Halloween (observed).

Can everyone just agree on a weekend day that we can all celebrate Halloween?  Like President's Day?  When Halloween is on a Wednesday there is stuff to do the Friday and Saturday before and by the time Wednesday rolls around, I'm thinking "What's the fucking point?"  And so I stay home by myself drinking beers and watching The Simpsons.  So, a normal Wendesday.  Beside all that we had a blast on the weekend.  Starting with a party bus and ending at a warehouse party.  Here's Halloween.

Party Bus Friday.  Alex's mom made this happen and brought a box of costumes for us too.  So good.

This is when the bus broke down on I-84.  Don't worry, they got it going again.

Cheyne needs to learn how to braid his hair.

We ended up in Zig Zag at some random bar and the locals didn't know what to make of our crew.

Then it was back to Portland.

Saturday night warehouse party.  Complete with mini ramp and Man Wolfs.

Ppssshh!

On the way north.

On a quick road trip to Vancouver we made a pit stop at the Bellevue skatepark and stacked some footage for the skatepark blog.  Thanks for letting us skate, Josh!

RHCP!

So way back when in September, my fine friend Andrew Bassett had a birthday celebration.  A surprise, Red Hot Chili Pepper themed celebration.  And if you know anything about Andrew and his band, The Mean Jeans, you know that there will be plenty of Jäger too.  And we closed the night out with karaoke, of course!

The spread for the birthday boy.

Anticipation.

Surprise!!!!

Sometimes you get 2 of the same shirt.

So you make one into a vest.

Unimpressed.

Probably a Live song.

These guys also just released their latest rock and roll video!

Prints for sale!

I have a run of 10 of each of these Gonz shots.  Buy 1 for $100 or both for $150!  This includes shipping.  Hit me up georgefgd@hotmail.com

Honda Accord.

I guess living in Vancouver, WA with your mom is good for new songs, huh Danny?

Toeside Terrors

Me, Brandon, and Ben getting down in this rap video about snowboards.

Semi-permanent vacation.

Time for an update.  Again, it's been a while.  Time for another disclaimer/rant.  In this rapidly evolving world of digital media, blogs seem to be falling by the wayside.  Especially when this blog is so focused on photos.  Instagram is pretty much a photo blog.  Except that a lot of people aren't that great at curating their posts.  Too much food.  Too many myspace-esque self portraits.  Too much overposting of the thing you are doing right this second.  In much the same way that I like film cameras, I've been considering starting to make a regularly released zine.  Like film, I feel like a zine would force me to slow down, curate my images, and put out something with a little quality and substance.  Sure, we all love cat photos on instagram (I think we all do, right?) but there is more to share than that.  A zine also feels like a good way to share all the film shots I take.  I need to give myself some projects anyway since I'm on this semi-permanent vacation from the work world.  This was all a long winded way of saying that I haven't been shooting as many digital photos and thus the lack of posts here.  At least I took a few shots and the few people that still look at this blog will be able to slack off for 5 minutes at work this week while lurking here.

Dan Deacon kicking it off at Total Fest in Missoula.

I can't remember this band's name, but they were fun to watch.

Guantanamo Baywatch kills it!

Tidal Horn.

Tidal Horn rocked so hard they melted their own faces.

Meanwhile back in Portland...

Praise Buzz.

Danny has been banned from Chopsticks due to some indiscretions.  So he snuck into the bar in costume so he could hang. 

And sing Taylor Swift.

Feeling it.

Skateboard riding with Craig Wheat.

Finally, Music Fest Northwest put together a lineup where there were multiple bands I wanted to see.  I don't mind going to one-off shows during MFNW, but scouring the schedule, planning out what to see, and then jamming to multiple venues by bicycle is a lot of fun.  Against Me and Hot Snakes back to back was a great way to kick it off.  The next night I had to support the Mean Jeans.

King Kahn killed it.

Melvins.

Black Mountain.