brenham studio

three of eight paintings i am working on over in Brenham, 2005

Well i found out the Historic commision is trying once again to sieze our street., Man that chapps me off, i can only imgine a battle with these folks over how many chicken heads can i put out on the yard,.
About a couple years ago i went in front of the commision in one of these town hall thing, they were trying to feel the public out over it, i told them i wanted them to admit this was controversal,(taking our street Hopkins) so they didn't get the idea everyone is for being in the historic district, I rember trying to get some of the member to admit it, it was a controvery, cause i didn't want them to pull one over on us ,when they go in front of the City council, one of the blue hairs got so mad
" are you calling us a bunch of lyers" she said,
i told her "that, why? would i want to add another level of beurcartic crap to my house, why?" especially with the characters like you running it, all i need to do is piss one of you off and then i am fined out the ass!.
i went on to explain that my house , will be history , not reflect a "history". History is made now,.
one of my braggin points to all this is if i ever fail miserably as an artist, i can at least have the most tackyest house in San Marcos,
they cann't take that from me!!!!
or can they..
i have had a wierd relationship with my chicken fence, its sorta loud and out there, either people love it or hate it, i like sitting out on my front porch and watch all the people drive by and wonder this is my life, the man who made the chickenhead fence, i have had delsions of being a professional waver, sipping beer and letting the days roll by out on the porch its like. ,

well eventualy we are all gonna retire, and hang out for hours on end, some where, do nothing , cause we want to rest,. so hannging out on the front porch, is like a fast forward to the future, here i am, this is it
(its even more dramatic if i am drunk or something)
the porch looks bad to the whole thing is caving in and pieces of bords hang from it, it does looks great i even ran Christmas tree lights around the holes and rot marks,. Its great to walk out on the porch and see some older ladys pointing at the fence in there SUV's and i am out there with a machette ,and a beer .
as a matter of fact, thats what the grand plan is to this place, wait till i start making the 12 foot tall cherabs sculptures of me with machettes kinda like friday13th meets Egypt,
yea! thats the ticket, l!

Redford Tx 1999, "Bring back the Devil" oil on canvas
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ACC show over and gone

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Well the show is up and gone, ACC, it brings back alot of memorys

there could be more to this alot more, . driving around Brazios county, i wonder , like i am back here again , this strange place, mainly Alvin, the back roads and ditchs,

Oh i had this really wierd dream last night, one idea i thought about doing was the poitrates of rev. John Hagee, in SA, (click fo link) well in this dream , back at the house i got a newpaper from Bob Tilton, we used to give money for all the mail he would send, (priceless) well i got a newpaper from him( he hasn't sent any thing in a while , he has been of the radar for the last decade) made in the style of Proper Gander with his face on the cover (aged a bit with his wife), i thought "oh my God, what the fuck!"( i rember just repeating this over and over in the dream, i cann't waint to tell Grady. but what dawn on me was , how did Bob get the PG paper to begin with, it means he is somewhere local, and knows about us?

It sorta paralles the Hagee thing i wanted to make a show of like 20 poitrates of Hagee preaching, and wonder if he would show up to the show, to see this? what would he do and say to me, you have to know, who this guy is, pastor John Hagee, out of San Antonio, he has a TV show, he is a very old style hell and damnation preacher, he fits the part good, but the more i look at him he seems more like this fat nerdy guy , with and authortian complex, sorta loud and overly confident about himself,. i always wanted to throw him in a community of non Christians and see what he would say how he would interpete other people's views on life and what not.
Hagee would be an outstanding subject to paint,
also if there is any Hagee people out there, I in no ways would compair Tilton to Hagee , Hagee has alot more respect in my books, Tilton is a psycho! but an enterianing one at that.
(after visiting his site, man the guy has some education& experiance!, but you know, speeking frankly all the education of all the schools in the world, still might not change who you are, just hide it more profecently)

chicken

well i am outta here, on to the Alvin show, reception is 12-2 on Wed this week over in the college gallery, Alvin Tx,
i heard there was a write up in the local paper , cause my mother called me up and told me i am looking fat, and i say some of the most stupidest things to the newspaper people, she said "here look at me i am Idiot!", oh, no one can put it to you like your mother.

warhouse move

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well i am outta here for at least a week , going to Alvin to do a reception and take down the show, , then the first friday in Feb i have the show reception in Tamboleo(that bar show,) and it will problaly be the last reception of the year, cause i am taking my body back into shop, (getting fat and razy).

the warehouse is also closing down, or moving peogressively, we are having a moving BBQ to day back and forth,

Warehouse

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well this is the last weekend here in the warehouse, still trying to punch over these last projects, ? its gonna be tuff, i have another six lined up for Feb,.

I am still pondering ideas for what to do next, you see all this is comming to a close here in the next month or so, i still have to build my front porch and complete the chicken coup and repair the roof, here, and get out of dept!

One idea is to go out there and just do model building like mockette of some of my favorite building/paintings, all this brick work indeas wrap it up for a master set of sorta mini sculptures, here in san marc i cann't do this ? to many distractions?

ACC Alvin show

photos of the ACC show up at Alvin, 22 plus paintings, reception is on the 26, email me for an card or join my site

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yea, old Alvin, I went over there last wek and hung the show, looks pretty good, all the FV set, it was real interesting just driving around Alvin

My art beginings started in Alvin, at that college, you see after highschool i was going to join the Marines but failed the asphabe test, the smart test, and decied to go to college and be a psyche major, i wanted to go to the military cause i thought i needed displine, but this lady (who said she was a psyche) i talked to in at a grocerystore parking lot, when i was working said i would make make it over in ACC" don't under estimate yourself" she said. So i went to ACC sumer of 88 right out of highschool, some of the first paintings i did were Fangoria magazine photo copys, sorta imbelished a bit, but i was such a bad painter they had a akward quality of there owen. then i moved on over to porno photos , mainly naked women, did that for a couple of years, i took painting very seriously at the time i took about one art class and just hung out at the depatment and painted all day, I loved it, even got an aprtment over there and set up studio, and started working at Burger King,late shifts, there was some real psychos working over at BK, one of my favorite story at BK was one time i was working , and let me tell you there are alot of drunks on the road you can tell cause they all come threw the drive thru, but one time , these people came in and said threw the telecom, "i wanna na mustard whopper with exta extra trxa extra extra extra mustard, ", he sorta drug out the extra in a long drunken pauses, while his buddies talked, so as i waited ever time he said extra i pushe the plus sign on the pad, i figuresd only to would pop up , as a limit, back on the monitor, well they didn't,. The guy working this big ol fat teenager sorta dumb looking saw all the extra and well did what the monitor said,.
the guy got his hamburger and then in fifteen min came back around, and said he wanted to talk to the manger , well he open up the box with the hamburger was in and said " is this right?" the manager fliped out, it was like a bun on a pile of mustard you couldn't see the hamburg, the manager asked if the cook , you made the burger and he said he did and "your fired" and the guy kept on saying" it saud extra extra musted extra and extra mustard," he was right the customer did say all this .,
it was quit a seen as i looked on from the drive threw window box,
yeack i just kept my mouth shut, during all this , i think the manage wanted to get rid of the guy anyway,. but the look n this guys face the (custumer) was priceless

drawing by F, McCoo
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well its mid_week here in San Marc, i think i am having that reception over in Tamboles that bar over in Austin this Saturday, , i have to check back with the gallery for deatials, and shoot the work up over there,

I also ended up redoing alot of the work over there in the warhouse. its been good therapy fo rme to be over there yelling at these guys about "the life" and what not, one of the things i like about the warehouse is its sorta an art cult,.
A while back the house here, i don't know about six years ago got hold of this video "Pimpsup/Hoesdown" the movie had an impact on the house all the guys started quating from the movie we threw lines on women from the movie and then we sarted talking about the life or the game, I think the movie, which is fasinating in itself was about these pimps lifes and determination to get respect at the Players Ball,. it takes on these like superhero-glamor and stubborn worship of the "life" that is manipulating women and getting payed. Any Femmist who see this movie would explode! . but to our house what was catchy wasn't the womens issues but the way these black men talked, the dialoge of there own determination to be the "Pimp of the Year" that had there owen style about it,.(gesture)
I am a bit older , miss the Hipp hopp thing but this new generations from the 90's know all about this movie, and the glamorazation of pimpology, a couple of the guys over at the warehouse knew about the movie so we start thowing lines at each other. its sorta a language, but lets make no mistake about it i am a white boy from suberia, part of the slacker crowd from Austin and wannabe bluesman from the 30's, and have the over kill butch shit from the 90's. This movie had an hypnotic effect apone the house, its like gestureing, or falling into these lines, i do that alot, fall into lines of characters form some of my favorite movies, when the situwation seem right, and i don't know why but with all my troubles with Tonya my exgirlfriend, they all seemed to be cured when i started to act like a black man (what ever that means).
The movie was almost like an inspiraltional with all the catch phrazes and postions on life and what to do, especialy about how to manage women,. which is what the pimps talked about alot. you got the feeling like you were privy to this strange and fucked up world of theirs., it almost a studie of relationships men and women in some twisted way,
None the less., it had its effect,.
The game and the internal "streets" like actors on a a stage, the "game remains the same but the players come and go" kinda like painting i have always felt and believed in, its a game, and now in this subjective time in art, there are no rules,. which begs the question is there a game to all this, , bothersome to who believes in rules and games, mainly rules of conduct, , i believe in painting as rule of conduct in which you devotely worship what you imagine, its internal an indistructiable ethics of craftsmanship and vision, lost in a sea of popkitch and silly high-art over intelectualisations ,.
sorta like the pimps vision of who they are., they were born into this, its what they gots to do, and being marginalised is part of the process,
but this cultic need for respect, with in its members and the drunken party drama it entales , makes the movie , tragic in all, male or female?

sketch from F McCoo,

cold

well, starting today i about one week left here in san marc then over to Brenham then over to Alvin, its been getting cold over here, chilly i only have one heater
see Catalog of the Hodge's collection.

in my studio and its right under my table between my legs, i have been sleeping with my cloths on and just wake up and i am only day, (getting paranoid i smell) but let me advise you that, after a couple of days of waring the same cloths you stay warmer, it becomes a second skin. sitting around last night with my legs right next to this electic heater, its like taking a bath the whole tub is cold and you have this little trickle of warm water comming, waiting for tit to get hot while your frezing, i think your body my act get confuse if one part is frozen and the other is being warmed up, its quiet captivating.

One night i ended up shooting Dennise collection of paintings he has aquired from artists in san marc 98-now, its like a set from the Proper Gander crowd and know local artist entintys
gallery one!
View image- this is a "add-on" painters cologe made by the wierd crew of people who went in and out of Grady Roper 's house there are a bunch of larg painting done like this spread threw out town i don't think they do this much any more.

View image i by Josh Rios , I lived with Josh along time ago now lives in Austin (camp fig)

View image- Furly ,self poitrat- he is a well known local musian artist, i would consider a true "outsider" artist, San Marcos based

View image drawing by Lance, Proper Gander, he has a very interesting style vey consistant, eeire

View image paintnig of Dennis done by Grady, Grady had a show over in Camp Fig of poitrates of the PG crowd, this is one

View image early Josh Rios piece

View image one of mine, chicken on hill

View image early grady add on (i think)

View image -Jason Smily photo from the circus, these are real neet, he used Elmers wood glue as a tone over the photo, it has a real slick look to it, and he has a whole collection of work made around this style effect

View image Vince Martinez i got this from him recently ,

View image Danial Johnson, not one of our crowd but his uncannyness/ introverted pop is our crowd, bought from a comic book store in Austin for five dallars,

View image i don't know how Dennis got this and she isn't really part of the san marcos seen, Lue ann Winter, but strange none the less

Warehouse -Red-10 set dec-march

Well here are the first paintngs rolling off the line over inthe Warehouse,

"Two studies for Gods of the playkingdom "-pfa- dec2004

"Scary Bear" dec2004

"Gods of the play kingdome(pfa) and "the challege" (pfa)

predictions

well the ACC show is up and running, have a reception in about two weeks, and for the Bar show, hummm something is going to be comming around the corner,
i am going to go over the the warehouse tonight and start rounding up the projects. In the next week or so, before we all move over to "Red tin" thats the name of the other warehouse. i am going to form a final collection of workmade between nov.- till march sorta this last shove on the pfa's then thats it i am wrapping it up and folding camp to hit my next adventure,
I still know i have the reception over at the bar show, when?
i am not ever going to do ebay again its stupid to post stuff on there, as Freddie pointed out to me, i its like some kinda drug it takes you way up and then you crash!
oh an three of my chickens are gone, i only have one left , they died!

this is one of three paintings done, over at the Warehouse dec 2004, whats it mean
?? i get into making a tripitc of the the three with the bear in the middle, it also has one pfa to boot with it,.

i would also say, last night, over in the warehouse i am working on a painting called "the history of Black art in America" and "Black croc on hog hill" the paintings are pretty good, but could get better way better, its sorta my homage or idea of the TDHancock myth so to speek, cause he uses these "mounts" of painterly strips and handi works., when i first saw his paintings, along time ago, i thought "ddamn!" cause that ashole is in my field, swamp myths and abstractions, i do like his work i mean this affectionly(hell i even wrote an article about him in PG). its the mysterious or suductions of the "other" art that is,
so
i think it would be interesting, to do like "white people" interpitations of black people's dealing with white people,. its funny, I rember hearing Serg using the term "white people" "those white people" with distain and fauwlness, when he would make this comment i would see who he was looking at, typicaly a fat stuffy ol woman or squicky clean country girl or some yuppy breaded man around town,,. "white people"! "white people!!,
i love hate art, there is something so unique to it, very distict i sorta dismiss/remove any moral qualmes to it, and more see it from a psycholical stance, . i always love to excelerate PC hatered, more the judgements herald down form any PC idealogy and make them more extreme, ei
when serg would say this or make fun of white people in front of his Hispanic buddies, i would agree with him and try to explore why we should look down apone "white people" sort find out whats good to hate about "white people" lets get creative with it, , of cource Serg and his buddies see me make fun of "white people" , me being white, reinforces the hate even more,
"see even an white person agrees" could be a passing thought while the banering goes on, in all this.
Talking to freddy over the years, from the Black perspective, i have learned how to explore racial charged topics, and try and not react to the logic behind sterotypes in conversations or interpitations, one could be swuped away real quick in this.,(emotionaly charged language) he agreed, its sorta a staged conversation already heard and preformed by both partys involved.

coup

well i am outta here, for a couple of days
the coup looks ok, i have a cover on it till i build my steple, i also got a new chicken!

i got a little bannie, its funny how i got the thing, an impluse buy at the feed store, but i didn' t have the ways to raise the thing right off the bat, so i ended up tricking a friend of mine , who has chickens to raise it, the ol' coco bird switch, except she has regular birds, not banies, i told her this was one bird hatched some where secret it slipped there the cracks or something ( and she believed it ! it made here day to raise a cute little chick even know they have to many anyway) well the bannie got shuffled over to a cousin of they'ers a little girl about 8 or so (who took to it quick) , it was her new pet, but the mother couldn't stand the chicken, it took about a couple of weeks to figure out it was a bannie, cause of the feathered legs, then the gig was up and the mother was mad, she was tricked into getting the bird, my friend Kathey thought it was funny, but the mother kept asking me to take the bird, cause it smelled , cats would get it etc, everytime she asked i would say
"do you know what happens when you take a chicken away from a little girl, do you know?, well when she robs here first bank the memory of he mother takening away her chicken will be there, do you really want to live with the consiqu'winces!"
of couse the mother was getting madder, but over the weekend i conceded and picked the bird up on sunday, Of cource the the little girl was crying and upset, i just reminded her mother that these were going to be the flashback points in therapy, these exact moments, but alas
i am not that much of an asshole,! i told the little girl she can come and vist the bannie when ever she wants, and i would help her build a pen, that was the back up plan why they couldnt keep it, but a pen costs money? ( as her mother pointed out) and we told her that if she colected cans along side the road she would have enough money to buy the wood to make a new pen! and yepee! she could have her chicken again , its all so easy.
of couse i must have ruined the mother's sunday cause i could feel that the little girl was ready to toss a big'ol fit right there after i left,
have a nice day!

ACC Show

Well, this next week I have to be out of here, and on to Alvin TX, for a solo show i have in the college Gallery, the show will consist of all the FV paintings done 2003-2004, i will shot the show down and make the drive over there,. I also have have a card for the show, so if any one wants an post card email me threw my site, with your address, and bamb! you got one,.

Evening with Jeff B

Well Jeff showed up.,? he hasn't been here since sept 99, he used to live here at the house, (artist) we hung out last night and went over to the warhouse to sorta figure the seen out here in San Marc, i thinhk he wants to relocate from New Caney here and find a studio space and hit the seen, as he put it "more ambitious people and better looking women"

View imageJeff eating nacos

we went to go eat at my favorite place Elcharros, here in San Mace right across the fire station, its a well lite place with good cheep Mex food,. ,
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warehouse

<View image Warehouse, four works on paper,

"dog scares Hog" bid on this painting, current

I guess now i am trying to finally figure out what i am doing over there, in the Warehouse, last night Brandons dog was there some young edgy colly dog. started barking at me, Brandon sorta took control of the dog "stop it stop it"!
it sorta reminded me of this other story about Dennis's dog Iggy, this really hyper sheep dog , well as the story goes,
when Dennis lived over by this place, i use to work at, constructing this house, the jobsite was next to his house, Dennis's dog was inside and they would go to work and he would be all by himself, looking threw the windows barking at any movements, so i would sneek around the windows and peek in and see if the dog would notice, and he would come rip roaring a barking at the window, this carryed on all during the sumer when i worked there, it got so bad once i was at a window and i saw the dog comming and i put the hose on him threw the screen, ( that got him good) it really started to bug dennis and Rachel cause every time i walk by there house there dog went nutz barking and such, i would yell back, etc, so the game goes,
i explainned to Dennis, Iggy was "talking shit about my mama!" the dog was getting outta line with all that, etc So i decied to broker an agreement between me and Iggy , and( i have to state something i would go over their house and sit around with the dog, its only when he first first saw me, of the day he would act up or i gave him a look or something, the dog liked me), So the gal i was dating at the time had this friend a new age pet psychic, or pet soul retriver or past lives of your pets type of healer clairvoint type, older lady , very bright sweet, but was a bit out there,. so i invited Dianne over for dinner and we were going to bring Iggy over to , "sorta straighten all this shit out, "
its funny but something so stupid it had to be exploited, all the women around where i work thought Iggy was losing his little dog mind, barking, and what was i doing? as if dogs don't bark or get excited, i sorta agitated it by bringing this pet psychic over,
"if Iggy don't stop talkin all this crap about my MaMa what have i done to deserve this, well see i have this medator"
When we had the dinner i told Dieanne about Iggys speaking to me, and his rude behavior , of course she believes this cause she is a pet psychic, everybody else was like "oh brother not again"
so we broght Iggy in, I didn't want to egg the dog on or make him go nutz becauce the atmospher was tence or getting tence , I felt like i was in a witch hunt as dennis and rachel explained how Iggy was behaving, So we brought Iggy in and dianne looked at iggy,held Iggy, while the hyper dog was spazing out all over the place, not barking or anything, she whispered and closed her eyes and concentrated sayed a litttle pet prayer, and the verdict was in,....
"I just had a little talk with Iggy and i have found out he was abused in a past life and he is very scare of you,. " said Dianne
she went on to talk about all the animals soul retrivals she have done and found out they have been abused too, as amatter of fact everybodys been abused in some past life!
(there is something very maternally extreme about that).
the tension was real high dennis and rachel were captivated by the grim prospect of Iggys recovery , if george the centurian/medevil torturer didn't addmit he was abused and would stop the circle of abuse! Break the ring george! Break the ring!
so i tryed to lighten up abit and talk about how happy Iggy was when he saw me, the dog didn't excatly cowward away or act like i was beeting him, he went on the offence, like this one time
Dennis saw Iggy barking let him out, "you go get George go" i was walking across the yard, and saw Iggy comming and I started running for the fence yelling and crying like in a total state of panic,(cause iam a good chicken). once on the other side of the fence, the dog started barking and kicking his back legs up barking. I got on top of the fence and gave one of my angry Wrestler speechs pointing and saying "I'm gonna get ya!" , As Dennis and rachel walked up thinking what the hell is all this comotion Iggy was so excited he started shooting poop out while barking and kicking/prancing. I think it was the most exciting thing to happen that whole day for that dog,. its a fucking sheep dog locked up all day in a house!
everybody got a laugh out of it,.
but when, i told this joyous story to dieanne, to sorta show the dog liked me,
her responce was, in low dead pan expressionless face..
" you know george when they hang a man he deficates himself and all the on lookers are laughing".
"whoa,! hey listen Dieanne , i don't think those were poops of death, more like poops of joy, poops for life!, as a matter of fact i know where they are, and i have another psyche who does energy reading on things like this, we can test this to fiind out if they were postive poops of negative poops, and settle this once and for all."
you could feel the tension, ," you asshole "
Well , it went down hill from there, me trying to explain dog behavior , wasn't working and i was getting into more trouble, women have one way with dealing with pets and guy's another. of couse to a pack of "new age cracker women" all men's activity is a source of abuse in some way or another
its just seems funny ,
almost like i was in a standup or sitcom

warehouse

its been fun hanging out over there in the warehouse, its kinda dark and ugly looking, but i am enjoying my time over there, a funny thing happen , Brandon the head guy, , was sorta drunk and wanted to touch up one of my paintings, , it seems everybody

View image studio warehouse pic

Everybody around here and even when i was in school do colabratives, i could never understand this, all they trun into is a painter cologe of a mess, some times pretty good, its always been an intemidating process for me cause i don't want to hurt someones feeling if i change the project. ( it just seems wierd) but none the less,
Brandon said ," here get this" it was some wierd gooy varnish , and i applied it to where i thought or what he was going to do, with it , so i applied it to the horizne line of this painting. i did called pigs in field( not complete), and then he lite the thing on fire, and it created a smear burn effect on the gloss enables i have been using,. i would say it look pretty good, smut creates a atmosphere, ( i will shoot the thing up tonight,.)
View image burned pig painting

Brandon's work is about massive pop cologes and process pieces, be is mainly a compustion man,, he sold alot higher than i have, and his work from time to time has a contempory cutting edge look, but its hard to hussle around here, and where do you put it, he also seemed a bit bummed out, one reason we are moving over to this new Warehouse is he wants out of the project or responciblitys, and go traveling with his girlfriend for a while, i alway tell him to go and find your roots and be more biographical,
View imageBrandon and Justin

new year

I went over to the warehouse, a bit tired for some reason,
check out whats been going on over in the warehouse,

View image the challege
View image bear outside cave
View image scary bear
View image Croc on hog
i am trying to get done with these four paintings, the warehouse is moving over to a new location, i got about two more weeks in here then the month of Feb, i am going to realy try and refine the work, make this as perfect as posible, anther note i think i am going to also just stick with heavy paper, for a while and not use canvas.
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these two are done
View image king's liesure
View image these are tow paintings, "tiger eats cafe"not finnished
View image pigs in field
View image PFA pigs in field
not finished

yea, this is what i am doing, i just got back from being over there, i ended up getting sick, , i showed up about seven or so, VM was there but went to sleep and then left, i drank a couple of beers painted and was sitting in this lazyboy eating pork rines, and you know how they are kinda fiberious, when you eat them , well i started coughfing and choking, i ran to the bathroom cause i was coughininh so strongly and i could feel the beer back up on me,. And i said fuck it, lets just cough real hard an started couffing up, vomit about three times, , mainly beer, nothing heavy but man the blast it was like a sneeze acough convlusion at once.
View image bathroom
I came back here them back over to the wharehouse to close things down,make sure no paint brushes were left out, wet. So i talked to Denis about the ordeal, it was funny too cause i saw him eating the same bag of pork rines i threw in the trash can when i ran to the bathroom,,.
View image Dennis Hodges
we started joking about how funny it would be to just be siting around and then all of a sudden i started projectile vomiting, and them went on eating pork rines, like nothing happen, what was even more funny , there is this other artist there Sam he is real quiet and nice, what if i sorta turned around in the chair and vomited on him , and acted like it was no big deal,
"Hey man i was drinking, shit happens!"
hahaha