Silver and Gold Street Performers for a Day

This story starts at vinces house when giullian,vince and matt were chillin in vinces hot tub. Vince is lame so he got out and thats when giullan asked matt what he was doing tommorow. Matt gave his usuall of "Absolutly nothing."
Juice: You dont work?
Matt: Nope, not tommorow.
Juice: What do you wanna do?
Matt: I have no clue
Juice: Let's do something really crazy
SO matt mentioned to play music on the street and pass out fake cd's. Giullian then mentioned to be the silver guy in S.f. As soon as he said it we were both hooked on the idea. he told vince the idea as soon as he dried off and vince dident shoot the idea down that bad, so i knew it was doable.We then started to plan the skit out more and more. the next day matt ended up having to work. So after work we just went to the store and started buying a mask, a cane, a hat and some random other stuff from boswells. we then headed over to walmart to buy some spray paint and decided to get one gold and one silver. Juice was going to be Silver.

FIRST DAY MATTT WORKED monday SO WE COULDENT DO IT
next day we plan on doing but but giulilan decides that we should go all out on the costume then go the nextx day then being cheap that he is, he decides that we should just go that days afcter 4 trips to different thrift shops and only one purchase.
We took a Dress rehersal picture in matt's back yard:

we get on BART which was free parking since it was after three and take it out in street clothes with all our stuff in our backpacks. We get off at Powell and right as we get off we ask a guitar player if u need a permit and he says no you just can not use an amp. So we think we are in the clear. We get off the escalator to the San Francisco streets and see 200 people around the trolley drop off. we think its perfect, but we decide to go up to union square just to see if people are there. We go up and not enough people are there but we stop off at levi's to use the bathroom and we are welcomed by a levi model who needs to try a 2000 calorie diet. The song 'Golden' is playing so we know its fate for us to do this today. Giulian speaks french to french tourist. Matt thanks the Model at the door on the way out for having the nice Dial Soap (that was still in a bottle, not a dispenser) and Giulian states he forgot to wash his hands, but the model dosen't understand.

we get ready in a corner of union square and first to see us is a street cleaner.

The paint doesen't dry well on Giulians arms, as he does the YMCA to dry them.
with big smiles hidden by an even bigger smile on the mask, we walk down to the Powell trolley station and we realize how crazy this is. because were supposed to do an act and were kinda still getting ready, so it might have looked kinda bad for some people, because we went able to just stand still and do our act.
We were waiting at a traffic light with some other pedestrians and some looked at us. We saw some younger teenages kinda amazed by us. They took a picture of us from across the street. (man that must have been a "golden" picture, but he dident get him a little handout.
a rapper hustler guy offers to be our bodyguard then starts offers us his pennies. (this was are first tip, and we were just walking down the street.) He was calling us Some Crazy mother Fers for just being gold and silver.
also asks what bank we plan on robbing with our masks on
also wont leave us alone
finally get to our spot
giulian stands against a golden pole next to our back packs and matt against a trash can
matt gets the first tip and giulian thinks to himself, wow we are really doing this. Matt realized how easy it was to do. just stand on the street dressed in gold, and people think your some real street performer.
homeless man named george in spanish in a wheelchair keeps trying to catch us moving
he trys to be one of us and poses with his arms spread. we copy him. He was kinda nice to hang around. he just would bum ciggeretts of people and ask for money from random people.

kids want us to fight
we dont
kids want a refund
matt empties change out for them
a little girl comes around a picks it all up and keeps it (about 2 dollars worth)
they give more money and matt punches giulian and he doesent react
giulian feels they didnt give enough money for us to do anything special
matt had no clue what to do for them. Matt couldent read what juice was thinking with his mask on. i tried to give a head nod, but the signal wasent going through.
giulian hands out rings to girls
giulians sunglasses fog up so matt sacrifices his vision and takes them from him in a never before seen sunglass switcharoo.

Matt was leaning against the trash can for a little bit and just really people watching. it was really fun. just staring at people who may or may not notice you. I was just leaning against the trash can, and it was really comfortable. and Juice mentioned i looked pretty good (and i probably smelled and he dident want me near him) so i tryed to hang there for a while. I was there maybe 5 minutes or so and i hear this off to my right:
A Dad: Yeah, he's a real person
Doughter: No he's not
A Dad: yeah, i guarantee you
Daughter: no, it's fake
dad: (goes in front of my field of view and says): Can you prove to her that your real?
I instantly just turn my head, and it shocked her a little bit. and they then dad says:
"now give him some money" , I heard that and was just amazed at what people give you money for. I find it so amazing. It's crazy, i did nothing, for that dollar.


Within the first 15 minutes of us there, Juice used his cane to tap someone walking by him on his shoulders. Juice was perfect and went back to a freeze pose as if he never used his cane. the person looked backed and just laughed. Perfect.


Matt noticed some people would kinda be off in the distance just trying to see what we would do next. i found this interesting because we dident plan anything, we had no plan for 5 minutes from then. All we had planned was to stand still. some people were really hoping for a cool skit or act we could perform, but this was odd to us and we would usually not do anything. Sorry people.

At one point, When matt was leaning against the trash can, i heard some bussinees tourst talking and one guy explaning to the others about some city tourist attractions. a minute later or so, juice calls me over and starts to tell me that they just paid him some money (we would talk to each other through are masks at close range) and we had to do some stuff to show the tourst guys what we can do. So we step back from the post a little bit and juice and i start to act like were fighting, and then juice swings his cane and tells matt to do the matrix thing and duck. Matt ends up standing there and juice is just waiting for the cane to hit him. juice finnally just lifts the cane higher so it goes over my head. Matt's explination for such, was that last time he did the matrix move, his hat fell off. Let me tell you, when your hat falls off as a street perfomer, it sucks. It really does, its just like your costume falls to peaces and you lose a lot of credibility. (but like juice says, it's only for 20 seconds, and then theres a whole new crowd of people). Those buisness guys paid jucie like 2 bucks, and im pretty sure the guy who was trying to impress his business friends was pretty disappointed. HHAAHAHAH

One of matt's favorite thing's he wanted to do a few times when i was seeing people watching me was as they walked by they would stare at you. then they would look forward and just keep walking. Then i thought it would be cool to sneak up behind them and wait for them to turn back again because they want to see if you moved. It was hard to have a good angle on people where you could see if they were looking at you or not still. but i tried it on this one lady and her son other they were walking toward me, then passed me. they were looking at me , but then they passed my feild of view and just kept walking. So as soon as they passed me, i turned around and tried to sneak up on the lady. and as soon as i moved a step of two, she just happened to turn around and she freaked! she jumped a little and was scared. she Jumped away from me and kinda pushed into some other people. I thought that was funny. how i got her so good. But when you do stuff like this it attracts more pople around to come and watch you. so this puts more presure on your next few minutes of your act.

There was a boyfriened and girlfriend about 30 feet away and the girlfriend was looking at juice and the boyfriend had his back to juice looking at girlfriend.

After it was pretty dark 9:20ish on 7/31/2007 juice and matt changed there chlothes on the steps leading down to the powell bart station. a homeless lady was surprised we were white /and or / Wize. Either way, she was kinda weird for yelling that over to us. After we changed and went back to where were were as the gold and silver guys, we asked a tour guide guy if the gold and silver guys were around? He said they left (ohh really?) We then walked up the street a little and found our friend, George and asked him if he has seen the gold and silver guys? he said they were down there a little bit, but they left. He was talking to the cops and Juice noticed he might be in trouble, so he offered if he might want to join us for some pizza at blondies? Immediately he said yes. (with two random strangers at the time). He scooted away from the officer and juice told him that we were the gold and silver guys. He was pretty shocked. We go in blondes, and start counting our money. We made $18.45 in about 3 hours. (6:30-9:30) So we order 3 slices of pepperoni pizza put some peppers on George pizza b/c he wanted them. We then left blondes because they were closing. so we went back to where the stairs leading to Powell BART station were and we ate pizza there with George. we talked to him for about and hour. and then took BART home.


Jucie and Matt heard two homeless guys who were yelling and cussing at each other because apparently a homeless guy was offering to people to be there tour guide and ask if they want to get anywhere. So We start hearing this guy yelling: "You Steal my group away again, im going to knock you down" . Basically another homeless guy went up to his group and told him he's a fraud or something and so the group leaves and the homeless guys have a verbal argument that get's pretty loud. Juice had a good view of most of the guys. Matt wasn't able to see one of the guys because of his stance at the time.

Juice and Matt diden't do this for the money. one thing we really wanted was a picture of us on the street of San Francisco. We just wanted proof and to see how we looked to people. To get this picture, we made little slips of paper that Gave an E-mail address to send there digital pictures to:

Send Your Picture to:
Silverkidz@gmail.com

Your lucky numbers are: 4 8 15 16 23 42

We gave this out to maybe 10 people who we say taking pictures of us. We got one lady who sent it to us:

We both relized later that homeless people don't have e-mail addresses.


Geogers Life story
Went to New York in 1984 (or 1987, Depending on his soberness. The more sober he is, the closer he get's to the present year) "2/11" scared the shit out of him, so he moved back to mexico (somewhere). Then he moved back here in 2004 or something??? He plays chess with a russian guy. He sleeps at a homeless shelter and gets food from the homless shelter. He was a pretty nice guy. His mom is/was catholic. He has been to Jail for drunk in public, Beverage in public. He makes about 40 bucks a day from things like chess and asking for change from people. He seamed really happy, but he kept offering us to party with him and get down in the city. "get down really LOW i mean really LOW". giulian wants to go and get drunk with him but matt decides against drinking with the devil worshipper named cebudaa. Giulian asks george how many shirts he owns and george wont give him a real answer. Finally giulian says he has a shirt for him as long as he will represent the website on the shirt which was ptown411. as soon as matt and giulian mention the shirt geoge pulls his shirt off and throws it over the stair case and sits theirs shirtless on a chilly night waiting for the new shirt but not in a rush to put it on. what lives in that deep deep crevice of a belly button God only knows. Finally he says he will only wear it if its silver, which it is, but he doesn't notice and puts it on. he wont keep his old shirt so giulian has to shove it in the pocket on the back of the wheelchair.

Above pictured:
George leans against railing and discusses to juice and matt about religion and life on the streets.

Jucie Thank you for doing this with me. It was An awesome experience and you were Great!! Thanks for following though and doing it!!!! I will always remember this! Such an eye opening experience, which some of our story's and experiences were written above. I must say the biggest eye opener was though George, and how he treated us like a real street performer, which was amazingly cool.