Posts Tagged ‘riff raff’

losers please sign in

May 2, 2010

So there’s this guy who owns some sort of garage down a couple blocks toward the ghetto part of the street I live on. Almost every morning for the past few years that I’ve lived here, the poor guy has had to come out and paint over the nightly graffiti left by the Mexican gangster hooligans in the area. The cycle just never seems to end. Every time he paints over it, within a day or two there are new graffiti tags up. It’s like that classic Pink Panther Cartoon “The Pink Phink,” where a house painter can’t figure out why everything he paints blue turns pink. But this guy never gives up. He just keeps painting over it. There must be several thousand coats of paint on that wall, and I’m surprised one can still make out the stucco features of a wall where paint has been so thoroughly caked on. However, today as I drove by I noticed that the guy had apparently given up on painting over their shitty tags and instead offered up this clever zinger of his own that I couldn’t help but snap a picture of:

losers sign in here

Apparently, he got tired of their stalemate game of paint-o-war, and just decided to openly mock them by writing “losers please sign in” which given that they’re probably illiterate or can’t speak English…they were all too willing to oblige. Just a friendly garage owner doing his part to keep a shitty old building as nice as possible and trying his best to make the neighborhood a decent place. This guy is my hero!

How can you tell if a Frenchman’s been in your backyard? Your garbage cans are empty and your dog’s pregnant.

April 16, 2010

The cops were at my house at like 1:30 a.m. the other night. It began when I got home from another evening of planned-debauchery-that-had-been-was-poorly- executed, and as I walked through my door, my roommate had a flashlight pointed at me and his loaded pistol in hand. My first thought was “holy shiat, paranoia much?” but then he was like “There’s someone in the backyard. I hear dogs barking.” And with that he was off through the back door in search of dragons to slayeth. So he ventured into the back yard with his gun probing the area for any would be prowlers. Under the pretense of providing some sort of token yet probably useless backup, I myself grabbed a 9 iron golf club and hung out at the back door while he was securing the perimeter and searching for remnants of who/what was supposedly hiding out there. I personally was hoping for the wreckage of a crashed flying saucer possibly containing something along the lines of the humanoid-plant alien creature from “The Thing from Another World”(1951 version.) So you can imagine how disappointed I was when after about 10 minutes, my roommate noticed the meager outline of a man’s leg, barely visible, lying there in the bushes.

Just before that he had discovered various piles of clothing scattered about the yard, which brought to mind visions of “Left Behind,” “Night of the Comet,” and “Little Monsters”… an unrelated trilogy of movies which feature people essentially getting turned into clothes for a variety of physics defying, scientifically unsound reasons.

Anyhow when we found him at first we thought it was a dead body. He wasn’t moving or responding to voice commands of “hey buddy what the hell are you doing in my yard?” He just lay there motionless, partially clothed and buried deep within the thick uncomfortably thorny shrubbery.

So we called the police, and when the cop showed up they dragged the guy out of the bushes. At which point he woke up. Turned out it was just some random Mexican dude who had somehow meandered in there and passed out. Of course the guy barely spoke English, and all that he could manage to mutter was “My house, over there…my wife…7 month old baby” which when roughly translated using my trusty Lucky Charms decoder ring means “We need to revisit Eugenics and consider establishing intelligence tests to determine whether individuals are suitable for breeding.” The cops searched his pockets, and all he had on him was a pipe and a pair of women’s underwear.

Where’s Sheriff Joe when you need him?

March 6, 2010

I ran a booth at First Fridays Artwalk last night. Nothing too eventful happened except I got a nasty paper cut, and my finger was gushing blood for a bit. I had to get a napkin from the “Taste of Caribbean” booth and construct a makeshift tourniquet.

Then it was off to Casey Moore’s. Hung out with Adriane mostly. Stayed until close, and we walked to a Tempe house party afterwords….which was 99% Mexicans speaking either spanglish or mex-ebonics. There was a not a conversation to be had with anyone. It’s always depressing to show up at a party at a house where lovely things once took place and have it be just be unrecognizable spanish hip hop and riff raffy sort of gangster people. I’m pretty sure we were the only white people there. Not that that matters in itself, but it seems silly to import a barbaric foreign culture that still celebrates male chauvinism and where female intelligence is de-emphasized when we’ve just spent hundreds of years correcting such practices and have finally started to reach a respectable point of civilization. All that progress… down the tubes.

diary of a wandering recluse

February 2, 2009

Saturday night I drank a bottle of wine, wrote some lyrics and watched “Diamonds Are Forever” with Sean Connery. Rudd wanted me to go with him to the casino, but I’m not going to the stupid Indian casino, nobody is going to win anything there. And I realize that they just want to go for fun, but the ambiance at an Indian casino isn’t all that rewarding itself. It’s mostly just white trash and riff raff…which leads you to self reflect while you’re there… “am i white trash and riff raff since I’m here too?” which pretty much ruins any enjoyable feeling you get from the experience. That reminds me, there’s this new Indian casino I saw a billboard for and it’s called “Sol Casino.” And I looked at it and thought “a casino called S.O.L.? what kind of idiot would gamble there?” Anyway, I want to try to take a trip to Vegas and do some serious gambling, so I’m saving for that.

Went to the Phoenix Zoo today with Shannon. Man, that place keeps getting better all the time. There was a new elephant exhibit that wasn’t there when we went last year. All in all, the Phoenix Zoo has come a long way in the last few years, and its something we should be very proud of.

I keep trying to finish this album, but I’m constantly getting sidetracked. I’m too busy to hold everything together that I’m trying to do. I need to just lock myself in my room and work work work. Plus my first three albums were mdeiocre rushed efforts that were done extremely on the cheap, and I’m trying to take my time and see if I can capture the kind of sound I want to create.


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