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Friday, Rodney Koeneke and Stas Feldman read poems and played accordion respectfully at BOTH BOTH. maybe i sound like a chump because it's my own reading series, but i think it went really well...i would book Rodney to read every month if i could...hands down my favorite reader on the circuit. Stas played accordion and sang some Leonard Cohen songs...people laughed and sang along...David Highsmith gave me an original The Grand Piano flier that he designed in the 70's. Rodney gave me a bottle of beautiful Hendrick's Gin...hosting a series has perks. everyone drank a lot of drinks and talked a lot of talk...i met Ronald Palmer for the first time, he's the beat...thanks to the BOTH BOTH regulars for making it to every one of these little things...you guys make me want to keep doing it...that's like Robin, Michael, Logan, Francois, Brandon, Sara, Alli, David, David, Carrie, Brent et al. ...i apologize to everyone for leaving early. it was rude, but my friend Tory, who i see maybe twice a year, was having his last night out in SF before returning to Salt Lake the next day...so, thanks Brandon and the rest of you beauts for shutting off the turntable and turning out the lights...

so me and Adaye (cutie on the left) bounced from my apartment to Edo for an opening. it was bad, per usual. don't know why their shows seem to consistently suck. well it's bad curating obvs. but seriously, they need to put something worth looking at on the walls...cause the San Gria only goes so far. walked Adaye to her bike, met up with the crew at Molotov's...cut to next day...

went to University Falls with my brother and Dempsey...supposed to leave at 7:30am but we were all still pretty drunk from the night before...on the road at 10am...hike the hike to the falls, about an hour deep into the woods outside of Coloma...meet up with a bunch of drunk college girls who are super flirty, and young, and fun...i asked one of them what year they were (meaning college) and she said "'06"...meaning the year she graduated high school...i almost shot river water out of my ears...made me laugh...these girls were aggressive. but they were cute so what are you going do?

got back from University Falls around 7pm smelling like horse manure. showered and text chatted with Wendy
for a bit (Wendy and i used to be tight, we cool like that). she said "merk/ meow/ mucho" i said "watkins/ waterfalls/ whoa"...i like Wendy. she was almost in the Olympics. she plays tennis a lot and has an awesome face and eats lots of take out Chinese, she also wears awesome clothes and her apartment is round, as in circular, she lives in one of those "big dicks in the sky" off of Geary, you know, those really weird LA looking white round apartment building (i have a photo lying around somewhere taken from her balcony). i haven't seen Wendy for a minute, but i missed her. i used to hang out with Wendy last summer. we danced a lot and laughed a lot and sent each other drunk photo texts a lot. we will drink drinks this week. preferably not at her work, Mas Sake. Mas Sake is full of sushi and fly girls but also rowdy Marina bros. i will propose someplace else.

and then i drank beers with Jon watching Lock Up on MSNBC...Jon and i both agree that we would probably commit suicide if we ever wound up in prison....and then a program about Hillbillies on The History Channel. did you know that the term "redneck" comes from Union seeking miners in West Virginia at the turn of the century who sported red bandannas as a sign of protest solidarity. it made me sad that this really noble thing, being a "redneck" (and it was/is noble to them) has been perverted to mean ignorant, racist, hillbilly...i had no idea that "redneck" had it's roots in union organizing..."rednecks" were labor movement heroes...contrary to what me and Jon both thought, "redneck" has nothing to do with "working out in the sun"...

and then i went out to The Knockout to meet up with Adaye for an old school Ska night, dancing ensued...bed time.

today i walked around my neighborhood a bit, ate lunch, watched an episode of The Shield and then headed over to D-Structure to play an afternoon set. I don't know, i might be playing the next D-Structure opening...so if i am i'll post the flier and you should come out and drink free drinks and look at art and see me rock some whatever...

heading back to D-Struc in a sec for the Beck listening party...not sure what's it's all about but i know they will be playing the new Beck album and giving away a bunch of shit, including drinks. UPDATE! just got back from the Beck listening party, i was pretty much the only one there so the label reps took lots of photos of me holding the new Beck CD, holding Beck posters, looking pensive with Beck memorabilia in the backdrop...i am the new face of Beck fandom, that's word! i guess...

Monday will be hard but Tuesday will be easier because Steve O. is playing a set at The Knockout after we all watch The All-Star Game in the Mission.

you might have noticed that i post a lot more pictures of girlfriends than dudefriends...i'm hetero and single, sue me...

let's do stuff this week okay?

University Falls photos to come...Bill Luoma commented on that corny no shirt self portrait. it's all so oblique.

...currently listening to Daedelus Love To Make Music To...(he's playing Elbo Room in August, i'm fucking there for sure)

xoxo-Johnny