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JUNE 13 2008: SPRING RECAP

I used to write these things all the time, now it's fallen to once a season. Sucks cuz I have to remember all the cool, bloggable shit that happened over a 3 month period and write it all down in a way that makes sense. It's kind of a hassle, and for what? No one reads this. (right?)

April came in really hectic with a bunch of Back-to-back events. First was the TOY SUM auction at HSF restaurant in Chinatown. All the freaks came down to munch dumplings and buy toys off of the Dim sum carts that the Villain girls were pushing thru the crowd. Our friend SIR NILES did a smashing job running the toy auction. We had some cool shit in there, like the custom GLYOS heads from ONELL DESIGN. We also flipped some bootleg crap that we got from TOY TOKYO. It was a very trippy scene. Watch the video if you don't believe me. After that we shot all kinds of stuff for the next CRIMSON SUICIDE episode that will be dropping on the OVN site later in the summer. We have been shooting scenes for that since February 2007. We have stripper pole stuff, Cleopatra scenes, Bonnie and Clyde tributes, adventures in Prospect park, Sid and Nancy scenes, some soft core lesbian action figure stuff. I'm gonna need a big bag of weed to turn all of that into a short, cohesive video, but I'm up for the challenge.
Right after that we did an ORIGINAL VILLAINS Dj set at comicon in the MIMOBOT booth. We are working on a project with those guys and this was a way to get the word out on the ill new team up. We had the CD turntables right out there in the aisle as all the geeks poured by. We sold mad CDs and we broke out the bass and keyboard and did a little live set right on the floor. We tried to do a "BIG CHECK" ceremony to make a big announcement about the partnership between OVN and MIMOCO, but we kind of fucked it up and would up getting into a big brawl and the check got crushed. Oh Well.

We finally had our day in court. We had to respond to our trespassing summons from when we got busted filming out in Roosevelt island in March. Myself, Baron Darkowl, and Spooky Booty went down to the courthouse in our civilian disguises and faced the music. I wore a suit to appear less like a shifty dirtbag. When my time came I got real shook, like I always do when I go before a judge. My voice got all high and shaky, but it didn't matter. He discerned that I was just some artist and told me I didn't seem like a criminal. He said stay out of trouble for 6 months and this would all go away. HA! Fooled him. Didn't even have to pay a fine. He seemed like a pretty easy going guy. He forgave all the people that had alcohol violations. He even sided against a cop who showed up in an open container case. That surprised the hell out of me. Regardless, that shit was stressful and I was useless for the rest of the day.

We saw KINGDOM of the CRYSTAL SKULL at Midnite opening day at the ZIEGFELD as usual. It was fun being back there to relive some of that Star Wars glory. It was more mellow that a Star Wars opening, but we had a good time filming all the Indy Geeks for Mimozine. I actually like the movie, in spite of what the critics and most other normal people say. It was a fun re-imagining of the Indy story, set in another time. I loved all the inside jokes and the don't-take-this-too-seriously vibe. All the 1950s elements were cool, especially the atomic bomb, the Red Scare, the area 51 shit, the evil Russians. It was a good time. If you didn't like it, too bad. I guess you have better taste than me...

The Indy Fever brought us out to LA for the RAIDERS of the LOST ART group show at CAPSOLE on Melrose. Our buddy NICK The RING put together a sweet bunch of artists to riff on Indiana Jones. I made a remix of the SUCKLORD 600 by turning him into an Indy-Like character for a fake film called ATTACKERS of the MISSING STUFF. I also did a bootleg of the Old TOHT Kenner figure but in pink Day-Glo like the old MARVEL comic cover from 1981. This was a big hit. I released a short run of these to my list and they sold out in 2 hours. That's a first for me. Some flipper bought a few of them and they sold on Ebay for 3 times what I charged only a week after I put it out. Wild. SO we stayed in LA for a week, got a PRIUS again. Had to with all these gas prices. We drove all over hell and creation and only spent $18 on gas. We ate all kinds of ill food, some really good taco-shack grub. So CHEAP! YUM. We rented 3-wheel chopper bikes on Venice beach, we ate all kinds of sushi with the DKE crew and Jack from VINYL PULSE. PLASTICGOD was in effect too. I also wound up interviewing GARY BASEMAN for a future issue of MIMOZINE. It was a good-a trip.

Final event of note. Baron Darkowl and I rolled up to Webster Hall for the KAIJU BIG BATTEL show last week. We got in on some VIP status and had a chance to get in the ring before the show and wrestle some monsters. I think we got our ass kicked. I'm not sure. But we partied like crazy with those dudes. After the show we rode out in the back of their moving truck to their new location in Williamsburg and drank cheap beer into the night. All the Kaiju nerds were there like ROGER HARKAVY and LAMOUR SUPREME. The Sucklord is finding that the Kaiju crowd is really on the same wavelength with his trip. Look for some type of Suckadelic Kaiju thing in the future.

So I guess that was mostly what I got into this spring. The next big event is the CHRISTIE'S POP CULTURE auction on the 25th of June. I have four of my best pieces in the catalog along with a bunch of other wild stuff like the wardrobe from the SOPRANOS, JACK KEROUAC'S fountain pen, and JIM MORRISON'S mugshot. That's good company, I think. I hope I make some money.....