I’m not much of a couch jock, but I do love watching playoff basketball.  Zach, Sam, Maile and I went to game 2 against the Hornets.  The Nuggets blew them out.  Word!Zach with a nice guy face, me with a dork face to match being a dork and wearing the Nullets shirt.  “Dude I totally started the 4/20 rallies back in the day”This was during the 11-0 run where the Nuggets pulled away for good.  Smith for 3 and it was good. The crowd was hyped!

Had a super busy day cleaning and whatnot.  I met up with a warmed up  Jason, Fuzz, Neil and Rob at Red Curbs and Neil says “Awesome, Mr Mom made it out of the house”.  Ha ha.  Everyone was in a super good mood and skating well out of the gates.  I was slow to warm up, but it ended up being one of the funnest red curbs sessions to date and that’s saying a lot.  Fuzz pulled out his 1990’s bag and was doing all kinds of crazy tricks I’ve never seen him do like fakie 5-0, noseslide 270 shove, switch front tail, halfcab heel and even learned a new trick – halfcab blunt.  And he did it on the ledge instead of the curb.  Sick!  Neil was killing 40 foot long lipslides.  Rob landed a slappy back 50 no comply shove out as steezy as it can be done.  Jason was ripping everything.  The tricks that surprised me were a fakie nosegrind on the ledge, first try front smith on the taller curb and kickflip back tail on the tiny curb going two miles an hour.  I also came remotely close to fakie nosegrind 180 out.  Before leaving Neil, Fuzz, Rob and I played a game of SKATE.  Neil got out quick after trying a triple or nothing that didn’t work and then it was Rob and I with SKAT and Fuzz with nothing.  Nothing!  Fuzz got Rob on something and then it was Fuzz and I.  I ended up getting him to SKAT, but he one on a fakie heelflip shortly after snapping his nose on a fakie treflip attempt.  I should mention that Fuzz got me to try my first 360 flip since hurting my foot in March.  I landed the second one.  Hyped to be able to try that trick again and having cupsoles is way better for that trick.  Fun fun fun session.

Had a few minutes before my anniversary date with Liz so met up with Nate and Jason at the ballparks.  When I rolled up Nate was over by some new stuff behind Whole Foods and we ended up staying there.  I was skating my new shoes:Some Emerica Herman’s that I’ve been walking around in for a month now to get them broken in.  They were good right out of the gate although they seem like they run a bit small.  Anyways, skating was fun.  There was a little two sided ledge and a mellow bank up to a loading dock that we skated.  I almost had a run with a kickflip into the mellow bank, heelflip on flat and then a front board to fakie.  But I only got one front board to fakie solo.  We all got front board pop overs to fakie.  Fun!  I also got a switch back board and ollied over the ledge.  Fun little session to start the weekend.

Didn’t really spend too much time on this.  Looking at it already I’d probably change a couple things.  Oh well.  I really want to see Elissa Steamer take out a couple dudes.  For right now though I am kinda routing for Kalis to take the whole thing.  That dudes part in Mind Field is spectacular.

I got a text from my friend Ethan in the afternoon saying his band was playing that evening in Denver.  I ran it by Liz and she was in and our babysitter was down to watch the kids so all of a sudden Liz and I were gonna be going out.  Whew.  We told our babysitter to come a bit early so we could hit up Wax Trax records on the way, but then it turned out there was a surprise gathering for Jam’s birthday at Wahoos.  Jam’s been bugging me about a Null Thermal for quite some time now so I figured since it’s his birthday and all maybe I should finally hook it up.  Jam was hyped.  Until .... he opened the mother of all presents.  A brand new super tech jacket.I got one uppedOh look, it’s even got a hidden full face hood thingJason, the victor.The TF was rolling deep.  Brian looking serious.Neil lost the elbow game and had to lie down.After dinner Jason, Kathy, Fuzz, Leslie, Liz and I went to Moes Original to see Ethan’s band Gangcharger play.  When we arrived Lions The Brave was already playing.  We have seen them before and both Fuzz and I love them.  It’s instrumental rock that builds up and destroys on each song.  Go see them, they are excellent.  Fuzz and I both bought EPs and all. Check out their myspace HERE.  It’s got all kinds of youtube clips and whatnot.This was our first time to Moes.  It’s also a BBQ joint and the smell of the food is absolutely amazing. In fact it smelled so good that we all ended up getting food and enjoying every bit of it.  Nothing like good BBQ with a cold beer.  Gangcharger came on next and blasted their sonic boom.  Tons of LOUD distortion, fuzz, noise and guitars.  In other words I love it.  I was surprised at how well the songs were structured and the distortion was always perfect.  Anyone can blare distortion, but it takes talent and patience to make the perfect sound.  Gangcharger’s got it.  Check out their myspace page HERE.  Thanks for the cd Ethan!Last up was Sonnenblume.  I’ve never heard of them, but clearly they are veterans to this music thing considering how well they could play their instruments.  Both the guitarist and drummer would kill their instruments on every song.  I mean, KILL them.  Especially the drummer.  I’m surprised he didn’t destroy his drumset.  The music was good.  Fuzz loved it.  I thought the singers voice was a little to pretty for my tastes.  They are a good band for sure though.  Denver is coming up!  Check out their myspace here.

Click the image or here to read the full article and watch a clip on the making of the new Dinosaur Jr video.  Murph looks like he’s gonna fall off his bike!  J looks good cruising though.  Should be a funny video.

Jake picked me up around 8:30pm and we met Nate at St Julien.  I pretty much didn’t land anything other then a crooks and a really slow front tail.  Seeing as how I’m horrible at front tails this still put a smile on my face.  Next up we started skating a weird rock by the Canyon rail.  You know, just to get warmed up for the rail.  Nate got some sick side rock ‘n roll things and Jake and I got some rockride stuff too.  I got wallride fakie, fakie wallride and front wallride.  Pretty fun considering how narrow the rock is.  Then we started trying different lines with the nearby little manny pad.  I got a couple that made me happy.  I’m sure if they were filmed though I would be completely disgusted with them.  The first one was back 180 up the curb, halfcab flip then 180 nose manual.  Second one was kickflip up the curb, rockride to fakie, nose manual, heelflip, turn around then do a 180 nose manual.  I’m pretty sure the nose manual was the only trick bearable on the eyes.  Anyways, it was a blast.  Next up was the mini quarterpipes at Wells Fargo where Jake learned and mastered the back 5-0 to fakie.  We all did them, but Jake’s were proper.  Mine had the lame late revert thing I like to do.  I also did a hurricane grind for the first time ever.  I dedicated it to Brian’s knee healing it up so he should be out skating soon.  Last up was a two stair manny pad thing where I completely blew a fun evening by sucking incredibly bad.  I believe I fell at least 5 times ollieing up the 2 stair.  And no, this aint no big 2.  Minus the 2 stair session the evening was a blast.

Hopefully he’s just chilling in them ..

Finally a nice day.  The sun was so bright that the snow melted off the street by noon.  I skated flat for a bit in front of my house while waiting for people to show up.  I felt really old and stiff.  Ugh.  I eventually landed some of the basics, but it was not pretty.  Then we went to Longmont.  Jason and I were in my car and Fuzz, Brian, Neil and Lazer were on their bikes following us to a little skatepark in Longmont.  For some reason those dudes were driving really slow and we lost them.  While turning around to wait for them I remembered a bank to curb spot and Jason and I got out to check it out.  It’s got a bad crack at the bottom, but it’s a really quick bank to curb that would be epic if that crack was bondoed (sp?).  Anyways we skated it for awhile and had fun.  We even ollie a little gap over a curb down a drop.  Well, Jason ollied it, I ollied half of it.  Then we met up with those dudes at the little cement park in town.  It’s way smaller than I remember, but it was a blast.  Neil, Fuzz and Lazer killed the ollie grabs over the hip.  Everyone was skating pretty hard except Brian who decided to just take his bruised knee and huck down the rail.  He slappy boardslid it somehow and almost front boarded it too.  Jason killed the front boards.  I had fun.  My ‘highlights’ (and that’s a term I use loosely when I refer to my skating) were nosesliding down the curbed hubba, ollieing up the tall ledge, boardslide around the c ledge (so insanely fun), and wow, I can’t think of anything else.  Next we went to a little manny pad spot where, surprise surprise, Fuzz killed it.  Jason and I skated too, but I didn’t really land anything.  Last up was the OG junk spot.  I say ‘OG’ because it was the first place we started filming for Off The Couch.  Jason and I were playing a game of SKATE on the bank to curb thing when Brian went down real hard trying a wallride.  Real hard.  And he sat all weird on his knee.  He’s gonna be out for awhile.  Bummer.  Jason and I tried nosesliding the ledge over the gap for awhile.  Jason was actually going fast enough to do it, but couldn’t lock in.  I was going too slow to ever make the gap, but it was kinda fun trying.

Another weekend, another blizzard.  UGH.  Ollie and I skated Rampy for about half an hour.  I was really motivated to skate and Ollie was feeling it too.  He did most of his normal stuff, but added frontside kickturns out of the blue.  He did them every try.  I got lucky with a few first try tricks like feeble fakie and front disaster.  Although I had troubles with feeble fakie after that.  At the end I started trying blunt to pivots and landed a bunch of them, but had put my hand on the wall.  Still counts right?  So hyped to have Rampy.