Diplo is banging out at Soundlab tonight, with Paul Devro and Big Basha. I had bought my ticket at the end of March, and for good reason. The concert has been sold out for a while, and Soundlab isn't the place to fit a whole bunch of hipsters. I need a good concert, and hopefully this will take care of the mood I've been in all week. I need a chill pill. More updates tonight... #snap

The pubcrawl went fabtabular; couldn't ask to have more fun with my friends. Amanda and Andrew are great people and you should definitely make Splash Panic! a stop when you are on the 800 block of Elmwood. They're right next to Angel's shop, Sai One at 818 Elmwood. I suppose I could explain the photo booth pictures... mainly the one on the left. I don't know what possessed me to whip out my cock but then again, those who know me understand I can get naked for any occasion. Either way, I censored out the goods simply because my family likes to stalk me (hi dad!)  and I'd rather not subject them to that. But I totally love freedom of expression attention, so if you want to see it, just ask to be friended on my flickr account and I'll see what I can do... its just a flaccid penis dangled precariously close to a pretty blonde girl's open mouth... and forced perspective does a lot to fool the eye. Amanda is a great girl, and the poor thing barely made it through a Cathode's Big Ass Drink. She's so tiny but she totally kept up. Andrew would knock down his drinks FAST... like a good ex rugby player. And Angel.. well he did Angel. I didn't get so drunk, which meant I got to make fun of the rest of the crew... and take silly pictures like this one... and this one... and here's Angel with a pool stick in his crotch... For the record.. here is where we all went in order from cleanest to skeeziest.

1. Hardware
2. Staples
3. Brickbar
4. Frizzy's
5. Cathode Ray
6. Pink - just to look, not long enough to catch a disease.

There are a few more pictures on flickr...

Its good to see Hero finally getting some KidRobot love for being the awesomest toy shop in the WNY area. Coming tomorrow, Hero will have a stupid limited (can't say, its so small) amount of 8" Tree Huggr Dunny's AWOL editions by Kronk for sale. No presales, no holds, no multiples, just be there at Noon, Thursday , April 9th at Hero (93 Allen St)  with money ($75 bucks). These will not be available at Official KidRobot Stores, just loyal shops like Hero. If you don't live in the Buffalo, NY area, then check out these other places that the Kronk will show up at. Just remember, with 500 made, these will be gone fast.

Ever since I got the T-mobile G1, I've been chomping at the bit to get 3G service in the Buffalo area. While T-Mobile hasn't waivered in their efforts to slowly but surely release 3G over their network, the Buffalo/WNY area has been left out... till now. Maybe.

The attached screenshot shows an internal email listing all sorts of places to marked "to light up 3G" in Q2-Q4 of this year. While Buffalo isn't on the list, Rochester, NY and Cleveland, OH are scheduled to light up in Q3. Possibly service in Rochester will be enough to expand to Buffalo as well. This could all be fake, but I doubt it.  Via TmoNews

I suppose this video isn't too messy, but it's more about the candy raver wannabe kid. While that particular brand of hot mess is indeed flashy and amusing to watch, they are rendered useless and quite annoying when they open their mouths. This one in particular likes to try to bribe the DJ booth with handmade ponybead bracelets, as if its GID properties are enough to make us grind yet another Britney song into the mix or PCD, or something else that we've already played. The DJ booth is a very expensive jukebox, and pony beads just won't cut it for a play.

If you come to Club Marcella, and I take your video whilst you be pole dancing, its either:

1. because you are hot, and I'd like to put you on the screen and do fancy effects with you...
2. because you are mildy hot, but you hove around alot and have flashy things on you that would look good if i applied a lot of special effects...
3. You are a hot mess and I'm gonna blog about you on Monday.

Despite my predilection for all things vinyl (and probably -), I have a soft side for designer plush. It seems that 2009 is the year for the medium to really take off, and fleece is the textile of choice. Hero Design on 93 Allen St. have caught the trend and brought some of the softlines to their store... First off is the Sweet Meats, a series of three stuffed plush and juicy pillows: Hambone Ham, Porky Chop, and Stuff Boef. Handmade out of environmentally responsible materials, limited to 300 pieces per style, sold separate. Created by Lauren Venell. Next on the awesome-o list are the fresh fruit by Anna Chambers. Red and Green Plush Apples in Sad and Happy Faces, each comes individually packed for crisp cuteness. Limited run on these too, with only 150 of the Sad & Sour version created (I'm a little late to post this, so as of now there aren't any sad and sour green apples left at Hero... but I managed to snag one). Lastly, we have some purses, which are totally for girls... but they are mad awesome so I had to get one of each... JK!! I'm not that gay. WaoDog is an awkwardly cute plush with a secret pocket in its belly... perfect for hiding keys or labbits or something. Wicked limited to 250 pieces of black and mint colorways. The Germusu pouches are the cutest germs on the planet... Their mouths are made of zippers and they'll gobble up your keys or credit cards to keep safe. Just so you know, I ganked all these pics from the Hero Design Studio blog, who do a far better job (cause its their job) of updating the public on new product at the shop. I suggest you lock onto their feed for all the updates, because if you wait for me to post about it.. I already own it and they probably sold out yesterday. #tweetit

Check out the rest of the ridiculously cute photos I took with my plushies (Skylar included) on flickr...

I just don't have a use for them. Well, until now. Its not secret that I love the bears, a beefier stock of man with a scruffy face and a furry belly. And all my friends know that to call me a chaser gets a glare but to call me a twink gets a tone of violent rebuke. When I started doing visuals on the screen I knew I needed eye candy. I knew that my tastes in men weren't gonna cut it on the screens so I took to videotaping the antics of club goers losing their morals on Club Marcella's lone stripper pole. I've gotten mostly trashy girls and more than enough hot messes to feed the "Hot Pole Mess Meme," but occasionally I get something hot. This is John. He's chicken, straight up Original Recipe. The girl to his left is some skank who thinks its hot to "date" twinks. I took some photos and video of him and he's a true winner for "hot boy in underwear dancing" footage. Thing is he knows I hate him. I kick him out of the booth all the time for rubbin all over our DJ, Charles Masters, who should be doing more important things like mixing. See, I like to keep the DJ booth a Chicken Free Zone, much to Charles' chagrin. So, do I have to bite my tongue and own up to the importance of these vapid bodies? Charles and I both agree, there isn't much to poor Johnny but a cute body and a bubble butt, but do i lose integrity for following this boy around with a camera? Or can I claim professional exception? Here's a video with some footage of the Pole Chicken.... slowed down a little for the porn effect. Probably NSFW, as his undies get a little low. and if you absolutely must see the first (and probably only) two inches of this boy, click after the jump for the uncut pole chicken clip. #tweetit

Halfhearted ravers break my heart. We should have some ecstasy on hand for the poor chaps when they run out of juice. Except for this kid; it was nearly 11:30PM on a rainy Saturday night, and he just stood there with his glowsticks that he brought on his own, looking like a fool. Hot Pole Mess. His boyfriend was kinda hot from all the piercings, but Randall informs me he is lacking in the equipment zone. Must be why he draws all the attention to his face.

The first leg of my DC-A-Go-Go trip entailed a visit to the National Gallery of Art with John. There, we met up with his good friend Magda, who works in the most awesome place ever: the East building designed by I. M. Pei. A little note about the East Building, besides the fact that it houses the contemporary and modern works for the NGA, the building itself is designed so that there are no right angles. Like, none. Walking around inside the staff area, you can't help but effect a sense of vertigo.

[Found out after this picture, not allowed to have camera's in the staff area. whoops!] Its all really pleasing really; even the elevators are random heptagons.  Magda took us to lunch in the staff "refectory" (parallelogram tables FTW!) and then for a trip to the pedestrian walkway that bridged the east and west buildings of the NGA. click after the jump to see the Villareal.

Via the NGA - Multiverse, the largest and most complex light sculpture created by American artist Leo Villareal, may be seen and experienced by visitors as they pass through the Concourse walkway between the East and West Buildings of the National Gallery of Art. Commissioned by the Gallery and on view until November 2009, the work features approximately 41,000 computer-programmed LED (light-emitting diode) nodes that run through channels along the entire 200-foot-long space. The development of this LED project began in 2005, and the installation created by Villareal specifically for this location began in September 2008.

I first heard about Leo Villareal when he installed his lights into a section of the Albright Knox in 2005. Originally, it was meant to be there for the Extreme Abstraction collection, but it was such a perfect fit that it is now part of the permanent collection. When John first came to Buffalo, we went to the Knox for Gusto... and I showed him my favorite piece, the Villareal.... cue the Vimeo flashback: