090409. Biweekly part One. Mother Couch Jam

The Couch Party @ Mother NYC. March 25, 2009. Wednesday. PM.


Where does all the days go and why does it go so fast? Time seems to travel faster and everyday the moments are all stolen away while I watch the grass grow. Well, it s done and here I am updating my blog again.. another two three weeks fly by and I recap some places I ve seen and some stuff I ve done. It was a very transitional few weeks as I find myself trying to turn a new leaf of personal responsibility. Sounds great. Always does. Doesn t really have much to do about much so let s just jump in and see what we gots... and what we have here is Mother NYC Couch Sessions! It was an evening of music, art creating and dancing mayhem! There was Consequence of Tribe called Quest out introducing his new album, about to drop. He was a new man of great skills as he also matured and progressed, always keeping the people on their toes. This was one of the events where I found myself more surprised at who ended up showing up. Crazy. He was billed but I don't even remember seeing his name on the mailer I got. Go figure. I don t pay much attention. For me, I was interested in one,
Tristan Eaton who was also billed to live Painting. I take interest in this genre because I always wonder what other artists do when they 'live paint'. That 'live' for me is always interchanging with live and live. Silly thing to think about.



Live Painting. Tristan Eaton. ThunderDog.

Of course on hand was the awesome group that is , Mother NYC. It was an awesome time and the music was super fine. I miss Moms sometimes... One of my most memorable highlights for me was to see mini Milo getting down. When I say get down, I mean, GET DOWN! He was probably having THE most fun. He had moments of great physical body convulsion expressions and the New York Break Attitude, it was phenomenal. Of course, you had to be there to witness the pure un-adult-rated body rockin, but Consequence had to GET DOWN with Mile, it was THAT pure and THAT TRUE! BLESS!! BIG UP, MILO!!!!!! note. Milo is four.





Mother NYC. Pierce. Part time Mother. Full TIME BICYCLIST(!!!)




Mother NYC. Proud Pappi.. er.. Mother NYC.. I mean Tom, double glasses. Heather, always with the smiles.. and .. sorry, I forgot your name... FUN PARTY!!



Jonny Santos and Kate of Mother NYC.



Head Moms with Jonny Santos. The hand coming out the chest.. looks painful.



Consequence!



Consequence!



Consequence!



Couch. Any Reason for a Party. A Couch? HELLS YEA!!!!



Consequence!! Did I mention, His album is about to drop!!



Andrew. Super Underground Yellow Head MC!

080830-0901 Bumbershoot, Seattle, WA

Tina of High Fashion Studios.
Do your hair? Seattle says,'HELLS YEAH!!'



Super!Alright! on stand-by!



Mike and Josh Langlais. Custom Furniture Designer/Carpenter.
Discussing Costa Rica and Portland Waves.



Pacifica. Great Band, Great Smiles.



One of my life influences, ROB Undril.




A Seattle Bus Sign Notice.



Thugs in the dome. Dustin and Jonny.



Steve Whitacomb, Dave Mazak, Sean Quinn.




Jonny and Skateboard.



A rebel painter girl, Kumiko.




Late Night San Francisco's High Fashion Crew!!




Squint your eyes, it's LEE Scratch Perry!!




Big UP, Theme Magazine! They are in American Photographer!!!!








GOURMET SEATTLE. Two of the Finest.




Famous Ivar's Employee of the Month!





JJ!





Jonny and Valley, the band. Preparing for interview.





Jonny kills it in Ping Pong. Jonny also sharks in pool. Watch OUT!



Fantagraphic, SUN!!




Big Fountain people run through.




Good Bye, Summer.




Dell dome at night.




Black Eyes and Neckties. The Band.




Me and my friends. Nice and Beer Blurry.




Welcome to the Bus. Don't we make you want to come inside?





Carny Heroes! Hopeless in Seattle.





The Beautiful Chris Pfeiffel.




The Living Room of the 9 Pound Hammer.



My Home away from Home. The 9 Pound Hammer in Georgetown.





A beacon in the thick of despair.





The light in the dark, for the Morning after. All City Coffee.




One Hundred Feet. Don't miss it. Anthony.


Seattle was space needles. Seattle was fish markets and rivers and EXP and Jimi Hendrix spirit and hills and REI and friends who were once east coasters like me and Seattle was flannel and the last port city before alaska and the spirit of miners and rough around the edges and Georgetown and Pioneers and 9 Pound Hammer, my one and only favorite free pool bar. Seattle was hope and possibilities and explorers and potential and new friends and lots of men and not enough women. Seattle from what I saw was like that. Bumbershoot was the oldest music festival I have ever witnessed. It was also Ichiro Pride, a humble great baseballer from the far east, my neck of the islands! Seattle was all the grunge I ever listened to and it was the toughest girls with mouths that backed up with fists and attitudes and it was cold. It was the end of summer. It was the beginning of week long coughing fits. It was all it was hoped to be and all that it wasn't. I loved it. I hated it. I admired it. I wanted to run away from it. It was tough. It was soft. I really loved my 9 pound hammer and I really missed my friends, ALL CITY COFFEE. It was a good place to be at the time, because slowly, the tour is coming to end and although I worry about what I ll do next, I ve got hope! Hope, like Seattle, is a high quality potential survivor port town in the northwest.

080822-24 OutsideLands, San Francisco

Even after the dome was shut down, the glowing orb always manages to interest and attract some festival goers. A family of three checking it out.

San Francisco in my mind is.. of course, Haight&Asbury. I grew up fascinated by the west coast 60's, psychedelic arts, improvisational jam bands, free love and the illest street skating. I didn t get a chance to indulge in many of this beautiful city's offerings but I can sense, San Francisco still has that heavy vibe. The event, Outsidelands, is the first three day festival in SF's Golden Gate Park, this was 'history in the making...' is what I heard a lot. The festival grounds was set in the most foggiest and chilliest part of town and there were Bisons in the park. Of course, they were caged in, but still, that is pretty nutty to me. But as I've gotten some chance to talk to west coasters, I think these things are pretty normal. The festival was fun as heck and after having seen chicago's Lollapalooza and baltimore's Virgin Mobile Fest, this particular festival had much more art representation and a more granola crowd participation. There were booths with artists selling art ART, Custom wooden jewelry, custom hand made rugs, organic food vendors(!!), Handmade hats, Tie-dye anything, music lessons, organic village(!!!) and way more stuff I saw/ didn't see. Even in the environment of the mega corporate sponsorships and big venue revenue, it was an interesting demographics of people represented at the fair. There were older peoples with their kids and grown up kids and there were younger people with their kids and grown up grandchildren and the young age festival participants. I had a great time. My crew was awesome and everyone was just enjoying being. I think that must be the San Francisco thing. My highlights in the festival was seeing Donovan Frankenreiter. He had a great show and he came into our tent to be interviewed(!!). We were set up in what is the polo fields in the park. Directly across from our dome was the Lands End Main Stage and to our right was The Avenues. I heard , Steel Pulse(WHA?! I got RastaCEntenial Live album), Manu Chao(Blasting!!), Radiohead, the Dynamites featuring Charles Walker(Sick ROOTS Blues), Lyrics Born(pumping up the crowd!!), Galactic Crescent City SoulKrewe, Steve Winwood(?!), Ben Harper(!!), Tom Petty(!!!!!), TOOTS and the Maytals(!!!!!!!!), Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings( I ve seen her four times this summer, never dissappointed, NEW YORK REPRESENT!!), Rodrigo y Gabriela (played twice near the dome!! Chicago and SF, Sick guitar DUO) and Jack Johnson. The only complaint I can say is that there is not enough of me to see all the music that goes on during these festivals... But it s work and later on, I ll see them when I am not working, hopefully! Before San Francisco, we were at different festivals just concerned with getting the dome done. In san francisco, we had to also start thinking about wild animals and nature. We even had a gopher we later dubbed, MAX. I was not a big fan of the west coast, but I have to say, I am thoroughly inspired. Thank God and my parents for my life. Experience is the food for living.




Festivals can be a family affair. Lahti Family Represent!! Proud Uncle.




The Beautiful Rupa of Rupa and the April Fish.



Spin Magazine is always very closely associated with good music and good festival times!



RadioHead. Making History in San Francisco.



Metal Martin fell out of a video game with swords and bikini clad fighter women.



The Heralded Coming, SUN!!!



A champion Ping Ponger of long family lineage. Ms Kee, schooling Jonny Santos.




Our New California Family. Mark Henson and Ms Monti and The Rug King.



The Woods were all lit up at night in the park.



Jonny in the company of beautiful women.



Jonny Climbing the Dome.




Kaki King and Jonny Ping Ponging.



Pre Show Live Painting.



Howling Rain Ping Ponging in the INterview.



Infamous Pete.



Jack Johnson Live.



An Okinawanian Brother, Jeremey of Coco Loco.



John Pritzos giving me the bird.



Tom Petty and fans.



The Dome.



Festival Goers.



The Hair Stylist at work.



Lots of bodies at the festival.



Charles Walker and a Dynamite.



Why is their an eye on the canvas? It was me and CLAY.



Ladies of the Dell Dome.



Donavon Frankenreiter and me, a fan.




Dustin.



Abagail Washburn and the Sparrows being interviewed.



Angus of the Liars!!



Buffalos in San Francisco.




Dell Dome Crew.



Charles Pimpin' the Hawk.




A walk through the park. Pre Show.