last night's activities

skated out to 25th and Shotty to stoop it with Brandon for a couple hours until we got busted by neighborhood beat cops for drinking outside (in SF? do we look like Nortenos?)...went upstairs and called Matthew who promptly came over to "stoop it" in Brandon's kitchen...had conversations with Brandon and Matthew about: The Wire, "the community," Fassbinder, BSG, Bill O'Reily, "television," hip hop, readings, formative years, girls, skating, neighborhoods, poetry, careers, crewing, drinking, masturbation, weed, the state of the Castle, burritos, the Cyclades, books, beatings, gangs, neighbors...i love my friends.

said goodbye to Brandon and Matthew

skated over to Amber at Church and Market to meet up with my brother and Steve H. for drinks. had drinks and stared at terrible silk-screen art on the walls...took off with James and Steve H. to a party/ night BBQ a couple blocks down on Duboce to meet up with Guile and his boyfriend. ate really tasty meat at the BBQ. Guile was drunk, Guile was drinking tequila, Guile kept introducing me to the same 3 or 4 girls saying "have you met John yet? he's a Capricorn...want some tequila?"...

and then

Emma and Amber rolled up in a cab to pick us up for disco dancing at Aunt Charlie's on Turk...Emma and i danced to disco as Steve H. got hit on by a big black man who was actually pretty obnoxious and maybe crazy or just on barbiturates...of course Steve H. let him buy him drinks.

when we were ready to go all five of us piled into a cab and headed to Rickshaw, but boo, they were closed...so onward to Elbo Room for drinks...walking to the bar we ran into Brett and Kelsey who decided to turn around and join the group...Brett and i talked about stuff, and it was good, i haven't seen Brett in what feels like a year...she's super one of the good ones, i didn't notice if she still has the rooster streak, did you James? anyway, we're going for coffee and bagels next week, we'll probably talk about bikini waxing and Alamo Square Park.

so yeah, after Elbo Room closed we all walked back to the Lower Haight...and it's beautiful because we all live there or abouts...spotted Azikiwee and Tory (visiting from Utah!) and Sharon Goldberg putting up the show at D-Structure...so we stopped in to say hello and give pounds and hugs...i love Zik, i love what Zik is doing with the store, Zik's a really good friend, i need to see more of him. so we said our goodbye's because we were drunk and it was like 3am and James was hungry...so James goes to Mythic for a slice while Steve H. and i totally bomb this SUV with "misting" tags...we decided to start a "misting" graffiti movement..."misting" is a word/movement we made up last night that means tagging on a fogged up car with your fingers...it's kind of awesome and totally cathartic and just a bit rebellious without damaging anything...i guess we could also start a "dusting" movement, like when you see "WASH ME!" dusted onto the back window of a truck...but i prefer misting, it's cleaner...anyway, so then we all walked home reciting Spice 1 lyrics ("kill a man down to the finish/ you blow his brains out/ Ja Mon!!!" "i shoot the spine off your motherfuckin' cow!!!" "i'm the 6'0 Chucky doll") and then i pee'd for an hour and then watched the Deadliest Catch finale and ate ice cream and by this time it's close to 4am so i closed my eyes.

right now i'm about to walk over to my brother's place for coffee and breakfast...i love that he moved into a new place just a couple blocks from me, i'm stoked.

today we'll run around the neighborhood...Kay is having a rooftop BBQ/party, then maybe Dolores, then maybe a party at Greg P.'s place, then D-Structure for Sharon's opening then probably bars or Jelly's or whatever...

happy 4th of July everybody, don't get your hand blown off!!!