best photo award

this one aint to bad either:

so i went on this week long trip to vegas and california for my birthday. here is a blog full of videos and pictures with captions organized in chronological order.

excitement on the plane to vegas. i am 20 years and 364 days here. jessie isnt stoked for take off.

so we are in vegas now. we stayed at the luxor. it has an ancient egypt theme. hella temple vibe.

heres a vid of the bellagio water show. it was pretty awesome and loud.

heres a vid of my new high score in galaga set on the machine in the excaliber.

heres my bro being chill in the m&m's store. they had every color m&m in there for you to buy, even silver. only thing is they charged 10 bucks a pound for them. lame.

so i turned 21 in vegas and it was real fun. i got real drunk by myself off free drinks and won 100 bucks playing black jack. next day i lost it all and an additional 100 bucks. so yah, that sucked.


heres a pic out of hte window driving to LA. i miss the california desert scene.

vid of the drive to LA.

i forget to get pics of my dads family when we visited my grandma and grandpa. oh well.


whats the first thing that you do when you go to disneyland? ride space mountain of course. jessie is stoked while im reppin' 425 in the 714.

heres a vid my bro took of some chill kids in the caves on tom sawyers island. i guess they were just running around and screaming at people. he scared my cousin brian pretty good.

can you guess what ride this is?

the trip was super awesome. we got a ton of pics which was good. i have a bad memory so having lots of pictures is essential for me. we got back wednesday. friday was the capitol hill block party. so good. saw abe vigoda twice and met reggie and mike. they were super nice. they played really well that night, especially at the 'secret show'. every now and then i just let myself go at a show, this was one of the occasions.

abe vigoda being hella good.

no age being hella good. what good dudes.

all in all a great week full of friends, family and music. not something i will forget any time soon.



also i found this vid today. i thought it was pretty rad to watch.

hearing a song for the first time is one of the coolest things about life.

the truth

schools out. its still rainy. but its sunny in my mind. im so excited.

bomeward hound

brothers are cool.

i got a lot of shows and shit lined up, mostly thanks to joe. he visited this week. its always real nice when he visits. school is almost over and im stoked. im so stoked to go to disneyland this summer. its my favorite place in the world. the next summer release will come with handmade friendship bracelets. i learned how to make them today and its super fun. !!!
lets play a game called 'name that ride!'
what disneyland ride is this:

wood vibes

mad tight, mega rad, super cool, stupid awesome obfuscation.

the eggs split with summer and temple vibe(formerly the feathers) is being resurrected and will be sold at our show at the firehouse in mid june. im excited to hear the new temple vibe recordings. a lot of my friends really bring a lot of exciting things to my life. always bringing new things to the table and pushing boundaries i never knew were even there. its fun to witness.

this weekend me and my roomate are gonna tie dye shirts. if it goes well my next summer shirt might be tie dye. ive been thinking about doing it for a while now. i might not end up doing it though. besides the eggs split im working on an individual summer release with all new songs on it to come out hopefully before the end of the year. i want to put it out on vynil(thats the wrong way to spell it but it looks cooler that way i think). or at least have a 7" or something. i think that would be fun. with fun colors, pressed on yellow wax or something.

masters and johnson are visiting bellingham this weekend for some bomb bellingham recording sesh's. im really excited to record them. they are a really great band and working with them will be awesome. soon i will have all the bellingham shed sesh songs mixed soon. sticks and stones came out pretty good. i hope to improve it a little bit and give the other songs similar treatment. also look forward to a shed music video im putting together. its pretty goofy but it has footage of the recording session which is really cool and special. cool memories.

also if you are interested in touring with me this summer let me know. i dont want to do it by myself. im pretty new to that kind of thing and would need some help.

i had to do a film review for one of my classes so i picked 2001: a space odyssey. i had never seen it before and the dvd has been lying around my room for months so i figured this would be a great opportunity to finally watch it.

i was blown away. it was one of the best movies i have ever seen in my life. never has a movie or any other form of art for that matter, made me feel the way this film did. i suggest everybody reading this to watch it. its not the cheesy sci-fi flick you probably think it is.

sk8 or die


check those dudes out! so awesome.
ive been skating to class everyday now even in the rain. i dont know why nobody does it. skating in the rain is so much fun!

last night was tight. i went out with my neighbs. we first went to some party accross town. we showed up to what we thought was teh right house and knocked on the door. turns out a middle aged woman in her bathrobe lived there, but my friend still decided to say 'hey we heard there was a party here.' clearly not jimmy...clearly not. so then we kind of just walked around a bit trying to find the real house. we ran across a jeep filled with 10 bros. no joke man. there were 10 of them in a little jeep, and each one had a 12 pack of beer in their hands. so we just followed them. low and behold we found the house we were looking for. it was a nice little house. they had a big yard and i took the opportunity to explore it by myself a little bit. i always like to explore new places especially at parties. i found some sweet trees and a cool shed but the door was locked. i met up with my friends back at the party and it was pretty cool i guess. there was this tight live dj who was scratching and stuff. it was clear he was new and this was one of his first gigs, so me and my friends decided to start dancing to give him some more confidence. it worked and he started getting way into it with us which was cool. everyone else looked at us like we were crazy but whatever. especially these black girls haha. i overheard one of them say 'i aint neva seen anythin like this in my entire life girl'. it was sweet.

we then left that party to some other party we heard about that was happening closer to our apartment. by thsi time it was already midnight, but the night was still young. while walking to the party we found another party on the way. we walked to the back yard and they had 3 long ropes hanging from some wire connected to a nearby tree. people were swinging from the ropes and hooping and hollering. there was a sweet bonfire, and up in one of the tall trees were these nets suspended like large hammocks that people were laying in. we went downstairs into this dark dingy basement room and there was this sweet band playing. they all looked like traveling gypsies or something and played really awesome gypsy folk tunes about friends and fucking on
freight trains. heres a couple vids of them.

they seemed like really cool people. they came all the way from new orleans i guess in their van. they passed around a cup for donations but i didnt have cash. when i started taking vides of them with my phone of the the menbers shouted 'hey video is gonna cost ya!' wtf how rude. i just wanted to remember the moment. then they tried to charge my friend 10 bucks for some cd-r with 5 songs on it. bullshit. after singing songs about not needing money and living on small means youd think they would act like it in real life. so that kind of left me bitter, but i tried not to let it affect me much. they had some sweet songs and for the a moment they had a really awesome mystical and magical vibe i wont soon forget.
after the show we went back outside to swing and climb on teh ropes. i climbed the tree to one of hte lower nets and chilled in it for a bit drunk. it was really sweet. the stars were out that night. a couple minutes after coming down from the tree the cops came so i booked it through some bushes. im not 21 yet and getting an mip a few months before my birthday would be a real drag. i guess the cops didnt give anyone breathalizers though and just told people to be quiet. but i still heard people calling them pigs and stuff which was kind of rude since they could have decided to get people in trouble with the law. they were pretty chill cops and as far as cops go. sweet night.

sup all. how is everyone? im doing fine. life has been good to me the last few weeks. last weekend me and my roomate graham recorded shed in the fairhaven studio on campus. it was such an incredible experience. i enjoyed it a lot. there werent any pictures taken but there was plenty of video. im currently editing a music video for them with the footage. its turning out really great so far. all the songs they recorded were awesome and i couldnt have asked for a better band to record for the first time. we had very little sleep the night before so some of the process was pretty grueling, but i feel like we came out of is as stronger friends and as stronger people.

last week was pretty laid back in terms of school work. it gave me a lot of extra time to write some new songs. i dont really like the sound of some of the songs ive written more recently, so i am trying a different approach to writing them. its a fun challenge. joe and pascal played a show here on thursday. i was only able to catch the last song but from what i saw they did a great job. its always nice to see those boys. they are awesome people and awesome friends. afterwards we got some ice cream and fries, then it was time to say goodbye.

this weekend could be better i guess. i have a long paper to write, a website to make and a lame group project meeting. but i finished recording a new song and put it on my myspace and i reserved a copy of grand theft auto 4 on xbox. i also received my new sound card in the mail. the sound quality on it is great and it has lots of input connections which is nice. its a lot easier to work with than my old one. so things around here arent too bad, just a lil lonely. hopefully i can get the majority of my work done today so i can hang out with my neighbors later today. they are really awesome sincere dudes who love video games. not much more i could ask for in a neighbor haha.

heres a tight pic i found on the internet:

it combines two of my favorite things, disney and star wars!