Invites have gone out, cars have been rented, and the neeps are ready for the tatties. Sept. 4 is nearing quickly, and if you’ve received an invite you’ll notice this web address, which has a lot of info about where we’re staying, things to keep in mind while abroad, and other fun facts about our nuptials.
Best bet is to email me so I can provide you with the details and the passwords directly. And if you can’t make it – no worries! We’re planning a central Ohio throwdown sometime late in the year.

Inside are classic works of art, the building is cold, and the mood is calm and quiet. Yet the outside at the Hammer Museum shows a very different scene as images of murder and sex play across the museum’s courtyard screen. Read More

Surreal Moment of the Month. It’s early, but a real contender happened tonight. I was listening to my voice as Strindberg, sampled into an Amanda Palmer song about school shootings on Amanda Palmer’s powerbook while Henry Rollins was on the couch across from us.

Three sultry, steamy, hard rocking nights at the Hammer.
Thursday, July 5, 8pm– ALSO I LIKE TO ROCK, The Indie 103.1 New Music Showcase, with Great Northern and Foreign Born.
Friday, July 6, 8pm – HOT+BOTHERED: Films of Temptation and Personal Destruction, this series kicks off with The Honeymoon Killers. Pre show music by the Not So Lonelies.
Saturday, July 7, 7pm – Hammer Conversation with Dresden Doll, Amanda Palmer and the one and only, Henry Rollins.
Enjoy FREE SUMMER, Los Angeles.

Russian River, you have been tamed!
By these guys.
Especially those with jazz hands.

Here’s the things I learned on ManCation:
1) Kayaking is hard. Like really hard. Like harder than you would ever think it is.
2) Suntan lotions in stick form, DO NOT WORK. I have stripes of red and white on each leg, where normal healthy skin alternates with second degree blistering burns. Aloe. How I love you. I loe you. Aloe.
3) Brian Yeh snores like a asthmatic bear.
4) A hot tub is safe at 106 degrees. It is organ roasting at 113. No way was I going in there.
5) Daniel Lee makes great cocktails, muddler or no.
6) Daniel Lee always sleeps alone.
7) A curtain is not a door. Especially not on a bathroom in a shared bedroom.
8) George Nachtrieb and Alex Estrovitz might be the best cooks ever.
9) Not all brownies are equal.
10) Forrest Gump is still a terrible movie. Wait, I meant Forrest Hump. Yeah. That’s what we watched. Totally Forrest Hump.
It was a great weekend and despite my burned ankles that have crippled me, I am enjoying the eat-a-thon that is San Francisco. And now on to eight more weeks of being a bachelor.

So far, ManCation is WILD. Started in LA by scrubbing our stovetop grill thing with aluminum foil. Got a ride to Burbank’s Bob Hope Airport (the greatest lil’ port in the world) and saw none other than Mr. Wayne Newton. The original ManCation enthusiast! He got wanded and mouthed “Danke Shein” to the TSA agent. NICE MOVE, NEWTON! Then we saw Margaret Cho texting furiously near the awesomely named, Chezz Burger Chezz Burger, where I had a root beer float! Awwww….yeah MANFLOAT! Woman on plane misquotes the grating “Coldest summer I ever spent, no wait…” as we watch the fog roll in over SF. I grab some Cole Coffee and chill with Sally and give her my million dollar idea about pizza boxes – Pirforratzza! Head to SF, walk from Civic Center to Lower Haight. Still can’t find cat I’m supposed to be watching, but it’s eaten all the food and pooped in the sand box, so I guess it’s here. Or there’s an invisible silent midget whose ass is covered in sand. Ate a gigantic plate of Memphis Minnie’s BBQ Tri-Tip smothered in heaven sauce. Now just waiting out the evening by watching Frasier and then off to sleep. MANCATION RULZ!

MANCATION! aka Daniel’s Birthday Party II, Son of the Demon aka My Bachelor Party is on in just five short days. All signs are headed towards a totally Rated R Weekend. We’re all a little uncomfortable with Rated X, so here’s hoping for a few spare curse words and a 30 second flash of skin! This ain’t no PG-13 Bullcrap, y’all! Watch out, Russian River, BOYZ N CANOOZ!

I’m not totally sure what happened during tonight’s event, but Pharrell Williams is a funny cat. We hosted a conversation with him and Elvis Mitchell at the Hammer tonight and the thing that stood out most of all, other than a fine defense of Hip-Hop and a bunch of popular movie references, was Pharrell’s entire and faithful re-enactment of a YouTube classic, Mr. Turner’s DUI. Next week we’ve got John Singleton, Charles Burnett, Charles King, Mickey Rooney, and Eli Roth. All free. Did someone say Mickey Rooney!

Good news Strindberg and Helium fans, the boys are getting back together! Hard to believe it’s been six years since they first rocked the internet. I laid down some new vocal tracks for Strindberg and have sent the audio files off to Erin and Eun-Ha for some sweet helium and animation-isizing. All I can say (in a high squeaky voice) is INNER TUBE!