The Hot Crew

Tomorrow I’m moving to San Francisco. I’m excited about this, since S.F. is somewhat similar to Amsterdam: lots of hippies and flikkers. However in the four years that I’ve lived in Los Angeles, I’ve really grown to love this city. L.A. has so many pockets of awesomeness, which I know I’m gonna miss. Here’s some of them:

1. My homies.
2. My apartment. A buddy of mine is taking over, and he promises he’s gonna start his own Rossmore and Clinton Flickr set.
3. Larchmont Blvd, where there’s always some celebs to be seen. Last star sighting: Wolowitz from The Big Bang Theory!
4. Getting yelled at; “Get on the sidewalk!” by clueless motorists.
5. Jessica Holmes, one of the the KTLA5 Morning Show hosts, who looks SO hot in HD.
6. The weather. It’s always sunny in So-Cal. It never rains. Seriously.
7. Not sitting in traffic. Yes, that sounds weird, but I got carpool stickers on my battery car and nothing is more satisfying than to zip past people stuck in traffic.
8. Orange20.
9. Scoops.
10. Talking skate industry shit with Tony over at The Hundreds (He’s moving to SF as well, so I guess there’s only nine things on this list).

Mike Matz, better known to The Hot Crew as Dude, was a brogrammer at Sole Technology from April 2003 to early 2006. He’s best known for his extreme wakeboarding stunts, profuse sweating and building a cutting edge Web framework called Dudepress. He’s also one of the nicest guys you could ever hope to meet. The following interview was scheduled to appear in the company’s employee newsletter, Sole Power, but Dude peaced out back to his old job at 2Advanced so it never got printed. Read on for the lowdown.
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All we need now is a John Brown come back

So I’m talking to this girl from work and she informs me that she flushes the toilet with her feet. Since I never heard of such a absurdity, I immediately started making fun of her. However, after some investigating, it looks like this foot flushing thing is bigger than I thought.

Obviously the main reason for this odd behaviour is the fear of germs, but we all know that this is bullshit. More interestingly, there are articles on how to make your own foot flusher and there’s a whole industry out there selling special Foot Flushers.

Time for a quick online poll…

How would you flush this toilet? With your hands or with your feet? And why? Also please state if you are male or female and if you’re American, Eurotrash or otherwise.

Dudes and dudettes, what’s up with all the social media stuff? I’m not hating but I’m just trying to make sense of all this shit. I mean, you got twitters, facebooks, linkedin and other crap. Is any of this shit useful? I read a ton of blogs on web marketing and crap like that and they seem to be backing all this stuff and they claim if you don’t participate you’ll miss the boat. The boat to what? I haven’t met a person yet that said to me “dude, I got this sick job through my Linked In profile” or “I got the best info about that rash through a twitter feed”. C’mon, any one got opinion? Here’s one on Linked In.

I’m not sure if this was supposed to be put out for public display. Not passing judgement here homies.

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.