Kills tour & the Big 4

came home from Zombie/SLayer tour and had a little rest...
just a little.
then I flew out to join miss Jessica Rabbit on the Kills tour.
It was a mini-run, up and down the west coast.
...much like what Neil and AFP are about to do come Halloween time, check out their Kickstarter project HERE.

I didn't want to put all these photos up on the Neverwear blog, but i did want to put them up here.

The Kills turned out to be one of those magical little tours, where you find yourself haunted by the music.
here, see for yourself, this footage from the Bumbershoot show in Seattle:

(i was running a spotlight on this show, can now add "lighting girl" to my resume, haha)

we shared the bus with the band, and they couldn't have been more charming.

I saw Cyn in Seattle and Nancye & Nicola in Portland, so you know i was happy.

playing under the Space Needle, we shared a stage with the Butthole Surfers. (**i'll never forget my dearly departed Aunt Maggie telling me that BS had to be, bar none, the stupidest name for a band---)

We stayed at the Ace Hotel and my room theme was very fitting:

Nico and Junebug and their new puppy :

Crystal Ballroom in Portland:

Rabbit & i shared an office daily:

(Bunny broke a nail on a CD box...)

we had to make a time-out chair in one city, but i forget which one...

we went to Canada and I found this Ovechkin model:

Mark left me a chalk note in Vancouver, and apparently it is still up!

high roller on my hotel bed:

we played the Wiltern in LA:

and House of Blues in San Diego:

part of a poster in the dressing room hallway, Grover has always been my favorite:

we had a couple 2 pm load ins, which was stunning to me. I could really get used to that schedule...

The we drove straight from load out of last show in San Diego to LAX and I got three hours of sleep before getting on a plane to JFK to do the big metal show at Yankee Stadium:

I had never been to Yankee Stadium, they don't want anyone walking on the grounds:

so they put down metal plates, i guess it helps, but it would seem like it would smash the grass worse...?

loading in:

it was like a high-school reunion, i saw so many old buddies...
Adam in video village, i toured with him on Gaga, he gave Drew the worst nickname ever...ha! (don't ask)

three of my favorites, Tim, Warren and Sonny:

Fred!!!

Warren does his line check:

My office phone:

getting the VIP ticketing info ready ...

night time in the stadium:

there was a little golf cart incident, this was the side of our production trailer (no, i was Not driving):

found the Utz motherlode downstairs in the dressing room hallway:

went out with the crew after the show, the boys bought me a high-priced shot of MacAllan 25...

meanwhile i had a great video clip of Metallica doing "Enter Sandman" but some blip in the force is not allowing me to load it.
boooo...will work on it, because it really was amazing out under the full moon with the lasers and the pyro...
here's a still:

but can you see why it takes me FOREVER to do a post these days??!?

Street Art at MOCA 2011

this show is a maze of amazement....
from Mr. Cartoony's candy truck:

From MOCA:Art in the Streets

From MOCA:Art in the Streets

and his enchanting blue glitter-flake paint job:

From MOCA:Art in the Streets

to the Terry Richardson display of photos, complete with a listening bell to hear voice mail messages from his famous dad, Bob, to the looped Grandmaster Flash and his poet tribe, to the Shepard Fairey stencils..(oh Jonesy! oh Henry!):

From MOCA:Art in the Streets

From MOCA:Art in the Streets

Banksy in full glory w/a tribute to Rodney King (rep'd by a pinata):

From MOCA:Art in the Streets

Andre from Paris, who I have been spotting around the globe and is a personal favorite,
painted these into the show:

From MOCA:Art in the Streets

From MOCA:Art in the Streets

Keith Haring really had his finger on the pulse, I remember the first time, seeing his simple lines up in New York when I was a wee kitten.

From MOCA:Art in the Streets

The highway sign, all but obscured...complete with floating plastic bags...

From MOCA:Art in the Streets

so much of the tagging is territorial, a language of secrets, done on the run, messages that I may never understand, and don't need to. That this exhibit exists is enough. Not all of the graffiti art drew me in, but the hobo exhibit, some of the real roots of tagging was pure fascination. Train art as documented by Bill Daniel, the Bozo Texino stuff, man...that's some life.
The Dash SNow corner, I spent my time here...
& Fab 5 Freddy!

and Invader! very, very clever. I remember seeing these everywhere in NYC...

From MOCA:Art in the Streets

The Larry Clark was a bit low-impact, and I usually love his work. In fact, at first, i thought the Ed Templeton pieces were his...but no.

and this installation confused me, not sure why it was included, hopeful someone can school me on it:

From MOCA:Art in the Streets

There is so much more, but I gotta get some work done today, the boss comes next week, and i got boxes of fan mail to go through for him.
Show is up until August 8th, if you can take an afternoon, go down to the Geffen Contemporary @ MOCA,
have some sushi in Little Tokyo, and see some history.

Kitty going back out on the road...

one of my favorite-ever tours was Rob Zombie in 2006.
as the Who say: meet the new boss...same as the old boss.

I leave in late May for the Euro festival run with RZ, the multi-talented hyphenate.
writer slash director slash rock-star slash nice guy.

here are the 2011 dates up so far:

6.3. ROCK IM PARK GERMANY
6.4 ROCK AM RING GERMANY
6.6 TURBIENHALLE GERMANY
6.7 ASTRA BERLIN
6.10 SWEDEN ROCK FEST SOLVESBORG/SWEDEN
6.12 DOWNLOAD FEST DONINGTON PARK UK
6.14 GROSE FREHEIT HAMBURG/GERMANY
6.15 PARADISO AMSTERDAM/ NL
6.17 HELLFEST CLISSON FRANCE
6.18 SONISPHERE ATHENS/GREECE!
6.20 GASOMETER VIENNA AUSTRIA
6.21 ROCKHAL LUXEMBORG
6.23 AZKENA SPAIN
6.25 AUTODROMO ITALY (w/Maiden!)
6.26 GRASPOP METAL BELGIUM
6.28 OLYMPIA DUBLIN IRELAND
6/29 ULSTER HALL BELFAST UK
6/30 CORN EXCHANGE EDINBURGH UK
7/2 KALASATAMA HELSINKI FINLAND!!!

Neil says that he once went jet-skiing with Rob,
which conjures up some great mental images of
my two bosses...

this is a video from the 2006:

stay tuned for many photo updates--
cannot wait!

a benefit for our friend Wendy

Our dear friend Wendy Weihs was recently involved in an accident on the treacherous Los Angeles freeways--
& her medical bills are gruesome.





We are throwing a benefit for her this week. People have gathered together items and we have posted them over on Facebook...click HERE for a view.
Thanks to Connie F. who makes this comment:
"May I remind everyone (because I am an idiot and assume I can't be the only one) ~ you have to "like" this page before you can comment (thus, bid) on anything. Took me a few to figure that out. My apologies to those of you who knew this already!"

Connie, dear, you are no idiot, i didn't even realize that. Thanks for pointing it out!I will put a few of the items for sale below.

Neil has graciously signed a few items for the cause:




he signed some of the HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS AT PARTIES prints:


Nancye from Moxie Rx in Portland, Oregon has donated six dozen cookies to six different bidders--
i WILL be bidding on a dozen of these gems:




from the oh-so-talented Cyn Moore , a piece of original artwork.
Title: Boldness
Size: 8.5" X 6"
Mixed media encaustic on found bookcover ...
This is a better investment than Apple stock in the eighties...
bidding starts at $20


even Charm City Baltimore got involved, with this trio of signed books by John Waters from the fine people at Atomic Books:



go take a look! there are many various items up for sale: guitars & pedals, boots, shoes, figs, jewelry, even a beach cruiser bike up for auction. We will be taking bids on the Facebook page until Friday Feb 18th, and then having the silent auction at Cha Cha in Silverlake at 5:30 pm Friday night--if you are in LA area, come by and see us. But please...drive safely!
Cha Cha Lounge
2375 Glendale Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90039-3245
(323) 660-7595

and lastly, here is the paypal button to donate directly to Wen, even five dollars will be helpful.

here's Wendy in better times, without the broken-in-two-places wrist:




"If only people could know that a life of goodness, no matter how modest, will lead to an eternity of unparalleled bliss, they would ask themselves why they did not do more good while they were on Earth. One act of kindness in this world is repaid tenfold in the next..."

taken from The Laws of Eternity by Ryucho Okawa

in gratitude,