DJ Demchuck Hosted Skyy Vodka @ Betty's
Yesterday I shot the Ten for $10 Tour at the Metro, it was such a good time. I had my friend Danielle meet me there early so we could interview Trapped Under Ice, Ghost Inside and Poison the Well. Everyone I met yesterday were pretty cool guys too. A few bands into the show we went next door with Terror and began our day drunk at 2pm. Many, many, many drinks later we came back to finish shooting the show; Poison the Well & Bane. After that we went back to some bar with Ghost Inside and them celebrating their tour managers birthday getting him smashed and playing shuffle board that was inside the bar. Most hardcore game ever, apparently.
Last week I also photographed Manson and Slayer at the Metal Mayhem Fest. Now THAT was a spectacle, at least Manson's show. He's so weird looking in person and up close. I was never that into his music, I still haven't really listened to it but his opener was pretty good, I think it had something to do with being an American off of his new CD. But after that he only played for like 30 minutes, what a fucking rip off? (...Had I paid). Tickets for it were ridiculous, I think people were paying $65 for pit tickets? Fuck that. Maybe I'm just cheap but I would never pay that much for a show. Slayer was pretty crazy though, along with Trivium and God Forbid. I still need to edit the photos from both of these shows. I've been overwhelmed with shooting that editing all of these photos and taking forever.
Here are some photos from August Burns Red / Blessthefall / Enter Shikari / Iwrestledabearonce from a few weeks ago at the House of Blues. The shots came out pretty well I thought. Honestly, I think I take better photographs the more I drink. I definitely think they're getting more quality as the night goes on. Is this some Terry Richardson/Charles Bukowski syndrome? Haha.
August Burns Red / Blessthefall / Entershikari / Iwrestledabearonce. Click the spoiler to see a few of the shots.
Afterwards, there are some shots from a burlesque show I went to at this club called Debonair in Chicago. They have a burlesque night every Wednesday, how can you pass that and free PBR up? No. You can't. Actually, maybe I'll go do that tonight for an hour or so. It's so fucking nice out right now but I'm stuck here editing photos. That's fine, I walked to Walgreens earlier haha, I can take a few more hours inside. I feel exhausted from yesterday and all that hardcore.
Also: I bought a pair of shades a couple of days ago, for the second time, and lost them yesterday. I blame Terror for getting me wasted. Thanks guys.
I'm slowly working with my webmaster to get a blog up on my site, we've been having some issues with the software and logging in. I wish I knew how to fix all of that shit, I haven't known HTML or worked with it since I was 15. So hopefully in the next few days I'll have a blog up on my website to post new photos more frequently than just having galleries of specific themes.
Food I've eaten today:
Chips
20 oz. Coca-Cola
2 Bowls of Cocoa Krispies