I met Griffin at a punk show in Kansas City when he was 15 years old. He had the word FALAFEL tattooed across his knuckles and told me that his father was a drag queen who went by the name Rachel Slurr. I thought he was totally cute and then he disappeared into the ether. Unbeknownst to me, a friend spotted him wearing a mustache that looked like caked-on baking soda at the International Noise Conference in Miami, where he threw a bunch of trucker speed into the audience and irritated everyone.
Last year a different friend told me I had to check out this band from Portland called SEWN LEATHER. He described them as the "Best fuckin' punk shit I'd seen in like, forever, man! Like, totally harsh-synth-grudge-wave... like real punk shit." The singer had jumped off a PA speaker into a trash can full of glass because he was on angel dust and thought it was water! And to top it all off, the singer was some cute crusty kid with the world FALAFEL tattooed on his knuckles!
CODY CRITCHELOE
that was like being fucked in the ear by a swarm of razor-dicked gnats, only worse
Posted by: | 28/01/2009 at 21:19
SICK griffin is the man!! i personally think his "hyphy" tattoo is cooler than "falafel"
go griffin
i am the one who took this beautiful video. this is at MICA art college in baltimore. that show fucking ruled
Posted by: pictureplane | 28/01/2009 at 21:27
if anyone sees this band, throw fireworks on stage, seriously
Posted by: | 28/01/2009 at 21:28
omg. best drag name EVER.
Posted by: slurrrpy | 28/01/2009 at 21:28
Good to see the world is still safe for obnoxious assholes.
Posted by: | 28/01/2009 at 21:28
his pupils runneth over. lay off the speed dude.
Posted by: hola | 28/01/2009 at 22:40
griffin is the shit
lay off!
Posted by: gaurav | 28/01/2009 at 22:55
This is punk?
Posted by: Justin | 29/01/2009 at 00:27
electric punk?
Posted by: | 29/01/2009 at 02:15
poop punk?
Posted by: | 29/01/2009 at 03:34
holy shit his eyes are huge in the first pic
Posted by: xavier | 29/01/2009 at 03:49
edge for lyfe.
Posted by: | 29/01/2009 at 03:58
sigh.
Posted by: meg | 29/01/2009 at 04:11
his music is cool, he plays off the whole absurd hipster thrift store asshole vibe, he plays it good. real good.
Posted by: poopie pants | 29/01/2009 at 05:36
sewn leather is for fucking ever
Posted by: shitshit | 29/01/2009 at 05:42
its 2009. yea this is pvnk.
Posted by: | 29/01/2009 at 08:09
God damn it.
I actually love this music.
Posted by: Justin | 29/01/2009 at 08:35
that's not what angel dust is like..... plus there's no angel dust in portland. canada is about 7 hours away, and thats when traffics good. So the closet thing u can git is pcp. but. thats 3000 miles away.
Posted by: seandigger | 29/01/2009 at 09:48
haha...griffin dry humped me once when he played solo in chicago. i think it was in the kitchen of the blog cabin.
Posted by: kat | 29/01/2009 at 13:49
thank you VICE##### sewn leather so good i eat up cuz for me.
Posted by: pmw | 29/01/2009 at 13:51
wtf? k records now vice, weird.
Posted by: | 29/01/2009 at 15:10
griffin is one of the nicest people ive ever met.
plaays some damn good tunes too.
Posted by: rusty | 29/01/2009 at 18:44
this dude went to my grade school
Posted by: conor | 30/01/2009 at 00:09
his performance is like fad gadget
and im pretty sure that mustache is street jizz
Posted by: | 01/02/2009 at 23:32
Actually he is some rich kid from the suburbs who tours with ssion
Posted by: roof | 10/02/2009 at 04:01