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February 28, 2010
February 26, 2010
Gasoline Monk at Satyricon, 3/12
Flyer just came in for the show. All Portlanders reading this, pick up your tickets here. This is gonna be a big show.
Mikey's in Portland
My buddy Mike Vello from Boston is over visiting in Portland now (you remember a little while ago me talking about Dan Halpern, another old friend? Mikey was the drummer in The Kymera Effect with us). His favorite thing in the world, besides actually skating, is to watch skateboarding on YouTube. Here's some of his favorites – anybody unfamiliar with just how nasty kids are getting with skating nowadays will get an idea from this:
Some Nate Keegan, some Matt Miller, and some of Boston's...
February 25, 2010
PDX can get down too
Great show last night at the Mt. Tabor Theater, hosted by Gavin and Lucas of the Hives Inquiry Squad. Ever since I moved to Portland I've been trying to find the good hip hop going on here and my search kept turning up people like Cool Nutz, who just don't click with me. No disrespect, just not what I'm trying to do. So much thanks to Hives for putting me on the bill at Mt. Tabor, because I heard a lot of great music going on. Gavin's a great producer himself, and a handful of ill emcees...
Exit the Workforce
Hahaha. That was fast.
February 23, 2010
The Art of Anthony Max
When people ask me which visual artists working today I really like, a few names always come to my head right away – Jase Daniels, a handful of graffiti artists I've seen with enough frequency to develop a deep admiration for, and Anthony Max. He's a great surrealist painter who often paints sleep deprived to achieve the state of actually dreaming onto the canvas. Also the guy who did the cover art for Asphalt Flowerhead. It hit me that I had to throw a few of 'em up here – I hadn't yet. I...
February 22, 2010
Enter the Workforce
I'm awake at 7 am! Holy shit! Not much more to say than that. I'm a working man now. After months in the ghetto that is Portland where jobs are like four-leaf clovers. It's been so long I almost forget what it feels like to get a paycheck.
Portland's not really a ghetto. It's nice and clean and people put cigarettes out on the bottoms of their shoes so they can properly dispose of them in the trash can. But the amount of kids in their twenties who move here with no plan (raise my hand) means e...
February 21, 2010
Kneejerk Reactions to Comics
For most of February I've been working on a totally new project, something I've never done at all before: a comic book. It's hard to believe that it's already been almost three years since This City is Alive came out, but after a long time (in which both of us released our first solo books on Crossing Chaos) I'm finally putting my head together with Jase Daniels' again. And it's probably gonna be 50x as nuts as This City.
The comic form allows for that. I wanted to take a moment to jot my...
February 20, 2010
Two Gasoline Monk shows in Portland
For any Gasoline Monk head living in Portland, OR – I got two shows coming up in the next few weeks. Mark your calenders, snag your tickets (for the Satyricon show – Mt. Tabor's free), and meet me there.
2/24: MT. TABOR THEATER. In the Lounge, 9 p.m., no cover. Playing with the Hives Inquiry Squad – some terrific Portland emcees.
3/12: SATYRICON. 6:30 p.m. If you buy tickets in advance, they're only $8. Tell 'em Gas Monk sent you. This is gonna be a really great show, lots of great acts at one ...
February 17, 2010
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