Boston Invaded Los Angeles Last Night.
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The Weekly Drop kids flew in late Saturday night and on Sunday afternoon rolled to our store to check out the gallery and say what’s up before the party that night in their honor.  The obligatory group shot. In case you’re keeping score, Yankees are just 6 games behind Boston.  Jeff and Frank looking through our diggs.  Rob behind the counter acting like he owns the place.  Incognitos. (Those are “black bar glasses”). Here are the pictures from the Sunday night party that XLARGE sponsored for the Weekly Drop kids. Another great event and a great time had by all:  Les Deux was a nice little spot in Hollywood.  Jerry from Greyone manning the door and repping XLARGE/Dez.  Mmmmmmm. Vodka.  My liver hates me.  Our servers and Jenni.  Rory and I being interviewed for KushTV. Definitely worth missing. I don’t think either Rory or I sounded very intelligent. More on the retarded side I’m sure.  Jenni, XLARGE’s female counterpart, and her friend Emily.  John and Dez from Doodlebarn. Arnold from Greyone.  Danny Boy from La Coka Nostra.  I see Crooks!!!  Jeff (Weekly Drop) and Rickey Kim clowning. |
Sneaker Pimps
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This past weekend was pretty eventful. Let’s start off with the Sneaker Pimps Show last Friday: An old friend of mine from my Future Relic days did me a favor and put me on the VIP list for the show. I asked Jenni, the XLARGE female counterpart, to join me since she is probably the biggest sneakerhead in the office. When we arrived there were two lines wrapping around the block with people waiting to get in. I was worried it was going to be one of those clusterf*cks to get in, but luckily they had a Goodfellas/Swingers backdoor entrance set up and we got in right away.  Some of the rare and collectible sneakers on display.  Our friend, Logan Hicks’s limited edition shoe was on display at the KSwiss section.  They had a little mini ramp set up that was open to anyone with a skateboard. The skaters were pretty good.  But they were all upstaged by Tyson the skateboarding British Bulldog.  He was so rad. Peps from the show:  Graphic Artist and Atwater Surf Clothing creative director, Dean Bradley.  Aaron aka Angry Woebots  Aaron creating one of his iconic rabid panda during the show.  Estevan Oriol  Redman offering some XLARGE sh*t in the VIP. He has a very “college buddy” vibe to him. (Not to sound all Brokeback or nothin’.)  Redman killed it. This was the first time I’ve seen him perform live. He was amazing. I’ve been to a fair amount of hip hop shows in New York and I have to say that he now ranks as one of my favorite live performers along side Mos Def, Method Man, and Last Emperor. Redman just destroyed it and the audience definitely showed their appreciation.  It was weird seeing the show from this perspective. Watching the people react to the performer and seeing people know the songs word for word, must be an interesting feeling for performers. And there was free beer in the VIP. Good times. |