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No I havn't abandoned Live Journal in favor of Facebook or some other blogging/social media thingy... although I'm tempted to make a facebook profile one of these days...
Things have been good. More busy than usual.
Let's go back a bit shall we...
Right before Halloween on October 28th, 8ar8 and I took in the Glenn Barr show at the tiny 323 East Gallery in Royal Oak. Barr's first local solo show in 7 years attracted a lot of people. Too crowded to snap photos but I did manage to get a few of a recent bronze piece Glenn had done. Check out the photos at my Flickr page here
DJ'ed at City Club for halloween. Biggest crowd I've ever spun in front of with an estimated 1200 in attendance. The place was packed like i've never seen it before. Very fun night.
November 7th I grabbed the GPS and headed south to Columbus, Ohio to take in the Ragnar and Charlie Owens art show mentioned in an earlier post. Plotted out this route that took me through some back routes of Ohio. The kind of twisted roads that take you through small towns with vintage service stations that have been fixed up. Realized as soon as I got to the Ohio border that I had forgotten my camera. I passed by a ton of great sites that would have made for a nice set of images on Flickr. Next time. Perfect day for a drive as it was sunny and near 75... IN NOVEMBER. Got into Columbus close to 4:30 and checked in at my hotel. Solo trip as 8ar8 wasn't able to join me :(. Unpacked and decided I would walk the 2 or so miles up North High Street and take everything in. It was a gallery hop weekend and their were tons of people walking in and out of galleries, resteraunts were busy and on every corner was a musician playing something - some better than others. Very lively and very fun. On my walk up to Rivet I stopped in Magnolia Thunderpussy Records. Nice to be in an indie record store again. They are few and far between these days. Picked up the new Assemblage 23, Mesh, Babyland and Placebo. Also scored a few used items including the 2CD Izsoloscope "Au Seuil Du Néant" for a steal at $3.00!!! Made it over to Rivet an hour before the show opened which gave me plenty of time to check the store/gallery out and finally get a chance to meet husband/wife owners Scott and Laura. Incredibly nice people and was so happy to finally meet them. Excellent to see the store and the logo I designed displayed. Hung out at the gallery and met a ton of great people including artist Charlie Owens who is incredibly nice and trying to get his work transferred over into some production toys. Really hope that happens. Picked up a ton of stuffy including the all black Crappy Cat and the orange colorway SUG. Got 8ar8 a Cris Grimley print. Got myself a Ragnar print. Also finally picked up the Tyson McAdoo book "The Death of Me". If you haven't seen Tyson's art you really must check out the link. And if you like his stuff I HIGHLY encourage you to get to Rivet Gallery in August for his show. I bought so much stuff at Rivet that I had to stuff it into a garbage bag for the 2 mile walk back to the hotel. It was very comical to me. Made it back to the hotel just fine, dropped my stuff off and headed back out to this pizza place I had passed on my walk. Headed in and ordered a deep dish pizza to go. 15 minutes later back at the hotel I was sinking my teeth into the best deep dish slice I have ever tasted. it far surpassed pizza's I've had in Chicago. Yes that good. Sunday morning I got up and went back to the gallery for a bit before making the drive back to Michigan. A nice fun quick weekend getaway. Finally made it to Rivet and I'll be making more trips down there for sure, what took me so long I don't know ;)
This past weekend on Saturday 8ar8 and I jetted off to Chicago mainly to see Nitzer Ebb but also to have an adventurous weekend. I got a nice speeding ticket on the way to the airport. Damn my lead foot. Chicago was awesome as always. Got in before noon. Stayed at the City Suites on Clark at Belmont which made it really convient to get to Chicago Comics, the Alley (got new boots finally!), Clarkes, and more shopping in that area. Hit Rotofugi for the Dave Pressler Angry Clobber Monkey signing. Dave was rather comical and we talked a little. Picked up 4 of 5 of the new Ashley Wood's World War Robot series figures. Very steampunk/mech looking robots I will have to snap some photos of once I get them on the shelfs properly. Back to the hotel from Rotofugi. Short nap and then it was off too Double Door to see Nitzer Ebb in concert. One of my all time favorites, we had both been very excited to see them again. We arrived a bit late at Double Door thanks to getting on the wrong bus and going a few miles the other direction before realizing oops. Arrived at a PACKED Double Door and made our way in, surprised to already see Kill Memory Crash well into their set. Was able to manuever to the bar for drinks for 8ar8 and I, but once we were away from the bar there was simply no moving but we did have a decent spot. Kill Memory Crash was impressive as expected. First time I'd seen them as a 3-piece and the addition of the new drummer helped aide the bands electro-industrial sound with rigorously precise rhythms. A little quiet due to a bad mix but still energetic and a very suitable opener for Nitzer Ebb.
2 DJ's did their thing as the stage was readied for Ebb. The DJ's were simply ok, not really mixing but playing an interesting selection of music - it was like they wanted to be Dethlab but didn't have the musical knowledge, skills or charisma that Dethlab possesses.
Didn't much matter as the opening intro music announcing Ebb's performance began. Drummer Jason Payne (who played with the band on Big Hit) handled one drum set with Bon Harris on another plus electronics. They launched right into a new track "Promises" and it didn't take long to realize that Nitzer Ebb had returned in force. The set included the classics such as "Join in the Chant", "Murderous", "Control I'm Here", "Shame", "Lightning Man", "Getting Closer" and more. Surprises included "Blood Money" and a really sensational live version of "I Give To You". Newer material like "Once You Say", "Payroll" and "On Your Knees" for example sounded tight and well rehearsed. From the first to last note - a total blast of energy. To see a sold-out venue chanting in unison to "Murderous" and other tracks was simply awesome. Bon's production work experience shows in the new tracks. McCarthy's work with Fixmer has proven benneficial in showing a wider range of vocal delivery. Ebbs only gotten better with time. INCREDIBLE! Some video I took on my camera is posted to my Flickr account here
Headed back to the hotel after the show.
Woke up Sunday morning and did some shopping in Wicker Park area including Quimbys where both 8ar8 and I picked up too many books to mention. Hit Reckless Records and managed to find the Big Pink CD "A Brief History of Love". EXCELLENT CD on the legendary 4ad label. A good mixture of many styles (brit-pop, electronica, etc...) with a nod to some 80's retro. Have a listen to the song "Dominos" and I think you'll be instantly hooked. Sadly due to our scheduling we missed them on their recent tour stops in both Detroit and Chicago. Also picked up the debut release of Bad Lieutenant which is the new project of New Order's Bernard Sumner. Headed down to the Lego store to have a look around. Always a fun stop.
Back to Belmont/Clark area where we had some fantastic deep dish pizza at Giordannos.
After a short nap (Chicago tires both of us out easily) we got up and decided to head over to Neo. I hadn't been to Neo in like 10 years and 8ar8 had never been. Took a cab over and arrived close to 10pm. Not very crowded and expected it to be slow being Sunday and all. When we got their the DJ (Jeff Moyer) had a disc on auto-play. Not a big deal as I've done the same at City early in the night. Some good selections but after the first hour the only work the DJ did was to get up from the bar and insert another pre-made mix. Was hoping to hear someone actually DJ, not just press play. Regardless still had a blast hanging with 8ar8, drinking and running into our friend stompy. Took off from Neo around 1am and got the funniest cab driver on the way home. Talking about Detroit... and I paraphrase the cabby here "I heard you have to carry a machine gun there".
Monday morning we got up and headed out to Bongo Room for breakfast. This place has absolutely amazing and mega-tasty food. After eating it was up the street to spend some time in Myoptic books digging through and endless amount of used books in every subject imaginable. After that we made a stop up at Quake Collectibles which is a tresure trove of all kinds of old toys from cartoon metal lunch boxes to Transformers to GI Joe's to original Star Wars action figures. Speaking of action figures, who knew Bon Jovi had his own action figure!!!??? I loved the Fargo snowglobe but passed in favor of picking up a Rat Fink toy and a Red Baron hot rod model similar to this one.
Sadly we had to be on our way to the airport Monday afternoon, so back to the hotel, onto the airport and back home. Always love getting away and all the better with 8ar8 :)
Have got lots of new music lately (thanks to an order 8ar8 placed with MNS) and have a full DJ schedule for December. Will write about music in another post. This is long enough.
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Last Wednesday, 8ar8 and I went and caught the opening of the Glenn Barr show at 323 East Gallery in Royal Oak. Barrs first Detroit show in 7 years and the tiny gallery was packed. Was nice to see a lot of his work I've only seen in magazines (Hi-Fructose, Juxtapoz, etc...) hung on the gallery walls. He also had a bronzed sculpture called "Hapiness" on display as well as his Hell's Proprietor wood and vinyl toys. The show runs until November 27th, so if you are in the area, stop on in.
In more art related stuffs... 8ar8 and I are planning on heading down to Columbus, Ohio and Rivet Gallery to take in the Ragnar/Charlie Owens opening this Saturday. Ragnar has long been a favorite and Charlie Owens just adds to the must see show. Some of you may recall I did the logo for Rivet Gallery. I've yet to get down and see the actual gallery, so I'm very excited to go. ROADTRIP!!!
Here's the promos for the show.
 
Will also probably hit Magnolia Thunderpussy Records, try to find a comic book store, a good resteraunt, and some other attractions. What else is there to do in Columbus I wonder? Will have to investigate :)
In DJ related stuff;
The final Dead-Line at the Works was fun. Good amount of people out for that. Sad to see the night ending at that location and really hope to find a new venue soon and relaunch the night. Wednesday's just aren't the same... still my favorite night of the week, but different now
Spun last night (Halloween) at City Club. By far the biggest crowd I've ever spun for at City. Got there at 11pm (not scheduled to DJ until 12:30) and the place was already crazy busy. Final headcount of the night was estimated at 1200, which may not seem like a big deal to my out of state clubbing friends who see larger crowds at their local clubs, but this is Detroit, where apathy is king and people would rather stay home than go out and have a good time. A great night. I was dressed as a priest (get it, DJ Saint...priest...) and 8ar8 went as a sexy devil. Saw lots of friends (including jon and xtina pohl in from Chicago!!!), drank and was exhausted by the end of the night. Some new tracks I'm working into my sets come from Phaser Kontrol, Mesh, SITD, Rotersand, Chainreactor, Lyronian, Interface, and Dust is Noise. Need to do a post about some of the new stuff I've been picking up lately.
Not much else to mention at this time I suppose.
More laterz.
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Always feel so behind with updating this thing...
LOTS been going on... busy, busy, busy
First off, let's get some discouraging DJ-related news out of the way...
Dead-Line appears to have run it's course at the Works in Detroit. Crowds just weren't coming out. On a nice Summer Wednesday (when there was NO cover charge) we saw less people than we did in the middle of a Winter snowstorm (when there was a cover charge)!!! I'll never understand the apathy of the Detroit scene EVER!!! Anyways, Dead-Line was quite possibly my favorite weekly night I was involved in. Met a lot of great people there and had a ton of fun. A TON of great music was played and Dead-Line hands down offered the most musical variety heard in Detroit in a long time from some of the most knowledgeable/diversified DJ's I've had the pleasure to work with (Nocker, Stevie, Wilhelm K, Scary Guy, Joey Dead Cat, etc...) You never knew what you were going to hear from week to week, but it was always interesting. Trying to get one last Wednesday Dead-Line for October 14th with all the current and past Dead-Line DJ's (including Meta and Dead Cat). We'll see what happens and will post any info here. If you can make it out for the last one, it'll be memorable.
Next, my new Friday night residency at Shadow Bar for Kink has ended VERY abruptly. Yes the night I was just recently mentioning in my last post!!! Yup, over before it really even began. Got the following text message on October 8 @ 4:12 from the owner of Shadow Bar: We have decided to cancel Kink effective immediately. Thank u for your support. Hope we can work together again sometime soon. No other reasons given and I really don't even care to know said reasons or figure out just WTF. I have a feeling there was a falling out between the host of the night We Are Latex and the clubs owner. Who knows... Pretty upset. BS the guy didn't even have the stones to call me and tell me, i get the news through a text message. Each week seemed to build a bigger buzz and the night was moving forward with a good momentum and now THIS - an abrupt end to a night that had a TON of potential. Really hoped this would have become a mainstay night in the Detroit scene.
I'm really considering DJ retirement for real this time... I digress...
Will be at City Club October 17th and 24th. Void_6 and I are planning to make the 17th a "new school" night (or whatever we're going to call it) trying to focus a LOT more on some of the current yet not often heard tunes. Looking forward to that night. The 24th, spinning with Jon Noble and maybe we'll celebrate the 1 millionth play of KMFDMS "Anarchy" or something :)
Now then onto other news...
Good stuff!!! They made me an official employee at work. No more contractor position. More money too.
This past weekend 8ar8 and I jetted off to Chicago on Saturday morning for the weekend. So nice to getaway.
Arrived Saturday morning and hit Rotofgui, Quimbys Bookstore, Chicago Comics and the rest of Clark/Belmont area.
Picked up some new toys at Rotofugi including 3 Ashley Woods SQUARES. Headed next door and took in the My Kind of Town gallery show. At Quimbys picked up a TON of books/magazines including 3 issues of Deadbeat magazine (an Australian hot rod/culture mag) and the Custom Cars 2009 Annual. Lots of cars to drool over in that book. At Chicago Comics got the Juxtapoz Car Culture book (amazing great artist profiled), "I See A Darkness" graphic novel by Reinhard Kleist about Johnny Cash (drawn in a dark noir style), and a few other things. Met up with![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) hex61andstompymink at Chicago Comics. Hit Clarkes for some much needed food.
Then it was back to the hotel (The Raffaello - super nice and affordable) to change and head out to GOTHtoberfest at The Abbey Pub.
Missed day 1 of the festival (meant missing Aesthetic Perfection, Northborne and others) but day 2 still had an awesome lineup
Gothsicles - Always a fun performance. Good to see Brian and co again. Brian told me a funny joke... Did you hear about Ted Kennedy? He's been sober for 4 weeks now! Always an act worth watching.
Interface - WOW! What a show. Helped by the keyboardist from PTI these guys played an amazing and energetic set. New material has a ton of club potential. Worked the crowd well.
I:Scintilla - Never been a huge fan. Their Detroit show was decent and seeing them again on their home turf was nice. Sounded good but just not my thing.
Azoic - Been quiet for far too long so nice to see them back on stage. Known Kristy since before the Azoic and it was nice to catch up again. A great set that featured some of their well-known songs as well as new unreleased material. Enjoyed the cover version of Animotion's "Obesession" which saw Brittany from I:Scintilla join Kristy on vocals.
Cruciform Injection - Another act that's recently been quiet. Micah told me this was a warm up show for their upcoming Goth Cruise (LOL) performance. Played quite a bit of songs from their catalog they have never performed live. Sounded great.
FGFC 820 - Quite possibly the worst ever hellektro live(?) act out there (their recorded stuff ain't much better either). Perhaps because I've seen Suicide Commando and Tactical Sekt live, every other band in this genre just comes off as a really bad clone of those two. The whole aggressive paramillitary thing comes off as a shtick. With Suicide Commando there's more substance to the songs as well. Every FGFC 820 track tonight sounded identical to the one before it and when they played their cover of Pop Wil Eat Itself "Ich Bin Ein Auslander" they butchered it. And Millhouse talks more than Ronan from VNV between songs... NEXT!
Icon of Coil - Been a while since I've caught these guys live. Very excited to see them again. From the start Andy, Christian and Seb just tore the place up. Well liquored up in advance of the show, the powder-keg exploded ripping through a surprisingly solid set that included "Floorkiller", "Shallow Nation", "Existence in Progress", "Shelter" and more. Absolutely FIERCE live version of "Pursuit" that rattled me out of 12+ hours of little to no sleep, sickness and tiredness. 2 encores and finally wrapping the whole killer set up with the cover of 242's "Headhunter". The songs in the catlog are 10+ years old but still sounded incredible. Andy's voice a little worn for wear screaming for the Combikids these days and it was mentioned a few times by friends in attendance it almost seems as if Andy would rather being doing Combichrist the whole time. This show was Icon of Coil interpretted by Combi it seemed. Regardless, really enjoyed seeing them again but with the success/activity of all their side projects like Northborne, Zombie Girl, Komor Kommando and Combi one has to wonder if Icon of Coil will soon be shelved altogether. Would love one more CD of material. Time will Tell.
Photos from the event can be found on my Flickr page here.
After the show, stompy drove us back to the hotel, where 8ar8 and I crashed.
Sunday morning up and checked out of the hotel. 8ar8 and I had an amazing breakfast at West Egg before heading to the Lincoln Park Zoo. Have never been to this zoo. Really fun time going to the big cats cage, watching the monkeys and taking in what this FREE zoo offers. Took lots of photos which can be found on my Flickr page here
After the zoo, back to the hotel to pick up our bags and then off to the airport to head home.
A MEGA AWESOME yet too quick a weekend spent with my girl in one of my favorite cities in the world.
tonight off to catch the Brains and the Creepshow gig at Small's. Can't wait!!!
Be well everyone.
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So last Friday was the start of my new DJ residency for Kink at Shadow Bar. Was nervous all week. New night, new club, etc.... Got to the club located in Hamtramck an hour before doors to have a look around and familarize myself with the DJ equipment. The club itself is impressive! Certainly not the kind of club you'd expect to find hosting a fetish/industrial night in the city. 10,000 square feet, 2 levels. Security and valet parking. Clean throughout including the bathrooms (which even had attendants!). Strong drinks. Lights and sound that FAR, FAR, FAR surpass a place like Necto or Luna. The DJ decks were a nice pair of Pioneer CDJ 1000's which I've spun on several times before at other clubs and Infest. No problems there. The mixer was a newer Rane which while being a super nice mixer was incredibly touchy. You move something a slight hair and it registers. Got the hang of it early on and spun very well. The crowd was very good for an opening night and I predict to see even more people as the weeks progress. People are encouraged to dress in latex and fetish wear (and many did), but they are not super strict at the door. Nice to see full page ads in Real Detroit and MetroTimes promoting the night. I'm excited for the night. Has a ton of potential and an environment that offers more than any other club around here IMO. People need to try something new.
Saturday was Jon Pohl and Christinas wedding. The cermeony was held in a small church located in Heritage Park in the City of Taylor. Nice and quick ceremony. Then it was off to the wonderful downriver city of Riverview (NOT) for the reception. The recepetion was at a nice banquet hall and the food was EXCELLENT! Enjoyed talking with the newly married Pohls. Got to hang with a lot of local people on my friends list. Always enjoy seeing my friends get married and celebrating their happiness.
Headed back to Ann Arbor after the reception. Got back into town around 12:30 a.m. and decided I'd head over to 5th Quarter to see about getting a check for $600 that has been owed to me for about 3 months now for several pieces of design work I completed. Get to 5th Quarter and the security guy says "he just left" when I ask if the owner is in. Says he might have gone over to his other bar Rush Street. Head 2 blocks over to Rush Street which is packed. Security guy over there doesn't know if the owner is in but says I can go in and look. Place is so packed I can't even move. No sign of him and the head manager for the night says he hasn't seen him but would text him and also mentions he's VERY surprised I havn't been paid yet. Well the owner never returns a the managers text. I try texting him to no avail either. This guy is giving me the run-a-round big time. Will pay another visit to his bars come early Saturday and if I don't get paid I'm either gonna send 'Vinny and Rocco" to see him or send him an email and explain he has 30 days to pay before I take him to court. Any other sugegstions? It's frustrating because he has always paid on time up until this project. And he owns several bars in a college town, not like he is hurting for money.
well, I think that brings things up to the here and now.
Dead-Line was postponed tonight due to them remodelling the Works. Heard nothing about this beforehand, so not sure what it all entails.
Friday of course DJ'ing at Kink.
Saturday - I'll be DJ'ing along with Elektrosonik Mike at City Club. Haven't spun there in a while and should be fun to work a Saturday with Mike.
Upcoming on the horizon:
8ar8 and I are heading to Chicago for the 2nd day of Gothtoberfest. Sadly a quick weekend but we have a LOT planned and will have an excellent time.
October 10th - will be at Smalls with 8ar8 for the Creepshow concert. Missed them last time they were in Ypsi so really looking forward to seeing them this time around.
and finally I leave you with this you tube video. I mentioned Tex Avery in one of my last post. The following is one of my all time favs from him. Enjoy! More as it happens
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so let's see, plenty going on as usual... try to catch things back up to speed. WARNING THIS IS LONG!!!
The backlash from the Schizophrenia bust was strong for a week and a half following the event. The following You tube video sums it up. Look closely and you can spot me!
All kinds of weirdness surrounding that event - like how one of the undercover vice agents was supposedly at the pre-party and was also supposedly at the official hotel of the event checking things out in advance of the event. Then there's stories of how the ENTIRE Detroit Vice squad was suspended in March of 2009 for allegations of false testimony offered by police officers and abusive behavior toward citizens while on the job!!!! They were reinstated when the new mayor got elected, who also brought in a new police chief. Whacked out stuff!!!
Anyways, the Final b-day week activities were mega-awesome. Took in the Imperative Reaction and Psyclon Nine show at Small's on September 6th. Local one-eye-brow-odd-contact-lensed-spooky-kids columbine opened. Not so much my thing. They are like the junior whopper to Psyclon Nine. Inure put in a nice performance and were a lot more rock sounding than I recall them on CD. Thought Psyclon Nine was to play next but Imperative Reaction took the first co-headlining spot. I've seen Imperative so many times now and each time they get better and better. Majority of the set was from "Minus All". No "Redemption" this show, which has always been one of my favs to hear live. Good show as expected. Nice to catch up with Ted and Clint again. Psyclon Nine played next and well... read this article from Something Awful and think Psyclon Nine while reading it. Yup. \m/ > < \m/ METAL!!!! 8ar8 and I took off to other areas to talk to friends and talk. Had a lot of fun and always good to see friends out at the shows. Few photos at my Flickr page
The 7th rested and relaxed...
The 8th back to work and then later that night off to Pontiac with 8ar8 to catch Apoptygma Berzerk. First show I've been to at the Crofoot. VERY nice venue and great sound. 2 opening bands this evening, the first being The Surrendor who was actually rather decent playing a 'safe' alternative rock sound. Given the right label support they could do very well. Into the Presence was the other opener and didn't hold my interest for more than a minute. Every instrument drowned out the other instrument.... I liked Apoptygma this time around. I've seen them in the past when they were more electronic. With the newer albums they've regressed into a more rock band sound that I don't find as appealing. Tonights show was a good mixture of tracks with many updated to that newer rock sound. Songs like "Deep Red", "Non Stop Violence" took on new dynamics while the newer material like "Apollo" and "In this Together" had a nice intensity to them. The old purely electronic apop is most likely long gone, but this live line up was impressive. Fun show.
The 9th was my actual birthday. Worked and went out to lunch with 8ar8. Introduced her to the Korean dish Bi Bim Bop which she really liked. Good stuff. Later that night was off to the Works for B-day festivities at Dead-Line. One of the most fun nights at Dead-Line. There was cake! And a Pumpkin Pie (my favorite). my buddy "Muscles" came out to help celebrate. 8ar8 got me the coolest ever book on Tex Avery. If you don't know who Tex Avery is, stop reading and go look him up. Great great great stuff. She also got me a hot rod mag that has one of the coolest cars I've ever seen profiled in it. DJ'ed a great set. The drinks were flowing and the whipped cream can made it's rounds. People got punched SQUARE IN THE FACE. Best b-day celebration in a long time. Good music, great friends and shennanigans. Photos here
The 11th - went and saw 9. Fantastic movie and highly recomended for it's creativity and visual effects. Go see it if you get the chance.
On the 12th 8ar8 came out and we went to Marshall, Michigan for the Speedshifters car show. The event took place on this guys property/farm and it had more of a picnic/party vibe than anything. We each took 200+ photos, ate hot dogs and drank beer. Some amazing cars and bikes there. A very fun way to spend the afternoon. Will for sure go to next years. Photos here and well worth a look/see. My favortie car is posted below:
On the 13th I got a scare when my mom called and said she had taken my dad to Beaumont Hospital. At first we we concerned it might have been a heart blockage, but after being held over night, several x-rays and test - the conclusion was a very bad reaction to a new Alzheimers medication he had switched over to the day before. So back to the old drug and he is now home and back to his old self.
Zoinks this is getting long. I think I will wrap it up here. Next post I'll get to the past week including a recap of the new night I am DJ'ing called KInk. And I'll recap the Pohls recent wedding.
Be well everyone.
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As part of b-day week festivities the plan was to take in the Schizophrenia 4 pre-party and the event itself.
The pre-party was held at McCarthys Pub on Fort Street in Detroit. 8ar8 and I got down there around 9pm to check out some breakcore. Saw Nikki and Greg from Prometheus Burning and also chatted it up with sullenbeewho had made the drive over from Grand Rapids. Some great sets turned in this evening with my favorite being by S/M who focused a lot more on building an atmosphere around his music. The rest of the artist tonight seemed to utilize playing/mixing/scratching what sounded like death metal records to crushing effect. And while I love the stuff, a 45 minute set of nothing but ear splitting beats per minute and metal licks gets old quickly. Regardless, had a ton of fun and drank plenty, before hunger took over and we headed over to Lafayette Coney to eat.
Lafayette was good as usual and provides another funny story from the weekend. While eating, a guy who looks like a dead-ringer for LL Cool J comes in and sits at the front counter across from us. He starts going on with some of the other customers near him about Jesus Christ being Greek and his real name being Yahshua, then he decides to let the whole diner know by getting rather loud. 8ar8 looks at me, (I'm gigling to myself as this isn't the time nor place for this crazy guys proclamations) and says "don't start'. This catches the ears of LL Cool J guy and he begins to inquire if I like debating religion. Nope, I try not to discuss my religous or politcal views with crazies in diners past 1 a.m. So LL carries on for a bit longer with most of the customers ignoring him. 8ar8 is trying to best disguise her laughter as well. He eventually leaves and you hear a guy from the back simply say "I thought Jesus was Italian!" Funny, but maybe you had to be there.
Saturday night was the Schizophrenia event, which I'd been really looking forward to since picking up a flier a month earlier. Would get to see Somatic Responses, CDatakill, Dev/Null, Sickboy and more. 8ar8 and I had gotten the announced location of the event a few hours earlier and headed off around 8pm to the underground loacation - a building off of Grand River and I-96 marked simply with Cadillac Body Shop on the outside. The excitement was still high at this point as I explained to 8ar8 while pulling into the grassy parkling lot of how this took me back some 10 years to raves in the wharehouse district of Detroit. We paid our $15 each to get in. The rest I'm gonna cut and past elements from Project Groupthink's blog entry to be found in italics as he's already typed up an occurance of the events and how it unfolded is almost identical to my own account.
The Cadillac Body Shop must’ve had quite a bit of business back in the day, given that the structure had the capacity to hold hundreds of vehicles. The bottom floor featured parking for the DJs, promoters and artists, guest check-in, two Port-a-Lets (which I didn’t expect, honestly) and funneled revelers towards a concrete ramp going to the main floor, the venue proper. The main floor is… like a rave? That sounds asinine yet appropriate. (Like there’s some kind of typical rave setting, ha.) There’s a large screen on one wall for the VJ’s (Video Jockeys) to project accompaning images and videos to the music. In front of the screen are tables for the DJs and artists to set up their equipment on. Beyond that lie the sound and light system (which from ear-witness accounts could be heard at least 5 blocks away) and some merch tables and ‘vendors’ in the back.
Was enjoying myself and had caught K.Attic, Deadlines and Stagediver (who was just awesome!!!) . Was texting Nocker to tell him to head on down and join us.
In Broken Key was just easing into his set and that's when things started to get weird.
It happened at around 11:00-ish...
There was an undercover cop walking around in a FUCT shirt for awhile,...
I see some cop in a black POLICE shirt with a facemask and ballcap walking around with a Glock casually hanging in his hand, telling Cutups to pack his shit up. The music’s still playing, so it hasn’t quite sunken in yet that we’re fucked...
I had also noticed this cop with the black POLICE shirt and facemask. He seemed to be casually going about whatever business he needed to do. I recall him shining a flashlight around and checking out several areas. Was just him and my first thought was maybe he had come in to just check things out and make sure things weren't completely crazy. Did not notice the Glock. Realizing that things aren't looking good I mention to 8ar8 that we should get out of the venue. So as we're walking down the ramp the cops start busting the place... I'm not panicking quite yet but I figure "shit, we're gonna get tickets or something or worse."
Then they tell everyone to line up in two lines with our hands on our heads. We all get marched downstairs and told to sit down, girls on one side, guys on another. Some guy talks back to the cops and gets his chest kicked in and made to lay face-down for his trouble. We get the speech that it’s an illegal party, etc. etc. and told to pull out our ID’s (which the cops seemingly never check for most of us). They let the guys leave first, and then some time later the girls. As I’m walking out, I see the two door guys lying face-down with cuffs on. One of them looks pretty fucked up, drooling all over the ground. Promoters and performers have to stay inside.
The guy who talks back was 3 people away from me. The cops did a number on him and quickly. I was actually pretty freaked out by that. Was relieved when one of the cops said he'd have us out of there in 10 minutes at which point I realized they're just gonna kick us out without writing us all tickets. I also witnessed the 2 door guys in that same state. They looked real bad - almost unconscious. I waited outside for 8ar8, who seemed less phased by the whole thing than I did.
We ended up going back to our hotel where we saw the Somatic Responses guys and a few others having drinks in the hotel bar. We stopped in to say hello. Come to find out later that Somatic Responses played a 'set' in one of the hotel rooms that night and on Sunday there was a breakcore BBQ at the Atlas building where some artist performed.
The performers and promoters were cited for various crimes, i.e., operating a venue without a license, engaging in “illegal occupation”. At least one staff member was arrested.
Performers could be charged up to $500.oo in fines (and additional court costs), but more importantly would have participating in “illegal employment” on their records. This could interfere with their interstate and international travel. Given that the performers did not know that they were performing at an “illegal venue”, this is very unfair. Some traveled from as far as Europe to perform at this show, and such a charge may hinder (or dissuade) them from playing in the States again.
So yeah, almost arrested but not quite. Doubt I'll be going to any further underground parties ever. Hope things turn out well for the promoters and performers issued tickets/facing fines. If I read anything further I may post more here.
I watched as they threw the sound guy up against a wall and handcuffed him.
Oh yeah, last night was the Imperative Reaction show. Will get to posting about that later.
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[04 Sep 2009|02:00pm] |
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Last night at the Project Pitchfork show noizeindex mentions I've been quiet in cyberland... too true, too true.
Here's a much need update;
Work - going very well. When I was brought in 5 months ago it was simply on a contractor basis. This week, the main boss came to me and asked if I'd like to be an official employee. An obvious yes was my answer. Paper work will be going through and a significant raise will go into effect. Happy and excited about that. Projects have been good. There's currently at least a half dozen hospital sites out there that I have designed. Not much worth sharing cause they are... hospital sites which aren't very exciting ;) Today is day three of birthday week celebration. Birthday week began this past Wednesday with Dead-Line at the Works. Just myself and Wilhelm K behind the decks this evening. Wilhelm was showing off once again by playing and flawlessly beat-mixing some EBM classics. DJ Nocker showed up, but due to some circumstances had to take off and thus didn't spin. He still gets mega awesome points for his Felix the Cat shirt.
Day two of birthday week was the Project Pitchfork show at Small's on Thursday. Been fortunate to see Pitchfork once before - opening for Front 242 in Toronto. I recalled how great both bands were in Toronto and Thursday night, once again Pitchfork turned in an absolutely amazing performance drawing from a deep catalog of music. Excellent to hear "God Wrote", "Souls", "KNKA" and "En Garde" amongst so many others. Even the popular "Timekiller" and "Steelrose" sounded great. Well thought out set list that included newer material, well-known tracks and the hits equaly spread throughout. Peter, Dirk and Jurgen are all nice guys as well. A very fun evening and wow saw so many friends last night.
Day three of birthday week will be spent at the Schizophrenia 4 pre-party tonight. Looking forward to seeing Xanopticon and more. Then tomorrow more b-day week celebration at the actual Schizophrenia event.
The rest of B-day week pans out as such: Sunday night is Imperative Reaction at Smalls, Monday is a day of rest, Tuesday is Apoptygma Berzerk in Pontiac and finally the conclusion of b-day week with a DJ Set at Dead-Line on my actual b-day (September 9). I hope I make it to then :) Gonna try to make a flier for the 9.9.09 DJ Set but consider this an open invitation to everyone reading this - DJ Saint's B-day Party. Dead-Line @ The Works, 1846 Michigan Ave Detroit, MI 48216. FREE ALL NIGHT. Expect a noise-filled set from me. Show up and bring me urban vinyl toys ;)
And more DJ'ing news:
Happy to announce I am the resident DJ for a new Friday night event called Kink. Beginning September 18 and continuing every Friday thereafter. This fetish themed night will take place at Shadow bar in Hamtramck. Shadow is an amazing venue offering 10,000 SQUARE FEET ON 2 LEVELS!!! A Main floor dance area and 2nd floor relaxation lounge. Very excited to be involved in this night. "But wait, didn't you try to retire from DJ'ing last January?" you ask. We'll yeah but I'm still actively DJ'ing and this new weekly is something I simply couldn't pass up. For years there hasn't been any other worthwhile option for industrial-electro on Friday nights. Now there is and it's being done right. This night has tremendous potential and a lot to offer. The space, sound system and lights far surpass a place like Necto. The owner/management care about the club and promoting the night placing full-page ads in both Real Detroit and MetroTimes the past two weeks. Yes doing this new night means no more Friday's at City Club, which seriously is quite fine by me. Look at it this way - working less hours (none of this 4:30 a.m. BS), getting paid a LOT more, working in a better, cleaner and safer club on top-of-the-line equipment on a sound system that's not on it's last dying days. Time to move on... even my horoscope seemed to alude to the need for change:
VIRGO: You’re about to embark on something that is totally new and different. It has to happen because you’ve outgrown the past and the structures you’ve created just aren’t big enough to contain you anymore. If you’re freaked out about what might happen, get over it; this is no time to get skittish about the consequences. Crawl out of the phone booth and put on your Superman/Woman suit. For too long you’ve been hiding your light under a bushel. It’s an insult to you and to your purpose for being here for you to keep denying the truth of who you are.
Change is good.
What else since I have the time to type away...
Saddened by the news of Detroit Tigers Baseball Broadcasting Legend Ernie Harwell being diagnosed with cancer. Listened to a lot of Harwell call baseball games in my youth and adult life. Truly an amazing guy with the most positive of attitudes. Wish him all the best.
Need to go to the comic/toy store soon. So many cool new toys coming out.
That brings things up to speed. Enjoying my day off today.
Will try to get back to posting more regularly and with shorter post.
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Let's see, what's been going on since I last updated...
Mechanize3 was July 31st @ The Works. A very fun night and a good large group of people in attendance as well. TJ sumemd it up in his journal rather well - What a fucking great time. Good people and good music, a lot of fun. For some reason it reminded me of city club back in the day, but with better music :) Spun for 2 hours a set that included a lot of harder industrial for the first hour and then transitioned into hard tekno, gabber, schranz later in the set. The night belonged to Dethlab however. An honor to spin alongside them as HOLY SHIT did they just tear the place apart. I'm glad I spun before them as they just took me to school! Skilled and awesome mixes of electro-crunch that introduced me to a ton of great new music. Hands down my favorite DJ team in Detroit because they are not affraid to play something new. They make it a performance rather than a juxebox session.
Saturday, August 1st, I spun at City Club. Not much to report from the night. Spun well. I'm back at City, this Saturday, August 15. Head on out.
Went and saw Motor this past Friday at the Works. Extra awesome as Dethlab was DJ'ing again as well as GLUHUFR who both turned in awesome sets. Gluhufr did a fantastic mix from some unknown track straight into Nitzer Ebbs "Control I'm Here" that had me picking my jaw up off the floor. Motor was high-powered fun on overdive. They didn't play very long at 35 minutes, but the set was fast-past and chaotic including my favs "Sweatbox", "Kick it", "Death Rave". Again the crowd was much like that of the Fixmer/McCarthy show - less the City Club kiddies and more the Detroit Techno Militia and like-minded people. Fun crowd as they get into it from the start and stay energetic through out. Had my camera but didn't take any photos as it was very dark in the back room of the Works and not much lighting.
One last bit of music related stuff - Got invited to spin alongside some of Detroit's gabber and hard techno elite. Not sure when the event will be, but I'm pretty excited to be considered for this. For a while I've been wanting to expand beyond just the industrial scene and DJ for a different crowd (that also includes about 30 people -LOL). Will let you know when and where as details surface.
Went to another car show today. The Troy Traffic Jam. Took place down the street from my work so I had seen signs all week advertising it. Figured it would be a lot more muscle cars than anything and upon arriving it certainly was. Not a muscle car fan whatsoever. Few cool cars amongst everything. Snapped a few photos that can be found over at my Flickr page. Here's my favorite car from the show: 
:: 32 Ford Highboy Roadster ::
Went and saw The Hurt Locker last night in Ann Arbor. Excellent and very intense movie. Everyone should see this movie to further understand what our men and women of the armed services are going through in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Anybody else seen this and what did you think?
that's all for now. Storms a coming!
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[02 Aug 2009|04:24pm] |
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Note to self (since I doubt anybody else on my friends list is into the whole car kulture scene, save for shapeshyft and well Scary Guy who has a hearse)
| When: | | September 12th, 2009 | | Where: | | marshall, michigan | SpeedshifterS wheel club Rumble at The Dump Car, Truck, and Motocycle show Saturday September 12th 2009. 5 bucks at the gate per person includes pig roast and fixins, bands, and more. Gates open at 10 a.m. show 11 to 4 awards at 4.
| When: | | September 27th, 2009 | | Where: | | Hickory Corners, MI | Swap meet, vendors, bands. Pin-up girl contest with cash prizes. Pre 1965 cars only. Old school bikes, no twin cams. Free camping on grounds night before show. General admission $8.00.
and then October 10th - Hunnert Car Pile-Up in Morris, IL (Not to be missed)
and to get me more in the mood - video from Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekender car show...
More shit later... 3 days of DJ'ing this week/weekend and I have sleep, laundry, yard work and what not to catch up on.
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[26 Jul 2009|07:52pm] |
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Dusting off the Industrial Movement, Industrial Strength, Third Movement,
Epileptik, Enzyme, K7, Enzyme X, etc...
hardcore, darkcore, gabber, industrial stuff to maybe play this evening.
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[25 Jul 2009|08:19pm] |
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This is the start of b-day celebration week as well!!!
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[21 Jul 2009|09:31pm] |
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District 9 looks to be an excellent movie. Going on my must-see in a theater list.
Surprised there hasn't been much more chatter about this film...
Trailor and cool website at http://www.d-9.com
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| Fuel and fire and what the heart desires |
[16 Jul 2009|10:38pm] |
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Been a while since an update... grab a cold one, get comfy and read on...
More busy, busy, busy than usual.
Cosumed with work for a bit. Devoting lots of time to several projects. In most cases happy with the results of the web work. Not much more to mention there. More responsibilities headed my way most likely. Perhaps some additional travel (was supposed to be in Chicago this week). I've learned to leave work behind come 5:30 pm and balance it with a happy life. Still doing a lot of side work however (the fun stuff) and picking up extra cash/fun money here and there for that.
Babyland was in town on July 7th. One of the bands on my short list of must see acts I've waited a long time to see and certainly wasn't disappointed. Got several of my vinyl records signed by the band and even managed to get them to play the older "Kill Bugs" during their set. Dan and Smith are two of the nicest guys you'll ever meet. Photos I snapped from the night can be found at my Flickr page.
Didn't go to the VNV Nation show this time around. Haven't cared for the last 2 releases and have seen them enough times anyways. DJ'ed at City Club the night of the show. Ended up being a rather busy night as the band announced from stage they were heading to City Club and everyone and their goth cousin followed. Ronan, Mark Jackson as well as Jen and Mike from Ayria all stopped by the club later. Having known Ronan, Mark and Jen for a few years was nice to see them again and got in a few quick hellos amongst the crazy fanboys and girls crowding them. Nice to have a large crowd. Spun well, introduced new stuff and was very surprised people didn't complain. Best night out at City in a long long time.
Imperative Reaction with Sucklong 9 (ooops Psyclon 9) along with Inure will be at Small's September 6. Just a mere 3 days before my b-day!!! I think we'll have to make this night the kickoff of the weeklong B-day celebration.
Also on 9.9.9 (my b-day) this bad ass of a movie opens!!! (Go Tim Burton GO!!!!)
I'll be in a theater!
Ha- got sidetracked... In other DJ'ing news, Dead-Line continues to pick up in attendance. The last few weeks crowds have doubled over the prior weeks. Good crowds now. Still the BEST variety of music on a weekday in the area. July 31st will be Mechanize 3 at The Works. The usual Dead-Line DJ's and special guest DJ set from Dethlab. Excited to be DJ'ing an event with them. Peep the flier here. Head on out. It's FREE!
Off and on looking at possible houses/condos to relocate to. Hate to leave Ann Arbor, but it's looking like I will stay with the job in Troy for a while. So looking but not with any definant location. See what interest me. I need house hunters or somebody like that to help me find something...
Been going to a lot of car shows when I can. Took in the very smal (and rather lame) YWCA car show in Royal Oak a few weeks back on a Sunday. My fav vehicle from there was a wonderful Ford "shoebox" More from the YWCA car show at my Flickr PageAlso hit the 3rd Annual Hamtramck Hustle. Cool show that has been growing each year in popularity. Having taken in Billetproof this year, coincidentally all but 3 of the cars at the Husltle I had previously seen at Billet. Still a second look is always welcome.  More from the Hamtramck Hustle at my Flickr PageAnd yes, I've been looking for a project car a bit more seriously these days as well. Most recently have had my eye on a 51 Mercury 4 door sports sedan that's traveled from Midland Texas up to Perrysburg, Ohio. The debates lies in a classic like that or trying to find a 30's Ford rat rod. Both would be fun rides. Leaning more towards finding a 30's Ford but tomorrow I'll find myself leaning the other way (ha). Plan is to get a car, fix er up, grab the girl and go on one hell of a roadtrip via Route 66! Maybe not come back either ;) That's enough of an update for now... off to go cause trouble cause I'm good at it :) what's new with all of you?
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Completely unexpected, a deer jumped across 4 lanes of traffic three cars in front of me on Crooks this morning. This is the city as well...
Neat.
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[16 Jun 2009|08:56pm] |
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busy, busy, busy...
Things have been strange. Lots of unbelieveable happenings. Won't go into details, just keep ya guessing...
Did however head off Friday afternoon to Chicago to catch the opening/signing of the Kozik show.
Zipping down I-94. A roadtrips always good to clear the head and the Ipod provided soundtrack was perfect.
Got into Oak Park around 6pm arriving atkriegschrei and his fiancee xtina's house. Super nice digs. Got the tour and got introduced to their cat Gonzo. Unpacked and was off to Rotofugi for the show. Had to drive through some shady areas to get into Chicago. There was a line out the door to get stuff signed. Others in line had recently purchased items for Kozik to sign. I had brought along my Mad*L and a large Qee Bear. After waiting an hour finally got up to have stuff signed. Kozik mentioned having not seen his Mad*L in a long time, but other than that he came across as quiet and cocky. Perhaps he was just tired or perhaps he was overwhelemed with how many people did attend. Regardless, good to meet him. Picked up two new Kozik pieces; 8" Fritz Bear Qee - 2008 SDCC Exclusive, 2008 Taipai Toy Festival 8" Nightfighter Ivcan Cat Qee and a Dalek 10 " Teddy Troop. Drove back to Oak Park and ordered deep dish pizza. Planned on heading out to go clubbing but what was supposed to be an hour nap turned into all of us falling asleep in different parts of the house waking later with no motivation to go out. So we instead stayed in an watched zombie movies. Saturday got up, had breakfast then Pohl and I headed out in the noon time rain en route to Clark and Belmont area. Stopped at the local comic shop in Oak Park. Nice little store, completely unorganized but did manage to find Popbot 8 and Josh Howards new art book. Stopped raining and made it over to Belmont/Clark. Stopped in at Chicago Comics and grabbed some goodies. Found out Dave McKean (of Mirrormask fame) will be doing an instore there in July!!! Had lunch at Clarkes Diner. Got a new hat at Belmont Army Surplus. Walked over to the new Reckless Records location. Found nothing. Record shoppings gone downhill in Chicago it seems. Caught another train and bus and went over to Quimbys bookstore. Grabbed a ton of books and magazines there. Over to the Hancock Center to meet Pohls finacee for dinner at the Cheesecake Factory. Good stuff. By now it was nearly 9pm. Train ride back to the house. Planned on going out but after walking around and a full belly, decided to stay in again. All good. Drove back home Sunday, getting back to the Detroit area around 6ish. A good weekend. Back to the grind at work. Dead-Line goes back to the 2 rooms starting this Wednesday. I'll be playing noisy stuff in the back room. It's now free before 11pm. Get your behinds out to the areas best variety of music during the week. New fliers coming soon. I'll also be DJ'ing Friday at City Club. Been a few weeks since I've spun there. alright, time to go cause trouble. |
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[08 Jun 2009|08:05pm] |
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a bit of a recap of this past week...
curently exhausted.
Monday - work. Met up with Jon Noble at Gusoline Alley for a few beers later in the evening. Good times, good stories.
Tuesday - work.
Wednesday - work then out to Dead-Line. Spun from 10pm - 12:15 to about... four people!!! Who knows where everyone was but eh, not really concerned. I spun a ton of my recently purchased music and had a fun time nevertheless.
Thursday - work got interesting. Ended up having to deal with a client based in Florida. Worked late into the evening. I sensed these clients would be trouble, but got stuff done.
Friday - What the Florida clients said they liked at the close of day Thursday, they didn't like Friday morning. Not very nice people, and certainly not very web savy either. At one point they mentioned I lacked creativity. Um yeah, I'm just following their specs to a T, because doing anything else, they didn't like... Finished all that, and quickly distanced myself from any further thought of that project.
Friday night - home just in time to get to a scheduled gathering in Ann Arbor. Fun, but could barely keep my eyes open. Crawled into bed around 2 a.m.
Saturday morning - up at 8 a.m. and off to Billetproof in Davisburg. Been waiting all year for this car show. Missed last years as I was in Chicago. This years show was tripple the size it was last year. They ran out of room to park the cars. Met up with my old friend Chris and his girl Meghan out there. Ended up befriending the rest of the Speedcult gang (who brought out the propane flame thrower bike), and having an excellent time amongst all the hot rods and people. Made some new friends :) Took a shit-load of photos that can be found at my Flickr page (seriously you should go have a look at all of them)... here are a couple from the over 150 shots posted;  wonderfully worked on pickup  My TWO new girlfriends :)  Beautiful paint job. Left Davisburg around 4 and made it back to Ann Arbor just in time for a friends social gathering. Again stayed out wayyyyy to late. Don't even recall what time I went to bed.
Sunday - Little sleep. Lots of running around, squeeze in yard work between the rain drops and the few minutes I'm home... Where did the time go on Sunday?
Today - Back to work and only 4 more days until off to Chicago for the Kozik show and more good times.
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| Alfa RomeOH-NO!!! |
[30 May 2009|05:38pm] |
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Headed out to Target this afternoon to pick up some supplies and a B-day card for a friend. Upon leaving I backed into a 1984 Alfa Romeo putting a nice dent into the passenger side door and breaking the window as well. The lady was fortunately very cool about it. Nobody was hurt. My own car has but a nick. I felt like an ass. Took a few photos with my camera for insurance purposes. Called the police to file a report. Took them an hour to get there and once there the officer got called away to attend to another accident of a child hit by a bike (ouch). So the other driver and I exchanged info and headed our separate ways. Seriously, of ALL the cars to hit, I had to pick a classic Italian sportscar...
Photo of the damage.
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