This dude rips. The music however sucks.

Here’s Lou performing one of his two new songs from the forthcoming Dinosaur Jr album called “Farm”. Yes! And it comes out in three months!!! The tracklist for Farm:pieces 4:31i want u to know 4:30oceans 4:20plans for me 6:42your weather 3:06over it 3:47friends 4:32said the people 7:42cuz i’m on and on 3:39see you 5:48i don’t wanna go there 8:43imagination blind 3:40So HYPED!

Very tired from tiling for 5 hours after working a full day, but really wanted to skate.  It was cold out and Rampy is right there and my foot still sucks so why would I go anywhere but Rampy?  I told myself I had to do 20 different tricks before I could go to sleep.  It started pretty slow and I probably ended up doing like 200 rock fakie/tailstalls, but I ended up doing a most of my tricks.  The better newer ones weren’t left out.  feeble fakie, fakie front pivot fakie (done weak sauce style), fakie feeble forward, fakie back 50 fakie, front d (yes this is hard for me and to make it harder I had to do it out of a axle stall instead of setting up with a tail stall), it was fun.

My foot is feeling MUCH better, but I’m trying to stay away from real street skating for another week or so. It’s still sensitive and I feel like if I go another week without bumping it I will be better off in the long run. I definitely didn’t have this much patience when I was younger. Anyways, speaking of younger, Ollie aka “H.D.” and I went over to Creekside before dinner and skated for about 30 minutes. We skated the curb and stairs the whole time. There is too much sand in the main area which blows. Can’t wait til they clean it up. Anyways the curb is mainly a stall curb and I just kinda played around on it. I finally got one of those crook to back 5-0 that seem to be all the rage these days. That trick is pretty lame though, it just feels like you don’t know how to pop out of crooks. I did manage to get a front feeble to grind though. Felt pretty fun. Ollie was trying to grind/slide/something the low bar on the 4 stair handrail. In his mind I’m sure he thought he was grinding it, but basically he was jibbing it with his nose and sometimes almost doing frontside noseslides. He would land halfway down the stairs and ride out of it. Basically it was beyond radical. I finally slappy noseslid down the ledge that’s underneath the rail. Funny. Fun session and I didn’t hurt my foot. Later on we skated Rampy for a bit and it was a pretty uninspired session. Oh well.

After getting way to frustrated working on our shower I was relieved for awhile since Nate wanted to skate.  We both started off pretty quick getting lots of our tricks.  Nate learned boardslides and did them almost everytime.  So sick.  I landed almost every ramp trick I’ve ever did including several feebles to fakie and got a new trick – fakie feeble to fakie.  Rad.  Super fun 30 minutes of skating that was quickly erased by working on the shower and getting frustrated once again.

Wow. So raw.

 Sebadoh – VampireCouldn’t find it on youtube, but the link above works.  Such a great fuzzy grunge early 90s indie rock song.  

So insane.  

Avoiding the working on the shower and street skating (due to my hurt foot) both in one night!  Nate came over around 9 and we ended up skating Rampy for a couple hours sweating like crazy.  It was Nates first time skating a ramp with vulcanized shoes so it was like a whole new world to him and he was landing tricks way sooner then normal.  After we both got the majority of our tricks (not very quickly) we started working on some new ones.  Nate was trying front pivot to fakie.  I was trying back 5-0 to fakie.  When the dust settled Nate ended up with a back hurricane (well, more like a front feeble stall turned to forward) and I did a back feeble stall to fakie.  So stoked.  Nate went on to learn front 50s as well before hitting his knee and we ended the session.  Super fun and I didn’t seem to hurt my foot to much.

Our shower was getting moldy so Liz took it upon herself to start a new project for us.  The only action Rampy has seen in awhile.  Makes a great workbench!I really really really don’t want to fix the drip problem!