LOS ANGELES iphone photos.

I have been major bumming for the last 2 weeks because I lost my camera on the plane back from Vancouver.  I called the airline but they say it never got turned in. Mega SUX!!! So, I took some photos form my phone this weekend. Here they are:

This one above is Dave and Attiba rockin' it OCD-J style at the Cha Cha.
Psyched to see Chris and Clare from UTR. Here Chris is trying on Dave Stone's glasses. Very sharp!
Chris and Rob at Pure Luck
Dave rockin' Tipton's glasses.
Chris with a Mexi-Coke, real sugar, no corn syrup. 
Dave Stone and I took Chris and Clare on a Hollywood tourist tour. First stop is the Johnny Ramone statue at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Johnny is trying on Chris's glasses. Someone before us left a half bottle of Vodka there, and yes it was really vodka not just water.
Clare and Chris laughing at the embarrassing quotes that are all around the statue.
Chris at the grave of one of his American ancestors. Creepy!!!
More creepiness. Humphrey Bogart signed his foot prints "may you never die until I kill you" WTF!!!
Keeping with the dead stars: this is Michael Jackson's star. So many people. Crazy!
Then later that night we ran in to Susan and Nick again at Pure Luck.
We met up with Dean and Jen and saw Bruno and had a late dinner at Pure Luck.
The next day we had Pancakes at Dean and Jen's house. 
Then we went to the Lotus Festival at Echo Park Lake. 
The Bad girls and VC.
My little friend stealing my sunglasses. 
Deano buggin' out!
Chris rockin' his silk flower T-shirt.
Geo Chen telling a dirty story at breakfast.
Bye Chris and Clare. We will see you back in London. Miss you!!!!

Randy Judges Dance-Offs Now

Yeah.. so Randy is judging this Dance-off pretty soon. Rad.

NEW SILK FLOWERS CD OUT TODAY

Silk Flowers CD is out today, the vinyl comes out on the 21st. It's on PPM  and it pretty much rules.

Our first promo picture

Rolls of Development (i got developed)

Been shooting film for a while now, these are some random shots from a few months ago or so.

This dude was at a Mika Miko show at UCLA. He jumped in the pit and punched a kid in the back of the head, it was pretty intense, he was really into his shirt.

Flagstaff show on the way to SXSW, these kids were all together and all died their hair the same color. It was kinda freaky, but awesome.

Black Flagstaff crowd shot, where's SWEET BOBBY C?!?!

Andrew Reynolds shredding the ditch outside Texas, looks harmless but i promise you minutes before this and after this he was hurling his body down a very large vast open hole of some sort.

Randy Steven Randall, Baker board, pre I Phone.

Spanky, almost landing on my head. NO AGE PARTY! 

Spanky again, he found this weird little twig hand and decided he needed to have it. He was so pumped he came in to show us all.

Jennifer and the smartest cats ever.

New Mika Miko record HERE.  Thoroughly inspected by Jennifer and Jenna.

Sporty ride in Australia, looking sharp.

Billy's drawings. Randy drew the Stussy "S" and handled Bartman.

Fans in New Zealand, pretty stoked. 

These guys were so awesome at the show. That guy on the right's Eyes are actually the same color though.

Randy signing a deck. "Mexico City KILLER!!"

Randy with a giant can of beer and a tiny can of beer. The tiny one was a blow up toy so that big one had to do, we poured it on these guys below.

Guadalajara crowd shot. The guy with the mustachio was extra happy, we did in interview with him after that blew my mind.

Randy and his pre game ritual.

Could Be Worse

Jonny Olsen

I met this kid named Jonny Olsen when i was in high school. He skated for this cool skate shop in the valley called Oneeighteen (Paul Rodriguez rode for them too, when he was like 12). We would hang out and skate and go see bands play, then I moved out of my parents house with some friends to Hollywood, and he would come and stay with us and just hang out. I started a job at a vegan thai restaurant called Vegan Express (which was the FIRST of all the vegan thai places in Los Angeles, all the other places stole the same basic recipes, I used to have bands play there and well, that is a whole other story) and soon after I got Jonny a job there too.

Jonny fell in love with Thai culture through the restaurant, I mean everything about it, the food, the clothes, the language, the girls and the music, especially the music. He went one year to visit and came back with a wooden flute type instrument called a Khaen and played it literally every minute of every day when he wasn't working or sleeping. Then he moved to Thailand to study the instrument and was gone for about two years. He came back and was pretty much a pro, he recorded a record out there, started a project called Master BAJ (Bad Ass Jonny) and soon he went back to live in Thailand and then Laos. In the last two years or so Jonny has become a huge success in Thailand and Laos and performs for thousands of people over there, he is a Pop Star.

 Below are some of his videos that are very unique and crazy and mind blowing and just, i don't really know how to describe them, you just have to see them, this is beyond next level heaviness, beyond beyond even!

 

South America

We flew from LAX to Santiago Chile. Dean snuck into First class during the layover. 
We had a layover in Lima, Peru. We didn't know what to do.
We just hung out on the plane.
While we were waiting in Immigration we saw Juan from Abe Vigoda's secret twin.
Street kids souvenirs at the airport.
It was a long flight.
The next day we saw the coolest hill in the center of Santiago. 
There were really old castles walls.
This spiky pink flowers.
this street dog was all the way at the top of this huge castle on top of a massive hill. He was just up there chilling. 
this is the 360 view of Santiago.  Amazing!
Details of one of the demons.

there was a beautiful plaza at the bottom of the hill.
These tiles looked cool.

I was so stoked we could take some time to sight see.
We ate at the raddest Vegan resturant.
There was also a punk silkscreen shop and store.
they had cool punk aprons.
Dean grubbed down.
It was seitan , potatoes, and some other stuff. 
They also had some rad art on the wall.

it was done by the cool art collective.
there is also tons of graf in the streets.
tru dat!
Chilean dogs.
so majestic
and Cool Chilean Cats.
old school buses
this is a painting of a Pudu. these are like tiny Chilean deers that live in the forest.

Dean watched Garden State on the plane and was trying to blend into the background.
The venue we played had this huge art gallery next door.
This piece went across the whole room.
It is a tongue  and skate ramp.
The sunset was super pink from all the pollution. but man it looked beautiful.

Someone made bootleg stickers for the show. They were selling them out in front of the venue.
Golden Acapulco. 
Chilean Homies!
Rad Venue.
They gave us swine flu masks on the plane ride to Porto Alegre Brazil. 
It feels so freaky flying with everyone passing out these masks and using hand sanitizer. 
cool beer label design.
It was a quick flight. 
This is our number one fan in Porto Alegre. He was psyched to see us but he kept telling us how much his wife hated us. but she was a good sport to hang out and watch the show.
He also interviewed us for a music TV show.
I wish we had more time to see the sights.
I went for a walk in the morning.
the light is so warm down there.
Dean and Kim are about to flash the camera.
then when we were checking in for our flight to Sao Palo these guys came in to the airport and started playing right in the middle of the airport. this would never happen at LAX.
In Sao Palo everyone wore sparkly socks.
After the show we went to get vegan pizza. this one is covered in roasted chopped garlic. Wow! that was sooooo much garlic.
and this pizza had lettuce as a topping. I have never seen that before.
Dean liked them both.
we had help loading the van.
Raging Dean.
way to put it bluntly.
you can't bring these things on the plane.
poster for the Buenos Aires show.
this show was super fun!
Buenos Aires is a really beautiful city.
we got a chance to walk around before sound check.
Dean bonded with the locals.
We got falafel down the street from the venue.
the venue puts on plays and theater shows. This was a prop back stage.
we also found these glasses back stage. 
I think they look better on Matt.
fuckin' A! that is a huge burger.
Taylor's sister came to the show to hang.
Matt and Brad.
Dean getting lurked on.
We went to an English pub after the show.
This tour was so much fun and it went by super fast.

Familiar...

We play in Toronto tomorrow and Friday night. Then on Saturday we play in Vancouver. Our mini Canadian tour kicks off super hard. Randy loves SLAPSHOT 

These guys make cool T-Shirt designs. 

That white one in the middle looks awesome! Good work!

NEW OOGA BOOGA BLOG

The new OOGA BOOGA blog is up and and has an amazing AMAZING resource list for independent book publishers HERE if you ever wanted to make a small run of your drawings, get newsprint zines made, get a large art book printed of your silk screned posters etc. you can find all the info here. Hooray for Ooga Booga!


Also, if you were ever wondering where to buy our shirts on-line, or some of the more limited type stuff we do, you can always grab it at oogaboogastore.com

NEW MIKA MIKO VIDEO

Directed By Randy Randall and Lana Kim.

Big River Man

My Cousin Roger Mayer is an incredible film maker. His film Big River Man will be screening at tons of festivals all over the globe this summer. The closest screenings to Los Angeles will take place:

Sat., June 20th at 10pm and Wed., June 24th at 2:15pm, both in Westwood. The url to see the info is at: http://www.lafilmfest.com/tixSYS/2009/filmguide/Title/BB The second film down is BIG RIVER MAN.

Come to one or both of the screenings I assure you will not be disappointed. 

Tokyo day I

We had a day "off" after our show in Tokyo to do interviews 
For the first interview we got 1000 yen ($100) to go shopping and talk about what we got. I will try and post a link once it goes up.
I mean what a weird Pretty Woman moment.
They took us to the biggest most overwhelming mind fuck of a store called Tokyu Hands
It was like an emporium of everything you could ever imagine. 
It would kinda be like if Wallmart was actually filled with THE RADDEST shit on every aisle, and there were 8 of them piled on top of each other all with different CRAZY shit.
these pictures can not even do it justice. But if you ever wanted to squeeze a pig and make it cry this is where you could buy one to do that.
I mean this makes you wanna have a baby just so you can dress it like a hitman from Pulp fiction, right?
Then after that shopping horror freak show we went to this chain restaurant that has a slab of grilled tofu in between two buns with lettuce and tomato if you are vegan you have to make sure to say no avocado because they drown it in mayo.
after hangin' around and talking to a bunch of people for Japanese magazines Katomah took us to an incredible Japanese all vegan restaurant. CORRECTION: 

It is called Nagi Shokudo. http://www.nagishokudo.com/

These are all photos of it.
The food was so incredible!!! I feel terrible I could not remember the name.

Thanks to the readers who wrote in with the correct name and info of the restaurant.
Thanks for the great food!!!
Then we went shopping at a mall, because we wanted to go to MUJI. but this shop name caught my eye.
back at the hotel we had the smartest toilet I have ever seen.  
In the middle of it all.
Dean and Katoman.
then after diner we went to do karaoke with Melissa and Busy and Busy's good friend from school. (again, no notes were taken. I am a shitty reporter. but trust me he was the raddest dude x 10)
Karaoke Dean
Karaoke Busy
the best lyrics ever. Now with more saxophone!
Katoman calling for more beer. It was like all you can drink for 6 hours. 
we left after 2 hours.
but we got the most out of those 2 hours. this was the secret unannounced covers only No Age Telepathe show.
big ups!
Dean is holding the big ass remote.

Pulper Lain Pulper Lain!!!!
Katoman
oh man, so many songs were sung.
we couldn't find any Metallica 
patterns clashed
whoa
it was our box to rage in.
you can imagine how the rest of the night went down, cuz i don't remember shit after this.

Tokyo day II

Marijuana is soooooo illegal in japan. In the 70's Paul McCartney got mega busted trying to bring some joints with him when he was on tour with Wings. They banned him for a shit load of years. 
However putting dogs in bowls and selling them on the streets is ok. Go figure!
We woke up early the next day because we had to print out all these forms for our Brazilian work permits. We also had to take new passport photos for the work permits.
we went down to Shibuya station to take passport photos at a photo booth.
How rad is this tile!
and it was also raining that morning. Is there nothing you can not anthropomorphize?  Sad umbrella...
This was the passport photo booth.
This was the 1st photo I took. I was still reading the instructions when the flash went off. I had to take another one. I was also still super hung over.
Alex modeled for the poster advertising the photo booth.
I mean they smoke a lot in Japan, but WTF! This would possibly be the world's deadliest cigaret. You would prolly get a hernia just trying to hold it to your lips.
This what Japanese ovaries look like.
HA!!! No, just kidding! We ran into Melissa, Busy, and Minoru on the street and we went to take "picture team photos"(is that what they are called?) 
We took 2 sets this sorta what the 1st one looked like.
this is a better picture of the pictures.
It is so crazy, you take photos and get to draw all over them.
this is at the drawing station on the next set.(Notice Melissa's  stigmata) 
Why is this not a noise band or tape label name already?
wow... 
the 2nd set sorta looked like this. I will try to hi res scan them because they are pretty funny.
This is a poster for the Japanese No Age. So fucked up!
This dog won the contest for the "best dog wearing a bow tie" national contest in Japan. Well deserved. (Also notice: Terminator: Salvation just goes as T4, I wonder if there is a japanese dub of Christian Bales rant?)
This is 4 floors of people eating lunch on top of eachother.
guitars fer dayz
then back on the plane to go home.

THIS is SERIOUSLY  a statue of a ZOMBIE you can buy in the sky mall magazine. If anyone buys this for us we will give you keys to our practice space and you can come hangout whenever. 

France from way back

We got back from Japan yesterday, but before I put up the photos from Tokyo, I wanted to post some photos I just got back from a disposable camera that was given to us at a festival in France last summer.
sweet shades. sorry sold out.
dean preparing for his mug shot.
our homies from Super agency! the best!
when I was a kid my mom told me she had a dream that our cocker spaniel could talk and it said"hot air balloon" 
Homies from Sigur Ros. I can't explain how loud their pre show chant was. It was like listening to a football team getting ready to take the field, but then when they took the stage it was the most beautiful somber music I have ever heard. These Icedanic folks can party hard and chill out super mellow.
why do people want their butt signed? "the dude abides" go figure?!?!

Japan

we are in Osaka tonight. We did a lot of sight seeing.so many wild animals...
this pink gorilla was watching us with those crazy eyes the whole time...
Melissa, Dean and Busy
Men's Knuckle
Just like being home...
This is why you're fat

that bear just kicked that toys ass.....
so many sockkkkkkks
my favorite bear, and triangles.........

the best kittens hanging out of your large boots...
these are insane tights that have denim prints on them.
chocolate mask
the burgers were vegan but they had mayo on them... ugh
Dean and Shin
edamame
The Castle of OSAKA

so rad onion rings
fake plastic food
super sick SAKE!!!
AMPM

rad lunch set
I cant explain how weird this machine was. It was like you could buy t shirts with girls boobs on them. not very exciting but totally bullshit...
see... you could wear a t shirt with this image like this
why?
this shop was cool..
it was like being in Arizona, but in Osaka.
I always felt scared in the fucked up gas stations in the US, but here in Japan this store is very mellow. 

WHY!!!! who digs this shit????????
Boots
Mega Man!!!
Nipple condom face mask.. i guess...!?!?
Bike break down
this is just getting weird...

That sounds about right, Yeah?
how many phones do you need?
flyers
Dean behind the flyer...

No Age recorder

We are recording some stuff for an EP coming out in September. I took some crappy pictures with my cel phone, it's not an i phone, it's analog.

RAYMOND!
Shredddderville, CA

sweet guitars

The two guitars Ted Crocker built for Honeydripper. Photo by Ted Crocker.

I was just reading about these rad looking guitars that were made for the John Sayles movie Honeydripper. I haven't seen the movie yet, but the guitars caught my attention. They were designed to look like the body was made from a found piece of wood. You can read the article HERE. 

Greg Norton, Mike Watt, and Grant Hart. 
Also,  if you dig Mike Watt (and if you don't already you totally should) go to his HOOT PAGE and sign up for his email list because you will get rad emails with photos of the sunrise in Pedro when he is home  
and other photos, like the one up above with Greg and Grant from Husker Du, from the road.

Dean with people

We played here last night, awesome DIY art space in Portland. 
Dean and Carrie (Gun Outfit)
The Gun Outfit party mobile. Check out the red shag carpeting, they roll in style.
Dean eating his fingers.
Gun Outfit shredding, they played a bunch of new songs that were SICK!
The girls from Brilliant Colors  who killed it. 
These dudes showed up outside in a ice cream truck and started blasting music out of it. It was an interactive party truck or something, everyone was pumped
This kid has four hands, CREEPY

Contemplation...
Met these kids in the parking lot in Portland where there are 6 food carts, all of them serving food (a lot of Vegan options as well) until 3am, will someone tell me again how Portland became Vegan bike punk Utopia?
GU!
Dean and a lumberjack throwing french Fries around.

Dean and Nate Groadie


Travis Bonilla, Dean's best friend since elementary school and his new mustache 
Dean and Ryan Jacob Smith

twitter of our discontent

Oi! we are on twitter. If you go to twitter.com/noageLA you can read the dumbshit we think of while we wander around scratching our asses.