nasty, brutish, and short

I have a serious question. Who would win in a game of SKATE, a gorilla or a bear?

So how about that Indy Demo? Pretty sick, right? I only took a couple of photos. We've got Brian Anderson with Chris Bacon, a scared and lonely Chet Childress, Emmanuel Guzman back smith, and find David Gravette. I could give you a list of all the gnarly shit that happened, but that would be boring and the footage will probably show up on the internet or in a Thrasher video some time. The really interesting stuff happened at the after party at the Badlander. It turns out that most pro skateboarders are completely retarded, seriously de-evolved. After a conversation with Peter Hewitt, it makes perfect sense why he can do what he does. Also, I heard that Sammy Baca broke a window on Broadway and had to go the hospital and got arrested. Great job!

I guess I should link to the Four Seasons site. It's fun.

The Mighty Ducks

Blaow! I'm sure you've seen the stickers ordering you to "keep Missoula weird." I'm going let you know right now that Missoula does not need any more help being weird, it's got weirdness on lock. I should elaborate on this, but I lack the gumption. And you should really just experience it first hand.

Yeah, so International Go Lurk at the Skatepark Day was yesterday. And there were a lot of people lurking at the skatepark. Some people were actually skateboarding too. It was "holy hell" hot out and I got some decent sun burns in some unusual places. It was a lot of fun really, there were little best trick contests throughout the day on various obstacles so everyone could be awesome in some unique way. I think we also managed to raise a decent amount of money for the new indoor park project. I should have taken at least some photos, but I didn't.

The Indy demo is this Wednesday, sometime in the afternoon. I'm taking work off to witness it.

Do you have the new Lil Wayne album yet? You're blowing it you don't. I like that new Wolf Parade album too. Kissing the Beehive is totally epic.

it's tha carter three

Damn, we did a lot of skateboarding over the weekend. "We" being UK, Special K, DQ, C Dirty, Prickly Pete and the person typing this. It was a fuck load of fun. Pete is more than a decade older than the rest of us, but he still totally fit in with all us retards. It made me optimistic about another 10 years of skating, drinking, eating ice cream, and general dorking around. To quote Vonnegut, "We are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."

So while I was out playing, I guess there was a skate jam/contest/fundraiser, or whatever you want to call it. Yeah, I flaked out pretty bad. I hope everyone had fun that went to that. We're doing another thing on Saturday at MOBASH. No one needs to come over for that.

Go pick up the new Lil Wayne album.

coconino community development

Good year for a Sasquatch Festival.

Top 5 bands this year at Sasquatch that aren't the Flaming Lips:

1) Battles - Nearly superhuman abilities.
2) Okkervil River - Really emotional, like me.
3) The National - "I'm Mr. November, I won't fuck us over."
4) Destroyer - Best part of the New Pornos and a killer solo performance.
5) Beirut - Just beautiful.

Other Highlights:

Tents

Knives

Knocking Fletcher Over

Resizing images is for pussies. Go here if you want to see more awesomes.

the old man is an irrelevant distraction

Ok, my hiatus is over. That can only mean that I have a new computer. And I do. It's right here in front of me. Yep, I'm a total hipster douchebag now; blogging at a coffee shop. Someone should probably punch me.

There's a skate jam here in Missoula on June 14 to benefit me and Dylan, or less accurately the new indoor skatepark. We're also having an event on June 21, Go Skateboarding Day, to make people aware of our need to skateboard every fucking day.

I think I'll post about Sasquatch later, I don't have my photos loaded on this new machine. I'll say this now though, I thought it was rad times and everyone should listen to Okkervil River as much as possible.

Is UK still alive? I haven't seen him in forever.

G'night.