PLEASE GO AWAY. Puffy red eyes and runny noses are the worst. I hate you Spring and you too rain. >:(

I need these!

Earrings by Tarina Tarantino.
Ring by Melody Eshani.
Jacket by Mishka.
Sweater by Obey.

Blah I just found out the Christian Siriano for Payless shoes won’t have the chains and studs on them, they were for runway only. SO bummed. Not really sweating this collection anymore, I should’ve known! DAMN YOU PAYLESS!!! They are apparently still adding some detail on the final product shoes, I’ll keep you posted.

Yo, check out Yis’ website

He said I inspired him to make this lil Tetris monster, totes cute.

Last night we had a BBQ on the roof deck. It was a lot of fun and I got to hang out with people I haven’t seen in a while. The weather was perfect and the food was good. Every time we do something involving food at our apartment, there are always tons of leftovers. We grilled marinaded chicken, burgers, bananas, tofu, pork chops and seasoned chicken. This little kid in the next apartment kept staring at us and dancing in his window. Every dude that was over was wearing a trucker hat which was even weirder then when everyone wears flannels together. We had enough seating for everyone, we have entirely too many seats in our apartment.

Now that I have tons of storage, I need to clean my room but I’m busy for the rest of the week. I’m always fucking too busy. Geo told me to get out of the country for a little bit, I think that’s a good idea. I want to go back to London and visit Zach, go to Amsterdam and Paris and then Japan/Korea. I can go to at least two of those places this year.

Come May, I will have worked as a manager of this store for a whole year. I already told everyone I want to quit, they asked me to wait till they shut the South Philly store down. As long as it’s sometime in May, I can stick it out but not for too long.

This job makes me feel like I’m in a loveless marriage, I gave so much of myself and got little to nothing in return so I stopped trying, I don’t care about it anymore. I feel trapped and am desperately looking for a way out. I find myself getting drunk to relieve stress but it mostly results in violence. I really don’t want to be an angry person anymore, it took me so long just to get to this level and all that work is being destroyed by the stress caused by my job. No one in Philly has seen me get really angry and I don’t want anyone to ever see me that way ever again.

Also, I just realized I spent $1000 on Sunday. That is ridiculous. What recession???

Brendan from Valencia posted this:

Tonight at the Bamboozle Road Show I witnessed the worst case of police brutality I’ve ever seen. I’m not sure of the exact story of what happened, all I know is that I walked downstairs and was ready to leave the venue only to see Chris V being pushed back into the venue (from the alley) by 3 cops with billy clubs. They were screaming and pushing him to the ground, threw him down onto a glass bottle that he hit his head on, split it open. He was bleeding everywhere and they still continued to beat him with clubs. They would not stop, even when he was compliant. Everyone was screaming for them to stop, I just could not stop yelling, I was so angry. I wanted so bad to have us all go over and pull them off of him, but no one could or we’d be next. Finally they stopped and dragged him outside after a pint of blood left his head and was all over the stage of the TLA. After everything was calmed down a bit, I saw my good friend Ian Planet being shoved inside, slammed into a brick wall, his cell phone thrown across the room and his face shoved onto the concrete floor all because he wanted to go outside and finish his job. The same happened to T-Fair right out back as well. (read the full blog here)

In the explosive Absolutepunk thread about the incident, a member of Mercy Mercedes offers his perspective:

Our(mercymercedes) van was parked behind the tla in an alley in which we were informed to do. 3bike cops roll up and give us tickets for being parked there, the same place we were instructed to park. The only way out of the narrow alley was to back out our van and trailer. We were in the process of loading gear after the show when the cops come back a second time. I am in the driver seat backing up the rig just as the cops asked. Then I hear a loud popping noise. I ran over a water bottle in the street that I obviously didn’t know was there. The water splashed over the the bike cop. At the time I had to hold the laughter in because it was priceless. these cops just gave us like 4 unecessary tickets and were very rude at doing so. The cop then approaches my window with his soaked clear-leansed bike-cop oakleys in hand and says “do you know how to f*cking drive?” I replied yessir I’m doing exactly what u asked. He then turnes to the other officer and says “write him another ticket and impound their van and trailer.”

Word of this gets to Trevor aka T-fair, WTKs tour manager. Being the new “baby band” on this tour, T-fair has showed us the ropes and taught us a lot about how these bigger tours work. Already appreciative of him, he came to our aid to work things out with cops for us. He tried to work things out in a calmly manner, when the cops just start threatning him. Trevor calmly says “what are you gonna do I haven’t done anything.” And of coarce I saw the whole thing and never once did do anything threatning to the cops. They then throw him up against our van pretty hard. Then Chris V. WTKs merch guy walks out to see his friend and TM jacked up on our van for nothin. The cops start pushing every one to get back in the venue. And by pushing I mean really ruffing everyone. Chris V is a suuuuper nice dude just so u guys know that. By now everyone is screaming. The cops are cursing at all of us. One cop throws chris v in the venue and shuts the door. Then the doors opens back up. Still at this point and any point in the night no one has threatend a police officer. The officer that slammed the door on everyone runs in saying word for word, “come here you mother f*cker!!” He ran inside with metal baton in hand swinging. After this I heard more than I saw because of the situation. But my bandmates in mercy saw all of this and said that chris v never tried to fight the cop or resist arrest, but the cops repeatedly beat him with the metal rod.

http://www.buzznet.com/musicnews/bamboozle-roadshow-beatdown-j4026721/

Philadelphia cops are at it again. Does this sound familiar, does Pointless Fest ring a bell??

Asshole cops like the one picture above give all the other Philadelphia cops a bad name. I’ve dealt with plenty of cops while living in Philadelphia and ran into some cool cops. When I was living on 12th and Kater, we threw some insane parties and we only had one bad run-in with the police. Most of the time they just made everyone go home and said we could have a few people over later.

One time they arrested a friend of mine for drinking outside, slammed him against a car and broke his phone in half… completely unnecessary. They arrested his friend for standing up for him and asking why they were unnecessarily abusing him. AND they stole a box of our liquor and our tap

Can you believe only a few months ago, we were hanging out with the police on Broad Street and celebrating:

Lately, all I’ve been hearing are how cops are abusing their “power” and harassing people. What the fuck? Aren’t they supposed to serve and protect?? The only people they seem to be serving or protecting are each other. That video José posted is disgusting. What justice is being served here? You’d think cops would have more important things to do than beat on touring bands and power tripping up and down South Street.

This is the Philadelphia Police Department’s mission statement:

he mission of the Philadelphia Police Department is to fight crime and the fear of crime, including terrorism, by working with our partners to enforce the laws, apprehend offenders, prevent crime from occurring, and improve the quality of life for all Philadelphians.

Really? And who’s protecting us from the cops who are committing crimes against innocent citizens?? This bullshit needs to come to an end NOW. I wish I had filmed the asshole cop who was harassing me, I would’ve sent it out to every media outlet and made that cop’s life a living hell. This is what needs to happen to the cops in that video and every asshole cop out there. Circulate the video, don’t let them victimize more innocent people. Bad press will force something to be done and hopefully the IAB will clean house, here’s wishing…

I took these, best faces.

angry asian face?

favies.
So your names are Sally and Ali?
YEAAAAAAH SAPP, whatchu know about that?

Love these fucking kids. Apparently I looked really pissed that night so Paul, the manager of National Mechanics bought me a bunch of free drinks, holllllla. It took me 40 minutes to meet up with everyone ‘cos mad creeps were spittin’ weak game and wasting my time.

Today was exhausting. Woke up still drunk and held a meeting at the apartment. Ran to the bank, rented a Uhaul and ran errands all day. We didn’t get back till 930 and spent the rest of the night cleaning, putting away things and building things. We basically bought everything we needed in the apartment and it only took us 4 months to do it. We bought a grill, patio furniture, apartment things, shit I needed so I can finally start cleaning my room and everything we need for summer.

I’ve been breaking out in hives all week from work stress, need to quit asap. Cinco de shitshow in OC this weekend? I think so