & cigarettes.

We went to another opening of sculptures. Rodney McMillan was there, he introduced me as a great sound musician I was pretty touched.

Went to Sky's opening at Dangerous Curve, I am told that his work is based on video games or something like that. It was all made of styrofoam.

This is a slide from Sonic the Hedgehog.

This is a styrofoam boom-box.

At the opening I saw a transvestite fix his package.

We went to a party in South Central (note* I have been told that "South Central" has a bad rap so instead it is being either called South or Central) at a studio-space that was once a dentists office.

I'm really not sure what this is a picture of but, it must have been intense.

The party was for a hippie who's birthday it was and who was soon to be roommates with Rye. They had beer on tap, and the tap was shaped like a giant tooth.

There was an ample supply of off-brand glow sticks. Eventually allot of the glow sticks started leaking and were thus disposed of throughout the house. Nobody was that worried because the package said the were "non-toxie".

I think this picture might be in 3D.

An exploding glow-stick, probably.

UuDam with a glow-stick on his ear.

Obviously.

The DJ was pretty good, I thought there should have been dancing.

Rebecca & Hannah gave me a ride to my parents house.