1966

An important year for many things. The legendary album Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys was released. The Beatles played their very last concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California. The Church of Satan was formed by Anton Szandor LaVey in San Francisco. And Nat Young knocked surfing on it's ass. Traditional longboarding was at it's peak in 66. Noseriding was king and everyone was ripping. Nat was rapeing. There is an obvious contrast in his style compared to everyone else. This is a great clip of the world contest that year. Audio gets fucked about half way through but the footage is classic. Anyone know what film this is from?

Stumbled upon this while looking for fresh flicks to get myself into a surf mood this morning. I liked the title (and way too often relate). The description says "Jared Mell washes off a La Cave hangover with some mates". Being Wednesday night I feel this vid's pretty fitting.

There's been allot of shit talk on La Cave (Costa Mesa steak joint that turns into a bar/dance scene at night), but I think Nevadical McRadical will agree with me that its pretty alright for a few hours. One memorable night our friend Chasty McNasty ended up stealing a couple bottles of wine from the back somehow, then proceeded to hook us up with this kick ass after party at some chicks house he knew. Everyone got weird. I got blacked out (and kicked out), Evan puked off the balcony, and I'm pretty sure Nevada slammed some chick. Pretty standard.

Just two weeks ago or so after a quick La Cave sesh due to flooding, we ended up lawn jobbing a church. Straight to hell boy. I mean for a Wednesday night how much more fun can you have? I guess the real bottom line is easy -- there's fuckin babes at La Cave. I'll leave it at that.

better late than never

Shore Pound

This is Carlos, photo: c-los

he takes some excellent water shots around here. I'd imagine he takes quite the beating getting some of these. Check em out:
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photo:c-los

Spray Paint the Walls

grafitti is very entertaining. i have many a public restroom to thank for priceless wisdom. wax is the surfer's spray paint. or a magic marker in this case. "A good cop is a dead pig." most folks i consort with would agree with this sentiment. you know things are bad when a bunch of middle class white kids rally against the man. i wonder if this was a message to the meter maid. which might be worse than cops.

mobile uploads/negativity

I love "Green" and "Eco Friendly" companies. Blatant hypocrisy cracks me up, so you can imagine every time a shipment of sandals comes into the shop I'm havin a chuckle. Every single pair of sandals is wrapped in cellophane, with a plastic hanger, foam inserts between toes, and a "recyclable/ Reusable" plastic bag to package them. Uhhhh huhhhhh, like the surf shop rats are going to take that shit to the market and shop. Half an order of these things half fills and industrial size dumpster. Keep it up rasta.


This picture doesn't really do this wax ball justice. It's gettin pretty hefty these days. By december it's going to be a snow man.


It's all about customization. Here's drew'sbitter.com's customization of my bad habit. "God Ur Rad"


Off to Danimals wedding to get loose. Lateeeee

Bruce Brown on Coke

The man had a sugary voice that would rot your teeth. Love Bruce. Love Coke. Can't drink the stuff anymore though. It made my stomach hurt so bad that I had to stop. It's true though. Nothing tastes quite as good as a Coke after a shred. I used to skate at El Do and pick up a can at the snack shack by the tennis courts afterwards. Smooth as ice baby.

somebody got too high today. . . and fuckkked up

Picked up my new 5'10 Sub Scorcher a few days ago. Feels really fucking sick.

The Chronic

Happy 4/20/10

FUGAZI body glide

Listen to FUGAZI. If you look at Red Medicine upside down you will notice all four members coming straight at you on a clean 1' foam dragon. Even post-punkers from D.C. do the body glide.

"God I Love the Weekend"

Listen to Townes Van Zandt:

Better Late Than Never

Hey folks I meant to post this yesterday but better late than never, today is Record Store Day. Plenty of good deals, free shit, and record store day releases. Fingerprints opened at 7am today and I blew it and didn't get there till 11 so some of the stuff I was looking for was gone (Elvis Costello live @ Hollywood High 7" and a Fingerprints Fucked Up 7" for a Michael, oh well). I snagged some shit anyways to give em some business, Zola Jesus Stridulum ep, and the Minutemen's double "live" album," "ballot result".
So if you have nothing else to do for the rest of the day go to your local record store and blow your paycheck. If it's any motivation to anyone Keith Morris is "working" at Fingerprints today, we brushed shoulders, it was cool.

I'll never talk shit on Marzo again/ Cheyne Magnusson is an asshole.

I'll admit it, I've repeated things I've heard about Clay Marzo. A grip of my friends who have met him more or less said ignorantly exactly what is reported in this April's issue of Rolling Stone. Mainly that Marzo is too baked to deal with people and is blowing his talent.
Ya I can't really stand people either and those feelings can be exacerbated when I'm high (depending on the strain) is what I thought to myself, Get over it.
I knew of the Aspergers syndrome he was diagnosed with through a poorly written Surfing magazine article awhile back, but didn't fully comprehend it. Felt more like it was a pitty party piece and still was quick to judge.

Well after a well informed article penned by Paul Solotaroff, I have completely and utterly changed my tune. Oh the power a wordsmith yields. Please check THIS LINK OUT If you want a good in depth look at this dude. I really appreciate how far the author took this article. It's clear he doesn't work on behalf of a surfing publication that wants to play nice with everyone. The insight on Marzo's half brother Cheyne Magnusson, whom I feel is a beer bellied ginger burnout and hard ass father was particularly heavy.

Not sure how to end this so I'll throw this doozy up . . .

I'm Sorry

but this video is just too ridiculous not to share with you folks. My friend showed me this the other day and I had to watch it a few more times to take it all in. This was the first time I had ever heard the posse and I was truly taken aback. I don't know what is worse the lyrics/rhymes ("i fed a fish to a pelican at frisco bay, it almost ate my cellphone, i ran away"), face paint, or the fact that both these mutants reproduced. Don't be afraid to sit back and enjoy the entire video because you too just may believe in miracles (like magnets) by the end, I sure do! Also: if Juggaloes aren't your favorite subculture after viewing this you are seriously tripping.

Health - We are Water

My friend Dana did the steadicam on this video.

It's not surf related, but it is party.

HEALTH "We are Water" from Eric Wareheim on Vimeo.

ADRIFT

The best modern longboard movie ever made, hands down. Made by J. Brother in the early 90's. First I saw Endless Summer II and pooped my pants. I quickly became a fan of Longboarding via Wingnut. Then I saw Adrift. Joel took over from that point on. This film gives an overview of Longboarding in the 90's. I think there are five Joel Segments. Great music and quite artistic for it's time. The dude who made it is from the LBC so that makes it even more legit. This is part of the opening scene. Joel murdering some small reformers. Highly recomended.

El Salvador

Our buddy Brett and some of his pals went on a trip to El Salvador. I lurked on his facebook page and found some shots from his trip. There is nothing better than frothing in the soup with your buds, I really dig that photo.

Fuck Ya Freddy P

So if you haven't figured it out by yet (noobs), we hear at svrf and destroy embrace free speech. Here's Fred Patatchia going for it during a post heat interview. Cheer's man, we need more of this so we can avoid the censored target sponsored mouthpieces that ARE the impending doom of pro surfing.
It's okay to be an asshole, tell em' peacefrog said so.

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THE KOOK

I saw this online via Dan Crockett's blog. This is the first issue. For a few bucks he sent this over the pond for me to read.

With contributions from Cyrus Sutton, Ryan Lovelace, Andrew Kidman, Seamouse, and a host of others, it makes for some nice eye candy and light reading.

Long Boarding Is Soooooooo Gay

I think this was taken 2 or 3 summers ago.

Part II

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Happy Birthday

MERLE

Shootin

Here's a little tid bit from Danimals bachelor party, we enjoyed some machine guns on our way into Vegas. This was the first time I fired a gun, very wild, would do again.

PICKLED

ran into this fool at sano the other day. homie surfs like gangbusters. kyle lightner snapped this beauty. one of the most epic shots i have seen. ever. well done boys.