Monday 12.26.11

I had Monday off and was looking forward to kicking it around my house but the homie Dan Foster hit me up saying he was downtown. I grew up skating with Dan and when he moved to Boston he used to let me crash on his couch every weekend. That was back in 1999 and being 17 and living in Maine, to be chilling in Boston was fucking epic. The city seemed huge at the time and being able to skate Turtles, Copley and a bunch of other landmark Boston skate spots was a dream. Fast forward 12 years and I hadn't seen Dan in forever, so I was stoked to grab some beers downtown and catch up.

This is Joey and Dan at Downtown Lounge.

Friday 12.23.11

A bunch of my friends were at Dock Fore last night so Bogle and I headed down. I was wondering why they were there because we never go to that bar but upon arriving I found out why. Dock Fore has two dollar, twenty ounce PBR's on tap. Definitely our kind of place.

Geoff changed his name to Haggard Randy to test our theory that anybody can be famous in this day and age with a cool name.

Cironi agreed with this theory.

Gary was chilling.

Gary opened up the skate shop and we drank Budweiser there. This is Brad.

Labbe and Geoff shredding.

Labbe solo shredding.

96 Mentality.

Got the 96 Mentality shirts in from the screen printer.
In dark chocolate and black.

WU TANG. 12.20.11

Wu-Tang played the State Theater on Tuesday and it was sick. They opened with a lot of old school bangers. Getting into the show was a bit ridiculous, though. You had to get frisked and searched. I could understand going to those lengths for a fuckin MOP show but whatev's. Rolled in with Geoff and JWard.

Wu-Tang!

Method Man was killin it.

People were moshing and shit.

Accidental artistic shot.

RZA was on point. Dude held it down for sure.

Crowd Participation.

Method Man stage diving.

Method Man post stage dive.

Matt, Damon and Me.

Damon smoking cigarettes in the lobby. I claimed he was European and thus not liable for not adhering to no smoking regulations. It worked and people we're like, "Oh, Ok."

Met up with the crew outside.

Went to Norm's with everybody.

Norm's continued.

And again.

Took a picture of Norm's kitchen for some reason. It looked really nice.

And that's where we'll leave it. With a picture of Norm's kitchen. All in all it was a great night.

ESNC ad.

This is the ESNC ad for December/January. I have had the idea to put a girl in an XL ESNC shirt for an ad for awhile now and it worked out great. Sam McKenna did a great job with the photo and my friend Jenna Hargis did a great job rocking the ESNC tee.

Saturday 12.17.11

I almost didn't go out on Saturday night because we shredded it so hard on Friday night. But you know how it goes, 8 O'clock rolls around, the homies start hitting you up and there's no way your staying in. Good times await and the way I always looked at it is that you only get so many Saturday night's in your life. So you gotta take advantage of every single one.

I started off at my friend Geoff Bogle's house and after kicking back a few PBR's we headed up to Empire. I really dig this place. It was crowded but with a lot of open space and $2 High Life pounders.

This is Jay Brown and Geoff Bogle in Empire. Geoff's holding the dolla's, yo.

$2 High Life pounders. Good deal.

We held it down here for a minute with a rad crew of friends and then headed over to Ben Cironi's girlfriends crib. Ben was kind enough to invite us over for beers and snacks. It was hella sick.

These are the homies in the elevator on the way up to the party.
Nate, Jay and Geoff.

This is in the hallway at the party. I don't why we shot this photo in the hall like this but I'm sure there was some reason for it.

This is Geoff and Nate supervising the snack table.

Another great weekend. Great times with great friends. Hope you had a fun weekend as well!

Friday 12.16.11

Friday night was hella fun. I've had a lot on my mind lately and some big decisions to make so it was rad to check all that shit at the door and go drinking with my friends.

These are my homies Brad Sawyer and Nate Keegan. We're kicking it at Geno's Rock Club on Congress Street. Geno's is a super cool place.

I don't know what band this is but they we're shredding while we were there.