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I think I would be happy living where there were always flowers in bloom. They do make me so happy. 🌸🪷🌴🏜️🌄🌳🌦️🌈

Happy birthday to the final Boss🍋⚡️🍰💃🏼 ♥️

TODAY. 4PM. CLOSE TO THE SUBWAY. .science.nyc for more info….

4PM. GREENPOINT. .science.nyc for more info. It’s like Body & Soul, only smaller 🕺🏾💃🏼👯👯‍♂️🪩🍄🎵 (also Pablo Picasso)

Collars and leisure suits of the 1970s…

F**k yeah Friday. Every now and then I will pull out this 72 mm Powell (pre-Peralta era) Quicksilver outfitted with first generation and anniversary edition wheels. It was made in ‘77 or 78? The deck is composed of aluminum and fiberglass. It’s about 1/4in thick. If this board were to get away from you and, let’s say- hit you in your shin- it would make a compound break, decimating your tibia. I suspect these were put out of production because some poor kid was decapitated at one of the first skateparks when someone fell with the board shooting up the wall, into the air coming to land by the arcade where some poor kid who was playing Defender, not hearing the cries—- “BOARD!!!”when- 🛹💥💀‼️ I’m not calling it a conspiracy theory but I think this is why all of the 70s era skateboard parks closed. Who is this dead kid and does the Powell corporation have blood on its hands for supplying kids with dangerous weapons? This is the story that they’re not telling us about i concerning 70s skateboarding. I think that the whole thing was set up by lizard people.. Wait- is George Powell actually a lizard person, sent to earth to disrupt our peace and harmony? “V” wasn’t a TV mini series- it was a documentary filmed in real time.🦎

Cutie is on the eye of the be told er. My art walk 2/3

It’s been a hot minute since my last jaunt through
Art was viewed. Fun was had. Part 1

I do regret loosing my family as I could have shown them all of this knowledge that I’ve been amassing for the last 35 years. This conversation between and BLEW MY FU***NG MIND! I was maybe 14yr’s old when I was given a book on the paintings of John Singleton Copley from my mother. During high school, I read this book cover to cover, countless times. By the time I entered tertiary education, social consciousness was changing and growing up as a fatherless child, I was questioning who I was as a man and as a black man in modern society. By college, I was so into graffiti, I’d written off Copley and general art history from the Middle Ages through the mid to late 19th century as bu****it because I couldn’t relate with the lack of DIGNIFIED representation. Fast forward to 20 23,24.- hi stall, Carrie James Marshall paintings residences of private, collectors, and gallery’s and art fairs. I’ve been to her studio multiple times. There is something to be sad about visiting an artists studio to see how the work is made… to see studies for the masterpieces… to have small talk with the artist and her staff… to drive home inspired, ready to continue with the development of my own practice… happy I chose to be a starving artist. To see Carrie‘s modern painting juxtapose against these paintings from the 14th through 18th centuries is what it’s all about. Thankfully, there are painters like that are making up for the lack of neo-classical depictions of Blacks. I’m glad I got to go back to walk around with nephew.we tucked it up. He’s a great travel companion🤟🏿🎨🎭🖼️

More homies (Does the first dude look like John Wright from Benny Hill?) 🎄

I finally met Romulus and Remus!!! I met some of their friends, as well. 🎄

Storming the Capitol

1.) Skate
2.) Rock

I can’t think of any place where you can skate, totally naked , and in picture number one I guess I’m not totally naked, because I am wearing my underwear on my face…
… and pads. If there was a place that you could skate maybe it was - and even man it would depend on who you were with🤣 I sure miss WB’s hot lines 🔥 pic number two is for the rock. Last Saturday was our beloved ‘s last show of 2023 and I’m doing my best to give you that Bruce Foxton Jam Power Trio realness. Ive lost my Jam lapel pin, stage diving at the Templars show later that evening. If you’re gonna lose a pin like that, I’m glad that it was there, or somebody might find it and be rocking it at this very moment. 😎

I didn’t take many pictures of on Saturday night. At a show with this kind of energy, you don’t want be that person up at the stage with your phone out. Stand in the back or off to the side for that, The from front is reserved for the rockers. Seeing Perry play bass- for me, is extremely special. I was too young and not in the know to ever see chapter 21. By the time X-Factor/Only the Strong came around, I had learned a thing or two. I had a bass guitar, a Gorilla amp, and wanted to start my own band. An image of Perry wielding his bass for OTS in the rock room at Medusa‘s after the ARA meeting at the Belmont Rocks is a memory that is flash frozen in my mind, like witnessing Skeeter Thompson for the first time. When you’re 14/15 and you know anyone in a band, OMG- this dude was like the Bassist archetype for me. Thanks Tony for being my passport to adventure, in dem dere days. The second pic is me in my early 20’s with my third bass that I’d acquired from OTS’s guitar player in a trade for a stolen guitar. I digress. I’ve only seen the Templars 3 times in 23-25years? It’s hard to keep track of, the times- s**t, the first time I saw Perry play bass was maybe 36 years ago. All these years later, to witness the music.. to see cats you looked to for inspiration when you were young, is to still be that teenage boy that just cut his orange bangs off to sport a fully shaved head at a show, in the fu***ng mix, apart of the energy. I could watch and listen to a sly mo********er run hot baselines all night! F**k yeah, Stellar show⚔️🗡️⚔️🗡️ 🤟🏿🎸

Christmas starts today.

It’s been a minute since the last photo dump. Come see my band on Saturday afternoon. ☮️

THIS SATURDAY, the 16th of December, 2023: a Holiday Season Punk MATINEE!!! Your favorite rockers on a crusade for ☮️ bring it to Greenpoint
300 Richardson St.
2PM
FREE ADMISSION

Damn, John John. 💔🚲🛹💔🙏🏿

As an artist/musician who absolutely loves ingesting live music and art, who also works in the fine art world for a living, the amount of culture and creative information that my mind is constantly processing is staggering. That’s sad, maybe I see more average shows that are quite frankly forgettable than shows that will stand out in my mind, until my brain really starts failing me. The women of have the chemistry that separate good bands from great bands…
… the type of band that can give you those unforgettable moments. There was one instance that bought me to this hallucinatory place, where I’m in the audience at a Desperate Teenage Lovedolls show, witnessing the greatness and am slapped back into reality, face to face with the essence of rock and roll abandon, which is everything. When listening to high-powered rock ‘n’ roll like this, I always ask myself if I could skate to it, and I know that some serious sessions are gonna go down to their music! Most definitely check em out! To experience in America, is to face and own our privileges as Americans to question the Church and State without serious repercussions from Big Brother. Great music have come from art collectives egere bands are formed with people who never thought they’d be musicians, but it grabs you. I love how punishing electronic music can be. I also love classical instruments infused with loop pedals and other modern technologies in the live setting that create unique timbres. This world is on fire, I don’t need to tell you. I am here to report that there are some people out there fighting the good fight using art and music as their weapons of choice. If you happen to be in Montreal, they have an exhibit at Montreal Museum of Art. I believe their North American tour has concluded, but look out for them and please try to check it out, when they come back to America and definitely check out Thick, if you were in the New York City area. 🤟🏿 ’

SHOW ALERT//::// DAYTIME:::// 2PM DOORS::// FREE ADMISSION//://ALL AGES//
We go at 3PM
Location:
Date: 16 Dec, 2023 ☮️👁️

20 year anniversary of my third performance with in a very different Brooklyn than the Brooklyn we know today. Duffs was on Kent Street. Cokie’s was still open. It wasn’t unusual to get to the bar at 12am and stay until 3pm the next day. Ghost Exits was the best band in the borough. The noise scene was on fire. Most of my friends nod not have children yet. I had no grey hair. I could go on… 💋

Happy 18th SME😉 💃🏼🎂🇨🇦🥰

Do you think I could still get paid for the runs I made? Photo One is from the summer of 2000, a manifest from . Open air walkie talkies and pagers were the rule of the day. There were no pedal assist, powered bicycles to be seen.. it was straight up Honda motor scooters, motorcycles, or bicycles- None of this hybrid bu****it. We worked for our money, no matter the weather. Photo two is babies first logbook as a truck driver. These were the wild days of art trucking. you don’t even know about the madness that took place on the road. A lot of the craziest s**t never happened in the big cities, but in the middle of nowhere s**t stained hotels where we would enter into Locals Only bikers bars as the carpet baggers that we were. I can write an entire book on this trip alone.. I literally have hundreds of these things, today. Most people only drive across country once or twice unless they’re in a band or a truck driver. I could probably say that I’ve done both and am both. I’ve crisscrossed this country enough times to lace up a pair of 1000 hole Doc Martens. 22 years of art trucking? I haven’t done the math, but I am easily in the million mile club. 🤟🏿

I had a wild nice credit . I finally used it, pulling the trigger on a bass guitar for the left handed player. The set up is so low, with NO BUZZZZZZZZZZZ🥰 it’s also 3/4 scale , which will come.in handy for running our deceivingly complex arraignments for
I’m very excited for the future 🎸☮️🎸☮️🎸🤟🏿

I FINALLY MADE IT TO - I had only been to the old Lafayette Street location, and that was when Harold was alive. It’s funny to think that back then, I was low key trying to keep my distance from the likes of Skateboarders and Graffiti Writers. I thought that is was ruining my life. I would come to find that it wasn’t skaters or writers that were fu***ng my life, but it was my own poor decisions that nobody had anything to do with making, and it was all on me. I could never fully get away anyways. These particular strains of people had been part of my life from a very young age. I would never have it any other way. Damn, this place is fun!!!

Back on my bu****it. Currently digitizing records and songs that ARE NOT on Spotify for my USB DJ arsenal.

If you’re 50 and nifty, I raise my glass for all of y’all, this Friday 🍷

Are you into power trios? Check out - we’ve got what you desire. ☮️🎸🛹

SATURDAY!
1-5PM
You know the deal 🎃👻🎃👻🎃👻💀💀💀💀💀💀

“Hate is your outlet”
-Billingsgate
Squirrel was right. Hate was my outlet. #1989 **kup