Haven’t been able to really skate in awhile and decided a solo red curbs session was in order.  As much as I sucked it up, it didn’t disappoint.  For whatever reason I went there thinking about a couple dumb little lines.  Like kickflip up and off the manny pad, ollie over a yellow bar and then 180 it without pushing, and finally a kickflip front 50 on the curb followed by a lipslide.  A parked scooter made the kick front 50 not an option so that line was out immediately.I started off real slow.  Insanely slow.  It took me at least 10 minutes before I could try a kickflip.  It was rough.  I eventually got into somewhat of a groove and landed a few things like front tails on the taller curb (yes, I call it the taller curb because it’s like 2 inches taller than the other curb and therefore tall), nose manny the manny pad, kick back tail the low curb etc.  I then kinda tried a few lines over and over.  One was crooks the ledge, back 50 the tall curb then kick back tail the low curb.  Never got all three.  I got the ollie over the yellow bar followed by 180 over it pretty quick.  Toward the end I was beat, but wanted to try some flippers.  So I did the kickflip up the taller side of the manny pad and kickflip off.  Tried to back it with a 360 flip but never got close.  Tried a bunch of nollie flips and never got those.  No surprise.  The other line I was trying was no comply 180, fakie flip, fakie big flip, fakie bigspin up the manny pad, front shove off.  Got it all but the front shove off.  And they all looked horrible.  Pretty hyped.  Didn’t really skate that well, but I skated really hard and needed a solo session to get my skate going again.

This should have been up awhile ago, but I’ve been distracted by so many things.  Nuggets, skateboarding, family visits, installing a new dishwasher, etc.  But either way, here we are, Psycho Unity flipping the bird while saying I Love You.  Classic!  Only one more Psycho Unity to go!

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: