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July is shaping up to be a very busy – albeit fookin’ amazing – month for me; full of travel, live shows and fried chicken.

I spent the 3rd to the 8th in Los Angeles with Sabrina, who was gracious enough to let me crash at her place and show me around the city.

As soon as I landed, she came with her brother to pick me up and whisk me away to go see the new A-Team movie. It was a pretty good indication of how the rest of the trip would go: she had something organized for everyday that I was there and it was really non-stop action from the get-go. On the 4th, Jessica came to pick us up in the morning to go to Marina del Rey, where we spent the day on the beach, chilling, getting gnarly sunburns and pretending to be super patriotic. We capped the night off with apple pie à la mode and fireworks.

How American is that? lol

The next few days were spent visiting Universal Studios, WB studios (where I nerdgasmed in front of the Bat-suit that Christian Bale wore in ‘The Dark Knight’), the Chateau Marmont for some fancy-pantsing, the LACMA (contemporary art can suck my balls), shopping, visiting UCLA (or as I like to call it: ‘UC Sunnydale’) and eating… Speaking of which, one day we were walking near Sab’s house and we stumbled across a KFC, so obviously this happened:

Yep. That’s a Double-Down. At 10:30 am. Now, I don’t want to say that I enjoyed it because you’d think I was disgusting but yeah… I fucking enjoyed the hell out of it.

On the 8th, I left LA for Las Vegas, where I met up with the dudes from Montreal Street Fighter to exude awesomeness and participate in EVO, the largest fighting-game tournament in North America. I think that we were 13 in total to have repped MTL (René and Song were lame and decided to sleep instead of taking the pic with us).

While nothing notable happened on most nights – which usually just ended with us drinking… A LOT – the first one was quite memorable because Woolie, Song and I went to the Stratosphere and did all the crazy rides they had up there except for the building jump because it was all booked up.  The Insanity was particularly intense as it goes on for a little too long where you go from “HOLY SHIT I’M GOING TO DIE!” right up until  the adrenaline kicks in and you’re like “Wow… I’m totally okay with dying right now”. It’s pretty hardcore.

All-in-all it was an interesting experience; one filled with videogames, jailbait, broken dreams, booze and debauchery that I will most definitely repeat next year… Only this time I’ll aim a little higher that the Imperial Palace (where hookers go to die) and instead try to stay either at the Caesar’s or Planet Hollywood.

Since coming back on the 13th, I’ve been to two comedy shows that were part of the Just for Laughs festival (Kevin Smith and Jim Jefferies, both of whom were amazing) and to come is seeing ‘Inception’, doing some freelance gigs, going to see Die Antwoord live and heading up to NYC with Sean, Dom and Stefan for some of Momofuku’s fried chicken that I’ve been hearing so much about.

July is going to be a great month