Halloween's a corky lil diddy for us Americans, and last year, i had the opportunity to attend a Halloween party in London. Their perception of our coveted holiday was a bit weird... I went as a scuba diver, along with Dan as a woman, and jon as Carl Winslow from Family Matters. Well, when we got to the jump off, everybody, and i mean everybody just had blood and makeup on, wearing their regular clothes. Now I would've clowned on em, but there was just so many of em. So we actually ended the night being clowned on with no ladies to bring back to the flat. boo...

This year is different tho... We're in the good ol' U.S. of A. and god damnit, this shit's OK! Yesterday, I had to stop by Shepard's office to snap a few pics for an editorial in Staf Mag. Lot's of things happening at Studio Number One...

Thanks to Ernie and Phil for the help yesterday. Your weird relationship towards each other works, no on prop 8. Also, I met this dude Spencer who apparently is the little baby on the Nirvana Nevermind album cover. how weird... but welcome aboard, my man. He's now officially our Stencil Dude.

So, after work, Pubes and I had a craving for some greasy ass funnel cakes and fresh strawberry jam. Where else, but Knotts Berry Farm? Hi Toe!

Oooh.. we meet again.... I want to buy you sooo bad. Whoever the owner is, i'll give you 15k for it... and throw in a bill murray cut-out. Shit's sew tite...

Be carefull this weekend, and stay away from the weird, generic candy. Shit'll make you croak, son!

Got home pretty late, and found Chris, OD'ing on that purp.

And Belle, cleaning up the evidence...

PARTY!!!

So last night was the Jane's Addiction Reunion tour at Dance Right LA. We've got two people reporting from the party... First to bat, Erin (our ladies designer)...

"Last night I headed to the Ever store opening on Melrose.  http://www.ever-us.com/ The store looks amazing- but the line was so crazy I couldn't even get inside.  Congrats to my pal Jamie- she's the women's designer- and she's doing an incredible job and the women's line has never looked better!"

"Then I headed downtown to La Cita to check out the show..  More lines..."

So.. Erin had video.. and we meant to put it up, but due to Record Label kookiness, we'll save the hassle for them and leave it off. Thank you Label Execs... You'll be out of a job soon, and your industry is shit. That's all.

Now, up... My man, Steven Puberty of New Jersey Decent.

"Janes Addiction played at Dance Right last night. It was a mess to get people in. The Fire Marshall came and changed the capacity from 390 to 157. They got rid of all guest lists and just honored the bands list.  I realized my friends are way cooler than the bands friends because the crowd was mostly comprised of industry douchebags and some minor celebrities but.... the show was pretty freaking amazing. Perry had minimal talk about politics which was nice. I didn't go there to hear his views on the world, if I wanted those views I'd talk to NBA super coach Phil Jackson, sike! Navarro actually was shredding pretty heavy on guitar but he still creeps me out. The key though was Eric Avery. Dude looks like the only normal one and probably the only one that is into good music still. He's like the Michael Anthony of the group, dude really holds it down. The set was not what I expected either, they played a great set for a small crowd not like going to some festival and just cranking out the standard hits. I had flashbacks of grade school during the show."

Yo Shep! Deer in the headlights.

Yo Entourage, smile!

Yo Navarro, get some super glue for those fingers because although you're creepy (but hot chicks love you), you shred more than I ever knew. And get a shirt while you're at it.

Yo it's pimp 'Silky' Farrell and the dude of dudes Eric Avery.

Perry had to get his picture with Pubes.

"So seriously Shepard, you should check out this guy running for President named Obama."

Look in the back. That's drummer Stephen Perkins. That dude kills it at life and the drums.

For those that couldn't get in. Blame it on all the A&R's and Label Managers, viva la raza!

- POSTED BY: PUBE$

Yo Yo Yo..

So the boys at OBEY Giant and Studio One just got back from a hellish trip to the east. Here's what they came back with...

DC right here and Boston right here.

All this political stuff is making me work hard for my money!.

B-ya L8r!
- POSTED BY: ROAMS

The Santa Ana's are picking up again... Hot, Dry, and Windish, exactly how I like my womens. Yummmy!

So, I guess Dave Navarro's let the Cat outta the Cage (or the ham outta the sam'ich, however you wanna interpret it) and we're safe to post this. Yes, that's right... Pube$ dream has now been fulfilled.

And something substantially smaller.. but a lot roomier and funner... (friday)

So, we've been scheming for a while with the guys at Lowrider Switzerland and finally the scheme is a reality! They hand screened our Jocks Japan "FIST" Tee for their next limited monthly subscription. If you wanna join in this action... sign up here. Thanks for the Hook Disco P... VeVey!

On a serious note... Shep just released his video project.. Peep it here...

But on a less serious tip..

watch this or play with this.

peace!

- POSTED BY: ROAMS

Finally, we've reached the end of the semana. Just to be quick before you shut your brains off for the weekend...

All year, the office has been emailed random bootlegs of the OBAMA Hope posters. Some are funny, some are weird, and some are just plain whack. Totally awesome dudes from Australia (aren't really familiar with em') have started to compile all the images here...

Shepard's in DC right now, preparing for his Opening this weekend too... here's some press coverage...

poop - a
doop !!!!

Keep twangin...

Excuse me sir do you happen to have the time?

Zing!

A birthday present from AAA and his lady Mitzi for my B-Day last week. Although the battery died about two days after I got this and time appears to be standing still permanently this is the cat's pajamas.

So Tonite, Roams and I are on the prowl for some good ol' rug cuttin'. Two Parties, All ladies... All the cot damn time....

And here's what you're doing saturday...

woop.

- POSTED BY: PUBE$

This week has been the bee's knees. I got asked to DJ at Steve Berra and Eric Koston's The Berrics (www.theberrics.com) for a private event they did where Darker My Love played.

Ran into some old friends. The main man Vern, Philly transplant was in attendance. Gotta be psyched on that Phillies win Vern.

My old roommate Dave Young came through. There is talk of a book on Dave's famous warehouse on 6th Street. I lived there for about 2 years when I first moved to LA. Everyone from the Melvins to HR from Bad Brains has played there. Dave would ride little kids bikes as he said. Pretty famous for his part in Nowhere Fast. Also, Shepard screened his posters there for about 5 years.

You know it's a special event when my brother and his wife show up. They have a 5 week old at home but had my mom on babysitting duties. Ma dukes taking one for the team!

I was super beat at work the next day but had to rally for game 5 of the Phillies/ Dodgers series. Thanks Dodger Dave for the ticket hookup!  My brother and I were on the fence, we're from South Jersey and the Phillies were our team growing up but I've been to way more Dodgers games than Phillies games. Either way the Dodgers got smoked. What's up with Furcal and his crappy throws to 1st? Then the throw into the backstop, seriously? Looked like the Badnews Bears at one time. Word is in Philly 610 is getting all emotional reminiscing about growing up a Phillies fan.

Rally in the ravine.

The OBEY Squad at the game.

I saw the Dodger's lose and all I got was the this lousy cupcake. They were handing these out on the way out of the stadium.

2 weeks til Halloween!

- POSTED BY: PUBE$

Hey, if you didn't hear, SHEPARD'S for OBAMA!

Group Exhibition featuring Shepard Fairey, Al Farrow, Paul D. Miller

Opening reception with the artists:  Saturday, October 18, 6-9PM
October 18 - December 6

IRVINE CONTEMPORARY
1412 14th St., NW, Washington, DC 20005
www.irvinecontemporary.com
Phone: (202) 332-8767

Artists’ Dialogue at the Corcoran Gallery of Art
Friday, October 17, 7PM

Art Meets Politics: Shepard Fairey and Al Farrow in Dialogue. Shepard Fairey and Al Farrow discuss their innovative work and reflect on the social and political issues that inspire them. Sarah Newman, Curator of Contemporary Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, will moderate the discussion. A reception follows the program.

To purchase tickets, click here!

And for news that has nothing to do with anything... OBEY Radio with Rong Music and Abstract Workshop this friday!!!

CHANGE THE GAME!!

We all know about the shadiness of the recounts, the issues the ballots, and general election fraud…  So here is some new info that might be worth doing some investigation if you are voting absentee.  We are not half-stepping at all on this election and the key to change is knowledge.  Get Informed!

VERY IMPORTANT - PLEASE READ

The story is all over Progressive Talk Radio today about the MCain campaign sending absentee ballot applications to registered democrats or people that have donated to Obama’s campaign.  These ballots are deliberately misleading and have postage paid return addresses that are for an election clerk that is outside of your city or town… (continued)

What this will end up doing is either having your vote not counted, or if you return one of these, they will cite you for election fraud, saying that you already voted absentee.These ballots are only being
sent out in ‘purple states’ and this is a big deal. This is called voter caging, and is a huge problem.

The McCain campaign is stealing this election as we speak.  Please get this information out to as many people as you can, and tell anyone you know who has received one of these ballots that they need to contact their city election clerk or the supervisor of elections immediately.  Also call the local media and let them know what is going on.

The main stream media is never going to cover this so we have to depend on our ground campaign to get the word out to our voters.

- POSTED BY: SHEP!

Roams wanted me to post something today.... Soo drink some ecto cooler and get down on this...

RIGHT HERE!

- POSTED BY: PUBE$

Hey Friends...

So, yeah... you registered??? Well, if it aint too late, hit this up! It might be though, and if it is too late... you're assed out again, jerk. What a yoke!

But, if you're like us, download this special Z-Trip Mix in support of the OBAMA campaign.

"I think this election is way too important to just be silent, so I am trying to do my part here." - Z-Trip

So... In addition to the jump-off this friday at OBEY Radio (updated roster), there's also another OBEY related event going down in LA that same nite.

- POSTED BY: ROAMS

Oh man, I'm an idiot... but this guy's below is the worst.

The life of a transient sure is good, i tell ya. Before the weekend started, Chris here at the office hooked some monstrous tickets for me and a guest to veg out and mutate. So many things happened at once, I couldn't even capture everything in my little picture machine. What a joke (pointing at myself)....

But, before i get into the guts of it all. I wanna pre-warn you on this weekend's festivities... Flying Lotus along with Ras G and our very own GLK will be at OBEY Radio, October 10th for the one and only Brainfeeder Records showcase. Capacity at this venue is a little over 200, and that's when everybody's squeezed in there like a can of sardines. Please arrive early and stay late... it's going down all nite...

So... Saturday morning... woke up around 2p to head over to the Detour fest in Downtown LA. On our way to the show, the buildings engulfed the sunny skies...

After Detour, took a cab to Studio One for the Park Life show...

Batty Boy Marquis, back in LA for a bit...

Birthday Pubes...

Mutant Huck and I hopped on the #2 bus to some other thingy downtown...

Free The Robots got caught slippin' too... (don't worry, nothing was snorted up... good clean fun for all!

Also ran into Strong and Haycock (Do-over Sundays)... throwing a few back...

You know you're in Downtown Los Angeles when...

Trees aren't even safe... adooo!

- POSTED BY: ROAMS

Don't Vote...

Amy here. Last Saturday I went out to La Luz de Jesus Gallery in LA for Shepard’s signing of his new book, E Pluribus Venom.

Lots of crazy books and cool stuff at the gallery...

Visit La Luz gallery here!

- POSTED BY: AMY

Thirsty Firstly...


The Great Schlep from The Great Schlep on Vimeo.


The Great Schlep from The Great Schlep on Vimeo

Git git git git...

The new E Pluribus Venom Book, buy now

So, the squad and I (in spirit) headed to NY for a week.

All because of this event right here...

The best part of being in a 500 sq mile concrete city is all the mutant encounters lurking around each corner...

All photos credited to me. Jon used my CF card the whole time.

This Friday!

This Saturday... Subliminal Projects!

OHH... AND MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR OCTOBER 10TH. FLYING LOTUS, SAMIYAM, and resident... THE GASLAMP KILLER LIVE! AT OBEY RADIO (SANTA ANA).

HOLY SHIT!!! IF YOU MISSED THE GLITCH MOB A FEW WEEKS AGO... REDEEM YOURSELF AND GO EARLY!!!

- POSTED BY: ROAMS