DEATH BROS / BEST DUDES

the past few weeks have been pretty great, mainly because of the great people that i have been around. aside from seeing great friends in every city along the way, the best friendships to have on tour are with the bands. this tour has had no shortage of great dudes, between the rise and cbk camps, i've truely had a great group of people to spend the summer with. now the real bonus' are when friends from home get to join that group of touring family. the past few weeks have brought the CANCER BATS on the road with us. this has resulted in plenty of sick hangs and total ragers with the death bros. most notably, i've had plenty of time to hang out with my pal liam.

unfortunately i didn't get more shots of our rides and hang time, but having liam and the bats out on the road has been a blessing.

now, ventura marked a day where we not only got to play in a beautiful city, but attending the show was my sweet pal william evans. will is best known for his sweet-dudery, impeccable charm, intense knowledge of both russian and american literature, and his totally sweet moustache.


will and i road down to the beach, parked up on the pier and played scrabble. unfortunately i didn't get any shots of the game, but he beat me, despite my best efforts and 50 point bonus on "rewritter" for using all of my letters.



i popped will's fixed gear cherry, and made him look like a real bike punk, and hopefully converted his commuting ass for good!




after the ventura show, i opted to ride along with the comeback kids to hang out at the show in fresno, mosh, and avoid an extra day off in vegas. the show was friggin' so much fun, and i danced like i was 15 again. sick circle pit, brah. unfortunately i didn't really take any pics in fresno, but it was hot and shitty, and i slept in a van with 10 people, but it was totally fun!

in vegas the next day i decided to cut my own bangs with my beard trimmer.

probably a bad call, oh well!

the guess who suck, the jets were lousy anyway

catching up...

we had a day off last week between cincinnati and green bay, so we headed to chicago and spent the majority of the day in meetings at the victory office.




we spent 2 days in the greater minneapolis area, and had a day off parked right next to the mall of america. other highlights in MPLS included the vegan rustler (soy cheese, mock duck, pineapple, onion, banana peppers and bbq sauce) at pizza luce.




yesterday we arrived in winnipeg, and i started the day off meeting up with tracy from mixtape who took me to her friends salon to get a much needed haircut. (i think the moustache might go soon too)




i also spent the majority of the day with fat mat, got vegan chinese buffet at affinity (one of the 'pegs many similarities to the hammer) and bought the new fucked up 'year of the pig' 12" at a record store. also popped into a MEC to get a crank tool for when my black cranks arrive.

after the show we went to this local pub called shannon's, where this douchebag playing an acoustic guitar thought he was a stand up comedian. he never made it ten seconds into a song without stopping to say something dumb, and his songs were mostly about genitalia and sexually transmitted diseases.

fat mat and marisa.


the mixtape crew.


puc, goose and i.


in minneapolis we also did an in store, where i found all 4 boxset seasons of the OC for $20 each. the 35% disscount we were given got me these dvd's for like $13 each. since then i've spent most of my time in my bunk getting addicted to this show with party monkey. i think i watched something like 24 episodes in 3 days. party monkey thinks marissa has really cute teeth.