JoeX2 is an awesome graffiti artist that has been a major player in the Los Angeles graffiti movement since it emerged in the 1980’s. JoeX2 started out in the graffiti art subculture and recently moved his artwork out of the community and into mainstream popular culture. He teamed up with JanSport for its Spring 2008 Artist Series in New York City.

His collections for the Artist Series are titled “JoeX2″ and “Seeing Red.” JoeX2 or “Joe Joe” is from Philadelphia and his graffiti is a mix of old school style and underground art. He focuses on issues like cultural materialism and has some badass portraits. Here’s an example of his work & the new JanSport line he collaborated with artist Julie West on. You can check out TONS more here at his Web site!

Everyone’s favorite Showtime show, Weeds, comes back on June 16th! I’d plan the usual Weeds party (which totally does not include the consumption of marijuana…), but I’ll be getting my high from the Snoop Dogg concert here in our little town of Chico. I’ve always dreamed of going to a Snoop show. Remember in Old School when Vince Vaughn organized that FAT house party and Snoop Dogg shows up on stage outta nowhere? That shit is my fantasy!

Then again, so is growing hella weed and making serious cash off of it, making my kids sell drugs, and artfully dodging all the trouble that’s thrown at me. I’ll DVR the new episode fer sher…

When we last left off, all of Agrestic was up in flames because the Mexicans had taken revenge on the biker dudes’ marijuana field (because they beat up Nancy’s oldest son since Nancy wouldn’t buy their schwaggy weed). Nancy had just gone back to her house to pour gasoline everywhere to ensure that it would burn down (probably to get insurance money?). The cops had found the hilariously huge stolen cross from the church which ended up becoming the grow-light for Nancy and Conrad’s crops that weren’t ready for harvesting (thus she had to go to the schwaggy shady biker dudes). So, naturally, when the cops went to check out where the cross was, they found all the weed. The house was in Sullivan’s name, who claims to know nothing and blames Celia (Nancy’s partner by force) who blames Nancy. But Nancy already GTFO and the preview to the new 4th season shows her setting up shop with Guillermo near the San Diego / Mexico border. New, shadier deals are going to go down (uh, hello, cocaine) and Nancy will no doubt be hooking up with dreamy-ass Guillermo. Um, YUM! <333 Cannot wait.