On ze playa

NOTICE: The playa is super soft and sandy this year so expect really bad dust storms and bring the fattest, knobbiest tires on your bike! It will be worth it! It's also going to be another hot year so take precautions. Awesome hot nights too like last year. Okay! I got to go to the commissary and get some din din! See you cats next week!

FUCK OAKLAND

End to a terrible day:
I'm driving back home from a potluck at the Vulcan Warehouse and I get 3 bloacks away from my house and I see the usual gang of about 5 black guys doing their gang banger shit and then I hear a BANG! on the side of my car. I hit the breaks and then hit the gas again. I decided not to park on the same street they are walking down which is the same street I live on so if they won't fuck it up any more. Now there are two big dents on the side. I have no idea what they threw at me, must have been a rock or a piece of metal. I called the non-emergency police line and I guess the only reason to report something is for insurance reasons. I am fucking PISSED. I could not stop. I was powerless. this is why I hate this area now. I will move out at some point. I just want to yell and break shit.
Now I'm not going to get to bed soon and I have work tomorrow. That's strike two. The first was seeing young people shooting off machine guns on July 4th just up the road from me. Next one and I'm fucking out of here.

Tantalus

I'm having a pretty good time but at the expense of.. well, money!
Trying to forget the worries of:
I'm leaving for BM in 18 days.
I have not gotten paid and won't get paid before BM.
I have hardly any money for rent now, I'm going to ask my mom for more money and will probably owe her about $1000 back.
I thought I had more but I guess I don't, which is a good thing but those are pretty bad. (in my opinion)

So, today I spent with my friend Missy who is from my home town and gave me my first tattoo and my friend Justin who was the first friend I made up here. We went to Pete Hudson's donation party in the AMERICAN STEEL building in Oakland. Low turn out but it was really fun hanging out with them and Missy's artist friend (?), running around the warehouse showing them the rest of the BM art there. Later me and Justin rode a double bike abound together, it was awesome. Music ended at 11pm so that was lame, we dropped off the other girl and went to Justin's house and listened to him spin some music and did tarot readings. I totally love that kind and his vibe is so positive (Buddhist) he rocks. It was great seeing Missy again too, I missed her. :)

Sleep is good now I think even tho I'm still stoned... :P

Message to the spinners in SF

I guess what I'm really looking for is a group of really good peeps that are willing to teach me for free or for some $. I do staff, contact staff and just picked up staves and I have not been practicing much lately and I feel like if I did something every week like I used to in LA I could get really good soon. :) I'm down for finding a park and bringing a stereo and rocking out for a few hours a few times a week! What do you think?

I MISS YOU ROB!

I never ever ever ever ever ever EVER thought I would say this but I MISS LA.
I miss all of you, not really LA the area or the things there. I miss my friends that I was just making as I left. I'm not going to make a list of people I miss because I would end up forgetting someone and that would suck. Some people that are not on tribe I am afraid I will never see again but I guess that's life.

I miss RevRob the most I have to say. We had such a great connection and got along really well and I have not had a male best friend like that that stayed just a best friend! The fact that neither wanted any kind of sexual stuff going on made it all the better. We really were meant to meet at Fuente.

All the world's a diamond.

So I have been Living in SF for maybe almost 2 months now and I STILL don't have a job. There were a few good leads on a job but they all fell through. I am going to Aaron Brothers today to get a 10hr a week job stocking. I don't even know if I'll get this job.
I think I need to just trust in the universe and go with the flow. It's just really hard to do that when I have to ask my mom for rent money and I hate being the bum to my friends. Another few things to add to my stress is I came down with a nasty cold and yesterday my right ear got clogged and now I can't hear out of it at all. That means I can't ride my bike for fear of getting dizzy and riding into traffic.
There's a lot of other shit going on but I don't want to explain everything. One good thing tho; I went to my first Burning Man meeting at BMHQ yesterday. I didn't get to say hardly any thing but it was fun and a little exciting. I want to work there!
I'm going to go put some more stuff in my ears and hopefully get the wax out. :P

Ya Woo

Well the exhibition went really well, I got a lot of compliments and business cards. Crimson Rose from BMORG wants to take my 3 pics of the monkey tree and show them at another show in Reno, which is pretty sweet. There were fire spinners and a drum circle and it was a pretty big party. I'm thinking about maybe taking some more classes on photography and Photoshop once I can go back to school again. Now I just need to get a job and find a place, maybe with another burner? Gosh I need to call her..

"I gotta get a bike and I gotta pay in brew.
Oh , no we gotta go. We're not going to live for ever.
Why, why we gotta die..."
Butthole Surfers.

Good bye LA friends!

So I am about to pack my Mac away now and hopefully tomorrow night I will be back online again. I want to thank everyone I have met in the last couple of months for the awesome time! I love you all and wish you the best of luck. If I could write a list of people to thank I would but then I would probably end up forgetting people and then make them feel bad so I wont.
Thank you!
Much love, Whiskey Devil.
;)