For those who are wondering where the Trash Vs. Rated X Vs. Salvation Vs. Glamdammit photos are… or where the Zombie Sideshow party photos are I was shooting for the VillageVoice.com yesterday and I am waiting until they publish the galleries to put up my photos.  But I will let you know about that as soon as they are up.  There are a lot of extremely great, and extremely fucked up photos so get excited.

In the mean time, in celebration of this wondrous holiday here is one of the most awkward uncomfortable watch videos I have ever seen on YouTube.  I am pretty sure the troops would not want this wacky girls support, but they have it anyway.

Send the troops home, and this strange woman to Iraq.

Ps.  It is my birthday on Thursday and I am doing several things for it which you will be made aware of in the coming days, but FIRDAY at TRASH at 40C I will be getting drunk for the first time since New Years and it is sure to be a scene.  So mark it on your calendars now.

Now… Crank that awkward Asian woman…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqfP1cwv_vg[/youtube]

While I don’t seem to be able to update my site right now, I can always make time for a half naked celebrity jumping off a cliff. Here are a bunch of naked photos of Lilly Allen just chilling.

On the site note. Not only do I not have any time to blog, but I am having severe problems with my gallery uploading software. I am not sure what is going to happen with that.

I am staying in tomorrow night to work just on the site and figure things out and catch up on sleep. So just hold your horses until then. I will get us up to speed some how. I love you tenderly.

Download: Lilly Allen – LDN

Click the photo below to see it uncensored.

It is instantly clear to me at 7AM this Tuesday morning that this website is going to suffer greatly at the hands of this new full time job. Just 8 hours after I completed my first day I realize that I got nothing done tonight… and I didn’t even take a picture. The idea is that I go out straight from work, take photos until like 3, go home, edit photos, upload photos, update site and be asleep by 7 am. It is now 7am and while I have edited all the photos I took Saturday night, I did not yet get them online, and I did not shoot anything. I didn’t have my camera on me when I got off work. I will tomorrow, but since I got nothing done tonight, why on Earth do I think I am going to be able to get anything done from 4-7 tomorrow. That is three hours to get two galleries up from Saturday, edit all the photos I take tonight, get them online and update again. Yikes. I need to streamline my work…. And I need an intern. That is no joke. If you want to be my intern, and know Facebook really well, basic HTML and are willing to work for college credit and drink tickets, let me know. Also, you can do almost all your work from home except some occasional night club stuff and maybe a few runs to the store. Being 21+ or having a reliable fake would be a bonus. Let me know soon, I hit up Craigslist next week.

Okay, off to bed as soon as I put watermarks on the Saturday skater party pictures so they will be ready for upload first thing tomorrow when I get back from party photoing.

Tuesday night update:  I did shoot some pretty fun photos tonight, but I got into some shit instead of coming home to do work, so once again it is nearly 7AM and I have nothing to show for it (although I will have edited the photos of tonight before I go to sleep).  I also paid a ticket.  And I had a lot of fun, and I have not done that for a bit.  Let’s see what happens tomorrow…

Have some Lulz courtesy of Defame: Orlando’s comment section and 15 more minutes of not going to sleep.

After months of half-assedly looking for jobs and eating nothing but peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and dwindling down my savings to nothing, I finally got a job.  Unfortunately I was looking for part time and despite my promising interview at Starbucks, I decided to take a full time job at the Internet Archive.  I am going to be photographing public domain books the archive.  I get to play with Cannon 5Ds everyday… sort of.  Well okay, I just press a space bar and the cameras shoot the book automatically, but it has more to do with photography than bar backing or something.  I was very interested in this job for two main reasons.  One is that it is from 3pm – 11-pm which means I can still do night life work and two is that I am extremely interested in sharing of information and getting all the public domain stuff available to everything.  As you might know, I have released many of my photos under a Creative Commons license, so that you can use some of my images for anything you want as long as credit is given and that your work is also released under a similar license.  The license for some of my images aslo state that they can only be used for non-commercial projects.  For more information on licensing any of my work, email me. Also another nice thing about the job is that it is right across the street from MOMA.  Plus you know, maybe I can start eating real food and buy some new camera equipment.

So the answer is yes, this is going to effect this site.  I start work Monday and I am going to try to maintain two posts a day instead of my normal goal of 3-4.  One thing this will do is cut down on some of my bullshit posts and allow me just to focus on photography and quality updates.  I have some good ideas in the works.  I am not sure how this is going to effect that new site design I am trying to work on.  I think the biggest issue with that is actually the health of my friend who is working on it.  She has diabetes and has been very sick recently.  Wish her luck and health.

Anyway, let’s see how this goes.  I am still on website break until Monday, but I start work Monday so who knows if I will be able to make it out on Monday night.  Hopefully party photos start rolling in again soon….

This is the 1000th post on DBB 3.0. I have no idea how many posts were posted in the previous versions of the site, but this is the 1000 since last March. In celebration of this milestone I would like to make this the most contentless post of this entire site so far.

Enjoy:

Due to a recent reality check, I think I need to take a short break from night life. And by short I mean I will probably be back out by Wednesday or something. There are a ton of things I need to organize in my life, and sleeping until 5pm everyday is not helping that. Hopefully by taking a few days off I can get some things in order and make some improvements to this site. I have some grand ideas. One of them involves taking updates such as these and moving them off the main page and into a site news side bar, so you can read about the site, me going out of town, and things like that on the side of the page and keep the good updates on the main page longer. Also the plan is to make a page of just party updates so you can just skip everything and look at the parties if that is what you are interested in. Plus, I have some updates that I want to spend a good amount of time on in the next few weeks that maybe I can get a start on.

I am also going to really get working on my polaroid book and organizing my damn flickr page so I can get some books printed from my first year in nightlife. There will just be few made for people who want them, it’s not going to be a real book or anything. The polaroid book on the other hand I am looking for an agent and a publisher.

But most importantly I need to organize my portfolios so I can start applying to some magazine jobs. I need money damnit. If you have any photo work needed, let me know.

Word.

And so you have something to look at… I was YouTubing videos of Cock Sparrer today and I found this crazy video about Skinheads in NYC in the late 80’s. Pretty interesting. Let’s try to make every day “Thrash Day”.

… On second thought, I’ll probably be out filming stuff for Dayrobber this week, just maybe not as much as normal… or something.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFxhGyfnhuE[/youtube]

Sweet merciful lord. I woke up yesterday around noon after a few hours of sleep because I forgot to pick up my sleeping pills and had to take a bunch of tylenol PM instead. Then I did some shit and cleaned my apartment and updated this site and blah blah blah. Then I went to the Burning Angel party at Trash. I will just have to say that that was completely fucking insane. I am going to do a two part series, part one up tomorrow, and the really fucked up photos on Monday. I also have a girl/girl gallery that will be up as well. Anyway, the point was I was completely drained from the lack of sleep and my balls hurt from the naked girls and groping. So what did I do? I took a cab to Radio City Music Hall and stood in the rain until 9:30 AM waiting for tickets to see the NFL Draft. At 9:30 they opened the door and basically everyone started running full sprint at the door. Like 3000 people. It was insane, people got trampled etc. 2 hours later after being crushed by people I had a wristband. Then several hours of waiting in another line I got inside. From the time I left Trash to the time I got inside it had been 11 hours. Then I watched the draft until 10PM. It is now 10 o’clock, roughly 34 hours after I woke up. I want to die. GO DOLPHINS!

Real story and photos tomorrow.  Preview below.

Okay, so I am not really stuck. I just haven’t left yet. You see I am planning on driving back to New York and honestly the last thing I want to do is drive for 5 hours. Not that I want to be on a bus for that long, but at least then I could watch Human Giant episodes on my ipod. I also found a few reasons to stay an extra day.

1. Entourage Season 4 On Demand. My parents have this amazing entertainment system thing they just got and it has HBO on demand and I can watch it on a TV the size of my refrigerator. I just rewatched Entourage season 3 last week and was going to try to download season 4, yet here it is at my finger tips.
2. Washington Capitals hockey. I am going to try to watch game 7 of their play off series against the Flyers with some locals. Root root root for the home team. I don’t follow hockey during the regular season, but I fucking love hockey, especially when my team has one of the best players of all time playing in his first ever playoff series. Go Alex! (Wait till you see the Miami Dolphins/ Alex Ovechkin Onion video that will be up in a few days.)
3. I came up with a photo project that is documenting my nascent sexuality from 1980-1999 using Polaroid film to document locations in my neighborhood growing up that make me extremely nostalgic for a time before I started getting blow jobs in night club bathrooms from total strangers who are fans of my site.

Anyway, I will be back soon, I just wanted you to know a few of the amazing thing that happened to me whist I have been in Virginia.

• A female cardinal flew into my parents house. That is the state bird of VA. I was awoken to the sounds of my mother screaming and I had to run down and save her from it. She was flipping out and I barely had time to get pants on. I just opened a door and waved a towel at it.
• I saw a man in DC wearing a leather jacket with plaid shorts. Seriously dude, what the fuck?
• I saw a man shaving whilst driving. He had his whole face covered with shaving cream and he was shaving and then wiping the razor on a towel. Seriously, that is not a joke. My friend Wistar, who has a blog as well, wrote about both me, the wedding we were at, and the shaving guy. So read that shit right now.

Lastly, I leave you with this photo I took of my dad who I am visiting at the moment… click it to see a video of pretty much exactly what my experience in VA is like hanging out with my dad and his friends.

I am trying to be productive putting together a large list of links for Drivenbyboredom.com
I will link you if you fulfill one of the following:

1.  Link me back
2.  Have a site that doesn’t make sense to link me back, but you are a close friend of mine or are in a band i really like.

I am not linking myspace pages, live journals or things that are not actual websites.  (blogspot and similar blog sites are acceptable)

If your friends have blogs/sites let them know.  The links probably will not generate a lot of traffic, but DBB has a reasonably strong google ranking and will help raise your google and technorati rankings etc… Your links will do the same to help this site. Good trade, fun useful list of links.  Good.

If you want a link, post it in the comments section after you ad DBB or just email me at igor@drivenbyboredom.com.

Thanks.