This was in the classroom we gave the lecture in. This was from the first AIGA meeting I went to at City. That was back in 2007. I signed in above the U. I wrote to be involved.
The next stop was Pokez. We hadn't been there in a long time and Potato Flautas were much needed. Other than Pokez we didn't have anything that we had to do so we headed over to the Museum of Contemporary Art in downtown. There were only a couple exhibits and they were ok. Then we drove over to Pacific Beach and walked around for a lil while. The weather in SD was typical May gray even though it was April. It was also pretty breezy. After PB, we drove around and then went back to the house to hang out.
That night we went out to dinner with my dad and sister. My dad had asked me when I cut my hair. I didn't realize it but I hadn't seen him in like 9 months. Way too long. Anyways it was nice seeing my dad and we talked for a while before leaving Fudruckers down in Chula Vista. After that we headed home.
On Tuesday we went to the mall and walked around for a lil while. Jesse was in need of some sunglasses. No luck at Fashion Valley so we made our way to Urban Outfitters downtown. Tonight my mom wanted to go out to dinner with us so after walking around for a lil while downtown we went over to Venice in Normal Heights. After dinner we headed back to the house to pack up our gear.
Once packed up we went back down to the Valley to meet up with our Friend Jeff, his wife Trish and their son Romeo. It's crazy how much time has flown by. Jesse, Jeff and I were in the portfolio class together at City. Jesse and Jeff also took a class at Mesa together during that time as well. Anyways during our portfolio class Trish was pregnant with Romeo. Seeing how big Romeo was really put in perspective how long it's been since we had seen him and how long ago our class was. An hour or two later and we were on our way back to Pasadena.
Rome watching his movies on his iPod Touch.
Wednesday I headed over to Echo Park to hang out with Miguel. He was hangin out at Jakkie's house and Alex was there both of who just graduated with Migule who I had yet to meet. They were pretty cool and we just hung out there for a lil while before Andrea showed up. Then after a while longer we headed over to Prado for some drinks. While we were there Andrea's boyfriend showed up. It was good times as you can see from the photos.
Doing the TJ arm wave.
No photos for Migs
Mini wave
Group Shot...kinda
Da boys
Trying to hide
Deep conversation
Then on Thursday it was back down to San Diego. I was supposed to have dinner with my family. My Aunt was in town from Mexico with her sons. That didn't work out. A couple hours later I met up with Jimmy and Shawn. We hit up downtown. We went to Siren, a pretty chill rooftop bar at the Se hotel. Shawn would be playing there next week and we were just checking out the scene. Should be a pretty dope spot once the SD weather warms up.
While we were there I ran into an high school buddy of mine that was doing promotions for the club that night, Elgin. We caught up and hung out for a lil while. After a couple hours it was time to hit the road. We walked over to an all night dinner that I never knew about. After grubbing it was time to call it a night.
Friday I didn't do anything until the evening. Tonight I was going to the Padres game. I went out to Lakeside to pick Bryan. We went downtown and had some food and drinks before the beer fest that was taking place before the game started. Jason and Tek met us at Tavern before we walked over to the ball park. The beer fest was a bust. Too many people, small beers and they cost like $5 each for tasters. We promptly left the park and walked over to this spot we know of. They serve $2 pints and have a nice selection of beers. We were there for a handful of beers before Ana, Bryan's wife joined up with us. We didn't head over to the game until it has already started. The game was pretty boring and we ended up leaving around the 6th inning.
Jason and Tek.
Bryan sportin my shades and Jason.
View from our seats.
Petco Mascot? Bring Back the SD Chicken!
Jason and I.
Our next stop was the Fleetwood. A couple more drinks and we were off again. This time we were heading over to Santee and Noelle's parent's house. She was house sitting with Jay, so we hung out for a lil while. That was my Friday night.
Tek, Ana, Bryan at the Fleetwood.
Saturday was the Mayweather/Mosely fight and I was going to hang out with CJ and watch the fight somewhere. Around 6 I headed over to Cj's so that we could get dinner before the fight. Di, Cj, Caiden and I all got our grub on at West Coast BBQ which is right near Cj's house. I hadn't eaten here yet. I tried but they have weird hours. It was pretty good and a good start to the night. We were going over to Dustin's new house to watch the fight. There were a gang of people over there and it great to see a lot of people I haven't seen since I moved to LA.
Caiden playing at the table with his cup and plate.
Sunday was a lazy day and I ended up leaving in the late evening.
Monday Miguel had asked me to take him to job follow up interview/meetings. I took him to the first place which was on the miracle mile, aka Wilshire, which was really close to LACMA. After that we went and got lunch at this BBQ place on La Brea and Santa Monica. It was ok. While we were eating this other place called Miguel. So after eating we were on our way over to Venice. Once Miguel was done with his second meeting we drove over to the LA Gun Club to get our blast on. He had mentioned going here the night before but I figured he was joking. Anyways he selected a Baretta .9 and a .38. I hadn't been shooting in like 10 years and it was a blast. I definitely need to go back soon. And I still haven't lost my touch. Don't mess with me! After going through a couple targets and boxes of ammo it was time to head home. I was pretty tired and in need of a nap.
Miguel on the .38
Hammin it up for the camera.
Me, handling the .9
Tuesday Jesse told me about Broken Social Scene playing an in-store at Amoeba Records in Hollywood. I had heard about this on Oh My Rockness.com but had forgotten about it. So when Jesse reminded me about it I was down to go. The show was decent. they played for over an hour and had some dope horns come our and play with them. After that we went across the street to Unami Burger. Hands down the best burger I have had. After that I don't want to eat another burger from ANYWHWERE! Anyways after that it was time to head back to Pas and call it a night.
View of BSS from the second floor.
Mexican Coke mixed drink. Another reason why I love this place.
Wednesday I woke up and started cleaning up my room. I unpacked my stuff and started doing laundry. I was supposed to go back to Amoeba with Eric and Chris to catch the Flying Lotus in-store but was tired and didn't feel like doing anything.
On Thursday I went and finally saw Dirty Hands, the David Choe flick playing at the Sunset 5. It was pretty good and inspiring. I had heard about this movie a couple weeks back and was looking forward to seeing it.
On Friday it was almost a repeat of the day before. this time I was going to Westwood to see the Banksy movie, Exit Through the gift shop. The movie while about Banksy wasn't about him. It was about the guy who wanted to make a documentary about Banksy. It was a good movie and very inspiring.
Bad photo of the couches you sat in at the Westwood Lankmark.
After the movie I headed over to Otis. They were having their grad show and I wanted to check it out. After searching for parking I finally made my way over to the campus. I am very fortunate to be able to go to Art Center. Visiting Otis made me even more grateful than I already am. Art Center has an awesome campus. Otis's campus is more like an office building. Anyways the show was kind weird. Art Center's grad night seems more oriented to getting a job in the sense you are able to see a good deal of the student's work. Where as at Otis they only had walls or a small stand to put work on and the work was maybe 1 or 2 projects. Not a great way to see what someone is capable of. After walking around all 6 floors of the building it was time to make my getaway. As I was walking back to my car a couple asked me what I thought of the show. I said I am not the best person to ask, but thinking back maybe I am. Who knows. Anyways there was some good work but it was far and few between.
Going behind enemy lines.
I don't remember how I found out about the Chaz Boroquez lecture at the Hammer museum on Saturday but I was really stoked about this. Eric and Chris went with me over to the west side to see the maser of West Coast gang graff. I planned ahead and broke out a brand new huge sketch book to get Chaz to hit up in.
Third line in the bottom part says Enrique.
Chris and Chaz
After the lecture we headed back to Pas. Gabe was coming up so we could see the 15th anniversary of the Latinologues. Gabe had acted in the Southwestern College production of the play and wanted to see Rick Najera, who wrote the play, act in it's re-mex for this special occasion. The play was pretty funny and I got to see one of my crushes Odalys Garcia. I used to watch her all the time on Lente Loco back in the day. She is still pretty banging today. After the play we got some grub at Fatburger before going to get some drinks. We ended up at Bigfoot Lounge.
As we were leaving Fatburger I went to the car as Gabe went to the bathroom. While I was waiting in the car I noticed something near the windshield wiper arm. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. As I got out of the car it was infact what I thought it was, a Crawdad. I looked around to see if anyone was watching me because WTF was it doing there. When Gabe out I said look whats on the cowl. He had the same reaction as he looked around to see if someone was messing with us. Anyways he returned the favor and put the guy on the car next to us before we left.
Sunday was another lazy day. I made chorizo and eggs for breakfast before I took a long nap. That was pretty much my day. One week left of break and lots to do.
Random Photos.
Best FB status update of the week goes to Stefan Bucher.
Break...
You know the feeling you get when you see an ex girl friend who is doing better without you. It's like that but worst when it's your old car. Somewhere in Colorado doing better without me.
Blurry lolo
