Summertime
I had a really fun weekend. It’s going to be a good summer. Thursday and Friday I went on a surf trip around lots of different San Diego and Orange County surf spots, which was a good relaxing adventure for my soul. I got back Friday night to prepare a DJ set for this party downtown at the Edison celebrating the release of these Mark Romanek directed Ford Flex commercials that I just did Santo Gold remixes for>> I went downtown to soundcheck @ 5pm and then went to my friend Wendy Yao’s rad taste store Ooga Booga (www.oogaboogastore.com) in Chinatown to hang with her and talk about artists she’s into, music, and whether it’s ok to hate on things just because everyone else is into them. She’s fucking awesome and I had fun talking to her. It turned out that our friend Brendan Fowler was having an art show and performance a few blocks away, so we walked over and hung with him for awhile which is always fun>> Brendan is the most positive person on the planet, and I heard him say something negative for the first time in my life… A momentous occasion. I don’t remember exactly what he said but it had something to do with fuck all the haters let them die.
The party downtown was rad>> All the homies were there. I played with the beautiful Raveonettes. Santo Gold was supposed to perform but couldn’t because she had laryngitis.
Sunday was super mellow>> I went to my brother’s house where he was having a birthday party for Max, the 9 year old boy who is starring in his upcoming movie “Where the Wild Things Are.” Lots of my family was there and there were tons of kids running around. At one point, we dipped into his little music room and recorded him playing this summertime guitar riff on his delay pedal>> This music sums up how I’ve been feeling the past 5 or 6 days.
