I’m a Dancing Fool

July 1, 2009 | Comments

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In the theme of going out, drinking, and dancing… here’s some more pics. Last week I was ridiculous, I went out to clubs on Tue, Wed, Thur, partied on Fri, and went to Pride on Sat. Along with going to rehearsals and such. No rest for the wicked.

lemons2Sacramento doesn’t have a terrible club scene, you just have to go on the right nights. Like Old Ironside on Tuesday night for Lipstick, or Mix on Thursday for Bravado. Basically it’s hipster nights. So, that’s my jam. It does depend on the DJ, but more often then not its good. Who doesn’t like to get a PBR and dance like a fool for awhile?

These pictures are from Take Over Tokyo. It’s the resident hipster site in Sacramento, the place hipsters go to see pictures of themselves whilst they were out dancing. It’s rad though, and the pics are good. I’ll be at Mix on Thursday this week for Bravado. And now, I’m headed to the bay tonight for my brother and sister’s birthday tonight!

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*btw my Thriller Jacket is way better than Jamie Foxx’s from the BET awards.

**what is my hand doing in that second picture? I look like a raptor.

peace

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Pride

June 30, 2009 | Comments

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Gay Pride in San Francisco was fucking awesome!!! Terri, Ruth, and I left Sacramento around 7pm Saturday night drove to SF, and then we pretty much just pride3went to the pink party in the Castro. We met up with Johnny Farns, who came home with us. Streets were closed off and thousands of people crowded the Castro dancing.  there were great DJs, great lights, and the biggest disco ball I have ever seen! (it was seriously like bigger than my fucking car, and held up by a crane) Pretty rad. I saw so many people I know, and it was great to was great to see Tim Muldoon there.

The whole time we just walked through the crowd talking to people and dancing our faces off. Then around the time it was winding down and the streets were being pride2returned to normal, we still needed somewhere to dance and hang out. And then the best thing happened… We saw a huge crowd coming down the street, and we thought to ourselves “that’s where we need to be” so we met up with them. It was a MICHAEL JACKSON FLASH MOB DANCE PARTY. This guy had huge speakers on his bike and only played MJ, and there was a huge group of us around him just dancing. We took it to the streets and stopped traffic, we danced all the way from The Castro to Union Square. That was one of my favorite moments from life. It was such a great way to celebrate Michael Jackson. (although then we had to walk back the whole way we had just danced, back to the Castro and then further to find my car. ugh)

I should also mention that I have an awesome Michael Jackson Thriller Jacket. My friend Maggie gave it to me years ago, and this week I have been wearing it. So I of course wore it to pride, and everyone loved it. I had a lot of fun just with the attention from that. I saw a few other people dressed up as MJ, so I had to jump in the picture. And then a quick search on twitter for “Pride Michael Jackson” came up with this guy’s blog and this picture…

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Haha! I love that I was able to find this so easily. That’s why I love twitter.

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I had a lot of fun, what can I say?

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Johnny looks so badass. (I had straightened his hair)

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Devin Ritchie and Timmy Muldoon, back together.

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Devin Ritchie and the Disco Ball.

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The guy leading the dance party!

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Epic, in every sense of the word.

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The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence spreading their “joy”(spray painting Union Square)

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The Castro lookin all pretty.

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Me looking ridiculous. I don’t know why my friends let me take off my shirt. Probably because we were all feeling ridiculous and good. I kinda LOVE these pictures though. Much <3 to Terri Brindisi for being our photographer.

We got home about 6:30am. Wish I could have gone for the whole weekend.

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While Pride was amazingly fun, I got the feeling many people did not know why they were there, many people were there because it was a free huge party. What’s the point of Gay Pride? To celebrate being gay? To have a place to be proud of who you are? To further the progress being made to gain equal rights? It’s all those things. But what I saw was people drinking, dancing, and yes being proud of who they are. Except for visibility, nothing I saw was helping the gay rights movement. I don’t know what I was expecting, but now is not the time to be relaxed about the subject. I know that if the amount of people that were there worked together they could move mountains. I realize I did not make it to the parade and that is much more centralized around rights. But this should be the epicenter of the gay rights movement and it was the epicenter of the gay party. After Prop 8 we can not expect to be handed anything. As a state, as a country, and as a culture we have to continue to pursue equality. It’s Pride, not Mardi Gras. Or is it?

peace

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Enjoying My Summer

June 24, 2009 | Comments

caseydev1This picture pretty much sums it up.

I’m in two shows right now. Both of which I have not been very excited about, I try to stay positive, but this rehearsal process has not been fun for some reason. It has not been challenging me and I have not been learning much of anything right now.

In my off time I haven’t been doing too much, I decided not to take that statistics class real early in the morning, I would have just been kidding myself. I have just been hanging out with my friends and enjoying my summer. Drinking, going to the river, dancing, etc. I went to lipstick last night and drank and danced, good times. I have plans to go club 21 tonight, and I just made plans to go to Mix tomorrow. Life of excess much? If I made at least a little more money, I would be totally okay with it.

I need a wee bit more substance perhaps. And a wee bit less substances perhaps.

peace.

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Wine Pong

June 23, 2009 | Comments

pongI am someone who enjoys a good game of beer pong. I’m not great, but I do hold my own, and I play it fairly often actually.

But on my recent trip to LA and back when we ran out of beer, I was introduced to possibily my new favorite game. Wine pong. Just saying it makes me laugh, it something that shouldn’t be. Wine pong. It is quite possibilly the 2nd trashiest way to drink wine (box wine still holds the title).

It’s played exactly like beer pong, except you fill the cups with wine instead of beer. Simple. It gets you trashed, and I don’t know how I have not played before. I know this is the least classy thing I have ever blogged about, but please excuse this indiscretion and revel in the drunken fun. I fully support wine being consumed in sport. (but please only cheap wine, two buck chuck is great, or even …. Carlo Rossi. It pains me to say.)

**Playing this game and drinking Jameson excessively may lead to you singing “Maps” on Rockband and remembering nothing about the occurance.

peace

Second Saturday

June 20, 2009 | Comments

Second Saturday is one of the best things about Sacramento. Every second Saturday of the month all the art galleries open up for free with great art, they block off a few streets, there are musicians and music playing everywhere and generally everyone is hanging out in midtown. It’s a lot of fun and there are so many hipsters out. Oh, and you can get real inebriated, that’s really the icing on the cake.

I try to make it out there as much possible, and the summer ones are definitely always the best. Last month at Second Sat in June a bunch of us rode our bikes all around (which we had decked out with lights on the rims and glow sticks all over them, I wish I had pics… damn.) And everyone asked where they could get glow sticks too, so we had the idea to sell them the next time. So this time  Johnny, Ruth, her boyfriend Micheal, and I all rolled together got a some glow sticks and brought a stereo with us, and it was awesome!! We sold out and turned a good profit and we could have sold way more if we had them. I had such a good time bumping our music, dancing, making $ off glow sticks, being with awesome people, meeting new people and going from gallery to gallery looking at awesome art. It was great. Were going to do the same thing next time, except I have a show that night so I cant come until way late.  :-( boo. August though!

Here are a few of the artists I really liked.

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This guy is a poster artist, and I really like the style. He had alot of them under black light that were painted with day glo ink that were really awesome. Johnny even bought one.

He also informed us of the American Artifact Movie which which is basically a documentry on American poster art. And it is playing for one night only in Sacramento at the Crest on June 23rd.

There is a large show with many rock poster artists at Sec/Sat in August at Body Tribe.

metaltreeThis artist is out of Roseville and works with alot of welded metal, this piece is embellished with oil paints. AngelaRidgway.com I really love anything with mixed media. I didn’t get much of a chance to talk to her, pretty much just said hi. But nonetheless, I approve.

Okay, and this was real funny. We met this photographer Monica Lunardi who mostly does portraiture and weddings and stuff. We were looking at her stuff and she had pictures for the Freedom to Love project, which is really cool. And this is the best part… then Johnny and I saw this picture:

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And it is totally us! Latino guy with a fuzzy hat and an androgynous white guy with long brown hair. We were talking to the photographer and she took a picture of us that she just sent to me.

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Haha! I love it. Thank you to Monica for sending me the picture.

Had so much fun that night, then we all went to a bonfire on the river and had a dance party there too. All around great night.

**OH! and check out my new section up top entitled “top posts”, its kind of a “best of” designed for people who are new to the site. thanks everybody!

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