FINALLY! Pixels back in hand...

Again, another bout of writer's block. KInda sucks some days. More like, designer's block in fact. Again, been meaning to make some whole sale changes, and I will. But there's not reason for me to not post anything?!?! NO??

Anyhow.... you know how I love to do...



I need to get out to decompress and think a bit. Been a funny week. And what's best is that, although I'm sitting here @ my lap and posting right from it @ JFK, I'll be hella posting from my BarackBerry now. ;)

Anyhow, chat soon.

H!

Just Because I Really love uuuuuuuu.....

I'm back. Sadly, but I'm back.

But could I really complain?? Sun, sand and cervezas...

I forgot my camera in LA though. So I won't have pix for a few days. SUCKS! I had some great ones.



Real quick, although I had not plans to shop, I had to touch few stores.



Shouts to my man Meg@ for lacing me. Made my ceremonial and obligatory way down to MJ's and Paul Smith flag ships. Burton ALWAYS gets touched. Funny what banging luggage will do. Complete strangers hollering. ;) Thank you Burton.

Although I am glad to be back, I can only sit back and think about what whole week had been like. From the great weather, to all the bikes I saw rolling around, to the cats that I met and the soirées I attended. Again, shouts to Ty G and Kim for holding me down, I got you cats all day. Anytime. Shouts to Little T as well. ;)



Anyhow, more on the week when I get my pix... but in the meat time: my theme song pls. Beats, Beats, Beats....



Ok. I'm regrettably off to work. Sun is shining though... not all is bad.

H!

Californication

I always thought that David Duchovny was a good dude still. I was down with during X Files and sh*t, you know he's heavy in that showtime show of his...



Cali in my eyes is like a sort of Mini Mecca. I'm starting to qualify my trips to the Golden State as a quasi pseudo Hajj. So consider this my very own Holy Month (or days really... and by this heat? More like Daze!). Hza's Holidays HolyDays.

So why not come out here?? After confirming a few work deets, I jumped on expedia, plugged in my dates and here were my cost details on a return flight to LAX:



BAM. Are you f*cking kidding me?? No.

I then figured that I would need a rental seeing that LA is just inaccessible without one. So, looked for a rental as well, for 4 days:



Are you f*cking kidding me?? Are we getting that ripped off in Canada?? Getting it with no vaseline?? Seems so. Wow.

Anyhow, I came down to decompress and to surprise some long time friends with a visit to Floss Angeles....

HIZZYWOOD

That's what I'll call it.

Since I landed on a Sunday, you know I had to touch Do Over. Shouts to my mans Strong, Haycock and Aloe. This week they had Sake One repping SFO (sadly, I had no time to make it out there to pick up a lost keychain among other things... ), Almighty Rich Medina, FRA's DJ Mehdi and my mello my man Ty G of world famous HVW8.



Do Over was it's usual ebullient self. Good ppls and great music. Say wrd. Shouts to House Shoes (See you in a few weeks), and fer sure - SHOUTS TO P.U.D.G.E. (VJC). Meeting my man right there, was the highlight of my night. More on him hella soon. Say wrd.



My main man Aloe Blacc in the building.





You know I had to make a quick stop by HVW8 gallery and show love? Shouts to Max and my man Proh of Hawthorn Headhunter.



Shouts to my man Millie who's always blown away when I show up.



Is it me or does DJ Mehdi not look like Jonathan Ramos? Or is that the other way around?? LOL.



Big shouts to fellow Canuck Asya who was also floored when I just popped in! BESO!





But man.... can you really blame me for coming out?? Check out today's forecast:



On top of that, the view from my man's place Ty G. is just bananas...







Good Look Ty G and massive shouts to Green Spatula aka Kim. ;)

Just hope to come home with a tan... Aiiight. Enough. I have a beach to drive to. More to come...

Muy temprano!

H!

NY State Of Grind

That's it really. Some of you might be like...

Dude, where ya been??

Man, your man needed to simply decompress man. Sin duda.

Things have a touch uninspiring. On some real métro, boulot, dodo type thing. I was in this creative rut and I needed a change my surroundings. So I printed a long overdue boarding pass for JFK.

So off I was. Had not been out there in a min and as many of you might recall, I've be Californicating with every opportunity.

Man, NY is just so bananas. It makes me realize more and more why there are seemingly more tourist in NY than NY'ers: there's too much to see and, for someone's who's never been there - it's quite a site... and all of this had slipped my mind - really. ;)

I would have offered some reg updates this week, but in my proclivity to pack as puny personal wares as possible (I like to challenge myself err-time - all I needed was in a backpack for 4 days), I forgot my f*cking laptop charger. So, it was essentially useless. And, with these Robbers Wireless rates, I did't want to chance having some lengthy and data intensive updates from my non 3G iPhone. :(.

So what better way to chat about it via a photographic dissertation... ;)





Yes, you are seeing this correctly.



Post MLB All star artwork. Is nothing sacred?? ;)















Shouts to Miss Castro for hollering and inviting me to Capsule. What a f*cking nice venue. No joke. They had it in a synagogue.









I def did a ton of chilling and thinking... needed to relax and reflect a touch.



Def one of the highlights of the NY trip was finally running into the ever so polite, EU transplant and now US resident Mike Slott. Say wrd. I have run his name out here a few times already, so reg readers might recall. We got to kick it and chat. That was hella tight. Good look dude!

Another cat that I was pretty stoked on running into as well (and I do mean that when I say running into... ) was this cat: Daru Jones. Again, another producer who I have more recently chatted about as well. Essentially, I was just on my way back home @ night and ran into what looked like his twin... Then I took a few more steps only to decide then that I would wait to ask - since this would bother me all week had it been him and said nothing. I was either going to play myself or be like... WHOA. BAM. It was him. My man & I chatted for a min about some of his joints and we swapped contacts. Say wrd. It was a very good day.

And who might this be??



Another hint...



Ok. After chatting a ton, I finally got to run into the bday girl herself, Kissey Asplund. Again, a name that I have run thru The Newest Era™ a few times previously.





And again, being that it was her bday, she got busy on the mic @ Studio B in BKLYN.







Certainly, a big shout to my man OP! who held down a tight set. Ha... Kissey was right. ;) Good look. Lets get up when you get down here dude. Say wrd.

So.... as I sat there by the bar, this dude is like:

"Were you in MIA for WMC??

Hell yea dude. What's good? He then proceeds to introduce himself.

SIMBAD

WTF?? Pffffff....

So the French came ripping out. I was just chatting this dude's name last week. Missed him in Toronto as I was @ a bday party in Ajax. All love. That was so crazy.

All in all, that was a great night, with many more shouts to be handed... Like DJ Scribe . I've been on homeboy's mailing list for as long as I can recall. Wow.



I've said it in the past, and I'll say it again: Good ppl meet.



So glad I took that little bit of time off man. That trip put me back on my NY State Of Grind for real. There really are some great ppl around, and I got meet a gang on this one little stretch away from home. The music I heard this week was just blazing too... man. Love this sh*t.

Shouts to the whole gang: Dr Byrne, Slott, LRG crew in NY, Kissey, Fiona Bloom of Bloom Effect, Sribe, OP!, Daru, Waajeed (sorry I was soooo late), SIMBAD (that was wild), Night Nurse & Chandler (WTF??) - that was really rndm, Neil, AILEEN, Phillionaire (good seeing you dude - shout Brooke for me man), Adam @ Evisu (congrats) and my man ANT over @ New Era. I'm sure I forgot a few. Catch you on the rebound if I did. ;)





So now, time to engage the cluth and get this poppin.

Chat soon.

H!

Still Straight West....

Man.

I've some ppl txt me like... "dude, what's up this weekend??"

Well, how about this:



That's wassup. Sun, sol et encore plus de soleil!

Some record heat hit the Bay Area yesterday, Your man was like... whoa. But, still not dizzied enough to not take some shots. Like I mentioned, got my hands on a new SD750.

It's been fun, but the best has yet to reach... click away...













H o l l e r a t e .

H!