ok lets face it

I really blow at blogging, just flat out the worst.

Alot of cool stuff has happened since Freaks Ball XI so im going kinda just dilly dally around and tell ya about it because I have 34 minutes left here at work and if i dont do something im going to go bonkers.

This means pictures will probably be lacking...but thats ok, becuase we have updated JessMessin.com and pictures to all of these events are in there!

Also, I lost my phone, AGAIN...yeyea, i know what you are thinking...so with that went alot of dope pictures.

So, use your imaginations and go back in time with me.

So since Freaks Ball i displayed 3 paintings with Michael Weintrob at Brooklyn Bowl (man I love that venue) and showed my first Stage Drop ever with the killer band TRAGEDY at the Mass MoCA- thats the Massachucetts Museum of Creative Arts...i mean thats CRAZY right?

Both of these events were big milestones in the world of JessMessin. 

It was a year ago that I was at Brooklyn Bowl for the first Soulive Residency ever, aka BOWLIVE.  I went with my friend Kathleen and in my Brooklyn Lager haze i repeatedly told her that within a year I would have my art work displayed on the Wythe Wall some way, some how.

It took 12 months, and the birth of the Weintrob/Pfohl Pop Rock Posters to make that happen.  I took 3 of Michael's photos from Bowlive 1 and blew them up and painted them...you know how we roll by now.
One of the paintings is now permenatly installed backstage at Brooklyn Bowl, one we auctioned off...and the other is probably rolled up in MWs loft somewhere...

Not only was accomplishing one of my goals a huge ordeal...MW and I were the first artists ever to be showcased on the Wythe Wall.  BITCHIN!  much love goes out to the crew at the Bowl for allowing that :)

pictures can be found under EVENTS>Bowlive

then about 3 weeks later i rode the rails up to Albany, New York to meet up with TRAGEDY, the #1 All-Metal Tribute to the Bee Gees.  This trip was one of those most perfect rock n roll experiences ever...short but insanely sweet.

Oh yea, if you dont know anything about Mass MoCA...its a huge deal.  The place is gynormous and the art is insanely cool.  They specialize in LARGE installations and catalogue all sorts of artists...from dead and super famous to the "hunh? who?"s of the world.  So for me, this was like an insane opportunity.  This great band that I somehow one day made a stage drop for was playing in a museum and were hanging the drop too. 

So, in my head...I had a painting hanging in a major museum!!!! even if it was for one night.  So i made sure my ass was gonna be there.

It was one of those trips you dont even pack for...like I woke up threw my toothbrush in my bag and split...


I first cruised up to New York City then hooked a train to Albany (on which i met two super dope guys Wade and Spencer who had Coronas in their backpacks)  then my lady friend from college (who i hadnt seen in 5 years) picked me up! So rad! She and her boyfriend then drove me the hour and 10 minutes to the Mass MoCA.

We got to North Adams and quickly found a spot with some dope IPAs and some solid meat...im talkin killer steak...i knew i needed to pudge up, because if i have learned ANYTHING while rocking to Tragedy...is that no matter how hard you try, how much you carboload...you leave shitfaced...


And even though i prepared I still left shitfaced.  But the show was bitchin, naturally! And the drop looked great, and it was the first time i had seen the band since we debuted the drop in November.  After the show was over my friends and I split...not far down the road i got probably one of the greatest text messages of my life.  So great I saved it...then lost my phone.

"Mass MoCA wants to keep the drop, so I gave it to them, they are installing it their main room"

me: "haha very funny"

"No, seriously YOU ARE IN A MUSEUM"

me: ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS

"yes."

this is when i pretty much lost it.  I was listerally walking into a bar at this point where I made a total ass of myself and freaked out.  Then I went outside for about 25 minutes to collect myself.  Then I celebrated with a dance party.

Fairly typial Jess! behavior really...

so, the next morning I had to shake off one of the best rock n roll nights of my life (thus far...and probably very high on the list forever).  So naturally, i got my post rock show milkshake on...mmmmmm

then i hightailed it back to Baltimore like a pro...reading Playboy on the train next to a very rude hasidic jew couple and a ridiculously loud baby.  It was awkwardly awesome.

Then like anyone else, i went home, tucked myself in and went to sleep with a smile.

(you can see this stage drop under TRAGEDY on JessMessin.com or AT THE MASS MOCA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! booooyowwwwwwwwwwwww)  -thanks TRAGEDY for one of the best memories ever!

HELL YEA, its 5 oclock peace out!