Saturday, January 24, 2009

Send in the clouds.bring down the rain.

I'm pretty sad to report that Silver Jews' frontman David Berman has called quits. I was a pretty big Jews fan as you might have been able to tell by my references to their lyrics in this blog.Fortunatly I was able to catch them play in SF last year during what was only their second time touring since forming in 1989. His lyrics made me feel like a character in a book who drifts from town to town, staying in hotel rooms and drinking a lot of scotch.

RIP Silver Jews.

Friday, January 16, 2009

!VIVA EL FORTIES!


Ok so here's another post dedicated to a short-lived, obscure 90's skate brand.This time i'll be nerding out over Forties, the Deluxe-backed clothing company that at one point or another had John Cardiel,Julien Stranger,Tommy Gurerro,Bobby Puleo,Karma Tsocheff,Ray Barbee,Ethan Fowler,Sean Young and even Jerry Hsu riding for them. I'd say they should bring it back but it would never be as cool.Not even if they made Ethan shave his head and start wearing Dickies again.Although that would be awesome.
I do think if they did come back Alex Olson,Anthony Pappalardo and Dennis Businetz would fit in with their vibe pretty well, although they'd never be able to get them away from their current high paying clothing sponsers.Ok this is starting to sound like some fantasy league shit now.Go bomb some hills.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Da BEEZ kneez.


These dudes are taking "gettin weird" to a whole nutha level and it's fucking awesome.

Saturday, January 10, 2009

RIP Oscar Grant.

For those of you who don't already know Oscar Grant was fatally shot in the back on new years day at the Fruitvale BART station by a BART cop while handcuffed and face down on the ground. Some are claiming this was an accident but i see no reason why the cop had his gun out in the first place when he could have easily grabbed his tazer or pepper spray. This murderer needs to be brought to justice. That being said destroying innocent peoples' property and vandalizing independent businesses is a shitty way to bring attention to your cause.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Keep it simple stupid.


After watching Anthony Pappalardo's episode of Epicly Later'd i was reminded of this sweet youtube clip of Pops and friends shreddin around New York, in black and white set to a tune by Charles "Jesus Christ" Manson. Shit like this gets me way more hyped to skate than Fully Flared because i can relate to it. Don't get me wrong the skating in FF is amazing but who the fuck skates like that? Those dudes don't even skate like that.I guess what i'm tryin to say is: Take it down a notch, Skateboarding. You're getting too big for your britches.