Pre Dinosaur Jr Pizza fest in Boulder.  I only ate one slice.  Sorry Gordon.Lou Barlow & The Missingmen.  Wasn’t so hyped on the Boulder show, but they killed it in Ft Collins.A couple photos from the Boulder show.  Both shows were awesome.  The setlists were quite a bit different.  The highlights from the Boulder show for me were Thumb, Forget The Swan, Raisons, Pieces, I Want You To Know and surprisingly Freak Scene.Little Jack was there.Reed was there too and even bought me a beer.  Sick!Here’s the setlist for the Fort Collins show:Thumb
Leper
Kracked
Imagination Blind
Get Me
Pieces
Plans
Pick Me Up
Feel the Pain
Over It
Little Fury Things
The Wagon
Freak Scene
Gargoyleencore:No BonesThe LungOn a scale of 1 – 10 Ft Collins was a 50.  In the top 5 shows I’ve seen in my life.  It was so good that no one could really speak after it was done.  They didn’t play my dream setlist but they did play my request of Leper for Zach.  So sick.  The sound at Aggies was much better and it was way louder.  Ft Collins rules.  They played Gargolye for a long time and ended it with this crazy noise that seemed like it would blow out an amp.  Between songs they jammed more then I’ve ever seen and seemed as happy as ever.  I hope they keep it going.

Ollie all of a sudden is really into snowboarding mainly due to our neighbors having a snowboard video game.  But he finally decided it’s time to stand up on his plastic snowboard he got a few years ago from Santa.  His first time off the jump he landed it.  Then he slammed for awhile.  Then he landed all of them.  Fun times.

I met up with Rob and Neil at Louisville Skatepark with no late night partying or silly outfits to use as excuses.  Yes, after 3 nights of raging I went to sleep before my kids had even finished the official count on their halloween candy.  Felt great.  We started a game of SKATE right away that Rob won.  I think I got a 360 flip in it though. But maybe that was the second one.  It was a good warm up and we headed over to Rock Creek to meet up with Lazer, Brian and Kurt.  Not so fast though.  On the way there I barely rear ended a lady at a light.  Ugh.  No damage to the cars save some minor scratches on plastic.  Luckily no one was hurt.  The lady had started accelerating at a green light then totally hit the brakes for some reason.  I guess she was from out of town and confused what a green light means.  Ugh.I was feeling a bit jittery, but once again Brian ruled it and decided a game of skate on the pyramid bank was in order.  We did some dumb tricks and some fun ones.  Brian won it with tricks like frontside 540 kickturn, blunt to staple gun, etc.  But the story of the session was that I got a letter on him with a front rock. Yes, Mr One Foot Front Rock.  Ha.  Actually it was nothing though and we started skating the ramp after that.  Rob, Brian and Lazer were ripping as usual.  Rob and I shook our heads in disbelief at how rad Lazer’s opening run was.  Dude’s got it.  I tried a lot of front smith grinds and maybe landed a few.  Or maybe they were just slasher grinds I don’t know.  I got a fakie pivot axle stall which I normally take to fakie on Rampy, but at least I finally got into it.  Brian slammed on his bad hip and the ramp session pretty much ended.  I skated flatground for awhile and landed a fakie treflip for the first time in forever.  Felt really good.  Got a 360 flip or two as well and tried to round it out with a nollie tre, but no love there.  I also got a front 5-0 shove on the ledge.  Sweet.  Feels so good to skate with no concerns of what should be filmed.

That is me. I can’t believe it either. I made somewhat of a conscience effort to try and get of out Halloween Havoc, but Brian is just to awesome and kept on me. After another night of Dinosaur Jr destroying all things music I ended up at the Boulder park looking like that. The Trick Factory all went with a Road Warrior Theme and I was to be Lord Humongous.But hey, at least I refused to go without jeans. See more pics of everyone else on Jack’s lassfullofshit blog. So as you can probably guess I was pretty weirded out looking like that and skating was not easy. Everytime I ollied I the belt got me in the nuts. That doesn’t mean I didn’t get Little Jack to SKA in a game of SKATE. Granted though he was trying the hardest tricks I’ve never seen him do before. His final trick was the Pat Hickey – switch front shove late flip. For the most part I didn’t skate much. Jason and I skated the curbs for awhile, but that was it. After the contest was over and the wind turned me into an ice cube I ditched the Humongous gear and skated in the Boulder park for at least 4 runs which was long enough to never land a no comply bigspin.

Tired from the night before (Dinosaur Jr!!!!), but with a big grin of course, I woke up slightly before noon, went to Meta, then hit some flatground until Ollie got out of school.  I tried a bunch of 360 flips, but only landed one.  And it happened to be one that I dedicated to Liz as she walked by.  Sweet, she probably thinks I have them on lock now.  I was really tired/lazy so I didn’t put much effort in and there was still quite a bit of snow on the edges of the road.  All made for a mellow, but fun session.  Got a few decent heelflips, tried a lot of switch f/s flip and nollie heels.  Hopefully the stars will align at some point and I start landing those.  At the end I landed a nollie tre and called it a day.  Well, ‘landed’ is a stretch.  It’s quite a bit like the nollie tre in my Off The Couch part, but without the scrolling text making fun of myself.

Gordon, Brian, Nate and I were skating as others gathered to eat pizza.  Gordon did 100 tricks again in 30 seconds.  Ridiculous.  He also introduced Rampy to front blunts.  He did so many of those board to pivot tricks that I thought they were easy enough to try.  I kinda landed a rock ‘n roll with a front truck bash, but it wasn’t the pivot thing I was going for.  Oh well, cool.  I skated much better than the day before, but still couldn’t get the fakie pivot to fakie like I had for about one session.  Nate was trying some hard tricks and getting close.  Brian was killing it too.  Between him and Gordon I think basically every trick was done.  Time for Dinosaur Jr!!!!!