Junction Function

For those of you living in La, you should already be well aware of the upcoming Sunset Junction Festival this weekend. For my friends outside the area or for those who are simply too out of touch, let me quickly explain.

The Sunset Junction Street Festival occurs on Sunset Blvd. at the Junction of the Silver Lake and Los Feliz neighborhoods. Anyone who ever attended the Adams Morgan festival in D.C. can imagine a Hollywood version of the event. A place where hipsters, the Cuffs contingent (cuffs is a local leather bar), and the dwindling hispanic community (as well as anyone else who is brave or curious enough) converge onto a half-mile strip of street to eat, drink, see bands, strut their stuff, and...drink. "Donations" of 10bucks (up from the 5 it used to be when I first started attending) goes to at-risk children in the community to keep them "off the streets" (ironic huh). Previously, some pretty great bands have played. Sonic Youth, Elliot Smith, The Blasters... but beware, the stage is almost unapproachable for old foagies such as myself, who are left to stretch their necks from nearly a block away. The junction festival is actually the largest street festival in Los Angeles.

Selfishly, my reason to encourage all of you to attend, is so that you may help me by purchasing one of my freshly printed T-Shirts. The Silverlake series makes its return this year. These shirts have been nearly extinct for the last year or so due to my getting booted from my previous work space and simply not having time due to my full time job. But me and my buddy John are back with a new batch of shirts in a variety of colors and sizes. Both the Silver Lake Skunks and the Smell the Excitement versions will be available at Pull My Daisy which is located next to Eat Well cafe.

As well, a new design will make its premiere this year. Mixville shirts! Quickly stated, Tom Mix is a local icon who had his Mixville studios in the Silver Lake area during the silent era of film. John and I (now known as Free Assembly) have put together a swank looking shirt paying homage to Mr. Mix and his historic studio. We're really happy with how these turned out. I will post an image of the shirts with a little more information about Tom as soon as I can.

Silver Lake shirts will retail for $20 at the festival and probably rise to $22 after. The Mixville shirts will retail for $24.

Please support the fund raising of the festival. And PLEASE support your local neighborhood-centric T-shirt peddler!

If you can't make it to the junction or are interested in purchasing shirts after the function, send me an email at stinksgood@earthlink.net and we'll see whats left over or keep you updated to future print runs.