Friday, June 26, 2009

Cigarettes and protests

My highlights since Tuesday:
1.Eric can make himself look pregnant.
2.I spent Wednesday night with 5 men smoking cigarettes, drinking beer, and telling me their crazy adventures involving smuggling immigrants across the border and getting wasted.
3.Pushing past bikers on the Golden Gate Bridge.
4.FINISHING MY ROUGH DRAFT!
So I suppose I should make myself clear:
1.Eric is expecting twins. I'm hoping he'll name them Michael and Jackson, but I dunno.
2. For my profile on the Mexican punk band La Plebe I went and interviewed the dudes in their cramped studio on Natoma in the Mission district. For the first hour of every band practice, they smoke and drink and just hang out. Funnn. But seriously. My first real interview. It was awsome. I found out so much interesting stories that are the center of my story that I wouldn't have if Jorge hadn't asked about all the signs they have on their wall.
Also, last night, I had to speak at this BAMMA fundraiser(DONATE NOW. KEEP IT GOING) and afterwards, a BAMMA alum of '94(Holy truck, that's the year I was born. And I'm almost the youngest here. That dude is old.) came up to me, and turns out he's a huge fan of La Plebe! haha, small world. I'd never heard of them before.
3.Today, I went to a march across the Golden Gate Bridge for peace in Iran. Everyone was being a butt. Bikers were on the ped side, and kept ramming into me and yelling, and people who didn't want their pictures taken would cover up the lens of my camera when I wasn't even taking pictures of them. But I swiftly got the hang of it, and now, I would have to agree with our multi media dude, Ali, protests are the best thing to photograph.
This brings me to my next point. I think one of the reasons journalism is so important to our society is to keep people informed. You're probably like, no man, I got me some yahoo, some CNN, some People Magazine Text Updates, but seriously, that's gossip. Those people aren't out there, experiencing, seeing, hearing, feeling what's going on. To me, journalism is taking what you know, and expressing it. So, anyways, I don't think that's the whole reason journalism can't die, so IProxy-Connection: keep-alive
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7ll keep you posted.
4. Well this says it for itself. IM EXCITED

Anyways I'm going to go jump for joy, so I reccomend you pick up a camera and go to the nearest protest. Seriously, amazing.


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