My brother Steve (left) and homie Zach went to game 6 of the West Conf Finals. We were pretty hyped to get a piece of Carmelo’s birthday cake. Too bad the Nuggets would come out as flat as the cake.
Yeap, Zakk Wylde played the national anthem. Pretty funny.I didn’t take any more pictures. That’s how bad the game was. Next year Nuggets!
Super tired, fighting a cold and haven’t really skated in days. Perfect recipe for sucking which is exactly what I did. I met Nate at St Julien for a late night downtown boulder session. The lights there don’t work as well as they used to. I didn’t even really have energy to try flip tricks and just tried front tails on the ledge. I may have landed 1 or 2 slow ones. Nate killed a bunch of good ones. Next up we did flippers into a downhill parking ramp which ended up being pretty fun. Nate did good tricks like nollie f/s flip, switch front heel. I did slow-moving-no-pop tricks like varial flip, halfcabl flip and fakie flip. The powerslide at the end of the ramp was the funnest part of the night. We left after that, but not before skating a real jersey barrier (aka, no tranny at the bottom). I did a couple wallrides and a wallride to fakie. Nate went crazy and did a rock fakie on it. So sick. Gotta skate downtown on Sunday nights more often, it was dead. Kinda like me.
My brother was in town with his family and decided to try and remember what skateboarding was. It took him a bit but he got rock ‘n rolls, rock fakie, tail stall and a little scratch grind. Rad. I got most of my tricks and it was a fun little session.
Your only going 90 mph.Best skater ever.
Had about half an hour free so went over to the school with Ollie. He wasn’t really into it, but I was trying all the basic stall tricks on the no setup curb. Did a back tail which is very rare for me. Bummed Ollie wasn’t feeling it, but hyped that my new shoes felt good. I’ve worn them around for a few weeks now and their good and broken in. Skated flat in front of the house after that and landed a lot of tricks quickly including a 360 flip. Yippee.
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
Pure craziness!
Drive Like Jehu and even Hot Snakes to some degree are a couple of my favorite bands. Rick Froberg’s voice is and heavy guitars are guaranteed goodness. Or so I thought. I didn’t know about this band before I saw a review on Pitchfork. Upon seeing it was Rick from Jehu and the sample song sounded good I ordered it immediately.This album does not live up to my expectations at all. It’s good, but it’s not great. Half of the songs end slower than they start. There isn’t a standout song either. Gonna keep this one short, but basically it’s not as good as I hoped.Rating: 
Neil, Nate, Fuzz, Jason and I went out to the Lafayette Tech Center area after the rain dried up on a gloomy memorial day. We started at the bird bank which is a kind of weird spot. The bank is steep with some rocks before it and the asphalt isn’t that good. We put some weird metal tubes down for a bit and skated them for a second. Nate was the only one to skate them well. Fuzz, Neil and Nate ollied a cinder block like it’s nothing. I guess it should be easy for me too, but it wasn’t. The best part of this session was trying tricks over a 2 x 6 that Jason put out. So awesome. Neil, Fuzz and Nate nollied it. I got a kickflip over it first try. Fuzz ended up doing a lot over it. No surprise there. At the end I finally ollied the cinder block and Jason almost cabbed the 2 x 6.Next we went to this crack infested are that has some chunky ledges and stairs. Ended up being a total blast. There was a euro gap up a two stair, a four stair, a weird ledge, all kinds of stuff. Nate and Jason almost front boarded this rad ledge. Fuzz front lipped it. I took several tries too long to kickflip up the two stair, but had a blast trying lines later on. Ollie up a somewhat tall ledge, ollie or front 180 the four stair, chinese nollie a big crack, pose kickflips down the two stair. The rain came in before I could get it. Cupsoles rule. My feet weren’t even sore and I jumped down the 4 stair at least 10 times.