Semi Precious Weapons – 3.20.09

I had to see my boys Semi Precious Weapons at some point during SXSW and it seemed Beauty Bar was the place to do that. It was really weird to shoot them in the light and my bounce flash turned the tent green, but the show was a lot of fun and afterwords I talked to a bunch of Juliette Lewis fans who were really psyched to know about SPW. I brought a few people who really liked them too. At one point Justin climbed on top of the speakers and sang upside down. That was fun. Anyway, I don’t have a lot to say about them that I haven’t said before, but they did tell me that Perez Hilton came to their late night show that night and evidently loved them. So maybe they will blow up already and I can sell some of these photos.

Check out all the SPW pictures here.

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West Rocks Showcase – 3.20.09

So it beings… The first of many, many South By Southwest updates…

Semi Precious Weapons emailed me their SXSW schedule and I was trying to figure out when I wanted to catch them.  I saw that they opened up for Juliette Lewis at Beauty Bar so I decided to check that out.  It was part of the West Rocks showcase. Before Semi Precious went on I got a chance to check out the Golden Animals, Your Vegas, and GoldieLocks.  The drummer from Golden Animals was nuts, and Your Vegas was pretty tight, but GoldieLocks was the only person who really stood out.  She was like a singing Vice “Do” and she made kinda poppy electro rap or something.  It was certainly fun.  While these bands played my friend Michael was busy doing press interviews with the Post War Years.  The odd thing about that is that he is not in the band.  He was just sitting on a couch with the guys and they were interviewing him with the band.  The told the reporter that he played trombone.  I don’t think she believed him, but at he least did a convincing British accent. There are a couple of crowd shots in here as well.  Check out all the photos by clicking this link here.  Semi Precious Weapons and Juliette Lewis photos will be up in a few minutes…

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Burning Angel AVN Party – 1.9.08

So I said yesterday that I was going to get these photos up today, and by god I will. Unfortunately I spent ALL DAY figuring out my Sundance plans. I had to find a place to stay (it is going to cost me $700 to be there for 5 days!) and figure out my flights and all that stuff. Then I shot Burning Angel’s own Envy (Amore on Gods Girls) in the insanely creepy Motel I am staying at. The light was not quite good enough to shoot without flash, so I didn’t get exactly what I wanted, but there are probably some good shots.

Anyway, the Burning Angel party was at Beauty Bar in LA. I like the space, but not as much as the one in NYC. They also played a lot of aggressive house there which would make BB’s NYC Michael Stewart start punching people. The party was fun, not much nudity, but a bit… so NSFW. This French Canadian porn star told me I was beautiful* and a local girl got insanely drunk and pretty much decided I was the best thing ever. Luckily her friend helped her get her shit together and my guess is she made it home alive. They were rad kids. She wants to be a Suicide Girl… I told her to talk to Joanna instead. Speaking of SG, Zui Suicide was there and we bonded. She’s from VA and evidently she is on some reality show featuring Paris Hilton that I have never heard of, but I am sure I should have. After the party, I went to the Circle Bar and didn’t talk to Regan Reece even though I am sort of in love with her. Okay, I have really shitty internet and lots of things to do, so check out the pictures and I will get back to you as soon as I can with the write ups from the rest of the Vegas trip.

Oh yeah, special shout out to the local Vegas version of DBB, IndieKrush.

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Echo & The Bunnymen After Party – 10.1.08

Echo & The Bunnymen have been advertised as playing on the marquee at Radio City Music Hall for 2 months.  I was not aware that they demanded that kind of treatment.  Clearly I was wrong.  I engaged many a people in conversation about the Bunnies most important contributions to pop music that reach far beyond their  80’s dance night mainstay prowess.  I have to say that Will Sergeant of the Bunnymen absolutely rocked my face off at DJ booth.  Instead of the Smiths and Joy Division songs that I was kinda expecting he played a bunch of great 60’s garage with a ton of other rocking songs.  At one point he played two of my favorite songs back to back.  My favorite Creation song Bif Bang Pow and the original Gloria Jones version of Tainted Love.  Fucking amazing.

Check out all the shots from Beauty Bar.

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Echo & The Bunnymen After Party

There is this Echo & The Bunnymen after party tonight at Beauty Bar tomorrow. I know absolutely nothing about the band (except for the songs that Jess spins over and over again) but I walk by Radio City Music Hall every day and they seem pretty psyched about them. They have been on the marquee for 2 months. Anyway, the after party should be fun I am sure. Plus I will be there snapping photos and if only for a few hours, the world will be okay. Wall St. And Main St. might be full of pot holes, but 14th St. is still a-okay. Join me.

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Tuesday Is For Dancing

I hit up two spots, which are actually four spots, so I am just going to cram them into one page. I stopped by Beauty Bar for my friends new party The Pull Out Method. They used to have bands, but now its a biweekly dance party with a monthly rock show… or something like that. In the other room the Supersuckers were having their after party. The two crowds were not exactly in sync but I had a good times on both sides of the hallway. Then I ran over to Happy Endings to catch Disco Down and 66Sick. I figured 66Sick would be the place to be for fashion week, but I got there too late and it was a bit dead. Upstairs was fun but it was after three when I got there so I didn’t stay long…

So, here you go… Two bars, four parties and a lot of drunken party photos.

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Bad Kittys – 7.24.08

So, I wasn’t going to go out on Thursday.  I was on break.  No photos right?  Well that all got fucked up when I found out that Rony’s Photobooth was on tour, hitting up Beauty Bar’s all over this fine country of ours.  And at this very same time Beauty Bar NYC impresario Michael Stewart was finally turning 21 and I had to be there to see him take his first legal drink.  So my goal, of course, was to go out there for 30 minutes or something, say hi and go back home, get to sleep and get up early so I could get some shit done.  And, of course, I failed miserably.  Despite me barely being able to keep my eyes open I decided to pull out my camera because there were all these people I really wanted to see.  After that I wanted to make sure I got enough photos for a gallery so I kept sticking around, but I was too tired to shoot.  ALSO, amazingly I earlier in the day found out that my brand new camera is broken already and that it might not be covered under warranty.  So I was tired, and pissed and despite my need to get out of there, I was just socializing and not taking photos.  I was having a very good time talking to great peoples and such, but at some point I had enough, I had to get to sleep.  As I was leaving I offered two friends a ride home because I thought they lived near me.  After a missed exit and a lot of screaming we arrived at Popeye’s which while still open, was completely out of chicken.  What sort of madness is that?  So by the time I finally got them home, and me home, it was nearly 5 in the morning and I still had to get the Jump photos to the Village Voice.

Despite that bullshit, it was actually a really fun night.

Moving on, I wanted to address one thing.  Rony, what is up with the Bad Kittys thing.  Shouldn’t it be Bad Kitties?  Or is it Bad Kitty’s?  In that case what or who is Bad Kitty and what is she possessing.  Fill a brother in.

Lastly, the pictures from the night are here.  They are taking with my old camera, and I did not take many, so we are just going to have to deal with that.

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Vegas Trip Day #2

Three things I have learned about Vegas so far: The tap water tastes like shit, they don’t sell gum in Casinos and the classic rock station plays Prince.

Day two started off well with a Gods Girl named Toryn coming over for some creepy clown photos (you will get to see them when I get back) and we shot a really weird clown “porn” “music video”. And by porn I mean topless and by music video I mean she was dancing to a song. I will try to get that up before I get back….

Anyway, after that the day was pretty much disappointing. I went to the Burning Angel event at Minxx strip club. The club was trying to rotate things with strippers so none of the stuff I wanted to shoot was happening on time. Strip clubs make me uncomfortable, it was actually the first time I had been in one. I don’t really like the idea of paying people to get naked. None of the porn folks I was with seemed to be paying too much attention to the strippers, and the strippers looked pretty bored. I eventually got this girl Sailor naked in the bathroom and then the Swing Shift Side Show did some more stuff. There was a girl who shot darts out of her vagina which was cool. Zamora Torture King did what he does best and stabbed himself with long skewers. Hick, Nick And Jew and a Half (of the dead) played some songs right before I left with Jess and Sarah 2.0 who are featured in these photos in the back of a limo. The highlight of the party was talking to Mystery about picking up women and then he did a mediocre job of making my business card disappear. Interesting dude. Everything took so damn long at Minxx that by the time we got back to my car it was pretty late. We tried to go to the VividAlt party at Beauty Bar but Bronques said it was dead so we turned around and went to this fetish party at the Venetian. I am not a big fetish guy and I didn’t know many people and they wouldn’t let anyone take pictures so I did not stay long… but there were a lot of naked people and some interesting stuff going on. I saw a guy getting peed on and the oldest boobs I have ever seen in real life. I was leaving the Venetian and I ran into Ron Jeremy which was cool. I then called it an early night and now I am awake during the day with not a lot to do. Everyone is at the AEE Convention but I applied for my press pass to late and I don’t want to pay for it, so I am watching football instead. Anyway, I have no idea what I am doing to night but I am sure it is weird.

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Here are a bunch of random photos from the night.

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New Years xXx-Stravaganza – 12.31.07 (Part 1)

Holy Jesus. I am way late on posting these but it will be worth it. Rated X Vs Trash? Out of control. Let’s see if I can summarize my evening slightly. I told my friend Rochelle I would meet her at Beauty Bar for a drink at 930. When we got there it was not open yet for some reason. I had a bottle of rum and so we went into the park at Union Square and started taking shots. Eventually we went back to Beauty Bar and had a drink… Then Mike made us do shots with him. We then stopped by Darkroom and Paul gave me another drink. Since I only drink twice a year, it is pretty easy to get people to give me free drinks… and Paul rules. Anyway, that drink was like my 6th in 45 minutes and I suddenly got pretty drunk. When we finally made it to Don Hills I was pretty much fucked up. The night for the next couple hours is pretty much a blur… A lot of boobs and kissing people and trying not to puke. I drank some more, and I had this guy buy me a drink because I was too drunk to hand the bar tender my drink ticket. At one point I told my self I was going to sober up, but this really cute 18 year old told me if I got her a drink, she would buy me one. I really didn’t want to drink it yet so I made them put my gin and tonic in a pint glass and I spent the next hour trying to shoot photos with a drink in one hand. Eventually I just filled the glass up with water and slowly started to sober up. By 5AM I was pretty much sober and decided it would be better to go home then continue drinking so I did that. I managed not to get hung over and it was a pretty good night over all.

I took nearly 600 photos and the night was crazy so there are some good ones, but let it be known, I suck at taking photos drunk… especially with a drink in my hand. I can’t compose, had tons of out of focus pictures and I kept forgetting to adjust my settings. Anyway, these photos have a lot of naked people, including some Burning Angel’s in them, so be warned… Make sure to check out part 2 for way more insanity from the night.

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