26 October 2010

Phoney niggas are outlined in chalk.

Time to revisit this in case I forget before Sunday...



I still have a packet of "Billy's Nuts" bolts that he gave me in NYC a few years ago. The packaging is amazing - a photo of him in a straight jacket with a couple of hot nurses, so good. Anyway, watch this clip - Wu-Tang, swords and the best skateboarder in New York, what's not to like?

While I'm on the subject this is good too. What he says about New York being the biggest small town in the world is so true. I remember bumping into him twice in one day once. First was that spot with the two glass-brick bank-to-walls with the channel between them in Brooklyn where I was filming with Fiske and Billy showed up in a sharp suit with his Mum. He gave us a bagel with peanut butter in.

Later that day we stopped by KCDC and he was skating the mini-ramp in the same suit and dress shoes doing crazy lines with switch blunts on the extension. Fucking ridiculous. Anyway, watch this...

08 October 2010

Good christians they wanna kill you and your life has not even begun.

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When I said I was sick of having a picture of Bono on my phone Gorm sent this. He deserves a Nobel prize for design.
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I found the fridge magnets.
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Confused number plate.
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Always nice when one of these arrives.
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Fos on Skate Talk.
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30 September 2010

Beef chow mein is nothing to be scared of.



This is pretty funny - has Epicly Later'd gone too far in comparing one pro's good looks to anothers'? Nah.  Is it actually more fun to talk about the peripheral stuff than the actual skateboarding itself? Probably.

I'm not entirely sure Alex Olson will be too stoked on this episode but really - who gives a shit? Since the demise of Big Brother it's been left to bloggers to say anything remotely controversial these days. Regular mags can't do it as they'll get their advertising pulled. O'Dell has nothing to lose. Vice are paying not Dwindle or DC. He can risk it on these shows and I for one wish he'd risk it and push a little further.

Dedicating 10 minutes to the way a skater looks is fucking great - we all know how fucking boring skateboard journalism is for the most part. Tour articles and the same old questions and answers with pro after pro. I want more off the wall crap like Todd Falcon, the Bong Olympics and Andy Roy interviews.
Not that Dylan's sartorial decisions compare to any of the aforementioned but episodes like this are a step in the right direction.

29 September 2010

"Wal-Mart"

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Upside down cross traffic lights.
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Prostitute Disfigurement at the Elektrowerkz.
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Catalogue model.
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Saint Ockwell.
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The Jake show.
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Speedy Noodle, Brixton High Street. Great/not great to be back.
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The main event - Inquisition at The Bull & Gate.
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Fucking incredible as ever.
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Russell telling Jake not to get A.C.A.B. on his knuckles.
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The Curtis bros at MSN.
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Performance art or mental illness at Brisfest?
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SpiderAsher.
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