Street Art in SF

I got back from San Francisco last night and got to see a lot of the city this trip.  I spent the weekend with my sister and I had an amazing time, could be a future home for myself, who knows though.  Part of the fun of this trip was as I walked around the various districts, I happened across 3 Banksy wall pieces all in the same spot.  My jaw dropped slightly as I have never seen his stuff in person.  The thrill wasn't so much in the pieces themselves, but more in the treasure hunting aspect of this.  When I was a younger gent, my Dad took me down to the beach on low tide days to hunt for shark's teeth in the rocks.  I became a nautral at finding these elusive objects which were sometime only a shard of a tooth.  Finding a whole one was rare, but that only stoked the fire.  I digress.  After spotting these pieces, I had my radar going all of the time.  So much so that I found another Banksy piece in Chinatown.  Although I didnt find any others by him, I did come across quite a bit of PEZ's work as well as a variety of street art in the Mission District.  Definitely going back again soon to do some more hunting.

X-Mas lights

This was the first time I have hung x-mas lights.  From what I gather, the weekend after Thanksgiving is when most peeps do this sort of thing.  I honestly can't see myself doing this sort of thing, but my friend Chris (pictured) thinks it will happen to me one day. 

"Just you wait and see", he says.

Hog wash, I'm gonna keep on being anti-decorative and be as minimal about this holiday as possible, not out of scroogyness, but mainly because I am more of a minimalist, which is how my pops raised me.

At any rate, Chris and I hung the shit out of those lights and I'm pretty sure people were impressed i.e. his wife and 1 year old. Boom.

Skeeter? Is that you?

Is this the Skeeter Jennings of modern folklore that this very blog is named after?

GOD NO.

This is the Skeeter from the mid-90's TV series, Doug.  He walked around a lot making honking noises but as a sidekick never gave intelligent feedback.  This Skeeter was worthless.  Why would you even begin to think this was the Legendary Skeeter Jennings? Because they have the same name? I didn't want to go here, but... you're stupid and you're insulting.

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This is a great piece.

I found a bunch of awesome stuff at Michael's when I went shopping for paint-by-numbers.  One of the things I found was engraving art projects.  This one is of three gold retrievers laying about in the grass after frolicking around with a ball.  The dogs look majestic and have a twinkle of youthfulness in their eyes.  The entire piece was already drawn on the sheet, then you take a cheap engraving tool and scrape off the drawn on parts to reveal... wait for it... GOLD!  I know what you're thinking.  Gold? For golden retrievers?  They thought of everything!  Anyhow, for $3.00, it was well worth it.  This little gem is being given to my sister as a surprise gift when I visit her in San Francisco next week.  She will be delighted.

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This is an art piece that was given to me by a person who I used to work with.  She was moving to Seattle and couldn't transport it as its about 4.5' by 4.5' and heavy drywall.  Not something you realy wanna lug around with you.  So she handed it over to me.  Its an art piece made by two artists from ASD.  I believe it's called "Race Car".  To me it looks like a robot slug that was attacked and all its vital fluids are being leaked out. Its true, robots do feel.

Genius

Whoa, here she comes.

I recently went to a yard sale down the street from my apartment and scored on some records.  These people were selling their stuff for next to nothing.  Ten records for $1.00!  I scored an original MJ - Thriller album, a variety of random 80's and two copies of Hall & Oates - Rock 'N Soul Part 1.  Ya, two.  so once i burn through the first record, i can do it all over again. 

Check that cover art. Two men arm wrestling, possibly over the maneater of which they sing.  Boy, I've been down that road, so I feel ya, fellas.  Personally, I think the guy on the right with the slick 'tache is in for the win.  Maybe its the rolled up sleeve, maybe its the slight lean towards him from the other guy, or maybe its the simple power of the 'tache.  It's like what Sun Tzu wrote in The Art of War: all battles are won before they are even started.

Or maybe its not an arm wrestle at all, maybe just some dudes bro-in' out.

You decide.

Hall & Oates - Maneater