Eric Valdez

Years ago I was in a punk band called L.D.S. The name was an acronym for many things, but toward the end it stood for Life’s Daily Struggle. We were active off-and-on a few times from ’96 to ’05, but we reunited for a show in ’07 for our bassist’s 30th birthday. Now we’re playing again on June 26th to pay homage to Kelly’s Pub in Arcadia, which will be closing.

Joining us that night will be fellow San Gabriel Valley punk veterans; Krud, Tangwich and S.S.D.D. and Never Dead. The show is free and starts at 9:00. Kelly’s Pub is located at 80 West Live Oak Avenue, Arcadia, CA 91007

Here’s the flyer:

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I’ll have a merch booth set up at the show with limited edition 11″x14″ posters of the flyer available at the show and I might have some prints of other stuff there too.

Life's Daily Struggle circa 204

Last week I decided to check out L.A. Weekly’s Bars/Club directory to see if I could find a laid back place to go and lounge at since I can’t be on my feet and I noticed that the awesome Five Stars Bar is currently a featured bar. Check out what else I noticed.

Yup, my London Calling piece is in the image used for Five Star’s listing.

First of all: I have a bunch of new vinyl pieces going up for about a month at GCS Clothing‘s gallery in Santa Ana starting tomorrow (6/5/10). Speaking of tomorrow: It’s the Santa Ana Art Walk in the Santa Ana Arts District. I’ll be there to scope that scene out.

GCS Santa Ana
209 North Broadway, Santa Ana

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Secondly: I broke my ankle (because I suck at walking) on May 2nd so I have a lot of time on my hands since I’m now temporarily house-bound. Now there isn’t an excuse for me not to update this thing on a regular basis. I have tons of images of new pieces that I need to upload onto this site so the updates will be coming VERY SOON!