DOUBLE TROUBLE!!!

WOW! not only am i on the cover of JUXTAPOZ this month, if you are a subscriber , you get the special super rare, alternate cover, with no text. Wow does this mean I'm accepted into the art world? even more signs that the end of the world is around the corner. (i did a really long interview with maTTew newton, but they only printed portions of it, to read the whole thing, check out http://www.poison-control.com/ next month)

RUBBING STICKS

Here's a picture of Tim Biskup beating the skins in my monster truck, he's the only other drummer
i let in the truck, here's also a picture of Paper Rad's show in miami, i was already a huge fan of his art and animation
(paperrad.org) and then he fucking blew up the spot in miami, he is one of the best drummers ever, playing over music that he programmed, truly one of the best live shows i've been to in a long time(sam borkson and harry kim pretend playing to the music). Besides the fact that both skills involve holding sticks ,what's the relationship between awesome artisits that are also awesome drummers? here's who i know of so far:
DAVE COOPER
TIM BISKUP
CHRIS MARS
PAPER RAD (FUCKING AWESOME!!!)
ARCHER PREWITT
RON REGE
BRIAN CHIPPENDALE (his band lightning bolt played in tokyo the day i got of jail , but i missed it)
and then i find out
Jonathan Levine, (i'm having my show at his gallery on Jan. 6th 2007) is also a drummer!
what's the relationship? do you know any other drummer/artists? i'm thinking of
writing an article about it, but probably not, i just thought it was a strange pattern.

Portuguese man 'o' war

very different from the X-O man'o'war.
on one of the only sunny days in miami last week, me and MyLan started collecting all the washed up
Portuguese man 'o' war jellyfish on the beach and started making a pile, when it was time to leave, i started stomping on them popping them, this white guy with his two kids , stopped me and asked me if I spoke english, and then told me that even though they are dead i could still splatter the poison into someones face.

SEXY BOB

fluorescents

i been using fluorescents for the past few years,
besides my gallery work that i bomb proof, almost everything i painted in the past on the street
if it has had any contact with sunlight, the fluorescent fades fast.

THAT'S JUST DANDY

Big Geezers + Dandy Warhols = Pure Joy
posted by dieselboi at 8:58 PM on December 18, 2006

We went to the Wonder Ballroom last Friday night for one of the best shows I have been to in awhile. Billed as a "A live meeting of Bigger Geezers," it was a show with a show. While the Dandy Warhols played a seriously awesome set, over on the side, a group of artists were putting their work down on canvas. I can't describe how cool it was to watch them first individually take on a canvas and then start doing their style on the other canvases. This created a montage of styles and just pure awesomeness. The artists - The London Police, Sam Flores, David Choe, Galo, and Jeremy Fish were amazing. I don't know what it takes to paint continuously for 2+ hrs, but I could see a couple of them shaking out the cramps in their hands.
Oh, and the Dandys were spot on! They played some tunes from an upcoming album which were vintage Dandy style. They played all their pop songs much to the joy of the crowd. They even did some of the trademark psych rock we all just zone out to. Add that to the art and you're cookin' with gas.
(Portland is fucking cool, i bought that mexican wrestling mask at an army surplus store 10 minutes before the show, the suit was 4 dollars across the street at the salvation army, i got paint all over it, and didn't want to bring it home so i left it laid out on the bed before i left)

Pussies

acryllic is for pussies, use oil
wheatpasting is for pussies, use cans
spray it dont paste it.

GRAF MECCA

after seeing this picture you cannot deny that seoul korea is the mecca of the entire graffiti kingdom. Stare at this photo and tremble in it’s awesomeness.

while most American die from heart attacks from being fat fucking asses. Most Koreans die from stomach cancer because the shit is hot. Here’s my uncle and brother at dinner. My uncle is the one wiping away his tears and that sopping wet napkin on my brothers forehead is his 10th one. I am crying while taking this picture, and I’m also crying again a few hours later while dragons fire spurts out of my ass.

ATTACK THE GAS STATION

here’s all three choe bro’s in korea standing in front of a gas station where one of my most favorite Korean movies was shot”ATTACK THE GAS STATION”. Great scene from the movie that I can’t relate with at all, when the rebellious punk artist kid with bleached blonde hair who’s only passion in life it is to paint, tell’s his dad he wants to be an artist , and the dad smashes one of the kids paintings over his head. In real life my dad just high fived me, and asked me to try and not to draw so much sexy stuff anymore.

korean beacon: KFC on western across from OMC

growing up there was a stereotype that black people like to enjoy fried chicken and watermelon a lot more than a regular person. To this day I don’t know anyone who eats more KFC and watermelon than korean’s . another food that black people are associated with in the U.S.A are pigs feet. Here’s some pigs feet I gnawed on this week in korea after pussying out on the bosheeng tang(dog soup) . yes I’m getting old. I’m sure if I ate it it would have added 2 more chest hairs to the 4 I took 30 years to harvest.

KEEP ON TRUCKING

I liked big john our bus driver from a painting tour I was on, a lot,
because after a week of riding on the bus together he
still didn’t know my name and referred to me as the
“oriennal fella”...that’s why I decided to do this homage mural
of him out in Avinger,Texas (a.k.a. buttfuck, texas, population 47).
Artists that painted , SABER, Rhode Montijo, and Kenton Parker.
When I asked big john why he had a tattoo of an owl on his arm,
he said, " it’s a bird. "
(other cities we hit, san diego,austin,and new orleans)

RING OF FIRE

i have a real special connection to lord of the rings, it was the last movie i saw before i went to jail, and then when i was in jail a korean drug dealer with 8 fingers gave me a copy before he got transferred out, i said, "i don't want to read that shit, i already saw all three movies and they were awesome, that looks thicker than the bible." of course at the time i didn't know i would be there for another few months, so when i did finally crack it open, i fell deep into tolkien's world(i think i cried twice maybe more while reading it) it killed an enormous amount of time and i read the whole fucking thing, including the elf dictionary and all the extra shit at the end. the movie's were fucking awesome peter jackson's a genius lets see what happened to our friends after LORD OF THE RINGS.
SAM - lost weight, bulked up and developed a lisp for the watered down version of groundhog day(but still pretty funny)50 FIRST DATES
FRODO- the male lookalike of Rachel Dratch of SNL took on a shitload of roles the best one playing KEVIN in SIN CITY (SIN CITY recut and extended version out now, it's fucking awesome, but still not better than the comic book)
and
ARAGON- also went on to do many roles, the best one being Joey in , comic book into movie,HISTORY OF VIOLENCE ( fucking awesome sex and violent scence's, highlights include aragon eating pussy in an awesome 69 scene , stomping a guys throat in, and great highschool bully fight scene. and it was way better than the comic)
good job guys ,keep on trucking

i remember all the places i flew to, getting off a plane in a strange new city, not knowing anbody, not knowing anything about where i am ,ready for another adventure to begin, but then also sort of wishing , it would be cool if there was someone waiting for me with a sign with my name spelled correctly , who calls me ,sir, takes my luggage , takes me out to the limo , and guides me through unexplored lands, it seems only the guys in the suits got that treatment, but the fantasies have once again become a reality and i can still dress like a shitty dirtbag, it's been a long time coming, and i love every fucking minute of it, am i hanging out of the sunroof like a drunk prom queen? you better believe it.

HEY DO YOU WANT TO BE IN MY GROUP SHOW FOR CHINKY GAY RETARDS?!?!

i was having breakfast with jeremy fish yesterday at doug fir's in portland and he reminded me of something i wrote a while back,
so in case you missed it the first time, here' it is again for the last time, the final word on group fucking shows.
Group shows are fucking horrible and a joke.and have been played out for more than a minute. Can everyone just stop it?
Nobody buys anything and did you really want to become an artist so that
You can paint on a pair of speakers, or jeans, or shoes or trucker caps, or whatever the gimmicky fuck.
stop sending me blank skateboards and shit in the mail, i was never a good skater , and no i dont want to be in a group show with 10 other people because we all have slanty eyes, or because we all have vagina's.
cut it out.

PARK CITY BITCH!!!!

the call came in last week, and WE ARE THE STRANGE (wearethestrange.com) is officially in the sundance festival!! not only is it in, it's showing four fucking times!! and i think it's the only animated feature that got in this year.
the hollywood types are already sniffing around, offers from all the major studios are starting to come in,
can't wait to see how this all plays out, excited as fuck, congragulation's M ,you really deserve this one, this is how it's supposed to go, the hard work paid off. see you all in mormon country next year, here's the schedule.
it's gonna blow your fucking mind, you've never seen anything like this.

one of the biggest highlights of miami , was playing along with a highschool marching band ,after not playing with the beverly hills high school norman' s in over ten years (class of 94!)
http://scioninstallation.imeem.com/video/jCVzuJyB/choe_and_band_scion_installation_3/

WHALES ON PARADE

SOMETIMES YOU JUST FUCK AROUND AND END UP IN GERMANY

are the best hamburers in the world from hamburg? i almost got in a fist fight arguing this point(my team being fatburger on lacienega when it was still there).
i don't know anything about hamburg, i don't even know if that's really where hamburgers were invented.
but i do know sometime's your just fucking around in your friends living room, and the next thing you know...

http://www.heliumcowboy.com/2006/12/20060503_124038.html#more

and then other times you get paid to fuck around and then people end up painting you as.....

http://www.valleywag.com/tech/sean-parker/office-decorator-encouraged-to-draw-cocks-221524.php

it's almost over

As we come to the close of another year, I realize I haven’t vacuumed or swiffered my house since 2003, time goes by so fast when your not in high school , with summer, and winter break to cut up the year. I’ve been on the road for almost 5 years straight, touring, painting, bombing, showcasing, demo-ing, and lecturing. I seen the inside of more hotel rooms than my own home . and I can honestly say I’m fucking tired. I have no sense of home, or time, or healthy food or rest. I’m always time traveling to other time zones, I’m wacked out. I plan to take it easy in 2007, but I fucking doubt it. We’ll see. I killed myself finishing up for my final art show in new york at the jonathan Levine gallery (jonathanlevinegallery.com), it’s gonna be a killer, my friends at viceland.com and jewcy.com (I spent a few months earlier in 2006 living in new york helping out my jew fuck friends by art directing this online jewish magazine, it launched last month ,check it out, jewcy.com) will throw a party for the show, come on out have a good time, get some art while you can. I may disappear into a warm obscure fuzzy hole called publishing.
So let’s get up to date. What’s new
The newest issue of juxtapoz (January 2007 edition ,I think) will have a nice feature written about me by matthew Newton, as well as the cover, awesome! What you don’t fucking know is that, if you are a subscriber to juxtapoz, you will get the limited edition alternate cover(sounds like early 90’s comic book cover gimmicks to me) anyways try to get em both if you can.
Toys, just in time for Christmas, a lot of my friends just had babies, so I went to upperplayground to get some baby clothes since they started making them, and then I wanted to get toys , so I went to walmart and bought some stuffed animals, but ended up buying this awesome spongebob lego set(and I don’t even like spongebob) anyways I used the pieces to make this really sexy spongebob(camera is down I’ll have pictures later.) and finally after the last toy maker I was working with had a nervous breakdown and disappeared , and the gay toy maker before that tried to molest me, I thought I would never make a toy, but the evil twins have arrived, I may have heard this wrong, but they told me they might all be sold out already, which would suck, because I only have one, but I’m sure these Chinese factory workers hate my guts trying to copy my watercolor style on these toys, but those fuckers did a great job. GOOD JOB CHINA! Here’s my friend eric holding one to show the scale(I’m working on a big one next) read about some more at
http://www.giantrobot.com/blogs/eric/2006/12/nearly-antithesis-of-barry-mcgee-is.html
http://www.giantrobot.com/blogs/eric/2006/12/this-is-huge-toy.html

just got back from a rvca hawiian trip,( Mickey Don't Surf Aloha Tour
Mickey Avalon w/ Dyslexic Speedreaders & Shwayze
RVCA ANP: David Choe, George Thompson, REVOK (AWR/MSK)
Guests: BJ Penn, Cobra Snake, Matt Archbold, Christian Fletcher, Akila Aipa, Casey Brown, Rory Parker, CJ Kanuha, Nathan Webster, Daniel Jones) I don’t really know how to describe it , it was almost everyone that rvca sponsors, it was like the fucking circus came to Waikiki, fighters ,musicians, surfers, etc. I had heard so much about REVOK from SABER it was nice to finally meet him and paint with him, REVOK and his Girlfriend ,Miriam are awesome, Hilo boyBJ PENN(I still think he’s the best fighter in the world even though I lost money on him in his last two fights, that’s actually my best vegas story that I’ ll get to one day) was walking around with me and my girlfriend in a headlock in each arm punching people in the face, the whole trip was pretty fucking awesome, and then mickey Avalon and shwayze (shwayze and blueberry are fucking amazing live hip hop act) tore the roof off the hard rock in Waikiki, Christian Fletcher scaled an 18 story hotel wall bcause he saw a topless girl standing out in the balcony, I painted an ice cream truck with EWOK and REVOK, here’s some flicks from mark the cobrasnake (thecobrasnake.com) who got his tits scratched up on his surf board.
Scion presents Skywalkers Art Parade along Miami Beach
Thursday, December 7, 2006 = Scion presents Skywalkers by FriendsWithYou
A unique parade featuring 12 blimps designed by FriendsWithYou, David Choe, Ara Peterson, Misaki Kawai, PaperRad, Devil Robots and Mumble Boy.
2pm
Parade route will move along the Miami Beach shoreline beginning at 17th Street and proceeding to
The Savoy Hotel
455 Ocean Drive

I’ll have more flicks of all this shit later, but art basel is gonna be in Miami this week, I’m getting on plane in 20 minutes for this , you got to be there, we’re throwing a parade with scion and friendswithyou.com of all our characters as gigantic hot air balloons down the beach it’s gonna take 150 people to hold the balloons down, I’ll let you know how it goes.
And lastly to keep this surreal life rolling right after the parade, I’m flying to Portland to paint on stage on the 15th of December ,with the London police, galo, sam flores, and Jeremy fish, while the dandy warhols perform a three hour set (artsy as fuck right?!) anyways if your in Portland or Miami , come out and see art and have a good time, if not I’ll see the rest of you in new york on January 6th, before I go to Hanoi to relax, I probably won’t write again till the new year, so have a good one, be nice , be safe, and party on.