"I played piano beautifully
in their living room in a nightmare I had."

from "Vitamins" by Jim Daniels

and fat eagles!

it's not hard to tell who the american is in this picture! johnromanphoto.com

Life Won't Wait

is the title of the new Rise video. It comes out in Indiana on March 7th so figure out how to get there if you can. I get to have two tricks in Matt's part! Here's a trailer in case you aren't already excited enough:

a copy of garage days and to tell me the truth

i wanted to go to the vietnamese sammie place on mott and broome but it was closed for the evening. this place was next door so miles and i went in to get me some food.
i was trying to order noodles with vegetables and the women behind the counter couldn't understand me at all. we had to depend on the homework crew to translate!

they gave us all sorts of shit in the bag so we left in a hurry since we seemed to have gotten away with a steal. then at seths's i realized that one is supposed to pour the soup stuff on top of the noodles, which makes them soft and the meal delicious
seth and miles and i went to see rambo. we saw dennis on the train. we got to the theatre and saw the dude who played warren p cheswick in the old tv show Ed that I loved. he is also in strange wilderness. he was with drew barrymore, who once posed for playboy. one of the movies in the previews was called "midnight meat train."
yeah! epic credits! best line, said by mercenary soldier to christian missionary whom he is rescuing, "god didn't save your life. we did."
"do they sell salt-free?" asks miles




he looks like dylan until he smiles and becomes 'quist. check his new site: thewindthewindisblowing.com
her name is alexis and she has a blog too. check it out at reminiscetherapy.blogspot.com
homies!

a night with brengar

quotes from brengar in the perhaps hour that i saw him tonight.

-i chewed up a pastry in this girl's bathroom and then spit it up all over the floor. she thought someone chundered. then i stuffed a towel in the sink and turned on the faucets.

-taji did six lines of coke.

-gigliotti loves the cali pound (proceeds to do that cali handshake with gigliotti)

-to miles-california, what were you doing in that sorry excuse for a state. what is it thinking, taking up the entire west coast. and arnold schwartzenager governs them all. why don't they split it up into two states.

-coming back from the counter at wendy's -they just gave me a free philly cheesesteak. i mean they gave me a free refill. they gave me a free refilly cheesesteak.

-brengar to me-you babysit? that's immature.
miles-brengar, your life represents immaturity.
brengar-talk to the hand

-does anyone have a boge for the lovechild?

miles is skating on the sidewalk and a pig comes across the street and calls him out. he's tapping on his billy club as he rolls over
pig to miles- how old are you?
miles to pig- twenty
pig to miles- let me see your id (seconds elapse) holy shit you are twenty.

where the air smelled like snakes we'd shoot with our pistols but empty pop bottles was all we would kill

get a dope midday text from binkley. hey seth when are we going to see rambo?

not a bad spreadthe first version of that movie funny games
sachi nasatir photography
that bodega right off the bedford L stop

wow. last time i was at this place there were skateboarding ramps on the back wall and abada was here and we called katy who was in california for the weekend. someone also threw up in loxton's bookbag


the music was doint and sounded like tosh townends emerica part until dean took over and threw on the clash.

illegal smile

my last two days.
he settles on this.
i ride seth's board up but it seriously has the tightest trucks i have ever experienced. i would try to carve but it was as if the board waited ten seconds before responding in the slightest. it was a cruiser so it went fast and i tic tac'd my way around corners.
yeah griff! this is at black & white.
i don't know the dude in middle but he seems really pleased with himself. simkiss is stoked in a way less calculated way.
i see little matt walking past me. he keeps telling me how twisted he is and wants to pose anonymously.
oh bummer. everyone besides ted is leaving sweetparadise when i show up. talk to these bros for a bit about how it used to be sick when ross and brendan skated with us.
i used to run two dollar meals at tasty dumpling and now i have to spend seven to avoid meat.

seth and i watched strange wilderness since it was raining.


oh, supmaggielee.blogspot.com?
jr and i walked around the west village for an hour before making it to beatrice.

1. If you have to wonder what the best skateboarding website is, you obviously haven't been to quartersnacks yet. www.quartersnacks.com
   

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1. Cool Hand Luke Says:
   January 30th, 2008 at 12:47 pm

   This nigga and his corporate handler’s are running a scam. We all know this nucka ain’t skate. Why in god’s name, if you didn’t skate, for one, and you in the rap game, or you tryin to get in the rap game, would you, a.) pick up a skateboard? b.) promote skateboarding? c.) write a song about skateboarding? d.) write a song about skateboarding? e.) Write a song about skateboarding? f.) Write a song about skateboarding when you obviously don’t skate? g.) Front like you skate when it’s painfully apparent you don’t? and h.) be still, at this point, be fronting like you do??? Whatever, I can’t even get upset about this kind of BULLSHIT anymore. It’s literally all around us at this point. This is what you call CORPORATE INVOLVEMENT IN SKATEBOARDING! Corporate takeover. This is what suits in offices on Madison Ave. see/saw as the new big thing to make money off of and they hand this toolbox from the suburbs of Chicago a skateboard and say “you know what Lupe(?), we’re gonna market you as the next incarnation of Pharell(remember that stooge?) and you gonna be the new skateboard sambo.” This kid should be ashamed of himself and his fellow compatriots at his suburban high school should stuff his ass in a locker for even looking at a skateboard. And to set the record straight, he bought that thing at the Element Store in Times Square. I’m gonna even take this time to take a swipe right now at all corporate involvement in skateboarding, whether it be Echo OWNING ZooYork(a hip-hop rhinoceros?), Nike BUYING it’s way in to the skateboard market, Adidas FOLLOWING suit, Element having A STORE IN TIMES SQUARE!!!, IPath SELLING to Timberland(you seen the new Redman video? He’s wearing IPath’s, no shit.) and even D.C. with all the toolbox’s who wear that garbage logo like its FUBU. All you nigga’s that SOLD YOUR BRANDS OUT should be tarred and feathered and paraded around Union Square! Word up, shame on all you yellow belly’d nigga’s.

2. Near Future Says:
   January 30th, 2008 at 12:53 pm

   In a nut shell, corporately entities that don’t have their origins in skateboarding and the CEO’s of these corporations that don’t skate shouldn’t own skateboard companies, period!

3. QuarterSnacks Says:
   January 30th, 2008 at 4:04 pm

   Osiris > Nike SB

4. Twis2ed Says:
   January 30th, 2008 at 9:39 pm

   umm why cant we all just skate,
   put the corporate shit behind and skate just because
   its what keeps us leveled, and sane.
   instead of stressing on shit like this!

5. Near Future Says:
   January 31st, 2008 at 1:32 am

   In response to “Twis2ed”: umm, yeah, let’s just, like, ignore it and, like, maybe like, the corporate meglo-monsters will leave the skateboarder a little crumb of the control of their artform. Or better yet, like maybe, if we like, close our eyes, it will like, go away.
   Again, I can’t stress how important it is to be an educated consumer, not only with skateboard product choices, but with everything you take into your life, to guarantee your hard earned cash doesn’t go to line the pockets of corporate scum who never skated or the greedy sell-outs who enable these corporate, opportunist pigs. Echo is not cool, neither is selling your brand to Echo or kicking off an entirely dedicated, original team to buy another team and then kick that team off to buy yet another team off Birdhouse that Birdhouse basically stole off Five-Boro. This shit has got to stop. You ever see the kooks that wear Element and Zoo shit? Straight up, I’ve seen rollerbladers in Element gear. And lets not even bring up Echo.
   And it’s not going to stop if we just ignore it and “just skate”. There’s nothing wrong with being cognitive and conscious of what is going on in YOUR industry. Nike is not cool, nor is Adidas. These are non-skater owned brands that are just “in” skateboarding to make a buck. I’m sorry to inform you of this. Element sold their operation out a long time ago as did D.C. IPath is owned by Timberland for chrit’s sakes. You think Timberland bought IPath because they like skateboarding? Fuck no, they bought to make money off skateboarders.
   Sorry, but your money is going to non-skating/never even picked up a skateboard C.E.O’s and their shareholders, who are probably already filthy rich and simply keep the machine properly greased and the guise propped up to make it look like these are still “core” brands and are down for skateboarders and skateboarding. They outfit and enable clowns like Dupe’ Fiasco, Pha-rrealls?, BAM, and Rob and Big. I mean seriously, will you give my eyeballs a break and get the fuck off MTV? What a fucking embarrassment to human beings, let alone skateboarders.
   So Snackman(entry #9), are you comparing Nike SB(which stands for SCUMB BAGS, by the way) to Oshitris? You’re close if you are because they’re both complete crap, but there is one big fundamental difference. Osiris is at least, actually owned by a skateboarder. To my knowledge, I believe Osiris is still owned by Tony Mag of H-Street/Life Skateboards fame. Can anyone confirm this?

6. QuarterSnacks Says:
   February 1st, 2008 at 2:32 am

   Anyone who is a skateboarder who I don’t know is quite frankly an asshole in my eyes (on top of fifty to ninety percent of those who I do know), so I would prefer that my money didn’t go to them.

7. thehillsidestrangler Says:
   February 1st, 2008 at 2:54 am

   it’s all about control baby

meet rob walker

this is another dude who is way down to rip and is sort of a hero to me. i am honored to know him.
by andrew hutchison http://flickr.com/photos/hutchphotos
auscherman photo credit. weddle is the one who couldn't have possibly caught himself at this point. rob is in the background.fuck yeah! imagine loving things so much that you're willing to do this for them and not even care. that's why normal people can't fathom how much skateboarders love skating.
if you have something you love, you need so little to get by, yet people lack this and so they keep building bigger, unsustainable houses in suburbs more and more distanct from the urban centers

seriously the gnarliest story ever

okay. do you want to hear the gnarliest story ever? if you do keep reading if not then don't bother.

so there's this kid in indianapolis josh krom. we call him krom. he is out of his mind. he rocked a half of a mustache for over a month straight. he gets really drunk and really high more than anyone i know. he rides his bike absolutely everywhere and loves to skate. epic dude. at one point in his life he steals a guy at a bar's beer, chugs it, then smashes the beer bottle down and cuts his hands when the bottle breaks. the cops are called and he has to go to the hospital before going to jail. to tell you the kind of guy he is.

you know those computer dusters? the ones you spray between the keys. you know how if you turn them upside down they emit freezing compressed air? you can't even hold your finger to it because its so cold. well he decides to spray it on his nutsack. holy fuck. okay, so he does this, and apparently goes for it and he gets the biggest blister ever. this is all second hand from matt. but the skin is really thin and you can see the puss and whatever else under it. this is sensitive ballsac skin. completely gross. so he goes over to the moontower and i would assume they all get so high. krom shows them the sac and it's disgusting. then he decides to poke the blister!

they get a needle and sterilize it, which is a thoughtful thought for intense stoners to have and they make sure it gets done right. there is some sort of party happening right now. so he takes the needle and punctures the blister. goo starts squirting out, with force, into a shot glass. they fill up a fair amount of it. some girl remarks on how gnarly it would be if someone drank it. of course that's just what krom wants to hear. he grabs the glass, yells "i'm a viking" and pounds it! six people who saw him do it threw up! and apparently tubbs filmed it all. no fucking way!