Finally I am ready to start dropping some sweet Miami pictures on you.  Honestly my Miami trip was a bit disappointing from a productivity standpoint. I only have 6 galleries total and only 4 of them art Basel related. We have one Miami Dolphins related gallery and one half naked girl gallery as well as the parties. Many of the clubs I partied in were no cameras inside and I don’t have the hook up in Miami like I do in NYC so I sort of had to just go a long for the ride. I had some adventures though and I might have to tell you a few stories while showing you the pictures.

My first night in Miami was Wednesday. It was pre Art Basel and I got into Miami probably around 11pm. I met the girl I was staying at at Liv. Mark Ronson was DJing. She told me not to bring my camera in which was ultimately a mistake because tons of people were shooting. It was so fucking hectic in there I spent a lot of time wanting to leave so I never actually thought about going back for my camera. By the time I realized I was having fun in there it was too late and that part of the night went undocumented. What was weird about Liv is that there were so many damn people I knew there. A lot of New Yorkers in town for Basel but a lot of other Miami cats that I have run into over the years.  It ended up being a lot of fun.

After I headed over to Purdy Lounge which is pretty much a dive bar. They have a pool table and couches and that shit and it was pretty empty when I got there. But evidently that place is the normal Wednesday late night hang out spot because by 4am that place was packed and people were getting crazy. I ran and grabbed my camera but by that time it was nearly 5am and last call was ontop of us. Still I managed to meet some babes and take a few pictures which you will see below.

As we gathered outside the club to find the next party I saw Simon Rex aka Dirty Nasty outside. I met him at Sundance a few years ago and we have some mutual friends so I sort of knew who he was. All these girls were throwing themselves at him which was pretty funny to watch.  He was looking for Mark Ronson who showed up to the party late and was inside.  At some point everyone decided to go back to my boy Blu Jemz hotel room and I ended up driving Jemz, Dirty Nasty and Mark Ronson and my Miami roommate Malika to a hotel after party 5:30am.  The after party is probably best not mentioned for the interests of everyone involved but I will say that it was really funny to hear people kissing Mark Ronson’s ass who just an hour ago were talking shit about his DJ set at LIV.  I got home around 8 am. What a life we lead…

Click here to see all the (slightly too dark) pictures from my quick stop at Purdy Lounge in Miami.

Sorry I have been not updating recently. I have been in Miami as you probably gathered. It’s hard to update when you are doing crazy things, not sleeping and have rare access to poor internet. I am back and town and back to work. Photos from Miami will be up Tomorrow, Thursday and Friday.  Get excited. In the mean time some important news!

Friday we are going to be doing another party for Jessie Lee. Again, read up on what happened here if you aren’t up on it yet. We raised a ton of money at the Darling House art show for her which was awesome and we are going to raise some more for her this week. She just found out that she might not have full brain function for a full year so we really need to help her stay afloat while she gets healthy! And on top of helping Jessie out this party is going to be fucking fun.

The party is this Friday at Angels & Kings which is not exactly a spot I spend a lot of time at, but Jessie loves the place and everyone there loves her.  Bombshell Brats is hosting the party and bringing a ton of girls with them who I am sure will be getting naked all night. They are doing live performances and they are doing $10 lap dances with the girls and you can get your photos taken with them for $3. I will do my part and try to get them all naked in the bathroom. Knowing the girls they are bringing it should be fucking crazy… Girls like Azrael, Mayhem, Indigo, Annika, Missy & Sammy.

Also there will be raffles and stuff too. For more info check this out and you can always donate money to Jessie without going to the party here!

So once again it is your favorite post of the week! Terrible point and shoot pictures of a bunch of dudes wearing aqua watching sports!  The Dolfans NYC meet up last Sunday was pretty much the most fun one of the year.  It was less packed than usual thanks to the Christmas holiday and a humiliating defeat of the Bears, but having a little room to breathe was almost a nice change of pace and the bar was still very full of Dolphins fans.  The team beat the Oakland Raiders solidly and we actually could enjoy ourselves instead of chewing our nails off.  It was a good day.

I also wanted to mention a story about a Dolphins fan who saved my ass last night.  As you know I am in Miami. On the trip here I grabbed the wrong USB cord.  I figured other people would have one but it seemed like no one did.lI needed to turn in images by the morning and I didn’t know what I would do so last night in a panic I drove around to different stores including a 24 hour Wallgreens and a 24 hour CVS. Neither of them had what I needed.  When I got to the CVS I had pretty much given up. The guy told me about a Walmart almost an hour away but I had only slept 2 hours in the last 48 and I didn’t know if I could make the drive. As I was leaving CVS I saw some random Miami Dolphins related crap at the register and I bought it.  He asked me if I was a Dolphins fan and he and I had a long conversation about the Dolphins ending with me inviting him to NYC for a Jets Vs Dolphins game and more importantly it ended with him opening a scanner that they sold in the store and letting me borrow the USB cable that came with it. It was amazing and he saved my ass.  He told me he would have never done that for a Jets fan. One of the good things about sports is that you have friends everywhere you don’t even know about.

Click here to see all the pictures from last weeks Dolfans NYC meeting at Third and Long. And hopefully because I have a USB cord I can start getting actual party pictures from Miami up on this site! Go Dolphins!

Remember the All My Friends Are In Bands series of posts where I show you guys 3 music videos from my friends bands? Well it continues today.  I am in Miami for Art Basel and a Miami Dolphins game and it is going to be pretty hard to get any actual photos to you this week so I have a few updates planned that don’t involve party photos although I may try to get some party photos up too. We shall see.  Anyway, in today’s post we are going to talk about two friends videos and then one other video that I just had to share with you…

The first video is Drop The Lime’s new rockabilly track called Hot As Hell. This shit is pretty fucking awesome.  If every DJ was dropping “baseablilly” tracks I would probably hate my job a little bit less. Just kidding, I love my job, but having epic rock and roll dance jams would be the way to go. I’m just mad I am not in the video… You guys should see me with my hair up…

The second video is a track called “I’ll Show You” by my old friend Raquel Reed.  The track is pretty awesome and it features Redman doing a verse.  She lives in a house north of the city where a bunch of artists record. She said that one day she came downstairs and heard Redman working with her producer and rapping over her track. That seems pretty surreal but evidently he loved it and helped her get the video made. It’s pretty cool.

Lastly I have for you the newest viral sensation from the Insane Clown Posse. After shooting the Gathering of the Juggalos I have become the go to guy for all the important juggalo related content and I had to find a reason to post this video. This video is ICP’s toy drive. The long story short is that if you bring a toy to an ICP concert for poor kids you get a free ICP Christmas CD.  The long story short is this fucking nearly 10 minute video featuring Sugar Slam pretty much parodying the SNL skit that is parodying her. I mean it is so bad it is brilliant. It also features the line “With the tags, fag” which is so fantastic it is unbelievable. Also I met Sugar Slam and ICP so I think this can still fall into the All My Friends category in some loose way. Enjoy!

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