LA LA BIG CITY of……..

So we got to LA super late and crashed for the night at friends cribs…

In the morning, we hit the block hard with merch again and tried to come up a little bit so we could cop some new shit from all the boutiques in LA…

We stopped at ALIFE, Supreme, Adidas, Amoeba Music, Turn Table Lab, Flight Club, Undefeated, and a few more and dropped off some cds….

After we ate a bit we headed to Lincoln Heights for our show at the AIRLINER.
Along with Suzie Analog and Letron (two of the dopest electro/hip hop/club chicks in the game!)

Ladies!!



Suzie Analog!!!!!


Letron!!




We set the party off up stairs with Mic Skills and then went straight into our set. Killed it once again….cats were digging the music, and we sold a few more joints…..

The World Famous Doorstep


Mic Skills


Vertual Vertigo.....Literally



Highlights: I almost knocked out this mutha fucker in the club….If you couldn’t tell, by now I am absolutely sick of dudes on drugs asking for drugs and or trying to sell drugs to me……ok a lil weed I’m not gonna trip, but this dude came up to me, on some…..yo yo yo….you know the haps on the woop ti woop…..? I looked at him like one, speak fucking English and two, if you ask me for drugs I’ma knock you out….he got the message just from the look I gave him……By the way…..this happened to us atleast 6 more times in LA……

Another dude came up to me in on the back patio while I was smoking outta no where and started flexing on me like, “YO! I’ma gangsta with a line up son!” as he pointed to his hair cut….which by the way was bald…..I was like “yeah yo….you got it homie! Hardcore.” He just kept going on with the same shit…”I’m a mean mutha fucka yo…you see my line up?” don’t know what else to say???

The airliner was cool and the cats who worked there seemed straight, but some of the cats who came to the show needed a straight knock out punch! There was also a bunch of kids in the spot…I have no idea how they got in but they looked like they were 16 or 17..I had to do a double take when I walked past them….like “how the fuck???? Nevermind…” and kept it moving! I remember sneaking into hip hop shows when I was there age. The thought made me smile for a few!!!

Another thing I realized about LA is that THEY DO HAVE a FOOD specific for the city….the whole time on the way down I was thinking like…”where do I really want to eat in LA???” I could only think of cheeseburgers…. I was puzzled for a bit, like “what is LA’s specialty with food?” Then it dawned on me after drving around for the day….Fucking Cheeseburgers! I mean like Chicago has pizza and hotdogs, montreal has poutine, New York has its own shit, even the north west is fish and Pho…..but yeah LA has cheeseburgers!
So I ate a shit tin of cheeseburgers out here! I must say that In and Out is highly over rated compared to the rest of the chains out here!
Fatburger is the shit! We went to some late night hippie spot too that Had them on smash in Hollywood! Needless to say im all cheeseburgered out!!!

The Legendary In & Out Burger Good But Over Rated!!!!


Vortex @ Turntable Lab



More on LA…..

The next day I was determined to meet the music director from HBO’s Entourage and give him some CD’s…. I found out that the cast crew and entire staff for the show was actually fiming in West Belaire up on the hills…. I set out to make sure I met him and looked him in the eye with my music…..The studio that they were filming at was the sony studios and it was heavily guarded and locked down…I tried calling the music director and setting up an meeting and going about it through the right channels, but it was no use….then I said fuck it…I’m only in LA for a few days I gotta try harder then that! I parked outside the studio gates and started thinking of a plan…..as I was reaching in the back of the van for CD’s I noticed a big crowd of dudes dressed in street clothes heading for the gate. I double steeped over to the crowd and walked beside one of them and asked for a light for my ciggerette. We all walked right through the gate with no problems at all….I have NO Idea who the fuck these dudes were bit they didn’t harassed at the gate at all…..STOKED!! big ups doods!!! Anyways once I was on the other side of the gate I broke off from the dudes and started looking around…..I headed straight for a bunch of trailers parked on the back of the studio lot…..As I was looking for the director, I bumped into Arian Grenier (I forget how to spell his name…sorry….but he plays “vince” on entourage!) I was gassed, I gave him dap and told him how much I like the show etc etc….he was actually really fucking cool and he pointed me to the music director….who he said was NEVER on the set, and I got LUCKY as hell!!!! STOKED again, I gave him a cd and moved to the dude! I only had a quick second with him, but he seemed really pleased and open….I loaded him up with material, and left the set…..I snooped around a bit at the studios and just tried to see if anyone else was around worth talking to or meeting….everyone looked crazy busy and the security gaurds started talking on their walkie talkies when they seen me looking a bit too stoked….I bee lined for the parking lot and dipped…

I raced back down the hills feeling like a fucking genius!!! Then I met up with the fellas changed gear and headed for our show in Santa Monica.

TOP 5 in LA.

1. Toyota Prius ( fucking almost every other car in LA is a fucking Toyota Prius….seriously its insane!)
2. Secret sneaker spots……shhhhhh cant tell which ones! Lol
3. Mary at Adidas
4. meeting VINCE from entourage
5. Fat buger with Fat fries….um um yeah!



SANTA MONICA….RIT NEAR THE BEEECH BOYEEEEEE!

So santa monica is soooo much different than Hollywood or LA. Its clean as hell nice as hell and the beaches are beautiful!

We got there around dinner time and loaded in…..Again another story of another fucking asshole!

Soooooo as we are loading in the van was parked in the alley with the four ways on….not blocking anyone, and it had enough room for people to go around easily….But….as we were coming out of the venue not 2 mins later, some muther fucker was getting out of my car!!! At the same time he got out another lady was passing us up and he slamed my car door into her car as she past…..

I fucking lost it! WHO does that???? I went crazy on dude and threatened his car behind us…..i was just about to fucking kick him in his face when I looked behind me and saw that the venue owner was looking right at me out the window……I had to calm myself down a reduce the ass beating to an ass chewing I cussed dude out and was kinda hoping he would hit me first so I could fucking destroy him….but he just stared at me with the dumbest fucking look on his face…..fucking moron….
The lady whose car got hit was ready to back me up and throw down too!! It was a great start to a fucked up evening! Luckily there was no damage to the either of our cars…… I told him to fuck off suck a dick etc etc until he realized he was dumb and left.

After that we went into the venue and saw that the YARD (the place that booked us) was a small pub with no stage and very minimal sound equipment….what the fuck? I thought to myself!

Apparently in Santa Monica, there is a pub crawl crew from Austrialia that ends up at the yard at about 9pm every wed night. So our job was to keep the pub crawl peoples from leaving the yard until the bar was tapped out…..cool right….nah….dude had us hooked up on some home stereo shit that sounded like dookie!

We gave it a try and got the crowd involved for a min, but the beats were just dead….i coulnd’t hear shit….. so the night turned into DJ skills aka the cat in the hat ray ray, holding it down on the ones and twos……I was pist embarrassed and at a loss for words….at that point I made sure the bar tab was huge and that everyone that came to see us from LA got a free drink! Then I arm wrestled the owner for our doh and we split!

We got paid nicely so it saved the night but I was still upset for the cats who came to see us and have yet to get the full vert show blasted at them!!! Argh!!!!

Anyways. So a bit drunk and with good company we left to explore santa monica.

After a few stops and drinks we called it a night!

Or did we…..? Mic Skills has a funny story to tell you about the spot….but I’ll let him tell it! hit em up!!!

Vortex & Skills working hard on the internet!


Ezekiel & Johnny Mac hard at play!!


Top 5 in Santa Monica

1. Johnny Mac’s sucker punch blunt!
2. Walk on the beach
3. Blueberry white chocolate chip cookies
4. The guy with the shades talking about quick sand
5. Mic Skills Dj set


I’m leaving!!!!!

Nice place to visit, but time to go….we stopped at the adidas store again and said peace, had a bunch of coffee met up with the crew, recalculated and dipped!

We on route to New Mexico tonight!

THE FUCKING TWILIGHT ZONE...........

So a few months back when I was planning the tour some random dude hit us up from Albuquerque New Mexico and begged us to come play in his city...I was working on bookings for the west coast at the time and was planning the route for the way home....One quick glance at the map and I realized how dope it would be to take him up on his request and try and make New Mexico happen for the tour....

The guy....(Mario) actually turned out to be really fucking helpful and forwarded our press kit to a bunch of venues....Burt's Tiki Lounge was down and they hit us back pretty quick....

so long story short we started building and planning our stop in New Mexico....

coming into the town was a nice, cold drive through the desert, where we got pulled over, (we got a warning), and made it into town around 4 or so....

we meet up with Mario at the restaurant that he worked at and he hooked us up with maaaaad food!! (good looks Mario)

after that we met up with the promoter and emcee of a crew called zoology....dude named flux.....

we headed to the venue and set up.....

We had been hearing about the hip hop scene in New Mexico for awhile and we were stoked that we could see it for ourselves....

after about 1130 the venue was PACKED tight! I'm guessing about 200 people at one point...

the local crews got down and did there thing and then MIC SKILLS FUCKING MURDERED the packed crowd.......

then..............

an evil twist to the evening occurred.


During Mic's set vortex and him were doing their colabo track "Kill this hype" when a dood came up and gave mic and Vortex a drink..... coincidentally it was right after Mic said "Single ladies.....report to the dance to the dance floor....." ladies flooded the stage....doods were salty....

so the drinks were spiked with something awful that fucked Vortex's stomach all up....we didn't find out til later....
cat was ill...throwing up all night....

we got to do our set after Mic, but by the time we got on the crowd was a drunken mess.....girls were falling on the floor dudes were upset with themselves...etc etc....

one thing that stands out to me is this one girl in the front row, who was completely frontin on our set.....She def ruined the eve and my opinion of the Spot.....Another girl, after the show, was bent over, and her ENTIRE, fat ass was hangin out her jeans.....

I had already called out the bougie bitches on stage....cuz there were quite a few....so i continued to let them know how i felt...... so When i seen her ass hangin out I yelled "anyone want a peanut butter sandwich????" I was a bit tipsy myself...but hey I call em like I see em....

she was pist....I was trying to be quick and get a picture for yall so you could witness the madness, but she stood up and turned around to quick....

oblivious to what was going on...she looked at me and said..." I hate chicago....fuck Texas.....you guys suck...." I started laughing and told her her ass was fucking nasty and continued yelling at her til she walked out the door....

if you couldn't tell....I was really disappointed in the people of New Mexico.....all the "homies" who opened up for us...disappeared before our sets....and even the promoter was acting suspect at the show.....

but hey...you cant win em all right????

let me tell you some more fucked up things I saw in AL BER KIRK EE

(no offense to the real people we met there....and there was alot of you that were REALLY FUCKING cool!!!)

One dood wanted to exchange the record he bought from us....about 10 times....what merch table you know does exchanges and refunds???? he couldn't make up his mind and was fucking with vortex HARD!!! dumb ass

The fucking whataburger ran out of taquitos.....Mic skills said to the dood in the window..."How the fuck do you run out of tortillas in New Mexico???" I was dying! then the dood at the whataburger tried to give us all types of stuff... except our order...
for example...he handed me my coke in a coffee cup....and then gave us a straw that looked like he freakin chewed on it....
the dood was slow....

earlier that day i learned that New Mexico's education system is the 3rd lowest in the states.....
explains alot.....

so anyways....it was alot of firsts for us in New Mexico...and I cant say that the experience was all bad....we got paid really nicely for the show and we sold a lot of merch......MIc Skills set was OFF THE CHAIN.....and the people around town were generally cool.....but maaaaaan am I glad to be outta that place!!

The promoter for the Denver show got his ass kicked and is in the hospital so we are Oklahoma City now on our way to Macomb for the last little stretch of the tour...I heard that there's CRAZY snow in the chi and that its cold as fuck!!!! even so I miss home....and at this point I'm ready to get there!!!!!

MACOMB IL on MONDAY AT THE DAY OLD BASEMENT!!!! I'm stoked for that one and REALLY excited for the GO GO TOWN show in the chi!!!!

TOP 5 in NEW MEXICO

1. MARIO for all the support love, hookin it up and FREE FOOD!!!!
2. RED NECK FANS (doods with fishing hooks in there hats bought a bunch of cds!!!)
3. PEANUT BUTTER SANDWICH
4. 3 am whataburger dumbin
5. Cats at Auto zone for all the help fixing up the pod

Sorry to keep you waiting……

Mic Skills busy at Work



So if you have been tuned in and wondering what we have been doing in the last few days, I’m sorry that we haven’t gotten up on here daily…..We have been constantly moving and sandwiched in the van for the last few days so its been hard to catch up on everything!
As we are driving from SF to LA I managed to break out my labtop and write a little bit for the blog!

Here’s what you’ve missed……..


Friday tacoma WA hells kitchen…

So after the episodes and exploration of north west Canada, we slowly worked our way back to the states into Washington and down to Tacoma.

Tacoma is a small military town just south of seattle that is just as seedy as any other town located around a big base.

Before our show we checked out a few of my favorite spots in the city, I used to live in Tacoma a few years ago when I was stationed in the Army, so in a way it was like going home.

We stopped at the local goodwill…nothing noteworthy…..checked out a few smaller stores downtown and then went to LEGENDS barber shop on the east side! I must say it feels good to get outta the chair with a smile on your face and happy with the company and cut that you get….Especially outta town…. The last time I fucked with a barber outta town I got my head cut up, instead of my hair! Anyways..Legends…good people, dope cuts….nuff said!

















After getting fresh over there we headed down to my Absolute FAVORITE VENUE in the tac called “The Swiss”. Althought the swiss isn’t really a scene based spot, it became my favorite a few years back when they invited me to play! So I had to stop in and say whats up to the staff and homies that work there! And also grab some dates up for 09’
(ahem….april 9th at the swiss….party people)


we had a few beers and jetted to the venue!

We played a show at a Venue called “Hells Kitchen” with a bunch of local artists and emcees. The show was cool and the staff that worked there was extra nice as usual!

Shouts out to ILLIZM….nice seeing you again famo!!! WORD!


Gran Rapids, Vertual Vertigo & Mic Skills



I’ve played at hells kitchen before and I’ve had some good times in Tacoma, but it was a first for Mic Skills and Vortex to get down there….the sound in the kicthen is always on point and there was a really nice sized crowd there….kind of a mix of cats but generally cool peeps…

The Crowd





Nothing really spectactular, happened in tacoma, and after the show we headed straight for Cali. We drove about half way that night and ended up crashing down in Eugene OR.

Top 5 in Tacoma:

1. LEGENDS barber shop!
2. Bob and Monkey at the Swiss
3. Mike (sound man at Hells Kitchen)
4. Tacoma Mediums (fat girls working at fast food spots who fuck up your orders….good for a laugh.)
5. seeing old friends

NEVADA CITEEEEEEEEAH! Jan 3

So we woke up in a motel 6…..which by the way has been an unofficial sponsor of the FUM BUCK TOUR….I think we are up to 3 or 4 motel 6 stops now….but you can beat 29.95 a night for two beds that you can push together to make a big ass jump jump! No homo……

Vortex gets his power from..........Pimp Juice!!!!!



Anyways…..we left around noon and headed for the next venue in Nevada City CA, a small artsy town outside Sacramento….about 45 mins east….in BUFU for real!
We got there around 10 or so and met up with our peoples from the sac that were in the house…Max Bundles, the realist crew, and few others….we set up shop and almost immediately started pumpin off the merch! Cats were hella cool out there and the show started promptly after our arrival.

Task1 and his Chewbacca Backpack







As the night progressed we started to meet more and more interesting characters at the party….One dude came dressed like a half pimp half chicken….no bullshit dude had the fur mixed with feathers…..and was serious with it! He was randomly jumping on and off the stage during the performances and we had to call it quits when dude knocked the speakers over….boo……






Another dude, who seemed to be really cool at first, came up and offered to by ALL the cd’s off the merch table at once. Stoked and impressed, I offered him a really good deal for all (12) of the cd’s available….he agreed to the price and left for a few mins. When he returned I guess he decided that he didn’t like the price and then threw a beer bottle at the table…..real weird….needless to say it was a wild night and a few people needed to be escorted out the spot!

I think we honestly had one of our best nights there…the spot we played at was called “Dos Banditos” and it was an old house style building, over looking a nice sized stream in the back with 3 or 4 different balconys that you could chill on, great food and excellent service…..If your in the area, def put Dos Banditos and Nevada City on the map…..







So after quite a few beers and plenty of stage killing, we broke out and crashed at a friends house a few miles away. Great times!

Top 5 in Nevada City:

1. Chips and Salsa
2. The fans who copped multiple CD’s
3. women…shorty in the white hoodie…whoever you are wherever you are…skills later told me her name was mary jane…shout out!
4. Taz ones Chewbacca back pack
5. Nicole from One Nation Army’s beat box and vocals

Sacramento Ca. jan 4th

We woke up mad early handled some last minute biz at the banditos spot and headed into the Sac.

It was a Sunday so we took it easy at a homies house, did some laundry and kicked it.

Sooooooo, kinda late towards the day we learned that the show at the VIP lounge had been cancelled, so eager for a show we hit an open mic session at “the java café” out in the burbs of sac.

A few of the same acts we saw in Nevada were getting down and cats were pretty open at the café…..I was actually impressed that there was a decent sized crowd there on a Sunday eve at a coffee shop…..

We did a small set visited with a few peeps we aint seen in a minute….shouts to dj nocturnal, max bundles and p chill…….and then dipped to a friends house for a few beers and laughs….

(THE NIGHT TOOK A VERY INTERESTING TURN AFTER THAT….BUT YOU GOTTA HIT ME UP PERSONALLY FOR MORE ON THAT!!!! Hahahaha)

Top 5 in Sacramento:

1. doing laundry
2. Jay’s dog humpin people
3. beer pong at the after hours mansion
4. late nite chicken strips
5. Carls Jr. burgers



S.F. Monday jan 5th


We left Sacramento around noon on Monday and drove straight to the bay to get up with all our peoples out there. We got in around 4 and met up with Buddy Leroy and nit the block with some merch and open minds….

Vortex lived in SF for awhile and had been all over the city before, as for me and skills we had never really seen SF. I stopped there quick one time a few years ago, but never hit the streets at all…

Anyways we walked straight to Haight St. and visited a bunch of boutiques and record stores. We found some of the sickest spots in the city very easily and dropped off a bunch of shit!
I had heard a lot about the people in SF and I had always assumed that cats were kinda snobby out there, but I was completely misled….All the people in SF that I came across were some of the most friendly and helpful cats on the west coast….

Heres a list of some of the MUST SEE AND VISIT STORES ON Haight.

TRU - sneaker boutique and womens/mens apparel, (Jern Eye was mad cool!)





RVCA Clothing apparel Store(Matt who works there is cool as fuck!)



Us in the window acting silly!


Kid robot
Amoeba Music….props for all the love and copping our shit…(for those who don’t know, amoeba is a famous cali record store that has absolutely EVERYTHING in stock!
FTC skate shop…new colab with Adidas is hitting!!!









215:The Freshest Kidz X Vertual Vertigo Colabo


As I was saying people were mad friendly….there was a dude who came up to us with no introduction and or reason, and just dapped us up and offered us beats…..dont know if dudes beats are any good…but I thought that was oddly nice.

A few other homeless people made the hilly walk amuzing….one old man was pushing a wheel chair down the hill mumbling to himself “Don’t worry Grandma…I’ll take you home now.” Only the wheel chair was empty except for a lonely 49ers starter jacket that sat in the chair…. Another women was screaming at the wall by the car when we arrived.
I went over to ask her what was on her mind and she broke down crying that she lost twenty bucks, and then told me that it was for “her shit”….meaning drugs….wow!

If its one thing that I have learned about the west coast its that the drug game is HEAVY and that the government is not trying to hard to hide it…..good on one hand in that theres no faulse advertising and decepetion about where you are, abd bad on the other for the obvious reasons that it is easily and readily available….

Coinsidentaly, on the way to the west coast, somewhere around Idaho, I was listening to some speeches from Dick Gregory and one stuck out in my mind, the entire time I was in the west coast….

If ya’ll aint up on Dick Gregory check his Stuff out….you might have to dig for audio stuff but theres mad literature out there!

Anyways…..the speech that I’m referring too, is one about drugs in the city…He said….”suppose this was my first time in New York City, how many people would believe that within 15 minutes of my first visit I could score some heroine?” the whole crowd believes. He then says,” ok and how many people would believe that within 30 mins that same dope would be traveling through my viens and I would be getting high?”
The whole crowd agrees, “OK so how many of you have the courage to belive that the police in the same city, who were born and raised here, cant find these same drugs and dealers?”

I don’t think I could ever accurately articulate the truth the way Dick Gregory did on that CD, but the lecture has been in my mind through out the whole west coast! Thought Id share it………..

So after the shops……….
we skated up to B’s BBQ a few blocks up from Haight……I swear all the dudes in the spot were stoned out there damn minds…..although the food was good, the cats working there were a bit strange….There was this big dude in the back cutting up the meat with a cleaver who was straight ice grilling us as he chopped…..a tad scary to be honest….then the old man who took our order came out and sat down with us as we ate….It felt simalr to the service in an old fashion BBQ jump off in TX, but still not being in TX and having these dudes extra egar to mean mug, then switch to being EXTRA friendly was ill.


GREAT FOOD THOUGH!

Full stomachs a few gifts for friends and about 20 cds sold we hoped back in the van, said peace and headed for LA.

Top 5 in SF

1. Crack heads screaming at themselves as soon as we got out the car.
2. mad roof top burners and a thriving graf scene.
3. Amoeba music
4. Nice walk and excersise through the hills
5. Haight st. shops

GRIMEY GRIME GRIME....VAN CITY THOUGHTS

Ok so Mic has been holding down the blog for the last few dates and shows....but after the craziness that took place last night I had to get back on here and drop a lil something!

Whew So much to talk about!!!!!!




Lets start with Vancouver....where we still are until Tacoma 2maro!

Out of all the cities that I have seen in canada, this was the last one on the list for me!

I'm stoked by all the things and variety that Van City has got, but I must admit, I am a little disappointed by the culture and average way of life in the city.....

It has all the liberty's of amsterdam as far as laws and freedoms for the party people, but along with that it also has the cold, impersonal feel of amsterdam. All though alot of things are still "illegal" it is very easy to get around things and the police are calm and lenient, the people of the city seem almost lost in their own inner self righteousness.

Don't get me wrong, the homies out here are very cool and have been taking extra special care of us, but the average person in the street, seem distracted with their own agendas and the lack of morals is written all over their faces......


On another note. Some things to mention about the city is that the lay out and skyline is one of the prettiest in canada. The scattered clusters of buildings is very remnant of The bay area.

Van City.......the north american port to asia, is also the HIV capital of Canada, and has one of the biggest Heroine problems in the Continent. There are actually places for addicts to go and get clean needles, called "Safe Injection Sites." Centered in the city on Hastings Ave., is pretty much the hub of such places for such people.

As a Canadian Myself, I must say that the west coast is Completely different from the east within the country. Where the violence and gang activity is No comparison to The left coast in the states, Vancouver B.C definitely gives cities in the states a run for their money and make up for it in drugs and prostitution, disease and street fighting!

It was a nice place to visit, but I'm glad that I dont live here!


Top 5 In Vancouver:

1. Yiannis' Crib and Sneaker collection.
2. Value Village Thrift stores
3. Beat Street Records
4. Canadian Trees
5. Tessa the Human GPS

Bye Canada, Hello USA!

We got fucked with at the border hard, performers have to have certain paperwork before you cross the border. They detained us for about an hour, went through our merchandise, threw all of our stuff around a bit. They even went to our Myspace pages to see what we were up to.

Long story short they did NOT seize any of our CDs NOR did they fine us.

We did not get to perform the way we intended but we made an appearances and got to experience another great show.

I'm currently in Vancouver and the city is beautiful. Also there some really grimey spots to this city. I'm enjoying the tour rocking shows and making new friends and fans, when through several record shops. We're killing it out here, they love Hip Hop! And they love Houston, They're jamming UGK out here hard. I'm Home!

WATCH THIS VIDEO!!! EZEKIEL38 FALLS OFF THE STAGE IN HAMILTON, ONTARIO:



Yes I was laughing, but Ezekiel got to laugh at me when I slipped on some Ice and fell in a ditch on Christmas. (There is no footage of that, lol!!)

I'll post more pics and videos whenever I have a free moment.

-Mic Skills

In the Van To Vancouver

Aurora was incredible, I got to see some family which was a great after Christmas present. Just wait until you see the PHOT-O's.

We rocked that show, as we rock them all.

On a side note Spokane was canceled last night due to another nasty snow storm this time in the pacific northwest. We spent the night in snowy Missoula, Montana. We're currently on the way to Vancouver for our show tonight.

OLD MAN WINTER STOP ACTING LIKE A BITCH!!!!!!!

Had to vent, all is good, we are scheduling a make up date for the spring.

Vancouver better get ready we got 3 days of riding in a Van to unleash upon you.

Peace

-Mic Skills

MOOSE CROSSING

after ann arbor we set out to canada, paranoid that we were gonna get serched at the border and or taxed for our merch, we crossed our fingers and set out.

to our delightful surprise, we didnt even need to show our ID's this time and we breezed right through the border!

our next destination was hamilton ontario, my hometown where i grew up!!!

It was Mic Skills first time in Canada and we tried to spoil him with all the good food and beer that we could!!!

MISSION ACOMPLSIHED!!!!

The shows were good too!!
actually, I was so fucking drunk on the first night that I actually fell on the stage and landed on my back!!!
I DIDNT FEEL A THING!!!!!

yes! canadian beer you have been missed!

the Show at the pepper jack cafe, aside from the drunk antics, went quite well.
it started off with MAd Ape a local mc who fumbled a bit with his stage precence and seemed to need to work out a few equipment problems through out his set,

then skills, who killed it again, then us, then a really dope dude called LEE REED who was accompanied by a very beautiful women on vocals with him....sorry i cant remember the girls name nor even a bit of there tunes!!!

I was Destroyed! But I do remeber it being dope and that Lee Reed was really good peoples......




We followed up the peper jack with another show at the casbah lounge the next day.....

Man....This night was even more fun for me than falling on my ass at the pepper jack!!!

we started off by drinking a bit, smoking a bit, and doing a show infront of a mixed and samll crowd of about 30 people who were either 70+ years old, or around 25 ish.... I really funny dude named MIKE LONG, opend up with some sketch comedy, which to me was the ipedimey of the style of hamilton....very dry but also hilarious.....

then we watched a few guitar solos and attempts at music...very poppy and fruity stuff...My guess that is what the old folks were there for.....

either that or the dude singin brought his whole family to witness the fruit!!
....but I must admit....he was good at what he did...... again dont know the name of dood....


after follwed mic and then us and then My Guy Boo Radley!

cool show...nothing too amazing really popped off...UNTIL......


we wet down the street and danced our asses off at my guys spot called toche...for you hamilton heads it is exactly what DMBC usd to be....still owned by Scott!!!
DOPE!! that alone was sick enough for a night for me....but....

outside...there was a fucking mansoon blizzard of perfect packing snow!!!

when the bar called last call we all ordered 2 or 3 more drinks and proceeded outside to pick snowball fights with anyone and everyone on the street!

the fight lasted a good 30 minutes and we actually managed to get the entire street involved and or pist off!!!

fucking loved it!!!!

note: MIc SKills first Snow Fight!!! and of course our team won!!! we had our homegirl amanda throwning drunk ice balls on our side too and she was killer!!!!

TOP 5 OF Hamilton Ontario:

1. Jesse Boswell is ALIVE
2. Harvest Burger
3. O'gradys on the mountain
4. Beef Patys and Ketchup Chips
5. Tim Hortons Coffee