Dom gets the shits

OK weekly update.
Currently listening to Hilary Duff - Coming Clean(theme song from Laguna Beach).

Monday - Recovered from the GAY superbowl party. Still constipated. I feel bad for teasing those old people now on the metamucil ads. Sorry old people, i now feel your pain(literally).

Tuesday - Shot a short video message for one of Bills friends, Barry Dickens who is apparently the biggest booking agent in Europe. We had to pretend we were the biggest band from Australia our name was "sex and free beer", something that has definitely not been happening on this trip. Had a meeting with some lawyers afterwards about our film, good people.

Wednesday - Drove 6 hours to San Francisco to interview Fat Mike and Joey Cape. We rocked upto Joey Cape's place and started setting up. Joey was awesome and really hospitable, it was an honour to meet this guy as i have been listening to Lagwagon forever. 10 minutes later Fat Mike rocks up and we interview him first, i was kinda nervous but he was just farting all the time so it put me at ease. Fat Mike is awesome, we get a picture with him and Joey and he leaves. We then go downstairs into Joeys home studio and interview him down there. Joey "Map Quest" Cape, shows us how to get to our "hotel" for the night and we are off. GHETTO, is all i'm going to say about our "hotel". Let's get the fuck out of here. Please.

Thursday - Early morning. Chalker is really fucking sick. Not so good. We try and go over the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, but miss it and go over the Bay Bridge instead. The whole time thinking isn't this piece of shit meant to be red? Now on the way to Tony Sly's from No Use For A Name. Tony has a sweet place in San Jose. He greets us at the door, does the interview and hooks us up with free NUFAN t-shirts. Thanks Tony. We take the shorter way back to LA and arrive sometime that night. Dom, Matt and I got a really cool restaurant/bar called Birds for a late night dinner. We leave. Dom stays...

Friday - Today we have a busy day. Firstly we go and get haircuts at some awesome place in Hollywood, our hairdresser Vanessa is great. Then we are off to Bel Air to interview John Feldman from Goldfinger at his house. Feldman is pretty well off he has an awesome big house and has gold and platinum plaques all over his walls from artists like The Used, Story Of The Year and Hilary Duff. We get shown around his home studio which is bigger(and probably better) than most studios i have seen in Australia. He has just been working on the new Used record and has The Veronicas coming in next week. However today was Dom's Doomsday HAHA. So first Dom doesn't come home on Thursday night, he has been on an all night bender. He comes in and we are pretty pissed off, saying no partying before shoots. He says he is fine and is bouncing off the walls. That is until he starts vomiting. First he stops shooting mid interview to excuse himself to the bathroom, apparently he has diahrea. Once we leave Feldmans, he starts vomiting next to our car. Gross. We decide we would do what any good friends would do and start taking photos of Dom baiting. Now we are on our way to Glenwood Studios where we are getting some tracks mixed for Kisschasy's new record. We were so lucky to get Jerry Finn to do them for us(the first record he ever mixed was Green Day "Dookie" and has since done Blink 182, Rancid, AFI and Morrissey). Anyway not 10 minutes on the 101, Dom starts spewing again this time in the van into a plastic bag. He then lets us in on the fact that the bag has a hole in it and is "leaking". Great. Anyway after holding my breath for 15 minutes, we get to the studio and meet Jerry - who is a super nice guy and did the most AMAZING mixes on these tracks. In the studio next door to ours is Alicia Keys making her new record and W.illiam from the Black Eyed Peas is in there with her. We slap some skin and exit. Friday night we don't do much. My new buddy Tim Armstrong calls and Chalker and I watch Jerry Mcguire.

Saturday - Wake up early again, this is starting to feel like a fucking job. Today we are on our way to San Diego to interview Scott Russo from Unwritten Law. We get to his house and nobody is home, he calls me soon after and apolagizes and says that he is actually in Hollywood, where we are staying haha. We get some food and try to shoot some 2nd unit footage around San Diego. Weather turns to shit. We get nothing good. On our way back to LA, our friend Adrian calls and he is in San Diego. We head to some town where only dudes live to go have a drink with him and Jordan. We can't find the bar, buy ice cream instead, i buy the new FOB cd and a book on Russel Simmons, finally see Adrian and end up dropping him at Jordan's house. Today was a bummer. We finally get home and we are now planning our night out(that's if we end up going out at all). Thanks for reading. Enjoy the photos.




Dom. Blurrrrrrrgggghhh. SPEEWWW.



Pre haircuts with Tony Sly.



Post haircuts with John Feldman.