Had a busy and fun night with the kids. Was feeling really lazy, but figured I should skate so I went out to Rampy. It was one of my least favorite sessions on Rampy ever. I had troubles with everything. The only new stuff I tried was switch back 50. Came pretty close. Then the heat became too much and I started to feel like crap so I stopped. I felt horrible the entire night.
10 minutes of raw Dollin footage. AKA awesome.
Can you feel the hype? Ha. I’m hyped on the new Hype promo. Love the afro and the last part.
I hate when I go a few days without skating, but it happens. Anyways, I was especially mellow after a wonderful dinner date with Liz went better then expected and didn’t have much energy or drive to skate. We started off at a tall curb/ledge thing where I SUCKED it up for quite some time. I got one back 50, a couple bad front tails, a really bad fakie nosegrind and tried a few front blunts. Nate on the other hand landed a million tricks and was having fun. Nosegrinds both ways, 5-0s both ways, etc. He was ripping.Next up we ended up under the engineering building where the two sets of three stairs have been turned into two banks leaving some new options. I tried a run of pop shove into the first one, kickflip the second, but never comitted to the kickflip because the bank got me moving too fast. Well, that and I had no real desire to put any effort into skating. I guess that’s what happens if you skate immediately after getting some loving. Nate found a cool little quick up to two benches, gap to another one. I managed to ollie on and over the gap, but Nate threw down nose and reg manuals too. That was fun. Then it was bed time.
It will also be 4:56 7/8/9. Nerd.
This album is the surprise album of the year for me so far. Not best album of the year, but something I didn’t think I would enjoy so much. I’ve always somewhat enjoyed Guided By Voices and I thought their best of compilation was awesome. But this new album by Boston Spaceships might be my favorite thing Robert Pollard has done. It’s good ol’ indie rock done proper along the same lines as Guided By Voices. The drumming seems better then GBV though and the songs seem more consistent. The song “Keep Me Down” is so good I’ve considered skating to it for my Off The Couch part if somehow I decided to not use a Dinosaur Jr song (impossible).Rating: 
bostonspaceships.com
Maybe it’s more like song of the century, but that would be competing with every other song on Farm which absolutely and completely kicks ass. The part where the song really starts rocking at 4:55 is mind blowing every single time. It explodes into a solo that takes you into outer space and then you get destroyed again by the next tune ‘I Don’t Want To Go There’. Best album ever? Maybe.
Here’s a teaser for Bernie’s video he’s been working on with his buddies. It’s looking pretty good, even the 10 seconds of black to start it off. Ha, Bernie you’re the man!
I need one of these for the wall!