West Indian Girl

well, i spent new year’s eve helping out my friend (photographer) marc goldstein. he was shooting a big concert event in downtown L.A. (check it out- Giant Village 2005 ) and i had no plans so we were on. i thought this would be a very interesting and entertaining way to spend the night and it was. besides – look at marc on the right – how was he planning on taking 1200 pictures while carrying around all those bags and cameras? goldstein did work his ass off though – we were there at 5:30pm and we didnt get home until 5:30am. i think we took a ten minute break. we had all access so it was pretty cool.

this is a picture from the roof of the pegasus building. i should really post some of marc’s pictures cos there is just something very wrong with me posting my crappy pictures when i was there with a professional photographer taking great pictures. oh well…you make do. i saw a bunch of djs that i normally wouldnt see – especially from the angle i got to watch them. check out the view (below) from the main stage when paul oakenfold was playing.

During oakenfold’s set and the crystal method’s set i was on the stage to the back right. it was pretty interesting checking these guys out because it is so radically different from a band but still kinda the same. it’s weird. i did enjoy oakenfold’s set though – i thought his mix of “new year’s day” by U2 was really fucking cool. for some strange reason when i looked at him i kept thinking he was Napoleon. i also kept thinking that he actually believed he was god. it was comical. but little god’s rock. oh yeah – as far as some of the other performers go – i thought jason bentley’s set was very musical, digweed’s set jammed but i wasn’t sold on the killers like everyone else seemed to be. every song sounded like a lame version of their hit song that i cant remember the title of. i do like that song though. too bad i missed them playing it and had to sit through 6 songs that kinda sounded like it but then just fell flat.

anyway, thousands of people were there but i only bumped into a few people i knew. early in the evening i ran into steve who used to be in a band called the symptoms. he was bartending at the main bar. steve rocks. then, way later around 3am i got a

call from carter…somehow he ended up there too. we met up for a bit and eventually i ended up driving him home too. all in all it was a good time…tiring, but a good time. on a side note i quit smoking again. so far so good—F.Ten 9:36PM