04.29.09

One of my favorite acts of recent time has been the band Ra Ra Riot. My buddy Adrian from Revolt Marketing who worked with them recently on one of their tours told me about them and said that they were a band I would totally be into. As usual, I harassed him, and belittled him, and when he wasn't looking I stole his ipod and listened to them, and was blown away, then as fate would have it, I was actually able to meet up with them at SXSW earlier this year. They were so nice and cool, and we have a ton of mutual friends, so after that we went on our way. Well, fast forward a few months later we were all able to hook up again, this time in San Diego while they are on tour with Death Cab for Cutie. The guys over at Creative Recreation don't know this, but the reason why I came home when I did Egypt was to make sure to catch thier show, shhhhh....

04.02.09

So recently Scion went on the road with The Presets and Cut Copy, unfortunately I wasn't able to make it to the Cut Copy portion of the tour, but that didn't stop me from attending the Presets stops. Revolt Marketing, artist Hydro 74 and Scion did these pretty cool silk screen posters as a give away for the shows.



















Well, with all of these elements, how could I resist hitting the road with these guys. I was already on the east coast for Winter Music Conference working on a few things so I figured why not. Here are a couple of shots I took while I was with them, hopefully we'll hook up again at Coachella.

11.09.07

Today I just got back from my San Fran trip which was alot longer than expected, but really had fun. I got to spend alot of time with some of my family that lives up there as well as with a bunch of friends. The RVCA SF store was beautiful, I'll put up some pics in a bit, I'm still working on some of those. One thing I did see today was an ad that I did for SJC drums with Matt McGinley of the Gym Class Heroes that I didn't know was running yet. Right after my plane landed from SF, I hooked up with my buddy Adrian from Revolt Marketing who is currently touring around with the band Paramore and took me to meet everyone in the band. Everyone was extremely cool, and had a great time hanging out with them, it was kind of nice to not be the only sober one for once. Anyway they had a copy of the latest AP on the bus, and I happen to stumble upon the ad while flipping through it and was pretty excited about it.