Party

Image by deisenstark via Flickr

I never was a big Minutemen fan although I saw them in the mid-70's in a little bar in Missouri. And yet I kept hearing what a great guy Mike Watt was and so when my friend Kio Griffith invited me down to Long Beach to Mike's birthday bash in Long Beach, I went. I got to say I've never hung out with such a group of nice people in a bar. Everybody was really cool without being overly hip and Mike himself seemed liked a super nice guy.
Pictures here on flickr.


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rent the movie

I just sat through an iTunes "rented" movie version of Rent. Having lived through the time and the place that Larson wrote about I pretty much boycotted seeing the play. However, when I bought my first used Ipod off of Ebay the previous owner generously left a number of pop songs included a dozen from Rent. I liked the songs, I thought they captured the time pretty well.
However, the film is pretty much my worse fears. Really, the only thing that was wrong was the... film. It should have been shot in 16mm and used real squats... not those fake open spaces. The beauty of NYC comes in spurts and in unexpected places and times. I would have loved to have seen it directed by Kyle Kibbe and shot by Maryse Alberti.