Sunshine Muse
Some weekends just seem to fly by in the blink of an eye. Not much happens and before you know it, it's Monday morning and time to jump back into the daily grind. The last few days however couldn't have been more different. It seemed like a never ending string of fun activities came my way. I wish every weekend was this exciting...Evolution Summer in full effect. Here are some of the highlights:
The excitement began on Friday afternoon when Chris Johanson came to town.
We knew it was gonna be a good time when we looked down and noticed that, completely without planning, we were both wearing winos and flourescent socks. Brothers from different mothers. Chris came to town because Sonic Youth were performing Daydream Nation at the Greek Theatre and we were going!!
As we walked in the gate I immediately bumped into Spike and Sonny. Spike is working on the movie version of Maurice Sendak's "Where The Wild Things Are," which from all accounts is going to be beyond amazing. Sonny developed the characters for the film which is gonna be a mix of live action and animation. They say it's gonna come out next year. As you can see here, these guys were in a good mood and so were we. The show was about to start and you could feel the excitement in the air.
Red Kross opened the show, but I was so excited I forgot to take photos. My camera takes crappy photos in low-light situations, but if you squint through the blur you'll recognise this as Thurston Moore. We had seats right in the front row. The dude was so close I could almost feel his breath.
Time to get it. Before you let it. Get to you.
The next morning we woke up and drove to Venice to hang out with Raymond Pettibon. If you've never seen photos, Raymonds house pretty much looks like this all the way through. Stacks and stacks of incredible art everywhere!
This was the first time Chris and Raymond had ever met, so there was something that felt kind of historical about the situation...at least to me. Something like a generational passing of the torch or something...although I might be reading into it too much. I'm always tring to find historical significance in mundane things. It's one of my biggest assets/defects.
One room of Raymond's house was entirely wall to wall books and framed Black Flag flyers. It was too much to take in really.
We all went for a walk through Venice Beach. Chris talked about moving to LA.
He already found his dream car!! More to come...
The excitement began on Friday afternoon when Chris Johanson came to town.
We knew it was gonna be a good time when we looked down and noticed that, completely without planning, we were both wearing winos and flourescent socks. Brothers from different mothers. Chris came to town because Sonic Youth were performing Daydream Nation at the Greek Theatre and we were going!!
As we walked in the gate I immediately bumped into Spike and Sonny. Spike is working on the movie version of Maurice Sendak's "Where The Wild Things Are," which from all accounts is going to be beyond amazing. Sonny developed the characters for the film which is gonna be a mix of live action and animation. They say it's gonna come out next year. As you can see here, these guys were in a good mood and so were we. The show was about to start and you could feel the excitement in the air.
Red Kross opened the show, but I was so excited I forgot to take photos. My camera takes crappy photos in low-light situations, but if you squint through the blur you'll recognise this as Thurston Moore. We had seats right in the front row. The dude was so close I could almost feel his breath.
Time to get it. Before you let it. Get to you.
The next morning we woke up and drove to Venice to hang out with Raymond Pettibon. If you've never seen photos, Raymonds house pretty much looks like this all the way through. Stacks and stacks of incredible art everywhere!
This was the first time Chris and Raymond had ever met, so there was something that felt kind of historical about the situation...at least to me. Something like a generational passing of the torch or something...although I might be reading into it too much. I'm always tring to find historical significance in mundane things. It's one of my biggest assets/defects.
One room of Raymond's house was entirely wall to wall books and framed Black Flag flyers. It was too much to take in really.
We all went for a walk through Venice Beach. Chris talked about moving to LA.
He already found his dream car!! More to come...
posted by Aaron Rose at 8:49 AM
4 Comments:
Holy crap!
i had a never-ending stream of fun activities THIS weekend! go to my blog to check it out. it included yellow balls, a musical, blues music, greek food, and duane allman.
gay socks ruuuuuuuuuule!
where can i obtain a pair of those winos?
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