recent missions

Unfortunately, we forgot the camera, but the last few missions have been awesome.

last weekend, we staked out the lakewood bike path by Tempelton highschool. a woman came out her house to speak to us and at first we thought, oh oh, were in trouble. but she came out to say that she could hear us down the block and she thought is was great. she brought her child out and her husband and they brought our wine wine and beers and took a seat on the globe-sculpture by the highschool smoke pit. others emerged from their sleepy burrows to come take things in. it was a chill night. then the police paid us a visit, and the lady dumped her wine-and glass in the bushes. the authority was civil, and we were on our way.
He drove up the bike path (sidewalk) all the way to us, rather than just walking a few yards...it was comical.

Last night, (friday 10th) sept. was epic. we started at Salsbury park, attracted 12 person walking posse that emerged from the appt block across the street. they heard us and walked directly toward us and then, after passing them the three mics, they slayed it. hilarious rhymes and gestures. quite accomplished. its nice to MC with other practiced folk, helps raise Karlis and my game. then a lady came out and explained that children are sleeping-yes , the poor children. so sad. they might actually hear some street culture for 20 minutes--but they must be protected. But that said, we are mobile, so we cranked the beats and sped off down the street to woodland park a few blocks down. threw down there, and we approached by the people who live in the Parks and Rec House. We continued on to Benny's Bagels driveway. we were hitting our stride there, rapping to the captive audience on smoke breaks during jamming at the jamspace located across the street (adanac-clark). Eventually the police found us, they had apparently received noise complaints from all the locations we were rapping all along Adanac :) they were very into the soundbike and asked why we did it...I broke into an energetic freestyle about the bike and this situation and the police were definitely into it.

we asked about noise by-laws and how we hate the sound of weedwackers and lawnmowers. but he said that no mater how loud they are, those are allowed, music, tho is pretty much never allowed. there can be sound complaints in the middle of teh day and they have to respond to those. there is no actual time span where you can make musical-artful noise (only construction-and yard maintenance, or engine noise). Does this seem just a little wrong to anyone?