I had to move last week due to the unscrupulous tactics of the Hudson Corporation, who took over my building, The Cobble Hill Towers, and jacked every rent they could in an effort to force out as many tenants as possible. Why would they be doing this in a recession? Well, the building has been rent controlled for a long time and corporations sure don’t like that, so the Hudson Corp revoked the preferential leases that had always been offered by the previous saint of a landlord, Mr. Frank Farella, and pushed every rent to the max. Once each apartment is vacated, the unit goes out of stabilization and the Hudson fucks can charge whatever they want. Anyways, I fell vic to this and had to bounce. Luckily the timing just happened to coincide with the opening of a spot with my ill homies Anton and Alex in Prospect Heights and now I’m straight country clubbing it up all summer! But back to the Towerz, this place had spiral staircases that were barely even wide enough for a person, much less a couch, and my poor baby had to come down the hard way, well hard for her at least. Yes this is what moving is like in Brooklyn. Thanks for the help Java!

After a month of working and kicking it while they were posted up in Brooklyn, it is with a tinge of sadness that I bid farewell to my colleagues at High Snobiety, David and Jeff. It was a pleasure homies! Jeff I will see you on the hill soon, David, hopefully we meet next in Europe. Peace homies, big things ahead!

HS BK and the elusive David Fischer.

Jeff Carvalho – the undisputed indoors fixed gear champ.

Ok so considering all the hype for Diesel’s XXX jumpoff on Saturday, you’d figure something would have gone wrong to cast at least a bit of disappointment on the evening. Wrong. Other than a slight shitshow at the entrance, this party was off the meat rack. Once we were all sorted and in the VIP’s VIP, it was nothing but bottles, models and Lohans y’heard?! With back to back to back mind blowing performances from Hot Chip, Chaka Khan (what?!), T.I., Franz Ferdinand, M.I.A., and NERD amongst fire eaters, midgets, jugglers, trapeze artists, unlimited carnie food and every beautiful person in NY, XXX was everything it was cracked up to be. And it was in Brooklyn. Front if you will, this was that shit! Props to Carvalho for getting it up first!

“Swagger Like Us” What?