Bum Jovi

No Longer Scaring Valencia Street Shoppers, Omer Travers Now Partying in The Desert With Young Women

Long a fixture of Valencia Street, Omer Travers (AKA “Bum Jovi”) spent many years alternatively delighting and pissing off those that happened to stroll by his seemingly permanent perch in front of Good Vibrations.

Described on Yelp as everything from “batshit crazy” to “legend,” Travers was nothing if not a very in-your-face reminder that Valencia still had a little life left in it. That changed when Travers disappeared around November of 2013, leaving us with only his Facebook page for our daily dose of confused rock and roll.

Well, it seems that Travers has been busy. Capp Street Crap reports:

Controversial Valencia Street fixture and entertainer Omer Travers may have traded San Francisco for Arizona but he still has an audience. 

Earlier this month, a music video for a song called “Apollo” by French electro-pop band Ruby Cube was posted to Travers’ Facebook page. From 2013, it shows Travers, a.k.a. Bum Jovi, cavorting with a group of fundamentalist girls gone bad. He even has a speaking part. I won’t give away the ending, but it’s kind of amazing.

Amazing it most certainly is.

[Photo: The Tens]

Comments (9)

That is a much watch.  Amazing, yup

Hope he’s doing well and no longer screaming racist obscenties at people as they walk by. If slightly deranged people on our streets is what it takes for Valencia to “still have a little life left in it” then I’ll pass thanks. 

The poor and the mentally ill are not here to provide you with a backdrop for your gritty urban exeperience.

Eh, I get your point but Im not sure I agree in this case.  That said, it does irk me when white transplants (to Oakland or SF) complain how much safer the city has gotten than when they moved here.  ‘I remember when you wouldn’t walk down 24th man, now you got all these yuppies strolling about, with their 9 dollar candy bars.’  (Overdone for effect, but more or less). 

It annoys me because the people that get killed in this city are likely not going to be some yuppie hipster that moved here in 2003, it’s probably going to be a person of color that’s lived here their whole life.  As you say, it detracts from the white yuppies perception of living in a gritty urban environment, I remember visiting Brooklyn when a friend moved there in 2001 and white people were so pleased with themselves about discovering Brooklyn and how edgy it was.  God I hate that city, much much worse now of course.

I guess we’ll just have to wait and see about the dismembered body found in a suitcase yesterday.

I feel you. Yuppies don’t really want grit. Or if they do they want it contained. As long as it doesn’t get in the way of their gourmet ice cream. I’m sure some “smart” techie is trying to create an app to erase gang warfare. They could name the app -gntrfi, or dsplc.

Yes!  I agree a zillion percent!

Cosigned.

I dislike the ending. At least that dude shaved the horrible neck beard he used to have.