MC Oz on The Jimmy Kimmel Show

Liam, Oz, and I went to the Jimmy Kimmel show recently to watch the show and the outdoor concert afterwards.  Before the show officially started they asked if anyone wanted to come up on stage and display a talent, so Oz jumped up, grabbed the mic and told the band to give him a beat.  He did a freestyle rap about the show and our band, and the crowd looooved it!  It was really funny.  I happened to snag a few pics with my camera phone.  

I really wanted to get a picture with Guillermo but he didn't come out until the show started.  However, I did get one with Uncle Frank and it's a gem.

Sunny CA.

It's called Pinkberry and it's delicious. Another bike ride in Long Beach today led us to the frozen yogurt establishment known as Pinkberry. When Sal said it was frozen yogurt, I figured I would know what it tasted like, but I was way off. Pinkberry was much better than expected and not like regular frozen yogurt. Kind of hard to explain, so you'll just have to try it when you come visit us. We split the medium sized dish, with original flavored yogurt, plus a few toppings (fresh kiwi, strawberries, and oreo crumbs). A little expensive for us poor folks to frequent the joint, but worth the indulgence on a nice, sunny bike ride in The Beach.

LBC

Wussup, Peeps. Shane here. I finally know what all the fuss is about. It's mid March right now, and Sal and I have been going to the beach for the last two or three weeks! No wonder real estate is so expensive in California. The beautiful weather more than makes up for the ridiculous traffic. We live in South Long Beach and I've loved every second of it. Our apartment is on the Pacific Coast Highway and about a five minute drive from the ocean. Sal has recently taken up surfing with the help of some borrowed equipment (thanks Morgan and pals). I've recently taken up laying on the sand, reading a book, and watching Sally surf. I mean, the weather's nice, but the water's still too cold for me! On Sunday we went for a drive and a bike ride along the coast north of Long Beach and bit south of LA (that's where the picture comes from). We were on a peninsula that had rolling hills, beautiful cliffs that dove into the water, and some enormous houses. We talked to one gentleman, on his Sunday stroll, that told us he purchased his house in the 70's for around $100,000 and that it would now go for about $1.9 Million (I'm saving up). His house doesn't even have the ocean view. He pointed to one house on the street next to the ocean and said it just sold for $4.8 mill. That one's a little out of my range. It was fun to cruise around there and see some more of the Long Beach area. It was a nice, beautiful day with my nice, beautiful wife.

Fashion is lame, style is eternal.

So i'm really into shoes. I haven't been for that long however. It was the summer of 2006 when i went into one of those vintage (expensive) thrift stores and picked up my first pair of Dunks (Nike Hi-Tops). About a month later i walked into a room and one of my friends almost fell out of his chair. "Sea Crystals!" Turns out the shoes i bought, which i just thought were super dope looking, are crazy rare and expensive. This opened my eyes to a new world of shoes and live hasn't been the same since. I know, I know, it's crazy materialistic. It's my biggest vice. I'm really battling it lots of the time because I kind of stand for a person to not need something like that to feel good about their self. For now, however, it's a hobby and i'm obsessed with it. Here's some pics of my latest additions:
These babies right here are in my top 2 favorite pairs that I own. They're called the Undefeated No-Liner Stussy World Tour LA Dunks. Long names make things sound fancier. So Stussy did this collaboration with Nike a couple years ago and released a different pair of Dunk Hi's for about 5 cities across the world. Paris, London, New York, Tokyo and LA were some of them, I'm exactly sure of any others. So these ones are the LA ones, which I thought fitting, because in my mind it's kind of cool that I live in LA. It's always been kind of a fantasy of mine to have an apartment in a big city and do the cool things there which i'm now doing.

Next pair:

These babies are my first pair of Air Max 1's. These are the very first shoe that Nike made with the air bubble showing on the outside of the shoe. The inspiration for their design came from the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. It's a bulding that has seemingly no exterior walls and it's pipes with which it is covered are painted bright bold colors. The running department didn't want to put these shoes out, but the designers won the battle to get them on shelves. These 2008 remakes of this shoe were designed on nikeid.com. Air Max 1's are available in lots of stores but in pre-made colors and fabrics. At nikeid.com one can design their own shoes with their choice of color and fabrics on each specific part of the shoe. DOPE. Okay, my disclaimer is though, that I got these shoes in China. Some kid must have chose some rad colors, because i bought these there, not from the website, from a sort of catalouge of shoes that a certain vendor had. It took me 3 weeks of searching for the perfect pair. It was 4 days before I was to leave the country that I found this guy in a shopping place I'd never been to. He ordered them for me and we picked them up right before I left, along with the 11 pairs of laces that come with each pair of Air Max's from nikeid. Bayam! I still wear them only on special occasions.

Okay, i love you bye!

MC OZ