Treasures!!!

I love going searching for treasures, or what I like to call treasures. Going to a swap meet, flea market, garage/estate sale, or even antique stores is what I really enjoy. I figured I would post some of things I buy and today was the first trip to one of my favorite swap meets (Mary's) this year. I ended up getting a 45's carrying case with about (50) 45's in it, nothing in great condition but playable, lots of beach boys, porter wagoner, buck owens, and many others. I also picked up the pixies "doolittle" and black flag "damaged" on cassette and a 32 degree scottish rite mason pendant, what I believe is a chain for a tie.




Here are some items from the past that I have found while out junkin!!

You wanted the best...Here they are...THE HELLACOPTERS!!

PINBALL

I figured I would finally start trying to update this thing. I have always been a big fan of Pinball, the game itself, the great artwork, the screen printed back glasses. I have also dreamed of owning a machine at some point in my life. I just watched this really cool documentary called "Special When Lit" which is about pinball obviously. I would recommend checking it out if this kind of thing interests you.

Los Hijos Del Diablo...(my band)

So I am very excited! we are finally getting close to having our record out. This has been in the works over the past 4 months or longer and I am so ready for it to be done. We had a local artist do the band logo, my friend Robbie did the layout, Little Mafia Records is putting it out 500 Random colored Vinyl w/ Cd. We got test pressings about 2 or so weeks ago and they sounded great and today Gianni posted a photo of 4 of the records to show what they look like. Every record is supposed to be slightly different from the next when doing random vinyl. At this point we have to have the sleeves printed and have a record stuffing party to get it all put together. Here is a photo of the front & back of the record sleeve as well as the vinyl itself.

Werewolves On Wheels (1971)

So I recently signed up for netflix and I am so stoked about getting all these movies delivered and watching tons of cool stuff that you cannot find at blockbuster or anywhere else. Eric just recently told me about this movie and I had to check it out, it's called werewolves on wheels. I mean need I say more, werewolves, choppers, naked girls, and cool music. The Movie was pretty short and well honestly nothing amazing but entertaing to say the least. I say you should check it out if you like that sort of stuff. Here is a brief plot summary for the movie as well as some cool movie posters and a trailer.

As a group of bikers moves across the desert, they come across an old church that a satanic cult has taken over. The cultists give them drugged food, and the bikers soon fall asleep. That night the cultists cast a curse on the biker leader's girlfriend, that makes her turn into a werewolf after nightfall. She soon infects her boyfriend. The bikers leave the church, and begin to be killed off whenever they stop for the night. Things come to a climax when the couple changes in front of the bikers, who quickly kill the beasts. The bikers return to the church to have their revenge, but stop when they see their faces in the cult.

gig posters

Man I have been super lazy about posting in my blog and I need to get past that. My band is gearing back up to play shows after taking a 6 month break since January. We have our first show August 8th with one of my favorite bands Witchcraft whom are from Sweden. If you don't know them and love old pentagram, black sabbath, and roky erickson check them out. I am in the process of having 2 new shirts designed and hopefully a bandanna for this show coming up. I also had my good buddy Robbie Knight design a gig poster for the show and I screen printed it this past week. This is my first screen print that I have ever done on paper, that was almost completely done alone with minimal help. I thought it came out pretty damn good for printing on black paper and only coming slightly out of register which you can barely tell. Printing posters is something I have wanted to do for a very long time and I am finally getting myself going in that direction. We have an automatic flatbed press at my work that we have only used 2 times and it was to print this poster and one for our last show which came out good for not using real poster inks and a glossy paper. I will include some photos of the process down below. Please bare with the photos, the first one is the one I just printed and I only have a crappy photo of it and the last is the first poster we ever printed on that press.

monster cereal

I have been a huge fan of general mills monster cereals since I was a kid and to this day frankenberry remains my favorite cereal. However most people don't remember the 2 long lost monster cereals, YUMMY MUMMY & FRUIT BRUTE not to mention the awesome art!