Hot Dog Surfing

Halloween slash.

Bolsa Chicos

Photo: Bruce Jones
From left to right: Brock Jones, Greg Irvin, John Husac, Dodger Kremel, Matt Steuck, and Cody Faircloth

Back in the late 90's/early 00's, the Bruce Jones surf team was at the forefront of the traditional longboard movement. I would see them at Bolsa and Seal pier, perched on the nose.

This was before it became hip to spend $1,200 on a board (that was not a Takayama, Cooperfish, or Tyler). You couldn't find Japanese wetsuits anywhere...but Japan. Seeing all black smoothie rubber was reserved for Jimmy Gamboa in RASH suits and Tudor in Amsterdams.

The Bruce Jones team had developed the Team Noserider. It was a clear, volan, pintail, triple stringer, single fin. So sick. Tudor had the Flow Model. Takayama had the Model T.

These guys killed it. They saved their style for the water, where it counts. I'm not sure how old this photo is...maybe circa Seedling?










Not sure what happened to all of these guys. Dodger will be home from Hawaii soon. I see Brock at Bolsa all the time, and I keep in touch with Cyrus. John Husak is a bartender at Joe Jost's. I see Cody's younger brother at Bolsa sometimes, Matt too.

I guess the point is, these guys were ahead of their time. Before boutique surf shops, art shows, and the hipster surfer took over and began the cool guy retro surf movement. They were legit...and could actually surf.

Murder Treats!!!

Great song to get everyone in the spirit for some Halloween dance parties!

The music video features shots form the movie "Back to School" check out Robert Downey Jr. haha!

Urban Dictionary

Please go search "surf."

"Fuckin' sick ass sport, riding down THE FACE of waves on a fiberglass covered foam board. But has too many posers.

Listen, assholes. Just cause you wear your white O'Neill sweatshirt and cruise on the whitewater once a year and hang out in surfshops every weekend, doesn't mean you're a surfer.

Fucking tards. Posers, and localized fuckwits like Miki Dora ruined the sport.

Still fun though. Just fuck off, posers.
There are ten surf posers for every real surfer."

In My Opinion...

It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia is currently the funniest show on television, the last two hilarious shows being Arrested Development and the original British version of The Office. I didn't get into it until the 3rd or 4th season so I had to get the dvds to catch up. I highly recommend it.


For the most part all of the episodes, seasons 1-5 are available here: http://itsalwayssunnyepisodes.com/

If you can't handle the blurry youtube screen purchasing the dvds is well worth it! Viva la televisor and BOO to all people who think they are above it.

Ha!

As someone who has been infatuated with Morrissey for quite some time now (fuck you i don't care) and quite fond of Beavis and Butthead as well, I absolutely cannot believe that it took me until just a few moments ago to discover this video. Wow, made my night haha.

Best Halloween Costume EVER

Ohh fuck yesss

EMBED-Hummer Goes On Road Sign Rampage - Watch more free videos

Murder Treats!!!

new AVATAR trailer...syked

For The Love of God...

I've been laboring over an essay for the past few hours, taking a brief break every half hour or so to get my kicks on the web in order to protect my brain from stagnation. This is the most recent thing to get my rocks off:Remember when you were a kid and Adam Sandler and Chris Farley ruled your life? Well I guess that only applies to a certain age group. Anyways, back to the grind...

Drugz

2009 marks "the end of the first century of drug control (it all started in Shanghai in 1909)" I found this photo feature pretty interesting. NSFW!

cHalloween

If you plan on going to this you should buy tickets at Imonni on 4th, or else its 10 bucks at the door. Sorry . . .Ill make up for it by sneaking in a jug of Riot Juice.

Frank

The new issue of Frank is out. Edited by Herbie Fletcher. Pretty mental.

Lakers Tonight- Artest Looks Ready

If he had done anything less I would have been a little disappointed...

taken from his twitter: http://twitter.com/thugraider37

That's not laid back or zen mate

Dear Rasta ,
Go slam Hayden Paniterre or something and stop trying to sell me goofy as fuck looking sandals. Thanks mate. You're one of my favorite surfers.




"Island Ice" Shaka chapstick.

Screw that you crazy roids ice heads.
leave that shit on your own rock and don't bring it here.

Crazy Randall

Bio Here.

Cyrus the Virus

at Broceanside.

I got an email from Cyrus with some bitchin' photos.

I wonder what board he is riding.

Halloween Costume

Heavy Metal Parking Lot

Get Ready...

Only a few more days!

Murder Montage...

Found this on youtube last night... never knew this existed !
I wanna thank this director this is a real gem

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_fCqg92qks

C. Fletcher

Not sure if the surf internet community digs the Fletchers as much as I do.

Theres Always Next Season...

So long Dodgers and thank you for another beautiful season at the Ravine. I went to 15 games and had a blast watchin' my boys in blue and look forward to next season.
Until the spring: Fuck the Phillies, Fuck the Giants and Lets Go Lakers!

Gettin' Soupy

Not quite a head dip. Definitely not a tube. Body dip?

Maybe just the tip...to see how it feels?















Photo: Jim Boswell

Long Beach

I was just cruisin through surfline and found a pretty interesting read from a few months ago:
http://www.surfline.com/surfline/forecasts4/forecast_blog_entry.cfm?id=27901
(link is to part 1 or the article, click through to get 2 and 3)
There's a few good pictures and the comments section is interesting as well.

Yogi the dog shark

Here is Derek's dog Yogi. Awesome.

Stephen and Leroy the Masochist

Our dear friend Stephen is really fucking party. He enjoys jameson, marlboro reds, performing mind melting guitar solos, and long walks on the beach.



Psychologist: I see here they call you a masochist.
Leroy the Masochist: I like pain.
Psychologist: Can you be specific? What kind of pain do you like?
Leroy the Masochist: Any kind of pain.
Psychologist: Such as?
Leroy the Masochist: I like fights, I've dove through windows, I've eaten light bulbs, I like sharks, any kind of blood. If you gave me a gun, I'd shoot you in the face just to see what it looked like when the bullet hit.

WWIV

KL

Kyle had a solid write up in A Time To Get. Nice work bud!

Win $300 CLAMS

For your best trick or treat at 54th street. Check it out.

I wouldn't have posted this if it weren't for Vayvak's cameo. Curious Gabe anyone?

Baywatch

Surf related...right?

Need Some Champagne?

crumday

Had a brutal morning today after crunching super hard all weekend. Was listening to Kevin & Bean and they had Manny Ramirez call in to talk about the NLCS, this made my day a hell of a lot better. Fast forward to the 51:00 mark

The new Dizzee Rascal was a perfect soundtrack for my weekend, found this video of him giving it back to Kate Moss.

101 Fin Co.

My bamboo bonzer fins arrived in the mail on Saturday, courtesy of Marlin Bacon of 101 Fin Co.

I first heard about his fins on Surfy Surfy, so I had to get my paws on a set.

Very light and they look ill as fuck. The center fin is 6.5" I will be dropping them off at EC's sometime this week.

Please pardon my shoddy iPhone photo. If you want to see good photography, go here.

HH

I'm not sure if anyone who patrons this blog cares about this but, the band Have Heart played their last show yesterday. I probably haven't listened to them in over a year (other than the time I accidentally saw them) but for a time this band really resonated with me. I could go on but I'll spare the live journal bullshit. All opinions aside you either get a band and their music applies to you, or you don't and it doesn't. I trust they have the artistic integrity to not do a reunion show in five years. Here's some shots from yesterday in Massachusetts:

Photos: Rich G

Photos: Zacxwolf

Spot X

Found this little gem over at Liquid Playground.

Have a Nice Weekend

All this talk about kooks, SUPs, longboards, funboards, snakes, crowds, locals, popouts, bullshit, overhyped swells, weekends, summer, etc.

Does it really fucking matter?

Sometimes I have to take a step back and realize that we are all kooks in the grand scheme of things.

Except maybe guys like this .


















Photo: found on the erBB. He wrote his name on it.

HAHAHA, fuck yes kindred spirit

Sweet Jesus, somebody give this guy another soma!

Un homme bourré achète des bières - Streaming

Murder Treats!!!

this dude rules...

No One Rides Twinnies Anymore!

Do yourself a favor and peep Dane Reynolds new blog. The post from 10.14.09, Sweet and Tender Hooligans, has Dane shredding face on a MTF while jammin' to the Smiths.

MurderMontage...

Shoot dates...Oct.17th and 18th

Came up on a...
-Light kit
-Dolly
-Fog Machine(2)
-Cameras
Panasonic HVX
Canon HD
-Blood
Homemade
-Corpse Paint

Hope all you dude from the blog can help!!!

I need two Surfers prob Dan and Jon

and about 5-10 extras to play zombies

I drew up the storyboard and My friend Sayer has got some great drawings for the Zombie makeup and saw ZOMBIELAND last night for some inspiration...

lets do this!

Dirty Donny

Here is some work by Dirty Donny that I thought was pretty sick and actually somewhat surf relevant. Most of his shit is monsters, skating, old cars, motorcycles, with a light sprinkling of surf shit.

Surf of the Dead II

I just received an email from Huff:

" i am story-boarding the shoot for Surf of the Dead 2, lets just say fog machines, lights, generators, coffins, corpse paint, and zombies!!!"

Here is the first one, incase you missed it.

Surf of the Dead from Chad Huff on Vimeo.

As if Ryan Sheckler wasn't lame enough

he comes along with this bull shit. Action Sport Toys.


















"Putting the action in action sports."

Wingsuit Base Jumping

Holy Shit! This is intense, talk about a hobby (or is it hobbie?).

Let's Do It Dodgers

Just ordered this, will be wearing everyday for the remainder of the season.
Bring on Philly, Kemp and Eithier will be slugging, JP will be in Beast Mode...we got this, this is our year!

Beware of the Chupacabra

EC just had his 5'6" Chupacabra featured on ESPN Surfing. Here is the article.



















Beware of the Chupacabra

This freakish little board will have your running for the hills...or your nearest surf shop.

October 7, 2009, 11:54 AM

By: Matt Lundgren

The Chupacabra in all its funktacular glory.
The first sightings were documented in Puerto Rico, with tales of fear and terror chasing close behind. My first encounter was in La Jolla, where apprehension and astonishment abounded. I am speaking, of course, of the Chupacabra: bane of goats and barneys everywhere.

The love child of boutique boards and mainstream, Eric Christenson first dabbled with the beast after a customer brought in a Merrick Fishcuit. But over a decade of shaping and an inherent talent in the blood each gave Christenson an eye for detail and innovation.

When I first saw the Chupacabra, it was bittersweet. At a mean 5'6", the board looked like it was made to drain a wave of all its potential. But standing at 6'2" and dancing awkwardly around a buck ninety, I wasn't sure the board would float me. But even on a sub-par day, it did. And while the belly stretched rashguard lying supine on a nearby longboard may be more telling of the reason why, I was able to scratch into waves he couldn't. One reason for this supernatural ability? Foam distribution.

"A lot of foam is over your chest so it catches waves easily. We started playing around with the depths of the concave deck, and it varies from customer to customer," says Christenson. "If it's a skinny guy, we can go pretty deep. But the idea is to get the feet closer to the water without losing floatation."

The concave deck can allow you to truly tweak the board and make it your own, conforming to your body. Think Reebok pumps, but these work. "Outside the ribcage, that line is a little higher than normal, but then we didn't want this boaty rail where you lose a lot of feel for the board, and have to really dig into the rail to make a turn, or you land your bottom turn and have to push too hard off the bottom and mess up your top. So it was just trying to find the right blend of everything."

The Chupacabra, pre glass job. Check the rails.
And boaty rails these were not. At first glance, the chimed rails are evident, and on my first backhand wave they were appreciated. The wind had come up, and there was a good deal of chop, but the Chupacabra pumped fast and floated me up, over, and through some soup I hoped the 5'6", 20 3/8", 2 3/8" board could do, but wasn't sure. But what black magic lends itself here?

Evolution and natural selection through Skip Frye and Eric's older brother, Chris. "It all derives from a board that my brother did, it was really the first, true [Steve] Lis style, Frye style, twin keel fish. [Chris] had made one for me after getting one from Skip. He basically copied the Skip, but changed the rails a little bit, put a modern twist on it. Skip's rails are really Skip's rails, they're really weird. We gave it a little less edge, but basically you've got a vee entry into a flat front foot, into a single hull through the fins. That's what I still do today. Over the years I've refined it, but it's that same thing."

But don't get it pretzled, the board isn't a bite off. Just as Dr. Frankenstein is to his bolt-necked buddy, with one glance at the Chupacabra, there's no doubt Eric Christenson is the mad scientist behind the creation.

"It's kind of a mix between his Anthrax model and a fish," describes Ben Machtolf, Icons of Surf V.P., world-class longboarder, and surfboard sommelier. "I took it out at San O, and it was pretty glassy, probably chest high with shoulder high sets. It paddles super good. The first wave I caught, I was expecting it to be stiff since it's fatter, but it was so fast. Just going down there was so much speed off the take off, it was so fast and doing a roundhouse was so loose."

The goofyfooted test pilot also appreciated the backside benefits, "I took one right, and right off the bottom came up and did a hit. The board works so well." At six-foot, 175 lbs, Machtolf would order his own Chupacabra at 5'6" and a little thinned out, to about 2 ¼.

All supernatural allusions aside, the Chupacabra is one hell of a board, perfect for fish aficionados eager to up the progression of their surfing, or a daily driver thruster looking for some extra paddle power in fatter waves or even a quad for the quiver.

What does Christenson hope for those who dance with the Chupacabra? "I want them to go faster than they have on any other board. That's the goal. Whether they achieve that, I have no idea. But I want them to get a sense for speed."

You can find the featured Chupacabra at Icons of Surf in San Clemente.

My friends don't surf

86% of my friends don't surf. Its pretty cool. They can actually talk about things going on in the world and always surprise me with ill behavior. You'd think most people that go surf would be laid back, but all signs point to the contrary as far as Orange Clowny is concerned. Surf cliques seem to always be friendly to the face and talk mad loads of shit behind the back. Major drama all the time that the participants seem to thrive off of. That's why I'm so stoked on what we have going here at S&D. We just surf and leave it at that. Fuck everything else. I don't care to attend your surf art show/band/whatever, only to discuss the latest drama going down in the scene and put other people down.

I'd rather get drunk with cool people like my buddy Bootz-

"I'm gonna go piss player. Fuck that whole coaster routine."

Pulls this out of his wallet and bails...


I swear surfing and surfers are so fucking lame. If I didn't love it, I'd fucking hate it.

Hello Beautiful

whoo whoo!

I hope your evening is downright pleasant

Ps. Happy Birthday Chuff

Go Dodgers!

Trick Question...

Here's Lemmy doing a lovely rendition of Ben E. King's "Stand By Me" for the new Flip video: http://flipextremelysorrysoundtrack.bandcamp.com/track/stand-by-me-feat-lemmy-kilminster-dave-lombardo

Definitely teared up a bit, thanks Lemmy.

1BigIdiot

There's a lot going on at the BEAR FACE Camp . . . working on a new album and have some shows coming up. This saturday @ The Basement in Downtown LB should be fun, FREE before 10 and cheap drinxxx. I highly recommend trying to make it out. It would make me happy.

Dono . . . Manager @ Katin, is putting a surf video together that documents a surf trip along the Californian Coast, he decided to use one of our songs for the trailer, good stuff.

Also I don't think I ever posted our EP up for download here, so if you don't have it click that link below

DoWnLoAdddd

The File

So I really, really, really don't like the idea of reunion shows (for a number of reasons) but fuck I wish I could have gone to the Suicide File reunion show in Chicago a while back...

I was just reading about John Ashcroft for an online class and when it came time to respond I was feeling a little lazy so i just pasted the link to TSF playing "Ashcroft" (I know up tha punx) and it led me to watching several more. Ah this band ripped, treat yourself: http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=00d5416692db4247c956cd5aa9d522977b9fe3c7e036fd39


Also: 10 minutes till game 2, let's go blue! dodgers in 3

MurderMontage...

Snow season is coming up and I am happy to see what some of my friends put together from last season...

Finally a video that is raw and crunchy as fuck...

Snow and Surf flicks have been warped into these euro pop same trick pieces of shit...

I remember the first surf film I ever watched was Lost Across America and that video got me so pumped on surfing, it was all about breaking shit, raging, and just shredding because you love it...

This video teaser from Skeleton Crew looks promising to Snowboarding video future...

enjoy!

Skeleton Crew presents Group Effect (Actual Teaser) from Skeleton Crew on Vimeo.

Surfer's Choice - Dick Dale

I was listening to "Surfer's Choice" the other day. Did some Googlin' and found this.

"Go be fat on someone else's time"

Thank you Henry.


***EDIT***
I had to add this one for Dudeconomy, murdercity, NevadicalMcRadical, and all our other friends who listen to this shit. love you fools ; )




On an unrelated note, I spotted this on the window at Gnarl's Jr yesterday after a marathon session. Seriously what type of shit is this?

Danzig

A lot of people don't like this guy. I can't get enough of him. No homo.

Groms

This kid is 6 years old. Totally frothing. Hungry for the tube. Remember back when you were a grom and how fucking sick surfing was.

Now it is just assholes and funboards.

Kaleb 1st chapter from Helluva Life.tv on Vimeo.

Murder Treats!!!

Thanks Grizzly Bear...

Beer Slave!

My favorite things ever. Slashing and suds. Thanks for the find TJ!

Kick Me

Surfing's unofficial "Kick Me" sign.