Mike Giant Podcast

Mike Giant interviews Rime MSK with special guest Persué at Mike's studio in San Diego, California on December 22, 2023. Topics discussed include:  Honesty, fear of conflict, Thich Nhat Hanh, porn, intimacy, self-reflection, self-work, squirters, transmitting feelings, bullying, running from police, aging graffiti scene, energy of youth, Futura, staying active on the street, studio paintings on canvas, blackbooks, bombing vs piecing, meeting Nace, cutting back, Agree, All-Out King, various stylistic games, Poor Things, catching a fill-in solo, the courage to break away from the 9 to 5, childhood, relationship with imagination, The Starving Artist, forecasting down times, life as a book, harmony, retreat, diversions, keeping your heart in it, being in nature, excitement of new places, reconnecting with pace of nature, experiencing death, animal vs human energy, Trenton deer, feeding squirrels in Mexico City, graffiti characters, Vivid Playful Depictions of Energy, original content, praise for replication, ball games, gyms, trademark styles, Egs, The Pocket, Ghost, arrows, personality in letterforms, how mood affects style, marker and sticker tags, traveling in an RV, online store, fulfillment from the road, interacting with fan base. @rime_msk rimemsk.com @persue1 @bunnykittyofficial bunnykitty.com

Mike recalls memories from living in London and San Francisco in 1998. Topics discussed include: "Claire", Keri, Dek, Brighton, The Moon, throwups at Meanwhile, graffiti over graffiti, UFO, Abstract, Phunkateck, Ed Rush, Optical, Sage, Eklektic, GHB, Grove Park Yard with Egs, Network SouthEast trains, Trans Am show, Camdentown, Psycho, breaking car mirrors, removing fingerprints from spray cans, foiled mission at Uckfield Station, Brighton Yard, window-down on BritRail train, Kill All Cars, high speed car chase, falling through a roof, head wound, returning to San Francisco, brief stay with Claire, Jase, Laura, moving into a room near McAllister and Arguello, Kearny Book and Video, North Beach, cool manager, video arcades, cleaning crew, 4-hour videos for homeless people, The Thursday Guy, poppers (amyl nitrate), growing dislike of porn, Animal, Rosie the tweaker flower salesman, The Swiper, Bigfoot, Sam Flores, Kodik Joe, City Lights Bookstore, Jack Kerouac and Charles Bukowski, Avery, Skullz Press, Lisa, solo graffiti mission, Justo from Detroit, Dame, 3rd Street Yard, painting fast, getting tattoo from Nalla, Dase ATT, trackside with KR, Krink, failed mission in Safeway Tunnels, Noah Hurwitz, Imagination Plantation, Wild Brain, 2-week notice at porn shop, Twist, texture mapping, Hershey’s kisses commercials, stop-motion animation, Mac and Silicon Graphics computers, Maya, Fern Gully scenes, Toon Render, Golden Eye 007, painting walls with Dalek, getting tattoo equipment from Nalla, red foil National shader, tattooing left leg, tattooing friends for free, 22nd and Illinois wall, Chris Woodcock, Willy Wonka candy, KFC, Jets, replacing bus shelter posters with Apex, Kaws.

Mike recalls memories from living in London in 1998. Topics discussed include: Losing weight, skateboarding daily, Wandsworth, Tom and Honor, Brixton, Dogstar, Prince Albert, The Sun, Irish red cream ale, Guinness, Keri, crooked teeth, The Plumber, Soho and Covent Garden, black latex, after-hours bars, night bus, sneaky sex, Nicole, Wired magazine, Designers Republic, Attik, happy hour at the pub, house parties, housing developments, weed homies with American accents, spliffs vs joints, White Widow, Bored: Snow Skate and Surf Graphics, Patrick Burgoyne, Tomato, DJ Food/Ninja Tune, starting a record label, Will Bankhead, Mo’ Wax records, Futura2000, A to Zed guide, Dek from Art Crimes, Sensa, Irish homies, Valentine’s Day rave at Brixton Academy, Daniel Pemberton, Megatripolis, Sounds of the Asian Underground, Talvin Singh, Squarepusher, heart tattoo on big screen, Rough Trade records, Russell Maurice (Gasface) and Pinky, Egs, Camberwell College of Arts, Maharishi, zines, 12oz Prophet poster, blackbook collages, Photek Kung Fu Night, Wagon Christ/Luke Vibert show, Metalheadz night at The Blue Note in Hoxton, DJ Loxy, sweating ceiling, Fabio and Grooverider, Chemistry and Storm, Goldie, Ser, The Dole, murals, Chromes, Hammerite, undercoat black, radiator white, high security on Chunnel line, production with Ser, morning photo mission and a crazy chase.

Mike recalls memories from living in San Francisco and London in 1997. Topics discussed include: Oak Street house, “Allie”, Noah Hurwitz, @111MinnaGallery, latex pants, waxing, Skin Two, loft on 11th, @californiachoppers, the red bathroom, Patsy Cline songs, pre-sex routine, condoms, loft on Natoma, 6th Street, mirrored wall, cat attack, @dozegreen, basement studio, loft mural, Future Primitive Sound Session, Twist mural, Doze live painting, @bukueone, @dalek2020, abstract graffiti, collab with @obeygiant at Fashion Valley Yard, tunnel spot with @zanekingcade and @persue1, Paint Louis, “Duhkha”, @saberawr, Texas crew, @edrush, Eklectik, Kate O’Briens, Think skateboards, Fausto Vitello, The Chameleon, Kodik Joe, passed out drunk, Irish visitors, move to London, Wandsworth, Tom Brogan, Clapham Junction, A Clockwork Orange, working freelance, veggie sausages, kebab shops, fish and chips, corn on pizza, cheese scone and a coffee, Victoria Station, Spraycan Art, Westbourne Park/Ladbroke Grove, @mode2offical, @originalbando, Fume, Art Crimes (graffiti.org), Auto K spray paint, SER, undercoat and radiator paint, Camden Market, mixtapes, Cantelowes, Stockwell, Kennington Bowl, Meanwhile 2 (Royal Oak), Southbank, Bay Area uniform, London street fashion, Black Market Records, @metalheadzmusic, @mrgoldie, The Blue Note, @loxycylon, @fabioandgrooverider, @ltjbukem.

Mike gives a recap of his recent road trip through the South. Topics discussed include: The Silver Skillet in Atlanta, heavy police presence, Little 5 Points, The Clothing Warehouse, poster sale at Swag Shop in Edgewood, @killermike (Run The Jewels), active shooter, barber shop vibes, cheap shots in plastic bottles, Benihana, the Blue Flame, smoking weed in the strip club, endless $5 lap dances, breakfast with @keet_313 at Folk Art in Decatur, drive to New Orleans, low water pressure, Gabe/Mortal Machine Studio, @BeeGats, Coop’s Place, alcohol to-go, French Quarter, The Ruby Slipper Cafe, Low Timers, White Lotus, Voodoo Museum, Café Du Monde, Bee’s rapport with street people, poster sale, M’s night out, @dum.slut, absinthe, Rick’s Cabaret, Maya, Summer, Indian Motorcycles, Sugar Bear choppers, drive to Houston, traffic mess, Slab Sundays, Christie’s, vintage row, House of Pies, indoor flea market, airbrushed T, construction crayons, Sylvan Beach, Third Planet, Dragon magazines, missed car show, Colorado strip club, $13 water bottles, Salt Creek Steakhouse, Whataburger, Fort Stockton, missing hotel, Paisano Pete, sopapillas, Lulu’s Stixx pool hall, Lotaburger, passing on our stash, The Thing, Tucson, Bianchi’s, Amy’s Donuts, pizza donation, hot tubbing, KG’s Westside Cafe, buying bullets in Yuma, dumped joint, clove cigarettes, Abby’s BBQ and seeing America from a car.

Mike gives a recap of his recent road trip through the South. Topics discussed include: Invite from Bee Gats to show with him in New Orleans, August road trip to St Louis, considering a move out of California, leaving San Diego on April 26th, 250K+ Prius, $5.29 a gallon, traveling with M, smoking joints on the highway, Campo Border Patrol Station, stashed joints, drug dog, inspection, Tatty Talk, poster boxes, “Splash”, using your own designs as tattoos, allowed to go, staying in Gilbert, saguaro cacti, desert dry sauna, strip clubs, M exploring bisexuality/possibility of threesome, flakers, varying rules, Black Bear Diner, Adam and Josh, hot tubbin, Broken Yolk, Knife City, throwing knives, Albuquerque, Little Anita’s, alcohol at elevation, sopapillas, Anodyne, playing pool, resin tables, Delano, Knockouts, old dude, Long Island Ice Tea, Jagermeister, tipping at the stage, glasses fetish, throwing money, raining wrong, pricing, lap dance from “L”, arranging threesome, meeting L in parking lot, surprising M, Chloe Cherry, sharp fingernails, mood lighting, CBD tincture, squirting, 3hr session, M got the shakes from elevation/inebriation, breakfast at Garcia’s, Old Town, Palm’s Trading, repainting wall at Black List Tattoo, M got sunburned, dizziness, poster sale at All Is One, bonus treats, dinner at Cracker Barrel, getting recognized, mysterious lost joint, Caroline’s Choice, Texas and Oklahoma State Troopers, boot outlet, Oklahoma City, Hooters, nude tights, Victor Lopez, street trucks, Uneekbilt, Night Trips, Andrew Blake porn movies, bikers and cigarettes, ceiling twerking, Bentonville, Lauren and Poppy, Walmart Town, visit with Mike Peters in southern Missouri, Waffle House, Nashville, overpriced parking, Black Shag, Parthenon, statue of Athena, Roswell’s Harley, blocked porn sites, Stella Barey/OnlyFans, Hattie B’s Hot Chicken, Broadway bars/live music, Metallica covers, Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge, Hustler Club, No Hands state, Kimura, exchanging info, Chattanooga, Poor Taste, Atlanta, Skyview Ferris wheel, Gentlemen’s Club.

Mike has a conversation with Dr. Cole Marta and Brooke Balliett, LMFT of the California Center for Psychedelic Therapy. Recorded Sunday, April 2nd at the Center. Topics discussed include: Preparing set and setting for a psychedelic trip, dosage differences in individual people, Ego Death, surrendering to a trip, resistance, Creatives, sharpening by amphetamines, Alex Grey, the Community of trippers, experimenting with shrooms during COVID lockdowns, Ketamine use for preventing suicide, Ecstasy vs Molly, research chemicals, dancesafe.org, Schedule One Drug License, research pharmacies, variations in unregulated street drugs, regular doses, benefits of regulated drugs, clinical benefits for mental health patients, importance of set and setting, protecting friends from bad drugs, buying drugs online, Ketamine’s similarity to Nitrous, Spiritual connection, Ketamine therapy cycle, belief in God, ancient use of psychedelics, Ancient Greeks, Salem Witch Trials, Ketamine primarily used to treat depression and PTSD, common ground of psychedelic trips and deep meditation states, Default Mode Network, changes in cognition/perspective/emotionality, visuals, psychedelic replications, Replications Sub Reddit, trippy dream of Ketamine high, new client intake, prep before treatment, submitting to the process, the power of getting started, center vs clinic, unsafe feeling resulting from trauma, pre-verbal trauma, Ketamine as anesthetic, MDMA’s power to helping client feel safe, treating depression with psilocybin, “Being depressed is the opposite of being excited about being alive”, debilitating depression, spectrum of personality traits, Zendo, Burning Man, lack of guidance at raves, Adavan, duration of trips, staying up overnight on LSD, post-rave kit, inability to fall asleep, feeling a trip coming on, improved dancing ability, DJ RAW, raves as church, the body as a conduit for sound, fractals in nature, tapping into new levels of being, inability to understand language while on LSD, A-Ha moments/changing perspectives, seeing through cultural illusions, “Watching the news on acid is a bad idea”, DMT, feeling of immobility, short duration, NN (orange resin) vs 5MEO (frog venom), Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia, 5MEO flashbacks, using cannabis and psilocybin as entry points to the psychedelic experience, tardigrades, importance of good sourcing, situational awareness while high, Erowid.org and FiresideProject.org. Psychedelictherapyca.com Givebutter.com/CCPT-TYL

Mike recalls memories from living in San Francisco in 1996. Topics discussed include: Ben Lovejoy, apt at 8th and Geary, worst roommate ever, coke fiend girlfriend, blood splattered walls, Damon Soule, Oak Street house, anarchist John, Food Not Bombs, feeding soup to the homeless, Burning Man, Masako, internal allergy, Maseo, pulling off a daytime non-permission spot, Jeff Rafnson, X-Files, Alysha, hospital stories, Barbie cool heads, Chris Woodcock, Scribble Jam, Dalek, Jaser (aka Rapes), Lead, Emit, Pose, East, El Paso, Aug, Fokis, dark freights, colorblind/night vision, oversized photocopies, paintings freight Big5 and Amaze, refrigerator cars, sideshows, Twist (aka Barry McGee), USF wall, C4, Cycle, photo trading with SMK, Gaze, Evade (aka Dave Schubert), Oakland Tracks, Dream, Vogue, Jase, using a messenger bag to hop a fence, inspirations from LSD, ACID piece, Susan Farrell (Art Crimes), Krash, windowpane, GIANT simple piece, stamp, Persué, Nyse, Zane, Heroin, Juxtapoz graffiti interview, Kelly Krantz, Adrenalin skateboards, vagina monster on Front Street and Adore (aka Reyes).

Mike continues to recall memories from living in San Francisco in 1995. Topics discussed include: 8th and Geary apartment, Kodik Joe, Clifton Carter, working at Think Skateboards, The Dirty Dildo, High Speed Productions, Conqr, RJD2, George Washington High School, Cram, regional handstyles, Club Deco, DJ Qbert, Invisibl Skratch Piklz, scratching in stereo, latex gloves, lying to cops, Psycho City, 4th of July, Fame Whore, Coliseum Yard, TDK crew, Dream, Meut, Friday nights on KUNM, Krash, painting on LSD, Susan Farrell, ArtCrimes (graffiti.org), nonsense words as tag names, symmetrical pieces, using brick walls as a grid, increased focus from cannabis use, consistent straight bars versus tapering curves, creating new styles, 20th and Illinois wall, Twist, Reminisce, KR, Sope and Felon, Front Street wall, Lords crew, Rules of Going Over, trippy Goth girl, The Blue Danube, Shoot a Tagger fliers, Tie’s murder, Amarjit and Narangkar, Sikhs, Sam Flores, painting trucks on Christmas night, refinishing and painting my 1965 Pontiac Tempest.

Mike recalls memories from 1995. Topics discussed include: Photographic memory, moving to 8th and Geary with Ben Lovejoy, America Online, trading porn, personal ads, Sugar Daddy, shoulder massage in the round, back door access, King Street Garage, Club Universe, raver pack, flag dancers, bathrooms at gay clubs, video sex parties, Alexandra, awkward threesome, college graduation, squirt isn’t pee, big Goth lady, Hamburger Haven, Robin Williams, Coors Yard, Emeryville, Bukue, Joker, Home Base raves, Lept and Set, individual dance styles, circle dancers, Ernest, San Jose house style, Greg Carroll, UFOs, heavy hallucinations, morning-after Denny’s, Flax girl, Don Fisher, Charles Manson, Sunday nights at Club Deluxe, Swing dancing scene, Tribal Japan tour, Bobby Ruiz, Carl Arellano, Kien Lieu, John Reeves, Zodak, Yokohama (actually Nagoya), Shiori, kyogin, no means no, care packages, shrooms with Carl, foggy death ride, raves in San Diego, DJ Quark, dykes dropping knowledge, Jessica, raver love, Merilee, shuffleboard, Wednesday boyfriend, candlelit bath, menthol gel, Jon, The Family, drying out lsd and deckled edges.

Mike recalls memories from the last half of 1994. Topics discussed include: Black and grey fineline tattoos in Albuquerque in 1980, weekend flea market, Catholic and prison imagery, tattoo magazines, Guy Aitchison, biomechanical style, first tattoo, Mr. Went, jail rigs, Sharpie backpieces, Joker IHU, graffiti armband, issues with visible tattoos, Gator, stretching skin, Mom cried, symbolic intensity, Everlasting Tattoo, bottle rocket battles, Mike Davis, Ed Hardy, simple vs painterly coloring, George Campise, Aaron Cain, robotic vs visceral biomech, tribal style, Borneo, Greg Kulz, Nalla Smith, shitty upper leg tattoos, Greg Carroll, Tattoo City, second armband, professional confidence, graffiti humility, how apprenticeships worked, cautious entry into the trade, shop styles, Chris Conn, Colin Stevens, what time of day to get tattooed, Think tattoo on E, MDMA therapy, Igor, Primal Urge, Marcus Pacheco, anti-cop tattoos, second level shop, Tim Lehi, Jeff Rassier, almost getting impaled, learning from tattooers, Adrenalin Skateboards, Sam Flores, Jaya Bonderov and bold tattoos.

Giant's interview with Alysha Nett. Recorded at Alysha's home near Kansas City, MO on August 18, 2022. Includes interjections by her partner Mike Fuentes. Topics discussed include: Growing up near Wichita, creepy basements, tornados, Varsity sports, drunk at school, country girl stuff, MTV, music videos, Britney Spears, MuchMusic, Real World San Francisco, Wichita State, Woodstock doc, New Metal, male-dominated family, cinematography, Hardcore, Napster, MySpace, fashion, thrifting, youth sizes, Paris style, Fast Fashion, changing perceptions of tattooed women, “Lower Back Tattoo”, encouraged by tattooed father, Sabina Kelley, full suits, perceptions of tattooed people, hiding tattoos when helpful, balance of a bust, negative space, symmetrical tattoo placement, Junkie Style, My Little Pony, Lauren Windsor, cosmetology school, working at a salon in Wichita, Model Mayhem, Flickr, Tumblr, traveling as a model, Chicago, 17 in New York City, internship at a brokerage firm, hustling to achieve a goal, incentives, Waldorf Astoria, trading up, changes in image search, modeling for skate/streetwear brands, Philadelphia, the Chinatown bus, Mutter Museum, summers in LA, Moose Limited, working as a buyer, Fuct ad, monetizing/influencing, being a boss, Seasonless Southern California, anxiety, The Hundreds warehouse, REBEL8, move to San Diego, hosting SoundDiego on NBC, bus touring, meeting Mike Fuentes (Pierce the Veil), The Law of Attraction, The California Struggle, detoxing from social media during pandemic, creating healthy boundaries, sensuality, consistency, “brand-safe”, losing sense of self, moving to suburban Kansas City, daily routine, Lightroom and Photoshop, iMovie, Reels, tattoo vs lifestyle feeds, trust your gut and The Block Button.

Mike recalls memories from the last half of 1994. Topics discussed include: Working at Think Skateboards, Wade Speyer, Phil Shao, pre-drawn graphics, Eric Ricks, Dan “Cancerman” Drehobl, lip tricks, High Speed Productions, Paul Zuanich, being good at one thing, Fausto Vitello, The Widowmaker, meeting Jake Phelps, skater bar, Ben Lovejoy, getting hit by cars, Albuquerque visit, getting a tattoo from Dan-O, Wizdom, Balinese masks, breakup with first girlfriend, breakup sex, Printtime, Rubylith film, color separations, exposing silk screens, bent screens, vinyl printing, Stephanie, The Pink Projects, Officer Dave “Nasty” Nastari, getting mugged at gunpoint, Tribal Gear chain wallet, Lower Haight, Morgan, Sunday acid trips, Terence McKenna video, Folsom Street Fair, Icon, Candy Canes, Columbus and Broadway, Felon taking punches, 90210 and Melrose Place, Come Unity rave, The Idjut Boys, Cool World rave, Silvia, part-time ravers, Funky Tekno Tribe, Chill Zone, Energy Drinks, range of music at raves.

Live recording of a vinyl set by DJ Jae at The End Up in San Francisco on a Saturday night in 1994. Converted to MP3 from the original audio tape by Davis Livingstone in Boulder, Colorado in 2016 .

Mike recalls memories from the first half of 1994. Topics discussed include: Living in San Francisco, working at Think Skateboards, NYE at the Fillmore, phone card numbers, Cole EMB, writing letters, weekly international calls, 5 Fulton to 15 Third, roach coach, decaf coffee, sack lunch, $375 rent, Jae, circle dancing at raves, sound/body connection, The End Up, piss breaks, Think posse, buying LSD at Molotov’s, sending LSD in graffiti blackbooks, Western Union on Upper Haight, 737 Bush Street, smoking on the roof, sexy French neighbors, Cindy Crawford workout, Clay Street flat, beef with Kept, 3-week race, Sope and Felon, graffiti pits, raid in SOMA, Kept arrested, raid in Embarcadero, Sope and Felon get arrested, bailed Felon out, lying to cops, fight with Kept, dissing each other, Kept beef with Revok, Fate, apologizing to Kept years later, trip to Exeter, snorting E, phone card friends, 12 Westover Road, discovering acid house in London in 1990, discovering Jungle, breakbeat techno, Camdentown, Flame, getting pulled over, Jenny, Good Vibrations, Femalia, map point raves, DJ Spun, Bay Area rave style, painting freight trains with Jase BA, flat black Mazda Miata and ghost cars.

Mike Giant discusses his experiences in the fine art world as well as how to navigate it. Topics discussed include: Agree, Futura, graffiti writers moving into galleries, art “investors”, 1991 Albuquerque Museum mural show, connector photos, reasons to work with a gallery, stable of collectors, trusting in value, Sharpies, 50/50 split, galleries responsibilities, no sell early shows, exclusivity, taking advantage of opportunities versus remaining loyal, Twist, dealing with museums, museums buying art for their permanent collections, getting graffiti in Juxtapoz, Damon Soule, selling artwork in upscale hair salons in the late 1990s, FecalFace, Sketch show at Juice in 2000, downside of galleries owned by wealthy people, ask galleries for references, better percentage of sales at alternative spaces, The Lab show in Baltimore, first solo show (San Jose, 2001), Bob Schmeltzer, WDWA show (Brooklyn, 2002), The Vandal Squad, BEAMS/Upper Playground in Tokyo with Bigfoot and Sam Flores, 5024SF Gallery, Matt Revelli, unpaid show in Denver with Andy Howell and Sam Flores (2002), 55DSL in NYC, MOCADC (2003), pill poppin, group shows, Misanthropy Gallery in Vancouver (2004), Sight, artist-run galleries, 111 Minna Gallery (SF, 2004), Doze Green, Show with Shepard Fairey at Voice1156 Gallery (San Diego, 2005), infamous gang fight, solo show at The Erotic Museum (LA), The Yoga Series, solo show at Nomad in Toronto, first show in Paris (Royal Cheese, 2005), solo show at Lab101 Gallery (LA), solo show at Colette (Paris, 2006), Karl Lagerfeld, Sarah, Fafi, Las Chicas de Burque series, solo show at Best (London), extending stays overseas, Hysteric Glamour group show (Hong Kong, 2006), White Walls Gallery, Andres Guerrero, Justin Giarla, Outre Gallery, solo show at Magda Danysz Gallery (Paris, 2007), three openings (VIPs, collectors, public), Drago Publishing, group show at Iguapop Gallery (Barcelona), getting paid by overseas galleries, solo shows in Australia (2007), solo show at White Walls (2008), solo show at Guerrero Gallery (2010), solo shows at FFDG (2012-16), solo shows at Black Book Gallery (Denver, 2014-17), solo show at ATAK (SF, 2016/17), Inner State Gallery (Detroit, 2016), 6x6’ drawing, online store created (2017), ease of selling work online, getting full value of work sold, difficulty in shopping your work to galleries, using galleries to grow the value of your work, Paris auction, JonOne, accumulation of money vs. freedom, the power of Instagram, withholding a gallery’s access to your social media following, BONUS: botched show at Magda Danysz Gallery (Paris, 2009).

Mike recalls memories from 1993. Topics discussed include: The Beach Zone, Rob Russell, sending a package of samples to Think Skateboards, Burton snowboards, Tribal Gear, ASR Trade Show in San Diego, Olé Madrid, first E high, moving to 1933 McAllister, Everlasting Tattoo, initial excitement, futon, Psycho City, skateboarding down Haight Street, hard bail, Dream TDK, Twist, Dug, Bum, ground tags, bus commute to Hunters Point, Thrasher, Printtime, surprise first day, Ben Lovejoy, the closet art department, Espo, On The Go magazine, Sope, Clay Street house, Jase, The Condor, Joker, Dubose Tunnel, IHU crew, Pilot silver markers, KRINK, green and red street boxes, daytime tagging, Josh B, living with alcoholics/coke addicts, Jagermeister, LSD, Felon, crooked Victorian, house parties, sticker tags, When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron, The Art of Sexual Ecstasy by Margot Anand, the perineum, breathing techniques, orgasm/egolessness, spaghetti for months, coffee and muffins, sack lunch, girlfriend visits for Christmas, Sound Factory, Doc Martin, clean E, Mark Farina, Mushroom Jazz, rave near Lake Merritt, security on E, dawn set, Dwel and Jolt, copping drugs on Haight Street, getting hassled, the lost shoe, raves in the soccer fields at Golden Gate Park.

Recollections of my early years as a graffiti writer. Subjects discussed include: High school PE class (1988), Subway Art, Breakin’ movie, John aka Tank, Frisco Bus Style, Castoner wildstyle tags, Dan-O (aka Wizdom and Omen), The Frontier restaurant, SHARP Skinheads, exchanging blackbooks, KWS crew, racking with Agree, the Garden Section scheme, milk crate towers, the Escape from Home Depot, 1978 Mercury Zephyr skatemobile, racking fat caps, tossing keys as cover, steaks for guard dogs, leather coats on barbed wire, Grey PVC, the garbage can scheme, IGT by Phase2, Can Control, Skills magazine, Tower Records, bypassing security at Hastings, Cek, losing my shoe to a cop, Doc’s fat cap business, coke demon, LA color schemes, cutting back, chrome effects, student loan scheme, malpractice suit, booze options, Christmas Eve mission, Custom Paint, Krylon racks, potential bomb, Writers Meeting at The Frontier, CMF vs GMW battle.

Recollections of my early years as a graffiti writer. Subjects discussed include: photographic memory, moving to New Mexico, Cholo graffiti, Breakin movie, Subway Art book, Hip Hop graffiti, Olde English font, Thailand, seeing a writer at work for the first time, Uptown SK8 Posse, Matt Linnell (Circus), Albuquerque ditches, USP, difficulties with spray paint, GIANT, first freeway spot, PBT, Monolithic, 2ZC, CWK, Agree, NY fat caps, Doc, ATK, classified ad in UK skateboard magazine, Tom Brogan, London, Camden Town, EDM, acid house mixtapes, Street Beat, first meeting with Agree and Doc, buff paint, AOT, The All Time Kingdom, photo trading, Agent, Zore, Rafa, Vez, Chicago, recognizing writers, DTE, SB, Lone, rack and return, vintage paint, Wesk, learning security routes, tagging a crane, MC Rock, Dyse, Cheno, Sero, Quasar, Zodak, Zeno, Brisk, the Euclid Yard, Sake, stencil caps, APS crew, Agree dies.

90min mix meant for moments of heavy marijuana consumption. Ambient, dub, jungle, downtempo, juke and more with spoken word from Mike Giant https://soundcloud.com/itsufo mikegiant.com