» Haight and LA Love
So the lowdown on San Francisco is going to be short and slightly bitter. Short not just as a courtesy to those who read that long tirade earlier but also because in many ways its sometimes best to learn when to shut up. The production was at most a mid range effort, individually the pieces were good, Gary in particular had a burner, Odisie went a bit Teen Wolf, for those that remember the blessings TW dropped at Tarner a few years back, and Rench pulled a killer colour scheme and a sweet piece. But expectations are high, individually and as a crew, plus trying to drop the first burner of a trip can often backfire. Its like whenever you cook pancakes at home and no matter how good you mix it, or how hot the pan, the first pancake out always looks a bit odd. Last year the SouthGate LA wall was not something to stop the presses for and still the LA Takedown wall came flying out the gates just after. Plus I can type this with the knowledge that within a day of being in LA the crew have all dropped burners, the kind that suck the light out the sky around them, and cause rubbernecking even from 60’s acid heads, so its all firing again now, and the pics will follow. We are back in LA, it feels like home, the whip is brimming with hundreds of tins of paint and its 60˙ and sunny.
list of things learnt, heard or seen in San Francisco.
1. Spotted by Gary in McDonalds Haight Ashbury a man who had ‘quite literally mate’ shit his trousers off, on a diahorrea induced dash to the cubicle.
2. Aroe managed to eat in a place ‘so dirty even the cockroaches were scared’ (my choice) that served Brain Masala, but agreed the curry tasted good. Ghetto eating.
3. Its all about Hyphy.
4. And Uncle Murda.
5. If you have a 7 hr tattoo one day, theres gonna be blood on the sheets the next.
6. You can justify any food you like in America in the morning as long as you preface it with the word breakfast, so we have Breakfast steak, or in Alerts eyes Breakfast Chilli Dog and Coke.
7. I saw a man who had shit his own leg off.
8. All writers suffer from Nike addiction.
9. City officials are happy for sanitation workers to buff tags with flouro pink paint.
10. The national dish of California is brown slop, normally wrapped in foil and tastes great with lots of hot sauce. It comes in Chicken or Beef flavour.
11. The Tenderloin is mostly populated by zombies or people who will soon be dead. Mostly.
12. It is one of the defined laws of physics that “No matter how many times you pace out and divide a wall into sections, Odisies piece will always grow bigger than the space available.”
13. Its mandatory to shout and swear on street corners in SF.
14. Gary uses “Piece in a Can”® for everything he paints.
15. It rains a lot in San Francisco.
16. If you spend $20 on breakfast but have to walk past a mental homeless man masturbating in the street and two crackheads kicking and punching a fellow crackfiend up against a wall , then you get a little bit of heartburn after eating, but don’t worry a mint will normally shift it.
17. You cant keep seven people happy in one small city.
18. Hanging on the outside of cable cars after a few beers and pretending to skate with your free leg is to be recommended to everyone.
19. You cant fit seven men in a Durango without sacrifices being mad to gods of sanity and flatulence.
20. The Golden Gate Bridge can cause projectile vomiting.
21. “get in the car we’re leaving”
