The Hot Crew

Really dude? If that’s true kids are so retarded now-a-days it pains me. That sh!t can’t be real, right?

So there I am face down in a ditch with my pants around my ankles, broken ipod in my hand and…Nah I’m f#cking joking. I’ve been MIA from this site for a minute but I figured I’d post some things from various shit I’ve been looking at.

• So drunk on it I’m sober
• Take my picture
• Do it yourself music venues
• You like breathing? Yeah, me too.
• All my riding places up in smoke

This Saturday I went on a bike ride with two fellow IRC nerds to contribute to Spotcovr, a web 2.oh site for skate spots, done by Ivo Janssen (keep that kid in check, he’s got some other cool stuff coming out soon).

From left to right: Me on the Riding Nemo fixie. I grew out my beard for extra hipster points. Next up, Dude on his road bike. He’s training for some triathlon and already biked 35 and ran five miles that morning. And finally Stonermike on his mountain bike. He took five bong rips in the morning.

We biked from my apartment to Downtown LA and took all kinds of photos of skate spots. We got kinda lost in downtown trying to find some food, but ended up at some super cheap market food plaza deal. The spots we documented were:

• Belmont High
• Convention Center Ledge
• Downtown Car Wash
• LA Library
• Piss Benches
• Staples Ledge
• USC Ledges

In the end we had some ice cream at Scoops (I had white chocolate and sea salt flavor, which was amazing). Overall we biked about 20 miles and hope to do it again soon, there’s still ton’s of spots to be added to Spotcovr.

My new iron scandium horse.

Last nite I went to the Nike SB Video premiere to support Wieger. The event itself was nicely organized, easy to pick up RSVP tickets, mellow security and free popcorn.

But then the weirdness started. Each skater had to direct their own movie and they showed their “struggle” to complete this task before their parts. I understand it was all meant as a joke, and it did have some very funny moments, but its was just too weird.

Best part belongs to Omar Salazar, that dude is a beast. Another stand-out was Grant Taylor who has an amazing style and skates just about everything.

And of course Wieger’s part was badass. One of his last tricks was a heelflip backside nosegrind on Hubba Hideout! Which brings me to another gripe I have with the movie… why wasn’t this trick shown in slow-mo? There was no slow-mo in the entire video.

Also, the editing and image quality of the video wasn’t the greatest. Maybe I’m spoiled already by Ty Evans’ HD promos for the Lakai video (which I can’t WAIT to see), but overall the Nike video was just plain weird.

UPDATE: Know Skateboarding has an awesome set of photos of the premiere.

Couple of weeks ago I went for my weekly 4 mile morning run and to my surprise my GPS watch told me I ran it at a 7:30 pace. I normally don’t run that fast and couldn’t figure out why, until Kyle told me this was due to me being a hipster on the fixie. Biking does wonders for the quads and helps tremendously for running. So I decided to enter the Nike Run Hit Remix and see if I could run the 5 mile race at that 7:30 pace.

The start of the race was hectic. I was in the front but somehow there were still tons of slow people, people with baby strollers and even people stopping and taking pictures ahead of me. After some weaving through traffic I finally got in my pace and started to zone out. In fact, I was so much in the zone, that I didn’t even recognize my buddy Mike giving me a high five when we crossed paths. The finish of this race is always the best, you go through the tunnel and end right inside the LA Coliseum.

My GPS watch displayed a finish time of 36:17 with an average pace of 7:10. However, it also said the length of the course was 5.07 miles (no idea how that’s possible). So I will have to wait for the official results online. But I definitely set a PR!

UPDATE: Official time is not gonna happen since the timing chips didn’t register at the start. Good thing I had my nerd watch. However, images have been posted, and I look like a sack of shit.

∙φ∙ chamois has joined #skate
<chamois> been skating since the early 70’s
<chamois> love it
<chamois> so i added this routine to my skating
<chamois> http://skogging.com/
<chamois> switch it up
<chamois> working on going switch stance is an exercise in itself
<chamois> any of you hang on silverfish?
<chamois> or ncdsa?
<chamois> http://samhelltv.blip.tv
<chamois> 40 years of skateboarding
<chamois> and i find this routine worth examining
<chamois> i like to rollerskate on my skateboard
<chamois> it feels like i’m skiing moguls on the flats
<chamois> damn trippy exercise
<chamois> so the japs and the euro’s like the stuff
∙φ∙ SignOff chamois: #skate (ouch)

Where the fuck you from?

1. Stop including Word documents that you could have easily pasted in the e-mail.
2. When you are organizing a party, please BCC the invite, I don’t really care about most your friends (who I don’t even know) telling me they can’t make it.
3. Stop e-mailing me back with “Thanks”. Only e-mail me back if you have more questions or if there are any problems.
4. When you change e-mail address, don’t inform me from your old address, send it from your new e-mail address!
5. We’ve been e-mailing each other for a while now, you can stop being formal. Stop opening with my name and stop signing off with yours, I already know who we are.
6. If you’re going to have to use a signature, please keep it short without any fruity fonts, colors or logos.
7. Why include your email address in your signature? I received the mail from you, so I already got your e-mail address.
8. When resending an e-mail or attachment, please use the same subject so the e-mail thread stays intact.
9. CAPS IS CONSIDERED YELLING, YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS BY NOW!
10. Stop asking if I got you’re email. Yes, I got it. Did I read it? That’s the question you should have asked.

April 3 2007

Nic and huphtur start sending each other a song every day.

May 14 2007

They decide to share their song swapping with the rest of the world and dopetunes is launched.

July 24 2007

Campo is asked to join the team and produces a custom back-end solution for the new Tunes for Days! The improved RSS feed includes enclosure tags for direct song access in your favorite RSS reader and iTunes.

1. Launch iTunes
2. In the Advanced menu, select Subscribe to Podcast
3. Enter tunesfordays.com/feed in the text box and click OK