I went to
Vancouver for Halloween and to do a photo show.
My friend lent
me her apartment because she was down in LA becoming a movie
star. I think that is supposed to be her in this drawing.
At the Astoria
on karaoke night this is how they display the songs. Just a
complete mess of random, unorganized, sometimes sideways song titles
spread out on the pool table.
That's Wendy
there on the right. She runs the Astoria and is running for city
council.
(ps. they are
all dancing to "New York, New York.")
We always eat
breakfast at this cafe and they always have the worst crap on the
walls, but I liked this Pink Panther thing. It was like a photo
printed on canvase with a painting over it. Very arts and
craftsty and psychotic.
And all
Halloween decorations are good.
This fence is
actually a gallery, and is repainted every month by a different
artist. Matt Aiken did this one. That Reaper is like 25
feet tall. Across the street is a Gospel Mission that gives out
food to the homeless. They line up for hours to get a hot
meal. Brutal.
My show was at a
store/gallery called 'Goon Pack'. (All the prints are
27x40 inches)
Dan helped
organize the show. There's Matt Aiken over there in the leather,
and that's Jason McLean on the right.
Halloween is
really almost a week long.
Jeremy was a
McMilkshake on Friday... and a
McFrench-fry on Saturday!
There was a big
halloween rock show in S.T.R.E.E.T.S. new jam space 'Gnarnia.'
The head
waitress.
Josh Wells.
This is
me. I was an escaped mental patient who had torn out his own
eyes.
Su and Johnny.
Jack O'Lantern.
Rosemary.
Dan as his evil
twin.
Some of Black
Mountain and Super Steve.
Shawn.
Mapee.
S.T.R.E.E.T.S.
Su and some ruby
red.
We went back to
Gnarnia to help clean up. It looks pretty good in these photos,
but it was disgusting. Kim Krans did the mural on the wall.
There were bits
of costumes all over the place.
Wreck
beach in the rain.
The next night
was actually Halloween, and Jake had a "Scary Night" at his new corner
store. He really owns a real corner store.
He sells things
like this:
Keegan and Smee.
The next morning
Johnny's house got some sort of court summons due to the recent selling
of
the property and back rent and blah blah blah... After a weekend
of parties, letters like this literally seem like gibberish from
another dimension.
That's Rick
McCranks face as a mask. It's a prop for a movie that all these
kids have been working on over the past few months, directed by Cory
Adams. Definite cult classic in the making...
