I went to Banksy's show downtown LA today...it was pretty great, every card carrying hipster this side of whatever was there. I didn't bring my camera, maybe I'll go back tomorrow and take pics. I wonder how B would react to people painting and drawing on his stuff? Or to someone using one of his images for a poster or their album cover? All throughout the neighborhood people were snapping away at every piece of graffiti and stencil art they could find. I've noticed a rash of stencil art popping up over the past year or two, and for the vast majority, it seems a self promotion bid, pure and simple.
Walking downtown LA reminded me of a detour Dave and I took in Paris...
The day after our LeBaron show, we had to return a widget to the drum rental place on the outskirts of Paris. Dave forgot to put it in w/ the rest of the stuff Thomas was returning, so we set off to find the place, knowing the name of the suburb, with only a vague idea of where it was precisely. It took HOURS!!!!!!!!!!! Take the subway the wrong way, take it back the right way, subway closed, find train route, last stop closed, walk, walk, walk...and it was on this walk, after scrambling across a freeway, that we found ourselves on an industrial sidestreet of sorts. Pretty deserted area, some lady standing around, oddly made up, pretty haggard, another van, parked, woman at the wheel smoking, another van w/ woman, and another, used condoms, here, there, everywhere....there must have been 20 prostitutes in trucks/vans/busses lined up on this street!! What was it, 2:30pm? I don't know, it seemed pretty wild. Eventually we found the place, they hooked us up with a couple of espresso's, and we were off to Thomas's.
In CD news, ours is done. It took forever to finish, but we have finally done it. More later, nap time.
Back to basic's, or should I say, back to Banksy's, ...the contest is " who knew about Banksy first, and how they didn't think anyone else knew!", get your submissions in by the 10th. There was a short film w/ footage of him doing his thing etc, and that contest there seemed to be, who can laugh first to show how much/quickly they get it. Tonight I'm going to see Michel Gondry's new movie, which should be amazing, but will likely have much the same crowd. Gotta go put on my vest, PLO scarf, messenger bag, and army cap, bye!
